The release mechanism was changed in a way that minor updates
will not get a release tag in CVS, also the version number reported
by MLDonkey will stay the same.

Patches done after the last release are experimental,
please test carefully and report your findings.

All numbers mentioned here can be found as patches on
http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=mldonkey

To compile MLDonkey on MinGW follow this guide:
http://mldonkey.berlios.de/modules.php?name=Wiki&pagename=Windows

ChangeLog
=========

2006/01/19: version 2.7.3 = tag release-2-7-3
4791: web_infos: New type geoip.dat, save files to local disk,
      re-download only if file on server is newer
- now all files except type "rss" in web_infos are saved to local disk
  if not present or server version is newer
- MLDonkey uses HTML header last-modified to check if a file has been updated
- downloaded file timestamp is changed to last-modified time
- show number of IP blocking ranges in runinfo
- new web_infos kind: geoip.dat
- automatically add geoip.dat to web_infos
- support for *.gz|bz2|zip compressed GeoIP.dat files
4811: EDK: Print warning when starting a file too big for filesystem,
      clean Ux32 logging
4810: Update search results with highest avail/completesources tags (zet)

2006/01/16
4803: BT: force uniqueness of added trackers by "trackers" command (pango)
4801: EDK: add more server info fields (html and guiprot) (zet)
4798: Fix thread recognition on *BSD

2006/01/15
4797: EDK: Always put server connect requests in connection queue,
      whether max_opened_connections is reached or not
      Connection will be established later when a socket is available

2006/01/14
4796: Windows: Log proper warning when MaxUserPort is reached (thx to Enig)
4795: Mailer: Fix Subject encoding (bogeyman)
4716: BT: new command "tracker" to add trackers (bogeyman)

2006/01/12
4792: GeoIP: Add license (distrib/GeoIP_LICENSE.txt, runinfo)
      This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind,
      available from http://maxmind.com/
4776: EDK: Avoid LowID if max_indirect_connections is reached (thx to zet)
4787: EDK: Show server version (ported from Mulus - thx to Knocker),
      disconnect blocked server after loading IP blocklist

2006/01/11
4790: Some logging stuff
4781: Disconnect connected server before removing
4782: Configure: Replace AC_CHECK_FILE with "test -d" to allow cross-compile

2006/01/09
4770: Change file opening mechanism, open rw only when needed (pango)
      new verbosity option "file" to control Unix32 file handling
4777: Display IP:port for LowID clients, GUI protocol update (zet)

2006/01/07
4769: HTML: Fix some Geoip display bugs

2006/01/06
4768: Dynamic loop delay (pango)
4765: Add GeoIP.dat support (zet)
      GeoIP is a GPL database that maps IPs to countries.
      http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/
      This patch adds support for a "geoip_dat" option.
      It is a simple ocaml translation of just the geoip country lookup code.
      If active, the file is left open and consulted on demand.
      It didn't seem to slow anything down on my slow system.
      Sends the country # to the gui, use latest Sancho version to use it.
      Web: displays country codes in a column (name in tooltip).
      Maybe someone wants to add flag images (please make them optional).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2006/01/05: version 2.7.2 = tag release-2-7-2
4764: Patch for MLDonkey-compiled Ocaml-3.09.1 to fix GTK1 oldgui compile
4763: Compile patch for GTK1 oldgui with Ocaml 3.09.1
Ocaml 3.09.1 has a bug which prevents compiling GTK1 oldgui.
A patch can be found here: http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3948

2006/01/04
4761: Insert glibc version in archives build by release targets
4760: Allow use of Ocaml 3.09.1
      MLDonkey can now be compiled with Ocaml 3.08.3/4, 3.09.0/1
      Default for MLDonkey-compiled Ocaml is now 3.09.1
4759: Configure: Improve gcc check
4757: Compile patches for MorphOS (Christian Rosentreter)
4748: HTML: Allow rename of files with '#', '&' and '%',
      remove invalid chars from filenames depending on OS (thx to pango)
4756: HTML: Print build- and runinfo on main page,
      fix reload bug when changing html_mods/html_themes (Knocker)

2006/01/03
4751: Ease use of messages_filter option (pango)
4753: Allow upper case MD4 for ed2k-links in mldonkey_submit (fcrozat)
4754: New parameter --auth for mldonkey_command (plf team)

2006/01/02
4749: GUI: send shared sub_files to gui (zet)

2006/01/01
4712: Change terminal color for command line from blue to cyan (romildo)
4742: Log: remove verbosity "tor" & "file", improve verbosity "verb"
4743: EDK: Print "File is already shared" when trying to start downloading
      an already shared file
4744: Split client_timeout into ED2K-client_timeout and BT-client_timeout,
      increase BT-client_timeout to 90 (tradie)
4745: Update config.guess and config.sub to version 2005-12-23

