Ncdc Release History

• 1.25 - 2025-03-04 - ncdc-1.25.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add support for IP to country lookups through libloc
  • Add location_db config option
  • Indicate GeoIP support in --version
• 1.24.1 - 2024-07-18 - ncdc-1.24.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix compilation with -Wincompatible-pointer-types
• 1.24 - 2024-01-07 - ncdc-1.24.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add ‘u’ key to file browser to sort non-local files first
  • Fix active mode sometimes breaking on FreeBSD
  • Fix possible crash on aarch64 when connected to an ADC hub
  • Slightly improve ADC protocol compliance
  • Slightly improve C compiler compatibility
• 1.23.1 - 2022-09-27 - ncdc-1.23.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix buffer overflow on connections tab for incoming IPv6 connections in handshake phase
• 1.23 - 2022-05-30 - ncdc-1.23.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Bump minimum glib version to 2.32
  • Re-open GeoIP database on SIGUSR1
  • Add tls_policy=force setting
  • Fix TLS on Verlihub
  • Various minor language fixes
  • Add workaround rare compiler bug for aarch64
• 1.22.1 - 2019-06-03 - ncdc-1.22.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix segfault with ADC client connections
• 1.22 - 2019-04-30 - ncdc-1.22.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add ‘b’ and ‘B’ keys to connections tab (Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Add ‘max_ul_per_user’ setting to support multiple upload slots per user (Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Add support for TLS ALPN (Denys Smirnov)
  • Fix build against ncurses with separate libtinfo (Lars Wendler)
• 1.21 - 2019-03-26 - ncdc-1.21.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Switch to libmaxminddb for GeoIP lookups
  • Replaced ‘geoip_cc4’ and ‘geoip_cc6’ settings with a single ‘geoip_cc’
  • Mark already queued or shared files in search and file browser (Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Add ‘download_shared’ setting (Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Add ‘show_free_slots’ setting (Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Add support for the “Free Slots” ADC extension
• 1.20 - 2016-12-30 - ncdc-1.20.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Support bracketed paste mode in input handling (cologic)
  • Add ‘geoip_cc4’ and ‘geoip_cc6’ settings
  • Add ‘log_hubchat’ setting
  • Add ‘local’ option to ‘active_ip’ setting
  • Add support for multistream bzip2 filelists
  • Disable RC4 ciphers by default from tls_priority
  • Fix potential null pointer deference
  • Fix chmod of destination directories (Johannes Beisswenger)
• 1.19.1 - 2014-04-23 - ncdc-1.19.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix remote null pointer dereference
  • Searching now works in the search results list
  • Fix possible file corruption when moving file to destination
  • Fix error handling when finalizing a file download
  • Fix downloading of 0-byte files
  • Fix extremely slow /gc
  • Fix sendfile() with large files on 32-bit Linux
  • Fix minor display issue with multicolumn characters
• 1.19 - 2014-02-11 - ncdc-1.19.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add search functionality to the file browser and user list (/,. keys)
  • Add geoip support (requires --with-geoip at configure)
  • Add ‘download_segment’ setting to change minimum segment size
  • Log hashing progress to stderr.log
  • Fix three (potential) security vulnerabilities
  • Fix downloading of file lists when other user has no free slots
• 1.18.1 - 2013-10-05 - ncdc-1.18.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix crash when downloading files from multiple sources
  • Use the yxml library to parse files.xml.bz2 files
  • Fix various XML conformance bugs in parsing files.xml.bz2 files
• 1.18 - 2013-09-25 - ncdc-1.18.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add support for segmented downloading
  • Support $MyINFO without flags byte on NMDC hubs
  • Don’t require pod2man on build
  • Fix tab-completion of nick names when full nick is specified
  • Fix cursor position on selected line in listings
  • Fix bug with schema-less /connect
