Log Message:
Update to 2.5.8:

Note: Due to the changes in CommonSwarming, this version is to be considered
 as EXPERIMENTAL on all networks, EXCEPT Edonkey & Overnet.

2004/02/06: Fabrice (version 2.5.8, tag release-2-5-8)
  * FileTP:
     * Basic FTP protocol:
        use 'http <ftp://url>' and 'mirror <ftp://url>'
     * Option 'mirrors': list of list of interchangeable url prefixes.

2004/02/06: Fabrice (version 2.5.7, tag release-2-5-7)
  * New network 'FileTP' for simple file transfer protocols:
     * Basic HTTP protocol:
        use 'http <http://url>' to start a download.
        use 'mirror <file_num> <http://url>' to add a mirror.
  * TcpBufferedSocket: initial size of buffer now depends on the last
        read input. might cause problems in memory until a better cache of
        buffers is implemented

2004/02/06: Fabrice (version 2.5.6, tag release-2-5-6)
  * CommonInteractive:
     * file_cancel: removes the file itself
  * Unix32:
     * new function 'destroy' to completely destroy a FD, so that it cannot
        be used afterwards (but it does not remove the file). Used
        in CommonInteractive.file_commit and CommonInteractive.file_cancel.
  * DonkeyInteractive: clients might get stucked if they tried to
      upload a file that has just been commited, since the name is not
      updated anymore in Unix32.rename. We need to remove the former 'file'
      structure and then add a new one for the shared file, thus disconnecting
      all the former uploaders (knowing them, they will reconnect asap :)).
      To be done.
  * Applied patches #2586, #2587, #2588

2004/02/05: Fabrice (version 2.5.5, tag release-2-5-5)
  * Change in the version numbers, keep only 3 digits :)

2004/02/04: Fabrice (version 2.5.4+8, tag release-2-5-4-8)
  * Bittorrent:
     * New version of uploaders choice.
  * Applied patches #2571, #2579, #2580 (is patch #2578 reversed ?)

2004/02/04: Fabrice (version 2.5.4+7)
  * Bittorent:
     * Fixed upload for seeded files, and probably some other bugs.
  * Telnet interface:
     * ?? display commands per category

2004/02/03: Fabrice (version 2.5.4+6)
  * Applied patches #2556, #2558, #2559, #2561, #2568, #2569, #2571,
       #2572, #2574
  * TcpBufferedSocket: event CONNECTED is sent the first time a socket
      is available for writting.
  * Newgui:
     * Gui_cdget: Updated some regexps to correctly query IMDB.
  * Bittorrent:
     * BTTracker: the tracker should work.
     * New internal command "torrents" to list URLs of files in
        torrents/tracked/

2004/02/02: Fabrice (version 2.5.4+5)
  * New Internationnalisation format: short strings are stored for translation
      in ~/.mldonkey/mlnet_strings.$LANG. The new scheme allows easy
      translation of options descriptions and all other strings used
      after CommonOption. Can also be used to translate the interfaces.
      Unfortunately, this new scheme makes most of the former translations
      obsolete, but most of them have been approximately changed to the
      new format (see distrib/i18n/mlnet_strings.*, copy yours in
      ~/.mldonkey/ to check)

2004/02/01/ Fabrice (version 2.5.4+4)
  * Applied patches #2532 (new-gui), #2535 (INSTALL.txt), #2549 (vers mesg),
       #2550 (minsize shared)

2004/01/28: Fabrice (version 2.5.4+3)
  * CommonShared:
     Strategies of sharing can be defined in "searches.ini" (recursive \ 
or not,
      min file size, extensions).
     * Predefined strategies:
         [all_files]: recursively all files > 10 KB
         [mp3s]: recursively .mp3 < 10 MB
         [avis]: recursively .avi > 500 MB
         [only_directory]: not recursive, all files > 10 KB
     * Strategy for incoming/ is now [only_directory].
     * Format of "shared_directories" option changed accordingly: new \ 
default
        directory shared/ with strategy [all_files].
  * CommonComplexOptions:
     file_state, file_age and file_size are saved for all networks in options.
  * CommonSwarming:
     functions to save and load chunks and present_chunks from options.