2005/12/28
4725: Check if ulimit is sufficient for MLDonkey,
      auto-adjust max_opened_connections
* moved ED2K-max_indirect_connections to downloads.ini
* max_indirect_connections is now a %-value of max_opened_connections
* minimum ulimit for open files is now 150 (most systems have 1024),
  MLDonkey will refuse to start if ulimit is lower
* minimum max_opened_connections is now 75
* reduced max_concurrent_downloads from 60 to 50
* minimum ulimit -n 150 is used like this:
  - 75 max_opened_connections
  - 50 downloading files
  - 5 upload slots
  - 20 fd as reserve for ini files
4704: Fix some C compile warnings (schlumpf)
4739: Fix some cross-compiling obstacles, remove Ocaml 3.08.2 compatability
* Cross-compiling is only possible with a correct Ocaml toolchain
* MLDonkey can not build this Ocaml toolchain
* This patch only fixes some autoconf checks
4735: MinGW: pause before core exit because of existing Pid file
4736: New commands: sysinfo, runinfo and diskinfo
* removed temp_directory and core_directory from shares command output
* new commands sysinfo, runinfo and diskinfo
* buildinfo now prints only buildinfo
* runinfo prints run-time information
* new command diskinfo prints filesystem data about temp_directory,
  core_directory and all shared dirs
* sysinfo prints buildinfo, runinfo and diskinfo alltogether
4712: Change terminal color for downloading files from blue to cyan (romildo)

2005/12/24
4732: Log: More infos for verbosity = " verb"

2005/12/21
4728: fix date format (zet)
4730: BT: parse path.utf-8 (zet)

2005/12/19
4726: New option space_overhead to adjust garbage collection (bogeyman)
4724: Windows: 10 seconds pause when core start fails
      to make error messages readable

2005/12/18
4723: New build target: make ocamldoc (pango)
4721: Log: Improve output for verbosity "verb", remove verbosity "hid"

2005/12/17
4719: Fix linking of dp500 (pango)
4715: OV: Improve searching, longer ov timeout, some more bugfixes (bogeyman)
4718: Fix bug which prevented proper write to files introduced in patch #4694
4717: EDK: Removed unused variable file_md4s_to_register (bogeyman)

2005/12/16
4703: BT: Deactivate dead trackers,
      re-enable them if no active trackers are found (pango)
4708: HTML upstats: Enable preview for shared files
4652: dllink: reject EDK files > 4GB, print access errors for .torrent files

2005/12/15
      Removed orphaned files:
      src/networks/donkey/donkeyFiles.mli
      src/networks/donkey/donkeyInteractive.mli
      src/networks/donkey/donkeyMain.mli
4710: Re-add some protocol information as comments removed by patch 4694
4709: Fix zip file extract broken due to patch 4694 (Ocaml 3.09)
4707: Fix recover_temp broken by patch 4674 (force_download)

2005/12/14
4706: EDK: Remove donkeyChunks, use commonSwarming for op_file_check
4702: Correct timezone in e-mail, nicer uptime, timezone and uptime in runinfo
4694: Fix lots of compile warnings in Ocaml 3.09
4705: Update config.guess and config.sub to version 2005-11-11
      Mozilla MLdonkey Protocol Handler updated to version 1.7

2005/12/13
      Removed orphaned files:
      src/networks/fasttrack/fasttrack.ml
      src/networks/gnutella/gnutella1.ml
      src/networks/gnutella/gnutella.ml
      src/networks/gnutella/gnutellaScheduler.ml
      src/networks/gnutella/gnutellaZlib.ml
      src/networks/gnutella2/g2Scheduler.mlt
      src/networks/gnutella2/gnutella2.ml
4700: Log: New verbosity option "gui" to debug GUI protocol
4696: Fix some C compiler warnings

2005/12/10
4687: Compile fix for Ocaml 3.09.0 (gildor), MLDonkey can now be compiled
      with Ocaml 3.08.[2,3,4] and Ocaml 3.09.x (4687_min2.patch)
4693: Compile patch in sha1.c for FreeBSD (lioux)
4689: Catch exception in file_completed_cmd to let commit complete
4691: file_completed_cmd: $DURATION in seconds (debonair)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/12/06: version 2.7.1 = tag release-2-7-1
4679: FileTP: Fix HTTP downloading for URLs with space chars, log cleaning
4674: EDK: Re-enable checking old_files before starting a download
      and force_download command
4676: BT: decode_version fix and html sort fix (bogeyman)

2005/12/05
4673: IPBlock: display original length and optimized length in block_list,
      log file clean up

2005/12/04
4672: FileTP: Fix major bug in HTTP downloading, introduced in 2.6.0

2005/12/03
4671: Compile fix in CryptoPP.h for gcc-2.96 (trdw)
4670: Increase max_buffer_size limit for high-volume connections

2005/12/02
4649: Updates for file_completed_cmd (pango, spiralvoice)
* some log cleaning
* added information to notification email if auto_commit is disabled,
  email is sent by file_completed, not file_commit
* moved execution of !!file_completed_cmd from file_completed
  to file_commit, kept option name for easier upgrading
  this was done because the filename of a downloading file can be
  different than the filename of the committed file if a file
  with the same name as the to be committed file is already in
  incoming. older method did not take this into account at all..
* added environment variables for file_completed_cmd, see description:

    A command that is called when a file is committed, does not work on MinGW.
    Arguments are (kept for compatability):
    $1 - temp file name, without path
    $2 - file size
    $3 - filename of the committed file
    Also these environment variables can be used (prefered way):
    $TEMPNAME - temp file name, including path
    $FILEID - same as $1
    $FILESIZE - same as $2
    $FILENAME - same as $3
    $FILEHASH - internal hash
    $DURATION - download duration
    $INCOMING - directory used for commit
    $NETWORK - network used for downloading
    $ED2K_HASH - ed2k hash if MD4 is known

