Why is http://github.com/freenet/fred-official seven hours older (and a Node version string of #1278 build01278-68-g3f9a3) than http://github.com/freenet/fred-official/tree/build01280-real ?
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:20:03 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > Freenet 0.7.5 build 1280 is now available, and will be mandatory on > Saturday, please upgrade! > > Build 1278: > - Fix a critical bug causing us to accept too many requests because > of unlocking too early when turtling a request. This may be a > significant factor in recent backoff problems. > > Build 1279: > - Various bugfixes to the block transfer code, fix some stalling > bugs, handle aborts (e.g. triggered by the upstream receive) better, > synchronization fixes, don't abort twice, don't send abort message > twice, but do send it even when the downstream node aborts by sending > us one. > - Prepare for getting rid of unnecessary block-level retransmissions > (we have retransmission at the message layer), which waste a lot of > bandwidth and may cause self-perpetuating big problems. E.g. don't > timeout until some time after we have sent all the blocks in the > transfer, rather than relying on frequent missing packet notification > messages. > > Build 1280: > - Fix a bug in 1279 causing block sends to stall when a node > disconnects or something similar happens (the bug existed before but > it didn't cause stalls until recently; it might affect some other > places in the code though). > > Apart from 1280, the block transfer changes are in code that was > written many years ago, but the problems may cause fairly significant > problems (e.g. some block transfers use a *lot* of retransmits, and > this tends to make the situation worse and worse). Some of the block > transfer changes were developed while debugging the > new-load-management branch, some were dealt with after testing the > prerelease code. 1280 will include more low level code merged from > the branch. > > Even if all the problems go away, I will continue with the new load > management branch because the current architecture is fundamentally > broken and vulnerable. > > THANKS! Please report bugs! _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
