Spot-On

Spot-On 2024.12.25

• Adaptive Echo tokens will now be trimmed.
• Allow comments (#) in Options -> Miscellaneous. An entry is considered a comment if the first character in it is a number sign. Deeper symbols are not interpreted.
• Attempt to load translation files according to QTranslator::load(QLocale(), "qtbase", "_", path, ".qm") and QTranslator::load(QLocale(), "spot-on", "_", path, ".qm").
• Automatics and constants. Mishaps? We simply do not know!
• Beautiful and final LTS release of 2024. See you.
• Beautiful and natural find in various places.
• Beautiful lively documentation in the various panels.
• Beautiful source!
• Breeze style on Unix-like, excluding MacOS.
• Centering children with parents is strange. Introduced a delayed and simple centering machine. The delay is not observable by a standard person.
• Close the RSS panel before deleting it as this will preserve its geometry.
• Completed some of spoton_smpwindow::slotSetIcons().
• Corrected access of the URLs database in the kernel. QSqlDatabase::connectionName() is not QSqlDatabase::databaseName(). The error may result in lingering database connections.
• Corrected Windows project file. Deleting debug plugins may delete required plugins files in the Windows install target. Qt 6.5 LTS has separated the debug and release files and the additional logic in the project file is not necessary.
• Corrected incorrect error report in spoton_crypt::init().
• Corrected interface and kernel RSS: place the original URL into the redirected URL database field (rss_feeds_links database table) as the redirected URL is the URL which determines if its contents should be imported. If the original URL is redirected, the redirected URL field will be correct. Excellent!
• Editable RSS feeds. Double-click the desired feed, modify its link, and press the Enter key.
• Eliminated GitHub warnings of NTRU.
• Enable Monitor Events in Notifications window after a new installation. The default value is true.
• Final release of Linux packages. Future: MacOS, Windows. See YOU!
• GCrypt 1.11.1; Windows.
• GPGError 1.51; Windows.
• Import published pages. Options -> Miscellaneous. Importing occurs routinely. (PUBLISHED_PAGES := path, title-line-number, url-line-number)
• Inbound e-mail will be displayed in a plain-text container, replacing the rich-text widget. Rich-text is not suitable for Qt.
• Include discovered Spot-On options in About page.
• Increased GEMINI_ITERATION_COUNT to 250000 from 25000. This constant is applied during the creation of credentials from a completed SMP process.
• Increased MAXIMUM_NEIGHBOR_CONTENT_LENGTH to MAXIMUM_NEIGHBOR_BUFFER_SIZE / 2.
• Introduced SPOTON_MACOS_OVERRIDE_NEIGHBOR_DELETE_LATER in the kernel. Disabled.
• Listener accounts and passwords will now be trimmed.
• Monitoring the INI file in the kernel may not be possible with a file-system monitor. Enable periodic monitoring if necessary.
• More statistics in local format.
• Natural woody: collapse / expand are more clever.
• New --launch-kernel main interface terminal option. This option does not share credentials with a kernel process. The kernel is launched shortly after the main window is shown.
• New About page in Web search.
• New Reset All in Search page.
• New congestion control digest: SHAKE256. Requires GCrypt.
• New modern C++ nullptr, here and there.
• Novas will now be trimmed.
• On reset confirmation dialog, set No as the default button.
• OpenSSL 3.4; Windows.
• Optional human proxy. Please see Chat page.
• Prettier about text in search server.
• Prettier tool buttons on MacOS. Menu arrows were quirky.
• Q_OS_WIN -> Q_OS_WINDOWS.
• Qt 6.8 LTS.
• RSS: Edit -> Find -> Timeline.
• RSS: bold labels for lovely meaning.
• RSS: describe reason(s) of disabled widget(s).
• RSS: new verify-feeds machine.
• Rapid McEliece.
• Removed Doxygen.
• Removed GeoIP from MacOS, PiOS, and PowerPC. GeoIP is dead!
• Removed echo_key_sharing_secrets_temporary from echo_key_sharing_secrets.db as the requirement is ancient.
• Removed old database ALTER statements.
• Renamed FORTUNA_QUERY_INTERVAL_MS to FORTUNA_QUERY_INTERVAL_MSECS. Please adjust in Options -> Miscellaneous.
• Renamed P2P_SERVERLESS_CONNECT_INTERVAL_MS to P2P_SERVERLESS_CONNECT_INTERVAL_MSECS. Please adjust in Options -> Miscellaneous.
• Replaced selectedItems() with a model's selectedRows(). Super fast, super splendid, super Spot-On.
• Resize a dialog before centering it.
• Replaced old-style C casts.
• Select the Breeze style on KDE systems in spot-on.sh.
• Set QMAKE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 12.0.
• Spot-On contains at least 740 options.
• Spot-On kernel uptime in About page in Web search.
• Taller windows: Documentation, Options, Release Notes, Log Viewer.
• The method gcry_mpi_scan() may fail in spoton_smp::setGuess(). Be careful!
• The method spoton_listener::maxPendingConnections() may return a special value, indicating that a listener has not completed initialization. Adjusted logic.
• Total URLs in About page in Web search.

