Emule V0.44a Released - Official eMule-Board

Dear eMule users,

Yes, you read correctly - a new version of eMule is released, coming with the following hightlights:

AICH: a new (additional) hashing system allows eMule to highly improve the corruption detection and handling, leading to less redownload in those cases
Low ID support for the Kad network: A buddy system allow clients with a low ID (firewalled clients) to work in the KAD network
Unicode support: eMule can now handle non standard character sets in the search
Connection test: eMule can check, if your selected ports are working for eMule

Also, check out the following additional releases:

LinkCreator v0.2. A small stand alone tool for creating eD2K links for particular files and adding HTTP sources.
VideoLAN Client 0.7.2 eMule partfile plugin. A plug in for the well known video player which lets you preview eMule partfiles more efficiently.

The following has to be installed on Win9x/ME only -- it enables the Unicode functionality for eMule on those OSes.
Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems (MSLU) version 1.0

Also, if you are running eMule on Win95 or Win98, make sure your system contains at least version 5.80.2614.3600 of Comctl32.dll (located in Windows-System folder). To update this DLL goto Platform SDK Comctl32 Redistributables 5.80.2614.3600 and follow the download and installations instructions there.

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So - download the new eMule client - and have fun.

Your eMule-Team

And now in more detail, the complete changelog:

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v0.44a

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- Sep, 2nd 2004    -
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Unk: Kad now remembers Kad's last open/firewall state during the recheck process to prevent temporary false reports.
Unk: It now takes two consecutive matching IP responses for Kad to change your current known IP to help filter bad responses.
.: Updated MobileMule protocol to 0.9a (bugfix)
.: Fixed a bug which could lead to a wrong status of obtained parts for downloading clients

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- Sep, 1th 2004    -
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.: Added new Dialogpage for creating ED2K Links with of shared and downloading files (replaces old context menue entries)
.: Update ligpng to 1.2.6 to fix security issues (which however had only minor influence on eMule)
.: IP Filter is now also used to ignore filtered incoming UDP packets
.: Added a preference option to choose between simple (prio 0.43) or adanced calculation of the remaining time for downloading files
.: Introduced additional new hashsystem (AICH Hashs) which will reduce the average amount of dataloss when a part is corrupted from
   4.64MB (with ICH) to 180KB. The system is most effective when using links with attached AICH hash, which eMule can now also create
   Please refer check the helpfiles/onlinehelp for more information about this new feature.
   IMPORTANT: Due to the additional hash algorithm, eMule has to rehash all your shared files - this is a one-time thing, which can't be avoided.

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- Aug, 26th 2004 -
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Unk: Attempt at a estimate file count in Kad.

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- Aug, 23rd 2004 -
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Unk: Fixed potential memleak in a upload client.
Unk: Changed how we estimate Kad users.

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- Aug, 22nd 2004 -
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Unk: Changed method of deleting Kad Contacts. Contact list should stay more up to date.
Unk: We do not save all Kad contacts on exit. Save a sample of up to 200 contacts to help lower to amount of pinging to dead contacts.
Unk: Changed it so all displayed transfering values goes through one method to try to standardize them.

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- Aug, 21st 2004 -
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Unk: Added an option to manually add a source.
Unk: If Kad has seen no incoming traffic for a set time, it's assumed you lost your connection and will auto disconnect.
Unk: Fixed a bug that sends many Kad Bootstrap packets when not needed.
Unk: Some maintance with the Kad code.. (Removing some unneeded code, switching the log events to eMules, ect.)

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- Aug, 20th 2004 -
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Unk: Adjusted the estimated time remaining again to hopefully get it more stable.
.: Reworked handling of dead sources (avoids that sources which are known to be unreachable are asked again within a certain time period)

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- Aug, 19th 2004 -
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Unk: Added a option to auto start eMule when starting windows..
Unk: Fixed a bug in TryToConnect that at times could check the wrong IP/ID with the IP filter..
Unk: Added to the statistics how many known clients are connected to ED2K and/or Kad.

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- Aug, 18th 2004 -
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Unk: We now keep track of Half Open sockets and limit new connection if Half Open sockets are too high. (If approved and kept in, it should help with SP2 and some nick cards and routers..)
Unk: We no longer allow a socket pending Connect to time out until OnConnect is called. ( If approved and kept in, it should help with SP2 and lost sources..)
Unk: Added to the statistics how many sources are connected to ED2K and/or Kad.
Unk: Added to the client details if the user is connected to Kad.
Unk: Removed warnings about Kad being beta.

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- Aug, 15th 2004 -
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Unk: First phase in adding firewall user support for Kad. This support will not work well until most users upgrade within the Kad network..

