Software update: eMule 0.46c

The p2p exchange program eMule was upgraded a few days ago with 0.46c as the version number. Among other things, they fixed a bug with the existing zlib compression library and worked on improving Kademlia support. The supplied list of changes therefore looks like this:

Dear eMule users,

This version is mainly a security update for 2 severe issues: A security issue in zlib 1.2.2 was found, which is used by eMule and can at least be used to crash eMule. A second bug allows to crash eMule clients with a malformed Kad-Packet (only if Kad is enabled) We recommend to upgrade to 0.46c as soon as possible.

Bug fixes:

• Updated to zlib 1.2.3 because of security flaws in 1.2.2
• Fixed possible crash on malformed Kad packet.. (Kry)
• Auto Kad bootstrap wasn’t updated to work with eMule’s Multipacket protocol. Fixed.
• fixed bug (v0.46b) in using regular expressions as view filter in categories [thx kinmenalex]
• fixed bug in checking for tempfolder when multiple folders were used, and a little splitterbar bug [tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
• Bugfix+enhancement to the code that requests less of the file from slow download sources.
• Some cpu fixes for Kad. (Kry)
• Collections were malfunctioning extra tags causing them to be ‘bloated’.. Fixed.
• fixed/improved downloading big files via web interface

Changes:

• Added support for MediaInfo DLL versions 0.6.1 and 0.7.x [Thx to Zenitram]
• new and changed category incoming directories will now appear in the new shared files control
• The upload limit and capacity as well as the downloadlimit will now be set to unlimited by default
• When the uploadcapacity is set to unlimited (0), USS will be automatically enabled to determine the best uploadspeed
• If using the prio default capacity (16KB), the new version will reset it (one time) to the new default unlimited
• UploadSpeedSense will at most raise speed 30 KBytes/s above current upload speed.
• Resizeable collection windows
• Changed how we maintain contacts for kad.
• Kad node lookup algo modified to use far less overhead with better results.

[break]The following three downloads are ready:
eMule 0.46c – Installer
eMule 0.46c – Binaries
eMule 0.46c – Source