Software Update: Nodezilla 0.4.13

Nodezilla is an experimental grid based point-to-point system for Linux and Windows. It is the basis for a grid network that can be used for efficient video multicast streaming, file exchange and secure data storage, among other things. For more information about Nodezilla, we refer you to this page. The developers have released version 0.4.13 of the corno-fulgure series with the following announcement:

Nodezilla 0.4.13-corno-fulgure for Win32 & Linux available!

This release fixes very heavy bugs causing problems in the replication process, and thus interfering with the just new BitTorrent distributed database. It’s a must install update.

Version 0.4.13 – Oooops:

• ENH: Tuned lifetime of old persistent objects
• SEC: Added a flag-file in the private directory (evl_data), this way old private directories not protected by the PRIVATEATADIR directive (in nodezilla.ini) will never be shared. This directory contains sensitive informations that must be kept secret to the world.
• ENH: Some new file types added to do-not-share-this-junk filter
• FIX: BIG fix, TorrentStore objects where never published properly !! This affects the Azureus Distributed Torrent Database plugin
• FIX: Bad reference counting
• ENH: GREATLY reduce the number of replication
• FIX: VERY BAD bug introduced probably a very long time ago, which is in fact a bug of the compiler (on windows, the linux compiler did not exhibit the same problem) causing bad results on lifetime computations => Many objects where never published properly nor deleted properly

Version 0.4.12 – Torrent:

• FIX: Unable to start the Network Agent on XP SP2 on some configurations
• ENH: Deprecated CORBA interfaces removed
• FIX: RTPRelay: Race condition causing crash on some occasions
• FIX: Access violation when trying alternate sources under some circumstences
• ENH: Deprecated network protocol chunks removed
• ENH: New CORBA method for the client to be able to know about firewall issues detected by the agent
• ENH: .tmp files are not shared anymore
• ENH: Support for the new Torrent Object, will be used to store .torrent file on the grid. This will be used by the upcoming Azureus plugin
• Mis fixes

Version 0.4.11 – Gotcha:

• FIX: Bug fix in the new OOB logic code for fw detection introduced in 0.4.10

Version 0.4.10 – Minor fixes:

• ENH: Corba resources tuned
• FIX: Inactivity timer was not enforced in all cases
• FIX: RTPrelay, crash when new peer joined
• ENH: Tuning for future network deployment
• ENH: Protocol version upgrade

[break]Nodezilla 0.4.13 is available in the following flavours:
Linux x86
Windows 2000/XP/2003