Phex 0.6 released.
 

Phex 0.6 has been released.

You can download it here:
http://phex.sourceforge.net

The new Phex release brings you many major improvements for easier searching and sharing of files on the Gnutella network. The major improvements of this release are:

• Improved configuration of your download.
• Completly rewritten automatic search framework.
• Gnutella Protocol v0.6 support.
• Automatic check for new Phex versions.

This link may work a little better, some browsers will complain about the https part. Mine did.

http://phex.sourceforge.net

... and thanks for Phex, I try to grab every update. :)

Hi,
could you give details/URL to Gnutella Protocol v0.6 addition/changes?
Would you like to explain how 'Automatic check for new Phex versions' work?

Look at http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/tech_papers into the Handshaking Protocol

Phex calls once a week a URL that returns a page that contains the version number of the current Phex release. Phex compare this version number to it's own version number. If the current version number is higher then it's own version number then Phex display a dialog and notify the user of the new Phex version.

Gregor

Ah thx 4 both. :)
I think you have the first gnutella client (?) that does not check for a new version by using broadcasts (with TTL=1), good to know.

nice to know
 

Hi Gregor,

nice to see you´re continuing the development with great effort and success. I really like the way Phex is heading, keep it up.

Bye,

Konrad

I've been using 0.6 last night, and it seems to work very well.
Up and downloads have improved a lot.
And the little counting bugs in the gui have gone. :p

I have a few questions.


-In the connetions screen, under status, What's the difference between connected and connected! ?

-Is there a possibility to change the default 120 sec waiting time ?
(in the downloads screen)

Thanks in advance, RaaF

Hi

0.6 has some bad issues that I didn't experience in earlier versions. First, when I switch to the 'Gnutella Net' tab, it quite often happens that the GUI freezes completely for about 15s (Phex stops refreshing its window, top show a 90% CPU-usage for java.)
Second, the algorithm for finding download candidates for a file seems to have a dramatically lower efficiency. The only files in my download list which actually have candidates are those for which I manually searched.

Guido

That was just a little indication that the connection is stable. Running searches are only resubmitted to connections once they get stable. To reduce network flooding because most unstable connections will be droped before they would be able to return search results.

Do you mean the time Phex is waiting for retrying of downloads?
I think the default is 30 seconds. If you don't have any importend configurations in your phex.cfg file you can close phex, delete the phex.cfg and restart. Your time should be 30 sec.
Or for advanced users edit the setting of mDownloadRetryWait. But it makes no sense to have it lower then 30000 you are only hurting the sharing hosts!

I try to find a reason for the GUI freeze. It might be that the repainting of the fast changing host list is to much for your CPU. I will look into it further and check if other people also have the same problem.


Please read the thread
http://forums.gnutelliums.com/showth...&threadid=5735
for a discussion about the new research behavior.