20100702-01

(Client) Fixed threading problem in U2 code and some null pointer issues
.
(Client) Changed FTP mode to prefer commonly permitted file name suffixe
s
and only use randomly generated ones when running out of them. Also, ret
ry
with up to 10 different ones if one is refused.
(Client) (JET) Removed version number from build identifier -- not ideal
but better than having dozens of left-over installation records in the
installed programs list.
20100630-01
(Server) Fixed null pointer problem in UDP probing code.
20100629-01
(Client) Modified built-in server list.
20100624-02
(Client) ... and now it actually works. This is so
embarassing...
20100624-01
(Client) Actually enable usage of tweaks when going through
the entire setup wizard. Duh!
20100623-01
(Client) Caught null pointer exception in tweaks code.
20100621-01
(Client) translation updates (HU).
20100618-01
(Client) Fixed HTTPS server search for tweaks.
(Client) Fixed interruption of server search.
20100616-01
(Client) Changes in WebConnection code. Slight changes in
Nigeria-MTN tweaks.
20100615-01
(Client) New MTN Nigeria setting in tweaks.
20100611-01
(Client) Only record working connection method for HTTP
if both uplink and downlink are believed to be functional.
 (Client) Try another hint given by the MTN community.
20100609-01
(Both) Fixed some things in HTTP code -- might make tweaks
work that didn't work well so far.
20100531-01
(Client) Fixed bug for systems without system tray.
(Client) Restored compatibility with older OpenVPN versions.
20100528-02
(Client) Added new config file option "socks5_ignore_ccc".
20100528-01
(Client) Worked on tweaking code to get proxy auth right.
(Server) Fixed bug in profile parsing.
20100521-01
(Client) Fixed bug introduced in 20100520-01 that only occurred
on non-Windows systems.
(Client) New MTN tweak that reportedly works.
20100520-01
(Client) Ensure only one instance is running.
(Client) Allow hiding of systray icon, pop up already running
app's window when re-started.
20100519-02
(Client) Experimenting with another tweak.
20100519-01
(Client) Changes to MTN and Etisalat tweaks.
(Client) Exclude Teredo anycast address if IPv6 is being used.
(Server) Fixed another null pointer exception in HTTP code.
20100518-01
(Client) Fixed greyed out start button and wizard on every run
problem.
(Client) Don't nag with turing test if user has sent a voucher.
20100517-01
(Client) Fixed bug that caused FTP mode to fail with some server replies
.
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer excpetion.
(Server) Fixed a bug in abuse reporting code that could lead
to dying sessions and overutilized resources on the server.
(Server) Fixed a bug in FTP connection code that could
lead to hanging sessions on the server and a waste of resources.
20100512-01
(Client) New attempt with Multilinks...
20100504-02
(Server) And another bug in mail filter code...
20100504-01
(Server) Fixed a bug in mail filter code.
20100503-03
(Client) Allow intermediate whitespace in passwords.
20100503-02
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception some people seem
to be seeing.
20100503-01
(Client) Fixed bug introduced in 20100330-01 that makes
MTN Nogeria tweaks fail. Duh!
20100430-01
(Client) Worked on Indosat Indonesia tweaks. You need to
reconfigure the tweaks as the name has changed.
(Client) Don't run app wizard if running on Windows in 64bit
data model. It won't work.
20100421-01
(Server) Just a code cleanup that helped me in resolving
a problem between O/S and JVM.
20100420-01
(Client) Better warning if OpenVPN is too old.
(Server) Notify users of versions 20100402-01 to 20100406-01
that their installation is not secure (seems to make more
of an impression that just telling that it's broken beyond
repair...)
20100416-01
 (Server) Change in self-defense mechanisms (making it less
radical).
20100415-02
(Server) Changed frequency of one of the monitoring threads.
20100415-01
(Server) Fixed null pointer exception in one of the monitoring
threads.
(Client) Trying to fix a problem I could not reproduce,
related to buttons that appear as shaded when they should
not.
20100409-01
(Client) Worked on Ghana MTN tweaks.
20100408-02
(Server) Change of cosmetic relevance in control panel.
(Server) Tell people right away if they are over usage time
and kick them out later (give them the chance to send a voucher
code).
20100408-01
(Server) Hopefully fixed problem with non-working connections through
YF for people in places where time limitations do not apply.
20100407-01
(Server) Small change in session tracking. (Turns out that it
triggered a bug that caused trouble to people in censoring countries.
Sorry! Fixed in 20100408-01)
20100406-02
(Client) Fixed another silly bug introduced in 20100402-01.
If OpenVPN did no longer start for you because you were
using version 2.1_rc20 or 2.1_rc21, this is why.
20100406-01
(Server) Kick out faster when over time budget.
(Both) Fixed bug in library function introduced in 20100402-01
and made worse in 20100405-01. Sorry!
(Client) Workaround to repair damage to config file produced
by version 20100405-01.
20100405-01
(Client) Fixed bug in whitespace terminated string parsing.
It manifested itself in the tweaks list but could have been
present in many places. Duh!
 (Both) Slight change in timer scheduling.
(Server) If over daily/weekly usage time, block all data connections,
only allow vouchers to be sent.
20100402-01
(Client) Allow more routes in OpenVPN, require that a release version
of OpenVPN is installed.
(Client) Slight tweak changes.
(Client) Fixed bug in config parsing that made OpenVPN mode fail
to exclude single IPs.
20100330-01
(Client) Never exclude OpenDNS name servers from OpenVPN routing
(at least not automatically). People seemingly use them as an
alternative to ours.
(Client) Fixed Tunnelblick support on Mac OS.
(Client) Added South Africa MTN tweaks. No idea whether it works or
not...
20100329-01
(Client) Try HTTPS on port 22 for MTN.
20100327-01
(Client) HTTPS might work with MTN again using the new tweaks.
20100326-02
(Server) Don't kick people out when accessing a
projecthoneypot server. Just record it.
20100326-01
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception that could occur on some
PCs in the authentication phase.
(Server) Reduce number of false PH detections.
20100325-01
(Server) Set upper limit for honeypot cache entries.
20100324-01
(Server) Fixed a profile issue.
20100323-01
(Client) Trying something with Multilinks.
20100317-02
 (Server) Added whitelist to exclude unwanted stuff in
ProjectHoneypot.
20100317-01
(Server) Added ProjectHoneypot interface.
20100316-01
(Client) Small message processing change.
(Server) Changes in MessagePort class.
20100315-02
(Server) Debugging of an issue I've seen.
20100315-01
(Server) Report profile statistics.
20100311-01
(Server) Better GeoIPFixup code.
(Client) Worked on Multilinks stuff.
20100310-02
(Server) New style CGI mode.
(Client) Forgot to enable tweaks in CGI mode... duh...
20100310-01
(Server) Send more complete HTTP reply header.
(Client) New style CGI mode.
20100309-01
(Client) Made Client send HTTP header in one chunk.
(Server) Made one of the self-defense mechanisms less aggressive.
It's the one responsible for no-one from MTN been able to connect
this afternoon.
20100308-02
(Server) Now I know why it doesn't hit as many people as it should...
and it surely does now, so spammers beware!
20100308-01
(Client) Don't do websearch/bingsearch when tweaks are enabled, waste
of time...
(Client) Fixed stupid bug in hints feeding.
(Client) Fixed server searching for MTN. I think. :-)
 (Server) Still troubleshooting a self-defense mechanism.
20100305-04
(Client) It would if there wasn't a fundamental problem
the HTTP connector has with the way MTN now works... I'll
try a workaround. The connector needs to be rewritten, but
not tonight.
20100305-03
(Client) Alright, this should work now with MTN...
20100305-02
(Server) Debugging.
(Client) MTN modification.
20100305-01
(Client) Added Multilinks tweak.
(Server) Fixed bug in honeypot processing.
(Server) Allow for disabling of remote authentication (for
test purposes in the lab.)
20100304-01
(Client) Some MTN fine tuning.
(Server) Fixed serious bug... duh...
20100303-01
(Client) New MTN tweak. :-)
(Server) Disable self-defence mechanisms for admins.
20100301-01
(Client) Automatically adjust keepalive values in tweaks.
(Server) More anti-spam stuff.
20100226-01
(Client) Fixed a bug that was only triggered for very
few people...
(Server) Added possibility to clear lists in profiles.
20100223-01
(Client) Always append :443 on proxy CONNECT requests,
some proxies seemingly can't do without.
(Client) Interpret 503 service unavailable as "this
 representation of an IP address is not understood or
accepted here".
20100222-01
(Client) Troubleshooting a reported bug, no need to update
your installation unless we told you to,
20100217-02
(Server) Debug self-defense mechanism.
20100217-01
(Client) Log when tweak set is in use.
(Client) Small changes to MTN Nigeria tweaks.
(Server) Allow wildcards in honeypot definitions.
20100212-01
(Client) More tweaks for more networks.
(Server) Fixed bug in GeoIP lookup code for IPv6 Teredo
addresses.
20100210-01
(Server) Added more anti-spam self-defense mechanisms.
(Client) Played a bit more with tweaks, might work...
20100208-01
(Client) Added variable <URI> for proxy mangling.
(Server) On HTTPS connections, ignore proxy CONNECT
header if present.
20100206-01
(Client) Updates to tweaks for MTN, ZAIN, XL
20100205-03
(Client) Worked more on tweaks. Next try!
20100205-02
(Client) Hmmm... interesting method. :-) Added a new way
to get connected from MTN Nigeria.
20100205-01
(Client) Fixed bug in tweaks that made all tweaks use
fail...
20100204-01
 (Client) New feature: country "tweaks". Please try,
we cannot tell if they work but you can!
20100203-01
(Server) Tell client about server groups.
(Server) Troubleshoot a UDP problem.
20100201-01
(Server) Fixed bug in stream reporting.
20100129-01
(Server) Catch people who access distributed spamming
scripts. Report to database right away.
20100128-01
(Server) Added a self-defense mechanism that is HIGHLY
needed.
(Client) Worked on tweaking code to only apply it when
the input values look correct. This will allow our users
to try stuff like before.
20100114-00 (beta)
(Client) Bugfix in tweaking code.
20100113-00 (beta)
(Client) Added "tweaks". Some people will love it. :-)
20101011-01
(Server) Make bind address of messenger port configurable.
(Both) Better debugging around anti-SPAM measures.
20100105-01
(Server) Stupid bug in server profile parsing permitted
"sesawe" logins on some servers that have deny records
for other countries. *GNAGNAGNA*
20091228-01
(Server) Kick out banned clients after authentication, not
during authentication. We want proper database records.
20091217-01
(Client) Fix a clid collission with Bluetooth PAN.
(Server) More anti-spam stuff.
20091216-01
 (Client) Fixed server search on Windows. PHEW!
20091215-01
(Client) Excelsior JET 7.0 release (better performance)
(Server) More anti-spam stuff.
20091214-01
(Client) Minor corrections and null pointer checks that
should never match.
(Client) Better "barfing" -- include O/S type and JVM version.
This will help a lot with debugging.
20091203-01
(Client) Search improvements for IPv6.
(Client) Implemented exception catching and reporting to
help us find bugs that never appear during testing.
(Client) Detect if there are no TAP interfaces available
for OpenVPN and it exits prematurely.
(Server) Receive reported exceptions. This is all
anonymous, no personal data is reported, just that a
software crash has happened, where it has happened,
and what the client version is.
(Server) Do not send recommendations so often. Also
do some things less often in the session periodic timer.
I hope it relieves a bit of load from the old P4s.
20091202-01
(Client) Fixed parsing of stored server data that could cause
the server search wizard to fail on corrupted data or data
containing incomplete search results.
20091201-02
(Client) Silly bug broke UDP server search, fixed.
20091201-01
(Client) Added translations for country name SWEDEN in most
languages.
(Client) Cache wizard search results, don't run search
again unless "again" button is pressed.
20091126-01
(Client) Fixed OpenVPN issues with Windows 7 when using the
"small installer" version.
20091123-01
(Client) Found that the Java Windows library comtains a bug that
 reports wrong subnet masks on dual-stack machines where IPv4 AND
IPv6 is spoken natively on the same interface. There is no
suitable workaround. Resorted to ancient "ipconfig" method of
figuring out directly connected networks (which might fail on
some Windows localisations *sigh*).
20091118-02
(Server) Print no error if there is no ban list file.
(Server) Expire banned clids after as little as 15 minutes.
20091118-01
(Client) Fixed silly OpenVPN problem that caused OpenVPN to
fail for many users (especially on XP), introduced in 20091110-01
(Client) More anti-SPAM measures.
(Server) Expire banned clids after 1 hour not 24 hours (and immediately
if no longer in local copy of ban database).
(Server) Make reporting interval 3 seconds instead of 30 seconds.
20091110-01
(Client) Detect some OpenVPN messages and mark the set-up
as failed if they appear.
(Client) Properly exclude interface addresses and masks if
we can figure them out.
(Server) More anti-SPAM measures.
20091109-01
(Server) Anti-SPAM measures.
(Client) Make reconnection delay configurable. Iranians need it.
20091103-01
(Client) Fixed OpenVPN auto-exclude bug with DNS servers.
20091030-01
(Server) Workaround for a problem people in Indonesia see.
20091022-01
(Client) Added Bing search, removed Google search
(which doesn't work anyway at the moment).
20091016-01
(Server) Do not barf on range header, just ignore it.
(Client) Use a username and password in FTP mode that actually
works... duh.
20091008-01
(Client) Updates to Italian language translation.
(Client) Be much more aggressive about trying IPv6.
20091007-01
(Server) Changes in portmapper to resolve mapping issues.
20091006-01
(Client) Workaround for option problems on local server sockets.
(Server) Added portmapper stuff.
20091002-01
(Server) Small coding changes, irrelevant.
(Client) Try alternative domains.
(Client) Try port 53 if you enable non-standard ports in wizard.
20090928-01
(Server) Fixed silly bug that would not ban some client
IDs even if it is supposed to.
20090925-01
(Server) Treat CGI relay users from Iran as other users
from Iran.
20090923-01
(Client) Undocumented changes that will help people in places
like Iran.
(Client) Fixed loads of bugs in server search code.
20090917-01
(Server) Removed some now unnecessary debugging.
(Server) Modified accessibility of console.
20090901-01
(Both) Round-up of all the little things done yesterday that
obviously improve performance seriously and solve a problem
that is outstanding for two years ("some streams would just
not work"). Also I'm now trying a little idea with thread
priorities in the timer scheduling... let's see if and how it
makes a difference.
20090831-10
(Both) Put in some safety nets that might help with the
thread storms I see.
20090831-09
(Server) Used atomic statements for ID generation. This might fix
the hanging stream phenonemon that I could never reproduce.
20090831-08
(Server) More debugging... still trying to find out what's
going on with these timer bursts.
20090831-07
(Server) Yep, it did. It only was a number... but it triggered
a piece of code that was lurking for years and caused havoc. :-(
It's removed now, the number no longer has a meaning and I have
put back in all the little changes that have been rolled back.
The first comment on 20090831-01 was only too true!
20090831-06
(Server) Another little change rolled back that could mean
the world...
20090831-05
(Server) I think I know what was wrong.
20090831-04
(Server) Emergency rollback of code I though was stable.
See if it helps.
20090831-03
(Server) Rolled back a trivial change in TimeOuter code.
20090831-02
(Server) More thread debugging -- we need to find the bugs!
20090831-01
(Server) Don't slow down new TimeOuter threads, this could
be fatal because they are cleaning up...
(Server) Fixed a potential infinite loop in the protocol
inspection code that tries to catch spammers.
20090830-01
(Server) Safety catch... one of the servers ran out of
memory.
20090829-01
(Server) Better call statistics, I need to understand what's
driving servers round the bend sometimes.
(Both) Fixed server searching through Google.
20090828-03
(Server) Made the thread pool even larger.
20090828-02
(Server) Performance tuning.
20090828-01
(Both) Performance improvements in UDP connection code. This
should help the users in Nigeria considerably...
20090827-03
(Server) Very tiny optimizations.
20090827-02
(Both) Modified the way times are being fired, this should
help with timer congestion on very busy servers.
20090827-01
(Server) Fixed a potential race condition in voucher processing
code that could be triggered if the user logged out at almost
the same time.
20090826-02
(Server) Partially undone debugging changes.
20090826-01
(Server) Debugging changes.
(Client) Do not only use the Windows product ID but also
the installation timestamp.
20090815-01
(Server) Added ability to query backup report hosts for
user data if main report hosts don't reply within a
given time.
20090813-01
(Client) More false-banning fixes.
20090812-01
(Client) OpenVPN workarounds for Vista. *sigh*
20090811-01
(Client) Updated static information about servers and
some OpenVPN parameters.
(Client) Another false-banning problem solved.
20090810-01
(Server) Report duplicate login on same server.
(Server) Fixed rare but possible problem during server
(Messenger crashed.)
20090806-01
(Client) Fixed a problem with Asia Tech WAN interfaces that
would lead to false "banning" of innocent users.
20090804-01
(Server) Implemented a way to fix up wrong IP to country mappings.
20090803-01
(Client) Changed route metric in OpenVPN.
20090801-01
(Server) Don't query central database if local file
record is less than 2 minutes old.
(Server) Kick out users who exceed their time limit,
even if they don't log out themselves. Duh!
20090731-03
(Server) Changed timing in database querying... it can
take a bit longer if the backend database connection needs
to recover from a hang.
20090731-02
(Server) Fixed a problem in server shutdown.
20090731-01
(Server) Added database query code. Not tested! (But it
won't hurt too much if it doesn't work.)
20090729-01
(Server) Fixed potential array index issue during shutdown.
(Client) show clid calculation in dump. Might also fix the
bug I'm looking for...
20090720-01
(Server) Oops, overlooked something.
20090719-02
(Server) Added some debugging around spam catching.
(Server) Added protocol detection for TCP forwards. Used
 for SPAM detection on SMTP connections through OpenVPN.
20090719-01
(Server) Even more SPAM detection, this time somewhat
proactive (but unfortunately only effective against SMTP delivered
SPAM).
20090718-01
(Server) More code to catch spammers .. unfortunately,
still only reactive.
20090713-01
(Client) Might have found out why so many users appear
to be sharing a PC. Using this client release might fix it.
20090709-01
(Both) Debug a problem we've seen.
20090707-02
(Server) Make some email restriction parameters configurable
on a per-user basis so we can permit humanitarian NGOs to
send their stuff.
20090707-01
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception when shutting
down a server that has putthrough sessions.
(Client) Changed timing of UDP probing slightly. Should work
better with mobile connections.
20090706-01
(Server) Added message type CONFIG. This allows me to configure
the servers remotely without logging in, individually or in
bundles.
(Server) More code to catch spammers.
20090705-01
(Client) Accept spaces in proxy user name and password.
20090702-01
(Client) Use time to test server connection as additional
criterion when displaying server list in preferred order.
20090701-01
(Client) Show date and time when a message was logged
as a tooltip in message window.
(Client) Take packet round trip time into account when
sorting the server list for UDP.
 (Server) Fixed hourly kickout for Iranians. Sorry!
20090629-01
(Server) Added conditions put-throughs. We'll use them
to display different pseudo web pages for different accessing
countries. In the future this could match on IP ranges,
whois records, ... see the potential? :-)
(Client) Added Farsi -- finally!
20090625-01
(Server) Add "ignore_deny_until" to profile so we don't
have to delete the usage records for FreeFreedom users
in suppressive countries. Should relieve load from database.
20090624-02
(Server) Entirely new conditional parser should now work
correctly for all countries.
20090624-01
(Server) Log when we refuse a login based on the country.
(Server) Fixed bug that would keep Nigerian FreeFreedom
users out of all servers -- that wasn't intended, sorry!
20090623-01
(Server) Added condition "server" to profile config. Yes,
this is the first anti-Nigerian-spammer action. The people
in Iran need the servers, you spammers don't!
(Client) Added russian translation.
20090622-01
(Server) Report to database the number of current logins
per country.
20090616-01
(Client) In dump mode, dump garbage encountered in
bytestream codec.
(Client) When adding a voucher manually to the management
panel and there's an active connection, fetch info right
away.
(Client) Added some translation stuff.
20090615-01
(Client) Voucher button gone, voucher panel added.
20090611-01
 (Client) Language selection window on first start.
20090610-02
(Client) Started to implement voucher manager. Not yet
visible to the general public but already partially
working. Stay tuned. :-)
(Server) Provisions for new voucher processing code that
supports the new voucher manager.
20090610-01
(Server) Delay overtime kickouts a bit so people have
a chance to send a voucher code.
(Client) Barf if OpenVPN cannot install routes.
20090604-01
(Client) Report in message log if dump cannot be created.
(Server) Keep banned client installations out more
rigorously -- don't let them in for even a second.
(Client) Removed some left-over debugging from CGI mode.
20090601-02
(Server) Display country code in other server panel
places as well. Helps us understand how our servers
are being used.
20090601-01
(Server) Display country code in server panel.
(Server) Fixed presumed hole in bandwidth limitation.
20090530-01
(Client) Set TLS renegotiation for OpenVPN to 0,
effectively allowing the server to choose the
renegotiation interval.
20090528-01
(Server) More and more people use UDP connection
mode; increase timeouter pool size to accommodate
this.
20090514-01
(Client) Fixed bug in reading Unix routing table.
Introduced in 20071009-01 -- can you believe it!
20090511-01
(Both) Fool stupid proxies that white-list on patterns
using the hidden config parameter "http_postfix" --
 try setting it to "microsoft.com".
20090507-01
(Client) Updated built-in server list.
20090504-01
(Client) Fixed translation file syntax for OPENVPN_DOWN
message.
(Server) Field length fix to one of the control panels.
20090421-01
(Server) Troubleshooting the checksum errors in messenger.
20090420-02
(Both) Properly announce CGI relays through CGI relays
so that they can be found by both client and search engines.
Interpret data properly in the client (both old-style and
new-style).
20090420-01
(Client) Different detection timeout for CGI relays.
(Client) Better find CGI relays if not looking for any
other ways to connect.
20090417-02
(Server) Oops, wrong multiplier...
20090417-01
(Server) Display units in a better way in one of the
control panels.
(Server) More problem catching, UDP listeners still dying.
20090414-01
(Client) Changed port preference for UDP connection model.
(Server) Catch some more potential problems in UDP listener
code -- we've seen unexpectedly dying threads and would like
to know why they died.
20090331-01
(Server) make /ems-dist an alias of /download
20090323-01
(Client) Fixed automatic OpenVPN excludes on BSD like
systems.
20090319-01
 (Client) Translations.
(Client) Wizard fixes.
20090309-01
(Client) Don't hide sesawe configuration in sesawe mode.
(Client) Updated server data.
20090304-01
(Server) Sesawe modifications.
(Client) Changed built-in server list.
20090225-01
(Client) Worked around a new proxy folly when announcing
required authentication.
(Client) Sesawe modifications.
(Server) Fixed a bug in statistical reporting.
(Server) Fixed null pointer exception that could cause streams
to fail.
(Client) Translation updates.
20090223-01
(Client) More translations.
20090218-01
(Client) More translations.
20090216-01
(Server) Add ability to remotely kick by session id.
Kick baddies more rapidly.
(Server) Better detect spammers.
20090210-02
(Server) Made a mistake, fixed. Silly of me...
20090210-01
(Server) Enable TCP keepalive on all TCP sockets. Ensures
forwarded inbound streams are torn down if connection from
source fails.
20090209-01
(Client) Added Myanmar (Burmese) translation. It's not complete but
it's a start.
20090203-01
(Client) Fixed another problem in message display. Now
long server welcome messages will display properly. :-)
20090202-01
(Both) Properly display more messages... duh! Please upgrade...
(Both) Fixed the way streams and the connection are torn down
when user clicks on the stop button. The client used to tell
the server to shut down the connection, then to shut down the
individual streams, then it would not shut down the streams
on its end because it never received an ACK from the server
to shut them down because the server thought the connection
was already dying anyway... duh!
20090130-01
(Server) Implemented geolocation with MaxMind's Java classes
instead of a system call and caching. Faster and more reliable.
(Both) Lay the foundations for profiles only permitted in
certain countries or denied in some countries. We need this to
offer free access in some places in cooperation with NGOs.
(Client) Fixed the message popup.
20090126-02
(Client) Package expiry message wasn't displayed properly.
(Client) Fixed bug in displaying messages that contain
single quotes and variables... duh!
20090126-01
(Both) For very few users there is a compatibility problem
in 20090123-01 with the current server code; if you are one
of them the server will notice and suggest you upgrade.
20090123-01
(Client) Nicer About panel -- that finally no longer throws
null pointer exceptions every now and then. :-) Thanks
very much to the supplier of the image!
(Client) Fixes in the applications wizard.
(Client) Added missing German translations.
(Client) Hopefully fixes the problem some have with strange
languages suddenly appearing when upgrading.
20090122-01
(Client) Modified OpenVPN config -- Windows uses ridiculously
small defaults for buffer sizes.
 (Client) Even better icons.
20090120-01
(Server) Fixed a potential race condition that could lead
to a dying thread.
20090119-03
(Client) Fixed Turing test.
20090119-02
(Client) Added traditional chinese.
20090119-01
(Client) Fixed bug in message display when not authorized or
authenticated.
20090114-01
(Client) Prepared OpenVPN messages for translation.
(Client) New icons -- thanks to the supplier!
(Server) Only report login if profile has been loaded successfully
and user's account is valid for the server.
20090112-01
(Client) Added Arabic translation.
(Client) Fixed lots of orientation problems for right-to-left
languages.
(Client) Fixed bug in proxy auto-detection.
20090110-01
(Client) Added simplified chinese.
(Client) Modified font selection mechanism.
20090106-01
(Server) Cosmetic changes only.
