Download MLdonkey 2.8.7

The eDonkey network can be used to exchange files, among other things. In addition to the original client, eDonkey2000, an open source client called MLdonkey was also developed, which runs on a wide range of operating systems. The latter has gained support over the years for other networks such as Emule-kademlia, BitTorrent, Fasttrack, Gnutella, and Gnutella2. The developers released version 2.8.7 over the weekend with the following list of changes:

Version 2.8.7:

• BT: Completely parse handshake packet of newer BT clients (thx to Berni) this patch should fix the serious performance problem with BT downloads
• GeoIP: Small cosmetic fix for loading GeoIP.dat (pango)
• Fix GC problem in bz2 code (pango)
• Disconnect clients we download from when a file is queued/paused
• Replace old DirectConnect module with new DC++ code (alffa)
  • enable it with ./configure –enable-directconnect
  • bzip2 support is manual
  • preliminary docs: http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/DirectConnect

Version 2.8.6:

• EDK: Small log updates
• Save archives used for ini files backup with rights 600 (pango)
• EDK/Swarming: Download first 9MB first for preview, not 10MB to avoid downloading second chunk too early (pango)
• GeoIP: Load GeoIP.dat into RAM (pango)
• Search for autoconf261 in ./configure
• GeoIP: Reduce disc access to lower CPU usage
  • store computed country values ​​in client/server structures
  • EDK: fix a bug where a firewalled client was displayed with IP 0.0.0.0
  • new verbosity level “geo” to monitor access to GeoIP.dat
• Include compile patch for Ocaml 3.08.3
• Remove unused files src/networks/donkey/donkeyIndexer.ml*
• Updated Mozilla protocol handler to version 2.1
• configure: Allow use of Ocaml 3.10.0, keep 3.09.3 as default
• FileTP: Support HTTP downloads of files > 1GB 5815: Unix32: Override system umask to force correct function of option create_file_mode (pango)
• Extend patch 5817: “Code updates for Ocaml 3.10.0beta compatability” to Ocaml 3.11
• EDK: Revoke upload slot when client asks for blocks positioned after EOF
• Fix commit when incoming filesystem allows more than 16M chars
• Telnet/BT: Display clients country code without HTML in vd
• commonPictures: Update favicon.ico (meto)
• Updated italian translation for mldonkey (surricani)
• Updated german translation for mldonkey
• Improve command “now”
  • close all upload slots
  • do not give an upload slot to clients in pending slot
  • restrict command “nu” to admin users