2004/01/27: Fabrice
  * TcpBufferedSocket:
    * Weak form of connection_manager, that should progressively be used to
        better distribute connections among networks.
    * Zlib Compression of connection is now done transparently.
  * Int32ops: removed Int32 operations. int32 should be removed as many times
      as possible to avoid limitations at 4GB. Bittorrent protocol does not
      support files > 4 GB (check new version ?)

2004/01/26: Fabrice
  * CommonSwarming: completely rewritten. No partition anymore. Better
      block choice strategy. More efficient strutures.
  * BTTracker:
      * new directories in "torrents/":
        * downloads/: .torrent of files being currently downloaded
        * tracked/: .torrent of files being currently tracked (maybe seeded)
        * seeded/: .torrent of files being currently seeded
      * mldonkey command 'compute_torrent' computes a .torrent file for a
        filename and put it in torrents/tracked/. The file is immediatly
        tracked.
      * mldonkey tracker can be accessed:
          http://ip:6881/tracker?info_hash=.... -> for the tracker
          http://ip:6881/filename.torrent -> to download 'filename.torrent'

2004/01/23: Fabrice
  * ed2k_hash: new option -check <size> to compute different hashes on
      a generated file of size <size> KB, to test DiskFile, SparseFile and
      MultiFile implementations.
  * Unix32:
     * Open ALL files in RW mode by default, and fall back in RO mode in
        case of error.
     * New format SparseFile completely implemented.
     * Unix32.rename makes the Unix32.t invalid. Might cause some bugs
        when sharing just commited files (TO CHECK).
  * Options:
     * New EXPERIMENTAL option 'emulate_sparsefiles' in downloads.ini,
        to emulate sparse files on non-sparse filesystems (e.g. FAT).
        Currently only works for Edonkey files, and <preview> and
        <recover_file> won't work for them.

2004/01/16: Fabrice
  * Fixed problem with files.ini when downloading BitTorrent files

2004/01/15: Fabrice
  * Applied Savannah patches #2480, #2481 (emule), #2482 (old GUI)

2004/01/14: Fabrice
  * Applied Savannah patches:
     #2475, #2474 (bin modes), #2479 (BT), #2473 (negative time),
     #2437 (force-download typo), #2423 ("links" command), #2421 \ 
(connecttime),
     #2417 (message 21), #2415 (LSD not banned), #2414 (old GUI),
     #2413 (emule tags), #2411 (emule stats), #2473 (telnet)
  * Applied Pango's patch: common_recover_temp

2003/12/22: Fabrice
  * make_torrent:
     * .torrent filename is specified by -torrent
     * New option "-split <filename>" that will split \ 
<filename> in smaller
         files according to a .torrent file.
  * Applied pause.patch

2003/12/17: Fabrice
  * Applied upload_slots patch again

2003/12/16: Dek
  * mldonkey CVS moved to berlios until savannah is back again.
     see https://developer.berlios.de/cvs/?group_id=610
     for server-details, web-CVS etc.

2003/12/16: Fabrice
  * Applied patches from spiralvoice page: prevent_interface_close, xmule,
     emule_tags, upload_cnum, suxx_wap, mld_cb10, remove_challenge,
     upload_slots, html_gnutella2, amule

2003/12/15: Fabrice
  * Modified "forget" command
  * Bittorrent: crash when commiting directories fixed

2003/12/09: Fabrice
  * Opennap: removed redondant client_port option
  * Gnutella2: removed options with same values as for Gnutella

