Author: poeml
Date: Sat Nov 6 06:20:02 2010
New Revision: 8212
URL: http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain?rev=8212&view=rev
Log:
Tweaking wording of the 2.14.0 release notes.
Modified:
trunk/docs/changes.rst
Modified: trunk/docs/changes.rst
URL:
http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain/trunk/docs/changes.rst?rev=8212&r1=8211&r2=8212&view=diff
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--- trunk/docs/changes.rst (original)
+++ trunk/docs/changes.rst Sat Nov 6 06:20:02 2010
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@
MirrorBrain now uses geographical distance as additional criterion in mirror
selection. This is useful in
- 1) large countries (like the US) and any countries with many mirrors
+ 1) large countries (like the US), and probably any countries with many
+ mirrors
2) countries without mirrors, where only a random mirror from the continent
- could be selected otherwise. (Defining fallback mirrors for the latter
+ could be selected otherwise. (Defining fallback mirrors for such
countries worked before, and still has precedence.)
This implements `issue 34`_. To take advantage of this feature, the free
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@
to be used. See the `2.14.0 upgrade notes`_ for instructions.
- Per-file mirror lists have been improved by showing data in a better readable
- way, and by embedding a link to a Google map showing the 9 closest mirrors.
+ way, and by embedding a link to a Google map visualizing the 9 closest
mirrors.
- When running behind a load balancer or other reverse proxy, prefix detection
(for containment in network prefixes of mirrors) did not work because
@@ -34,22 +35,22 @@
country and continent comparisons already did this.)
- Experimental support for restricted downloads has been implemented, by
- redirecting to temporary URLs whose validity need to be verified by the
+ redirecting to temporary URLs whose validity can be verified by the
mirrors. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00011.html This a
- prototype implementation that might be changed later, hence the new Apache
+ prototype implementation that might still be changed, hence the new Apache
config directive is called ``MirrorBrainRedirectStampKey_EXPERIMENTAL`` at
the moment.
-- The module did not work when access was restricted with authentication (e.g.
- Basic Authentication), due to a broken check which simply needed to be
- removed. (A bit of code inherited from mod_offload, and likely still dating
- back to old Apache 1.3 API.)
+- MirrorBrain did not accept requests when access was restricted with
+ authentication (e.g. Basic Authentication), due to a broken check which
+ simply needed to be removed. (A bit of code inherited from mod_offload, and
+ likely still dating back to old Apache 1.3 API.)
- MirrorBrain has been tested (successfully) against the latest
:program:`zsync` release (0.6.2) and the documentation updated.
-- Optimizations and code cleanup have been performed.
+- Minor optimizations and code cleanups have been done.
Please read the `2.14.0 upgrade notes`_ before upgrading!
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