What's new in ApexDC++ 1.6.5
Dec 25, 2018
- Fix: Potential remote crash when receiving UDP data (DC++)
- Fix: MiniUPnPc multicast TTL argument (DC++)
- Added: Ability to reset public hublist addresses from settings (DC++)
- Removed: Option to use Coral CDN, which became defunct (DC++)
- Change: Default hublist addresses updated
- Change: OpenSSL upgrade to version 1.1.1a
- Change: Updated to minupnpc 1.2
- Change: Updated to a more recent version of WTL and boost libraries
- Change: Updated compiler to MSVC 2017 (including redistributable)
- Change: Other minor miscelaneous changes
New in ApexDC++ 1.6.4 (Feb 6, 2017)
- Fix: Connectivity issues related to new versions of zlib (DC++)
- Change: Updated zlib to version 1.2.11
- Change: OpenSSL upgrade to 1.0.2k
New in ApexDC++ 1.6.3 (Jan 9, 2017)
- Fix: Build configuration of older operating systems
- Change: Updated port forwarding related 3rd party dependencies
- Change: Updated zlib to version 1.2.10 (security patches)
- Change: OpenSSL upgrade to 1.0.2j
- Change: Updated compiler to MSVC 2015 Update 3 (including redistributable)
New in ApexDC++ 1.6.2 (May 29, 2016)
- Fix: NMDC exploit re-routing search requests to flood a server with UDP traffic (DDoS)
- Change: Inno setup script updated to split out based on processor architecture
- Change: Removed OpenCandy integration from setup (no offers on installation)
New in ApexDC++ 1.6.1 (May 16, 2016)
- Fix: A very rare crash related to favorite hub removal under certain conditions
- Fix: Infinitely retrying update check when there is no connectivity (again)
- Fix: Connectívity issues with encrypted connections
- Change: Moved from subversion to git for version control
- Change: Multiple versioning and update check changes related to moving to git (plus about box changes)
- Change: Boost upgrade to 1.59
- Change: OpenSSL upgrade to 1.0.2h, and related changes
- Change: Fresh WTL snapshot, included within our source code distribution from now on
- Change: Updated Innosetup to 5.5.9 and cleaned up some installer code
- Change: Updated to MSVC 2015 Update 2
- Change: Redistributables in setup file have been updated
New in ApexDC++ 1.6.0.2165 (Aug 20, 2014)
- Fix: Ignore expired certificates for KEYP to prevent connection issues
- Change: Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1i
- Change: Ability to block fraudulent hub domains (ADC-Fun.com has been added)
- Change: Update check improvements (close button no longer greyed out)
- Change: Change behaviour towards default encryption settings to avoid hub hijacking
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.14.2152 (Jun 11, 2014)
- Security vulnerability: Upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1h
- Change: Added further diagnostics for user certificate errors in system logs
- Change: TLS 1.1 and 1.2 protocols now permitted (DC++)
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.13.2148 (May 9, 2014)
- Fix: Potential crash when download queue contains files without an extension
- Fix: [NMDC] Prevent crashes when receiving malicious search requests (DC++)
- Fix: ApexDC becoming unresponsive in some edge cases when update check fails
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.12.2140 (Apr 15, 2014)
- Fix: Download Queue context menu not working
- Fix: Moving plugins up or down would crash ApexDC (Issue #396)
- Fix: Loading certain plugins would crash ApexDC (Issue #412)
- Change: Adjust some compiler options to avoid potential problems
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.11.2130 (Apr 15, 2014)
- Heartbleed: A security fix for the recent Heartbleed vulnerability found in OpenSSL.
