DC++ 0.706

Another version of DC++ is out. After 0.705 being stable, this version comes up with the primary fixes required by people on launchpad, and it’s getting closer and closer to the old interface functionality.
The most significant changes include :
You can now see if a hub/user is online/offline by the color of the icon.
The transfer color bars are back.
You can now share multiple folders under the same virtual name ( mixes the files ).
Every connection shows now on which hub it started.
Translations are more complete, we thank this way everybody who helped translating.
Among other multiple fixes, we hope this is the best DC++ version to the day.
The same thing goes, if no serious bugs are reported about this version, in two weeks it will be marked stable, so go ahead and download it from sourceforge and have a test. We await your feedback.

Translation update

There’s a new release coming in a few days and the translations templates on launchpad have been updated – if you want your language to be complete please have a look…

In the future I’ll only post these updates to http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=dcplusplus-devel, so please subscribe if you’re interested in keeping your translation up to date…it’s a low-traffic list, so you don’t have to worry…

Ping Extension the first to go wild

Ever since ADC has it’s first release, and the wiki for it was launched, everybody can post his/her own extension in there as a proposal for adding it into the specification.

My extension is called PING, and it offers the possibility of communication between pingers and hubs or hubs and hublists. This way , the pinger/hublist can find out a lot of information that cannot be found otherwise. The info I selected is about the hub restrictions, hub uptime, website, owners, user count, total share and more.

The first step was the actual implementation, which can be found now in DSHub and in the ADC hublists like Hubtracker or Adchublist.

The second step was to wait for some time to see if the extension had no issues with other developers, eg. reaching a consensus about the protocol specifications. That happened also, and now, PING has reached the status of a full-time extension. The actual specification for it can be found here.

This post is also a way to encourage you to make your own extension so that the ADC protocol evolves into a better protocol for each user on the network. Use your creativity and every day needs to make Direct Connect a better place.
One last thing, the place where to post your extensions is here, and the ADC wiki here.