jUCy

Just about one year after the first public beta release its time for Version 0.73.

Which is quite  a large release at least I am proud of it as there are some really nice features. ADCS connections to hubs  was long awaited... though its only to hubs client-client traffic is still unencryted, but will be available sooner or later.

Then a new hash-library is in use that is about 30% faster than the old one. Which is quite an improvement. Another nice change is that the table in the search window now behaves like a tree so you can have a look at each singel result in case of SearchResults with multiple users.

 Well thats about it for now... some more bugfixes... though nothing specially noteable.

 

V:0.73

- ADCS connection to hubs are now possible.
- Hashing now about 30% faster.
- Test implementation of UserCommands for ADC.
- Added more toaster options. And separated sound from toaster so sound can be played without toaster.
- New "Chat Only" functionality to disable sharing in certain hubs.
- New %[Directory] and %[filePath] variables for UserCommands.
- Smiley Plugin: New ToolBar item added to choose smileys by picture.
- Added possibility to use multi-line tabs. Though these are ugly and therefore made optional.
- Search now is a tree widget allowing results with multiple users to be seen each for itself.

 

One year  has passed since the first public release of jucy.

Since then the userbase has grown from 2 users to a few hundred by now. Thats quite astonishing for me... never expected so many people would use a client that is still in beta.

As I am not going to release a new version .. or declare end of Beta by now. I want to sum up a bit where jucy will be heading. But first: Why not the end of public beta?

 As long as every release is a beta  I can throw out every or  nearly every month one release with the latest changes and bugfixes  without much of a testing. Thats the primary reason ... calling it beta allows me to go on providing versions without any QA.  Also build server and stuff are still something problematic .. and I never took enougth time to write the needed scripts for this. 

 

Where will jucy be going during the comeing year?

Well most important: It is not going to die!   Though it might receive a few less updates till end of year because of a Master thesis I will be working on. Though less does not mean none ... there will be updates, as no work and no play...  there is allways room for free time and some recreational coding.

What are the planned features to come?

ADCS is still on my wishlist... though I ran into a lot of problems .. as non blocking IO and TLS in combinations has provided a challenge for me.

Some more work will be going into an Operator-Plugin section.  Which will contain some helpers to do operator work. One thing almost done for example is an advanced ADL search. I choose for this as the first step as an feature rich ADL search was allways the most important feature in operator client for me, right next to a fakeshare detection. 

The rest is a secret for now. And might due to the comeing work on the thesis be procrastinated.  Though I still hope to bring lots of new features for jucy in the comeing year!

Happy First April!

 

 

 Finally a new Version is out.. yet not in February ... though in beginning of March (Hah now I have time till end of April for a new release *g)
Changelog is small. Though some things have already proven valueable for me: The new Toaster box that comes up on getting a PM helped
me to get remembered for new PMs optional for the box is also an annoying sound. May be in the next version there will be settings to change that sound.. may be. Currently a lot of work that goes into jucy flows into a new Plugin that will add Operator functionality. Though it is still not done and Operator functionality is also a branch that will grow over time... I hope to release an advanced ADL search targetting Operators for next Version.

I also added some dialog to manage installed Plugins.. so you can also uninstall or disable Plugins that you installed.
Also another important improvement is adding a Referred field in Client Client connections.  This will  help to find hubs that are misused for DDoS attacks so they will be removed from public hublists and taken down.

And it should be noted that version 0.71 was the first version till now that got more than 1000 downloads! Jay party!

 

V:0.72

- Setting Maximum simultaneous downloads finally works. Should be the last setting that was put into gui though never implemented.
- Now users get an automatic slot for files smaller than 64KiB like it is common in the rest of DC.
- Extended the Help system a bit. Now Help for creating User Commands is provided.
- Searching in search results with Strg-F now enabled... - Added a toaster box that can pop up when a new PM arrives somewhere in the background. Inclusive an annoying sound.
- Added dialog to manage installed plug-ins. (uninstalling,disabling/enabling)
- Added Referrer in Client-Client connections so attacked parties can find source of DDoS.

 

 

 

Jay version 0.71 is there.

Its mainly a bugfix version though not totally of the last version. Its more bugs that were there for a long time. Most important bugfixes are that a memory leak was identified. The other thing was a not totally working LockToKey algorithm that made problems with some hubsofts.

Though some little new features are in there.  Like some Drag&Drop support for the downloadqueue and possibility for excluding tempfiles from the share (in the settings under Advanced.. though better just don't touch it.. should work well as it is).

Nothing more to say. Just how happy I am that this memory leak was finally found.

V:0.71

- Fixed Problems with LockToKey mechanism not working sometimes.
- Changed image URLs on single click images will now be embedded in text instead of showing as pop-up.
- Fixed Bug: Download of large files ( > 5.4 GiB) resulted in an Error. Result: Large files not being downloadable.
- Added Drag and Drop support in DownloadQueue. Makes moving around files a bit easier.
- Fixed one Bug throwing NullpointerExceptions (ConnectionProtocol.setState(ConnectionProtocol.java:273))
- Fixed ADL Search not allowing to change an entry. Also made changes so non active items are distinguishable from active ones.
- Fixed Bug that resulted in endless re-hashing of files if the case in the name was changed. Happened only on case insensitive file systems.
- Fixed Bug a memory leak, each FileList refresh leaked 1-2 MiB of memory.
- Added possibility to filter unwanted files from the share (good for filtering unfinished torrent files if you torrent client supports different endings.)

 

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