- Fix: Subtract List shortcut was broken in 1.5.10 (Issue #395)
- Fix: Deselecting a folder in Share settings would not deselect subfolders (Issue #399)
- Fix: Preview video option disappeared (Issue #398)
- Fix: Improvements to how certificate verification is handled and improved logs
- Fix: Avoid checking keyprint twice for uploads
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.10.2060 (Feb 12, 2014)
- Merge: File sharing, hashing and further search changes synced from DC++ (may require full or partial share rehash on some configurations due to changes in storage format)
- Feature: Progress for individual startup actions displayed on splash screen (DC++)
- Fix: Incompatibilities with newer clients due to changes in filelist handling
- Fix: Startup issues introduced in 1.5.9 for some configurations
- Fix: Hammering the update server on connection failure
- Fix: Invalid magnet link filenames could cause persistent chat formatting issues
- Fix: Bring back persistent search history
- Change: Backend changes related to HTTP downloads
- Change: Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1f
- Change: Default TLS setup changes, OpenSSL default ciphers changed
- Change: Removed obsolete fast hash option (DC++)
- Change: Reject malformed filelists (DC++)
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.9.2001 (Jan 3, 2014)
- Merge: New search changes from DC++ 0.831
- Fix: Suppressing auto connection to hubs when holding Shift
- Fix: GPL license no longer needs to be accepted on installation
- Change: Introduced new icons with tool-tips under user-list area
- Change: Compile time has been added to about box
- Change: Some code clean ups
- Change: Boost libraries updated
- Change: OpenSSL is compiled during build process now
- Change: Updated compiler support for Visual C++ 2013
- Change: Added Visual C++ Redistributables to Installer
- Change: Updated to Inno Setup 5.5.4
- Change: All pre-installed hub addresses use ADC protocol where possible
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.8.1918 Beta (Sep 16, 2013)
- Feature: Upload progress bars display accurate percentage completion between ApexDC++ users (experimental)
- Fix: KEYP address was cut when clicking on hub address in chat
- Fix: Tray password protection issues (Issue #335)
- Change: Update check window mechanical improvements
- Change: Forced updates migrated to use the Update check window
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.7.1895 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Fix: Disallow some malevolent messages
- Fix: Send the LC (locale) parameter in INF
- Fix: Corrected grammar in Settings > Advanced: "Always use passive mode for search"
- Change: Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (XP builds distributed separately)
- Change: Installer now supports XP builds
- Change: Updated Zlib 1.2.8 and MiniUPnP 1.8
- Change: Merged Plugin API with DC++
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.6.1691 (Apr 8, 2013)
- Merge: DC++ for ADC 1.0.2
- Fix: Magnet URI handler security vulnerability (DC++)
- Fix: Prevent uploading to the same user when you've enabled hide share and reconnected to the hub (thanks iceman)
- Fix: Wait for auto update of IP on startup before auto connecting to any hubs
- Change: Decreased frequency of saving dht.xml file to 60 minutes to reduce disk writes
- Change: Added Hublist.eu to the available hublists
- Change: Use DC++ speed limit code and remove unneeded hardcoded limits
- Change: Moved Plugins menu to File > Plugins
- Change: Updated Plugin API (DC++)
- Change: Updated to OpenCandy SDK 1.7.0
- Change: Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1e
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.5.1585 (Apr 8, 2013)
- Fix: Update check has been improved to help combat paranoid Anti-Virus programs
- Fix: More problematic libraries have been added for detection
- Fix: MiniUPnP library updated
- Fix: zlib and minizip libraries updated
- Fix: Plugins updated
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.4.1410 (Jun 1, 2012)
- Fix: ADLSearch loading including case sensitivity behaviour
- Fix: KEYP checking for some configurations (added notes about our changes vs spec)
- Fix: Potential crash that plugins could trigger
- Fix: Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1c
- Setup: Updated OpenCandy SDK
- Setup: Fixed duplicate directory issue when choosing existing installation
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.3.1335 (Apr 23, 2012)
- Fix: Updated OpenSSL to remove a recently disclosed vulnerability
- Fix: Typo in system log
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.2.1276 (Feb 25, 2012)
- Feature: Plugin API has been enhanced
- Fix: Undisclosed security vulnerability with KEYP extension
- Fix: Access Denied errors when partial file was locked