20090102-01
(Server) Caught a potential null pointer exception.
20081230-01
(Client) Find servers even in environments where a connection
through UDP would be possible but name resolution and/or
web access is not possible.
(Client) Added Switzerland as possible server country -- because
we are going to have servers there soon.
20081218-01
(Client) Added Indonesian translation.
(Client) Added variants for Yankee English and the Queen's English.
Guess what -- they differ by two words. It's more an example than
anything else.
(Client) Changed text in wizard, reflecting current Firefox
versions.
20081212-01
(Client) Added Romanian translation.
(Client) Added Dutch translation.
(Client) Added "Clear" button to message panel as suggested
in the forum.
20081210-01
(Server) OpenVPN mapping changes (more efficient).
20081202-01
(Client) Loads of translation work added. Thanks to all
who provided translations!
(Client) Offer Burmese language if Padauk font is installed.
There is no translation available yet but if I get one I
will enable this! Same for Farsi, Arabic and the like --
get in contact with us, we are now ready to support these
languages as well!
(Server) Remove unnecessary debug trace.
20081128-01
(Server) Collect anonymous statistics about which destination
is accessed by users from which country. Please rest assured:
we do NOT log what destinations you access. It is not possible
to abuse this statistic. We need the data to help supporters
to secure funding. The data is NOT stored on the connectivity
servers. We strictly adhere to German telecommunications law
which ensures your privacy (and explicitly states that it
is illegal to log accessed destinations by user).
20081120-01
(Client) Fixed some missing translations.
(Server) Fixed a potential start-up race that could lead
to a dying support thread.
20081112-01
(Client) Added turkish translation. Removed old-style file.
20081111-02
(Server) Fixed typecast problem.
20081111-01
(Client) Fixed --nogui mode in combination with --log=0.
(Server) Fixed very silly bug in OpenVPN IP mapping that
could lead to IP association problems through a race
condition.
20081103-01
(Server) Fixed server greeting message for old clients.
(Client) Display server greeting message properly in new
clients.
(Server) Fixed a bug in OpenVPN mapping -- mostly cosmetics.
20081031-01
(Server) Removed debugging message that could cause a slowdown.
20081028-01
(Client) Lots of translation work.
20081027-01
(Server) Hopefully fixed problem in UDP listeners that
caused UDP connection service to fail over time. Debugging
added so we might learn why it fails if it fails again.
20081023-01
(Server) Loads of anti-fraud additions.
20081006-01
(Server) Fixed bug in TCP forward code on server that could
cause TCP forwarding to fail (and SMTP delivery to break).
(Client) Avoid the GTK LAF, it's broken.
(Client) Worked a lot on translation code.
(Client) Workaround so client finds CGI relays better.
20080822-01
(Client) Fixed IPv6 in UDP mode.
20080820-03
(Server) Small fix in the way search engines are being
passed between relays.
20080820-02
 (Both) Fixed race condition that could cause a null pointer
exception in stream code on dying streams. More or less
just cosmetics.
(Server) Hopefully fixed the silly IllegalThreadStateException
problem -- no idea why it happens at all or how it can happen
without a problem in the JRE. It can only mean that an object
instance scoped variable had an inconsistent state and that's
hard if it has been set in the same thread just a few lines
before.
20080820-01
(Client) Use Java's new Systray interface. It's pretty
messy and doesn't work properly cross-platform, plus it
requires Java 1.6. Not sure yet if this is the way to go...
but it somewhat works on the Mac and probably works on
KDE as well. AND it should work on Vista 64bit.
(Both) Changes in the way CGI relays are announced
and found. Partially incompatible with previous releases!
(But older releases will still find relays.)
20080815-01
(Client) Shorter timeout for FTP control connection (15
seconds instead of the default 3 minutes for attempts).
(Client) Worked a lot on server search code. Now finds
CGI relays too! Need to add more sophisticated tests
whether they work though...
20080812-01
(Server) Fixed silly bug in CGI relay announcing.
(Client) Fixed bug in startup code that would cause the
YF client to crash if the config could not be read.
Introduced in 20080630-01 I guess.
20080811-01
(Server) Fixed CGI relay announcing of servers.
(Server) Nicely serve favicon.ico for Mozilla and co. :-)
(Client) Fixed CGI connection mode -- was using a different
host name for second connection!
(Client) Delay connection method reporting.
20080808-01
(Server) More debugging around dying TCPForwards
(Client) Fixed a long outstanding race condition in the way
the About panel was built. Swing really sucks! I am not really
sure what effects the problem had on the remainder of the
application.
20080807-01
(Client) Worked on IPv6 search code. Should be able to
locate servers in IPv6 address space now.
(Client) Work around a problem in parsing old configs
that contains two initial servers separated by a colon,
the second one being an IP address (this used to be the
correct format, now it's a semicolon).
(Client) Fix silly problem when command line option --start
is passed -- it should set the button text properly so people
do not click accidentally and stop the connection.
(Client) Only show servers in search results that can
possibly work, suppress those that definitely don't work.
(Server) Process some frames even if authentication hasn't
succeeded yet -- this works around race conditions inherent
to some connection protocols.
20080805-01
(Server) Server side changes to enable detection of servers
through IPv6.
20080801-01
(Server) Minimal changes irrelevant to end users.
20080731-01
(Server) Minimal changes in TCPForward. I'd like to know how
the accept thread has managed to die on some servers...
(Server) Fixed bug in web serving code that broke downloading
of Mac OS X file from mirrors.
20080726-01
(Server) Fixed bug introduced in 20080715-01 but only recognized
after an actual server restart. (The test environment doesn't
make use of the item changed.)
(Client) Fixed a bug in server search wizard probably introduced
in 20080715-01.
20080724-01
(Server) Fixed lots of small threading errors that could
cause sessions to crash under rare circumstances.
20080715-01
(Client) Fixed bugs in server search.
(Server) Unbundled reporter from EMSD.
(Server) Started implementing porter.
20080630-01
(Client) Stop trying to connect if the proxy has reported
an error condition in HTTPS mode. This was not working for
true SSL.
(Both) IPv6 work.
20080619-01
(Client) Display bandwidth unit used in bandwidth panels
to avoid confusion.
20080606-01
(Client) Make "User Agent" easily configurable through
front end.
(Client) Imitate web browsers more closely to better
fool proxies.
20080605-01
(Client) Fixed OpenVPN certificate verification. My apologies
for this problem in 20080529-01 -- yes I have tested and it
worked when I tested, I have no explanation.
20080529-01
(Both) New OpenVPN RSA keys and certificates to fix
Debian OpenSSL goof.
20080528-01
(Client) Added --shortdump option. It works the same as
the --dump option, just that it doesn't dump all stream
content. For most debugging purposes this will be enough
and it makes dump files significantly smaller.
20080430-01
(Server) Increase number of possible servers. We're
growing. :-)
(Client) Fixed google search for servers.
20080429-01
(Client) Added translations for spanish country code.
(Client) Made searching for PROXY records in wpad files
simpler and more foolproof.
20080422-01
(Both) Fixed authentication problems for those with strange
characters in passwords. If you use non-ASCII characters in
your password you MUST use this or a later client release.
 (Client) More translations.
20080412-01
(Client) Don't show "unlimited" in Enhanced profile! (Just
a display problem.)
20080407-01
(Client) Catch potential exceptions in server search code.
20080402-01
(Client) Added proxy auto-detection to wizard. This is still
very crude and might not work in some scenarios where your
web browser is still able to find the proxy, but it should
work where Firefox works.
20080401-01
(Both) Fixed enqueueing of retransmitted frames -- they need
to be put upfront. Also, don't request the same retransmit
over and over again rapidly.
20080327-01
(Client) Added new Configuration/Settings panel. Made
unit of bandwidth control configurable (default is still
kbit/s but you may set it to kBytes/s).
20080325-01
(Both) Implemented on-request frame retransmitting to
avoid retransmission of a lot of frames if only one
is actually missing. With old clients this does not work,
the retransmit requests are simply ignored by the clients
(which is pretty much the same as it used to be). If
you've got an up-to-date client you should see an improvement.
20080320-01
(Both) Do not repeat ACKs ad nauseam if a stream is idle,
under no circumstances. It's simply useless!
(Both) Only refire sendq after transport sendq has requested
to backlog the frame if the transport sendq has reactivated
the stream. This should reduce CPU load under congestion.
(Both) New runq code that fairly refires the sendqs of the
streams; removes the need to refire them at intervals and
better balances remaining bandwidth between streams under
congestion conditions. It should also save CPU if there are
many active streams.
(Both) Slightly modified timing in UDP transmission code,
this allows for higher data rates (but still more than
2 Mbit/s is unrealistic -- we could achieve more but it
would highly increase loss probability and this would not
do you any good, the additional bandwidth would just be
retransmissions).
20080319-01
(Both) Worked on stream retransmit code, should highly
improve situation for lossy links.
(Both) Trivial changes to the frame buffer code (removed
unnecessary CPU cycles).
(Client) Removed unnecessary debugging in UDP mode.
20080314-01
(Client) Some debugging added.
20080310-01
(Client) Fixed problem introduced in 20080307-01. This makes
OpenVPN mode work again -- sorry about that! (Yes, it was
thoroughly tested but in the wrong environment.)
20080307-01
(Client) Modified the way OpenVPN compression is set in client
and server. It used to be static; now the server pushes the
option to the client. This is in preparation to remove
compression in UDP mode where it sometimes causes instabilities.
20080228-01
(Client) Fix a problem with Vista in detecting existing IP
addresses in OpenVPN mode. Vista is _incredibly_ stupid at times.
(Client) Hopefully we've got detection of Windows Millennium
Edition right this time.
20080222-02
(Client) Oops, I goofed. It's fixed, saving the config works
again properly.
20080222-01
(Server) Fix syslog reading code.
(Client) Settings on OpenVPN config page weren't saved properly.
20080221-01
(Client) Stop googling if we have enough hits. We don't need
the same results from dozens of servers.
(Client) Ask more Google search pages in case some are blocked.
(Client) Avoid silly question about one stream not being closed
when OpenVPN mode is running.
(Client) Hopefully detect Windows Millennium Edition properly now.
(Both) Little changes to the streams register code that should
 slightly improve performance.
20080215-01
(Client) Debugging around stream ACKing.
(Both) Fixed bug in UDP mode that could cause an infinite
loop when closing the connection.
20080214-02
(Both) Don't always "flatten bursts" for UDP -- only if the
checkbox is ticked.
20080214-01
(Client) Make YF work on Windows 98 again.
20080213-03
(Both) Little changes to timeouter firer pool management.
20080213-02
(Client) Switched off frag testing in OpenVPN UDP mode.
20080213-01
(Both) Increased UDP socket buffer size (mainly has an
effect on Windows where the defaults are ridiculously
small and not dynamically adapted like on every decent
operating system), which can lead to buffer overruns
during thread starvation and consequently to buffer
overruns. This improves stability and performance of
the UDP transmission mode.
(Both) Slightly changed thread switching behaviour in UDP
mode transmission code. This should have no effect on
performance but will reduce the context switching overhead.
20080205-01
(Client) Fixed silly problems when creating OpenVPN config
(fragment/mssfix).
20080202-01
(Both) Minor changes in stream code to avoid useless
(but harmless and reported) null pointer exceptions under
rare conditions.
20080201-01
(Client) Report why openvpn file could not be copied.
(Client) Worked on keepalive code -- I've seen strange
bursts of keepalives on the servers and can only explain
them as client bugs.
20080130-01
 (Both) Ensure that memory leak debugging does not increase
latency every 10 seconds for a few frames.
20080129-01
(Both) Troubleshoot memory leak.
20080122-01
(Client) Changed default for "flatten bursts" to off.
(Both) Modified MSS/fragment size for OpenVPN.
(Client) When relaying for others is disabled, close
refused connections more quickly.
20071231-01
(Both) Code cleanups. Removed lots of dead code and
libraries that we no longer need. This should improve
startup times significantly.
20071221-01
(Client) Hopefully fixed problems with server search
that lead to people depending on FTP transport not being
able to find servers. The problem was probably introduced
in 20071214-01.
(Both) Modified the way receiving stream instances dequeue
frames from the recvq. This hopefully fixes an issue we've
seen with a receiver acknowledging a frame but then requesting
it over and over again, leading to a frozen sendq on the
other end.
20071219-01
(Server) Tear down FTP sessions more quickly if there
has never been a data connection for a session (i.e.
client was only probing or someone else connected).
(Client) Fixed potential hang in server search.
20071218-01
(Client) Receive large frames in UDP mode that come in
fragmented UDP datagrams. We're not speaking of data,
just messages and meta info and the like.
(Client) Stupid Windows uses TCP buffers that are way
too small for fast connections; detect this and increase
them. This should improve uplink speeds for heavy
users.
(Server) Fixed status page data so server search works again.
(Client) Learn to decipher new server status page.
20071217-01
 (Both) Working around ineffective network usage by WoW. This
might improve latency in battle grounds.
(Client) Incorporated different systray menu library to fix
systray menu in Vista.
20071214-01
(Both) Implemented better IP announcement code. The
servers do not announce IPs of other servers in the clear
anymore to dumb scripts. Old clients won't be able to
find servers anymore for long... and ask me if I care!
20071213-01
(Server) Fixed a bug in user verification code.
20071211-01
(Client) Be more stubborn when authenticating via NTLM and
try all possible representations before giving up.
20071210-01
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception in client HTTP connection
code that could occur if the connection was shut down before it
connected fully. No big deal.
(Client) Better connection wizard debugging for FTP.
(Both) Listen on port 13 TCP/UDP as well.
(Client) Added NAT functionality for Windows XP and 2003
(highly experimental!). NOTE: This does not work with Vista
unless you install some DLLs that do not ship with Vista.
There will soon be documentation how to make this work;
for now check out
http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=64643
(last post; you only need to copy the files and run the
"add helper" commands).
20071205-02
(Both) Tuned buffer and queue parameters, this will hopefully improve
speed for some heavy users. Yes, we want to please you if we possibly
can, we are not slowing you down on purpose!
20071205-01
(Both) Fixed potential thread fight in stream code that could
lead to very high CPU usage.
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception if "flatten traffic bursts" is
modified without previous connection.
20071130-01
(Client) Fixed server search -- Google has changed the way
they deal with localized requests and that made the wizard
 show silly error messages for some users.
(Both) Freeze threads slightly longer in stream class. This will
hopefully reduce the load on the servers for some processor types.
20071128-01
(Both) Slight changes that may help the GC do its job.
20071127-01
(Server) Fixed some more potential null pointer exceptions that
could occur when sessions were torn down. They have no production
relevance but I don't like them.
20071126-04
(Client) Search more "HTTPS" ports.
(Both) Better UDP transmission algorithm should lead to more
smooth transmission.
(Server) Fixed bug that caused passwords with an equal sign
to fail.
20071126-03
(Both) Tear down streams more thoroghly. It seems we still have
a memory leak there. I wonder where the cyclic reference problem
may be.
20071126-02
(Both) Fixed bug introduced in 20071126-01.
20071126-01
(Both) Permanently inactivated code that wasn't doing
anything anymore anyway, but wasting CPU cycles. Should
hardly be noticable though... it's a preparation
before I finally remove it entirely from the code base.
20071125-01
(Server) Fixed silly bug introduced in 20071124-01.
20071124-01
(Server) Make TimeOuterFirer call statistics configurable.
Disable by default.
20071123-01
(Client) Added turkish translation. It is not yet complete but
a good start.
(Both) Better sendq and recvq thread handling in stream class.
Greatly reduces CPU overhead and should improve latency on
busy servers.
 (Server) Fixed wrong port display in info screen.
20071122-02
(Server) Fixed silly array index exception in debugging
code (no influence on production use).
(Both) Fixed possible null pointer exception in stream code
that could occur during shutdown of a hanging session. No
production relevance.
20071122-01
(Server) Do proper and meaningful statistics about
TimeOuterFirer events. We use this to profile the
code and find thread hogs.
(Both) Only run backlog thread of FrameQueue if there
really are backloggers in the queue.
20071120-01
(Server) Collect Runq_Runnable statistics for debugging
purposes. I'd like to know what's pushing the load up
from time to time.
20071118-01
(Both) Keep track of buffering and queueing of frames, and
only recycle when counter is 0. Also, fixed a bug in frame
buffer class that should not have had serious effects.
(Both) Turned off frame recycling altogether. It's probably
not necessary for performance reasons anyway and only causes
trouble.
20071114-01
(Both) Statically disabled frame recycling in FrameBuffer
code -- there is a fundamental problem with frame recycling
that we cannot solve at the moment without re-designing the
way the pool is managed.
(Server) Drop stream data frames without sequence number
silently.
20071113-03
(Both) Added code that checks whether frames fetched
from the frame pool are really fresh, and whether
frames that are marked as recycled get sent. We need
to track down these buggers!
20071113-02
(Both) Removed unnecessary "retransmit" debugging message.
20071113-01
(Both) Rewrote FrameBuffer class. LAN measurements show
 an overall(!) throughput gain of 40%!
(Both) Fixed very serious bug in UDP CoDec that caused
frames to be returned to the pool when they were still
in use.
20071112-08
(Both) Fixed bug in acknowledgement scheduling. This
caused streams to hang with lossy transports. Also
fixed bug in frame buffering that was triggered by
out-of-order delivery of frames.
(Both) Make receiving frame buffer in stream class
bigger than the other end's sending frame buffer.
This avoids lock-ups in loss situations. Silly!
20071112-07
(Both) Simplifications in the way threads interlock when
emptying the frame buffer.
20071112-06
(Both) Isn't. Gosh.
20071112-05
(Both) OK, time to go to bed. Fixed the silly performance
drop introduced in 20071112-04. Now it's working!
20071112-04
(Both) Worked on stream frame buffer send code.
20071112-03
(Client) List system properties in dumps.
(Client) Better debugging of frame transmission timing.
(Both) Modified frame buffer enqueueing in stream class
to reduce CPU load and improve reliability.
20071112-02
(Client) Fixed silly bug in HTTP connection code that
could lead to uplink connection repeatedly connecting
and disconnecting.
20071112-01
(Both) No matter what's configured, do not increase
minimum buffer size above the maximum payload size of the
transport protocol when using UDP transport.
(Both) Fixed bugs in UDP transport enqueueing.
(Both) Enforce traffic burst flattening in UDP transport -- it's
simply required for stable transport.
20071109-02
(Server) Fixed bug responsible for broken server IP
address display in UDP connection mode.
20071109-01
(Server) Limit number of TCPForwards with backoff to disallow
spammers to use up too many resources.
(Client) Only connect through proxy in HTTPS mode if
destination port is 443 or proxy type is not HTTP/HTTPS.
(Client) Fill in only working protocols and ports when
running the wizard. D'oh!
(Client) Improvements in server search.
20071108-01
(Both) Modifications in the way sendq is run. This should fix
problems with bad performance for some.
20071107-01
(Server) Permit # in usernames and passwords
20071106-02
(Server) Fixed debugging message.
(Server) Detect clients between 20071031-01 and 20071105-01
and warn them about the security hole.
20071106-01
(Client) Fixed security hole in client introduced in
20071031-01 that could make your PC an open web proxy.
Please upgrade!
(Server) TCP forwarding with backoff capability.
This is useful to combat SPAM through OpenVPN mode.
Also fixed little bug in backoff code.
20071105-01
(Both) Made non-passive FTP connection mode work.
(Client) Fixed negative port number in some info
messages.
20071102-01
(Server) Map OpenVPN sessions to local IPs for
debugging purposes (not logged).
20071031-01
(Client) Hopefully fixed another Vista specific bug.
 Vista is braindead...
(Server) Fixed a bug that could lead to excessive periodic
user announcements (that's how the servers keep track of
which user is logged in where).
20071029-02
(Server) When debugging timeouters, show the "hint"
information. This helps us figuring out which part
of the code is freezing a thread.
(Server) Fixed race condition in tearing down UDP
relayer instances (used for NTP relaying).
20071029-01
(Client) Make proxy authentication method selectable.
(Server) Do time correction on server as well.
20071026-01
(Server) Fixed thread statistics -- very useful for
troubleshooting.
20071025-02
(Both) Modified the ThreadFreezer object slightly.
This should work around a potential race condition.
20071025-01
(Client) Fixed issues with "relaying not permitted" when
the request is actually coming from the local host.
(Both) Fixed potential null pointer issue when starting up
connection.
(Both) Added debugging around suspected timeouter
issue.
20071022-02
(Server) Slightly raise thread priority for firing
events in stream code if profile requests it. It was
already done in other places, this was still missing.
(Both) Removed some unnecessary debugging stuff that
has a CPU impact.
(Both, mainly server) Leave more residue in timeouter
pool, don't reap so much. We need all the timeouter
firer objects anyway at some time, especially as long
as more are working than relaxing.
20071022-01
(Server) Hopefully fixed bug that caused server code in
20071019-01 to hog resources.
 (Client) A similar bug was present in the client, it
just could not cause havoc there.
20071019-01
(Client) FTP connection mode configurable ("normal", "passive",
"both" (default)). But the client doesn't support normal
mode yet anyway... TBD.
(Server) Modified the way threads get assigned to UDP
relaying. This should reduce CPU overhead.
20071018-02
(Client) Changed reference bandwidth for slider settings
in TotalFreedom from 4000000 to 4194304 (this is just a
technicality and has nothing to do with the bandwidth
you get).
(Client) Fixed bug in CGI connection code that put off
picky proxies.
20071018-01
(Both) Modified the way thread interlocking is done in the
HTTP and HTTPS link code. The new method uses less CPU and
slightly improves latency (lag). Plus, it utilizes a proven
procedure instead of a bunch of workarounds.
20071017-02
(Server) Potential lock-up in timer code when using a
debug command in the console.
20071017-01
(Server) Fixed bug that caused SSL wrapped connections to
be closed every 30 seconds. Ouch!
(Client) Fixed OpenVPN on-the-fly startup and shutdown.
(Client) Detect if Mac version of client is outdated.
(Both) Did the same thing as in 20071016-04, but this time
the right way. This has seriously improved CPU and memory
footprint on a heavily loaded server and a busy client.
20071016-05
(Both) Fixed potential null pointer exceptions in
frame buffer code.
(Both) Rolled back 20071016-04 -- dammit! Thought it's
perfect but it isn't.
20071016-04
(Both) Modified way timers wait for their turn to run.
This reduces CPU load and slightly improves latency.
20071016-03
(Both) And another threading change.
20071016-02
(Both) More threading race conditions around sleeping
threads fixed.
(Client) If "flatten bursts" is modified on-the-fly, let
server know about it too.
20071016-01
(Both) Fixed very serious multi-threading issue in
scheduler code, responsible for occasional stream hangs.
This is for you all who have reported hanging streams,
WoW hangs/disconnects and so on!
(Client) Made burst flattening configurable on-the-fly.
(Both) Changed scheduling of queue running after queue
overruns.
(Both) Don't suppress duplicate ACKs where they may be
needed to re-trigger the stream flow.
20071014-01
(Client) Fixed a bug that caused connection to fail if
proxy was requiring authentication and offered NTLM
as well as Basic authentication.
20071012-01
(Client) New OpenVPN settings panel in configuration window.
20071011-01
(Client) OS X OpenVPN support.
(Client) Make connection option pane scrollable for those
systems that need it.
20071009-02
(Both) Made burst flattening configurable. It may
help gamers with high lag to disable burst
flattening (Configure, Connection).
20071009-01
(Client) Parse Mac OS X route table properly.
(Both) Lower minimum keepalive interval. Adjustments to
the way the timeout interval is calculated from this
value to make better use of the TCP fast retransmit
algorithm. If you have packet loss on the YF client to
server connection, low keepalive intervals used to
 kick you out frequently. If they still do, lower the
keepalive value to 500 milliseconds.
(Both) Modified frame buffer pool sizes to better
accommodate the frame size distribution pattern caused
by recent changes to the stream code.
20071008-01
(Client) Fixed buffer size problem for OpenVPN TCP mode
uplink. This should improve performance.
20071005-01
(Both) Allow for more bursting.
20071004-03
(Both) Rewrote (client) and fixed (server) UDP transmission
code to better co-operate with buffering in stream code.
20071004-02
(Server) Broken policer -- sorry guys, we can't have that.
20071004-01
(Both) Fixes in UDP connection mode. This should greatly
improve performance and reliability.
20071003-01
(Server) Fixed bug in HTTP code that was triggered by
changes in 20071001-01. It wasn't introduced there but
I guess that's just a technicality. :-(
20071001-01
(Client) Fix null pointer issue in cases where the profile
does not allow OpenVPN but the client requests it.
(Client) Re-written OpenVPN excludes-to-routes conversion
code. The old code made horrible mistakes.
(Both) Fixed bandwidth policing of small frames; this should
seriously improve smoothness of all connection types,
especially UDP mode.
20070927-01
(Both) Improve buffer sizes in UDP mode.
20070925-01
(Client) Tiny changes in CS code.
(Client) Better debugging of RTT and other service traffic.
20070924-05
 (Client) Fixed null pointer exception in statistics display
code responsible for freezing stats display.
20070924-04
(Both) Made connection statistics code even simpler.
20070924-03
(Client) Be even more stubborn on keeping connection
statistics alive.
(Server) Do not use connection statistics listener
functionality for queue parameter updates; instead,
update queue parameters directly. This saves CPU and
thread switches and is sufficient.
20070924-02
(Client) Don't stop updating stats just because the system
clock skewed.
(Server) Gentler shutdown process.
20070924-01
(Both) Reworked connection statistics notification code,
believed to be responsible for hangs.
20070921-01
(Client) Allow spaces in OpenVPN path.
(Client) Print openvpn messages in message window.
