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May 20, 2017 Leave a comment
DC++ 0.866 is out. This release fixes a serious issue that allows remote denial of service attacks (ability to freeze the client remotely by any user of the connected hubs). Besides the hardened security, version 0.866 also improves UPnP port mapping which might fix certain issues with the automatic connectivity setup.
The details of the vulnerability will be disclosed as soon as 0.866 or any forthcoming DC++ release is marked as stable.
I started to use DC using DC++ in 2003 when its version number was around 0.260. Since then I've been amazed by the DC network: a professional but still easy-to-use way of P2P file sharing. I was invited to the DC++ team in 2006 where - in the beginning - I had been doing user support and some testing only. A few years later I started to add small contributions to the DC++ code as well so for many years I'd been doing mostly bug fixes, testing, feature proposals and improvements. At the same time I worked on improving the documentation for both DC++ and ADCH++ as well. These days I'm trying to maintain the whole code and the infrastructure behind to keep these software secure and usable for a prolonged time. My ultimate goal is to help making the DC network as more user friendly as possible.
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