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Unexpectedly, and in quick succession, another release has been brought out that addresses some questions about performance (See mailing list).

Semys now also provides a loopback transporter that suits best for all the self-links in a group. Furthermore, an unnecessary lock within the tcp transporter has been removed - it blocked any other parallel transmission.

See the following two messages from the mailing list for more details:
Questions: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=47CA5A78.7090209%40ping.at
Answers: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=47CC54E4.1010500%40ping.at... read more

Although the initial goal for the next release was only some polishing, a major (incompatible) change was done as well.

This major change is within the coder framework that now codes a byte stream instead of a bit stream. The envisioned compression did not work out as well as believed and added more problems than it was good for.

A bit more detail about the work can be extracted from the mailing list. Apart from that, read the notes from the release itself:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=219178&package_id=264450&release_id=581035

More than two years after I started this project I finally moved to SourceForge with it. Having a full project management readily available does pay off after all.
Plus: This move gives me first hands-on experience with SVN ;)

The first file release is the 'ported' beta version 0.90.000, which basically differs only in the references to the old/new homes in the documentation.
The file can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=219178&package_id=264450&release_id=579763... read more