- Fix: Downloading folder while browsing filelist causes dupe
- Fix: Log file names changed unexpectedly in 1.5.0
- Fix: Lost tens of THOUSANDS of queued files due to a buggy implemented prune
- Fix: Protect tray password no longer working in 1.5.0
- Fix: System log cannot display complete error messages
- Fix: System log updates to current time when re-opened
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.1.1131 (Nov 18, 2011)
- Fix: Possible fix for arranging toolbar for remote desktop users
- Change: Files that no longer exist in downloads folder will be pruned from queue on startup
- Change: Added encrypted ADC Fun hub to favourites (only if TGO hub is detected)
- Change: Installer has option to launch ApexDC++ on startup
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.0.1059 (Sep 19, 2011)
- Merge: DC++ 0.782 and implemented some changes from BZR
- Feature: NAT-PMP for improved port forwarding (DC++)
- Feature: MiniUPnP updated for improved port forwarding (DC++)
- Feature: Added support for ZLIF extension (FlexHub only hubsoft to support this for now)
- Feature: Added support for KEYP ADC extension
- Feature: Auto update improvements
- Change: Update check now uses digitally signed file to avoid potential malicious attacks
- Change: Renamed "Use traditional tray icon behaviour" to "Single click tray icon to open"
- Change: LuaJIT plugin updated
- Change: Improved segment downloading by using shared file stream (StrongDC++)
- Fix: Fixed System Uptime error when using /stats on 64bit machines (Issue 112)
- Fix: Fixed spacing issue in Colors & Fonts preview pane
- Fix: Fixed downloading of directories from partial lists (browse filelist)
- Fix: "Recheck integrity" for finished files that remain in download queue
- Removed: Redundant option "Keep finished files available" for x minutes (use "Keep finished files in queue" option instead)
- Removed: Options "Keep downloads/uploads history between sessions" (enabled by default now)
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.0.1000 Beta (Jul 28, 2011)
- Further DC++ merges
- KEYP extension tweaking
New in ApexDC++ 1.5.0.989 Beta (Jul 28, 2011)
- DC++ merge: Please read our tracker entry regarding progress on this.
- NAT-PMP for improved port forwarding
- MiniUPnP updated for improved port forwarding
- Experimental KEYP ADC extension support
- Renamed "Use traditional tray icon behaviour" to "Single click tray icon to open"
- LuaJIT plugin updated - includes a hotfix
- Our authentication login system now uses https (sends login details over encrypted channel)
New in ApexDC++ 1.4.3 (Apr 29, 2011)
- Fix: Browse Filelist was broken, causing downloading issues from any 1.4.2 user (Issue #91)
- Fix: Can no longer Browse Filelist when a user is hiding their share
- Change: Added release notes link at end of setup
New in ApexDC++ 1.4.2 (Mar 17, 2011)
- Fix: Reverted an invalid fix regarding magnet links
- Fix: Returned country flags by slawekebi from 1.3.x
- Feature: When adding magnet link to queue the filename can be specified
- Change: Random chunk selection introduced in 1.3.6 is now a Settings option (go to /Downloads/Queue to enable)
- Change: Experimental version of the LuaPlugin using LuaJIT (reduces memory usage)
- Change: Installer improvements (latest GeoIP database is downloaded from Internet)
New in ApexDC++ 1.4.1 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Fix: Hangs under certain conditions when geoip was in use (Issue #82)
- Fix: NMDC hub encoding mapping to system default correctly
- Fix: System uptime in /stats command corrected
- Fix: Possible incorrect right clicks in PM windows
- Change: Installer now creates Settings directory if dcppboot.xml is not used
New in ApexDC++ 1.4.0 (Mar 2, 2011)
- Merge: StrongDC++ 2.42
- DC++ 0.777 core synchronization
- Added automatic incoming connection type detection
- Hopefully fixed throttling with very large speeds
- DHT fixes
- Updated internal libraries (OpenSSL, BZip2, ZLIB, boost) - fixes some security issues
- Added support to set favorite hub encoding
- DC++ emulation is off by default (for non-favorite hubs)
- Webserver session timeout changed to 10 minutes
- Feature: Web server rewritten (backported from 2.0)
- Utilises HTTPS
- Load images and css locally instead of apexdc.net
- Better HTTP performance
- Supports GZIP compression
- Change: Removed OpenCandy engine and replaced it with ApexDC Toolbar
- Change: Installer utilises Inno Setup to auto-detect user's language and 32bit/64bit system
- Fix: HTTP protocol support improved to fix potential never ending HTTP download
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.9 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Fix: Free slots info now sent to hub every 60 seconds (hub's bandwidth usage will decrease - DC++ BZR)