4667: Update Ocaml download URL
4666: Always create incoming directories before commit
4663: CryptoPP: Latest fixes ported from aMule CVS

2005/12/01
4657: Fix for C files for AMD64, mipsel platforms
      improve endianness checking in tiger.c, md5_c.c and CryptoPP.h,
      print endianness in buildinfo, removed sha1_old code
4661: Log: newline before exception message when MLDonkey can not use a port
      BT: exit if client_port = tracker_port

2005/11/28
4654: Fix guiprot when addr not resolvable (zet)
4655: Set conn_user on gui (zet)
4656: BT: update last seen complete field and fix bitfield reading (zet)

2005/11/27
4653: GTK2 GUI: add isohunt statistics (su_blanc)

2005/11/22
4364: Let mlnet build under the cygwin unix emulation layer (Amorphous)
4648: GTK2 GUI: improve display of razorback stats (su_blanc)
      added the display of filedonkey.com data
4646: BT: little change to recognise Clients (bogeyman)
4645: Fix donkey total uptime stats order (bogeyman)

2005/11/21
4406: Unicode: Fix filenames in shared_files_new.ini and file rename
      in HTML interface (mld_unicode_patch6.patch) (CML)
4440: New option shutdown_timeout, 3 sec, was hardcoded before (Amorphous)
4644: Update GNU config.guess and config.sub to current versions
4643: HTML: Fix gdstats output when html_use_gzip true
4640: Calendar: view calendar command: vcal
4641: Fix exception in load_web_infos
4642: HTML: Improve preview via webbrowser (pango)

2005/11/19

4563: replace all Printf.printf occurences by Printf2.lprintf (su_blanc)
4479: Callback mechanism for low ID users does not work (miriup)
      Reactivating submission of server IP and port during client
      handshake in edonkey
  "However, sometimes, especially when I have no files to download I do
   not receive callbacks at all. It is suggested to apply this patch in
   a testing mldonkey for a week on a non-low id connection before including
   it in a stable release, ... I can't test high-ID at all."
4574: Friends upload slot (pango)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/11/19: version 2.7.0 = tag release-2-7-0
4631: Validate ED2K-client_private_key

2005/11/16
4630: GTK2 GUI - some bug fixes (su_blanc)
* display Razorback graphical stats for currently selected file

2005/11/14
4625: GTK2 GUI - bug fix (su_blanc)
* bug #14865 : availability display "dotty"
  added alpha channel to availability pixbuf.
* bug #14963 : autosize slightly broken
  the tick mark for 'autosize all columns' appears only if all columns are set
  to 'autosize' mode. 'autosize all columns' triggers an 'autosize' mode for
  all columns if at least one has not this mode set. Otherwise all the columns
  are set to 'fixed' mode.
* bug : razorback stats
  display stats on user request.

2005/11/13
4583: Change stats.razorback2.com usage to on-demand (su_blanc)
      to avoid overloading the server (disable_razorback_stats.diff)
4619: Remove duplicate Gc.compact () from EDK mem_stats (pango)

2005/11/12
4617: GUI: send bt subfiles over gui prot (zet)
4587: Buildinfo: Split build-time and run-time information (schlumpf)
4350: Code cleanup : web interface chunks display (pango)
      (web_chunks_using_tables_v2.patch)
4616: Change allow_browse_share, so only friends can see file lists (pango)
4615: Add -g to CFLAGS when --enable-profile (pango)
4605: replace string/bool bit arrays with bit vectors (zet)
4607: remove html output from telnet 'vc all' (zet)
4613: Optimizing Set.cardinal to reduce CPU usage (pango)
4614: Gtk2 mlgui improvements (su_blanc)
* fix bug : close all current searches when one quits mlgui
    otherwise the core continues to search
      to test:
        * open mlgui
        * make a search request
        * close the gui
        * in HTML interface, check "View searches" tab.
* lower CPU usage by delaying heavy computations (use Glib.Idle)
* rework the search tab, just make it more simple,
  limit results to max hits, added min availability criterium
* added Autosize columns. Should fix bug #14868
* change pixmap for availability bars in pixbuf. should fix bug #14865

2005/11/09
4558: further Overnet patches, query_next_peers3.patch (bogeyman)

2005/11/07
4586: cleanup brand stats code (bt/edonkey) (zet)
      updated to coalesce bt software parsing and add some more ids

2005/11/05
4589: CryptoPP doesn't like -fomit-frame-pointer, so remove it (przemoc)
4597: OV/KAD: fix a search reset bug (bogeyman)
4585: Change ED2K_max_sources_per_file from 20000 to 5000
4579: Slackware package (tgz) - basic mlnet support (ratmmmam)

2005/10/31
4583: GTK2 mlgui improvement (su_blanc)
Lablgtk-2.6.0 is needed for GTK2 mlgui, it fixes a mem leak with GdkPixbuf.
added:
* razorback stats: click on a file in the downloads tab to display the stats
  (at startup wait for few seconds, the time to download the png files...).
* proxy options for mlgui
* a graph tab: global downloads, global uploads and a view per file
  (downloads and uploads).
modified:
* fix Tray icon as per task #4694
* reduce mem use
* configuration files locations: mlgui and mlim do not need CommonOptions.
  Should not change anything for the users as we check the $HOME variable.

