[gtk-gnutella-users] Version 0.96.8 stable has been released

[Raphael M. <Rap...@po...>]

Dear Gnutella fans,

A bugfix release has been released on sourceforge.  You are strongly
encouraged to upgrade from 0.96.7 as soon as possible.

You may get the new version 0.96.8 through Gnutella at:

magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:6KCK5T6JYBJF5T4AHRIF5C55CPA3K423&dn=gtk-gnutella-0.96.8.tar.bz2

Here are the changes since 0.96.7, as listed in the ChangeLog:

# v 0.96.8   2010-03-21  [stable]

This is essentially a bug-fixing release for 0.96.7, in which some code paths
that were not exercised during pre-release testing are responsible for
fatal errors (sudden crashes due to assertion failures).

Bug Fixes:
- Removed an obsolete assertion now that gtk-gnutella supports NOPE DHT values.
  This was causing a crash each time a NOPE value was received in response
  to push-proxies queries in the DHT.
- Fixed memory alignment problem for non-forgiving CPU architectures.
- The virtual memory manager would crash when the kernel starts allocating
  pages in zones we wrongly thought were already used.
- Fixed long-standing bug in the Query Routing Table protocol where a RESET
  message with the wrong table size could sometimes be sent, causing the remote
  node to close the connection.
- Make sure an ultrapeer is not publishing NOPE values in the DHT if support
  for the DHT was disabled by user, which would be triggering a fatal assertion
  failure.

Under the hood:
- Fixed Makefile to ensure proper compilation under Gentoo's build scripts.
- Push-proxy client support now makes sure there is a space after a leading
  GET or HEAD word in the HTTP request.
- The DIME parsing layer now given more information in case of an error.
- Let THEX downloads peruse any supplied Content-Length information from the
  server (applicable only when the output is not chunked).
- The VMM layer is now smarter at identifying foreign pages when allocating
  blocks larger than a single page.
- When sending BYE messages, do not shutdown the socket layer if using TLS.
- Compilation cleanup for SunOS, Sun Studio, and versions of GTK < 2.5.0.

Enjoy!

Raphael