- Fix: Correctly detects magnet links with bitprints
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.8 (Oct 17, 2010)
- Fix Openhublist.org is now blacklisted as potential vulnerability (security issue)
- Fix: Removed AML in client detection settings to remove potential vulnerability (security issue)
- Fix: Crash reports should now display properly on Vista and Win7
- Change: Upload progress will show requested segment size rather than total filesize
- Change: Encryption options enabled by default
- Change: Private Messages will display in background for new users
- Change: Plugins updated
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.6 (Sep 5, 2010)
- Feature: Available slots is displayed alongside total slots in userlist (ADC only)
- Change: Segment selection for downloading is random (will speed up file distribution between ApexDC++ users)
- Change: Plugin API and the available plugins have been updated
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.5 (Aug 5, 2010)
- Fix: Connection speed display (NMDC)
- Fix: Prevented "Open own list" hub commands from going to the wrong hub (DC++)
- Fix: DHT memory leak (StrongDC++)
- Change: DHT enabled by default
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.4 (Jul 5, 2010)
- Fix: "Downloads finished, idle..." message stayed in transfer view
- Fix: Randomly forgot/removed sources when downloading
- Fix: Connection speed sorting in Userlist and Search was incorrect
- Fix: Partial sources were added to files after they had finished (StrongDC++)
- Change: Patch to add %[fileMN] parameter to user commands (DC++)
- Change: Default connection speed changed to reflect modern ISP speeds
- Change: Updated OpenSSL (StrongDC++)
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.3 (Jun 15, 2010)
- Fix: DHT fixes (StrongDC++ SVN)
- Fix: Correct ADC hub counts (DC++ BZR)
- Fix: File corruption (DC++ BZR)
- Fix: Chat scrolling fixed in some cases
- Change: Logs are only saved to disk once every minute (to prevent lockups)
- Change: Reduce download reconnect attempts after connection failures (DC++ BZR)
- Change: Selecting "Later" in update check will delay notification for 3 days
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.2 (May 26, 2010)
- Merge: StrongDC++ 2.41
- Fix: Settings corruption for media player plugin
- Fix: IP updating on startup (old behavior) is now integrated with IP updated on DHT firewall check
- Fix: Crash on /ratio command
- Fix: Crash when right clicking on a file in search window
- Fix: Crash related to DHT and user checking
- Fix: Minimize to tray works as expected on Windows 7
- Fix: Media player plugin works with MPC and MPC-HC (limited support)
- Feature: Media player plugin works with players supporting the MSN "now playing" feature (/np command)
- Change: Safeguard against some possible plugin created memory leaks
- Change: Plugin settings management more flexible
- Change: LUA plugin behaves more like BCDC lua
- Change: Installer updated to NSIS 2.46, cleaned script, includes OpenCandy integration
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.1 (Mar 10, 2010)
- Merge: StrongDC++ 2.40
- Fix: Alternate download and upload limits were reversed
- Fix: System log sorting after leaving window open was broken
- Fix: Maximum XML nesting for filelists (should fix get filelist and open own filelist errors)
- Fix: Few Plugin API Fixes (resolves chatOut for LUA, inconsistency between protocols etc.)
- Fix: Issue with /ratio and /uptime commands
- Fix: 64-bit setup now installs to correct Program Files location
- Fix: Search history remembers exclusions
- Fix: Possible quick search lockup
- Fix: Potential case of disappearing tray icon (UIPI)
- Fix: Cleaned up setup script (no uninstalls everything correctly)
- Feature: Option in setup file to store settings in AppData folder for each user (uncheck if you want multiple instances)
- Feature: Windows 7 taskbar: thumbnail toolbar and new PM notification overlay
- Feature: app.ico now changes window, taskbar and tray icon (place in program folder)
- Change: Always minimises to taskbar in Windows 7 (Run in Compatibility mode if you want to revert)
- Change: Error reporting for Lua plugin
- Change: Get TTH for a file dialog updated
- Change: Updated Country Flags in setup file
- Change: About box thanks updated
New in ApexDC++ 1.3.0 (Feb 28, 2010)
- Note: ApexDC++ now comes in 64-bit flavour
- Merge: StrongDC++ 2.30 (significant amount of features)
- Fix: Security fix for remote exploit (affects all users 1.2.2 and prior)
- Fix: Close confirmation window GUI layout
- Fix: No longer have to refresh twice for files to appear in share
- Fix: Issue with only first magnet link being detected and formatted
- Feature: DHT (Global network) is disabled by default (Settings > Advanced)