Spot-On 2024.07.15

• A StarBeam's estimated time of arrival is now displayed as a rational. GitHub ticket #34.
• A StarBeam's percent completed is now displayed as a rational. GitHub ticket #34.
• About the 88th release of Spot-On.
• Adjusted QString::split() for modern Qt versions.
• Corrected INI setting kernel/tcp_nodelay in spoton_gui_server_tcp_server::incomingConnection(); the proper setting name is gui/tcp_nodelay.
• Disable WebEngine's cache if SPOTON_WEBENGINE_ENABLED is true.
• Do not set an empty URL interceptor for WebEngine as the engine is particular.
• Elegant source.
• Fourteen years of silent awesomeness.
• GPGError 1.50; Windows.
• Include urls.db in database vacuuming. New confirmation prompt included.
• NTRU memset() size parameter correction; size must be non-zero. Please read line 506 of src/poly.c. Notice that the len parameter is an unsigned 16-bit integer.
• Non-modal About dialog.
• OpenSSL 3.3.1; Windows.
• Prepared for Apple Silicon MacOS. Intel MacOS is deprecated.
• QLocale::country() was replaced with QLocale::territory() in Qt 6.6.
• Qt 6 LTS and WebEngine preparations.
• Qt 6 LTS and deprecated SSL corrections.
• Removed ancient QSettings::remove() instances.
• Removed deprecated QAction objects.
• Removed tool tips from StarBeam -> Transmitted -> Add Mosaic.
• Replaced QWebEngineSettings::globalSettings() with QWebEngineSettings::defaultSettings().
• Simplified StarBeam reading. Reading tasks are cumbersome.
• Some QDateTime::setTimeSpec(Qt::UTC) instances are redundant. Removed!
• Source-only releases! Computers do not exist.
• The method spoton_webengine_page::acceptNavigationRequest() must return true else a local page will not be loaded.
• This happy release is dedicated to the spotty Mr. D.
• Ultra StarBeams were introduced in 2019 or so. Perhaps earlier, perhaps later. Ultra StarBeams are reliable and therefore resize() is not necessary.
• Unroll loops, if possible, via funroll-loops.
• Various tool tips in StarBeam -> Transmitted would disappear if an active StarBeam was present: QTableWidget::selectRow().
• View Locally is now hidden in Search unless WebEngine or WebKit is available.
• WebEngine is now included in some Linux distributions. The engine will render local Web pages.

