[hardy] Request of update of aMule to 2.2.2 final release
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Bug Description
The current version of aMule in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is not a stable version (2.2.0~
Please, read: http://
Now it has published the final version 2.2.2 that can be considered stable.
The main reasons why I am requesting that the upgrade program are as follows:
* High importance:
- Version 2.2.2 has several changes were made to Kad in order to defy routing attacks.
- The extended version of the Kademlia network, Kad2, wasn't complete in the svn ubuntu has. That was Bad (tm), to the extent of damaging the network, especially when dealing with firewalled users, but also when indexing files >4GB. that's serious, from the network perspective. (from Kry, aMule dev)
- Also the new network code reinforces the security of the network about attacks to its nodes, and it's important not to have old clients around. (from Kry, aMule dev)
- In the connection process amulegui exchanges some information with the target, including some 'protocol version'. If the client and server don't agree on this number the connection is rejected. The number interchanged is different in the SVN version. In the function ExternalConn:
// For release versions, we don't want to allow connections from any arbitrary SVN client.
It seems that a SVN version gui cannot communicate with a 'release' version daemon. (bug #206648)
* Medium importance:
- It solves many problems of stability of svn that caused unexpected falls.
+ (bug #230015/comments/3)
+ Also bug #230015, bug #213586, bug #207178
+ in 2.2.2: bug #242220
* Low importance:
- Copy ED2K link to clipboard works strange (bug #244670)
- aMule makes bad hashlinks (ed2k://) (bug #94231)
- amule have by default konqueror browser in ubuntu (bug #209810)
- Shared files priority don't get updated on amulegui
- 100% of CPU used by amuleweb
- broken log view
- disable upnp in preferences if library loading fails
Possible bugs to be solved:
- bug #234422, bug #214100, bug #260078, bug #228704, bug #219671, bug #175284, bug #106009
- in 2.2.2: bug #210554
Old reasons (Not so Disabled):
* This release could be considered a bugfix release since most of the new features of aMule 2.2.1 are already included in the latest svn. Indeed! Some features are incomplete in the svn snapshot
* Version 2.2.2, to be an official launch, can be reported hypothetical errors in the program. A snapshot is svn, from the standpoint of developers, a lot of provisional code and that is no longer present at the launch stable.
* Ubuntu 8.04 is a LTS release so it will be in use at least 3 years for desktops. I do not think it good maintain a snapshot svn for 3 years since "svn snapshot" is not synonymous of stability.
* At least in the forum of aMule have been reported numerous problems with the svn snapshot where developers can only advise compile a stable version or an svn latest snapshot. The end user should avoid the process of compiling whenever possible.
Some of these problems are in https:/
And these are just one example (if I am put a full list would be too large).
I do not say that 2.2.2 is a "panacea" but at least is a stable version. I am using self since he left and it seems to be more stable than version repositories
Changed in amule: | |
assignee: | nobody → festor90 |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Changed in amule: | |
assignee: | festor90 → motu-sru |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in amule: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in amule: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in amule: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
What bugs does this solve?