- Feature: Plugin API completely re-written in C
- Feature: Seperate icon for multiple instances (place tray.ico in secondary root folder)
- Feature: Option to specify when to unlock a finished partial download (Settings > Misc)
- Feature: Default upload slots is now 3 (slot ratio still 0)
- Change: GeoIPCountryWhois.csv now moved to root program folder
- Change: Limiter in description will only display in NMDC hubs
- Change: Added message register for messages beyond _USER constants (plugin API)
- Change: All plugins have documented help with "/help plugins"
- Change: Added CodeBlocks project files (cross-platform IDE for various compilers, MinGW f.ex.) for SamplePlugin & LuaPlugin
- Change: SUP updates to hubs done correctly for announcing DHT
- Removed: Obsolete and/or broken useless options (such as slots left in description)
New in ApexDC++ 1.2.2 (Oct 21, 2009)
- Fix: Rare PM crash
- Fix: Links in chat are detected more efficiently (SDC 2.30)
- Fix: Lowercase magnet links when clicked
- Fix: Memory leak in sharemanager (DC++ BZR)
- Feature: New flag images and introduced missing flags (thanks slawekebi)
- Change: Updated OpenSSL
- Change: Backend improvements to the update checker
- Change: "Don't show emoticons in messages with links" enabled by default
- Change: Misc clean up performance improvements
New in ApexDC++ 1.2.1 (Jul 12, 2009)
- Fix: High CPU issues related to TLS
- Fix: Tooltip not showing on first button in Media Toolbar plugin
- Change: Re-worded TLS option in Security settings page (disabled by default - please enable if you wish to use encrypted hubs)
- Change: Improved Toolbar icons' sharpness (Thanks RadoX)
- Change: Updated installer to NSIS 2.45 improving reliability
New in ApexDC++ 1.2.0 (Apr 12, 2009)
- Merge: StrongDC++ 2.22 (stability and performance fixes)
- Fix: Lua plugin, timer
- Fix: Lua plugin, SendHubMessage
- Fix: Lua plugin, Workaround for parsing %[lua:...] in user commands provided by scripts
- Fix: Get IP Address button
- Fix: Hopefully fixed persistent Ignores (long standing issue)
- Change: Confirmation dialogs now have those nice checkboxes
- Change: Lua plugin, added /luamem command
- Change: UserMap is back (threaded checking now like in 1.1.0)
- Change: Hide share improved for ADC(S)
- Change: Plugins mostly rewritten (no more StrData, bits from ADCH++ etc.)
- Change: Additional media spams (ie. all but Winamp) moved to a plugin
- Change: Media Toolbar is now available as a plugin
- Change: Other minor things and code clean up
- Change: Updated installer to NSIS 2.44
- Plugin: Lua script plugin 2.00
- Plugin: Mediaplayers plugin 1.10
- Removed: IPGuard for stability reasons
- 1.2.0 Beta +
New in ApexDC++ 1.2.0 Beta (Dec 25, 2008)
- Merge: StrongDC++ merge
- Plugin: Lua plugin (BCDC++ implantation & RSX++ Windows extension)
- Fix: More crashes
- Fix: Few x64 fixes from RSX++
- Fix: Possible crashes & other issues with "Get IP Address" button (might be removed entirely in future as obsolete)
- Fix: Few issues related to shellmenu in finished transfers
- Fix: Plugins onLoad() function's return value actually matters now
- Fix: MDI drawing issues with Aero, since after almost one year of vista MS still doesn't seem to bother
- Feature: Added short/human readable magnet links feature
- Feature: New CDM (created with Adrian/RSX++)
- Feature: Added runtime reload/unload for plugins
- Feature: Dropdown menu for favorite hubs button (like newer DC++ GUI, ie. smartwin)
- Feature: Dropdown menu for public hubs, allowing user to select which hublist to use
- Feature: System log window (ended up being little different from DC++)
- Change: Added more temp file extensions to the "Remove forbidden" feature
- Change: Some Win32 specific plugin functions added
- Change: Moved "Share skiplist" to share page
- Change: Auto updater puts possible plugins in correct location now
- Change: Now displays names of plugins loaded on startup (ie. Loading: SamplePlugin.dll)
- Change: Plugins settings management/format changed
- Change: Removed obsolete option about old clients
- Change: Some StringDefs cleanup
- Change: Sample plugin optimized/updated
- Change: Plugins should be "safe" now (StrData, instead of std::string, needs to eventually use plain char/wchar)
- Change: Resources loading reworked
- Change: Less QueueManager calls with threaded detections
- Change: IPGuard patches (more selective about what can and can't be blocked, ie. anti-abuse)
- Change: Stuff regarding stealthy style progressbars (hopefully fixed look on XP)
- Change: Using values returned by GetSystemMetrics in some places opposed to estimated constant values
- Change: "Remove forbidden" and "Share skiplist" priorities changed
- Change: Lot of plugin changes in general (uses structures to transmit info rather than passing the objects as interfaces f.ex.)
