- Support for very old Gnutella features has been removed or deprecated
to keep the network healthy. Note that GTKG 0.94 is now considered a
deprecated servent in terms of Gnutella features. Every GTKG user
MUST upgrade to 0.95 as soon as possible.
- GUI updates:
* [GTK2] Enable drag and drop for magnet links
* [GTK1] Search results have less columns, and the hit details are now
displayed in a separate pane underneath.
* Visual progress indicator correctly shows newly downloaded
fragments, shows fragments currently available for download more
accurately, and active downloads are marked with arrows.
* The maximum amount of search results has been lowered to 1000.
Please use filters or more specific queries to find what you are
looking for if you get many search results.
* A detailed view has been added to the search results to show all
available information for a search result.
* The status bar will now give feedback about the contacted host caches.
* Gnutella node stats can now show how many bytes were sent/received.
* In the node pane, right-clicking now allows to configure which columns
should be displayed, just like in the search pane.
* More general statistics in the stats pane. It is possible to see TCP and/or
UDP traffic stats separately (for messages only, not flow-control).
- Bitzi support has been added to retrieve additional information on
possible downloads. See http://bitzi.com/ for details.
- The geographic location of hosts can now be shown courtesy of MaxMind.
- Recently developed features of the Gnutella network are now supported:
* High outdegree provides better connectivity between Gnutella hosts.
The maximum TTL in the network is now 4 and ultra nodes must maintain
at least a connection with 30 peers.
* Last-hop QRP between ultra peers.
* Dynamic querying support, allows selective querying of peers instead
of simply broadcasting the query. It is used for leaf queries and
for your queries when running as an ultra node.
* OOB (out of band) query hits lets other servents deliver search
results directly to you instead of going through the Gnutella network.
* OOB proxied queries, allowing direct hit delivery at the ultra node level
for queries emitted by legacy leaves.
* GTKG will now prevent firewalled hosts from running as ultra nodes.
* In "auto mode", GTKG will revert to leaf mode when uploads are stalling
at an abnormally high rate, indicating bandwidth is saturated.
- UDP is now also supported as a transport protocol in addition to TCP.
You may need to make changes to your firewall settings to take full
advantage of this. The UDP port used is the same as the one used for TCP.
- Firewall detection has been improved to include UDP firewalling detection.
- Clock skew computation for hosts not running NTP has been redesigned.
Also, GTKG will now automatically detect a locally running NTP.
- Japanese translation added.
- French and German translation updated.
* GUI updates:
* File info pane renamed to "Downloads".
* Downloads pane renamed to "Sources".
* Progress of a download can now be visualized.
* Uploads and download sources pane now contain a visual progressbar.
* The GTK2 GUI can now be resized smaller than a width of 933 pixels.
* Search results now include an extension column.
* The Gnet stats panel and the statusbar now include horizon statistics.
* New Gnutella extension HSEP/0.2 included.
* The remote shell now includes a command "HORIZON", which will output horizon
stats.
* If no default port is specified, gtk-gnutella will now bind to a random port
and will use that port from then on.
* If you are behind a firewall and have routed a port to gtk-gnutella, please
check that gtk-gnutella is still running on the port you want it to!
* Will parse up to 150 hosts in a gwebcache reply to bootstrap from.
* New hostcache to make gtk-gutella connect to the network more quickly.
* Translations updated.
* Now supports Ultrapeers
* New icons for showing node state
* The GTK2 front-end is no longer experiamental
* Added client-side PFSP support (partial file sharing)
* Added full PARQ (Passive / Active Remote Queuing)
* New Gnet statistics: flow-controlled packets per TTL and hops
* Added support for GGEP in pings/pongs/pushes
* New "use surplus bandwidth" setting
* Added count for total bytes uploaded and downloaded
* Added support for vendor-specific messages
* New hops-flow support
* Will now show the GTKG version in query hits
* The queue shows the count of alive downloads as well as the queue count
* Changed the connection algorithm
* Filters out hostile IP addresses
* New "Fileinfo" pane in the download screen
* Domain name resolution for Gnutella web cache are now done asynchronously
* Some performance improvements
(christianbiere at gmx dot de) in PR pkg/19152.
Changes since 0.91.0:
* Will now verify the SHA1 of downloaded files in the background.
* New configuration parameter for the directory where "bad files" not
matching their advertised SHA1 should be put (don't forget to
configure it, as it defaults to /tmp).
* Files are now copied in the background, so it is possible to setup the
various "download" directories on different filesystems.
* Node connection time and remote node's uptime(if available) are now
shown.
