The next Phex version will be 3.2.2
I just thought that it might be useful to post the release notes here, too. No use in excluding anyone who doesn't have access to the sourceforge project...
Release Notes
On the surface, this release mostly features noticeably improved networking code, due to which the thread usage for network connections dropped by about 40%.
One of the effects of this change is, that Phex can now handle 99 UP2UP connections with ease, as tested in two performance tests:
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http://wiki.phex.org/Phex_Performance
The second visible change are two new translations: Spanish and Mexican. (thanks go to LuisC-SM!)
Also we added a "nasty file filter", which should hide most (but surely not all) really nasty files, so you don't accidentally download things most people really don't want to see.
Not showing on the outside, abstractions from the i2p integration (i2phex branch) were ported to the main release, and even deeper below the surface, the code structure is being gradually adapted, to create a better Phex API, which allows other developers to easily use code from Phex as backend for their programs.
And as usually many Bugs where found and fixed.
As a sidenote, the startup wizard now prompts, if you want to subscribe to the Polar Skulk, a feed of free files served via Gnutella, and the served files get downloaded into a subdirectory of the download folder so they don't disturb regular downloads.
If you want to follow the development of Phex more closely, you can build Phex directly from our subversion repository:
- Information:
http://wiki.phex.org/Subversion Changelog
- GUI: Spanish and Mexican translations added (thanks to LuisC-SM).
- GUI: Search Filter: Default Rule added: Hide Nasty Files.
- GUI: Decentral Content Distribution panel added to welcome wizard.
- GUI: Add option to shared files export to export only selected files.
- CORE: Magma-Lists now download to a subdir of the default download dir.
- CORE: Integrated DestAddress from i2phex which allows other forms of ID
beside IPs.
- CORE: Use of shared threads for network connections reduced threads by
approx. 40%
- FIXED: When browsing a host a blocked URN caused a connection abort.
- FIXED: Scanning of shared files crashed when a new directory was added.
- FIXED: Removed a possible deadlock situation during read/write lock handling.
- FIXED: Problems with available range set handling when download file size is
unknwon are solved.
- FIXED: A running file rescan throws errors when shared directories are
changed concurrently.
- FIXED: Download file preview was not possible if file beginning was not
verified yet.
- FIXED: File size unit in search quick filter resets to 'bytes' when toggling
through search tabs. (Bug: #1799473)
- FIXED: NPE on Mac OS X when displaying HTML text.
- FIXED: Turkish language file issue