Spot-On 2023.12.15

• Calm integration of an Arduino entropy source.
• Corrected conditional compilation in spot-on-socket-options.cc: #if SPOTON_SCTP_ENABLED must be #ifdef.
• Deactivate the kernel's RSS timers on termination. Timers are usually deactivated automatically.
• Final 2023 LTS release! See you.
• First PiOS 64-bit release!
• Fortuna. New Miscellaneous options. If data are not available, gcrypt is utilized.
• GCrypt 1.10.3; Windows.
• LTS release! Included are a bunch of bunched bundles.
• Meaningful tool tips. Example, [10, 20] for numeric ranges.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1w; MacOS.
• Optional Bluetooth and WebSockets on FreeBSD and Linux.
• Optional CURL (Poptastic) on Linux.
• Optional GeoIP on Linux. GeoIP is deprecated!
• Optional McEliece (NTL) on Linux. NTL appears abandoned.
• Optional PostgreSQL on Linux.
• Optional SCTP on Linux.
• Qt 6.5.3 LTS on MacOS.
• Qt 6.5.3 LTS on Windows.
• New kernel options for energy conservation.
• Process the INI file in the kernel shortly after launch.
• Removed libspoton requirement.
• Speedier Web server: if socket data are available, avoid pausing and process the data!
• The NTL and NTRU libraries appear abandoned!
• Windows 11 x86-64.
• Write downloaded Web content to a specified directory. Please see Miscellaneous in Options.

Spot-On 2023.08.05

• Archived GB project files.
• Archived OpenBSD project files.
• Deprecated support for Windows: GPGME, GeoIP, PostgreSQL, cURL. Twelve years of effort, zero client interest. Other operating systems are beautifully functional with near-zero effort.
• Do not launch an elevated version of ShellExecuteA() on Windows.
• Initialize s[i] in Threefish implementation.
• Qt 5.15.10 LTS; MacOS.
• Qt 6.5.2 LTS for Windows x86-64!
• Release includes a bunch of accumulated bundles!
• Removed CURL from MacOS build. Item is not included with some release notes and will be included in future releases.
• Unix-like distributions: prefer /opt instead of /usr/local. Please ignore on MacOS.
• Windows x86 is deprecated by Microsoft.

Spot-On 2023.05.15

• Replaced the error() signal with errorOccurred() in numerous instances for Qt 5.15 LTS and newer. Networking-related classes.
• Source-only release.

Spot-On 2023.05.10

• Archived release notes.
• C++17.
• CURL 8.0.1; Windows.
• Center progress dialog of slotPrepareUrlDatabases().
• GPGError 1.47; Windows.
• Launch Spot-On in a dark mode, if available, on Windows. Please see spot-on-darkmode.bat.
• Minimal Spot-On. Retain setting.
• Native dialogs and menus.
• New splash screen!
• Open Listeners and Neighbors pages if status-bar widgets are activated.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1t; MacOS.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1t; Windows. New download site https://download.firedaemon.com/FireDaemon-OpenSSL.
• Proper size policy of passphrase_frame widget in the Wizard.
• Qt 5.15.8 LTS; MacOS.
• Qt 6.5 LTS compliant.
• Removed algorithm examination during launch. Decreases processing time.
• Removed vertical headers from table widgets.
• SQLite 3.41.2; Windows.
• Set cursor position after setText().
• Settings page may now be closed.
• Source-only release.
• The file spot-on-neighbors.txt is now bundled into the executables.

Spot-On 2023.02.20

• Accelerated Web search. Replaced UNION with UNION ALL.

Spot-On 2023.02.10

• Beautiful new logo.
• Human Proxies for Chat. Non-Poptastic. Proxies are utilized for Chat, Chat Buzz Invitation, and Chat SMP.
• New window sizes.
• Resize Chat Participant column after a refresh.

Spot-On 2023.01.15

• CURL 7.87; Windows.
• Case-insensitive string comparisons.
• Enable tab document mode on MacOS.
• Final package release! Future releases will be source only. Good luck!
• Initialize miscellaneous options after a new installation.
• Minimum of 4 characters are now required for passwords.
• Modern QDateTime.
• Optional PostgreSQL. Disabled for MacOS.
• Optional tear-off menus. See Options.
• PostgreSQL 10.23; Windows.
• QComboBox::currentIndexChanged(const QString &) is obsolete. Replaced with QComboBox::currentIndexChanged(int).
• QFile does not tolerate an empty file name. Adjusted logic.
• Re-arranged status bar widgets.
• SQLite 3.40.1; Windows.
• Sleepy listeners. Close a listening socket if the maximum number of connections has been reached. Reopen as necessary. New status: asleep. Please remove listeners.db.
• Woody tree widgets. Collapse / expand tree widgets.