4558: Overnet: several patches (includes and fixes patch #4551) (bogeyman)
* better detection of dead peers
* so we can ping less often
* and can be sure these peers are alive
* use ip:port from received pakets instead from the peer info
* use a weak Hashtbl for known_peers and remove search_known_peers
* we are removing all dead peers, in buckets and prebuckets,
  (do not wonder, if you get less peers left ;o)
* do not send useless "Connect" pakets, Fillbucket really works
* every 30m file searchs were created twice.
There are really less peers than without this patch, maybe i'll have to tweak
how we fill buckets. But for now this works and produce less traffic.

4581: Fix upload rate for high volume connections (> 1.5Mbit/sec) (pango)
4584: HEAP: use GC.quick_stats for mem_stats level=0 (bogeyman)

2005/10/30
4580: Update .cvsignore files (pango)
4564: HTML: fix vd p/d/queued output (zet)
4576: BT: remove sources when file is cancelled,
      mem_stats: Garbage collector info (zet)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/10/28: version 2.6.7 = tag release-2-6-7
4562: removed patch, breaks GUI connect after SIGTERM

2005/10/27
4551: remove patch, breaks Overnet
4562: BasicSocket.ml fix, fix select when fd_tasks is empty
      close all fd on exit (su_blanc)
4561: Options.ml4 proper old directory (su_blanc)
4560: mingw : proper detection of gToolbox.mli (su_blanc)
4559: mingw compilation of Crypto.cpp (su_blanc)
4553: HP-UX: If /dev/urandom is not present print info where to get it
4554: HP-UX: Compile fix for statvfs (disk usage statistics) (Inkus)
4555: EDK: Send emule_version on server login to prevent
      "Your client is too old" message (Knocker)
4556: Fix linking mlnet to X and GTK libs when using --enable-gui (su_blanc)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/10/25: version 2.6.6 = tag release-2-6-6
4551: OV/KAD: use kind like eMule does +misc bugfixes (bogeyman)
      "do not wonder, if you get less peers left ;o)", also reduces traffic
4550: Create bitprint for large files (zet)
4549: html_mods: relevant_queues option (zet)
      This patch creates a relevant_queues option which specifies a list of
      queue #'s that should be displayed in the vd # sources table.
      See sources command for the list of queues.
      By default all queues except the DoNotTry queue(7) are displayed.
4548: IPBlock: really don't load descriptions on core restart,
      if set to false (bogeyman)

2005/10/24
4547: Fix dupe sending of motd/nets in gui_initialize (zet)

2005/10/23
4545: make TAGS, creates files for source code navigation in Emacs (pango)
4544: Change internal code for statfs function (pango)
4543: Lower CPU usage, optimize CommonSources.count_file_ready_sources (pango)
4542: Remove Donkey-Fakes support, service is down
4541: New option BT_max_tracker_redirect
      connect to bittorent trackers with http redirect (jhon)

2005/10/19
4535: OV/KAD: Yet another improved logging (bogeyman)
4533: Yet another compile patch for mld_hash,
      remove svg_converter with make clean
4534: Compile fix for make_torrent

2005/10/18
4531: Compile fix for GTK1 oldgui
4530: Compile fix for mldonkeytop (pango)
4525: Always use svg_converter.byte (gildor)
4524: Fix building mld_hash (gildor)
4523: Fix building of svg_converter.byte (gildor)

2005/10/17
4520: Check for /dev/urandom, /dev/null and $TEMP
4521: CryptoPP: Compile patch for gcc-2.96 (sworn)

2005/10/16
4519: Int64ops cleanup (pango)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/10/11: version 2.6.5 = tag release-2-6-5
4508: Configure: Print some important build targets
4507: EDK: Print server banners into logfile (pango)
4500: BT: Fix multifile download with zero-byte files (thanks to jave)
4506: replace obsolete longarry and fifo2 code (bogeyman)

2005/10/10
4504: Clean http_server.ml logging
4502: Remove obsolete Weak2 sourcecode (bogeyman)
4503: OV: fill buckets only with peers we send to and heard of (bogeyman)
4499: Check for stalled pid file and remove it if MLDonkey is not running
      (does not work on MinGW due to missing Unix.kill) (pango, spiralvoice)
4501: HTML: Fix chunk wrapping on IE (zet)

2005/10/09
4477: prevented some compiler warnings (Schlumpf)
4496: Nicer summary of configure command

2005/10/06
4337: improved upload scheduler (pango)
4494: fix infinite loop when create_dir_mask on fat32 (zet)
4495: BT: include Wiki link to report unknown clients (bogeyman)
4493: BT: Correctly parse .torrent files with an empty directory (zet)
4487: BT/HTML: Display files inside a multifile torrent (bogeyman, jave)
4458: EDK: add enable_sui toggle option (enabled by default) (zet)
4491: Compilation fix for NetBSD>=2.99 (Thomas Klausner)
4490: memstats for a weakhash and a new OV command dump_bucket (bogeyman)
4473: New command: whoami
4457: BeOS: Compile patch for CryptoPP (Michael Lotz)
4460: Added search for .torrents via IsoHunt (WingMaster)
4456: Fix shrink effect in vd for Opera (Luar Roji)