- Change: Clean up in few places, some sanity checks
New in ApexDC++ 1.1.0 (Jun 10, 2008)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.13 (DC 0.706)
- Fix: Column resizing and order now remembered on restart (thanks Big Muscle)
- Fix: Unprivileged users can no longer bypass password protection
- Fix: Numerous crashes
- Fix: Quick search could not be disabled via toolbar
- Fix: Potential remote exploit fixed (thanks Fartman)
- Feature: New auto update system that notifies user of a new version, and automatically deploys it upon restart
- Improved: Further improvements to the plugin system
- Improved: Small performance improvements
- Improved: Program executable filesize reduced
- Updated: NSIS 2.37
- Removed: Media player, chat formatting and startup option (use startup folder instead)
New in ApexDC++ 1.0.1 (Mar 10, 2008)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.12 (stable)
- Fix: Media player classic main chat spam
- Fix: Default settings options (connection settings)
- Fix: Partial file sharing for completed files (no longer shares chunks after completion)
- Feature: Plugin API (view documentation)
- Change: Quick search area enabled in toolbar by default
- Change: STLport, WTL, Windows Firewall and iTunes include files updated
- Change: A few minor fixes and improvements
- Change: Code clean-up for stable release
- Installer: Automatically installs gdiplus.dll dependency for pre-XP users
- Installer: Updated GeoIPCountry database
- Installer: Updated to NSIS 2.35
New in ApexDC++ 1.0.0 Beta 5 (Jan 21, 2008)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.1
- Fix: More stability improvements
- Fix: Some asserts in debug builds
- Feature: IPGuard replaces PeerGuardian blocklist
- Feature: Incorporated some RSX's Private Message features
- Feature: Emoticons, custom toolbars and popup backgrounds support png, gif, jpg
- formats (thanks iceman50)
- Feature: Reinstall ApexDC option (help -> reinstall)
- Change: ADL searches tweaked for improved performance
- Change: Workaround for incorrectly escaped percent signs in user input
- Change: Some input boxes made multiline (in settings)
- Change: Resource usage has been significantly improved
- Change: Internal image resources are now cached
- Change: Progress bar drawing tweaked
- Change: Improved Private Message window (tweaks and fixes)
- Change: Client checking made possible for ADC hubs
- Change: Can assign an action to more than one client profile at a time
- Change: Application resources changed to png's (reduced exe size)
- Change: Code optimisation
- Change: A few tweaks and fixes we forgot about
- Removed: PeerGuardian blocklist (99.9% of IP's blocked had nothing to do with DC network, wasting resources)
New in ApexDC++ 1.0.0 Beta 4 (Aug 7, 2007)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.05 (15 changes)
- Fix: Reconnect function ceases to respond after a while
- Fix: Update check no longer downloads config file twice on new release
- Fix: Resizing of status bar and icon behaviour
- Change: Windows Firewall exception checkbox is disabled if user is not administrator
- Change: Optimised memory management (global variables from User moved to Identity info map)
- Change: RawManager improved (now uses hash_map)
- Change: New PeerGuardian blocklist ready for download in Security area (how to update)
New in ApexDC++ 1.0.0 Beta 3 (Jul 26, 2007)
- Known issue: Possible bug where reconnect function ceases to respond after while (close hub and reconnect via favourites instead)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.04 (26 changes)
- GUI: Added download and upload icons to status bar (thanks iceman50)
- GUI: Updated icons for Vista compatibility (thanks RadoX)
- Fix: DC Emulation
- Fix: Checking auto-connect in Favourites
- Fix: Further fixes in Favourites
- Fix: Small fix in PeerGuardian blocklist manager
- Fix: Open Hub Log entry
- Fix: Search for alternates sometimes being greyed out
- Fix: Several improvements to memory management
- Feature: Integrated installation/uninstallation for exe file
- Feature: Program asks to make a Windows Firewall exception (compatible with XP and Vista)
- Feature: Raw Manager (Zion 2.02, fixed memory leak)
- Feature: Option not to share empty directories