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- Aug, 9th 2004 -
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Unk: Increased time between keyword publishes to reduce overall Kad overhead.
Unk: Fixed possible memleak if an incoming Kad publish failed.
Unk: Put some limits on how many keywords you index.
1) Global keyword limit.. (You never index more than this)
2) Local keyword limit. If your indexing one VERY popular index, it will be limited to allow less popular indexes to be stored.
3) Now if you happen to be one of the "lucky" ones that indexes a very popular node, your client will not freeze up trying to keep up.

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- Aug, 8th 2004 -
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zz: Resume next now uses a4af order: Alphabetical order if enabled for a category, cat-prios, file-prios etc. If you select "Resume next" in a category popup menu, it will only resume a file in that category; none if no file is paused in that category.

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- Aug, 5th 2004 -
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zz: UploadSpeedSense min limit is now allowed to be lower than 10 KB/s (default is 1 KB/s). Please note that when UploadSpeedSense lowers the speed below 10 KB/s, the ratio download limiter will dynamically kick in until the speed goes over 10 KB/s again.

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- Aug, 4th 2004 -
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zz: improved No Needed Parts a4af management. Will now occasionally reask lower prio nnp files on a source, if all files are nnp on that file. This will prevent it from remaining on the highest prio file when it's nnp and lower prio files has stopped being nnp since last checked.

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- Aug, 1st 2004 -
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bluecow: Fixed client version statistics.

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- Jul, 31st 2004    -
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Unk: Fix a upload bug that caused uploads to stop sending after a complete chunk with a small queue. This should fix some issues with lost Friend Slots.
Unk: Did some merging from some Mods..
1) IRC gui updated.
2) Message gui updated.
3) Statistics gui updated.

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- Jul, 26th 2004    -
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bluecow: Sorting of strings in UI is locale dependant (very similar to sorting order of Windows Explorer)
Ornis:fixed a bug on processing the downloadlist in the webinterface

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- Jul, 24th 2004    -
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bluecow: Added 'Network Info' dialog. Double click on connection icon in statusbar to open it.
bluecow: Fixed some minor bugs in file comments/ratings processing and GUI.
bluecow: Download listview shows system file icons for part files.

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- Jul, 20th 2004    -
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bluecow: Fixed bug with servers which when added via ed2k link were set to low priority.
Ornis:on regular intervals, avoid recreating the same systrayicon as before
Ornis:Ctrl+V inserts ed2k-filelinks from the clipboard to the download

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- Jul, 17th 2004    -
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bluecow: Added Kad contact histogram control.
Ornis: added port-checker. Integrated into the first-start-wizard and the connection preferences, you can start a port test. A webscript will check your eMule and display results and hints on your browser.
Ornis: TCP and UDP Port can be changed during the runtime of eMule, if no server or kad connection is established an no client has been connected yet.

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- Jul, 16th 2004    -
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zz: Fixed USS bug to make it survive rare occasions when no earlier ttls is pingable than the differing ttl is found.
zz: Fixed bug that didn't resume/pause/stop all files in a category when context message for a category is used.

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- Jul, 12th 2004    -
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zz: Prevent client that doesn't currently have an upload slot from successfully adding blocks to their request queue. This prevents us from sending these blocks when the client then receives an upload slot.

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- Jul, 7th 2004 -
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zz: Small fix to make eMule request sources for files in the same order as the a4af priority (a4af auto, cat prio, file prio, alpha).
zz: Show which upload slots are in standby, with status text and graying them out.

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- Jul, 6th 2004 -
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zz: Soft queue limit at whatever entered in preferences. Hard queue limit 25% higher. When soft limit is reached, eMule only allow high credit clients, or clients that want high prio files, to get on queue.
unk: Fixed an priority bug that cause lower priority files overseed high priority files. Also hopefully lowered some cpu cycles with this change.

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- Jul, 5th 2004 -
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zz: "Try to get preview parts first" selectable on individual files if "Try to get preview parts first" is disabled in preferences. Please note that "Advanced mode controls" (tweak prefs) needs to be enabled for this menu option to show up.

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- Jul, 3rd 2004 -
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bluecow: Statistics in Shared Files window show a summary of all selected files.

Hi Ornis+
Thank you very much for the new version, but two bugs reports:
Now it doesn't start under emule_secure account, it gives these errors in the verbose log:

05/09/2004 10:29:46: Run as unpriveleged user: Error: LookupAccountName() failed,
05/09/2004 10:29:46: Run as unpriveleged user: Error: Failed to set directoy permissions!

I just replace the exe with the one of .43b and it works fine.

The second bug is the "Test ports" button:
the TCP check fails, I think that this is due to the fact that I'm behind a transparent proxy so the web traffic is sent with another IP instead of mine.
My real IP is sent to the web server as two additional HTTP headers:

Client-ip: my.ip.goes.here
X-Forwarded-For: my.ip.goes.here

It would be better if the page showed the IP that it tried to contact so it's easy to check if the test is being done properly or not.
A way to avoid the transparent proxy is to put the web page under another port: the proxy only works for connections done to the port 80.

But thank you again very much.