4452: Clean configure.in, check for c++ compiler
* zlib is not optional anymore
* remove old code (Cryptokit, Broosnet etc.)
* distinguish between Cygwin and MinGW
* print start warning message only for Cygwin
* remove whitespaces

4450: Remove swarmer data when cancelling download (kempston, zet)

2005/09/21
4454: commonSources: add sources from resumed files
      (outside_queue sources) back to the queues (zet)
4453: Telnet: Print reject message for connecting client
      if it is not allowed to connect,
      prepend "dllink" for all commands starting with "http://"
4455: Improve make distclean
4449: New parameter for pid file: -pid <dir>, small improvements for pid files
4451: Correct the help of allowed_ips (gildor)

2005/09/19
4439: Fix for "make mlnet.byte" (zet)
4438: Fix secure-ident related compile bugs in Opennap & Soulseek
4437: BT: show up/down stats for Brand unknown (bogeyman)
4436: EDK: Solve memleak in donkeyChunks (file_md4s_to_register) (bogeyman)
4434: Added button to eMugle in Search (wingmaster)
4432: Add more info to mem_stats (zet)

2005/09/18
4431: Newgui: Compile fix
4419: EDK: Support secure user identification (crypto5, by zet)

2005/09/17
4424: OV: discard peers with ip 1.0.0.0 and random port
4425: EDK: Support server extended getsources2 opcode (zet)
4429: Better error message if MLDonkey lacks network support
      for a file in files.ini
4427: BT: 10 retries / follow 10 redirections in 
      dllink http://server/file.torrent
4423: OV/KAD: Save only active peers to config files/ save max 200 peers
      (bogeyman)

2005/09/14
4420: Remove obsoleted commonSwarming1 code
4418: Re-activate sources_per_chunk option (pango)
4417: BT: Improve BT upload speed (pango)
4374: fix "max_hard_download_rate has to be doubled" (pango)
      This patch changes internal code, no option has to be changed

2005/09/13
4406: Improved Unicode filename support (CML)
4412: OV: Handle OvernetPeerNotFound correctly (bogeyman)
4411: OV/KAD: Some peers are not added to known_peers (bogeyman)
4410: Shorter filesystem name for XFS
4409: Compile fix if Bzip2 is not available
4408: OpenBSD: configure.in fix to find libbz2 and others in /usr/local

2005/09/08
4397: Buildinfo: Run-time check for Windows OS version / Unix uname (zet)
4403: html_mods: mem_stats in a single readable table (zet)
4402: BT: BT-user_agent option (zet)

2005/09/06
4268: Web/Gui: free core's buffer allocated by vd # and gui (bogeyman)
4393: Lower ip blocking memory usage (pango)
      new option ip_blocking_descriptions true|false
4401: BT: Send 'stopped' event to all trackers when exiting (zet)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/09/04: version 2.6.4 = tag release-2-6-4
4392: Print "Core started" on stdout even if logging is enabled
      Fixes problems when MLDonkey is spawned by a GUI

2005/09/03
4247: memstats: BT/FT/GNUT/G2: initial memstats, ALL: show nr of old_files,
      BT: nr of torrent files
4390: Mail: Print incoming path if !!url_in_mail is used
4389: BT: Fix core exit if dirs of a shared multifile torrent are not writable
4368: new option: create_file_sparse true|false, this works only for
      files on NTFS drives in MinGW compiled MLDonkey (thanks to zet)

2005/09/01
4385: EDK: Preserve untested servers (pango)
4351: optimize ip blocking lists (pango)
4376: EDK: Re-enable result_done (already downloaded) in search results (zet)
4126: Improved log_file handling

* there is now a default log_file: mlnet.log, old downloads.ini is *not* updated
* its default log_file_size is 2MB, this is checked only on core start,
  if log_file is bigger it will be resetted
* logging will always be appended to log_file
* new command "clear_log" to reset log_file while the core is working
* new command "open_log" to reopen log after close_log
* removed command "log_file", same can be achieved through "set log_file <file>"

4384: HTML: Add "Import Serverlist" in servers,clean third button row (schlumpf)
4365: Disable console "X" close button on MinGW, second version (CML)
4382: Solve libgd configure in mandrake 10.0
4381: better differentiation of eDonkey and BT Stats Table (schlumpf)
4380: some info for SCM Version (CVS co Date/ SVN revision) (schlumpf)
4379: Fix compile error when libgd is not present
4378: Longhelp: Better description for add_user
4377: Better description for shared_directories in downloads.ini
4356: EDK: Improved server.met handling / fix contact.dat loading

* Changed user agent from "MLdonkey" to "MLDonkey", solves problem
  when downloading files from www.gruk.org and www.srv1000.com
* MLDonkey new recognizes links like ed2k://|serverlist|http://server/file.ext|/
* "servers" command now takes URLs
* if period in web_infos is zero the file is only loaded during core start
  (as requested by the owner of www.gruk.org)
* in all places where a filename or URL for a server.met can be used this
  file can also be compressed with gz/bz2/zip
* automatically replace old default server.met in web_infos
("server.met", 24, 
"http://ocbmaurice.dyndns.org/pl/slist.pl/server.met?download/server-best.met");
  with fake servers free list from gruk.org:
        ("server.met", 0, "http://www.gruk.org/server.met.gz");
* fixed bug which prevented loading Overnet contact.dat file in web_infos

