Dear Gnutella fans, I have just released gtk-gnutella 1.1.5, with the following changes:
Important bugs were fixed, you are invited to upgrade if you want to ensure stability, as some of these bugs can trigger anytime and crash your session. # v 1.1.5 2015-10-08 [stable] This is a bug-fixing release. Most of these bugs were discovered by investigating why gtk-gnutella was frequently crashing on OS/X platforms. Why other platforms were not having the same problems remains a mystery, since all these bugs were not specific to OS/X, apart from the vmm_munmap() bug -- since mmap() is only used on OS/X due to its lack of the sendfile() system call. One of the fixed bugs could lead to a crash when the network connection was broken (e.g. a cable unplugged or a WiFi connection terminated). Improvements: - UHC: re-engineered the random choice of UHCs in the pre-established list. Bug Fixes: - qrt_patch_compress_done(): fixed race with qrp_comp_done(). - xmalloc: prevent deadlock when freeing deferred blocks on the allocation path. - pmap_remove_from(): protect from exceptional corner case to avoid crash. - ut_frag_pmsg_free(): don't requeue an unsent message synchronously. - VMM: fixed race condition in vmm_munmap() that could lead to failures. - omalloc: fixed chunk management when memory alignment is required. Under the Hood: - well_state_discard(): fixed missing indexing of array pointer. - thread-test: avoid mixed output by using atomic I/Os to stderr for messages. - thread-test: main testing entry points now clearly flagged in output. - signal_trampoline(): be verbose and lenient when our pre-condition fails. - evq_event_discard(): fixed message to log the name of the registering thread. - hash_list_lookup(): was mistakenly returning a const value. - thread_private_set_extended(): ensure a NULL free routine clears any old one. - crash_mode(): removed redundant call to thread_suspend_others(). - rand31_random_seed(): avoid popcount(), prefer modulo with a prime number. - hash_offset_init_once(): avoid entropy_minirand(), causes dealocks on Windows. - uhc_send_ping(): if we cannot contact selected UHC, try with another one. - omalloc_chunk_*protect(): ensure chunk is consistent with page boundaries. - More assertions in omalloc() to ensure we're not corrupting memory. - Use global mutex to protect symbols_xxx() calls, simplified stacktrace code. - Reduced UHC retry time from 1 hour down to 3 minutes. - Revised UHC list. - More thread-safe refactoring for other stringification routines. Enjoy! Raphael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list gtk-gnutella-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