20070920-02
(Client) Fixed UDP connection code broken in 20070913-01.
Sorry!
20070920-01
(Client) Modified the way sliding averages for bandwidths
are being calculated (smooth but still accurate and
responsive bandwidth display).
(Server) Clean-ups in connection code.
(Both) Reduced overhead in runq with stuck and overloaded
connections.
20070919-01
(Client) Fixed bandwidth panel.
(Both) Performance improvements.
20070918-01
(Client) Workaround for hanging streams.
20070917-01
(Client) Trying a workaround for the hotspot crashes.
(Client) Fix bug introduced in 20070913-01 -- searching
servers now works again.
20070913-01
(Client) Allow user to choose which protocols to probe
in the connection wizard.
(Server) Don't recommend servers so often if connection is
wonky.
20070911-02
(Client) Fixed config file parsing for some repetitive
commands.
20070911-01
(Server) Fixed bug in traffic reporting. Just cosmetics...
(Client) Dump config when starting the server search
wizard or the connection to help us helping you. Also
dump connection statistics periodically.
20070910-01
(Server) Don't announce tunnel interface IPs.
20070907-01
(Client) Fixed multiple "header" options in config
file (so far, only one worked -- duh!)
(Client) Added "openvpn_option" as a "hidden"
option in the config file, it supplies additional
configuration commands to OpenVPN.
(Client) Prefer basic authentication over NTLM authentication
if web proxy accepts both.
20070831-02
(Server) Silly bug introduced in 20070830-01 broke
SSL mode.
(Server) Catch unnecessary exception by rearranging some
things in SSL code.
20070831-01
(Client) Made connect timeouts configurable (useful
for mobile phone Internet connection users).
(Client) Report proper protocol name for HTTPS/SSL.
 (Server) Better detect SSL.
(Server) Fixed bug in UDP code that could lead to some
packets be discarded all the time.
20070830-01
(Server) Time out SSL negotiation so suckers can't
suck up our resources.
(Server) Catch some exceptions for sockets that get
closed by the other end. Just cosmetics...
20070829-01
(Client) Teached connection wizard to try SSL wrapping for
HTTPS if there is reason to believe that it could help,
and if it does, to modify the config accordingly.
(Client) Fixed unnecessary server search wizard hangs.
20070828-01
(Both) Implemented true SSL for HTTPS connection mode.
20070824-03
(Client) Stupid bug in SOCKS5 code did break encryption.
20070824-02
(Client) Added support for connecting to YF server through
a SOCKS proxy (this means TOR!). It's not very well tested
but at least SOCKS5 appears to be working with TOR. Don't
expect good performance though...
20070824-01
(Client) Let users choose to use UDP connection mode
for OpenVPN.
(Client) Start and stop OpenVPN on the fly while the
connection is open!
20070823-02
(Server) Still more anti-Nagle stuff.
(Server) Fixed statistics for new OpenVPN mode.
20070823-01
(Both) More Nagle bugs found and fixed.
(Client) Fixed bandwidth graphs.
20070822-02
(Server) Fixed silly negative time in shutdown announcement.
20070822-01
(Server) Show correct number of OpenVPN sessions on local
server instead of 0.
(Server) Raise thread priority for paying customers.
20070820-01
(Client) Update stats display every 3 seconds, not every
second.
(Client) Added restart button.
20070814-01
(Client) Clarified some things in wizard.
(Both) Improved HTTPS detection code so filtering
firewalls can't fool the client into believing HTTPS
mode works when it doesn't.
20070810-01
(Both) Disable Nagle's algorithm in all TCP connection models.
(Both) Fixed OpenVPN for HTTP and CGI connection model. Why
did no-one tell me!
20070809-02
(Client) Connection code was not trying clever tricks in some
cases, fixed that.
20070809-01
(Both) Use maximum buffer sizes when OpenVPN is active.
Don't adjust automatically.
20070808-02
(Both) Made buffer/queue shrinking even more careful.
20070808-01
(Both) Fixed serious buffer resizing issues in both
server and client queueing code, probably responsible for
all kinds of performance problems. Upgrade!
20070807-01
(Server) Worked a bit on server IP detection in UDP code.
(Server) Worked on scalability of NTP forwarding code.
20070806-01
(Server) Added UDP relaying so servers can be NTP servers again.
This is important to hide our capability to tunnel through
this port from the nosy sysadmin. :-)
 (Client) Automatically increase min_buffersize to
1500 if not otherwise configured. It drastically
improves performance for many.
(Client) Added port 123/udp as potential connection port.
20070731-02
(Client) Fixed jumpy, erroneous streams table.
20070731-01
(Client) Fixed combination of "start minimized" and "automatically
connect on startup".
20070725-01
(Both) Timer code debugging added after we've seen an AIEEE on
one of the servers. This hasn't happened for months and we
thought it was fixed...
20070704-01
(Client) Fixed SOCKS problem introduced in 20070622-01.
(Client) Fixed translation bug that would show wrong
lockout times for free users in the german translation.
(Client) Bit more debugging in connection wizard while
dumping.
(Client) Removed useless debugging from FTP connection code.
20070622-02
(Client) Actually allow destination port 0...
20070622-01
(Both) Implemented speed testing. See FAQ for details.
20070618-01
(Client) More items in context menu (Windows only).
(Client) Fixed silly "erroneous JPEG bytes" message.
20070615-02
(Client) The fix wasn't quite fixing it in all cases.
Now it does.
20070615-01
(Client) Be more verbous if something goes wrong creating
the OpenVPN config file.
(Client) More debugging around handling excludes in OpenVPN
code.
 (Client) Fixed bug in exclude summarization.
20070614-01
(Client) Fixed bug: openvpn_exclude lines on config
got lost.
20070612-01
(Client) Added config parameter "openvpn_path" -- specify
the full path including the name of the executable. Default
is just "openvpn".
20070611-01
(Client) Worked on clock skew code.
(Server) Made some messages more clear.
20070608-01
(Server) Started working on UDP server port forwards again.
The server part of it should be done now.
(Client) Implemented client part as well. Untested so far.
(Client) System clock skew compensation wasn't properly working
yet -- it should now.
20070606-01
(Client) Compensate for system clock skew. We suspect that
some users might have problems with a jumpy system clock
(e.g. clock tick too fast and Windows PC in a domain) --
this would confuse YF a lot. We therefore check every
second if the clock has skewed significantly and if yes,
unfreeze the delayed timers.
20070604-01
(Server) Shut down old profile object properly if new profile
gets loaded.
(Server) Drop protocol detector object reference when shutting
down a stream.
(Both) Drop reference to connection in stream object when closing
stream. Not sure if this doesn't break anything, only one way
to figure out I guess...
(Client) Additional HTTPS connection failure debugging.
20070601-01
(Server) Detect DC++
20070531-03
(Server) Fixed signedness bug in messenger debugging code.
 (Server) Fixed wrong uplink/downlink priority in HTTP
connection code (introduced in 20070531-01)
(Server) Modified thread priorities in timer code after
an observed hang-up.
20070531-02
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception when
shutting down.
20070531-01
(Server) Small change in control panel.
(Server) Changes in thread priority assignment.
20070530-01
(Client) OpenVPN: automatically exclude secondary
servers as well.
20070529-01
(Server) Better debugging of session latency problems.
20070523-01
(Server) Delay kicking of FreeFreedom users who have
exceeded their time limit for 60 seconds. This will
enable them to send a voucher code.
20070521-02
(Server) Undocumented change to control panel.
20070521-01
(Server) Do not block old clients in suppressive countries.
(Server) Fix null pointer bug in HTTP code, might also be
symptomatic for a memory leak...
20070516-01
(Server) Only announce new client version once per
session, no matter how many messenger frames we receive.
(Server) Don't pester so much.
(Server) Longer grace period for outdated clients (15min).
(Server) Added a missing translation.
20070515-01
(Both) Better debugging why stream is closed.
(Client) Fixed bug in library that could lead to
 crashes when analyzing the routing table for OpenVPN.
(Server) Adjust server port number with profile changes.
20070512-01
(Server) Tell people whose login gets denied because of
usage time restrictions about the "unregistered" account.
(Server) Worked on termination code in HTTPS connection
class. It seems that threads wouldn't die in some cases,
causing a memory leak.
20070511-01
(Client) Made more tuning parameters configurable. Only
relevant for HTTP.
(Client) Modified some runtime parameters to better support
Java 1.6.
20070510-02
(Client) Worked on server detection wizard code to remove
potential lock-ups.
20070510-01
(Both) Negotiate the minimum buffer size. (That is, client
instructs server.)
20070509-01
(Server) When binding a port through SOCKS, don't wait
longer than 60 seconds. Misbehaving apps could otherwise
crash the server.
20070508-01
(Server) Only count OpenVPN session counters for total
when positive (negative means: no data).
(Client) Don't automatically reconnect if server disconnects
user before sending a profile.
20070507-02
(Server) Hopefully fixed problem that sometimes occurred when
server was restarting.
(Server) Include number of OpenVPN sessions in server statistics
page.
20070507-01
(Client) Made window somewhat bigger.
(Server) Undocumented security change.
20070504-02
 (Client) Change not documented (security reasons).
20070504-01
(Both) Get rid of silly expiry warnings when using
vouchers.
20070502-01
(Client) Fixed a bug that kept the client from using
the configured min_buffersize.
20070430-01
(Server) Tiny changes in session maintenance code.
(Client) Some missing translations added.
(Client) Stay away from the magical number 100 with
regards to routes in OpenVPN. It seems that 98 will
still make the client fail under some circumstances.
20070426-01
(Client) Automatically reduce the complexity of OpenVPN
excludes if it yields to more than 100 routes. OpenVPN
has this maximum number as a compiled-in default.
(Server) Send correct expiry date after profile changes.
20070425-02
(Server) Changes in reporter facility to better support
vouchers.
(Client) Fixed bug introduced in 20070424-02 that created
unnecessary overhead on both the server and the client,
and the connection between them.
(Server) More tight SMTP restrictions -- to combat Nazi
SPAM (and other SPAM too, of course).
20070425-01
(Server) React to profile changes more promptly.
20070424-03
(Server) Modify auto-disconnect according to profile!
20070424-02
(Server) Detect profile changes.
(Client) React properly to profile changes.
20070424-01
(Client) Automatically exclude DNS servers from routing
 through OpenVPN tunnel.
(Server) Added voucher code relaying.
20070418-01
(Client) Make OpenVPN check server certificate. Not really
important though - we know we are connected to the right
server.
(Client) Less OpenVPN debugging -- we don't need that much,
it can only hurt performance.
(Server) Fixed serious bug in OpenVPN code that could
lead to exhaustion of system resources.
20070405-01
(Server) Fixed timeout bug introduced in 20070314-01 that caused
disconnects and a lot of annoyance (MOTD pop-ups etc.)
(Client) Don't search on TCP ports the server is not even listening
on...
(Client) Fixed auto-reconnect bug that caused duplicate
login disconnects if the connection has been re-established
manually in the meantime.
(Client) Fixed Turing test pestering.
20070322-01
(Server) Properly detect Azureus scrape
20070321-01
(Server) Cosmetic changes in control panel.
(Both) Be more stubborn when trying to bind to a port.
Retry a few times.
(Server) Keep track of streams that get closed by the client
that the server doesn't know about yet -- so they get closed
as soon as the server registers them and don't stick around.
20070319-01
(Client) Dumbed down error checking for OpenVPN under
Vista. The OpenVPN client always reports duplicate
routes, and since we cannot differentiate between permission
problems and duplicaton problems in all languages (Windows
has the nasty habit of translating everything) we can only
ignore them. This means of course that we cannot detect when
the user simply does not have permission to install routes.
*SIGH*
(Client) Delay initial RTT measurement a bit more to
avoid measuring while the connection is not yet fully
set up.
20070316-01
(Client) More debugging around stream closure.
(Client) Added hidden config parameter "min_buffersize".
(Server) Added protocol detection for Lineage so server
can try some tweaks to improve performance.
20070315-01
(20070314-01)
(Both) Made keepalive interval configurable and negotiable.
(Client) When running in dump mode, make server search
serial instead of parallel (it's a lot slower but the
dump is actually readable and we are more able to help you).
(Client) Fixed potential false HTTP positive in server search.
20070313-01
(Server) Fixed a bug in stream registration that could lead
to pending streams opened by the server and rejected by the
client not getting deleted from the register.
20070308-01
(Client) Catch missing privilege problems in OpenVPN
mode and deal with them properly.
(Server) Include abuse email on "Go away" page.
(Client) Use more search engines, be less sensitive to layout
changes. Also more debugging so we can learn about search
engines being blocked and/or filtered in different places.
20070307-01
(Client) Made sliders and bar indicators less logarithmic,
especially for low bandwidth profiles. It seemed more logical.
Also, made the graph semi-logarithmic as well.
(Both) Changes to frame queueing mechanism, should not be
noticeable but saves resources in failure situations.
(Client) Added hidden parameter "rtt_interval". If you
specify a time in milliseconds, the round trip time to the
server will be measured periodically (value needs to be
at least 1000 ms). If not configured, RTT is only measured
once when the connection starts.
20070301-01
(Both) Fixed bugs that kept FTP reconnect from working properly.
20070227-01
(Client) Added --notray and --noappwizard option in case you
are having trouble with your latest and overpriced operating
 system.
20070225-02
(Server) Fixed stupid number formatting bug that leads
to null pointer exceptions.
20070225-01
(Client) Don't reconnect automatically if stop button pressed.
(Server) Debugging in FTP code.
20070224-01
(Server) Worked on FTP code.
20070223-01
(Client) Fixed google search -- they've changed their output
format again. If you can't find any servers anymore then this
version is for you!
20070221-01
(Client) Gosh, still another exception in OpenVPN code.
20070220-01
(Server) Increased TimeOuterFirer pool size.
(Both) Changed way TimeOuterFirers are named. Naming may
actually be responsible for long-term problems.
20070219-01
(Client) Fixed exception in OpenVPN startup thread.
20070217-02
(Server) ControlPanel had wrong divisor in one place. Just
cosmetics...
20070217-01
(Server) Announce planned server shutdowns 15 minutes ahead,
repeat announcements every 2 minutes until shutdown. Also,
tell other servers about it so they stop redirecting people
to us if they shut down in the meantime.
(Server) Another bug in number formatter fixed.
20070215-02
(Server) Don't keep integer treemap objects for the frame buffers
in a pool -- we've seen a crash in this code and it's useless
anyway, though it's certainly not the code's fault but the JRE's.
20070215-01
 (Server) Fixed bugs in number formatting.
(Client) Cache server search results, only do a full search
when there are no previous results or the user requests it.
20070213-01
(Client) Debugging changes
20070209-01
(Client) Automatically reconnect on server shutdown if
desired by the user.
20070208-02
(Server) Removed some debugging messages that we no longer
need.
(Server) Be more tolerant ... let people connect for five
minutes with outdated clients instead of one. Also, only
send one of the two possible messages.
(Server) Better number formatting in control panel.
20070208-01
(Server) Fixed deadlock in server code by modifying all
potential places where it could occur in theory. My
wicked mind was running wild I guess but mow there
is really absolutely no place left where this particular
lock-up could happen.
20070207-01
(Server) Fixed null pointer exception in OpenVPN code.
(Client) If we know the proxy chain, report it as well.
We need the version numbers...
20070206-02
(Client) Fixed silly bug in remembering what worked
well for connecting.
20070206-01
(Client) Fixed route exclude problems in OpenVPN code.
(Client) Minor debugging changes.
(Client) Added --log, --log=minlevel command line option
(Server) Added connection reporting code. It helps us learning
how exactly you connect. Rest assured that nothing confidential
is revealed -- we would just like to know which tricks still
work in which part of the world.
20070205-01
 (Client) Small fixes in apps config panel.
(Client) Try to close OpenVPN before exiting.
20070203-01
(Server) Fixed null pointer exception in VPN code
20070202-01
(Client) Improve reconnection time in difficult
firewalling scenarios (try first what is known to
have worked before) -- very important for CGI
and HTTP connection method.
20070201-01
(Server) Fixed silly null pointer problem.
20070131-01
(Client) Learned some new IP obfuscation tricks.
20070130-01
(Server) Fixed null pointer problem in traffic dump of
control panel.
20070127-01
(Server) More session debugging.
20070124-01
(Server) Added control panel code for OpenVPN.
(Server) Added OpenVPN traffic reporting. Traffic _only_.
(Client) Better debugging with HTTPS connection problems.
20070123-01
(Client) Added openvpn_exclude option.
(Client) Ignore IP addresses that are known to no longer
work (ex server IP addresses still haunting the net).
This speeds up server search.
20070122-01
(Client) Added OpenVPN support code.
(Client) Added missing translations in German and Saarländisch.
(Client) Added new server criterion (OpenVPN support)
(Server) Modified way comments in config file are parsed.
20070120-01
 (Server) Don't announce tunnel endpoint IP.
20070119-01
(Both) Implemented OpenVPN support -- it works!!
20070112-01
(Server) Made disconnection warning more clear -- it was
telling FreeFreedom users that they would be able to
immediately reconnect when they weren't because of overall
usage time restrictions.
(Client) "Encrypt" sensitive data in config. NOTE! In order
to encrypt an existing config you need to change something
in the config! For example, go to the Ports panel, untick
and tick a box.
20070111-01
(Client) Rewrote the timing and scheduling for the
bandwidth monitors, using the same proven code as
for everything else.
20070110-02
(Server) Found problem in UDP reception code that could cause
sessions to be slowed down to a crawl.
20070110-01
(Server) Tuned buffer sizes a bit.
20070109-01
(Client) Treat error 502 like error 403 and don't try
this representation again.
(Client) Removed "unregistering stream" message that only
confuses people.
20070108-01
(Client) Try octal representations as well.
20070105-01
(Client) Hopefully fixed a bug in web connection code that
caused newer client versions to fail on the combination of
ISA/NTLM web proxy and WebSense. Please try!
20070104-01
(Client) Worked on server selection.
20070103-01
(Client) Fixed message date/time display.
20061229-01
 (Server) Make sure peers vector gets updated in messenger
when it is changed on the fly.
(Server) Increased WoW buffer size to 8192. Don't know
if it's any good though.
(Server) Enlarge minimum buffer size for protocols like WoW
even further.
(Client) Enable re-keying in the wizard. Gosh, forgot that!
20061222-02
(Server) Increased min buffer size for WoW to 1460 bytes, seemed
natural, considering that this results in 1500 byte IP packets.
20061222-01
(Server) Worked on WoW detection.
20061221-02
(Server) Removed debugging... argh.
(Client) Fixed typo in a debug message.
20061221-01
(Server) Fixed multithreading problem with messenger
relays kind-of-introduced in 20061214-01.
(Server) Added protocol detector for WoW. We can hopefully
use this to improve our support for this game, and who knows?
We might learn enough to better support other games too.
(Both) Tweaked stream processing a bit, it may help
improve lag with broken protocols like WoW.
20061217-01
(Server) Fixed stupid bug in messenger code introduced
in 20061214-01.
20061214-01
(Server) Less reporting of stream data; waste of bandwidth
and CPU, we're not interested anyway.
20061213-01
(Both) Use fast retransmits for UDP tunnels.
(Both) Generally faster retransmits for other types as well.
20061212-01
(Client) Changes to Wizard. Made wider and removed default
host -- it's no good anymore, don't use it. Also use
preferences; preferences panel therefore activated.
 (Server) Don't relay to ourself.
(Server) Don't accept duplicate peers in config, just ignore.
(Server) Small fix in number formatter for control panel --
some users really go exponential with more than 100 Gigabytes
per session... unbelievable!
20061211-01
(Server) Version checking problem fixed.
20061208-01
(Server) Implemented time restrictions, they will be used
to restrict permanent usage of the service by FreeFreedom
users. It's just no longer tolerable...
20061206-01
(Server) Fixed bug in server announcement code.
(Client) Worked on connection option code.
20061205-01
(Server) CGI relay announcement code revised.
20061204-01
(Client) Added quirk to fix up one-way audio in SIP
conversations. Try adding "sip_fixup_audiostream true"
to your config file if you have one-way audio problems.
20061201-01
(Client) Made turing test a bit more nasty.
(Server) Pester user if client is older than 20061201-01
20061130-03
(Client) Seems like we've lost the bandwidth
history graph somewhere underway... oh well,
I've put it back in.
20061130-02
(Client) Fixed SOCKS5 UDP forwarding code -- this time I
have found a very old bug, I don't know when it has been
introduced but it must have been there for quite a while.
Effectively it broke UDP ASSOCIATE requests, needed by
many applications that rely un the UDP protocol. An example
is TeamSpeak, the voice protocol in many games.
(Server) Hmmmmm... this could now trigger a null pointer
exception that makes the connection fail. Fixed!
20061130-01
 (Server) Allow for more servers to be found.
(Both) Broke UDP forwarding in 20061123-01, sorry guys!
It's fixed.
20061128-01
(Client) Added turing testing.
20061123-02
(Server) Another small fix in IRC detection code.
20061123-01
(Both) Implemented queue expiry, should help recover
voice streams more quickly after a connection problem.
This means that some frames don't get sent anymore
if they have been enqueued too long ago -- useless
with voice and many other UDP protocols. It also
avoids that the queues get completely swamped with
small RTP frames.
(Server) Fixed a problem in IRC detection code.
20061121-01
(Server) Added protocol detector for IRC. Note that we
can distinguish whether someone is running a client or
a server. Servers will not be permitted anywhere! Clients
will be banned on some servers only (where the provider
requires it). Please don't be upset -- we may as well
simply ditch all US based servers :-( but we decided
not to.
(Server) Fixed timer debugging code.
20061120-01
(Client) Worked on SIP forwarding code. I've successfully
tested it with sipgate.de!
20061118-02
(Server) Fixed silly bug in UDP code introduced in
20061025-01. Sorry!
20061118-01
(Server) Fixed race condition in HTTP initial connection
code that could trigger a null pointer exception.
20061115-01
(Server) Added debugging feature to control console that
allows to interrupt timer threads to cause a stack trace
and see where they are stuck. Very useful together with
the "show timers hogs" feature.
20061113-01
(Server) Added something to CGI info page. You don't need
to know, really... it's something that helps our test
scripts to learn about the cascaded server behind a CGI
forwarder script. Not a secret though, have a look if you
like.
20061109-01
(Server) Sort sessions by bandwidth in control panel
when showing traffic stats. Helps debugging...
20061108-01
(Both) Modified maximum queue sizes to improve throughput
in high-bandwidth-high-latency scenarios.
(Server) Made queueing and buffering parameters more
dynamic (we now adjust them every 4 seconds instead of
every 10 seconds). It might make a difference for gamers
who suddenly find themselves in heavy traffic scenarios.
20061104-01
(Server) Worked on CGI detection code.
(Server) Send info on FTP connection as well.
(Client) Read info from FTP connection as well when testing
servers.
20061102-01
(Client) Completely re-done CGI connection code, now uses
WebConnection code as well (meaning that it also works with
NTLM proxies and supports IP quirks).
20061031-01
(Server) Modified the way server announcements are being
triggered. Is this the mystery null pointer bug?
(Both) Small change in timeouter code, might shed light on
mystery memory leak.
20061025-01
(Both) Taught client to learn server name and about other
servers via UDP probes, and server to tell about its name
and the IPs of other servers.
(Both) Same for FTP.
(Both) Improvements in TimeOuterFirer initialization code.
(Server) Increased timeouterfirer pool size and lowered
reaping rate a bit -- it seems that the servers are now
more busy than they used to be with timer tasks, and a
little bit of fine tuning is advisable.
 (Server) Improved active thread listing in control panel.
(Both) Another small change in the TimeOuterFirer code.
20061024-01
(Server) Bug caused problems when user had empty password.
(Both) Made TimeOuterFirer code less prone to memory leaks
and added debugging around issue of TimeOuterFirers getting
lost underway. It seems like the pool becomes inactive?
(Client) Fixed silly bug in web connection code.
(Client) Fixed bug in wizard FTP test code.
20061017-01
(Client) More detailed logging around server disconnects.
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception in a race
condition.
(Client) Make sure users are not pestered continually with
"your package will expire soon" -- only when client is
started, then again after two days. This was a bug.
20061011-01
(Server) Fixed silly bugs in control panel.
20061010-02
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception when closing unsuccessful
FTP connection.
(Server) I broke the FTP code miserably... sorry about that!
20061010-01
(Server) Better fix to the stall problem.
20061009-01
(Server) Fixed a bug that would sometimes tell the users that
their client is not current when it is.
(Server) Hopefully fixed a stall problem in FTP connection code
that could exhaust all memory resources.
20061005-01
(Client) Fixed silly bug that would sometimes kill the connection
immediately on startup, without telling the user.
(Client) Fixed bug in connection code that would almost always
break the connection if you've got automatic server selection
enabled these days... oops!
 (Client) Added server selection panel to config window.
(Server) When announcing ourselves to the client, add the
servergroups as well; otherwise our own server is often
less preferable when it actually is best, or the other way
round.
20060908-01
(Client) Don't switch servers if UDP forwards have
not timed out.
(Server) Added UDP statistics to control panel.
(Server) Fixed misunderstanding between client and server
wrt how the client can figure out the server's address
and port for UDP forwards.
(Client) Ensure only one forwarder per media -- it does
the trick of tying the ends together though I don't
really like it...
(Client) SIP forwarding now works with SIPgate!
20060906-01
(Server) Allow for UDP forwarders to request whether they
want an odd or an even port on the server.
(Client) Dito.
