[new-upstream]gtk-gnutella 0.96.9

[Guybrush88]

Binary package hint: gtk-gnutella

Here's the changelog of the latest version of gtk-gnutella:

New Features

    Added UPnP and NAT-PMP support.
    Added a "log" command to the shell to manage logfiles.
    Added --gdb-on-crash switch, auto-activated when no core dumps are possible.
    Configures a crash directory as ~/.gtk-gnutella/crashes.
    [GTK] Added visual feedback for UPnP and NAT-PMP configuration status.

Improvements

    Better handling of uploading servers that also publish in the DHT.
    Added Global Host Cache as a last-resort bootstrapping mechanism when UDP is not working.
    Search results from firewalled hosts are now displayed in "dark slate gray"
    Message statistics now include a line per DHT message type instead of aggregating all DHT messages in the same basket.
    Always use ARC4 random number generator.
    Continuous entropy collection to make the random number sequence more random.
    Raised default ultrapeer connections in leaf mode to 4, maximum now being 5.
    ASCII parentheses are no longer considered evil characters and are not stripped from filenames anymore.
    Trailing spaces and periods are stripped from filenames because Windows does not like them.
    When stdout and stderr are different files, critical messages (assertion failures, crashes) are duplicated to stdout.
    [GTK] Added visual feedback icon for the DHT status.
    [GTK] Show green/yellow/red uploading status icons indicating increasing warning levels after which we declare that uploads are stalling.
    [GTK] Show DHT alt-loc queries on a per-file basis.

Bug Fixes

    Prevented random crash at shutdown time (improper cleanup ordering).
    Prevent crash when running on linux kernels patched with grsecurity.
    Fixed improper hop count display (always showing 2147483647) in horizon stats.
    Fixed bad GUI status for files: do not say "SHA1 failed" unless it's true.
    Fixed message statistics which were reading payload size from the header instead of relying on what was actually read.
    OOB proxying code was not considering MUID collisions, causing memory leaks.
    Was not always reconnecting to other Gnutella nodes when missing slots.
    Fixed old bug triggered by setting "listen_port" to 1 multiple times.
    Magnets created from search results did not include push proxies.
    [GTK2] Was not saving tree view column positions in the statistics pane.
    [GTK2] Fixed broken DND so that files can be drag 'n' dropped from local searches and the download view to other desktop apps now.
    [GTK] New users were never able to see the preset filters in the menu.

Under the Hood

    Fresh bogus IP lists and geo IP database.
    Updated SPAM detection rules.
    Updated Gnutella bootstraping logic due to changing environments.
    Cached DHT security tokens are now regularily expired.
    Tuned DHT maintenance traffic down, using statistical methods to further avoid needless RPCs.
    Clear empty databases at startup, attempt to shrink them otherwise.
    Fixed uninitialized memory read detected by valgrind.
    Made SDBM more robust when facing errors.
    Errors encountered during SDBM operation are now reported at exit time.
    If I/O errors were detected during operations of a persisted DB, request key checking at next startup.
    Added CPU frequency scaling detection (Linux and Windows only) to be able to properly determine whether we are overloading the CPU.
    Removed ShareMonkey URL support: they went out of business.
    Use the DHT routing table as a source for new node addresses when the host caches are depleted, before attempting to contact the UHCs.
    Throttle UDP pings so that we do not bombard a single host with many requests.
    Limit Gnutella connection attempts to a given host to one per 2 minutes.
    DHT routing table size now adjusts dynamically, lowering maintenance traffic.
    Throttle received DHT lookups as a precaution against abuse from rogue nodes.
    At startup time, sort cached host entries to put the most recent ones first.
    Optimized QRP table merging loop.
    Improved behaviour when facing stalling uploads.
    Only send "DHT" in Gnutella pongs if the DHT runs in active mode.
    Implemented DHT attack-prevention rules to guard against Sybil attacks.
    Added arc4random() default implementation for systems without it.
    Robustified query hit parsing so that we can filter out invalid hits.
    [GTK2] Completely migrated GtkFileSelection to GtkFileChooser.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

0.97 is in oneiric, so marking Fix Released.