OFF System Changelog

What's new in OFF System 0.19.34

• CRITICAL: Fixed bug that could cause corrupt inserts if mis-sized block files
• were chosen as randomisers. These blocks are now checked and discarded just as
• they are during retrieve.
• CRITICAL: Fixed bug that resulted in a corrupt insert if regenerating a block
• failed when repairing an insert from the source file.
• ADDED:
• The web interface shutdown is now disabled by default (as we assume most people
• will not use it) It can be enabled with the checkbox in Options->Network or
• with "toggle_web_shutdown" under command line. OFF will also return a page
• to the browser saying that the client is closing, or that web shutdown is
• disabled.
• The Local URLs context menu now contains an option to "Disperse Descriptors Only"
• which disperses the descriptors and any hashmap blocks, but not the file blocks.
• Added an option to slow the filling of the bucket for newer nodes, the idea
• is to reduce the amount of bandwidth used when the bucket radius is large.
• This is enabled by a checkbox in the Behaviour tab. The only current effect is
• to advertise the TBR instead of the actual bucket radius if it is the smaller
• of the two. Other effects will be added if this turns out to be insufficient,
• but it drastically reduces the number of block pushes received. The option
• defaults to off for existing nodes but is turned on when the startup wizard
• is run for new nodes.
• IMPROVEMENTS:
• Implemented a manually buffered file class for reading ascii config file,
• to reduce disk accesses when reading large files. This does not make much
• difference on a fast disk, but seemed to speed up reading on slower or
• external drives. Only currently used for the blockcache database file.
• Nodes are now written to the known_nodes.txt file in order of online time,
• this means that on startup the nodes that have been online the longest will
• get checked first (on the assumption that these are the ones most likely
• to still be contactable). This speeds up connecting to nodes on startup
• especially for large nodelists.
• FIXES:
• Fixed bug where disperse pushes were miscounted when a new disperse push
• upgraded an existing push block that was in the active or busy-wait queues.
• Fixed bug where a node would not be added to the contactable nodes list if it
• came online, did not ping back (i.e. the first node was walled) and no pool
• cnxn was added.
• Fixed bug where nodes with no pool cnxn would not be removed from the
• contactable nodes list on some connection fails.
• Fixed bug where a node would become a "zombie" if it was firewalled, had
• no pool cnxn and came online with a connection that was not a ping. In this
• case it would sit in the nodelist with status "online - firewall unchecked"
• and not every go offline. The fix was to schedule a pingback for any connection
• when the firewall status was unchecked, previously this was done only for ping
• connections.
• Fixed bug in 2way comms that caused "time out on non pool cnxn" errors.
• Fixed bug in 2way srches that could occasionally cause bogus results to
• appear in the srch tab when no srches had been started by the user.
• CHANGES:
• The max allowed active requests for a download is now 10% of the total number
• of blocks needed instead of the remaining blocks needed.
• If the "Trim Now" button is pressed, the max cache size is no longer checked
• and the cache will be trimmed even if it is within the limit (but not if the
• bucket is not full).
• Increased the limit at which pushes, block reqs, etc start from 20 nodes to
• 40 nodes. 20 was a lot when the limit was set.