Download aMule 2.2.2

You can use the eDonkey– and Kademlianetworks. In addition to the original client for the first network, eDonkey2000, an open source client with the catchy name eMule was also developed, which later spawned the second network as well. The latter client is only available for Windows, so a group of developers started aMule to provide support for various platforms such as Freebsd, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and of course Windows. These developers have released aMule 2.2.2 titled “The Similarity version” with the following changes:

We are happy to announce the release of aMule 2.2.2 – The “Similarity.” version

This is a stable release which features mainly bug fixes and improvements upon the 2.2.x series of aMule. Particularly notable are updates to Kademlia, which bring us on the same level as eMule 0.49b.

• Patch for alcc to improve usability
• implement getopt_long in cas for systems which lack it
• Fixing denoiser
• include before as by POSIX
• Fix noinline in crypto for some systems
• Fix display of cache option
• Add sources from search results for new downloads
• Use output of gdlib-config for gd.h detection
• Solaris mntent fix
• wxMSW fix
• Fix NULL pointer dereference
• Fix for configure not using –with-geoip value in library check
• Added pkg.m4 from pkg-config-0.23
• Ported Kademlia Protocol Version 8 from eMule0.49b.
  • Kad now ignores multiple IDs pointing to one IP in routing request answers
  • When calculating the total user count, Kad now uses (if available) the real number of firewalled clients for the calculation instead of a fixed value. This will take more effect when 0.49+ nodes become common
  • Kad no longer tries to add UDP firewalled (and therefore mostly unreachable) nodes into its routing table, reducing overhead and increasing reliability [Idea: Netfinity]
  • Optimized the Kad packet tracking code to only track packets which we check later, to save resources
  • Fixed a bug which let Kad sometimes assume a Kad2 contact to be Kad1 after probing for both versions
  • Did first small step in dropping Kad1 support by not probing unknown Kad contacts for Kad1 anymore to save overhead. Kad1 clients will nevertheless still be work for now.
  • Several changes were made to Kad in order to defy routing attacks researched by University of Minnesota guys [Peng Wang, James Tyra, Eric Chan-Tin, Tyson Malchow, Denis Foo Kune, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim]in particular:
    • Kad contacts will only be able to update themself in others routing tables if they provide the proper key (supported by 0.49a+ nodes) in order to make it impossible to hijack them
    • Kad now uses a three-way-handshake (or for older version a similar check) for new contacts, making sure they do not use a spoofed IP
    • Unverified contacts are not used for routing tasks
  • When reading a nodes.dat without any verified contacts (possible an old file version), aMule will assume all contacts to be verified to avoid slowing down the connecting process
  • Implemented a special nodes.dat file version suitable for mass distribution.
• Fixed not sending sources for clients that did not announce their part availability.
• Fixed all list columns being disabled in case of invalid data in config file.
• Fixed directory tree not available.
• Fixed: Incorrect SX packets sent, plus no reply to out-of-multipacket SX as a bonus
• Remap colors on Windows
• Add resources
• Fix wrong usage of CPath::IsOk which caused an infinite loop on Import
• Fix wxTempFile usage for compressed IPFilter files
• Removed the dlopen() code from UPnP.cpp.
• Added the m4 macro to test for libupnp.
• Updated amule_build_install.sh to work with –with-libupnp-prefix.
• Changed the UPnP code to allow the use of a service without having successfully subscribed to it. That should be enough to deal with some lazy router implementations.
• Do not unregister if no service is found
• Save the found service even if subscription has failed
• Fix for initialization of “resultstr” in cryptopp.m4.
• Fix for message “Duplicate partfile with hash…” in DonwloadQueue.cpp. It was using deleted corrupted data.
• amule_build_install.sh now uses -a flag in unzip so that cryptopp files are properly converted from DOS text format.
• Scanner fix for MSVC compilation
• Fixed crash when progress bar was resized to zero width
• Fixed sharing of large files on Windows
• Fixed free disc space check
• Sanity check before writing nodes.dat – don’t write it if there are less than 25 contacts
• Download List sorted by startup
• Splitter bar position in transfer window is restored again
• Fixed a GDI resource leak for Windows
• Show connection status in toolbar when changing skin, thanks to greek
• Fix window resize problem on Mac OS X
• Fix for packets being lost in EC communication. Fixes aMuleGUI not updating after a while.