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A new testing release of DC++ 0.882 is now available with a year worth of updates, new search functions, updated libraries, increased stability and security improvements.

This version is under public testing cycle and will be sporadically advertised for those who's running the latest stable release. If no serious issues reported it'll marked stable within a few weeks.

A new testing release of DC++ 0.881 is now available with new icon set that fits for modern UI themes, modernized Users window, updated libraries, increased stability, security and performance improvements.

This version is under public testing cycle and will be sporadically advertised for those who's running the latest stable release. If no serious issues reported it'll marked stable within a few weeks.

A new testing release of DC++ 0.880 is now available with speed optimizations to modern hardware and Windows versions, a new public hub list and better handling of cached hub list servers; also restores frequently updated GeoIp database service for proper showing of all peers' country information.
This version is under public testing cycle and will be sporadically advertised for those who's running the latest stable release. If no serious issues reported it'll marked stable within a few weeks.

Version 0.871 features very important updates of security and stability, ensuring future access to all hublist servers and also restores the connection to our hosting server thus allowing the upgrade announcements to display again at the start of the program.

Nearly 3 years after the previous version, DC++ 0.870 is now available to download. Compared to the previous release DC++ 0.870 comes with security and stability enhancements, mandatory TLS 1.2+ support, GeoIP country fixes, updated libraries and optimizations and with a new hub list server added.

A year after the previous version, DC++ 0.868 is now available with various library updates (notably OpenSSL 1.1.1 with TLS 1.3 support) and a revised selection of public hub lists.

New public hub lists will get auto-added to your collection upon update; a "Reset hub lists" button is also available should you want to clean them up.

This version has gone through the usual release testing cycle and should be safe to upgrade to; upgrading is strongly advised.... read more

This new version of DC++ fixes a publicly disclosed remote crash issue that present all older versions released in the last 10 years or so which means this update is essential for everyone using DC++ in public or private networks.

This new version of DC++ fixes a serious issue that allows remote denial of service attacks (freezing the client remotely by any user of connected hubs) as well as improves UPnP port mapping which might fix certain issues with the automatic connectivity setup.
Upgrading to DC++ 0.866 is strongly recommended.

DC++ 0.865 has been released. zlib and OpenSSL libraries have been updated; the compression issue found in the previous version has been fixed.

Upgrading to DC++ 0.865 is highly recommended.

Tests with the 0.864 version of DC++ have uncovered a transfer issue (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/dcplusplus/+bug/1656050) so the release has been removed. It never made it to the "stable" status.

Please keep using version 0.863 for now.

DC++ 0.864, along with minor changes, fixes a stability issue regarding searches. Immediate upgrade for users running version 0.863 is highly recommended.

DC++ 0.863, along with minor changes, fixes a stability issue in the 32-bit builds. Immediate upgrade for users running 32-bit operating systems is highly recommended.

DC++ 0.682 fixes an issue with the default Automatic connectivity setup won't work in certain cases. Upgrade is highly recommended.

A new bugfix release of DC++ has made available, it fixes an issue with manual connectivity setup and updates the OpenSSL library. Due to performance optimizations DC++ will require Intel P4 / AMD A64 CPUs or newer from this release on.

DC++ 0.860 comes over a year after the previous release; it contains a flurry of improvements and updates the various libraries used by the program, leading to more stability and security.

Notable improvements:
- Better Windows 10 compatibility.
- Download queue toolbar.
- Better IPv6 connectivity.
- More favorite hub settings.
- Chat box improvements.
- Hub connectivity status icons.
- Hardened connection security.... read more

Besides the latest OpenSSL security fixes and hardening secure connection further by disallowing weak ciphersuites this DC++ version largely focuses on mitigating malicious situations where DC++ can be used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in certain malevolent NMDC hubs.
Therefore this release is highly recommended for everyone still using any older DC++ versions.
If no critical issues found, DC++ 0.851 should be marked as the new stable version within a short period of time.

As the first new DC++ release in the last nine months version 0.850 fixes and hardens security related functions further to avoid popular TLS exploits and more. This release also contains stability and performance updates of various 3rd party libraries used within the program. A recommended maintenance upgrade.

Besides fixing a few small problems this service release provides protection against the infamous "Heartbleed" OpenSLL vulnerability which has been existed in DC++ since version 0.799. If no serious issues found this release will be marked stable in the coming days.

The first release of the 0.840 series of DC++ is out today. Besides a few SSL encryption related and stability fixes this version largely focuses on implementing various features asked for or recommended by the user community through our feature tracker.
Probably this version is the last mainstream DC++ release that supports Windows XP. Security and major stability fixes might be expected to a branch targeting XP only.
If no critical issues found, 0.840 should go stable within 2 weeks.

A new bug fixing service release of DC++ has been released today fixing three problems introduced with version 0.830. All the fixed problems exist in version 0.830 only, older versions are not effected. For users already on DC++ 0.830 the upgrade is highly recommended.

The first version of the 0.830 series of DC++ is out today. Besides the large number of security and stability fixes the biggest improvement is the availability of secure, SSL encrypted direct private message channels. If no critical issues found, this release should go stable within 2 weeks.

A new stability update of DC++ released today. Upgrade is recommended for users of any earlier versions.

A new security & stability update of DC++ is released today. Immediate upgrade is recommended, especially for users of earlier 0.82x versions.

Today we're happy to announce the availability of the first stable version of DC++ 0.82x series. Over 0.820, version 0.822 brings some more improvements on plugins handling. Upgrade is strongly recommended.
Along with the new release the DC Plugin Repository is also launched at http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

A new version of DC++ is out today and this release introduces many exciting new features. The changelog may not as long as usual but now it contains some nice and long awaited news like a finalized user friendly plugin API and plugin distribution, introduce of 64-bit DC++ executables and plugins, completly revamped transfers view area and expandable search results.
If no serious issues reported during the wider test period, this release will be marked stable within a couple of weeks.