Shareaza 2.5.4.0

v2.5.4.0 change log

This is still being worked on. Give me some time to make it look like it were actually worth something :)

The following things were the most important changes sorted by categories:

Network support

• (New) - Added support for eMule search links i.e. ed2k://|search|text_to_find|/
• (Fix) - Fixed error when seeded file uploading via Gnutella.
• (F) - Fix eD2k download sources not being sorted properly when they update our position in their queue.
• (N) - Fix a couple of wrong lengths in download fragment selection.
• (F) - Fix too many hits being added to query hit packets. (G2)
• (Update) - Advertise all available ranges to G1/2 clients. Optimise range string generation.
• (F) - Fix G1 source exchange sending wrongly formatted sources
• (F) - Fix reflecting G1 sources back to client
• (F) - Fix for ED2K & HTTP fragmented file assignment for partial file uploads.
• (U) - Added own IP address acquiring on every successful incoming and outgoing connect.
• (F) - Fixed Shareaza never updating to GWCs with no hosts. (ticket #99)
• (F) - Fixed stuck downloads when many seeding torrents presents.
• (F) - Relaxed too strict network anti-hammering protection.
• (N) - Implemented new UPnP/NAT port mapping method (used first).
• (N) - Implemented UPnP runtime controlling (it restores changed port mappings).
• (N) - Added periodic refresh of UPnP port mappings (default 30 minutes, new option "Connection.UPnPRefreshTime").
• (U) - Updated Default services files
• (F) - Fixed debug assert when Shareaza tries to upload torrent download to non-BitTorrent client.
• (N) - Added support for uTorrent Peer Exchange UT PEX. (ivan386) (BitTorrent)
• (N) - Added support for tracker exchange ("lt_tex"). (BitTorrent)
• (U) - Changed Hub-rating calculation (added free memory bonus, 64-bit bonus, halfed multi-processor bonus).
• (U) - Fixed wrong sending of HAW packet on connecting. (G2)
• (N) - Added protection against query hammering.
• (N) - Added G2_PACKET_RETRY_AFTER-part to query ack packets.
• (N) - General.MinTransfersRest option defaulted to 50 ms and enforced.
• (U) - Deprecated Bandwidth.HubUploads option, now Hub upload limit set to 50% (when Uploads.HubUnshare option is on).
• (F) - Fixed bug that caused some Hubs to not to accept leaf connections and therefore stay at 0 leaves all the time. (ticket #127)
• (F) - Fixed false positive torrent encoding error.
• (F) - Fixed packet parsing in CChatSession. (G2)

DC++ support

• (N) - Implemented limited DC++ support. It can/has:
  • Connect to DC++ Hubs in active mode
  • Show all commands in system log
  • Search for files on Hub
  • Answer on incoming searches
  • Upload Library files
  • Upload Library file list (files.xml.bz2)
  • Mount file lists as Library collections.
  • Log DC++ UDP packets
  • Support for DC++ redirection command ($ForceMove)
  • Support for DC++ user bad name command ($ValidateDenide)
  • Some support for the DC++ password command ($GetPass)
  • Support of DC++ "$ADCGET list" command
  • Download
  • Search
  • Support for download and upload queues
  • Experimental support for overlapped upload requests
  • Import "hublist.xml.bz2" files by dropping it to Shareaza or opening them via the host Cache.
  • DC++ URL support
• (N) - Created "dcfile://" URL handler. Its new nonstandard URL type defines direct DC++ download. Format: "dcfile://HubIP:HubPort/User/TTH:FileTigerTreeRootHash/FileSize/".
• (U) - Added "DC++" to vendors cache.

Crash fixes

• (F) - Fixed crash caused by bad Italian translation.
• (F) - Fixed tray popup crash.
• (F) - Fixed crash when bad data found in crash log.
• (F) - Fixed Shareaza crash during playing of damaged video.
• (F) - Fixed crash during .mp3 ID3 tag parsing with invalid Genre field.
• (F) - Fixed crash caused by bad BitTorrent packet.
• (F) - Fixed rare crash when user quickly selects views of Library.
• (F) - Fixed scheduler crash when "hang-up connection" task found more than one Internet connection.
• (F) - Fixed rare crash when library remotely browsed and updated at same time.
• (F) - Added workaround for plugin crash on Shareaza exit.
• (F) - Workaround for download preview crash on cancel.
• (F) - Fixed incoming browse request crash when some Library files were deleted outside Shareaza before that.

Internal and functional changes

• (N) - Added /RegServerPerUser and /UnRegServerPerUser command line switches.
• (F) - Better handling of unsupported codecs in MediaPlayer plugin.
• (U) - Optimized library search by hash.
• (N) - Added more strict file equality comparison by hash, size and name.
• (F) - Fixed a bug that made the job times change within the scheduler if the computer was turned on later than the time at which a specific task had been scheduled.
• (U) - Improved GFLReader plugin's image loading process.
• (U) - Added faster and more robust way of closing Shareaza during hashing process.
• (N) - Added more protection against downloads overload (too many sources, bad settings etc.).
• (U) - Enhanced Scheduler shutdown mechanism.
• (N) - Added dropped UDP packets debug logging.
• (N) - Added new option "Connection.IgnoreOwnUDP" to ignore own datagrams (helps debugging).
• (U) - Optimized compressing and decompressing of memory blocks.
• (U) - Optimized SQLite interfaces.
• (U) - Renamed "Gnutella2.QueryHostThrottle" option to "Gnutella2.QueryThrottle", "eDonkey.QueryServerThrottle" to "eDonkey.QueryThrottle". Removed "Gnutella1.RequeryDelay" option.

