Software update: eMule 0.24a

The open-source file sharing program eMule has reached version 0.24a. eMule uses the eDonkey network and, despite the departure of a developer, is in full development, according to the changelog:

There has been a lot going on since last release. We lost a major member (Merkur) and we are still struggling to keep the forums up. (Last reading showed we were using 20GB per day) Remember, this is an “a” version. If you have any major problems, return to v.23b.

Here’s the change log:
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– Dec 16th, 2002-
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Unk: Friend Upload Slots can now be toggled on/off..
Dirus: Fixed a bug that prevent source sharing from working until you had at least one complete part of the file!

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– Dec 15th, 2002-
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Unk: Smart LowId check now helps you keep that HighID when disconnected.
Unk: Safe connect option. (eDonkey style connect.)
Unk: Resumes collecting sources on reconnect.
Dirus: Fixed bug that caused column order to be loaded incorrectly.
Dirus: Fixed bug that could cause crash if invalid table values ​​were manually written to the ini.
Dirus: Fixed bug that prevented source sharing packets from being compressed.
Dirus: Clients with complete files can now also share sources. A source list is built from their upload queue. (An even more intelligent means of picking sources from upload queue will be included in a later version.)

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– Dec 13th, 2002-
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Dirus: The part.met files are now backed up before being replaced. The backup files are deleted when new part.met has been written to disk and safely closed. When loading part.met files we now also check for part.met.backup.
Juanjo: File comment and rating [Thanks to pitap for some code] Unk: Main screen now shows Users and Files of the server your on.. It also shows a very loose estimate of all Users and Files in the Ed2k network.
Juanjo: Close buttons in search tabs [enkeyDev]
Ornis: Added [eMule+] idea of ​​Sources-Sorting by QueueRating.
Unk/Dirus: You can now manually add friends.
Unk: Irc: Some changes to the interface.
Unk: Irc: If another eMule client is in a channel, you can add him as friend.
Unk: Up/Down ration is now the same as eDonkey..
Unk: Several bug and gui fixes. Merged some code from Mods..

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– Dec 12th, 2002-
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Unk: Getting booted from Lugdunum servers due to LowID during connect is now handled better..
Unk: Using the Wizard did not update the statistic graphs correctly.. Fixed..
Unk: Maybe found the LowIP problem after first connect..
Ornis: Adding friends manually (by popupmenu on the friendslist)

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– Dec 9th, 2002-
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Juanjo: Added “List files” to the sources context menus

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– Dec 7th, 2002-
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Unk: Upcomming servers will have a new ServerStatus packet that will be incompatable with previous eMules.. Fixed.
Unk: Added a Max Users to the server list.
Unk: Connection failures to servers should now report the correct error.
Unk: Irc: Channel Tabs got confused when leaving channels.. Fixed.
Dirus: Fixed bug that caused program to leak some resources (GDI Objects)

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– Dec 5th, 2002-
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Ornis: New Serverconnecting handling – more reasonable order to connect to servers
Ornis: Pending serverconnection-attempts will be discarded after a timeout to prevent everlasting hanging connection attempts
Ornis: Preferences: Added configuration for maximum new connections per 5 seconds
Juanjo: Added auto priority patch [Thanks to Tarod] [break] You can use eMule 0.24a here to download.