• 1.17 - 2013-06-15 - ncdc-1.17.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Add ‘q’ key to user list for matching a users’ files with download queue
  • Add transfers.log format documentation to manual page
  • Consider non-alphanumeric characters as word separators in input line
  • Fix outgoing UDP messages to respect local_address setting
  • Fix Alt+Backspace on xterm-like terminals
  • Fix handling of “.” and “..” file/directory names in files.xml.bz2
  • Fix possible crash when receiving unexpected encrypted search results
  • Fix sendfile() handling to use fallback on EOVERFLOW
  • Fix possible crash when logging UDP messages
• 1.16.1 - 2013-03-23 - ncdc-1.16.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fix crash when opening connection on ADC in passive mode
  • Fix documentation of ‘d’ key in download_exclude setting
• 1.16 - 2013-03-21 - ncdc-1.16.tar.gz ⓘ
  • List of granted users is now remembered across restarts
  • Don’t throttle users who are granted a slot
  • Support CIDs of variable size on ADC
  • Log, but otherwise ignore, DSTA messages on ADC
  • Fix possible crash with graceful disconnect on C-C connections
  • Fix bug with enabling active mode when active_ip is set
  • Fix reporting of active mode on NMDC hubs
  • Fix bug with the ‘X’ key on the queue tab
  • Fix idle disconnect timeout when a file transfer is active
• 1.15 - 2013-03-02 - ncdc-1.15.tar.gz ⓘ
  • IPv6 support
  • Significantly shorten certificate creation time with old GnuTLS versions
  • Always enable tls_policy and sudp_policy by default
  • Link against libgcrypt if detected GnuTLS is older than 3.0
  • Add color_tab_active setting
  • Remove active_tls_port setting
  • Allow ‘-’, ‘.’ and ‘_’ characters in hub names
  • Allow spaces before a command
  • Add Alt+backspace as alias for Ctrl+w
  • Add throttle for ‘CGET tthl’ requests
  • Don’t throw away PMs from unknown users
  • Recognize mode field in $MyINFO without tag
  • Fix possible crash with C-C TLS and old GnuTLS versions
  • Fix old references to the removed ncdc-db-upgrade utility
  • Fix loading of file lists from Shareaza 2.6.0.0 and earlier
  • Fix handling of tab and carriage return in log window
  • Fix changing of download_dir/incoming_dir if either dir has been deleted
  • Fix compilation against glib < 2.26
  • Fix unclean C-C TLS disconnect on timeout
• 1.14 - 2012-11-04 - ncdc-1.14.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added BLOM support for ADC (‘/hset adc_blom true’ to enable it)
  • Added section on connection settings to man page
  • Fix incorrect char signedness assumption on ARM
  • Fix possible crash when downloading small files
  • Fix hub counts reported to the hub on login on ADC
  • Fix local time display issue when built against musl (0.9.6)
  • Removed legacy ncdc-db-upgrade utility
• 1.13 - 2012-08-16 - ncdc-1.13.tar.gz ⓘ
  • zlib library added as a required dependency
  • Purge empty directories from share by default
  • Added “share_emptydirs” setting
  • Disable tls_policy by default when using an old GnuTLS version
  • Improved support for group chat
  • Honor G_FILENAME_ENCODING for path autocomplete, /share and queued files
  • Use a default connection string on NMDC if no ‘connection’ has been set
  • Support ZLIG for partial file list transfers on ADC
  • Send more subdirectories in partial file list transfers
  • Removed use of system-provided realpath()
  • Don’t allow /search with an empty string
  • Fix segfault on /search command without query
  • Fix display of ‘sudp_policy’ setting if SUDP is not supported
  • Fix --enable-git-version when cross-compiling
• 1.12 - 2012-07-10 - ncdc-1.12.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Don’t follow symlinks in share by default
  • Added ‘share_symlink’ option
  • Added bell notification and ‘notify_bell’ option
  • Added ‘sudp_policy’ setting
  • List all configured hubs on ‘/open’
  • Added ‘/delhub’ command to remove hub configuration
  • Added filtering options to connections tab
  • Added TLS support indication to user list
  • Added Alt+a key to cycle through tabs with recent activity
  • Allow binding to ports below 1024
  • Add space after autocompleting a command
  • Fix uploading chunks of 2GiB and larger (bug #12)
  • Fix bug with duplicate directory detection in ‘/share’