2005/08/29
4368: Use sparse files on MinGW/NTFS (zet)
4370: BT/Win32: fix multifile hashing (Amorphous)

2005/08/28
4366: HTML: more maintainable html_mods styles (pango)
4367: Improve logging
4361: New command: uptime

Lots of improvements for MinGW, this platform now supports
files > 2GB, threads and libgd generated statistics.
Here you will find compilation instructions:
http://mldonkey.berlios.de/modules.php?name=Wiki&pagename=Windows

4342: Large_file support for mld_hash and MinGW MLDonkey core (zet)
4358: Add thread support for MinGW (zet)
4362: configure.in support for libgd on MinGW/FreeBSD
4349: increase filedescriptor limit for mingw (zet)
4365: Disable console "X" close button on MinGW (zet)

2005/08/26
4360: Configure: Test for nl_langinfo(CODESET)
4359: Upload: Give upload slot truely randomly (pango)
4347: Improve exit codes, codes were inspired by sysexits.h
4345: Code clean: Optimize redundant time_to_string functions
4357: Rename ed2k_hash to mld_hash
4344: Improve ./configure checks (bzlib.h, iconv on Windows)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/08/21: version 2.6.3 = tag release-2-6-3
4254: Patch reverted, did not work
      "html_mods: Table data is incorrectly centered"
4336: Improve some log file messages
4321: BT: fixed "make_torrent produce corrupted files on Windows" (beedauchon)
4335: Buildinfo: Fix bug if Bzip2 version string is empty (beedauchon)
4329: HTTPClient: Implement retries for failed requests
4319: Fix compile if libbz2 is not available,
      new configure option: --disable-bzip2
4334: BT/FileTP: Some progress on cancel bug (kempston)
4333: send ip blocked addr state to gui, compute_torrent from gui (zet)
4332: Let configure fail if GNU make is not installed

2005/08/18
4323: HTML: Search results: new colums for Bitrate, Codec and length
4324: Log: Improve output for verbosity "hid"
4322: EDK: compatibleclient 40 -> Shareaza
4320: Fix compile on FreeBSD < 5.3

2005/08/15
4317: Updated ./configure for compiling lablgtk2 with --enable-batch
4316: Updated ./distrib/Install.txt for Ocaml 3.08.4 and new GUI options
4292: html_mods: Match styles default frameHeight with the common default
4314: Allow compiling with Ocaml 3.08.4
      Compiling with 3.08.3 still works
4312: BT: Allow seeding (beedauchon)
4311: BT: create_torrent: default_tracker and default_comment (beedauchon)
4309: GUI: send ed2k/bt network u/d totals (zet)
4308: Gnutella/G2: Fix commit if no TigerTree is available
4305: buildinfo: Print some system internals
4304: EDK: Fix disconnect state with verbosity = "hid"
4297: Create ini file backups on shutdown
Note: file_sources.ini is never saved, it makes no sense to keep this file.

New options:

* backup_options_format, default "tar.gz", "zip" can also be used

* backup_options_delay, default 0
How often (in hours) should a backup of the ini files be written into old_config.
A value of zero means that a backup is written only when the core shuts down.

* backup_options_generations, default 10
Define the total number of options archives in old_config.

Command save got two new parameters:
* "save all" saves options, sources and creates a ini file backup
* "save backup" speaks for itself;-)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/08/11: version 2.6.2 = tag release-2-6-2
4296: BT: Fix options parsing
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/08/09: version 2.6.1 = tag release-2-6-1
4291: EDK: Better logging for unknown compatibleclient values
4290: BT: Some small fixes for messages interested and cancel (beedauchon)
4289: LOG: Improve verbosity "hid"
4287: Better clear Fifo buffers (bogeyman)
4268: Web/Gui: free core's buffer allocated by vd # and gui (bogeyman)

2005/08/08
4285: IPBlock: Server support
* display in vm/vma if a server has a blocked IP
* prevent connections to a IP blocked server,
  in EDK case this resulted in a LowID connection 

4284: Remove whitespaces / Some logging changes

2005/08/07
4279: MinGW: HDD statistics support
4281: Remove white spaces / Some logging stuff
4251: HTML: few fixes / new option html_frame_border true|false
4278: Windows: Fix bug creating work dirs in empty dir

2005/08/06
4276: IPBlock: Never block local IPs even if they are in blocklist
4274: Use relative path if downloads.ini is present

2005/08/05
4272: HTML: Cursor focus in input field
4271: GTK2: Fix compile bug in src/gtk2/chat/chat_art.ml
4155: Let MLDonkey create its data in $HOME/.mldonkey

Usage instructions:
* if the core is started in a directory where downloads.ini exists
  this directory will be used, this is the same behaviour as before
* on Windows the current directory will always be used,
  this is consistent with eMule
* on other systems $HOME/.mldonkey will be created and used,
  this is consistent with eDonkey, aMule and Unix standards
* if variable MLDONKEY_DIR is used that directory has priority,
  to simulate the behaviour without this patch use:
    export MLDONKEY_DIR="." && ./mlnet

2005/08/04
4270: Overnet: Convert local IPs sent by OV clients to real IPs
4269: IPBlock: Several fixes, better zip file support
4264: Fasttrack: Force commit of all complete files

