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All,
I was able to find and resolve
the following 2 critical bugs:
1) Download would repeatedly stop within a minute
when resuming from a partial. This was happening when the saved
host was offline, but a backup host was available. The client would
set an error flag signifying that it couldn't connect to the original host,
and the flag wasn't cleared upon connecting to the new host.
2) Partials still wouldn't connect at times,
but searching and pressing download again would connect. This was
happening when the saved host was a firewalled computer which was
offline, but backup hosts were available. The client would find the backup hosts but would try to connect to them
as if they were firewalled, similar problem to the previous.
Has anyone seen a download go
over 100% in 1.3.6? Again, pretty sure I solved this, but I just wanted to
check.
Thanks for the great comments
recently. It was suggested by Paonia that we do more rapid releases as
bugs are fixed. Remember, you don't have to upgrade, but for those who
don't mind, it will help us to determine if fixes worked and it will probably
work better for you.
In case you're one of the new
people to start using Furthur, the recent emails were right on the money.
This is obviously beta, and there are obviously bugs. The users are
helping us to streamline the program which is greatly appreciated, and they're
getting some tunes in the process. If you get frustrated with Furthur,
please don't get forever discouraged, just take a break and check back at a
later point for the live release. The beta test was originally
intended to be 20-30 users, and over time more people have joined in. This
is certaintly fine, just expect some issues. Thanks again to everyone
involved.
*** As you know, we've had some issues
deploying frequent builds to many people. Our web site transition to
furthurnet.com is not complete, so there may still be intermittent web
issues. The following upgrade options are available:
1) www.cyberial.com/furthur is the best
option. We'll make sure to avoid the situation where it displays the new
version number on the web page, but still contains a link to the old
program.
2) Also www.pcpnetworks.com/furthur, if it
asks you for a password it means the server is jammed. 3) You could
try searching in Furthur for Format=EXE or Band Name=Furthur. I have
shared the upgrade program, but this is not recommended as it could be
dangerous. There is nothing to prohibit someone random from sharing a
virus and saying it's the new version of Furthur. In general, you should
not open .EXE files downloaded from an unknown source, music files are
obviously safe. - Jamie
P.S. There was one person who volunteered a
while ago to help with development, but I lost their contact information with my
computer upgrade. If you're out there and still interested, please let me
know.
P.P.S The multiple hosts functionality that I
mentioned isn't in 1.3.7, but should be complete
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