DC++ 0.868 is out and marked as stable

November 29, 2018 by Leave a comment

A year after the previous version, DC++ 0.868 is now available with various library updates (notably OpenSSL 1.1.1 with TLS 1.3 support) and a revised selection of public hub lists.

The list of public hubs came with the client has been pretty much outdated for some time. A few previously listed servers are already defunct while some are changed their web addresses. Therefore a refreshed list of secure and working hublist servers was long overdue. Many of such new public hublists will get auto-added to your collection upon the update to version 0.868 due to a change of policy regarding hublist server defaults. In the past a change of default hublist servers were not reflected in the actual settings – you had to remove  all existing server entries manually to get the updated defaults. This method, being deemed a bit cumbersome, has changed; in this release the addition will happen automatically and it will be the same in case of any future changes as well. A “Reset hub lists” button is also available in the settings should you want to quickly clean up the list of servers and get back to the defaults.

With the OpenSSL library update, DC++ 0.868 introduces support for TLS version 1.3 and is automatically preferring this newest secure communication standard when connecting to other DC clients and hubs. Backwards compatibility to the earlier versions of the protocol is decided to be maintained, similarly to most of the modern popular web browser software, until at least 2020.

Above the aforemntioned feature updates this is a maintanence release, with a few small updates here and there. There’s also a feature removal: support for the long defunct (and often criticised) Coral CDN network ended with this version.

Due to the useful features and security related fixes an immediate upgrade from earlier versions of DC++ is highly recommended.

 

Filed under Clients, DC++, General, Release

About emtee
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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