(Both) Yep, SIP's working! Just need to make it more user
friendly. If you want to test, this is how you can turn
your YF client into a SIP proxy. Add these lines manually
to the config file:
sip_proxy what.ever.com
sip_proxy_port 5060 (or whatever)
sip_port 5060 (or whatever)
This will turn your localhost into a mirror image of the
remote SIP proxy. Note however that FreeFreedom will most
likely not do because most codecs (notably G.711) will
require at least 80 kbit/s bandwidth in both directions,
including overhead. Note that server version 20060906-01
is required, please check when you test.
20060905-01
(Client) Whoah, SIP mostly working!
20060904-01
(Server) SIP code now more or less working.
(Server) Fixed null pointer exception introduced in 20060831-01
(Client) Worked on SIP code -- basically works now.
20060831-01
(Client) Worked on SIP code.
 (Client) Removed unnecessary debugging introduced in 20060830-01
(Server) Added UDP forwarder expiry. This should fix some problems
with servers just no longer working properly after a while --
they simply run out of UDP ports if some users use a lot of
different UDP forwarders. Now they expire after 5 idle minutes,
and we should be fine.
20060830-01
(Client) Improved server searching in the wizard.
20060829-01
(Server) Fixed problem with server announcements.
20060828-01
(Server) Better protocol detection for HTTP CONNECT. Needed
to block P2P through web proxies on some of our servers.
(Server) Added more protocol detection -- please don't be
alarmed, we need this for statistical purposes only so we
can properly plan ahead. Used protocols are not logged
together with account data.
20060823-01
(Server) Modified treatment of ACKs in the messenger code
with regard to how they get propagated to the higher
application levels.
(Server) Announce logged in users every 20 minutes, not
every 5 minutes. This resulted in dozens of packets per
second, each 100 bytes long, being sent to every server,
with a background noise of 30 kbit/s per server.
20060822-01
(Server) Fixed arrax index problem in protocol detection
code.
20060816-01
(Client) Fixed input validation for proxy user name
and allowed intermediate spaces.
(Server) Only send MOTD once, not everytime a user
re-connects to the session. It's not there to annoy
people!
20060814-01
(Server) Conserve memory with protocol detection by
dropping the buffers once we found the protocol, or
when it's clear that we won't figure it out.
(Server) Fixed a bug in streams register code that
really should have no effect at all but could cause
 problems when tearing down sessions. It is also present
in the client but the effects there would even be
less serious.
20060810-01
(Server) Better HTTP detection code.
(Server) Improvements to control console.
(Server) Fixed silly bug in messenger code that caused
an exception when we added another IP address and a
string grew too long.
20060804-01
(Server) Properly detect eDonkey2000.
20060803-01
(Server) Detect more torrent tracking.
(Server) Don't trigger pop-ups on the client for blocked
protocols.
(Client) Fixed a null pointer exception (nothing dramatic).
20060802-01
(Server) Fixed silly bug in messenger code and got rid
of accompagnied silly console messages.
(Server) Log blocked protocols for statistical and
debugging purposes (so that we can effectively provide
support).
(Server) List peers sorted by name in control panel.
20060801-01
(Server) Implemented protocol filtering. Sorry guys, we need
it. We will try to keep some of the servers completely open
but we need to restrict some or lose them. This is not to
pester you but to keep some of the servers close to you.
20060725-01
(Client) Fixed versioning confusion.
20060714-01
(Client) Fixed silly bug that caused the Free Freedom
to signal that it will expire or has expired. Sorry about
that.
20060713-01 (not yet released)
(Server) Remind users to upgrade if clients are very old.
20060712-01
(Client) Warn if profile is about to expire.
20060711-02
(Server) Better messages when refusing streams.
(Client) More detailed messages around connecting to the
server.
20060711-01
(Server) Undocumented changes.
20060704-02
(Client) New parallelized server search code. Silly
enough, what's not properly working yet is the status
display...
20060704-01
(Server) Added possibility of profile modifications and
additions per user.
(Server) Worked on Google hint code.
(Client) Worked on multi-IP capabilities w/r/t server detection.
20060629-01
(Server) Changes in the reporting code.
20060628-01
(Client) Fixed problem in dump mode causing connections
to not work when NTLM authentication is required.
20060627-01
(Client) Fixed timeout issue in server detection wizard
that could occur with unresponsive servers.
20060622-01
(Server) Make sure client learns about secondary IPs. I won't
tell how. :-)
20060621-01
(Client) Fixed silly bug that caused the connection problems
with newer clients.
20060620-01
(Client) More debugging.
20060619-01
 (Client) Added debugging around connection establishment
to track down the problems we see with newer versions.
20060614-01
(Server) Think I've found a workaround for a silly problem
that leads to the server's external IP sometimes not being
displayed properly.
20060607-01
(Server) Shuffeled stuff around, nothing serious.
20060606-01
(Server) Won't tell. :-)
20060531-01
(Both) Multi-IP capabilities -- untested, do not release!
(Client) Even when server is configured with hostname and
one or more IP addresses, only show the name or the first
IP address.
(Client) Think I fixed a long-lasting problem in the HTTPS
code (the "this should never happen" message).
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception when no config there...
20060530-01
(Server) Don't send silly "connection terminated by server"
when it was the client who terminated it.
(Client) Include timestamps in dumps.
(Client) Added wizard code for new (very much alpha!) UDP
connection protocol. Made it configurable as well. Please,
don't whine too much if it's not working properly yet
(though it should!). Reports very much welcome!
(Both) Added missing keepalive code to UDP protocol... *blush*
(Server) I think I found the reason why the server sometimes
doesn't know its IP (or so it seems).
20060529-01
(Client) Fixed null pointer exception in servergroups code.
(Client) Modified IP quirk code to only try representations
of IP addresses known to work with at least some proxies.
(Server) Fixed an annoyance in the command console code
(whitespace removal).
20060524-01
(Client) Better PIX fooling, also disabled it by default
 (hidden config parameter now). This might solve some problems
people have.
(Client) Always send "cache-control" header -- this makes things
work with some stubborn transparent proxies like the one german
mobile operator E-Plus uses.
20060523-02
(Client) Fixed many recently introduced bugs in new connection
code. Sorry about that!
20060523-01
(Client) Made wizard tell what it is doing while
the user waits. Also made searching faster by not
analyzing the same server twice.
(Server) Added server state reporting to web page.
20060519-01
(Both) Fixed RTP encoding in HTML codec.
(Both) Added new frame type "UDP MAPPED" to all codecs.
20060518-01
(Both) More detailed messages when refusing a connection.
I hope this will reduce the number of support requests
claiming that YF is not working when the destination is
simply not resolvable, not reachable, or refusing connections.
(Server) Fixed silly "stopping connection on client request"
message -- that's a bit too much, debugging-wise.
20060515-01
(Server) Fixed silly bug in debugging code.
(Server) More debugging around session termination.
20060511-01
(Server) Added more debugging for discarded messenger
packets.
(Both) Optimizations in debugging code -- not releasing a new
client just because of this.
20060510-01
(Server) Added code to differentiate between server groups.
(Client) Show server groups belonging to profile.
(Client) Removed debugging message for code that is not
yet used anyway... but was an indication of flexibility
to come. :-)
 (Server) Fixed info panel for ftp
20060509-01
(Client) Learned to make good use of a known Cisco PIX
bug with regards to WebSense. This bypasses WebSense checks
on older PIX OS versions.
20060505-01
(Client) Teached the client to use IP quirks to fool the
proxy. No need anymore to do it manually, which also means
that it works together with automatic server selection!
(For now this is only working for HTTP & HTTPS method --
it does not work with the CGI method, reason being that
the data flow model is completely different and I need
to re-engineer it first.)
(Client) More debugging around web connections to help us
track down your proxy connection problems.
(Client) Used same connection model for HTTP as for HTTPS.
This is a bit quirky (POST never causes the proxy to send
a reply if the request is legal, so if we don't see one
for two seconds we assume it's OK to go ahead), but it allows
for all the same clever tricks as with HTTPS, like automatic
server selection, addressing hacks, NTLM authentication, etc.
20060503-01
(Client) Added Italian language.
(Client) Other small fixes and improvements.
20060406-01
(Server) Replaced ident reply "EatMyShorts" by random
replies.
20060330-01
Nothing changed I think... not sure though. :-)
20060329-01
(Server) Found problem in messenger code, put in workaround.
Ugly!
20060316-01
(Server) Fixed null pointer problem in FTP code introduced
a few days ago.
(Server) Refuse "range" requests. We just can't do that,
and it's antisocial anyway.
20060315-02
(Client) Add FTP connection protocol to wizard. Also show
which connection tests have been completed successfully.
 Note that the wizard does not yet ask for an FTP proxy...
we'll add this soon.
20060315-01
(Server) Fixed FTP "quit" command. Cosmetics...
(Client) Wizard learned a new trick to get you connected.
20060314-01
(Client) Greatly improved (well, fixed) wizard. It actually finds
the servers again now (d'oh!).
20060313-01
(Server) Project X :-)
20060306-01
(Both but mainly server) Ah! Think that's it now for
the timer problem...
20060303-02
(Both but mainly server) Added another bit of debugging
around timers. Got a suspicion why they sometimes cannot
get rescheduled.
20060303-01
(Server) Go Away page.
20060222-01
(Client) Implemented FTP non-passive connection mode as
fallback when intermediate proxy refuses PASV mode.
(Server) Irrelevant clean-ups.
20060221-01
(Server) Fixed bug in server port reporting when reconnecting.
(Client) Fixed a silly null pointer exception when
searching for servers.
20060207-04
(Both) I think I found the reason for the "division search"
problem on the servers. Guess what -- it's a bug in Sun's
Java implementation. If you resize an array (by copying the
contents into a new one) in synchronized context (not synchronizing
on the array itself of course), other threads may not see
the difference, even if access to the array is only done
in the same synchronized scope. This violates my understanding
of the specs, but it's the only explanation I can come up
with. I've made the array reference "volatile", let's see if
the problem goes away (though I don't like the performance hit).
20060207-03
(Server) Found bug that is likely responsible for the
"duplicate login" problem.
20060207-02
(Both) Debugging added around a problem with timer
scheduling. This is a stubborn one!
(Server) Removed silly debugging.
20060207-01
(Server) Workaround did not work, re-implemented server port
assignment in a more brute-force style. This implementation
has a statistical likelihood to fail, but it's indeed very
unlikely that it does (under normal load it's a lot less likely
than winning the lottery big time).
(Server) Warn 2 minutes before scheduled shutdown, not
1 minute.
20060206-01
(Server) Tracking a problem with FTP connection method. Implemented
a workaround and added debugging code.
20060131-01
(Server) Made logging more precise, now includes milliseconds.
20060117-01
(Client) Worked on FTP connection code. It's now ready for
public beta. Enjoy!
20060113-01
(Server) Improved remote upgrade capabilities.
20060112-01
(Server, Tools) New rollout code appears to be OK now.
20060106-01
(Server) Working on new rollout code.
20060104-01
(Server) FTP code only sends keepalive when it receives one.
This is to enable the client to test both directions and
shut down both channels if one fails.
(Client) Send a keepalive every 10 seconds, no matter if
other traffic is there as well. This triggers the keepalive
mechanism in the server and lets us know if the server still
sees our frames!
20060103-01
 (Server) Worked on FTP code. Fixed timeout and client IP.
(Client) FTP keepalive and timeout code.
20051220-01
(Server) Fixed bug that kept user from being automatically
kicked when the server received a USERDEL message if the
username contained uppercase letters.
(Server) Blocked HTTP forwarding server to client to
combat phishing abuse.
20051125-01
(Server) Made FTP data port configurable.
(Client) Worked a hell of a lot on client FTP code.
(Both) FTP now working in principle.
20051112-01
(Server) Fixed some neglience in the FTP control connection
code.
(Client) Worked on the FTP control connection code. It
actually works now through FTP proxies, tested with Check Point's
FireWall-1. :-)
20051111-02
(Server) Worked more on FTP code. Should be ready for first
tests now... time to write the client code. :-)
(Client) Clean-ups and simplifications in connection code for
all protocols.
(Client) Started implementing FTP connection. Not functional
yet though... be patient please.
20051111-01
(Server) Added UDP forwarder debugging code.
20051110-01
(Server) Enhanced server's actions to be found by Google
and other search engines.
(Server) Started implementing the new FTP connection method.
20051108-01
(Server) Different shared secret for reports and messages.
(Both) Spanish translation. Thanks Carlos!
20051028-02
 (Both) Spanish translation added.
20051028-01
(Client) Fixed some portuguese translations.
(Client) Fixed improper behavior of SOCKS and HTTP Proxy
fields in Ports panel.
20051013-01
(Client) Added more debugging code around NTLM connections.
20051012-01
(Server) Differentiated in server messages between streams
that are refused because too many streams are open, and
streams that are refused because too many pending streams are
present.
20051004-01
(Client) Fixed encryption under Solaris. To quote Douglas
Adams: "The worst assumptions are the ones you don't even
know you're making." In this case the way the HTTPS transport
method works caused writes to the TCP stream to be interrupted,
generating an exception, instead of just setting the
ThreadInterrupted flag as with all the other OS's. This caused
the write requests to be re-ordered because of internal
re-queueing, and with stream encryption we can't have that
of course.
(Client) Fixed some Portugese translations.
20050908-01
(Server) Made control port configurable on-the-fly.
20050907-01
(Server) Added piping to command line. Very handy. :-)
20050831-01
(Client) Integrated latest application panel patches.
(Server) Added MOTD feature. Useful for servers that will
go out of service soon.
20050824-01
(Server) Added ability to configure more than one server IP
so it's properly announced.
(Server) Added capability of listing server IPs in info panel.
(Server) Suppress "null" listings of alternative servers in
info panel (merely cosmetic...)
20050819-01
 (Client) Started to integrate application wizard panel.
(Client) Worked a lot on server detection code.
(Client) Made Wizard and server detection code work with
NTLM authenticating proxies.
(Client) Make it more clear to proxies and servers that we
cannot accept any form of encoding. Just to be sure.
This should fix some problems with looking up servers
via Google et al.
20050713-01
(Both) Started implementing new connection management
framework. This requires that the servers know more
about each other, and that the clients keep a lot more
track about connection options. When it's all done the
user does no longer have to configure anything at all
and the client can do it all, even optimizing.
20050712-01
(Server) Actually compiled latest changes in. *blush*
20050705-01
(Client) Fixed missind german translation in some language
definition files. Was a missing operator.
20050623-01
(Server) Fixed silly bug that broke formatter in policer
status output. Recently introduced when I made formatting
a but nicer.
(Server) Policer_Linux just learned to watch more than one
interface. We need this for servers that have more than one
IP address.
(Server) Splitted policer into RX and TX part. Needed to support
connections that have different uplink and downlink policies.
UNTESTED!
20050621-01
(Client) CGI now working. Enabling in client configuration panel.
(Client) Modified status panel formatting slightly.
(Both) Worked on HTTP codec to make sure we are fully compliant
with CGI specs. That's a prerequisite for CGI proxying through
PHP to work. :-)
20050617-01
(Both) Working on CGI code.
(Server) Fixed bug in policer code that could lead to connection
 drops in web server.
20050607-01
(Both) Fixed bugs in DNS code that have been freshly introduced.
(Server) Sorted out some flags in the DNS header.
(Client) Ignore duplicate nameserver lines in resolv.conf. Silly!
20050606-01
(Server) Accept DNS packets where other counters are not 0.
(Server) Send authoritative records with each and everything
the servers sends, including errors.
(Client) Worked on DNS code. Getting better and better.
20050601-01
(Both) Moved connection stats and state signalling to
runq model. Should save a few cycles, especially in the server.
(Server) Moved duplicate user kicking code to runq model
as well.
20050531-01
(Server) Added debugging code to find a harmless out-of-bounds
problem.
(Server) Do not recommend server "null". Silly...
20050527-01
(Both) Worked around a performance problem that seemingly
only shows itself in the client but is present in shared
code. It's a CPU leak that makes the connection statistics
listeners be called a lot more often than necessary.
20050526-02
(Server) Make number output formatting nicer.
20050526-01
(Server) Added arg to "sessions" command in control panel
to allow to only show one session instead of an enormously
long list.
(Server) Better thread statistics code. Does no longer
exaggerate server load because of wonky estimates of the
number of running threads.
20050520-01
(Server) Made config parameter load_factor a float to have
more granulatity on load control.
 (Both) Worked on stream sendq firing code to avoid
firing the sendq more often than necessary. This should
reduce the number of unnecessary threads under some
circumstances that are responsible for making servers
with little memory explode.
(Both) Fixed a bug in the frame queue backlog code that
could cause the backlog queue to never empty. D'oh!
20050519-01
(Both) Found bug in bytestream codec that unnecessarily
increases the number of bytes skipped after a transmission
problem. It's not really relevant though.
(Server) Improved performance in HTTP codec for those
cases where carriage returns are never sent. I.e. for
most cases. :-)
(Both) Saved the odd cycle in xlation code.
(Server) Removed left-over debugging from HTTP incoming
connection code that did not serve any purpose anymore.
(Server) Found potential infinite loop in HTTP connection
code and fixed it.
(Server) Improved performance of built-in file server.
(Server) Added some debugging in DNS codec to finally find
out why it's not working with DNS servers in-between. Must
be something really stupid.
20050518-01
(Client) Added "http_flush" config parameter.
20050517-01
(Server) More debugging for long-running Runq events.
20050516-01
(Server) Added code to locate long-running timeouterfirers.
20050513-02
(Both) Revised the fix below a bit. The fix contains a
"deadly embrace", this is now solved.
20050513-01
(Both) I think I found an explanation why the timers sometimes
go berserk. This should be fixed now!
20050512-04
(Server) Another small performance improvement, nothing
serious though but may reduce latency caused by a periodic
cleanup process that synchronized on an important object
 longer than necessary.
20050512-03
(Server) Made local IP determination a lot less complex, this
should save greatly on CPU. The assumption it is making is
correct on all servers so why bother and waste CPU?
20050512-02
(Both, mainly server) Hopefully improved performance of
StreamsRegisterHash for the most likely case (i.e. sparse
usage of the buckets). This should greatly reduce CPU
impact of high user counts.
(Both, mainly server) Added more debugging code in TimeOuter
and added linear search for cases where division search
fails; let's see if the search is buggy or if the timer
really isn't there.
20050512-01
(Server) Added debug message to get to the bottom of the
"ASSERTION FAILED" problem in timeouter code.
(Server) Added server version to hello messages.
20050510-01
(Server) Added DNS debugging.
20050506-02
(Server) Added logging of automatic disconnect to facilitate
support.
(Server) Fixed very silly bug in DNS code that could cause the
server side of the session to hang and the CPU load go up to
100%. D'oh!
(Server) Fix integer overflow in streams panel.
20050506-01
(Both) Added automatic disconnection feature to the server
and support for displaying it as part of the profile in the client.
20050505-02
(Server) Fixed silly bug that keeps the server from logging
logins with the proper username.
20050505-01
(Server) Implemented all-new global policer; see how it behaves...
at least it's absolutely precise because it obtains bandwidth
info directly from the interface. (Linux only so far but who
cares?)
20050504-09
 (Server) Fudged policer a bit more to account for Ethernet
overhead as well. It's a rough estimate but hopefully pretty
much accurate.
20050504-08
(Server) Made policing account /all/ traffic, also stream
traffic. This is more useful.
20050504-07
(Server) Cleaned up policing code, saves on CPU.
20050504-06
(Server) Hopefully finally fixed policer to look at real
amount of data sent, not net data.
20050504-05
(Server) Urgs, seems that I've messed up some things... maybe
using "long"s helps...
20050504-04
(Server) Made "no policer" feature in profile actually work.
20050504-03
(Server) Always run policer, even if profile is not limited.
Otherwise global readings are wrong and user is not participating
in global policing!
20050504-02
(Server) Be more accurate about bandwidth in hellos.
(Server) Send hello frame every 15 instead of 20 seconds.
(Server) Make server name resolving time out after 3 seconds
instead of 10.
20050504-01
(Server) Fixed thread total counter in debugging output.
Cosmetic fix only.
(Server) Added ability to deactivate global traffic policing
for certain profiles.
(Server) Apply global policing to web server code as well.
(Server) Reduced influence of traffic on load (unless policing).
20050429-02
(Server) Update traffic rate per user only every 10 seconds,
not every 2 seconds. That should do and saves CPU, also it
does not fire so many events (saving threads and memory).
20050429-01
(Server) Added debugging to find out where ems02 locked up.
20050428-03
(Both) Very subtle change in the TimeOuterFirer code that
could save some cycles and maybe reduce load but does not have
any other effect on the code. Or at least it should not. :-)
20050428-02
(Server) Worked on TimeOuterFirer pool statistics.
20050428-01
(Server) Limit the amount of logging under DoS. We don't want
to make it too easy for them bastards do we? Not that the
servers can't cope with it but why waste resources?
20050427-06
(Server) Display correct summary counters for alive and dead
threads. Just cosmetics.
20050427-05
(Server) Put in code that also lists dead threads... it seems
we've got a zombie problem here!
20050427-04
(Both) Completely removed now redundant StringBufferPool code.
Saves a lot of CPU I guess.
20050427-03
(Server) Removed this silly "refusing connection" message --
it only makes matters worse and does not help us any.
20050427-02
(Server) Added a try/catch
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception in
Profile code freshly introduced in 20050422-02.
20050427-01
(Server) Added periodic threads listing so I can see which
threads are going haywire when the servers crash...
20050422-02
(Server) Slight bugfix on the backoffs.
(Server) Made weed-out more rare (every 15 minutes), it's no
longer necessary anyway but I leave it in for now.
 (Server) Added uptime to the hello announcements and the
control panel.
(Server) Added system load to hello announcements and control
panel peer display.
(Server) Modified change below to make it less memory consuming.
20050421-03
(Server) Modified connection backoff code to ensure each port
has its own backoff.
20050421-02
(Server) Reversed a small modification that might be the cause
of the slowdown, though I doubt it.
20050421-01
(Server) Added profile option to allow duplicate logins.
20050420-02
(Server) Irrelevant null pointer fix in control port code.
(Server) Don't kill streams this thoroughly when shutting
down a session, it's not necessary.
(Server) Found a silly bug in the new parts of the DNS server
code that could lead to sessions disconnecting.
20050420-01
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception in control
console. Nothing serious, can't crash anything and the command
works the second time... just a silly race condition.
(Server) Worked on DNS code. It's working a lot better now!
20050414-02
(Both) Worked on DNS code, now more reliable it seems.
20050414-01
(Server) Fixed stupid bug in server config code.
20050413-02
(Server) Removed silly debug message.
(Both) Worked on DNS code. Guess what -- it's working! Not
stable yet but I'm able to log in and open a stream and
send and receive some data before it freezes. Call that
a start eh?
20050413-01
(Both) These DNS servers think they are clever... alright
 let's see who's more clever.
(Client) Fixed --nogui option.
20050412-03
(Both) DNS tunnelling may work now, let's see!
20050412-02
(Server) More work on stream policing -- see if this works.
(Server) Found the problem! It's the backoff mechanism kicking in.
Added new parameter for maximum backoff.
20050412-01
(Both) Modified the way stream policing is done, also fixed
the stream status display in the GUI. Delayed streams should
now be listed properly.
20050411-01
(Client) Small updates to french translation.
(Client) Change to streams per second policer (first line
of defence in client). This may solve the problems encountered
with some applications.
(Server) Started re-writing most of the DNS CoDec to make
tunnelling through DNS servers work.
20050405-02
(Server) Subtle additions to control panel.
(Server) Fixed silly bug in profile parsing that makes the
"unlimited" profile fail.
20050405-01
(Server) Fixed problem with displaying proper expiry date.
(Server) Silently ignore unknown user attributes instead
of throwing up.
(Server) Minor modifications to control panel.
(Client) Fixed bug that caused wrong expiry date to be displayed.
20050331-01
(Server) Made ID handling in DNS codec a lot simpler.
(Client) Modified version comparison code to allow for
new "buildday-NN major.minor" syntax. Only the build
number is compared. If the major.minor is missing,
that's just fine.
(Client) Modified DNS CoDec to introduce another segment to
 avoid requests for server IP addresses being redirected to
the servers themselves. Doesn't matter if you have no clue
what I mean. :-) The server is already able to ignore this
so no change here.
(Both) Very slight modification in streams-per-second policing
code may solve problems encountered with some web pages that
contain loads of graphical elements.
(Both) Added expiry to profile (only informational).
20050311-01
(Both) Fixed significant bugs in frame queue code. Oh dear...
this lead to very bad behaviour in retransmits.
(Both) Enormous advances in DNS code. Timing now mostly
reliable, which means we're about to try it in the wild. :-)
20050310-01
(Both) More work on DNS code.
20050309-01
(Server) Decrease incomplete counter when handing over misguided
HTTP connections from HTTPS code to HTTP code.
(Both) A lot more DNS connection code done... almost working now!
I've been logged in already and used SSH over it, well somewhat.
Problem is the maximum payload size of a DNS packet is rather
small and the rest of the code is not yet able to cope with
this properly.
(Server) Don't block when sending a stop message.
20050304-01
(Client) Show server and its IP in the Windows systray bubble.
(Both) More work on DNS tunnelling code.
(Server) More debugging and manipulation methods around the blocking of
source IP addresses.
(Server) Sanitise URL for downloads.
20050303-01
(Server) Added code to decrease IP counters for incomplete connections
periodically, to work around problems with some IPs being blocked
eternally (or so it seems).
20050301-01
(Client) Started to implement new DNS tunnelling code
(Client) Fixed bug in server search that would break the
"web search".
 (Client) Added timeout in server search so a broken server
can't stop the whole process.
20050221-01
(Server) Fixed exception in download code.
20050218-01
(Client) Stop and close local ends of streams when connection
is terminated by the server.
