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Hello everyone!
I have some good and some bad news.
The bad news first:
I wanted to create a new DD version today to finally fix the rapidshare problems for everyone (You can always build from SVN trunk to fix it yourself, but this is obviousely not an option for everyone).
However, when I wanted to sign the debian packages, I noticed that I somehow lost my gpg private key. I still have it in a backup (I hope).. but this backup is about 300km away from me. I won't have access to it for the next two weeks. (I'll try to get the key anyway, but can't promise that it will work. Actually I'm pretty sure it won't...).... read more

Hello everyone.
DownloadDaemon, ddconsole, ddclient-gui and ddclient-php version 1.0rc2 have just been released. This is the last release-candidate before the final 1.0 release, so please test everything you can think of so all potential bugs can be fixed.

Again no arm(el) releases for you. As mentioned, support for them will bee there in the final 1.0 release again.

Also, the final 1.0 release will include binaries for Mac OS X (ddclient-gui, DownloadDaemon and ddconsole).... read more

Hello there!
DownloadDaemon and Clients 1.0rc1 have just been released!
This version only offers few new features, but many bug-fixes and small improvements.
This will be the last version before 1.0. And rc1->1.0 will only be bug fixes. So please, report everything you find so it can be fixed for the first stable release!
A detailed changelog for 1.0rc1 can be found here:
http://downloaddaemon.sourceforge.net/version_status.html
Most notably, the winenrs of the Hoster-survey have been implemented:
depositfiles.com and filefactory.com.
(There were also many people who typed "megaupload.com" in the "Other" field. Be told that there is already a megaupload.com plugin. You just have to install gocr to use it and set the gocr_path configuration variable in downloaddaemon.conf correctly).... read more

Hello there!
Finally, DownloadDaemon 0.9 has been released. And there are more news than ever before!
The most interesting things are probably the rewrite of ddclient-wx using the Qt framework. It now looks and works a lot better! try it!
New features in DownloadDaemon are alternating proxies (to bypass IP-based bandwidth-limits, specified proxies will be tried if you reached your download limit), and unrar/untar functionality by utilizing the "unrar" and "tar" programs, which have to be installed if you want to use this function. tar files may be compressed with gzip and bzip2. That's why the whole download-list has been restuctured and now uses a package-based approach (many downloads can be put in one package, that will be extracted if all downloads in it have finished).
Finally, support for megaupload.com free download was added. And experimental support for netload.in premium and uploaded.to premium. However, they are untested because I don't have an account. Please test them if you have one!... read more

As it can be seen on the main-page, we want to ask you, the users of DownloadDaemon, which plugins you want to have in DownloadDaemon in the near feature.
Please vote for your favourite hosters here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LB3W7VV

The results will be published when there are enough votes to get a rough idea what's needed most.

Please vote!

Adrian

Hey there,
DownloadDaemon and Clients version 0.8 have just been released, with a lot of nice changes and fixes. Especially support for netload.in with automatic captcha recognition through gocr and a new youtube plugin should be pointed out.
To ARM users: You can use your old arm_libs package, however, I'll soon upload a new package which will also include gocr and netpbm for ARM, so you can also benefit from the automatic captcha recognition. (Netload.in will not work for now, you need gocr).
For users of other plattforms: Install gocr for netload.in support (It's already bundled with DownloadDaemon for Windows).
UPDATE: The new ARM dependencies are now online. Feel free to install them.... read more

Hello there.

DownloadDaemon and its clients have just reached version 0.7.
Source packages and binaries for linux and win32 have been uploaded, arm and armel binaries will follow soon.
There were many changes in this release. the most interesting ones are probably that DownloadDaemon now runs natively on Windows and that DownloadDaemon does not require root-privileges any more. and for sure the complete ddclient-php rewrite by bungh0le.
A more detailed changelog is posted below.... read more

A lot has happened around the DownloadDaemon project in the past few days!

1: DownloadDaemon will now not run as root any more. When installing via a .deb package, a user for the daemon will be created, else, you will get instructions when trying to start DownloadDaemon as root. This fixes a whole bunch of security issues.

2: The new PHP-client is now almost ready and will be ready for version 0.7 with a complete new design, better code layout and more intuitive usage!... read more

A few days ago I set up a Wiki-software for DownloadDaemon.
For now, there is only one article (about how to install DownloadDaemon on Windows using Cygwin) I wrote back then, but hopefully more content will come soon (better installing instructions, more advanced topics, etc).
Feel free to contribute to the official DownloadDaemon wiki!
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/downloaddaemon

Adrian

Because of some problems with the ddclient-php rewrite, you'll once again get the old style. Looking forward for version 0.7!

Adrian

DownloadDaemon and clients v0.6 have just been released!
Packages are available for download, .deb packages are in the process of being built. Only ddclient-php will need a few more minutes and will be released when it's done (it's worth the patience! There will be a lot of changes, thanks to bungh0le who rewrote the whole thing!).
koryu and me will be on vacation for the next few days, so don't expect any uploads or answers on forum-posts until we are back.
Now try version 0.6! good luck!
List of changes is below.... read more

I finally managed to cross-compile builds for the debian armel architecture. Binaries of boost-thread1.41 and DownloadDaemon can be found in the download section. This makes it possible for a lot more people to install DownloadDaemon on their NAS box.

Sorry for the delay, the Windows and ARM binaries version 0.5 have now been released. As a bonus for waiting, you now get porper Windows-style for ddclient-wx (and not the old 'classic' style)

DownloadDaemon and its clients version 0.5 have just been released. There are source-packages as well as Ubuntu deb-packages available in the download section. Also the Ubuntu-repository has been updated. Windows and ARM-Binaries will probably be released tomorrow because of a hard-disk failure of my computer (and missing backups of the virtual machines). The new main-features are support for encrypted authentication with DownloadDaemon using the MD5 message digest algorithm, as well as a few bug-fixes (view the Changelog for details)