  • Fix display of timer on search tab
  • ADC: Use shorter search token to save some bandwidth
  • Various attempts at cleaning up some code
• 1.11 - 2012-05-15 - ncdc-1.11.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Drop libxml2 in favour of custom XML parser & writer
  • Allow using a single listen port for TCP and TLS
  • Added support for encrypted UDP messages (ADC SUDP)
  • Included ‘makeheaders’ in the distribution
  • Removed GNU-specific extensions from the Makefile
  • Fix /disconnect to cancel automatic reconnect
  • Fix loading of file lists with invalid UTF-8 sequences
  • Fix ncurses detection on OpenIndiana
  • Fix use of TLS in passive mode on ADC
  • Fix configure warning when git could not be found
• 1.10 - 2012-05-03 - ncdc-1.10.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Rewrote network backend to use plain sockets instead of GIO
  • Added GnuTLS as required dependency
  • Removed GIO and glib-networking dependencies
  • Removed ‘ncdc-gen-cert’ utility - ncdc can now generate certs by itself
  • Enable client-to-client TLS by default
  • Added ‘tls_priority’ setting
  • Added ‘reconnect_timeout’ setting
  • Don’t quit ncdc on Ctrl+C
  • Display age of file list in the title bar
  • Don’t build the ‘ncdc-db-upgrade’ tool by default
  • Switched to a single top-level Makefile
  • Fix ‘/browse user -f’ (‘-f’ argument after username)
  • Fix hub login when it checks for public hubs = 0
  • Fix overflow of long tab titles
  • Fix loading of microdc2-generated file lists
  • Fix loading of file lists with an invalid character
  • Fix occasional crash when TLS is enabled
  • Fix transfer rate indication and limiting with TLS connections
  • Fix small memory leak when ‘upload_rate’ is set
• 1.9 - 2012-03-14 - ncdc-1.9.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Allow all ‘active_’ settings to be changed on a per-hub basis
  • Allow ‘active_ip’ to be unset and automatically get IP from hub
  • Added ‘active_udp_port’ and ‘active_tcp_port’ settings
  • Renamed ‘active_bind’ to ‘local_address’ and use it for outgoing connections as well
  • Display connection settings in hub info bar
  • Added ‘/listen’ command to display currently used ports
  • Don’t listen on TLS port when tls_policy is disabled
  • Added ‘disconnect_offline’ setting
  • Display ‘(global)’ indicator when showing /hset variables
  • Don’t strip whitespace from /say
  • Don’t allow directory separator as /share name
  • Allow ‘global.’ and ‘#hubname.’ prefix for /set keys
  • Fix display of long IP addresses on user list
• 1.8 - 2012-02-13 - ncdc-1.8.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added bandwidth limiting (upload_rate and download_rate settings)
  • Added hash speed limiting (hash_rate setting)
  • Added ‘m’ key to connection tab to /msg selected user
  • Disable client-to-client TLS by default
  • Don’t throw away some search results on NMDC
  • (Partially) fixed uploading of >2GB chunks
  • Fixed file descriptor leak when using the backlog feature
  • Fixed crash when opening invalid filelist from search twice
  • Use POD for the manual pages
  • Minor typo fixes
• 1.7 - 2011-12-30 - ncdc-1.7.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Split /set command in a /set (global) and /hset (hub)
  • File downloads are performed in a background thread
  • Added glob-style matching on /set and /hset keys
  • Added UTF-8 locale check
  • Added ‘sendfile’ setting
  • Added finer granularity for the flush_file_cache setting
  • Allow flush_file_cache to be enabled for downloads
  • Fix sending of $MyINFO with wrong public hub count
  • Fix incorrect inclusion of gdbm.h
• 1.6 - 2011-12-07 - ncdc-1.6.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Use SQLite3 for storage instead of GDBM
  • Converted config.ini to SQLite3 database
  • Added ncdc-db-upgrade utility
  • Session directory is architecture-independent
  • All data is safe against crashes and power failures
  • Added support for removing/adding directories without rehashing
  • Always match every file list on ‘Q’ key on TTH search
  • Immediately flush log entries to the kernel
  • Faster start-up
  • Added support for per-hub ‘active_ip’ settings
  • Allow interval notation when setting autorefresh