Changed "Connection.EnableUPnP" option default to "true".

• (U) - Optimized Security object.
• (U) - Updated VirusTotal plugin, uses new www.virustotal.com API compatible with any browser.
• (N) - Added using of delay loaded DLLs.
• (U) - Added ogv, webm, oga to audio/video schemas
• (N) - Added low I/O priority for some file operations (Transfers, Library Builder, Download Tasks) under Vista and above.
• (U) - Optimized download previews.
• (F) - Fixed invalid metadata extraction when .mp3-file has empty IDv2.
• (F) - Fixed XML parsing for Bitzi. Library.PreferAPETags option deprecated.
• (F) - Fixed DocumentReader and RatDVDPlugin plugins. Enforced XML checks.
• (U) - Optimized internal metadata builder. Library.ScanMPC option deprecated.
• (U) - Added skin images caching (now less memory used).
• (U) - Reduced Shareaza start-up time (postponed all starting threads).
• (U) - Did some updates to the media player
• (U) - Updated default security file (removed .wmv/.wma and private net)
• (U) - Updated GeoIP database
• (U) - Updated SQlite 3.5.8 -> 3.7.4
• (U) - Updated BZip 1.0.5 -> 1.0.6
• (U) - Updated Zlib 1.2.3 -> 1.2.5

Graphical / GUI changes

• (F) - Fixed Smart Download Preview window which did not close automatically sometimes
• (N) - Added "No Banner" skin to setup.
• (F) - Fixed cut lines in IRC window. Fixed IRC window updates when Apply button pressed in Settings dialog. Changed option "Settings.IRC.Timestamp" to "on" by default.
• (F) - Fixed library files 48x48 icons loading.
• (F) - Fixed stuck media preview window.
• (U) - Improved MediaPlayer recovery after codec crash.
• (F) - Fix completed downloads being filtered from download control, optimised filtering
• (U) - Flexible hash progress window.
• (U) - Colorful download sources.
• (New) - Added interface elements for DC++ searches.
• (N) - Added DC++ interface elements in Home window, Neighbors window and main menu.
• (U) - Added new GUI behavior: "Library" button now switches views between "Folders" and "Organizer" starting from second click.

Library views now remembers its selected folders. Updated Flags. Added country flags to Host Cache window. Fixed bad sized protocol icons of Neighbors window. Patch to show source counts by real source count + alternate source counts in the search results. Fixed "extra mouse click" bug of Copy URL dialog, some improvements. Library now has initial selections as Default Download folder for Folders view and Favorites album for Organizer view. Code refactoring: More functional BitTorrent packet class. Added BitTorrent packet dumps. Unified CPacket::ToBuffer() method. Beautiful packet dumps. New scheduler Fixed selection of user media players, now unlimited number. Unified file execution process, enforced its security, added "too many files" confirmation (for Play Album button), added support for more media players. Added more media players (AIMP2, GOM Player, MPlayer, SMPlayer). Fixed Library search box font problem. Fixed dialog banner resize bug. Workaround for strange bug in Uploads (for very short uploaded files). Relaxed reaction on skin load error, now in most cases Shareaza agreed to load incomplete skin. Added more skin validation checks. Added language file early loading (so command-line options and splash dialog can now be translated too). Added Shareaza self-restart on language change, added new command-line option "-wait" - Shareaza will wait for another Shareaza instance exit and then continue execution. Added command-line transmission from second Shareaza instance to first (to open files without using DDE for example as FireFox does). Host (from host cache) now can use DNS-name also (was IP address only). Hided some tracker messages. Reserved space for AntiVirus interface elements in downloads settings dialog. Added full-screen application detection to prevent hash window show. Fixed tooltip flicker effect. Download and Upload tips made more dynamic. Added completed download move indicator. Added all windows restoring on startup. Added more detailed Gnutella query statistics: old "Gnutella Local Queries" divided by "Gnutella Incoming Queries" (all incoming packets) and "Gnutella Processed Queries" (good and accepted for feature processing packets). Added Shareaza logo to background in Window Mode. Removed all default windows in Window Mode. Fixed unskinable search panel text font and color. Fixed Neighbors window Time column sorting. Added nice protocol icon to Neighbors tip. Fixed and optimized remote interface. Fixed MSN contact profile icon.

• (F) - Added Jabber icon, fixed Skin color duplicate calculations.
• (F) - Added X-Mas skin.

Workaround for bad flags. Fixed missed Library interface updates when file metadata was changed.

Added new SkinUpdate utility (alpha version). It test resources for validity, extracts string table from RC-file and saves result as XML-file.

Installer

• (F) - Fixed Shareaza internal components and associations registration under limited user and administrative accounts

Updated languages:

• (U) - Dutch (roestvrijstaal)
• (U) - Russian (raspopov/Ryo-oh-ki)
• (U) - French (zigozag)

and last but not least...

• (F+N+U) - Fixed lots of minor bugs, made thousands of smaller optimizations ... and got rid of half a million of crashes not named above. Of course, we did also create some new ones, else it wouldn't be fun any more. :)
• (F+N+U) - Made lots of smaller changes for VS2010 support
• (F) - Fixed lots of compiler warnings
• (U) - Updated copyright info in some of our files which did still mention shareaza*com.

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