dccserver: NEWS

2008-08-18: Major webpage overhaul.

The web page has been improved and new features have been added:

The repository browser is now integrated into the website; mailing list archives have been added; and news, release announcements. and commits are available as RSS feeds.

2007-05-16: Switched from CVS to Mercurial.

We switched from CVS to Mercurial, a distributed version control system.

anoncvs.nih.at has been replaced by hg.nih.at. See Mercurial Access for how to access the repositories.

2003-11-02: Released dccserver 0.4

  • Added "close" command; close particular connections.

  • Added "info" command; shows current transfer states for all connections. Sending dccserver a SIGINFO (or SIGUSR1 on systems without SIGINFO) signal works too.

  • Added proper timeout handling.

  • Added poll replacement function from Brian M Clapper for building on Darwin.

  • Show time taken by transfers and transfer rate.

  • dccserver can now listen on multiple ports; just specify -p multiple times. Requested by Maik Zumstrull <Maik.Zumstrull@gmx.de>.

  • Fixed dccsend program to work with mIRC.

  • Add contrib/dccsend.pl from David Oftedal <david@start.no> for X-Chat users.

2003-04-07: Released dccserver 0.3

  • Add dccsend program to send files to a remote dccserver. Requested by Antti Aaltonen <antzu@iki.fi>.

  • Try to handle it more gracefully when two or more clients want to write to the same file. Idea from Rudolf Polzer.

  • Add lots of fflushes, some from Rudolf Polzer.

  • Strip paths from file name (some weird clients send them). Requested by Athan <code@miggy.org>.

  • Remove superfluous seteuid call. Noted by Athan <code@miggy.org>

  • Mention client ID/client name in most places. Based on patches from Rudolf Polzer <atfield@durchnull.de>.

  • Add -e/-i options for easy embedding in irssi. Idea from from Rudolf Polzer <atfield@durchnull.de>.

  • Add "quit" command to exit dccserver. Idea from Rudolf Polzer <atfield@durchnull.de>.

  • Some minor improvements, see ChangeLog.

2003-01-28: Released dccserver 0.2

  • Allow receiving more bytes than filesize; show a warning. Could be useful when sender doesn't have the complete file when starting the dcc send, and in some other cases. Based on patches by Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se>.

  • Install as setuid root; drop privileges as soon as possible, and chroot to current directory. Based on patches by Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@e.kth.se>.

  • Debian package support, provided by Aubin Paul <debian@outlyer.org>.

2002-10-16: Released dccserver 0.1

  • First public release.