- Feature: Option to share directories only when all files inside them have been hashed
- Feature: Added userlist icon compatibility mode for standard DC icons
- Feature: Option to use natural sorting
- Feature: Option to use custom list backgrounds (thanks adrian_007)
- Change: Added more theme related imports/exports
- Change: Moved some settings from "Advanced" to "Appearance"
- Change: Tray icon is always created for notifications (unless traditional tray behavior is used)
- Change: Fewer options now require restart to take effect
- Change: Threaded checking (Zion 2.02)
- Change: Highlighting files in share or queued when browsing users filelist
- Change: Double clicking nick in PM inserts it in message box (thanks SMT)
- Change: Moved getCompileDate() from Util to WinUtil
- Change: Code cleanups for increased stability
- Change: Update check files now on SourceForge to reduce load on server
- Installer: Several optimisations and updated to NSIS 2.29 (thanks Nas)
- Installer: Updated GeoIP country database
- Installer: Updated themes folder with a selection of our best community submitted themes
- Removed: Super seeding to increase stability (back later, maybe)
New in ApexDC++ 1.0.0 Beta 2 (Apr 11, 2007)
- Fix: Crash when displaying full information for filelist in download queue
- Fix: Frequent crash when show joins were enabled
- Change: PeerGuardian updater now activated (Monthly updates)
New in ApexDC++ 1.0.0 Beta (Apr 10, 2007)
- Note: This version was completely redone on StrongDC 2.04 due to some prior merging issues (previous version changes added too)
- Fix: %[cheatingdescription] should work again (note use of the new macros is still preferred)
- Fix: Few fixes from BugMaster to increase performance
- Fix: Further ADC compliance
- Fix: Toolbar problems on 64bit Windows 2000 environment (thanks RadoX)
- Fix: Text colour for IP column in SearchFrame
- Fix: YnHub and history command issues (affects the few rare hubs running 1.035 or newer)
- Fix: Tray password protection can no longer be fooled with the "Open another instance" message box
- Fix: Potential risk of sending raw commands when you are not an OP
- Fix: Performance issues with ignored users list
- Fix: Problems with tray password protection's input dialog
- Fix: Old crash on TransferView when ii->size was 0 and Stealthy progress bars were used (thanks BugMaster)
- Fix: "Formatted Tag" display on ClientProfileDlg
- Fix: Infotips for Clients page
- Fix: Setup file duplications
- Change: PeerGuardian plugin is no longer a plugin, but built in
- Change: Replaced the p2p list loader with the one from libp2p, since it's more efficient
- Change: Some ADLSearch specific parameters added for user commands and raws (parameter names are same as in Zion 2.02 for compliance)
- Change: Favorite hub specific protected prefixes list
- Change: Added Uptime to about box
- Change: Moved ignored users list to DCPlusPlus.xml
- Change: Default toolbar layout
- Change: New "Change password" dialog
- Change: Fake detector pages raw configuration bit similar to the one in Zion (to be able to fit more raws in a small space)
- Change: Minor change in "Report user" function
- Change: Attempt to avoid some unneeded loading/saving/creating of the Ignores.xml
- Change: Some new graphics (thanks RadoX)
- Change: Autoscroll toggle to private message window
- Change: Modified tray icon behavior a bit (similar to �Torrent, also added option "Use traditional tray icon behavior" to reverse this)
- Change: Compatibility with base64 encoded passwords from Zion (decodes on first launch/load uses plain text after that)
- Change: Country flags are now displayed on userlist
- Change: Some more style related imports/exports
- Change: Tweaked the balloon popups page preview button
- Change: Early spring cleaning done in some places (SettingsManager, ResourceManager, and some others too)
- Change: You can no longer auto queue files you have marked as forbidden (ADLSearch)
- Change: Cleaned Favorite Hub Properties lay out
- Change: Minor visual changes in ClientProfileDlg
- Change: Compiled with Visual Studio 2005 SP1
- Change: Updated setup file to NSIS 2.25
- Change: Lots of performance improvements and code cleanups
New in ApexDC++ 0.3.0 (Nov 13, 2006)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.03 (cvs200)