20050215-01
(Server) Implemented file server.
20050211-01
(Client) Log client version when starting up -- should save
us lots of emails in the customer support department...
20050209-04
(Both) Modified HTTP code to adhere to RFC1867. Modification
is backwards compatible, i.e. old clients will still be able
to connect to new servers.
(Client) Fixed HTTP encoding broken in 20050209-03
20050209-03
(Both) Started implementing HTTP chunked transfer.
(Both) Slight modification in the streams-per-second policer code
that may address the problem of never-decrementing counters when
the client application is hammering the YF client.
20050209-02
(Server) Worked a bit on the backoff code for outgoing streams.
May improve situation for heavy (ab)users.
20050209-01
(Client) Ensure HTTP is using HTTP 1.0 not 1.1! Plus some
work for CGI relaying.
(Server) Work on CGI relaying.
(CGIRelay) Implemented prototype in PHP. Still having the same
buffering problems as with Perl though, but this is much more
elegant.
(Both) Rolled back a recent change in stream pending
registration that seems to cause trouble.
(Client) Fixed bug in UDP forwarder code that was the cause for
these "closed" streams and streams that subsequently would not
open.
20050208-02
(Both) Hopefully fixed bug that open pending counters
are not reset properly under all circumstances. Added
debugging to be able to spot such problems.
20050208-01
(Client) Improved server search wizard. Now automatically
determines if IP should be used instead of DNS name.
(Server) Fixed silly bug in control port connection.
20050207-02
(Both) Worked on TimeOuter code, see if this is now working
and more stable.
20050207-01
(Client) Added Portuguese language. Thanks Rui!
20050204-01
(Client) Fixed bug introduced in 20050202-02 that caused
UDP packets sent from the client to the server to be
overly long. This breaks many UDP applications, eg.
RTP.
(Server) Modified the UDPForwarder behavior. The forwarding
should end when the client says so, or when the client
connection dies. No sooner, no later.
(Server) Fixed a bug that would cause UDP forwarders
not to die and vanish properly when the session dies.
That was another memory leakn, though not a big one, but
UDP performance of the server would have logarithmically
deteriorated with the number of sessions that have died
and used UDP. Funny bug eh?
20050203-03
(Server) Oops, fixed a bug introduced in 20050201-01 that
would announce a "null" server.
20050203-02
(Both, mainly server) Made a change to TimeOuter code to
address a deadlock. I know that the code I have in now is
dodgy and will not work properly under all circumstances
but at least it will not lock up. Let's see what is more
acceptable. :-)
20050203-01
(Client) I'm fairly certain that NTLM should actually work
now... at least I was able to reproduce exactly what IE
produced in a sample session. Please test, folks!
20050202-03
 (Server) More UDP optimizations.
(Both) I think I finally found what's going on with these
streams that just won't die.
20050202-02
(Both) UDP optimizations. Should use much less CPU now and
perform a lot better.
20050202-01
(Server) Fixed some formatting in control console.
(Server) More attempts of fixing this g.d. stream threads
not dying problem. Hope they don't break anything!
(Client) Removed unnecessary UDP debugging.
20050201-02
(Server) Modified number formatting in control console a bit.
Also clean-ups there.
(Server) Added some debugging to see why some threads still
don't die when they are supposed to!
20050201-01
(Server) Do not announce servers that have taken themselves
out of service (because of reachability problems etc.) by
having loads bigger than 1.000.000.000. The clients ignore
these announcements but why make them in the first place!
(Server) Make global sleep value load increasing to direct
clients away from servers that already throttle traffic.
(Client) Updated french translation (thanks Philippe!).
20050131-02
(Server) Modified connection acception (or rather: refusal) code
to cleanly catch cases where the connector does not send any data.
Also removed potential deadlock (I say "potential" because it's
way too complex to check and completely unnecessary).
20050131-01
(Both) Minimal changes to stream code. I don't think they
actually help but at least they won't hurt.
20050127-01
(Both) Found another deadly embrace in stream code.
20050126-02
(Both) Worked some more on stream closedown code.
20050126-01
(Both) Worked a bit on thread interruption and sleeping in
an attempt to cut down on stale threads.
(Both) Found a BONEHEAD mistake... all this don't-wait stream
closedown code did not work at all! Users may have noticed that
applications seemingly did not notice they've lost connection
when the client-to-server connection was closed; only when you
shut down the YF client did they notice. Well now you know
why... the stream was actually never killed. The server suffered
a lot more than the client though.
20050125-02
(Server) Slight formatting change in control port code.
(Server) Reduced frame buffer sizes -- we just don't need
them this big.
20050125-01
(Server) Removed some unnecessary debugging.
(Server) Modified locking of session object instance
for incoming connections.
(Server) Added debugging that tells me where incoming
links get stuck (if they do) when a sessions is simply
not dying. Just a suspicion but we'll see.
(Client) Allow spaces in proxy password.
(Client) Parse config file differently: assume exactly one space
between key and value. Don't strip any extra whitespace as it could
be part of the value!
20050124-06
(Server) Clean-ups that may or may not fix some hangs.
20050124-05
(Server) Think I know what's wrong.
20050124-04
(Server) Still more debugging, same place...
20050124-03
(Server) May have found problem... let's try.
20050124-02
(Server) There is still a problem with sessions that just won't
die. Added debugging to track the problem down and see which lock
cannot be acquired.
20050124-01
 (Server) Fixed stupid class cast exception recently introduced.
Nothing serious though.
(Both) Think I've found out why the timeouters can suddenly
stop firing. Should be fixed now.
20050123-01
(Server) More debugging around connection granting and refusal.
20050120-01
(Server) Fixed frame leak that has been recently introduced.
(Server) SYNCUSERSCOMPLETE message no longer relayed as it is
a personal message only intended for this particular server.
(Server) Added ability to restart or reboot a single server with
a simple messenger packet. Won't tell you how. :-)
20050119-02
(Server) There is still something wrong with this weedout
process. Added more debugging and rewrote a few lines.
20050119-01
(Server) Hopefully fixed bug in stream closedown code that would
make the "dontwait" flag ineffective if the closedown has already
been requested without this flag before but is hanging for whatever
reason (for example because there is no uplink to tell the other
end). D'oh!
20050118-02
(Both) Catch rare case where timer is cancelled or rescheduled
while being fired but not yet marked as being fired. We can't
do this with synchronization without unnecessary performance
impact.
(Server) I think I found out why the weedOut periodic timer
sometimes seemingly gets lost... it's stuck killing a session
that won't die because one of its streams won't die, reason
being that it tries to send an ACK that it can't send because
there is no uplink anymore. This should be fixed now, when
enqueueing the ACK I set the "dontwait" flag; if the queue
is blocked then the frame is dropped and that's that.
20050118-01
(Server) Still problems with an unreleased lock, added
more debugging to find it.
(Both) More cleanups.
(Both) Irrelevant change in Base64 code.
(Both) Removed unnecessary synchronization from StreamRegister.
20050117-03
(Both) Cleanups of new TimeOuter code.
20050117-02
(Both) Seems there was still a bug in there that could
schedule timers in the wrong order.
20050117-01
(Both) Completely redone the TimeOuter code with new
data structures and new algorithms. Not sure if it
works properly but there's no better way than testing
it in the field. :-) :-)
20050115-01
(Both) Added code to catch exception in TimeOuter
firing actions and report them.
20050114-03
(Server) Fixed another null pointer exception.
200050114-02
(Both) Fixed another small silly bug in the TimeOuter code
that can only strike in the client -- the server is never
idle enough. :-)
(Server) Hopefully fixed negligiance that could lead to
a TooManyOpenFiles exception.
20050114-01
(Client) Fixed potential NoSuchElementException in
TimeOuter code that realistically can only ocur in the
client.
20050113-06
(Server) Fixed little bug when setting up TimeOuterFirer pools.
(Both) No sleeping when firing TimeOuters. May interfer with
interrupting elsewhere.
20050113-05
(Both) Major overhaul of TimeOuter code. Should really by
thread-safe now.
20050113-04
(Both) Do not "yield()" when firing timer events.
20050113-03
(Both) Worked again on the TimeOuter code and rewrote the cancel()
method. Also worked on synchronization.
20050113-02
(Both) More tidying up of the TimeOuter code. Should have
less CPU impact now.
20050113-01
(Server) Fixed another null pointer exception.
(Both) Fixed some more potential race conditions in
timeouter code.
20050112-07
(Server) Found another potential problem in TimeOuter.
20050112-06
(Server) Found potential glitch in TimeOuter code that could
cause tasks to not be fired and subsequently be lost if
autorescheduled.
20050112-05
(Server) Made reaping more aggressive.
20050112-04
(Both) Made disguiser pools smaller to conserve memory.
(Server) Still losing timers... hope this fixes it.
20050112-03
(Server) Seems like I broke something...
20050112-02
(Server) Added reaping to timeouter firer pool. No need to
keep unneeded threads active forever. Also made the pool
a lot smaller, it's not that expensive to recreate them.
20050112-01
(Server) Made web page generator a lot more efficient. This will
save us a lot of CPU and also conserve memory -- well, at least
make memory usage more constant.
20050111-03
(Server) Fixed bug in UDP forwarding code. Could cause clients
to hang on subsequent connections...
(Client) Worked around a problem that some clients (including
dante socksify) seem to have: they close the TCP connection and
still expect the UDP forwarding to work. We simply don't
close the UDP forwarder when the TCP connection breaks and
let it time out instead. This should not be a problem unless
you resolve thousands of DNS names...
20050111-02
(Server, also client) Fixed more null pointers. All in consequence
of stuffing memory leaks.
(Both) May have found another memory leak in the FrameQueue.
D'oh!
20050111-01
(Server) Debug why sessions stop.
(Client) It seems that in HTTPS mode, keepalive was no longer
working -- for whatever reason. See if this fixes it.
20050110-07
(Both) Try to avoid excessive synchronization in bytestream
CoDec. Not sure if that's okay but we'll see.
-- It's not. Taken out again but leave in some optimizations.
20050110-06
(Both) Found another potential memory bloat. It's
not a leak however.
20050110-05
(Both) Fixed stupid bug that caused streams to not properly
shut down. Introduced today.
20050110-04
(Both) Performance improvements. This will hopefully help a
bit in interpreted mode.
20050110-03
(Server) Another null pointer, nothing serious.
20050110-02
(Server) Fixed another null pointer exception in backoff
code (all these are the consequence of stricter memory
management).
20050110-01
(Server) More plumbing on memory leaks, probably more null
pointer exceptions again now... just a symptom of the problem.
(Server) Fixed more now-occurring null pointer exceptions.
20050109-01
(Server) Fixed more now-occurring null pointer exceptions.
20050107-02
 (Server) Fixed more now-occurring null pointer exceptions.
20050107-01
(Server) Fixed more now-occurring null pointer exceptions.
20050106-03
(Server) Fixed more now-occurring null pointer exceptions
because of calls to sessions that are already shut down...
d'oh! (Happens because tasks are scheduled, then session is
destroyed.)
(Client) Switched off rekeying debugging, it's working
perfectly fine now SO PLEASE USE IT!
20050106-02
(Server) Use only one translator instance per language.
(Server) Hopefully some improvements regarding garbage
collection of no-longer needed objects.
20050106-01
(Server) Fixed a bug in server code that would cause the
wrong number of concurrent streams being communicated to
the client. Sorry guys, now I know why there are less
open streams than some months ago. :-)
20050105-01
(Server) Added usersync request feature. If enabled, newly
upped servers request user database synchronisation before
they bring their ports up and announce their presence if
they last received user information a certain while ago.
This should avoid trouble with servers that were offline for
quite a while and do not have a (complete) user database.
20050104-01
(Client) Added config param "header". Use as often as you
like to add headers to the request sent to your proxy (example:
"header User-Agent: None-Of-Your-Business 1.0". Headers
are guaranteed to appear in the same order you've specified
them, and you can use the same attribute multiple times.
20041215-02
(Server) Added sanity checking to rekey TX code. This
may be the NullPointerException... but I'm not convinced
enough yet to restart the servers.
20041215-01
(Server) Even more such debugging. I believe it's a JVM
bug that I don't see the traces (id 4292742) and I will
install 1.5.0 on all servers now.
(Both) Did some very minor changes to avoid code that has
 been deprecated in Java 1.5.0. All changes are backwards
compatible so we can still use 1.4.2_05.
20041214-02
(Server) More NullPointerException debugging. Have to
find this bugger!
20041214-01
(Server) More NullPointerException debugging.
20041213-02
(Server) Made delay caused by global policer add to the
"load".
(Server) Worked around some more potential race conditions,
this time in the session.
(Server) Made the global policer a bit more aggressive.
20041213-01
(Both) Worked around potential (though very unlikely)
race conditions in stream closedown code that could
lead to a NullPointerException, possibly causing hanging
threads.
20041207-01
(Both) Added more debugging code to finally catch the
spurious null pointer exceptions.
20041206-01
(Server) Irrelevant change in thread debugging.
(Client) Made popups run in separate thread. If you select
"automatic server selection" this will also mean that you
are automatically reconnected to this or a different server
when the server shuts down (currently HTTPS only).
(Client) Back off somewhat after 5 unsuccessful attempts
to reconnect to a server by sleeping 5 seconds between
retries. This should easen the load on a server that is
barred or shutting down.
(Server) Fixed bug in code to feed CGI-BIN relays to Google.
20041203-01
(Server) Irrelevant cleanups in in the connection code.
(Server) Send notify instead of user message if too many
inbound streams (server to client forwarding). Client can
choose to ignore or (current implementation) log in messages
window.
20041202-04
 (Both) Found a race condition in rekeying that could cause
the sending end to use a different key without telling
the receiving end.
20041202-03
(Server) Don't annoy people with unnecessary popup messages
about failed inbound connections because the streams limit
has been exceeded. We'll deal differently with this when
I get the time, eg. send them in a way that they are just
logged.
20041202-02
(Server) Made loads of debugging conditional and switched
most of it off. Should generally improve performance,
and the debugging is really no longer needed because the
code works.
20041202-01
(Server) Irrelevant change in timer debugging that produces
nicer statistics.
(Server) Increased TimeOuterFirer pool size.
(Server) Added StringBufferPool statistics so we can start
optimizing this part of the code as well.
(Both) And guess what the result was... the whole code is
useless. I've disabled it.
20041201-01
(Both) Fixed some misconceptions around the interrupted state
of a thread that may solve some mysterious problems with threads
that just won't die.
(Server) Fixed small race condition that could lead to
a null pointer exception.
20041126-01
(Both) Cleanups.
20041125-01
(Server) Fixed small bug that could cause session periodic
timers to be rescheduled just when the session is about to
die, causing them to run forever and keeping the session
object alive though invalid, unnecessarily using up CPU
and threads.
20041124-03
(Server) Found horrible bug in stream opening code that
could cause a frame to be recycled that has been recycled
before, which could lead to a frame being used in two
different threads at the same time... blimey!
(Both) Massively cleaned up the stream opening code so
 it does not need a freshly created thread anymore that
is afterwards destroyed at horrendous cost. Instead, it
now uses threads from the pool that basically run
forever.
By the way... latest measurements show that overall
throughput has improved by at least a factor 4 in the
last few weeks. :-)
20041124-02
(Server) Aply streams limit also to server-to-client
forwards.
20041124-01
(Both) Made one-off scheduler less aggressive in places
where there is no rush in an attempt to save on threads.
(Server) Implemented a limit on maximum number of
pending streams, because they are currently killing our
servers! Please guys, try to configure your applications
to not attempt too many new connections at a time.
20041123-07
(Both) This time really. :-) Stupid thing, really. It's
not optimal but it seems that we have now really little
threads for very good performance -- just what we want.
20041123-06
(Both) I think I have found the problem described in
20041123-04. Workaround again removed, it made the servers
puke anyway...
20041123-05
(Server) Fixed synchronization problem that could cause
a concurrent modification exception. This may well be
responsible for the massive server hang we encountered
afterwards.
20041123-04
(Both) It appears that there is a problem with hanging
streams in -03. I have made a small change to the
one-off scheduler for the recvq that trades performace
for reliability... *sigh*
20041123-03
(Both) Oops, one should only have one recvq processor
running at a time...
20041123-02
(Server) Switched off some debugging that is no longer needed
and that only makes the situation worse for the server.
 (Client) Switched UDP debugging off.
20041123-01
(Both, but mostly only relevant to server code)
Modified the one-off firing code a bit to not unnecessarily
create new firing threads when an existing one is
probably available within the next milliseconds.
(Both) Considerably slow down the speed at which connections
are requested by the client and requests are dealt with by
the server when user is over the top with regards to number
of concurrent streams.
(Both) Broke the policer in 20041122-03 with regards to profile
and user limits. This is fixed now.
20041122-09
(Both) Gone one step further and eliminated the recvq
threads altogether. :-)
20041122-08
(Both) Fixed bugs in signedness of short-to-int conversions
that broke TCP connections and UDP associations to ports
above 32767 in some cases... *blush*
20041122-07
(Server) Even more thread debugging. Already relieved the
average server of thousands of threads...
(Both) Slightly changed recvq dequeueing thread to ensure
it dies more easily -- because it seems that it doesn't
die very well at the moment!
20041122-06
(Server) Also count streams that are not yet open when
determining if a user may open more streams!
20041122-05
(Server) More thread debugging.
20041122-04
(Server) Added streams throttle. It's not really a hard limit
but if there are too many streams on a server opening of
a new stream can be delayed up to 10 seconds. This should
hopefully allow for some streams to close in the meantime.
I know it's not ideal especially since it may freeze the
user's connection for up to 10 seconds but we need to do
something about this! Therefore this will only kick in if
the user has at least 10 open streams.
20041122-03
(Server) Implemented enforcement of uplink bandwidth
 restriction. Was until then only enforced in client.
The server version only enforces net bandwidth, i.e.
is less restrictive than the one in the client, and
should therefore in theory never really kick in. But
we need it for global bandwidth limitation.
20041122-02
(Server) Implemented global bandwidth policer. To be tested.
20041122-01
(Server) Modified connection backoff code to not only
allow configuration of backoffs for single destination
ports but also general catch-al backoffs. This can be
used to throttle users who open connections too rapidly.
(Client) Do not rapid-fire open connections to a failing
server.
20041118-01
(Client) Another bug in SOCKS UDP forwarding fixed. This
time packets were not returned properly if client app
bound to port 0 (don't know yet).
20041117-04
(Server) Added another workaround that should ensure that
the hack described below does actually figure out an IP
address, even when there's really no way telling yet what
it's going to be for the association because the destination
address is not yet known and therefore the routing is not
yet determined. Doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense to
you...
20041117-03
(Both) Implemented hack that allows a SOCKS5 UDP application
to figure out what the source IP and port of datagrams sent
by the server to the destination will be. All you have to
do is send a datagram to whatever IP address on port 0, and
you'll "receive" one with IP and port as "source".
20041117-02
(Client) Fixed bug in SOCKS UDP implementation that would
cause wrong replies.
20041117-01
(Client) Added code to detect illegal SOCKS4/5 requests
and report them instead of simply ignoring them, leaving
the stream in the "closed" state.
(Client) Fixed a bug in the SOCKS emulation code that would
cause the emulation to fail if the command was not sent in
one packet.
(Server) Put challenge frames to the front of the queue.
 (Server) Ensure server keeps correct authentication state
even if intermediate re-authentications fail (up to now,
that would not have caused the connection to be dropped).
20041116-05
(Client) Cleanups in HTTPS connection code, potentially
also fixing threading issues.
20041116-04
(Client) Added code that detects a bad state of the connection
and stops and restarts it immediately instead of waiting for
a timeout. This is not entirely satisfactory but until we
know what's going on (only happens with proxies and HTTPS!)
it should be an acceptable workaround.
20041116-03
(Client) Fixed a problem in SOCKS UDP code that would
cause communication to fail with "client application passed
illegal port 0, could not get local UDP port" or something
like this if the client app chose to not reveal its source
port in the SOCKS initiation (which is perfectly legal albeit
most likely only to blame on the laziness of the programmer).
20041116-02
(Both) More strict synchronizing in the codecs where
I previously believed it would not be required. Now I
think it _is_ required.
20041116-01
(Both) I think I may have discovered some more threading
unsafeties that may be responsible for the occational loss
of connection under heavy load.
20041111-02
(Server) Also fixed disconnect-reconnect bug for HTTP
protocol. Same stupid mistake.
(Client) Same problem was (kind of) present in the HTTP
code of the client. This is fixed now. You should finally
be able to keep the session up even if the link is kind of
unstable or your proxy is of the rather nasty type.
This should also improve the stability of the CGI-BIN
solution.
(Client) Added code to Wizard to find CGI proxy servers.
This is untested yet and the client does not yet check if
if actually could use them before offering them to the user
(unlike the direct server search code!). We need to fix this!
20041111-01
(Server) Found it! Disconnect and failing to reconnect
problem should be solved now also for HTTPS protocol.
20041110-01
(Both) Fixed bug in HTML CoDec that would have caused
TCP urgent data to fail (if it could work at all with Java).
Don't bother.
(Both) Started implementing SIP/RTP. Completely untested
and certainly not working yet because the SIP/SDP packets
are not yet re-written and the RTP forwarding is not yet
set up. But the foundation is in.
20041104-01
(Client) In HTTPS, really try alternative server and not
the same one over and over again.
(Client) Fixed potential ArrayIndexOutOfBounds issue
in profile panel that could be triggered under rare
circumstances when watching the panel while the connection
is active.
20041102-02
(Both) More debugging to verify if server and client
agree on the same keys after session reconnects.
20041102-01
(Client) Added code to support the 100 Continue message (HTTP).
20041101-03
(Client) Also fixed HTTP reconnect stuff, or so I believe.
20041101-02
(Client) Be a lot more aggressive about failing link detection
in HTTPS mode. Ensure that both read and write thread always
die in unison so that new read and write threads get created
when the connection is re-established. This should solve the
problems with failing connections once and for all. We'll see.
(Client) Ensure that a new TX key is only announced by the
client after the connection is authenticated. Otherwise the
client gets stuck with a non-functional connection if the
server lost the session (i.e. was restarted).
20041101-01
(Client) Ignore absurd screen locations in config.
(Server) Speling mistakes corrected.
20041028-01
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception in HTTP code.
20041026-01
 (Client) Finally someone pointed out a serious bug in the
wizard to me: you couldn't leave the proxy domain field
empty! That's fixed.
(Server) Fixed silly bug that effectively broke UDP. Why
didn't you tell me guys?!
20041022-01
(Server) Added code to feed the CGI Relay URLs to Google.
(Client) Seriously improved performance of HTTP CoDec;
the code was very heap unfriendly in one place -- mea culpa.
(Both) Improved reliability of reconnection code at the
(slight) expense of memory usage. We now use a different
codec instance every time we set up a connection. This
seems to be solving a race condition.
20041021-01
(Server) Slightly changed the ordering decision for
announced CGI relays.
(Server) Made message receiver code less prone to null
pointer exceptions, and added a catch to see if there
are still any.
20041020-01
(Client) Fixed broken text for NOT_LATEST_VERSION_LONG
(Server) Improved Google fodder page.
(Server) Added CGIRelay reporting code. This will in the
end be code to locate CGIRelays in a nearly unblockable
fashion.
20041013-01
(Server) Fixed little bugs in HTTP connection code that caused
uplink connections to die too slowly. For a new feature, that
is...
(Client) Finally made it work. YO! The CGI hack does actually
work now, and even though the connection through an intermediate
CGI script is not very interactive it is quite usable, and
if you limit the uplink bandwidth to a few hundred kilobits
per second it's even stable. This means that we can now
use the cheapest available web servers and transform them into
relays... the only thing we need to be able to do is run a
simple Perl CGI script.
(Both) Fixed inaccuracies in rate limitation.
20041012-01
(Client) Fixed serious bug in HTTP codec that must have been
in there for at least 2 months. Server port forwards caused
null pointer exceptions.
 (Client) Put in hack that will hopefully allow us to fool
restrictive admins in the future at very little cost. Stay
tuned. :-)
20041007-01
(Server) Fixed typo in HTTP reply header that may have caused
problems with some proxies.
20041005-01
(Client) Worked on WebConnection code to support HTTP POST
in the future. Also loads of performance improvements. (Not
that they really matter but I don't like subobtimal code.)
(Server) Removed left-over messenger debug message.
20040930-01
(Server) The fix in 20040929-02 was not effective for ACK
frames, which means that the server (which receives loads of
ACKs since the log packets are ACK'd) ran out of memory after
a while. I still don't know why the fix works though; frame
objects hold references to packets, and they don't hold
references to anything. There is no deadly embrace. But
deleting the references in the frames to the packets before
deleting all references to the frames makes the GC shred it all.
Oh well.
(Server) If a user profile is older than 10 days, delete it
and refuse to authenticate.
20040929-02
(Server) Fixed memory leak in messenger. Strange enough, I have
no explanation why the garbage collector was unable to collect
the objects. Nulling some pointers helped however. Maybe I'll
understand at some point what the reason is, I don't think
it's a deadly embrace. Maybe the leak is not plugged but
it's no longer that bad.
20040929-01
(Server) Made account database more scalable. Should now scale
well beyond 1 million users. Don't laugh, we already need to
worry about scalability...
20040928-02
(Server) Accidentally broke immediate frame ACKing in
messenger... oops! :-)
20040928-01
(Both) Fixed potentially non-thread-safe code in disguiser.
20040927-02
(Server) Fixed memory leak in messenger.
 (Server) Lots of other messenger fixes. Much more stable transport
now!
(Server) Greatly reduced number of needed timers in messenger
code.
20040927-01
(Server) Cleanups.
(Server) Made logging transport failsafe (retransmit of
both log packets and ACKs).