4258: BT: Statistics, recognize more clients, min_interval,
      torrents/old and more...
      This patch was done by Beedauchon, it incorporates weeks of work from him.
* move .torrent to torrents/old if the file is not shared anymore
* new command rm_old_torrents: delete all files in torrents/old
* eDonkey like statistics for BT clients (csbt command)
* compute_torrent and make_torrent can put a comment into the .torrent file
* MLdonkey computes a BT-compatible client_uid starting with "-ML"
* parse more fields from .torrent files and display them in HTML interface
* Tracker: replace "/tracker" by "/announce"
* Tracker: add "/scrape"
* Multitracker support for downloading

2005/08/02
4263: Fasttrack: Force bootstrapping nodes

2005/08/01
4261: HTML: Add DL button - opens dialog for entering links (omgwtf2)
4260: IPblock: Enable IP blocking for Overnet and HTTP server
      (=BT Tracker) (beedauchon)
4257: Kick uploaders which send no data for more than 1 minute
4256: Print message if glibc version mismatch
      updates for buildinfo (version of libbz2, libz, libpng)

2005/07/29
4255: HTML: updates for cs command
4254: html_mods: Table data is incorrectly centered
4253: HTML: New style Construction (omgwtf2)
4251: few html fixes (reverted) (beedauchon)

2005/07/28
4250: Remove whitespaces from commonUploads.ml
4249: HTML: Links to fake check services in search results (bogeyman)

2005/07/27
4194: FileTP : Add support for "referer", error messages cleanup (beedauchon)
4245: BT: Remove whitespace (beedauchon)
4244: Change web_infos period to hours (this is a bugfix,
      no need to change ini files)
      new option: enable_mlnet_redirector

2005/07/26
4243: FileTP: Clean lots of whitespaces
4031: HTML: relative refs in HTML output (beedauchon)
4191: Access to disk data (free space, max file name length)
      This is first step implmenting this, checkout the
      disk command for debugging.
4242: IPBlock: Support guarding_full.zip
4241: Fix html_mods_vd_gfx_remove
4240: EDK: New option keep_downloaded_in_old_files

2005/07/23
4184: support guarding.p2p in zip/gz/bz2 format
      bz2 segfaults on OpenBSD, therefore disabled
      see notes in the patch on how to compile with MinGW

2005/07/22
4205: Improve logging with timestamps 2 (incomplete)
4204: Improve logging with timestamps (incomplete)

2005/07/21
4195: GUI: Change configure options

Now "./configure" compiles no GUI, "--disable-gui" is default.
To use a GUI use "--enable-gui", this enables GTK2 GUI.
Other options are:
--enable-gui=newgui2 (use GTK2 GUI)
--enable-gui=newgui1 (use GTK1 newgui)
--enable-gui=oldgui  (use GTK1 oldgui)
Options like "--disable-newgui" or "--enable-gtk2" were removed.

2005/07/20
4193: CommonGraphics : some whitespace cleanups
4190: Gdstats: Fix tag.png/jpg link output
4188: Overnet: Dont put our own ID in the buckets (bogeyman)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/07/19: version 2.6.0 = tag release-2-6-0
4175: New option html_mods_use_js_tooltips, default true
      (4175_5.patch)
4187: Update version to 2.6.0
4186: SCM date for Windows / FreeBSD configure enhancement

2005/07/18
4183: HTML: Overnet/Kademlia stats improvements (beedauchon)
4118: Solve memory leak in Overnet/Kademlia
4182: Get CVS date in configure for OpenBSD
4175: HTML: Add Multiline File Information in download table
      (4175_4.patch)

2005/07/17
4181: EDK: Control identified versions
4180: EDK: Files copied to incoming dir for sharing do not
      appear in upstats after hashing
4179: Get CVS date in configure for FreeBSD & Mac OS X
4178: Dont build GUI on "make release.mlnet.static"
4177: Clear logging, first steps toward time stamps
4175: HTML: Add Multiline File Information in search results
4174: EDK: Re-enable source exchange with eMule clients
4163: EDK: Avoid saving sources every save_options_delay

2005/07/14
4173: Clear whitespace from code
4168: HTML: Graphical chunk display in vd <num> (beedauchon)
4167: Gdstats: Fix corrupted pics output/improved output (beedauchon)

2005/07/13
Remove obsolete ./src/gtk/gui2 directory
4165: Clean log file
4164: Gnutella/G2: Update Webcache URLs
4160: resize properly the names in the gtk2 gui (su_blanc)
4158: EDK: Parse and display version numbers, also in GTK2 GUI (su_blanc)
4114: EDK: new command "reset_stats" (Knocker)

2005/07/10
4159: Removed whitespaces (beedauchon)
4156: tray icon in x11 for GTK2 GUI (su_blanc)
4157: fix mlnet.pid checking at start up for GUI

2005/07/07
4153: More infos for mem_stats
4146: Use lprintf_nl instead of "lprint_newline ()" or "\n" (beedauchon)

2005/07/06
4118: Improve Overnet/Kademlia logging and mem_stats output
      (overnet_log,patch)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/07/05: version 2.5.30.17 = tag release-2-5-30-17
4142: Remove unneeded code
4141: Cleaned logging
4140: New option: create_dir_mask
      New directories in incoming_directories are created
      with these rights. 
4139: EDK: don't ask clients for non-downloading files

