Software update: DC++ 0.850

A stable release of the p2p program DC++ has been released with version number 0.850. DC++ is one of many programs for exchanging files over the Direct Connect network. The program owes the two pluses in its name to C++, in which it is written. The package is developed by Jacek Sieka and is an open source variant of the original Neomodus Direct Connect client. The release notes for this release can be found below.

DC++ 0.850

The first new DC++ release in the last nine months, version 0.850 fixes and hardens security related functions further notably to avoid all popular TLS exploits emerged since last April.

This release also contains stability and performance updates of various 3rd party libraries and improvements of the latest version of the compiler.

Changes in version 0.850

• [L#1308290] Enable TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2-based ADCS connections (cologic)
• Update OpenSSL to version 1.0.1k
• Fix DWT button rendering on WINE (cologic)
• [L#1206864] Fix “Require TLS ADC CC connections” (cologic)
• Add option to disable smart chat links – recommended on Wine (poy)
• Improve UTF-8 RFC-3629 compliance (cologic)
• Remove deprecated Bitzi TTH lookup (emtee)
• Update MiniUPnP to version 1.9
• Update the NAT-PMP library
• Update translations

Changes in version 0.843

• [L#1307978] Fix subtract list functionality (crise)
• [L#1309390] [NMDC] Prevent crashes when receiving malicious search requests