- GUI: New interface (thanks RadoX, screenshots to follow)
- Feature: Can now receive external IP
- Feature: Ignored users list now editable via settings
- Feature: Format bold, italics and underline in chat (use *bold* /italics/ _underlined_)
- Feature: Email configurable per hub basis
- Feature: Protected prefixes
- Feature: Away message configurable per hub basis
- Feature: Show joins/parts configurable per hub basis
- Feature: Option to save settings window state
- Feature: Adjustable main chat buffer size (fulDC )
- Feature: Option to enable $HubTopic support
- Feature: Option to start hubs minimized
- Feature: Added %[extra] to get ip/country in logs (e.g. [%Y-%m-%d %H:%M%[extra]] %[message])
- Feature: PG plugin updater system (new update once per month)
- Feature: More PG plugin anti-abuse checks
- Feature: Private Message window now shows hubname when user goes offline
- Fix: Crash related to partial transfer enchantment (thanks SMT)
- Fix: Issues regarding newlines in topics
- Fix: High CPU usage on ignore/unignore user
- Fix: Crash fixed in country code and IP feature (PrivateFrame)
- Fix: Country code and IP is shown with /me command as well
- Fix: PeerGuardian plugin no longer blocks hub Operators
- Change: Improvements to GUI (appearance page & others)
- Change: Input area for default away message reduced
- Change: Type /find to find text in main chat (previously /f)
- Change: More translatable strings
- Change: Misc page options rearranged a bit
- Change: Added Compile date to aboutbox and stats
- Change: Tray menu is non-functional if password protection on tray is enabled
- Removed: XP-styled menus (memory leak)
- Source: Obsolete files and unneeded local variables removed
New in ApexDC++ 0.2.2 (Sep 15, 2006)
- Merge: StrongDC 2.02 (lots of fixes)
- Fix: Clicking on a dchub://, adc:// or magnet link in browser no longer offers to open up a new instance if program is running
- Fix: Issues with queue progress bar colorisation
- Fix: Issues with reapplying log settings
- Feature: Show user IP and country code in main chat (will be moved to OP branch with improvements later)
- Feature: Option to use Stealthy's progress bars (thanks phaedrus)
- Feature: Added option to change how often $PSR is sent for super seeding (advanced users only)
- Change: Super seeding made compatible with new ADC $PSR mechanism (better performance)
- Change: Improved GUI friendliness by bringing back a few Cancel buttons
- Change: Various stability improvements
New in ApexDC++ 0.2.1 (Aug 20, 2006)
- Fix: Crash when receiving a popup notification of a new private message
- Fix: Increased the amount of time between UDP searches for super seeding (less spam)
New in ApexDC++ 0.1.0 (Aug 13, 2006)
- Fix: A potential memory leak
- Fix: Donate link in Help menu
- Fix: /c command
- Fix: PeerGuardian plugin fixes (it will disable if you already have blocking software running)
- Fix: Web server slightly modified to work better with some of the changes below
- Fix: Log page, "log filelist transfers" no longer has webserver format and name fields (refer below)
- Fix: Password protection no longer asks for password if none was set (thanks Phrozen)
- Fix: Various other bugfixes
- Feature: Super seeding with intelligent chunk spreading
- Feature: Send an away message at a specified time (in new Misc settings page)
- Feature: Option to enable XP styled menus and toolbar
- Feature: Option to show part of a PM message in balloon popups
- Feature: Webserver logs can now be enabled/disabled via GUI
- Feature: Common chunk progress bar colour can now be modified (added to export/import theme too)
- Feature: Option to enable dynamic search of users in userlist box (don't need to press enter)
- Feature: Set what file extensions automatically download with high or low priority
- Feature: Ability to set how long the popup ballons stay for
- Change: New PM icon is now red
- Change: About box size increased to see thanks area easily
- Change: Some default settings options
- Change: Notification requesting program restart displayed when modifying PG plugin settings
- Change: Updated emoticon displayed in main window
- Change: Cleaned up security settings page to avoid clutter
- Change: New PM icon changed to red