(Server) Fixed memory leak freshly introduced.
20040924-01
(Server) Fixed stupidities in messenger code.
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer dereference in client
version announcement code. This caused the messenger to crash
and cease to receive messages, hence why all servers stopped
replying to user creation requests at the same time!
20040923-01
(Server) Irrelevant change in messenger code.
20040922-01
(Client) Fixed HTTP connection code that was broken in
20040909-02. Sorry about that guys, and thanks very
much Philippe for reporting it!
20040921-01
(Client) Fixed debugging code in HTTP uplink code to
show response headers when request fails.
20040913-02
(Server, Client) More debugging around version announcement.
(Server) Fix bug that caused version announcements never to be
sent to the clients.
20040913-01
(Client) Added code to verify if we are running the latest
available client version, and to notify the user (in a
polite and considerate manner I hope) that he should
upgrade.
(Server) Added client version distribution and announcement
code (triggered by packets received via the messaging service).
20040910-01
(Server) Better server state tracking (show peers).
20040909-02
(Client) Fixed small bug in HTTP connection code that may
cause problems with over-critical proxies.
20040909-01
(Client) Only reset timeout when a valid frame is received,
not if undecodable trash has been received.
This ensures that links are recognized as broken when
the encryption gets out of sync. (The server already did
it like this.)
(Client) Irrelevant cleanups and not-so-irrelevant speedups
in connection code.
(Client) More optimizations in dump code.
20040908-02
(Client) 20040908-01 broke the "follow server recommendations"
checkbox and made the client always follow them. Fixed.
20040908-01
(Client) Avoid server changes when dumping.
(Client) When dumping, don't stop dumping after the
server connection has been stopped. Instead, flush
the file and continue dumping afterwards.
(Client) Changed confusing message that connection would be
re-opened even if Stop has been pressed.
(Client) In HTTP connection code, close down server connection
a lot faster in the downlink stream instead of waiting for the
server to close it. This bug could cause the downlink thread
to run continuously if the server connection failed because
of a timed-out NAT translation or similar.
(Client) Added code to dump server/proxy responses. (For HTTP,
only uplink is dumped but that's good enough.)
(Client) Greatly improved performance of dump code.
(Client) Improved proxy response read code in HTTP connection
code. This fixes the connect problem many people have with
strange, very gabby proxies.
20040906-01
(Client) Worked on NTLM code.
(Both) Changed a mis-named error message.
(Client) Small fixes in client GUI code. This may fix the
problems some users had with the window becoming invisible.
20040902-01
 (Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception in authentication
code (can only happen with malformed frames though).
20040831-01
(Client) Made re-keying configurable in the GUI.
(Client) YF window now remembers where it las was on the
screen.
20040827-03
(Both) Changed synchronization in ConnectionStatistics
code. This should fix some strange bugs, eg. client
statistics not properly updating.
20040827-02
(Client) Modified Google search to avoid filtering of
similar pages.
(Server) Fixed ugly bug in server that broke Google search.
Silly!
20040827-01
(Server) Fixed UDP for HTTP encapsulation. This has not
worked for quite a while I'm afraid because of a typo.
(Client) Improved HTTP uplink performance significantly.
20040826-02
(Server) I think I found the problem why there are always
more sessions than users. We'll see. Has something to do
with duplicate sessions, one thread registering the new
session and the other thread unregistering the old session,
with the unregister process removing the newly registered
session just because of its name. :-)
(Client) Fixed an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException problem
in the HTTP code. Obvious stupidity, sorry about that.
20040826-01
(Both) Shifted disguising (encryption) from link layer into
CoDec. Big difference is that the CoDec knows exactly where
frame boundaries are and can ensure that key changes happen
exactly at frame boundaries. This should fix the problems
we had with key changes and some proxies. Consequently, this
feature is now again enabled in the client.
(Client) Fixed but that broke HTTP mode over proxies that
require authentication.
20040825-01
(Server) Added code to try and stop again sessions
periodically when they are idle for more than 1000
 seconds. I would like to see where their stop process
got stuck.
20040823-04
(Client) Made rekeying configurable, default is
"off" for now (not available through the GUI yet).
20040823-03
(Both) Tuned the timeouterfirer pool a bit.
(Both) Tweaked the flushing code a bit, may make
rekeying work with some proxies.
20040823-02
(Both) Added flush()es to ensure all sides see the
streams in sync when changing keys. Hopefully fixes
loss of connection.
20040823-01
(Both) Implemented re-keying for encryption layer.
Client and server will generate new keys every 5
minutes (if the client supports it) and transmit it
using the old key. However an eavesdropper cannot make
any use of this key without knowing the user's password.
This key exchange also takes place immediately after
authentication, which means that we are now more
secure than WEP (with shared secrets), and about as
secure as PEAP or LEAP. Spooks, have a good time!
20040819-01
(Client) Very minor optimizations in HTTP connection code.
(Server) Tuned the frame pool sizes a bit.
(Server) Very subtle changes in the way sessions are timed
out, may fix some sessions still not timing out.
(Client) Removed silly "SEND UDP TO SERVER" message that
in case of a busy client wasn't even telling the truth.
20040818-01
(Both) If the timeouter firer pool is almost empty,
sleep a little bit before runq jobs are fired to
relieve the stress on the pool.
20040817-07
(Both) Fixed stupid null pointer bug introduced today.
20040817-06
(Both) Re-introduced the scheduled flag for the Runq_Runnable.
(Server) Increased timeouter firer pool to 500.
 (Client) Decreased timeouter firer pool to 50.
20040817-05
(Server) Further increased timeouter firer pool size
to keep uo with demand by runq objects.
20040817-04
(Server) Moved more parts of the load calculation code
into the synchronized brace. This avoids unnecessary
work on heavily loaded servers, as we have them now. :-)
(Both) Reduced timer pool size to 20, that seems to be
big enough and more is just a waste of threads.
(Both) Weird! Just when you thought you can't probably
do any better on the number of needed threads you find
that the whole thing you've just implemented that greatly
reduces the number of threads isn't needed in the first
place, because you already have another part of the code
that is doing exactly the same thing -- it took only
a few additional lines, and poof, another thread per
session gone!
20040817-03
(Both) Changed the way connection statistics updates are
propagated. They now use the runq as well, saving a thread
that otherwise would have to be created every second or so.
20040817-02
(Server) Fixed potential array index out of bounds
problem in message sending code.
(Client) Update status panel when connection shuts down
so that the statistics are not showing an old state.
(Client) Fixed small issue in HTTP connection code that
may cause problems with the downlink connection, depending
on the configuration.
20040817-01
(Both) Added a new language: French/Français. Thanks
to Philippe Guntz for translating the whole stuff!
(Both) Removed one thread from the stream code and
replaced it with new one-thread-per-session code.
(Client) Fixed stupid formatting bug in connection
configuration panel.
(Both) Hopefully fixed the "dropping frame for non-existing
stream" message shown when streams were rejected.
(Client) Fixed potential race condition that could lead
to some connections just not opening properly.
20040816-01
(Client) Better proxy debugging (HTTPS connection method
only).
20040813-02
(Server) Observed that it can happen that sessions are in
the user map but not in the sessions map! No idea how this
can happen but I suppose that means that they could not be
unregistered because at the time they were about to be
unregistered they did not have a username assigned (race
between authentication and termination of a session
I suppose). Added code to address this.
20040813-01
(Server) Ensured StreamRegister cannot be blocked.
20040812-02
(Server) Found this silly "sometimes only 1 session" problem.
20040812-01
(Server) More debugging.
(Client) Worked on SOCKS emulation. Will hopefully fix
problems for some client software.
20040811-03
(Both) Worked more on the FrameQueue code, should be
more stable now when shutting down a frame queue.
20040811-02
(Both) Fixed stupid problem just introduced.
20040811-01
(Server) Put in safe-catches when killing HTTP uplink and
downlink threads. We don't wait longer than 10 seconds for
them to die.
(Client) Fixed bug that made the "no pop-up" switch
non-persistent.
(Client) Hopefully finally made sure in all places that the
default language is English.
20040810-04
(Both) Put in a quirk into the bytestream CoDec that detects
negative sizes and gracefully returns if they are present.
20040810-03
(Both) Added debugging around an exception in the bytestream
 CoDec I have seen. Next time we'll see.
(Server) Found a potential threading problem and fixed it.
20040810-02
(Server) Show statistics about how many users are on which
server in the command console locate command output.
(Server) Added stop phase to what is shown in "sessions"
output to see why sessions just don't die.
20040810-01
(Both) Introduced TimeOuterFirer class that lives in a
pool and does exactly what the name suggests: it fires
a timer, without creating and destroying a thread every
time. And lo and behold, no need anymore for lightweight
timers because now all timers are pretty much lightweight. :-)
(Server) Modified defaults for ping.
(Server) String clean-ups in esoteric places.
20040809-01
(Server) More string clean-ups in console code.
(Server) Tightened some synchronized blocks and
improved the getSessions() method. It had a stupid
bug that would bite occasionally and could lead to
bizarre null pointer exceptions, including crashes
of threads that calculated the load, i.e. nearly
all. :-)
(Server) Improved ACL code, server IP matching.
(Server) Worked on traffic contingenter code.
(Server) Loads of clean-ups, making code more heap
friendly, eg. by using Misc methods instead of bulky
built-ins to parse integers.
(Server) Loads of small clean-ups in the way string
buffers are used to improve optimization by the compiler.
20040805-02
(Both) Modified the timer code to remove potential of
locking up under very strange circumstances.
20040805-01
(Server) Greatly (hope so) improved performance of HTML
CoDec. Less CPU, much less heap. Less string operations
in server code.
(Client) Fixed bug in config code that would cause
config to be saved with a wrong file name in wizard if
file name was supplied on the command line. Also improved
 string operations there.
(Both) Cleanups in bytestream codec.
(Server) Worked more on string operations in console code.
(Server) Do not announce if session is shutting down.
20040804-03
(Server) Worked on string operations in console code.
(Server) Modified EMSD_L, some streams synchronize statements
enclosed more commands than absolutely necessary, could have
been a deadly embrace and the cause for some sessions just
plainly not dying because they can't close down their strems.
20040804-02
(Server) Make the load calculation thingy from 20040804-01
actually work.
(Server) Not really a code change but I am playing with more
detailed memory sizing options to reduce the amount of CPU
spent on garbage collection.
(Server) No more explicit GC calls.
20040804-01
(Server) When waiting for a lock in the load calculation,
check after acquiring the lock if someone else has done
the calculation in the meantime. If yes, just use their
result.
(Server) Another synchronized statement when accessing
the size of the tasks structure. This is not very important
because the worst thing that could happen are false results.
(Both) Performance improvements in timeouter code, should
also ensure that the tree does not become too unbalanced.
20040803-06
(Server) Unimportant change in session management.
(Server) Modified the way locking and thread yielding is
done in the load calculation. Debugging indicates that we
may have a problem there. Also made some variables
volatile.
20040803-05
(Both) Modified the timer code again, it looks like the
changes from 20030803-03 made things worse. Do up to
50 fire()'s without releasing the lock.
20040803-04
(Both) In timeouter code, do socket close in a separate
 thread to avoid blocking. Also, ensure that autoreschedule
also works if the timeouter does not call a listener
timeout() method (not used in YF though).
20040803-03
(Both) More subtle changes in the timer code that avoids
timer process being stopped and re-started when there are
no more timers scheduled. As if that would ever happen...
:-) Also, don't Thread.yield() as long as we still hold
the lock to the timers structure, we'll be done with the
work very quickly anyway.
20040803-02
(Both) Yeah! Found another stupid non-thread-safe
variable in the timer code. This one is responsible for
timers being executed way too late.
20040803-01
(Server) Debugging code to figure out which resource
stays locked when the server crawls to a halt. Use
the "info" command and watch for console output.
(Both) Clean-ups in stream code, irrelevant.
(Server) Added missing synchronized in HTTPS connection
code. D'oh!
20040802-02
(Both) Got rid of the to_retransmit and to_close timers
in the stream code. What's not there can't cause trouble.
(Server) Don't announce unless the user has fully logged
in.
(Server) Named timers that did not have name.
(Server) Removed another small heap hog.
20040802-01
(Both) Seriously modified statistics code to use less
timers (no timers at all, in fact).
(Both) In bytestream codec, don't extend decoderbuffer
to extreme sizes if someone sends garbage.
(Both) Made bytestream codec more foolproof. It could lock
up if garbage was received.
(Both) Cancel the stream retransmit timer if the sendq
is empty, meaning that all frames have been acked by the
receiving end. No need to fire it unproductively!
20040801-01
(Server) Removed more timers that are no longer needed.
20040730-04
(Client) Worked the HTTP link code.
20040730-03
(Server) Put in workaround to make wizard work with
proxies again... d'oh!
(Server) Tuned built-in web server.
20040730-02
(Server) Fixed another bunch of missing synchronizations
that could lead to serious structure corruption and
lock-ups.
(Server, also client) Made some variables volatile that
are used and modified by several threads. Symptom: multiple
stop messages for each session when shutting down. This should
be fixed now!
20040730-01
(Both) Performance improvements (less CPU, less heap, less
blocking) in Base64 and Codec_HTML code. (Also found that
HTTPS performance is about 20% better than a few weeks
ago, but this is due to other improvements.)
(Both) Fixed serious bug in HTML CoDec that make the client
perceive every frame without data block as a keepalive frame,
effectively not understanding things like CLOSE frames etc.
This broke for example SOCKS non-passive FTP.
20040729-08
(Both) Avoid at all cost to print debugging while the
tasks map is locked in TimeOuter. This only adds severely
to the backlog!
20040729-07
(Both) Found a heap hog in TimeOuter debugging code.
May well be responsible for some of the slow-down.
20040729-06
(Server) Removed a synchronization when shutting session
down that is not needed and seems to be blocking at times.
20040729-05
(Server) Whoops, forgot synchronization where new users
are being registered with the EMSD.users hash map. Also,
session did no longer report logouts.
20040729-04
(Server) Be somewhat more harsh with streams that
 won't shut down and keep sessions from dying. We don't
wait longer than 25 seconds before we simply gun down
the stream by closing the socket and destroying the
object. This may also solve problems with idle sessions
not timing out, we'll see.
20040729-03
(Both) I think I found a potentially serious problem in the
TimeOuter code. It has something to do with long (and
double, btw.) variables not being thread-safe... *sigh*
20040729-02
(Both) Improved the way autoreschedule of timers works,
inner class does no longer use variables of outer class
method in which it is defined, this should reduce stack
usage and maybe solve one or another problem we have...
20040729-01
(Server) Modified load calculation algorithm parameters
to put more emphasize on the number of people logged in
and less on the traffic. The recent changes make the
amount of work a server has more proportional to the
number of people logged in.
(Server) Changed session periodic call to every 2 seconds
instead of every second. Should greatly reduce the server
load and roughly double the number of users that can be
supported.
20040728-06
(Server) Enormous improvements in the Messenger code...
we scheduled one timer for every packet we received that only
fired after 900 seconds! Now it's a periodic timer every
30 seconds that does all the housekeeping much more
efficiently. And what's even better: I think I plugged a
big memory hole in there.
20040728-05
(Server) Worked a lot on the messenger code, hope I
didn't break it. Should now perform better and be a lot
more heap-friendly.
20040728-04
(Both) Worked around strange null pointer exception
in frame buffer code that I do not understand yet.
(Server) More session stopping debugging code to figure out
why some sessions just won't die when told to.
20040728-03
(Both) (Hopefully) improved Base64 code to use StringBuffers
from the pool instead of byte[] arrays and StringBuffers
freshly created on the heap. Should make a big difference
 with the HTML codec!
20040728-02
(Server) Refuse to authenticate via MD5 if challenge
has not yet been sent to client.
(Both) Very minor optimizations in timer code.
20040728-01
(Server) Very minor optimizations.
(Server) Added code to exit on shutdown after 60 seconds
even if some sessions refuse to die within this time.
(Server) Added code to debug why sessions just won't die.
After 60 seconds, just before the server exits anyway,
hanging sessions are listed, including where their stop thread
got stuck. I believe it's got something to do with these
mysterious and unattributed null pointer exceptions we still
get from time to time.
(Both, but mainly server) Added a safe-catch to timer code
that kicks in when timers are fired while they are firing.
This can happen in rare cases and can lead to timer code
blocking for a long time.
20040727-05
(Server) Use standard pings instead of large pings,
-s can only be used as root and the server is no
longer running as root.
20040727-04
(Server) Fixed silly bug introduced some weeks ago that
would keep the server from recommending alternative servers.
(Server) Nag people with very old clients that force
me to keep a truckload of old rubbish in the server
code to upgrade.
(Server) Cache alternative servers so we don't have to
recalculate the array every second and thrash the heap.
20040727-03
(Server) Still seeing sessions that won't die, worked
on this.
(Server) Very minor performance tweaks.
20040727-02
(Server) Show which ping destinations are currently
unreachable.
20040727-01
 (Client) Improved performance of SOCKS faking code,
also reduced memory hogging.
(Both) Better IP parsing code that does not fragment
the heap and is (of course) faster.
(Both) Made logging code faster by not synchronizing
unnecessarily.
(Both) Fixed autoreschedule code, safety measuer there
to avoid scheduling in the past was flawed.
(Both) Fixed potential null pointer exception in IP
parsing code.
20040726-04
(Server) Made ident port configurable and fixed a bug
that would cause connections to not time out.
20040726-03
(Both) Minor performance tweaks in StreamRegisterHash code.
Also limited the absolute maximum number of streams to
1023, this will improve performance as some operations
with the StreamRegister still are of linear complexity.
(Both) Removed another memory hog by moving code into
the StreamsRegister that would otherwise have required
the creation of an array containing all streams. This
is done every second for every session, mind you!
20040726-02
(Both) Avoid locking the timeouter element when firing
the timer to avoid locking the main timer process.
We just need to se if we can do without.
20040726-01
(Both, but mainly server) Show if timers are scheduled
in the past. Maybe that's the reason for the lock hogging
problems?
(Server) Removed more unnecessary timers from the code
and replaced them by call hooks in the session periodic
code.
(Both) Save some system calls by passing the time along with
method calls.
(Both) Made connection statistics periodic timer autoReschedule()
instead of periodic(). Less precise, more foolproof.
(Both) I think I've made the connection statistics listener
hook code somewhat more clever by using two vectors that I keep
instead of one hash set that I threw away everytime.
(Both) Modified ACL code and removed big memory hog in there.
20040719-01
(Both, but mainly server) Added some debugging to see if
too many timers are scheduled.
20040718-01
(Server) Reqrote session timeout code to not use a
separate timer.
20040717-01
(Both) Very minor change to the StreamStats code that
should still save noticeably on CPU on busy servers.
(Both) Bit of pooling around the FrameBuffer. Don't know
if it's any good or bad, we will see. Most of the code
is not used at the moment though, only the IntegerTreeMap
pool code is used at the moment.
(Both) Fixed newly introduced bug in Stream code that
would make streams not properly close down immediately
but time out.
20040716-02
(Both) Found another stupid bug in the timeouter code
that can lead to autorescheduled threads being
rescheduled over and over again although they have
actually been cancelled. This is why the server still
comes to a screeching halt at times. Well, came I hope.
20040715-04, 20040716-01
(Client) Make sure the wizard sets the language properly
and spares people from having to read German when they
probably cannot.
(Server) When session has no streams, stop automatic
rescheduling of streams-periodic timer.
(Both) Ensure autoreschedule does not schedule in the
past when the system is overloaded.
20040715-03
(Both, but mainly Server) Avoid too many debug messages
in synchronized timer reschedule code that only make
the situation worse.
20040715-02
(Both) Changed a little something that should make
interactive work more pleasant again.
20040715-01
(Both) Re-worked the whole ACK timing to make it less
bulky.
 (Both) Re-worked statistics timing to ensure that missed
events are not made up for. This could lead to ever more
backlog and finally to a screeching halt.
(Client) Fixed bug that could only occur with extremely
good connections (i.e. server and client in the same
network).
20040714-06
(Both) Slightly modified the code in order not to
hog the lock for too long.
20040714-05
(Both) Trying to keep the lock on the tasks map
with the thread emptying the queue as long as it is
behind schedule. This will hopeully make the code
behave better.
20040714-04
(Server) Won't tell you but it's about becoming more
resistant against DoS. :-)
20040714-03
(Both) Made threads working queues until they are
empty less selfish by forcing them to yield() the
CPO after each iteration. Hopefully this will reduce
waiting time for other urgent threads.
20040714-02
(Both) TimeOuter work to improve performance and
reduce heap fragmentation.
20040714-01
(Server) TimeOuter debugging.
20040713-06
(Client) Fixed obviously long outstanding null pointer
exception in HTML CoDec.
(Server) Minor string work.
20040713-05
(Server) Removed more useless debugging.
(Server) Wait a bit if authentication fails before it is
reported to the client and the connection is closed. This
should relieve the server of the burden of clients trying
100 times per second.
(Both) Greatly improved performance of HTTP CoDec.
20040713-04
 (Both) Removed loads of timers (2 per stream) that are continually
rescheduled. They're not needed, we can do it differently. This
will hopefully greatly relieve scheduling overhead because the
timer reschedule code uses synchronized a lot.
20040713-03
(Server) Removed some of the more useless debugging that
only slows down the server.
20040713-02
(Client) Ensure the default language is English.
20040713-01
(Server) Added network tester that ensures reachability of
chosen targets, and increases reported server load if a
configured number of these targets are not or badly
reachable.
(Both) Slight modification to the timer code that should
greatly reduce the number of locks that have to be acquired
with hopefully no negative side effects. Busy servers
are getting behind running the timer, and a backlog of
up to 30 seconds on timers can't be good. :-)
20040712-07
(Server) Avoid leaving connectivity information on the servers
unless we are debugging.
20040712-06
(Server) Do not announce users to other servers that appear
to be idle for an overly long period (30 secs). This should
avoid users being kicked out of other servers when the
current server still has not timed out the user.
20040712-05
(Both) Rephrased some of the ConnectionStatistics code to make
it less obese.
(Both) Be less picky with timers firing immediately, even 10
in a row. This can well happen with negative delays of up to
some milliseconds without unjust cause. Reporting it only
makes the backlog worse. :-)
20040712-04
(Both) Added more efficient alternatives to cancel() in timer code
to cancel automatic reschedules. Only used in StreamStats code for
now, and I think in ConnectionStatistics as well.
20040712-03
(Both) Worked on timer code, added periodic and auto-rescheduled
timers. Also added lightweight timers again, don't think it was
 responsible for the instabilities.
20040712-02
(Both) Fixed silly bug in StringBufferPool code.
(Server) More StringBuffer pooling.
(Server) Removed some useless debugging.
20040712-01
(Both) Modified logging code so that it accepts StringBuffer
as well.
(Both) Added string buffer pooling. Not everywhere yet but
already in the most important places.
20040710-01
(Server) Catch bad UDP frame info and don't throw exceptions.
20040709-03
(Both) Added debugging that shows when too many accepts
happen on forwarded ports.
20040709-02
(Both) Removed synchronized from timer's fire method.
20040709-01
(Both) Removed "synchronized" from fire() method of timer code.
Instead, I used a "synchronized(this)" on the only statement I
believe to be critical. We have to avoid that a timer fires
while it is being rescheduled but it's no problem if it is
being rescheduled while it fires. :-) Also, the "lightweight"
timer stuff is useless and dangerous. There is not a single
place in YF where it could safely be used so I deactivated it
again.
20040708-05
(Both) Worked on the timer code. I had a strange feeling
in my guts that something's wrong there, and I think I have
found a possibility how 3 (three) interacting threads could
cause problems if two were modifying the same timer. It's
highly unlikely but so is winning the lottery, and it
happens nearly every Saturday. Germans have a proberb saying
that horses have been seen barfing in front of the
pharmacy. Doesn't matter if you don't get it, neither do
the Germans. :-)
20040708-04
(Server) More connection debugging.
20040708-03
 (Both) Worked around a situation where hundreds of timers
could fire at the same time in the StreamStats code.
(Both) Modified scheduling of retransmit timers to avoid
many of them firing at the same time if a user with a
hanging session has hundreds of streams open.
(Both) Introduced "lightweight" timers that do not
spawn threads when firing. They are only used for timer
events that cannot block and that cannot run for extended
periods. (Coders beware, this is a very dangerous feature
and you should know what you are doing if you do.)
(Client) Servers are now all in the your-freedom.de domain,
updated all references.
20040708-01 to 02
(Both, mainly relevant for server) Timer code debugging to
find tasks executed behind schedule in a row. The occasional
message should not alarm you, it _can_ happen. It just should
not happen dozens of times over and over again.
(Server) Added code to track down unusually high numbers
of socket accepts. Just want to know if this is what is causing
high CPU load at times.
20040707-01
(Server) Added timestamps when load calculation is shown.
Also added stream count and system load.
(Client) Small changes in HTTPS connection code that should
fix a problem with the STOP button not working in some cases.
20040706-02
(Server) Add IP to what Google will display. The client will
later be modified to use this information. This is for places
where DNS will not work at all.
20040706-01
(Both) Reduced maximum frame size to 8192 bytes. Note that this
is a change incompatible with older clients! Should they ever
send such a big frame it will be dropped. But frankly, this
has only happened a few times in months of server operation.
(Both) More different frame pools, more frames of different sizes.
Just want to see if it helps any with bursty frame needs. It's
more important to the server than to the client though.
(Server) Even bigger frame pools to deal with increasing demand
on the servers.
20040705-02 to -03
(Client) NTLM development.
(Both) Compiled with 1.4.2_05
 (Server) Increased buffer pools even further.
20040705-01
(Both) Very minor optimizations in FrameQueue code.