* It is now possible to paste a "magnet:" URI in the search to launch a
SHA1 search.
* The "connection indicator" at the bottom left is now a toggle.
Depressing it will terminate any Gnet connection but will continue to
serve uploads and process downloads.
* The active download status now shows how many sources are available and
how many are currently active (i.e. downloading). It will also show the
estimated remaining time for the whole file, as well as the global
reception rate for the file, accounting for all currently active
sources.
* Fixed bug that prevented proper downloading from recent
BearShare(4.1.x or better) and Shareaza (1.6.0.x or better) nodes
when the SHA1 of the file is known.
* Will now protect against "PUSH floods" by banning the relevant IPs.
* At startup, scan the download "tmp" dir for orphan files and reintegrate
them into the fileinfo database, moving completed files to the relevant
directory(depending on whether its SHA1 checked OK).
* Minor bug fixing: improper countdown for push timeout when falling back,
fixed corner-case processing that could lead to crashes or incorrect
behaviour, accidental localization on X-Live-Since headers, freezing of
the GUI when clearing many uploads, obscure portability fixes.
Changes include:
* Now uses HTTP/1.1, which implies support for persistent connections.
* gtk-gnutella will now monitor whether we're connected to Internet and
slow down its connection requests when it detects the connection was
broken (after a delay of ~3 minutes at most).
* Download swarming is now supported: gtk-gnutella will download different
portions of the same file from many hosts, as long as alternate sources
are available.
* The download mesh (alternate source collection during downloads) is now
used to fill the download queue with more sources.
* Alternate locations can also be passively collected from query hits.
You can enable this in the swarming section on the download config pane.
* Download scheduling was entiretly redesigned to avoid hammering busy
hosts and scale to 5000+ entries in the queue without slowing down the
whole.
* Is now smart about the "push" flag and will try to ignore it if possible,
in case the remote host wrongly set the flag but is not firewalled.
* gtk-gnutella now remembers the files it downloaded and will ignore
further requests to download the same file. It will visually mark those
files, as well as the ones it already shares, by showing them in lighter
color in the search results.
* It is possible to supply to gtk-gnutella your own ignore lists by SHA1
and by name/size but the feature is under-documented.
* Added an "expert mode". Only when this is enabled will gtk-gnutella show
the users some of the most complex settings.
* New Gnutella statistics pane, showing the packets we sent and received,
how many we generated, and the reasons why we drop packets, by packet
type.
* Now understands UTF-8 queries, but does not generate them.
* Fixed important bugs whereby all earlier versions of gtk-gnutella were
unintentionally corrupting the Gnutella traffic!
* Moved away from the public hostcaches and now uses the Gnutella Web
Cache.
* Will now show all upload attempts, not only the ones that are
transferring. If the connection is aborted, the reason is also shown.
* New search stats types: queries by router, whole query.
* "Queries by router" shows how many queries have been recieved from any
node gtk-gnutella was directly connected to.
* "Whole query" shows stats based on the complete query string instead of
individual query words.
* New visual indications via icons in the status bar: whether gtk-gnutella
is rebuilding the library, computing SHA1 of shared files in the
background, and whether we are connected to Internet or not.
KNOWN BUGS/PROBLEMS:
* When changing the directory for incomplete/complete files, all partially
downloaded files recorded in ~/.gtk-gnutella/fileinfo will still be
downloaded to the old directory. You need to manually change the paths
in above file using search/replace and your favourite text editor.
* Sorting order of tables is not perserved across sessions.
* Marking/highlighting of results/downloads/uploads heavily depends on
your GTK theme. Especially most themes do not set fg[ACTIVE] and
fg[NORMAL] to different values.
* There is currently no way to un-ignore a file via the gui. You can
however edit the done.sha1 and done.namesize files in your
~/.gtk-gnutella directory manually. Unignoring via gui is planned for
the next release.
- All configuration can now be made from the GUI.
- Fully redesigned search filters to work like ipchains/iptable on Linux.
- Obsoleted experimental "auto-download", superseded by the new filtering code.
- Added Gnutella bandwidth management.
- Both HTTP and Gnet bandwidth is now displayed real time.
- Added full HUGE support (Hash/URN Gnutella Extensions).
- Added support for local host preference.
- Gtk-gnutella can do traffic compression when connecting to a node that
also supports it.
- Upload and downloads will now show User-Agent/Server information.
- Added status to the download queue.
- You can now freeze the download queue whilst manipulating it.
- Searches can now be listed on the left side of the screen, or as tabs like
in the previous versions.
- Added automatic banning of servents that are hammering us.
- Many more cool new features that you'll discover whilst playing with it.
