April 23rd, 2012· Fix: Updated OpenSSL to remove a recently disclosed vulnerability
· Fix: Typo in system log
February 25th, 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
November 18th, 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
September 19th, 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)
July 28th, 2011· Further DC++ merges
· KEYP extension tweaking
July 28th, 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)
April 29th, 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
March 17th, 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)
March 7th, 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
March 2nd, 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
December 6th, 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
October 17th, 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
September 5th, 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
August 5th, 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
July 5th, 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++)
June 15th, 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
May 26th, 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
March 10th, 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
February 28th, 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)
October 21st, 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
July 12th, 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
April 12th, 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 +
December 25th, 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
June 10th, 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)
March 10th, 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
January 21st, 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)
August 7th, 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)
July 26th, 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)
April 11th, 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)
April 10th, 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
November 13th, 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
September 15th, 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
August 20th, 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)
August 13th, 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
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