• Posted: 2011-03-02
  • Author: I2P devs

The 0.8.4 release contains some performance improvements and important bug fixes. Also, i2psnark now supports magnet links. as usual, upgrading is recommended.

Please help grow the network. Get involved, spread the word, and donate! If you find a bug, please enter a report on gitlab. We are still looking for help on new and existing translations. Please volunteer on IRC #i2p-dev.

Files are available on the download page.

Release details:

* Fix a severe memory leak in router I2CP session management that caused router crashes for people running the Robert bittorrent client
* Fix a bug from 0.8.2 that filtered cookies in the HTTP Server tunnel, causing authentication problems for some eepsites(I2P Sites)
* Several fixes for rare NPEs

I2PSnark

* Magnet and "maggot" link support
* Peer Exchange
* Metadata transfer
* Details page enhancements
* Bandwidth limiter improvements
* Bug fixes

Other

* More performance improvements
* Adjustment to peer selection, to hopefully use more of the available network capacity
* Translation updates
* Start of a new Arabic translation by 'hamada'

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