(Both) Bit more synchronization in FrameBuffer and
StreamsRegister code that may help with very rare stream
drops.
(Both) Removed "magic numbers" from Frame pool code. Don't
see why we should only have 5 queues and have that number
set in stone. :-)
(Server) Increased somd frame pools, reduced others in size,
to match up with observations.
20040702-03
(Server) Worked on connection acception code to reduce CPU
impact of DoS.
(Server) If some doofus uses HTTP on an HTTPS port, we fudge
it to make it work. We may later send him a message to
have him fix his configuration, but then again: who cares?
It works now. :-)
(Client) When user changes protocol, set port to this protocol's
default port. This avoids mistakes.
20040702-02
(Client) Avoid hundreds of connections per second if using
HTTP on a server that does not understand our protocol.
(Server) Delay 1s before closing bad connection.
20040702-01
20040701-01 to -07
(Client) Worked on WebConnection code NTLM authentication.
20040628-01
(Both) Fixed potential ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
in ConnectionStatistics code.
(Server) Report resused connections (so they get time-stamped).
(Server) Better reporting of bad and throughput connections.
20040624-03
(Server) Better DoS protection code, also fixes problems
with connections hanging before anything could be transmitted.
20040624-02
(Client) Relaxed syntax checking of proxy server responses
 plus debugging on stdout.
(Both) Very minor change in the FrameQueue code to make
this absolutely bullet-proof and thread-safe.
20040624-01
(Server) Inform client of server location (country).
(Client) Display country of server location if known.
(Both) More stream optimizations.
(Server) Limit number of pending connections per IP address
until the session timeout kicks in.
20040623-02
(Server) Reporter optimizations.
(Client) Minor optimizations in Google search code.
(Server) More pool size tuning.
(Server) Put connections through based on port and
type, not only type.
20040623-01
(Server) Further increased pool sizes.
(Server) Added on-the-fly configuration for many important
config parameters.
20040622-09
(Both) Fixed more frame leakage.
20040622-08
(Both) Small bug in frame queue code: frames should only
be recycled there when frame queue is stopped if they are
marked to be recycled when dequeued. Otherwise there are
still references somewhere else, eg. in a frame buffer.
Not that this can really do havoc, it's just good style
this way.

(Both) Introduced silly bug in 20040622-0x that leads to frame

leakage and streams not closing down properly
20040622-07
(Client) Removed debugging message that I forgot in the code.
(Client) Fixed bouncing problem where the client bounces
between several servers looking for the best one.
20040622-06
 (Both) Fixed synchronization bug in frame queue code,
implementation was definitely not thread-safe.
20040622-05
(Both) Size of frames to be used as buffers when reading
from stream is no longer only dependent on connection
throughput but also on what the stream used last time
and if it used all of the available space. In other words:
less active streams use smaller frames despite what the
connection suggests to conserve memory.
(Server) Full GC is only done every 5 minutes now instead
of every 10 seconds. Memory usage improvements have made
this possible.
(Both) I think I found a problem in the stream code that
could lead to a frame being modified after it has been
recycled.
20040622-04
(Both) Fixed potential race conditions in both CoDecs.
20040622-03
(Both) Fixed bug in HTTP codec.
20040622-02
(Both, but mainly server) Fixed more frame "leakage".
(Client) Fixed frame dump code, was broken after recent
change to the frame code.
20040622-01
(Both) Recycle frames when tearing down non-empty frame buffers
and frame queues. Also recycle duplicate frames in buffers and
also superseded ACKs.
(Both) More small optimizations.
20040621-06
(Server) Increased some pools a bit more.
20040621-05
(Both) More frame recycling.
20040621-04
(Both) More frame recycling.
20040621-03
(Server) Messenger optimizations.
(Server) If the load is really high, reduce the queue sizes
 somewhat so that not too many frames are kept in memory.
(Server) Added more frame pool debugging to control panel.
20040621-02
(Server) Better locking around load calculation to avoid
two threads calculating load at the same time. Happens
only rarely but is a waste of CPU anyway. Threads that
use the load can wait a bit anyway.
(Both) Found a freshly introduced bug that would throw
an exception when sending error messages.
20040621-01
(Both) Loads of clean-ups and more synchronization in
critical places (for operations that are not as uncritical
as I used to think).
(Server) Finally fixed the problem of HTTP connections
sometimes not working because of null pointer exceptions
or strange, unexplained authentication failures. It was
a race condition, of course.
(Server) Added control panel command "show buffers".
20040619-01
(Both) Frame size hack: use 5 frame pools for frames of
different sizes instead of always sung maximum sized
frames. Saves loads of memory, especially on the server.
20040617-02
(Client) Check out the Languages :-)
20040617-01
(Both) Dramatically reduced the number of expensive string
operations by using properly sized StringBuffers instead
of the concatenation operator +.
20040616-03
(Both) Slight changes to connection statistics timing that will
like relieve the server of bursty CPU load caused by all statistics
being updated at the same time (which is nonsense). The client
will not benefit from this though - it only has one connection.
20040616-02
(Client) Fixed bug in Windows client that caused the YF window
to stay hidden even if "show window" was selected from the context
menu.
20040616-01
(Both) Subtle change in ACK timing, better when many streams
are open at the same time.
 (Server) When forwarding streams, shut down the ports first,
then the streams. Otherwise remote port forwards coming in
at a constant rate will stop the session from dying.
(Both) Fixed bug in frame debugging code.
(Both) Specialized versions of TreeMap for int and long keys
will save us from having to create thousands of key objects per
second.
(Both) Fixed a bug in TimeOuter that could definitely be the
culprit for server hangs. It very likely is.
20040615-06
(Both) Fixed stupid bug in delayed acknowledge code. The
bug slowed down single streams substantially, while not
affecting overall throughput.
(Both) Better queue adjustment code no longer triggered
by periodic timer but by availability of new connection
statistics (on which it is based).
20040615-05
(Server) Stream close down code now a little bit less thrashy
with CPU.
20040615-04
(Both) Radically changed the buffering concept in frames.
Expect the worst...
20040615-03
(Server) Cosmetic fix in control port code.
(Server) Stricter synchronization for incoming connections
in HTTPS code.
20040615-02
(Server) Added debugging code around garbage collection to
see if it is ever running for an inordinate time and
causing problems for the timer code, or if it's the other
way round.
(Server) Added debugging code around session stopping code
to see if sessions with same name are run in same object
when there are multiple stopping announcements in a row.
20040615-01
(Server) Some debugging around duplicate login detection code
added to verify a strange thing I've seen in the logs. It's
got nothing to do with the code there itself but it seems
that two sessions have not been treated as equal though they
had the same session id? Has left to a left-over user map
entry.
20040614-05
(Server) Adapted load calculation once more. "uptime" is now
taken into account (Unix servers only).
(Client) Added missing translation.
20040614-04
(Server) Quirk to suppress non-sense "unknown idle sec" display
(Messenger) Fixed bug that dropped duplicate ACKs... stupid.
Irrelevant for the server and the client though.
(Server) Ignore user announcements that originate from ourselves.
Fixes the "duplicate connection" problem.
20040614-03
(Server) Activated periodic full GC again to see if
it makes a difference with regards to VM stability.
20040614-02
(Both) Still tweaking the timer code. It appears to me
that one of the recent changes to the timer code, the
precision feature, is causing the problem. Reason is
that the implementation always rounded down instead of
up, potentially leaving timers to fire immediately.
Not really sure about this but a simple "+1" seems
to have fixed the problem of one thread eating loads
of CPU. :-)
20040614-01
(Both) Subtle change to timer code that may fix a race
condition. Not sure if there is any though.
20040611-04
(Both, but mostly server) Fixed horrible bug in stream open
code that is the cause for so many open requests failing.
20040611-03
(Both) Came across a problem with a recent change to event
scheduling. It's not a good idea to use large precision
intervals because this will cause loads of events to be
scheduled at the same time, causing other threads to
be starved, causing all kinds of havoc. I suppose. If there
are no screeching halts of the server anymore we'll know
why.
20040611-02
(Server) Fixed thread creation race condition in HTTPS code that
could put the server into an illegal state if a client opened
connections in fast repetition and the server was loaded.
20040611-01
(Both) Timer code improvements. No fixes, just less CPU and memory
usage.
20040610-08
(Both) More timer code fixes. This time the bug could cause the timer
main process to consume huge amounts of CPU when events were scheduled
to be executed in rapid succession.
(Server) Have provisions to catch firing timers for sessions that
are no longer valid. This can happen because of the firing timers
running in separate threads.
20040610-07
(Server) Obviously timers are firing for invalid sessions,
need to debug this.
20040610-06
(Server) Still more session termination stuff.
20040610-05
(Server) Cosmetics.
(Server) Be sure the session timeout is always scheduled, even if
not a single frame is received.
(Both) Fixed problem in timer code that could lead to timers not
being removed from schedule when fired and fired all over again.
20040610-04
(Server) Added ability to control connection to kill by
session id, not only kick by username.
20040610-03
(Server) Found a freshly introduced bug in session timeout code.
20040610-02
(Server) Added shutdown code to put throughs.
20040610-01
(Server) Re-worked session shutdown code once more, also
added UDP forwarder shutdown code that was missing. Also
added code to refuse new streams and forwardings while
session is shutting down.
20040609-02, -03, -04
(Server) Worked more on the session stop code to finally
get the sessions to die when they should. Think I've
found what's wrong... had the sessions registered in two
places instead of one and was only cleaning up one properly.
20040609-01
(Client) Added domain field in wizard and configuration panel
in preparation for adding NTLM support. Actually it may already
work for HTTPS, but it is untested.
20040608-04
(Both) Timer code clean-ups, should make it a bit faster
and use less memory and intermediate objects.
20040608-03
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exceptions in reporter
code (sessions logging out that have not authenticated yet).
20040608-02
(Server) More messenger debugging.
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception on protocol
violations.
20040608-01
(Server) Modified the load calculation algorithm to place more
emphasis on the number of open streams.
(Client) Added file_extip parameter in config that takes a
file name as argument. The client writes the server's external
IP to this file. Useful for scripting.
(Client) Fixed a potential null pointer exception in UDP
forwarding code.
20040607-04, -05
(Server) Fixed really serious bug in session management. Sessions
were not properly associated to session IDs which could lead to
dangling sessions still eating resources and reconnection of
sessions not working.
20040607-03
(Server) Debugging.
20040607-02
(Client) Try not to overrun server's limitation of new
streams per second. Won't do us any good anyway, the server
will not open the connections any faster if we do.
20040607-01
(Both) Fixed bug in stream registry code that would have
kicked in and thrown an exception when more than 2046
streams would have been forwarded from the server to the
client.
 (Client) Clean-ups in connection code.
(Client) Modified connection code to allow for test-only
secondary connections that do nothing else but measure the
round trip time. We will use this in the future to make
more informed decisions in server selection that prefer
"close" servers if they are not too overloaded.
20040604-02
(Both) Implemented round trip time measurement. In the very
near future the client will use this to influence its choice
of server based on previous experience. This way people will
get connected preferentially to servers which have worked
well for them in the past. Currently this is not used for
anything but you will see an informational log message every
minute.
(Client) Recycle more received frames, including incoming
open requests and messages.
20040604-01
(Server) Added debugging to track down a strange problem
with sockets.
(Client) Made the message log slightly less memory intensive.
20040602-04
(Both) Fixed bug in HTML codec that breaks SOCKS BIND.
(Server) Make sure BIND_LISTENING frames are queued in front
of ACKs of the same stream to ensure they are received in
the correct order and the SOCKS protocol is not violated.
This may fix some problems we've seen with some applications.
(Both) Fixed bug in queueing of CLOSE frames that could
lead to CLOSE requests not being received by the other end.
(Both - but will be most effective in server) When outgoing half
of link is blocked and stream data can't be enqueued, tear down
stream without waiting for an ACK to the CLOSE request. This
should make shutdowns a lot faster!
(Both) Recycle superseded ACKs.
20040602-03
(Both) Fixed major bugs in Frame recycling code, should solve
problems with hanging and dropping connections.
20040602-02
More strict locking for Frame reusage code.
20040602-01
(Both) Fixed very stupid bug in Frame creation code. Symptom:
"ignoring bad open request" messages and popup windows with
 empty messages.
(Client) Fixed bug in Wizard's server selection code.
20040601-02, 03
(Server) Fixed cat-bites-tail problem in threading.
(Server) Fixed stupid sessions that would not die.
20040601-01
(Both) Implemented different streams register hash that should
perform somewhat better and that does not need to create any
objects.
20040529-01
(Both) Increased throughput by 65% just by doing optimisations
(algorithmic optimisations) in the TimeOuter.
More to come!
20040527-01
(Server) Worked on messenger MessagePort code.
(Server) Think I've found a way to avoid some of the null
pointer exceptions we are seeing in the timer code.
(Server) Less silly debugging
20040526-01
(Server) Worked on getting rid of these null entries.
(Server) Cache result of load calculation for 30 seconds
to save a little bit on CPU.
20040525-03
(Client) Rewritten the authentication code again. Hopefully
more reliable like this.
20040525-02
(Client) Fixed authentication problem that occurred if the
server was restarted during a session.
(Client) Client now actually pops up a window and stops trying
if the server says that the authentication failed. :-)
(Client) Gracefully stop connection if server does not offer
a challenge.
(Server) Fixed exception that occurs when there are no peers
configured but messages to relay.
(Client) Really try alternative server if current server fails
(HTTPS only for now).
20040525-01
(Both) Implemented challenge response authentication instead
of plaintext. This is a little bit more secure albeit not
protected against replay attacks. Note that it is a feature
of Your Freedom to keep everything consistent while the
session is alive... subsequent requests could come from
different IPs and could also not be in sync about their
notion of the challenge if it changed mid-way. (HTTP for
an example... it uses two different connections for uplink
and downlink.)
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exception in UDP code.
20040524-02
(Server) Implemented an upper limit for new streams per
second to reduce CPU load on server when all the bit
torrents hit it. Does not really hurt the users but
helps the server a great deal (or so I hope).
20040524-01
(Client) Better config checking.
20040521-04
(Server) Implemented remote shutdown.
20040521-03
(Server) Fixed bug in messenger that kicked in with multipart
frames.
(Client) Avoid changing servers more often than every minute.
20040521-02
(Server) It appears that non-resolving host names caused
hangs in HTTPS mode. Probably due to a bug in the send message
code there, to be investigated. For now the message has been
suppressed.
20040521-01
(Server) Added missing "synchronized" in messenger to
avoid exceptions on rare occasions (ArrayStoreException)
(Server) Added automated distribution of profiles through
messenger.
20040519-02
(Client) Fixed About panel by working around a potential race
condition.
20040519-01
(Server) Log periodic user announcements.
 (Client) When saving messages, directories should now be
displayed even when .txt filter is on.
20040518-02
(Client) Deactivating the "choose best server" checkbox
did not come to effect until the client was restarted.
Well, at least it was perceived like this because the
internal structures only expired after 15 minutes.
(Server) regex matching in locate code
20040518-01
(Server) Less debugging.
20040517-06
(Server) More tracker fixes.
20040517-05
(Both) Fixed potential exception in bytestream CoDec that
can be triggered by protocol violations (only).
(Server) More tracker stuff.
(Server) Fixed messenger bug.
20040517-04
(Server) More tracker stuff. Also chased the **** proxy IP address
appearing in announcements.
(Client) Trifles only.
20040517-03
(Server) UserTracker. Still basic but should do.
(Client) Avoid endlessly reconnecting when current server
actually is the best...
20040517-02
(Server) Worked around stupid bug that made server report
wrong identity.
20040517-01
(Client) When server shuts down and alternative servers
are available and the user has enabled automatic server
selection, the client re-connects to a different server.
(Server) Recommend other servers even if current is
best and let client decide.
20040513-03
 (Server) Added another panel called "traffic".
20040513-02
(Server) Added traffic contingenter code.
20040513-01
(Server) Exceptions during shutdown should now display in the
console connection instead of crashing the thread. :-)
(Client) Another hidden feature that I will tell the public
about later. :-)
20040512-03
Better server selection in wizard.
20040512-02
(Server) Stability quirks. (sic.)
(Client) Fixed bug that caused configuration panels not to
save changes when data in other panels has also changed.
(Server) Implemented connection backoff. We need this to fight
spammers.
20040512-01
(Client) Added config file parameter "initial_post_size" and
"minimum_post_size". It should be fairly obvious what
they do. Defaults are 10000000 and 20000, respectively.
For now these can only be modified manually in the config
file. Use them to speed up your HTTP connections with
proxies that do not allow large POSTs.
(Server) Added messenger reporter code.
(Server) Fixed bug in control console that could trigger
an exception under rare circumstances.
20040511-01
(Server) Fixed bug in SOCKS BIND code that caused duplicate
SOCKS connect messages, the first one being wrong.
(Server) Fixed potential null pointer exceptions in server
that could be the cause for sessions not dying, console port
commands hanging infinitely etc.
(Client) Added checkbox to switch off encryption.
20040510-01
Fixed SOCKS BIND problem that has sneaked into the code with
other fixes. (server)
Added About panel. It basically displays a HTML page with
stylesheet and graphics if desired, so if anyone would like
 to come up with something more snappy, please go ahead. :-)
20040507-02
Fixed initial wizard not properly updating active config
in client (symptom: the buttons would not change).
Fixed problems in Wizard with finding servers through
proxy.
Fixed Ports Panel not being properly updated after Wizard
run.
Added more debugging to server and worked around potential
lockup problem in console.
20040507-01
20040506-02
Fixed potential NullPointerException that could occur if
a timer fired while the user was logging out. (server)
Fixed uplink buffer size adjustment problem that caused
slow uplink speeds. The queues should now quickly adjust
to the traffic requirements.
20040506-01
Client now shows external IP. Only works with server versions
20040506-01 and above.
20040505-03
Show language of user in control panel, important now that
we have an international group of users that we don't want to
bother with German messages. Also show source IP.
In client, only try to get info from the registry when running
on a Windows system. Made wizard crash on Linux systems.
20040505-01, -02
More debugging in server for session and stream termination
Port assignment per server
20040430-01
Wizard should not be able to find proxy settings on Windows
boxes even if they use a primitive configuration. I may
implement proxy.pac later as well...
20040429-03
Pop-up messages show date and time.
20040429-02
Fixed java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
at de.resolution.emsc.EMSC_SC.getStreamIds(EMSC_SC.java:117)
 Fixed encoding problems, it's all UTF-8 now, also in the protocol.
20040429-01
Minor fix in session handling.
20040428-01
Hopefully fixed some bugs around old config values being
used after the config has been altered in the GUI.
Server: fixed bug in messenger's adduser code.
Fixed another potential null pointer exception in console.
Fixed another potential null pointer in client.
More work on making sure sessions actually die.
Added SOCKS DNS redirection. Very useful for those using
socksify under Unix or any broken SOCKS application that
believes the system's configured DNS servers would be
reachable via the Freedom server... many programmers just
are boneheads aren't they? (Works only for UDP though.)
20040427-05
Fixed bug in load calculation on server.
Added missing icons in WIN-XP LAF.
20040427-04
Added totals in console's streams listings.
Fixed stupid bug that would make the server crash on shutdown
when no-one has ever been logged in.
20040427-03
Added switch in configuration panel to avoid using DNS and
try to use IP addresses instead whenever possible. Helps
people with broken or non-existing DNS to avoid using DNS
by using server's official IP instead of name.
Added info command in control console.
Fixed queueing problem that could block the client from
logging on again after a connection failure if in the
meantime the still open streams have filled up the sendq.
20040427-02
Fixed problem reported by P2P users regarding SOCKS
port freezing up at times. Sorry folks, that was
plain and simply stupid.
20040427-01
 Server now has an "identity": an official name and an
IP that it communicates to the connecting client. The
client can then use this name and IP for subsequent
connection attempts to the same server instead of
potentially using a DNS round robin name and ending up
being on the wrong server. This official server name
can be configured; if not configured, DNS is asked for
the name of the IP belonging to the client's connection.
If none of this is successful, the IP is used instead.
Client now shows the official name of the server.
20040423-02
Abstraction of the "Stream" class. This is now an interface.
Reason being that I want to completely re-write it and I
want to keep as much of the code ready-to-be-used whenever
I decide that I have to fall back to the old code.
20040423-01
Fixed bug in FrameQueue that could cause enqueueing threads
to live longer than they should as long as some other thread
is still able to enqueue, for example ACKs (which are
enqueued even if the queue is full). Same in FrameBuffer.
This should solve the problem of "zombie" threads we've
seen in the server (and it will also fix this problem in
the client, where we haven't observed it :-).
20040422-01
"no pop-ups" checkbox added
put "ems.resolution.de" as default server in wizard
Even with "follow server recommendations" disabled, the
client could use server information learned from the server
to connect to a different server when opening the connection
again (eg. after losing it or after the user manually disabled
it). This is fixed. When the checkbox is disabled, the client
now properly ignores all such messages from the server.
20040420-01
Removed unnecessary LAF message on startup.
I believe I have fixed the bandwidth problems now. Please
check if the proper bandwidths are used now without having
to readjust the sliders.
Fixed obscure NullPointerException that could appear with
SOCKS emulated ports. But don't ask me how on earth the
server can violate the protocol in a way that it happens;
it's probably some strange error condition when connecting to
the destination host. The client should be able to cope with
it anyway.
Made the client to never reuse stream ids in new connections to
avoid problems with his and the server's notion of the current
session.
20040419-02
Configuration panels revisited. Check it out! There's a few
new options there that you might be interested in. And the
ports configuration panel is gone for good.
Hopefully fixed a -well- bug in the reporter with server
port forwards.
Added automatic contingent monitoring.
20040419-01
info.txt will now display server load
Message windows should really appear now where they
belong and not behind application windows.
Status panel now correctly shows tunnel host when using
a different host than the configured one initially.
20040416-02
Fixed frontend not noticing loss of connection due to server
shutting down.
Minor cosmetic fix in server debug messages ("null" at beginning
of log messages while username is not known).
Worked on the server state things. It seems it is still not
barring people out when told so. Need to investigate.
Fixed messenger bugs. ACKs now working. Added originator port
to the protocol to allow ACKs to be sent to the correct port.
NOTE THAT THIS MAKES THIS AND FUTURE VERIONS INCOMPATIBLE WITH
EARLIER VERSIONS!
20040416-01
Increased the accept queue depth of client ports from 10 to
100 to work around problems observed with client apps that
are infamous for opening a vast amount of connections within
very short time (a.k.a. P2P).
Server now sends recommendations when client closes last
stream and other servers would be preferrable for the user.
More server redirection stuff in client and server. All
untested of course but I'll be the guinea pig. :-)
More translations of messages.
"Exit" bug solved.
Put in hack to raise message windows.
20040415-04
Put remote reporter in, yet untested but should work.
20040415-03
Server now reports on login/logout/stream opened/stream closed
to file if configured for it. Foundation for report reporting
is there, implementing it is merely a matter of an hour.
20040415-02
Client should more behave like a native XP application now
on XP. Can't test it myself, can't seem to get any Windows
LAF on any of my boxes at the moment but it seems to work
for others... oh well.
20040415-01
Server now recommends other servers if it believes the user
would benefit from using them instead or if the admin has
put the server in a non-desirable mode (barred, deprecated,
down).
Client can follow these server recommendations provided that
there are no open streams (or the connection failed permanently).
Note that this feature is currently disabled by default and
can only be enabled by the knowledgeable. It will become a
checkbox soon but only after it is tested.
Note that all this is incomplete and alpha code; there is
a reason why it is not enabled by default.
Server now logging with user name instead of session id in
most cases.
Added missing translations in the server.
Some code beautification measures in the Stream class.
20040414-02
Changed the connection algorithm a bit. Stream tries to connect
to remote addresses in the order the nameservice has the IPs,
first with a timeout of 1 second, then 5 seconds, then 30
seconds. If there is only one IP, a timeout of 30 seconds is used.
Added a few translations that I simply forgot.
20040414-01
Cosmetics.
Taught server to not only connect to the first IP the name
service offers but to try all of them instead, with a 5 second
timeout for each. This should be good enough in practice.
Btw. this should fix the AOL problem: their first IP in the
list for toc.oscar.aol.com is not responding!
20040413-04
Made stream ids unique per session: server assigns
only odds while client assigns only evens. This way
 they don't step on each other's toes.
Server calls garbage collection every 5 seconds now
(but only when streams are closing down). This should
make the server run more smoothly in busy periods.
20040413-03
Fixed bug in profile reading in the client that caused
the list of forwarded ports to be -um- incomplete.
20040413-02
Alright, there is some potential that updating the ports
in the new panel actually changes the configuration now. :-)
Sorry about that, I was hacking this in the wee hours this
morning on the train.
20040413-01
New panel for adding and removing port forwards on the
fly (i.e. while the connection is open) is now working.
Try it out and enjoy. And of course, please report all
problems. I would also like to hear your opinion if
there is any sense in keeping the ports panel in the
configuration section -- I mean it's functionally
identical, just this new one is always available.
Hopefully fixed the profile panel that would sometimes
not update properly on reception of profile information.
Implemented server port forwarding in the client. I must
have forgotten this somehow... duh. And I thought I had
tested it. Probably had and it got lost somehow.
Removed more HOG code that now is the no. 1 cause of
server crashes. :-)
20040408-04
Disabled some of the hog messages that may pester people
and that are in places where code is legally executed very
often. These code snipplets are now believed to be safe.
Cleaned up the port code in the client. (Well, actually also
in the server.) This is the foundation to making ports
configurable on-the-fiy and not only while the connection
is stopped!
Fixed bug in input validator for numbers.
Layed the foundation for immediate change of local services.
