MLdonkey

MLDonkey is a multi-platform and freely distributed eDonkey client, a P2P (Peer-to-Peer) file-sharing application. It provides users with both a server (daemon) and graphical user interface (GUI).

Supports several large P2P (Peer-to-Peer) networks

Currently, the application supports several large P2P networks, including Overnet, BitTorrent, Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Soulseek, Opennap, and Direct-Connect (DC++).

It seems to be the first ever open source application that could access the eDonkey peer-to-peer file sharing network, as a eDonkey2000 clone. It officially supports the Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, MorphOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Numerous graphical user interfaces exist for MLDonkey

Several user interfaces are available for this project, including web-based, native GUIs, Telnet based and basic Wap front-ends. The most simple and effective appears to be the Telnet interface accessible through the command-line (telnet 127.0.0.1 4000) or via the Putty application.

While the Wap interface is extremely simple and provides users only with very basic functionality, such as current download and upload speed, current running downloads, as well as pause, resume, and cancel functions, the web-based interface can be easily accessed with any modern web browser through http://admin@127.0.0.1:4080.

MLdonkey comes by default with a GTK interface. However, there are many open source or commercial GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) front-ends available, including Sancho, KMLdonkey, G2Gui, CocoDonkey, xDonkey, mlMac, Nulu GUI ML, MLdonkeyWatch, phpEselGui, saman, Platero, Alemula, Zuul, JMoule, Web-GMUI, and Rmldonkey.

All the aforementioned MLdonkey interfaces can be used both remotely and locally. Furthermore, it allows users to easily enable or disable P2P networks, perform parallel searches on all enabled peer-to-peer networks, as well as to download files concurrently from multiple clients.

Bottom line

Summing up, MLdonkey is a very powerful and popular P2P client that runs on most operating systems, supports a wide range of peer-to-peer networks, and comes with a plethora of user interfaces.

What is new in this release:

• Revert patch #8328 to fix GTK2 gui's compilation (ygrek)

What is new in version 3.1.5:

• Revert patch #8328 to fix GTK2 gui's compilation (ygrek)

What is new in version 3.1.4:

• 8388: BT: use porttest service from EDK module (ygrek)
• 8352: CryptoPP: Fix compilation with gcc-4.7 (Jaakko Perttila)
• 8351: CryptoPP: Fix FreeBSD build with clang on i386 (tijl)
• 8350: CryptoPP: Fix compilation on armhf (ygrek)
• 8336: GD: Fix linking to libpng & libjpeg
• 8335: Version bump miniupnpc 1.9 (ygrek)
• 8334: Version bump libnatpmp 20131126 & miniupnpc 1.8 (ygrek)
• 8333: Config: New configure option --enable-dev (ygrek)
• 8332: New option "all" for command verify_chunks (ygrek)
• 8331: printf2: add ?exn parameter for easy exception printing (ygrek)
• 8330: printexc2: reduce complexity, drop unused code (ygrek)
• 8329: printf2: reduce complexity, use Printf.ksprintf (ygrek)
• 8328: gettext: reduce complexity, drop unused code (ygrek)
• 8327: GTK2 GUI: fix wrong url on splash screen (ygrek)
• 8326: BT: disable announcing to 127.0.0.1 (ygrek)
• 8325: do not reset option pause_new_downloads at startup (ygrek)
• 8324: BT: dump failing UDP tracker packets (ygrek)
• 8323: Config: fix minor typos (ygrek)
• 7916: Use GNU make when compiling upnp/natpmp on FreeBSD (zbroyar)
• 8123: configure: Fix GD version check for GD 2.1.x
• 8115: Use magnet: links without dllink
• 8114: Fix --enable-force-ocaml with Ocaml 4.00.x
• 8111: http: New option http_root_url specifies root url for the web interface (ygrek)
• 8113: IP discover: Fix broken URL
• 8112: BT/HTML: select/unselect whole directories in BT multifile downloads (ygrek)
• 8110: http_server: refactor error_page (ygrek)
• 8109: FTP: fix CWD (ygrek)
• 8108: FTP: fix authentication (ygrek)
• 8107: HTML: fix "Request URI too large" errors (ygrek) drop unused selectPriority parameters
• 8106: EDK: do not dump unknown messages by default (ygrek)
• 8105: Config: report line and position for syntax errors in config files (ygrek)
• 8104: BT: suppress warning for peers6 entry in tracker response (ygrek)
• 7954: Fix handling of full disc (jcea)
• 7917: Allow upnp_stub.c to be compiled on Mac OS X (zbroyar)

What is new in version 3.0.2:

• Support Ocaml 3.11.2, BT and DC updates

What is new in version 3.0.1:

• An urgent security related bug was fixed. Support for Ocaml 3.11.1 has been added.
• Some problems with parsing Bittorrent files were fixed.

What is new in version 3.0.0:

• This is an urgent security update, it will also reduce CPU and memory usage due to optimized storage of the IP blocklist.

What is new in version 2.9.7:

• Web_infos: Replace old GeoIP URL with new one - old code added the new URL, even if GeoIP was not present in web_infos
• BT: Fix bug when computing limits for max_bt_uploaders
• GeoIP: New web_infos URL for country list (thx to Choby)
• Allow compilation with Ocaml 3.11.0
• Mail: Move hostname from subject to body (eydaimon)
• Updated Mozilla protocol handler to version 2.5
• IP discover: Use http://whatismyip.org, old URL is not working anymore