2003/12/08: Fabrice
  * New option 'allow_local_network' to allow connections on the local
     network for debugging purpose.
  * Bittorrent:
      * If 'tracker_port' is not nul, a WEB server is started inside mldonkey
         that is used as a tracker, with url:
                 http://YOUR-IP:<tracker_port>/tracker
      * New option 'shared_torrent_files', a list of pairs:
          torrent_files = [
               ("/test_bt.torrent", \ 
"../../one_torrent_file.torrent");
          ]
        where the first string in the pair is the relative url on the
        tracker web-server http://YOUR-IP:<tracker_port>/test_bt.torrent
        and the second is the filename .torrent on the disk to be served.
      * New option 'tracked_files': a list of the filenames of the .torrent
          files that should be tracked.
      * New option 'shared_files': a list of pairs (path to .torrent file,
          path to corresponding shared file).

2003/12/06: Fabrice
  * New option file_started_cmd (by default "mlprogress") used when a
     new download is started to display a progress popup. Set to "" to
     disable.
  * Improved progress popup.

2003/12/06: Fabrice
  * Added 'mlprogress <num>' program that popup a window to display the
     download of file <num> (thx to b8_zoggy). Not tested yet.

2003/12/06: Fabrice
  * Applied Spiralvoice patches ban.clients, win.patch, patch_pack2c
  * Added option 'allow_any_command' to use ! instead of !! for
     arbitrary commands (false by default for security reasons)

2003/12/05: Fabrice
  * Merged devel/ and stable/ branches for Gnutella2

2003/12/04: Fabrice
  * Added module CommonBitzi (merge with devel version)

2003/12/03: Fabrice
  * Updated ed2k_hash to compute Sig2dat and Bitprints. For Mac users, you can
     check whether bitprints with tiger-trees are correctly computed:
       ./ed2k_hash.byte -hash bp COPYING
     gives:
      \ 
urn:bitprint:QI3PHA4WVH75CAL72NCNTXZE3SNHU6K3.5URJJG7REVGICNBK5UQBPFGIEO234ZJ3MX \ 
2T54I
      Partial   0 : 5URJJG7REVGICNBK5UQBPFGIEO234ZJ3MX2T54I

2003/12/02: Fabrice
  * Applied patch #2399 (anti-thieves v2)
  * Splitted Gnutella and Gnutella2 plugins

2003/12/02: Fabrice
  * gui_messages.ini.dutch added
  * Suppressed UDP frames sent by a firewalled client, causing it to be
      black-listed.

2003/12/01: Fabrice
  * Applied patch #2390
  * Added Autoconf.windows boolean
  * New tool 'make_torrent' generated by 'make make_torrent', that can be
      used to generate, print, verify and modify .torrent files.

2003/11/29: Fabrice
  * Applied patch #2382 (mingw), #2380 (anti-thieves),
     #2384 (gui), #2386 (gui)
  * Removed client addr as string in GUI protocol 20

2003/11/29: Fabrice
  * Unix32: create_ro = create_rw
  * New module BTTracker, to implement a tracker for BitTorrent.
      Command "compute_torrent <filename>" in console to generate
      the torrent file associated with filename. Not working yet.

2003/11/29: Fabrice
  * Removed patch #1261
  * Applied patch #2243 (bind sockets), #2377 (mlnet.static),
      #2378 (ocaml url)
  * Fixed compilation problem in oldgui
  * ED2K: send compressed ShareReq message to zlib-enabled servers.

2003/11/29: Fabrice
  * Unix32: fixed a bug preventing the creation of a correct directory in BT

2003/11/28: Fabrice
  * Unix32: some bug fixes which may have caused bad Sha1 computation in BT at
      inner file borders.

2003/11/28: Fabrice
  * Applied GUI patches #2372 (renamefile), #2373 (newgui),
       #2374 (configwin), #2375 (im), #2376 (configure)
  * Applied HTML patches #2151, #2264

2003/11/27: Fabrice
  * Removed patch #2341 (for fun :) )
  * Applied patch #2139 (html mod), #2371 (telnet)
  * Compressed connections to servers work, multiple replies to a search
      in one UDP packet works too.