20040408-03
Details... pay attention to details... a broken frame could
still make the CoDec go boom. Should be fixed now in both
server and client (you probably noticed that the server was
down again? :-)
20040408-02
language cleanups
version info now kept in separate file in JAR, also
separately for server and client
ipconfig/ifconfig selected based on os.name
20040408-01
Right! Found another hog in a place where I would not
have thought possible... in the CoDec. But when I was
looking closer it was blatantly obvious. Please upgrade
your clients as well as they are also affected by this
bug.
20040407-03
Fixed bug in server port forwarding (only last configured
port worked).
Fixed (really!) lost port forward problem in client.
Volker, that's for you!
20040407-02
Loads of thread debugging and messenger stuff added.
20040407-01
More server side hog detection code again. :-(
20040406-05
Fixed bugs in messenger (server only).
20040406-04
Unified session tracking in the different protocol modules
(read: moved Map object to abstract class and adapted
implementations to not barf if they see instances of each
other).
Calculate server load and tell other servers about it in the
HELLO message so they can sort their recommendations once we
implement it.
20040406-03
Removed Hog code from TimeOuter (these functions are run
very often, this is not an indication of a bug, and it's
proven good code by now).
Made client save the slider settings in the config.
Now showing rates in kilobits instead of bits per second
(bandwidth sliders).
20040406-02
 Fixed a stupid problem causing an exception for people
with server port forwards (like me).
20040406-01
Server learned foreign languages.
Started to put Messenger into server. With Messenger
in place, servers can keep track of each other's existence
and are able to enforce the one-account-one-session
policy across servers. We will also distribute account
and policy updates with this feature.
Implemented the user-kickout thingy but haven't tested it.
Put in workaround to the HOG problem found last night.
I'm not happy with it though but it should not cause
severe problems (worst case: dead thread idling around).
20040405-02
Streams should no longer get stuck in the "Closed"
state if something goes wrong between EMS and the
client app when doing SOCKS.
Range checking when entering ports. (Using bad values
causes strange effects... including exceptions.)
20040405-01
Put in SO_REUSEADDR in socket code, should fix the
"port in use" problem.
20040402-01
Hopefully made source address detection on MacOS-X work.
Stupid BSD. But then again it made me find a much more
elegant way of testing if a connection originates from
the local system. :-)
20040401-04
Added XMPP protocol detection code. Just add "xmpp" behind
an ACL (as with IRC and "irc"), eg.
acl_dst permit any 5190 xmpp
acl_dst permit any 5448 xmpp
Also detects SSH ("ssh")
20040401-03
Added even more hog detection code to the server HTTPS code
and moved some code a bit -- hopefully this will fix a
problem with endless CPU consumption.
20040401-02
Hopefully better checking of config before allowing connection
(i.e. enabling tje button).
 Fixed null pointer exception in "scrollDown()". Removed
stupid "save" debugging message.
20040401-01
"Sreams" -> "Streams"
"resetting dequeued" debug message removed
Fixed ordering mistake in profile panel.
Made buttons in configuration window behave reasonably withe
wizard is open.
Hopefully the proxy auth credentials will now be requested
in the wizard, I cannot really test it. The wizard should
first notice that it could connect the proxy but that the
proxy requires authentication, then request the data from
the user.
State of autoscroll checkbox should now be stored in the
config. Same with level setting.

20040329-01
I think I've got things right now.
Verified that the preloading code in the client is really
rubbish, don't know why I've put it there. It's only needed
in the server and it works there.
It seems that sometimes the client does not receive the
profile; in this case the connection is not working. Have
to watch this.
20040326-02 / -03
Added "encryption" to HTTPS connection protocol. It uses
a 48 bit pseudo random generator with a seed made from
a shared secret (known to client and server and static)
and the session id. It's more of a disguise than an
encryption but probably good enough to fool sniffers
and it performs very well. :-)
Oh yes, and I removed the "preloading" code. Dunno why but
it breaks encryption... and is probably unnecessary anyway,
but that has to be verified with proxies and without.
Statistics now updated properly.
Worked a lot on queue size and payload size dynamic
adjustments. You should see better performance now
with high-bandwidth profiles over low-bandwidth
connections.
Fixed another bug in dump code.
 It seems that some releases ago I have broken the retransmit
stuff (after connection failure). The connection would re-establish,
but existing streams would hang and timeout. This should now be
working again, and a lot better. I am still not fully happy
with the way retransmits are handled but it's sure better than
before.
20040326-01
The UDP problem is fixed.
Experiemting with better dynamic queueing adjustments in congestion
situations (I'm having one here, using ISDN...).
20040325-01
It appears that I have come across a strange problem
in the CoDec that is only seen with failing connections
(that fail in the middle of a frame). In these cases
the recvq thread can (will?) dump core. This is
now fixed.
Fixed bug in dump code.
Made frontend signal desired bandwidth directly after
connection is set up so that slider adjustments while
the connection was down are communicated to the server.
Worked around a bug that made clients hang on all other
streams when UDP forwards occurred.
20040324-04
Removed all regex stuff and everything that was not
implemented in Java 1.3 (I hope), which means that
both client and server should now work with JRE 1.3,
and the server _does_ work with gcj. Unfortunately
the performance is a lot worse than with JRE 1.4.2_04.
Fixed a bug in the stream cancellation code that
affects both server and client. Saves ressources.
20040324-03
Fixed annoyingly stupid bug in server that kept sessions
from dying immediately after the user closed connections
and made them lurk in the background until their timeout
fired after 3 minutes, so they can mess with the other
sessions that the user has established in the meantime.
Effectively this would have allowed the user to log in
several times without getting thrown out and without
getting caught.
20040324-02
Wizard does now read default proxy settings from Windows
registry (where possible).
20040324-01
 With Google picking up so slowly, I implemented a second
method of finding servers. Google is only last resort;
maybe it will work some time in the future.
Frontend now properly detects connection losses and acts
on them.
Implemented port redirection in the server (only local ports
for now) to allow to use different proxies based on the
profile. The port number is changed before access control
takes place, so make sure that the connection is permitted
with the new port number. Syntax is
"redirect_port <oldport> <newport>"
In the future the syntax may be extended to include
destination ip/mask and redirection address as well. :->
And why not also change the banner links in HTML pages
on the fly and offer our own banner service? Hey, just
kidding. Or not?
Fixed "close pending" bug. Streams should now close down
within 30 seconds even if the close request is not
acknowledged.
20040323-05
Another silly bug fixed. If no debuglevel was configured in
the config file the default (2) was still not used because
of a bug; it used 0, which means show all messages. This
made the client still log on stdout even if the user did
not explicitly request it. The default is now 999 and it
actually works, so if you want the client to log debug
messages on the console you must explicitly configure a
debuglevel below 5. This does not affect the message panel
or dumps -- they always see all messages and record them.
Note that your best option for a bug report that needs to
contain messages is to write a dump and send it to me,
or if that's not possible use the save button in the
messages panel and write them to a .txt file.
Hopefully fixed the phantom session bug in the server.
The session teardown code should now be a lot more solid,
also making sure all the streams die as well. Yeah, more
potential for race conditions but I hope I got it right. :-)
20040323-04
Made relaying configurable in the GUI.
Made language configurable in the GUI.
Hopefully finally made HTTPS link stopping code uncrashable.
It may not stop the link but it will sure no longer crash. :-)
And 50 hogs of the same kind will now kill the client
to protect the host system.
20040323-03
Client now pops up server error messages, I simply forgot
to implement it in the client.
 Did more client signaling in separate threads. Maybe this
fixes spurious exceptions.
Client now checking port forwards and accepts for at least
some reason.
Fixed relaying bug in client.
Now allowing connections to client ports to also come from
the PC's Ethernet IP (actually from the same IP that is
used to connect to the server). This makes Yahoo! messenger
work with SOCKS4/5 instead of HTTP Proxy if you use your
Ethernet IP instead of 127.0.0.1. We'll pass this to Yahoo!
as bug report.
20040323-02
Fixed broken ACL with netmask code. Another thing that happens
late at night.
20040323-01
Fixed some silly mistakes of the variety that you only
make late at night. Profiles should now work.
Ports are now only started after profile has been received.
This ensures that the client is not doing this that the
profile does not permit (eg. relaying). It also ensures that
connections are only accepted on the client side after all
has been set up.
Made GUI message log run in a separate thread; this ensures
that the GUI is not delaying the link thread.
20040322-04
Implemented the skeleton for protocol filtering, and
implemented IRC as the first filtered protocol. I.e.
one can set up access lists that permit all connections
to port 6667 if and only if the IRC protocol is spoken.
Cleaned up Stream code.
20040322-03
Fixed race condition bug that could occur if the user
re-opened the connection before closing the message
window telling that the old connection failed.
Several other small fixes, none of them very severe.
Implemented ident protocol faker in server to allow
IRC to work. :-)
20040322-02
Found serious problem in protocol, profile transmission
was broken by design. This means I had to change it in
an incompatible fashion -- older clients may no longer work
or do strange things!
 I also assigned each of you "real" tariffs. They should not
block anything except attacks to the server itself so tell
me if anything is not working.
Eliminated potential for an Exception reporting an illegal
array index in a JMenuBar.
Server learned loads of new things re access restrictions.
20040322-01
Officially renamed the beast to "Your Freedom". EMS should
be gone everywhere in the client. (Except for the name
of the config file, this will change in one of the next
releases.)
The client now speaks German as well! If you are using
a localized version of Java that is set to "de" as
language it should work out of the box for you; if not,
run the client once with "--lang=de" to change the
language setting. I will add fields in the client
configuration panel and the wizard in one of the next
releases.
More debugging with connections that are put through.
Made server complain that emsd.cfg is not there instead
of ems.cfg.
PNG files are now in the JAR, you can delete them from
your installation. (For those who wonder how this works,
just use an Object o that resides in the same package,
do
URL u=o.getClass().getResource("foo.png");
then use the URL just like you would use a filename.)
Unfortunately this does not work for the DLL and the
.ico files because this stuff is loaded by the native
code directly.
Fixed address restriction code, it was not applied if
host names instead of IP addresses were used... shame
on me. It is still not perfect but should work somewhat
now.
20040319-06
Put icon in a JLabel.
20040319-05
ClassCastException in AccessRestrictionsTableModel fixed.
20040319-04
Exception when no ports forwarded. Fixed.
SOCKS stuff fixed.
20040319-03
Added more dump stuff, was missing in the HTTPS send code.
 Worked on the SOCKS emulation on the server side.
20040319-02
Experienced a client hang in HTTPS code when pressing STOP
after the server died, but could not reproduce. I have put
in hog detection code, if you see HOG messages (not one
but plenty of the same type) please report (the numbers
printed do not matter).
Changed icon in status panel to match the icon in systray.
I loved the dots and even made them smileys but then
decided that we need a serious product. Guess I'm growing
up. Buhahahaha.
20040319-01
Fixed bug that caused an exception when saving a freshly
created config. Thanks Oliver!
Added more dump stuff around the SOCKS4/5 code that I forgot
last night.
20040318-07
Added dump feature. If you encounter a problem with an
application and you can reproduce it, please do so using
the "--dump=somefile.log" command line argument (emsgui
only), but please only do what you have to do to reproduce
the problem. Then send me the file that has been created.
It may look like garbage to you but not to me. :-)
20040318-06
Fixed a very minor bug in the client (alright, another
null pointer throwing an Exception in strange cases that
really can only happen if a protocol violation occurs).
Added debugging code to server to track down a SOCKS problem.
Server is now trying harder in figuring out a local IP address
for binds. If all fails, it is now configurable as well, but
let us first try without.
20040318-05
Made wizard look nicer by keeping some distance from frame border.
Icon now goes away from systray when application closes.
Put in an indicator that goes red when the link is permanently down,
yellow when the link is temporarily unavailable, and green when
the link is working fine. I know it still looks a bit shabby
under Windows XP but hey, I haven't done this forever you know.
20040318-04
Fixed very minor bugs that could lead to Exceptions
in strange situations.
 Hardened HTTP code. The client will now automatically suggest
a lower uplink bandwidth if the proxy enforces a tough POST
size limit on it. This makes the connection a lot more
reliable. (It's not as bad as it seems. The client recommends
the post size as uplink speed, i.e. not more than one
required re-connect per second. For a typical proxy config
with a POST limit of 100 kBytes this limits the bandwidth
to 800 kbits/sec -- really tough. And if you really feel
like it you can override it. And in situations where a lot
of re-transmits are required the client will burst a little
bit anyway to make up for the loss in-between.)
I found a potential deadlock situation that backfired
100% in the HTTP code and may also be triggered in the
HTTPS code, eating 100% CPU on the server and keeping
the session from dying. Neverthess I leave the hog detection
code in for now... it slows down the server and the client
somewhat but not too much.
I also removed a lot of debugging messages that I don't need
anymore (or so I hope :-) and changed the level of some others.
Started to put in some tooltip texts.
Put in a warning that is shown if you try to close the
connection while there are open streams.
20040318-03
Profile panel now correctly shows forwarded ports. The
formatting is still not nice though (bold face).
20040318-02
Fixed exception that could occur if a port could not be bound.
Added command line options to emsgui. Just try "/help" or
"--help", whatever your platform likes.
If the config is incomplete (i.e. misses required parameters),
the config wizard is fired up when the GUI is started. This
can be avoided by using the --nowizard option.
If you run the emsgui with the --nogui option the results
are exactly the same as if you'd run ems.
20040318-01
Fixed the look of a lot of panels.
In the configuration panels, only the first change was
effective when saving, others were ignored. This is fixed.
Fixed messages autoscroll.
Fixed deadlock problem in HTTPS code that caused the STOP
button not to work when connection could not be established.
20040317-02
 Hopefully fixed a silly stability problem in the server.
20040317-01
Added syntactical verification of configuration input.
Implemented server port forwarding to client. If you'd like
to make your PC reachable from the Internet, just tell me
and I'll forward you a few ports that you can freely map
to your box (or some other!).
20040316-03
Emulated web server now behaving correctly (closing connection
with FIN instead of RST and only sending data after the full
header has been received, plus honouring the HEAD command).
Google should now no longer notice the difference to a normal
Web server.
20040316-02
Put another debug message into the server code to track
down sessions that never time out. I would like to know
if the timeout timer never fired or if it was not able
to shoot down the session.
At least it seems that the server is a lot more stable
now, though I don't know why. Schroedinger's cat?
The "help me" button now works although it's no good
as long as Google does not know our servers.
Made session closedown on command a lot more "pushing". :-)
20040316-01
Fixed the stack crash when the Stop button is clicked.
Worked a lot on the configuration panel; should be OK now as
far as it is implemented. That is: please start using it,
remove your local ems.cfg file.
20040315-02
Finally found the reason why sessions never died in HTTPS code.
Stupid me was searching the hash for the value instead of the key.
Added CPU hog detection code to track down those strange
cases where threads seem to eat up the CPU. If you
see any "HOG" messages (well, the same message regularly,
that is) please send me the log.
Worked a lot on the configuration code. Wizard is mostly complete
now.
20040315-01
Started to work on unblockable server location mechanism.
And I mean it. Google, our friend, will tell us where the
 servers are, and the question we ask is different every
time. :-) Unfortunately Google has not yet catched on our
service though I've hinted it about it so I can't really
test; it'll work immediately though I'm sure.
No really important changes to the client so you don't
have to update unless you wish to be on the cutting edge.
20040312-04
Oops... the sessions did not time out indeed... that
explains a lot. I just forgot to call the code that
starts the timer in the HTTPS connection code...
shame on me. Now it's called in the superclass of
all protocol specific implementations.
Client now detects a failing connection better than
before; after 3 minutes of failing re-connects it
will finally give up. It will also give up immediately
if a name lookup failure occurs.
20040312-03
Simple port forwards without destination host name no
longer worked (symptom: hostname appeared as "null" in
debug output). This is fixed.
The server now has a configurable limit of the number
of streams a user may have at the same time. Currently
this is set to 0 for everyone, meaning no limit. A
stream is any open TCP connection or UDP association.
We must limit this in the future to avoid denial of
service attacks (every stream uses system ressources
on the server).
20040312-02
Configuration panel works to some degree; at least you can
configure the configuration stuff there now. Be careful,
"Save and Exit" really works! It does not destroy your
config but may mess up the order of the parameters and
certainly deletes all your comments!
The whitespace-at-end-of-line bug should be fixed now.
20040312-01
Systray icon handling improved. Check it out. :-)
Started to work on configuration panel. Please don't use yet,
you will only be disappointed.
Added an "Exit" button to the status panel. Easier to use
than the Exit function of the Systray icon.
The config file in the user's home or in Windows's user
base directory (C:\Documents and Settings\<user>) is now
called .ems.cfg instead of ems.cfg, please change the file
name if you decided to put your config there or otherwise
the client will not run properly (for now - working on it).
 What you don't notice (hopefully!) is that the whole config
file handling has changed, to internal structures that
resemble a lot Java's Properties class, just that they
are a bit smarter. :) This will make writing the configuration
panels and wizards a lot easier.
20040311-05
Bandwidth sliders now somewhat logarithmic, which is a lot easier
to use in my opinion.
20040311-04
Worked on the automatic reconnect code. It seems that re-writing
the timer stuff (and making things a little bit easier for the
calling code) fixes other problems as well... I have changed
a timer value in the HTTP code but that should not affect anyone
since no-one is using it at the moment anyway.
But there is still a little issue with the server silently
dying and re-starting: the client is no longer authenticated
and will not re-authenticate unless the connection is re-started.
At the moment this probably means that the client must be
shut down and re-started.
CR sent me code to implement the tray icon. Please be sure to copy
the .ico and the .dll files to your installation directory
or you won't be able to run the GUI anymore. If you click on
the closing X button in the top right corner the application
will instead go to the tray icon next to the clock. Should
work with KDE as well, or so I am told. On systems not implementing
the icon tray there will be a message on the console that
can be safely ignored (and that will go away soon).
20040311-03
I have re-written the whole TimeOuter code, not using Java's
Timer class. It's broken by design if you ask me, at least
it was not really good for what I was using it for. If you
still experience high CPU load or if you get a message
on the console with ***, please tell me!
Oh, and streams should now die again properly. That was a
bug that I must have introduced in one of the last
versions, I've cancelled the timer that sends the ACKs
before the final ACK could be sent so that the stream
was stuck in the "Closing" state.
20040311-02
Implemented UDP transport over HTTP (only HTTPS worked so far).
Improved stream buffering and queueing a lot for those users
with unlimited profiles (i.e. currently all of you :-). The
maximum frame size and the stream queue length are now
automatically adjusted every 3 seconds, so if you move the
slide in the GUI to the left it might help a lot over slow
connections... I suggest you adapt the desired bandwidth to
the maximum bandwidth available to you.
 To make things less fidgy I will see if I can make the slides
logarithmic.
I also increased the maximum frame size and the maximum
stream queue length, and we don't wait 0.3 secs between ACKs
anymore if more than 15 frames are to be acknowledged.
This should increase throughput way beyond 10 Mbit/s. :-)
Oh btw. I can now see all your streams with statistical info
on the command console. :-)
20040311-01
Added code to save configuration after changes to it.
Yet inactive of course but the basis for future work.
Improved UDP forwarding code to save ressources by
making the UDP relay threads die as soon as possible on
both ends (instead of waiting for the recommended 2
minutes timeout), as signalled by the client application
closing the TCP connection to the SOCKS server (see RFC1928).
Finally accepted that Swing has its own mind about the
size of labels in boxes. *SIGH*
20040310-03
Added Java version check after lots of problems could be
linked to them running Java 1.3.1, which is currently
not supported (minimum is 1.4).
In the GUI, the "Save To File" button of the Messages
panel now works. Please use it if you wish to send me
a dump of the messages you are seeing. This means you
can safely set debuglevel to 5 now in your config file
as long as you are not experiencing exceptions.
20040310-02
Made control connection only available from localhost
to protect it against attackers. (It also asks for a
password, of course.)
Implemented SOCKS5 UDP forwarding. At least nslookup and
Unix traceroute work perfectly fine (with Dante's socksify),
and so should any other application running under Dante's
socksify command. :-) This should mean that any application
using UDP and capable of using a SOCKS5 server should work
now. Note however that the client is currently not capable
of more than 1000 UDP associations at the same time -- a
rather theoretical limit I hope.
20040310-01
Implemented a control console on the server so the admin
can get info about users and connections, kick users,
send messages to them etc.
Also implemented better messaging between server and client
about session termination. The user will now know when
 the server is being shut down and the server will notice when
the client closes the session (i.e. the connections with no
intend to re-open them).
20040309-02
Changed length of session id to 9-12 characters; server is
enforcing this length now so older clients won't work anymore!
20040309-01
Fixed minor bug in bandwidth sliders (lowest value not below
2400 to avoid lock-ups and conflicts with 0, which means no
limitation at all).
In the GUI, I've added output to console again to allow
capture to file synchronized with Exceptions. To suppress
it, just set debuglevel to at least 5 (this will not conflict
with the Messages panel settings).
Server refused to send any stream data when using an unlimited
account and setting the desired downlink bandwidth to 0 (unlimited).
Better debugging with SOCKS emulation.
Logging to console was broken, sorry folks.
Server can now co-exist with web server (for now only HTTP, HTTPS
is being worked on), as long as all files with extension html and
cgi are in subdirectories (index.html works nevertheless) of the
web server root.
20040308-05
Better info output when using SOCKS emulation. This should
help users see what they are doing wrongly if their applications
fail.
20040308-04
The Messages panel has finally come to life. emsgui does no
longer spit out anything on the console, it uses its messages
panel instead. I know there are still some bugs in there (like
all messages being centered instead of left-aligned and the
autoscroll not working properly and the Save button not being
implemented) but you'll have to live with it for now. Guess
you can.
Oh yes, the debuglevel option has no meaning anymore with the
GUI. (And if you aren't using the GUI version yet, you should
start using it now because that's the one I'm working on - the
other one will continue to work but all the nifty new stuff
is only available through the GUI.)
20040308-03
Fixed a bug only affecting people with unlimited profile
settings (i.e. me and CR for now :-).
Also fixed an exception that occurred on the server when
 authentication failed.
20040308-02
Fixed a problem with some clients that use the local SOCKS
emulation and produced a null pointer exception.
Added bandwidth sliders to the GUI. Try it out, it's fun!
If you start the connection and then adjust the sliders
you can limit your (net, i.e. sum of all streams not counting
protocol overhead) bandwidth utilisation to better avoid
being caught. :-) Note however that bursting is still possible,
the bandwidth is averaged over a few seconds.
20040308-01
Very minor change that probably helps us with java 1.3.1
20040306-01
Added checking of client version when opening connection.
Added more detailed server to client messaging around
authentication process.
Finally found the reason why sometimes streams hang after the
open has been acknowledged -- that was a stupid one, of course.
20040305-02
Added configuration parameter "debuglevel", which defaults
to 1 (print everything that has at least informational
level). The higher the number, the less you get. With
0 you get all the debug messages, numbers above 5 are
not useful.
There is still this annoying problem present that sometimes
the very first stream hangs.
20040305-01
Dunno what, but there was a problem. :-) Oh, and I also
moved all the debugging into the new Log object and
we're just a few lines away from getting rid of unnecessary
debug messages and implementing the message window in the
GUI.
20040304-02
I've been too enthusiastic and sent out the new version too
early. The whole keepalive code was f***ed up for both
HTTP and HTTPS.
20040304-01
Properly implemented sending profile information to
client (already implemented in 20040303-02 but got things
wrong there :-).
Implemented uplink traffic policing. Currently done in the
 client, should be done in the server as well but I don't
know how this will interfer with stability. It's not that
important anyway, we are not really afraid of hackers
working around this limitation - it would require them
to write their own client or patch the client.
Implemented duplicate login detection. Old session is
terminated when a new session is made using the same user id.
Implemented notification frames. Client frontend can display
informational notes and warnings etc., currently not implemented
though.
Now adapting maximum frame size to bandwidth configuration.
This results in _much_ better fairqueue performance, i.e.
concurrent streams interleave better without the fat one
starving the thin one. If you transfer a file over one stream
and work interactively on the other, you won't really notice
the file transfer anymore. :-) Also changed HTTPS server code
to send frames separately instead of bundled in blocks, just
like the client did from the very start. Again this results
in finer fair queueing. Again: you won't even notice a parallel
data transfer on a link limited to 1440 bits per second!
20040303-02
Cleaned up nesting between server and client classes that
made packaging difficult; users should not notice the
difference.
Streams now properly unregister (and free their memory and
update the statistics) when closed by the other end.
20040303-01
Rewritten HTTP transport code. The client is now able to detect
the proxy's limit on POST bodies (Squid used to have a default
configuration of 100K and will simply stop forwarding bytes
after this is exceeded instead of closing the connection) and
work around it by closing the uplink connection just before
the limit is reached and re-opening it again.
Tests on my laptop went very smoothly, I did not notice that
the uplink was dropped and set up again and pushed more than
one megabyte per second through the client with SSH, and my
Squid was configured to only accept 40K POSTs. :-)
Client has a new configuration option "relay". Without this
option, it will only accept connections from localhost
(127.0.0.1), i.e. client applications have to use the
localhost address to connect to forwarded ports and the local
SOCKS server. This makes it impossible for other computers
in the network to (ab-)use the client. If you want your
computer to be a relay for others, add this option to your
configuration file ("relay yes").
I have thought about implementing SOCKS5 UDP forwarding but
1) I don't know any application that could seriously make
any use of it
2) it's broken by design anyway, just like all the rest of
SOCKS.
If anyone really needs it I will probably reconsider it but
don't expect wonders, SOCKS servers will most likely not do what
you'd expect... check the RFC1928 if you don't believe me.