  • Broadcast SF (number of shared files) on ADC hubs
  • Combine TTH data for downloaded files to blocks of at least 1MiB
  • Increased hash buffer size (10KiB -> 512KiB)
  • Fix case-insensitivity of search results
  • Fix reporting of user state in pm tabs at hub disconnect
  • Fix generation of client certificates with openssl
  • Fix segfault with duplicate users on an ADC hub
  • Fix segfault when opening of a filelist fails
  • Fix base32 decoding bug (fixes login sequence on some ADC hubs)
• 1.5 - 2011-11-03 - ncdc-1.5.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added filelist_maxage setting
  • Added flush_file_cache setting
  • Added /ungrant and improved /grant management
  • Added key to download queue to clear user state for all files
  • Added keys to search results to download file list and match queue
  • Select the right user when using the ‘q’ key in connection tab
  • Fixed possible crash when opening file list from search results
  • Fixed detection of incompatible session directory version
• 1.4 - 2011-10-26 - ncdc-1.4.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added sorting functionality to file list
  • Added color settings: title, separator, list_default, list_header and list_select
  • Added “blink” color attribute
  • Allow /disconnect to be used on the main tab
  • Display number of matched and added items when using match queue feature
  • Use git-describe to create a version string, if available
  • Decreased memory usage for large file lists
  • Handle duplicate filenames in other users’ file list
  • Fixed incorrect setting of the “Incomplete” flag in files.xml.bz2
  • Fixed handling of the PM param in MSG commands on ADC
  • Fixed user change notifications for PM tabs
• 1.3 - 2011-10-14 - ncdc-1.3.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added multi-source downloading
  • Added user information view and management keys to download queue tab
  • Added “search for alternative” key to queue, file browser and search tabs
  • Added “match queue” key to file browser and search tabs
  • Added ui_time_format setting
  • Added chat_only setting
  • Changed default value of color_log_time to dark grey
  • Improved tracking of a parent for each tab
  • Improved portability for Solaris
  • Fixed crash when closing a hub tab while it is connecting
  • Fixed crash when auto-completing settings without auto-completion
  • Fixed bug with file name display if download_dir ends with a slash
  • Fixed bug with uploading chunks larger than 2GiB
  • Fixed handling of directory search results on ADC
• 1.2 - 2011-09-25 - ncdc-1.2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Fixed incorrect handling of outgoing NMDC connections
• 1.1 - 2011-09-25 - ncdc-1.1.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Select item in file browser when opened from a search result
  • Added active_bind setting
  • Added share_exclude setting
  • Added download_exclude setting
  • Added incoming_dir setting
  • Added autocompletion for the previous values of certain settings
  • Allow the “connection” setting to be used for ADC as well
  • Added IP column to user list
  • Allow sorting on description, email, tag and IP columns in user list
  • Display upload speeds in the user list of an ADC hub
  • Added TLS indication to connection list
  • Mark selected items bold in listings
  • Allow /reconnect on the main tab to reconnect all hubs
  • Added slash to base path in partial file lists
  • Added delay of 5 seconds before reconnecting to a hub
  • Added recognition of the AP param on ADC
  • Added support for UserIP2 on NMDC
  • Removed support for unexpected incoming NMDC connections
• 1.0 - 2011-09-16 - ncdc-1.0.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added ncdc(1) and ncdc-gen-cert(1) manual pages
  • Documented settings (/help set )
  • Documented key bindings (/help keys)
  • Improved line wrapping algorithm for the log window
  • Added support for client-to-client TLS on NMDC
  • Added support for the CGFI command on ADC
  • Throttle GET requests on the same file + offset
  • Fixed glib assertion failure when disabling active mode
  • Fixed downloading from clients using $ADCSND with -1 bytes
  • Fixed race condition in file uploading code
  • Fixed idle time calculation while connecting to another client