2005/07/04
patch posted in bug 13619:
  Always returns ASCII(C) locale when it use libcharset

2005/06/29
4135: Change emule_version
4134: Clean core startup messages and log output
4130: Print warning message for Windows users
4128: Notification mail: show hash and download time
4127: Add TOS support
4123: First steps toward integrated user-management:
      new commands "remove_user" and "users",
      only "admin" is allowed to kill the core
      HTML interface to setup users (Options, Users)

2005/06/25
4125: Some configure.in fixes if libpng is misssing in libgd

2005/06/23
4122: EDK: "server <met>" command now responds with a clearer answer (Knocker)
4121: EDK: Dont remove prefered server if server_users < min_users_on_server
      (Knocker)
4120: EDK: send emule_version to servers (Knocker)
4083: new build target: release.mlnet.distri
      it contains both the dynamic and the static linked core

2005/06/22
4115: sort output of "links" in alphabetically order (Knocker)

2005/06/20
4109: EDK: Improve update_server_list
4104: Check accessibility of used directories on core startup
4101: Telnet: Show BT hash in vd <num>
4099: Automatically insert version number in Windows ressource file
4093: Add Buildinfo button to HTML, Help+
4092: Add Razorback-Stats and Bitzi links to upstats
4091: EDK: Some progress on the cancel bug
4090: Overnet: Add stats to mem_stats and code cleanup
4089: gdstats: Update second graph correctly
4085: change download priority to keep started download rolling
4071: Code cleanup: Replace lprintf_newline with "\n"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/06/06: version 2.5.30.16 = tag release-2-5-30-16
4070: Exit core on startup if a port is already used
4079: mlnet server id fix

2005/06/03
4067: BT: Fix multifile commit
      (updated to create dirs with rights 777)
4063: HTML: Some improvements (beedauchon)

2005/05/30
3984: Make filename_conversions option implementation safe
4042: Avoid sharing temp dir
4046: Hotfix: Circumvent max_hard_download_rate/2 bug
4051: mailer:encode subject and include a time zone
4055: Allow canceling of ed2k downloads if G2 is enabled
4056: Close all files if core receives SIGHUP
4057: Hotfix: Close files if an upload slots gets free
4058: Remove donkey_devel code, it is outdated
4060: Extend core startup message
4061: Block system signals during core startup

2005/05/28
4040: EDK: Do not truncate shared files
4043: Avoid locking shared files
4044: G2: Enable dllink support for servers and friends
4045: Remove command "-daemon", use 'mlnet > /dev/null 2>&1 &' instead
4050: Sync with Amorphous rev325

2005/05/19
4033: Fix "make clean" on MinGW/Cygwin (updated 2005/05/28)
4034: HTML: sources command has HTML output now (from beedauchon)

Replaced docs/http-1.1.txt and docs/uri.txt with links
to the original files.

Remove big, dcgui, giFT, hwd, lopster and small from ./icons
GTK old- and newgui and GTK2 GUI compile without those dirs.

Only these sets are used:
./config/Makefile.in:  ICONS_CHOICE=icons/rsvg
./config/Makefile.in:    ICONS_CHOICE=icons/tux
./config/Makefile.in:    ICONS_CHOICE=icons/kde

2005/05/17
3985: Create pid file
3991: Respect $MLDONKEY_DIR
3993: Enable signal handling on MinGW
3996: EDK: Support auxports
4017: Fix use_tags compile
4018: New EDK clients: Emule Plus + Hydranode
4023: Enhance buildinfo
4025: Enable sha1new on Solaris and Windows
4026: Remove all servers with "rem all" works now
4027: Fix jpg viewing with gdstats
4028: Remove gd generated files (cosmetic code update 2005/05/19)
4029: EDK: Print warning if enable_servers false

2005/05/13
3979: Show CVS date in CURRENT_RELEASE
3971: Send sources availability
3977: html_mods: fix server listing when a net is disabled
3978: properly sort availability in the GTK2 GUI
* Patch from beedauchon adds html support to donkeys
  new_print_mod_stats if emule mods statistics are disabled.
* Patch from beedauchon adds html support to the command gstats.
* Patch from beedauchon adds html support to the command ov/kad_stats.
* Patch from beedauchon adds some fixes to the html output 
  of the networks command.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/05/02: version 2.5.30.15 = tag release-2-5-30-15
This version shares the same code as Amorphous revision 304.

3963: Remove Audiogalaxy code
3964: Remove obsolete Cymes entries
3970: Print web_infos (from beedauchon)
3972: bug fixes for the GTK2 GUI
3973: Support for Overnet contact.dat (from beedauchon)
3974: HTML: RSS support (from beedauchon)
3975: EDK: Fix for sending shares to server
3976: Remove obsolete Ares code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005/05/01
3956: Set utf-8 character encoding in notification mails
3952: Print glibc version in buildinfo
3969: Sync with Amorphous rev293 
from rev290:
* A little cleanup for debug output.
from rev293:
* Patch from beedauchon fixes transparency issues with
graphical stats.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Split Changelog in two parts, all stuff older than 2.5.30.15 is now in docs/ChangeLog.old:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/mldonkey/mldonkey/docs/ChangeLog.old?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
