New Features:
- Flag uploads coming from G2 servents with a "[G2]" tag after IP address.
- Added alias support in sharing/querying.
- Made the "Clear completed" button in Downloads/Tools do something useful.
- Moved "Clear completed" button to the bottom right of the download pane.
- Remember fileinfo notebook tab number across sessions.
- Remember main notebook tab number across sessions, only restored after crash.
- Remember Gnet stats notebook tab number across sessions.
- Remember download info / tools notebook tab number across sessions.
Improvements:
- Added --cleanup to explicitly request for final memory cleanup sequence.
- Updated Italian translation.
- Updated GeoIP databases.
Bug Fixes:
- Leaf nodes could end-up being connected to more ultrapeers than configured.
- Fixed monitoring of alien threads, important when GTK file selector is used.
Under the Hood:
- Debian compatibility level changed from 4 to 5.
- Make sure we can deal with older pkg-config, which needs leading arguments.
- Use "embedded" symbols for xmalloc(), xfree() and friends.
- Added "query_trace" property to trace all queries which were searched.
- Moved halloc-based string functions like h_strdup() to dedicated hstrfn.c.
- Expanded search mask to 64 bits to be able to hold all digits and letters.
- Count aliased queries and hits from aliases.
- Pre-compute shared file media type at record creation time.
- Pass query limits to st_search() to avoid needless pattern matching.
- Added h_strsplit() and h_strsplit_set().
- Added strvec_append_with() to expand vector by appending another vector.
- crash_assert_logv(): don't call crash_mode() if assert failure was recorded.
- entropy_clock_time(): mix the entropy nonce through hashing for more diffusion.
- node_can_accept_connection(): only send headers back when handshaking.
- qrp_add_file(): optimized to avoid computing word length if not required.
- thread_stack_check_overflow(): ignore virtual addresses outside stack range.
- vmm_init_once(): ensure any shared library for stacktrace unwinding is loaded.
Bug Fixes:
- 1870957: Wrong sign could cause out-of-bounds read and potentially a crash.
- Firewalled status was not re-verified after a port change if the previously
used port was open.
- Fixed issue that caused the local peer cache to degenerate.
Improvements:
- Client-side support for tigertree hashes (TTH/THEX).
- Replaced navigation tree by tabs.
- Redesigned download user-interface to make it more accessible.
- Added some selectable pre-defined search filters.
- Bitzi tickets are displayed in full raw indented XML.
- Display Bitzi and ShareMonkey URLs as search result details.
- Topless mode is available at run-time via command-line switch.
- Added default shared filename extensions:
.7z, .bittorrent, .oga, .ogv, .spx, .tbz2
- Removed default shared filename extensions: .doc
- Updated translations: Japanese, Norwegian Bokmal, French.
Under the hood:
- Changed default to dual use of IPv4 and IPv6 instead of IPv4-only.
- Support the "as" (Alternate Source) key in magnet links.
- Eszett is finally normalized to "ss" in search queries.
- Avoid display updates for elements not currently visible.
- Take full advantage of persistent HTTP connections to fetch multiple
files from the same peer through over the same connection if scheduling
permits.
- Improved TLS support and blocking detection.
- Updated list of hostile IP adress ranges, bogons, Geo-IP data,
spam patterns and spam samples.
* Added GUI option "headless".
* Removed dbus dependency. It's just a gimmick, not worth it.
* Added patch-ab to avoid picking up stuff from /usr/local for example.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed issue when browse host is the only search in the list.
- Reset download buffers on incomplete writes.
- Fixed ever-growing sidebar at each relaunch under GTK1.
- Fixed misdetection of chunk completion, causing undue abortion of downloads.
- Was wrongly showing the source download speed twice in download status.
- Range column was sometimes inexact in downloads.
Improvements:
- Print PFS indication for actively queued entries as well.
- Take buffered data into account when showing download progress.
- Downloads now show how many HTTP requests were made on the same connection.
- Try to reposition the main window correctly.
Configuration Changes:
- Minimum connection timeout is set to 15 seconds.
- Default for "maximum % of slots / vendor" raised to 90.