  • Properly include unistd.h in dl.c
• 0.9 - 2011-09-03 - ncdc-0.9.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added TLS support (adcs://, nmdcs://, and ADC client-to-client)
  • Added tls_policy setting
  • Added KEYP support for ADC
  • Added warning when a hub changes TLS certificate
  • Display exact listen ports when enabling active mode
• 0.8 - 2011-08-26 - ncdc-0.8.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added transfer log
  • Added log_downloads and log_uploads settings
  • Added day changed indicators to the log windows
  • Added common readline keys to the text input box
  • Changed /refresh shortcut from Ctrl+e/u to Alt+r
  • Allow join messages to work even when the join completion detection fails
  • Select parent tab when closing a userlist, PM or filelist tab
  • Re-open log files when receiving SIGUSR1
  • Perform a clean shutdown when the terminal is closed
  • Fixed bug in formatting the title of a /search tab
  • Fixed log indent for non-ASCII nicks
  • Fixed log highlighting and indenting for /me messages
• 0.7 - 2011-08-17 - ncdc-0.7.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added word wrapping for the log window
  • Added basic colors and nick highlighting to the log window
  • Allow colors to be changed with the /set command
  • Added backlog feature and setting
  • Added silent building to the configure script
  • Automatically re-open log files when they are moved/truncated externally
  • Accept ‘nmdc://’ URLs as alternative to ‘dchub://’
  • Fixed spamming of useless $MyINFO and BINF commands every 5 minutes
  • Fixed minor memory leak when closing/clearing the log window
• 0.6 - 2011-08-08 - ncdc-0.6.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added file searching, through a /search command
  • Added tab to display the search results
  • Listen for incoming messages on UDP in active mode
  • Allow specifying a hub address with /open
  • Fixed case-sensitivity of shared files
  • Various bugfixes and other improvements
• 0.5 - 2011-08-02 - ncdc-0.5.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Downloaded files are now TTH-checked
  • Added download queue priorities
  • Download queue items are automatically disabled on error
  • Improved error handling and reporting for downloads
  • Added download_slots setting
  • Use a separate thread to load other users’ file list
  • Improved /gc to also clean up download queue related data
  • Decreased memory usage for large file lists
  • Improved error handling with sendfile()
  • Fixed downloading in passive mode on ADC hubs
  • Fixed adding a dir to the download queue while connected to the user
  • Fixed segfault when the userlist is open while disconnecting from a hub
• 0.4 - 2011-07-23 - ncdc-0.4.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added file downloading support WARNING: Downloaded files are not TTH checked at this moment.
  • Added persistent download queue
  • Added busy indicators on start-up and with /gc
  • Added download speed indicator to status bar
  • Improved connection list interface
  • Improved performance of UI message handling
  • Fixed a remote crash
  • Fixed incorrect reporting of hub counters
• 0.3 - 2011-07-15 - ncdc-0.3.tar.gz ⓘ
  • Added file list browser
  • Added downloading of other people’s file list
  • Added ‘hubname’ setting to rename hub tabs
  • Added -v, -c and -n commandline options
  • Added -n option to /open to prevent an autoconnect
  • Added referer notification
  • Improved handling of some ADC commands
  • Improved logging of debug messages
  • Fixed error when uploading an empty file list
  • Fixed display of join/quits on ADC hubs
  • Fixed several crashes
• 0.2 - 2011-06-27 - ncdc-0.2.tar.gz ⓘ
  • ADC support
  • Added slot granting and /grant command
  • Added /kick (for NMDC hubs)
  • Added /pm and /nick aliasses
  • Added support for passworded login
  • Added /me command (mostly useful for ADC hubs)
  • Added /whois command
  • Added ‘share_hidden’ option (default: false)
  • Improved minislots support
  • Added ‘minislots’ and ‘minislot_size’ options
  • Slightly improved user list and connection list
  • /set displays default values for unset options

• 0.1 - 2011-06-20 - ncdc-0.1.tar.gz ⓘ

  Initial version