2003/11/27: Fabrice
  * Unix32: and yet another bug fixed in MultiFile: no more
      Invalid_argument("Unix.write") error

2003/11/27: Fabrice
   * Applied patches #2341 (BT), #2354 (BT with MultiFile),
       #2339 (improved telnet), #2311 (Overnet [EXPERIMENTAL])
    BUT: is there a bug on Savannah, or is it my browser that incorrectly
     download patches with &quot;, &gt;, etc... inside ?
  * Fixed ed2k_hash compile error
  * Hardcoded emule protocol version set to 0x30, connect to Razorblack
  * Unix32: another bug fixed causing "really_write 0 BYTES" errors.

2003/11/27: Fabrice
   * Bug with Unix32.read fixed (no flush).
   * New file type MultiFile in Unix32, created with create_multifile, to
       be used by BT.

2003/11/24: Fabrice
   * New UDP protocol implemented:
	* Understand servers flags in UDP pongs
	* Query for and understand multiple replies in one packet
	* Query sources for multiple files, and understand multiple files sources
	     in one packet
   * server_last_message updated correctly.

2003/11/24: Fabrice
   * Suppressed option client_server_md4 (to correcly connect to all servers)
   * Copy Emule behavior for client-client connection
   * Send ET_COMPATIBLE flag in EmuleClientInfo with number 10
   * Send EmuleClientInfo as soon as Emule client is identified
   * Set verbose = "unk" to save unknown packets in /tmp/ directory

2003/11/21: Fabrice
   * Applied patches: #2097, #2099, #2110 (mingw),
       #2111, #2193 (telnet), #2248, #2255 (XSS bug),
       #2268 (server zlib), #2269 (opennap napigator)

2003/11/21: Fabrice
   * Applied patches on BT: #2135, #2158, #2247, #2254, #2256
   * Applied patch #2299 (files > 2 GB), #2263 (don't ban uploaders),
       #2202 (gnutella2 DDOS)
   * Gnutella/gnutella2 plugin compiled again

2003/11/20: Fabrice
   * Modified to compile with ocaml-3.07
   * Started merging -devel and -stable versions
      * Gnutella and Gnutella2 plugins disabled
      * Should fix GUI protocol problems with G2GUI

2003/11/17: Fabrice
   * Applied patches
      - GUI: #2080-#2087
        + By default, the new gui is built. To build the former one, run
            ./configure -disable-newgui
        + When switching from one gui to another one, the .mldonkey_gui* files
            may be incorrect, so you are advised to save them or delete them
            before switching.
      - #2067 ("nu" for bittorrent),
        #2070 (new option "all_sources_on_telnet"),
        #2094 (sort files by priority for each downloader)
   * Some modifications for soulseek:
      * Retry connect only after 300 seconds.
      * Don't retry connect after INVALIDPASS unless login or password is
          changed

2003/10/12: Simon (release-2-5-4)
   * Applied patches #2033 (hide-dirs), #2038 (ocaml-3.07),
      #2039 (mlsubmit.reg), #2041 (hide-psswd)

2003/10/10: Simon
   * Removed patch #1765

2003/10/09: Simon
   * Applied patches #1608 (anti-thieves), #1669 (anti-spam),
	#1692 (min-users-per-server), #1695 (html-mods),
	#1710 (regexp in voo), #1711 (sorted voo),
	#1714 (gui priority bug fix), #1715 (fasttrack),
	#1732 (mldonkey_submit), #1733 (viewfiles 6 hours),
	#1734 (browse-friends), #1743 (bittorrent compliance),
	#1748 (emule-bugfix), #1753 (max-conn-servers),
	#1765 (limit-reqs DANGER), #1801 (http-proxy),
	#1843 (message-file), #1862 (download-amount),
	#2024 (filenames), #2025 (friends-slots),
	suxx-lugdunum-fix-v2

	DELAYED: #1911 (hidden-chunks)