Spot-On 2022.11.11

• Corrected re-encoding of rss_feeds, rss_feeds_links, rss_proxy, and secrets database tables.
• GPGError 1.46; Windows.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1s; Windows.
• Qt 5.15.7 LTS; MacOS.
• Qt 6.2 LTS ready! Some glitches may remain.
• SQLite 3.39.4; Windows.

Spot-On 2022.07.20

• CURL 7.84; Windows.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1q; Windows.
• PostgreSQL 10.21.1; Windows.
• SQLite 3.39.1; Windows.

Spot-On 2022.04.20

• CURL 7.82; Windows.
• GPGError 1.45; Windows.
• Table item delegates attached to Listeners and Neighbors tables for fancy copying of text. Double-clicking function on Neighbors has been replaced by this new function.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1n; Windows.
• SQLite 3.38.2; Windows.

Spot-On 2022.01.01

• Assign local address to listener certificate.
• CURL 7.80; Windows.
• Corrected depictions of ECC 521-bit key lengths.
• Corrected spoton_socket_options::setSocketOptions() for SO_LINGER. The method did not allow for the disabling of the option.
• GPGError 1.43; Windows.
• Network activity in status bar.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1m; Windows.
• PostgreSQL 10.19.1; Windows.
• Pretty numeric values in statistics.
• Qt 5.12.12 LTS; Windows.

Spot-On 2021.10.20

• Corrected release notes.
• Corrected removal of Buzz keys from the kernel process.
• PostgreSQL 10.18.2; Windows.

Spot-On 2021.10.10

• CURL 7.79.1; Windows.
• Corrected WebSocket implementation.
• ECC SSL/TLS. Curves supported: prime256v1, secp384r1, secp521r1.
• GCRYPT 1.9.4; Windows.
• New miscellaneous option P2P_SERVERLESS_CONNECT_INTERVAL_MS. The default value is 1 millisecond. Range is [0, 1500].
• OpenSSL 1.1.1l; W32.
• PostgreSQL 10.18; Windows.
• Removed McEliece support from the Windows build as the NTL library is flawed.
• Removed redundant creation of SSL/TLS keys.
• Renamed Miscellaneous options WEB_SERVER_RSA_KEY_SIZE to WEB_SERVER_KEY_SIZE.

Spot-On 2021.08.19

• CURL 7.78; Windows.
• Confirm clearing of Rosetta text.
• Corrected processing of DTLS packets received by clients.
• GPG-Error 1.42; Windows.
• NTL 11.5.1; Linux.
• New --status kernel option.
• New memset_s().
• PostgreSQL 10.17; Windows.
• Removed mtune, save for PowerPC.
• Removed redundant pointers in Threefish.
• SQLite 3.36; Windows.
• Server-less TCP connections. SSL/TLS supported. STUN not required.

Spot-On 2021.06.06

• CURL 7.77, Windows.
• GoldBug Debian control file was missing a comma.
• Multiple private GPG personalities.
• New Rosetta tool tips.
• Qt 5.12.11 LTS, Windows.
• Smart block extraction of GPG message.

Spot-On 2021.04.25

• CURL 7.76.1, Windows.
• GPGME 1.15.1, Windows.
• GeoIP 1.6.12, Windows. This is the final release of this particular library.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1k, Windows.
• Replaced ordered directive in project files for speedier compilations.
• SQLite 3.35.5, Windows.

Spot-On 2021.03.15

• Activate kernel in a wizardly fashion.
• CURL 7.75; W32.
• Corrected Debian package. Thank you Umer.
• GB styles.
• GCRYPT 1.9.2; W32.
• NTL 2021.03.05; Debian.
• New Windows download site.
• Non-library Spot-On library file.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1j; W32.
• Periodically purge malformed RSS content.
• PostgreSQL 9.6.21; W32.
• Removed dates from binaries.
• SQLite 3.35; W32.
• Windows High DPI. May or may not be functional.

Spot-On 2021.01.15

• CURL 7.74.0 on W32.
• Compressed Rosetta messages.
• Ctrl + W shortcuts.
• E-mail pagination.
• Future-proofing protocols. Replaced SHA-512 with SHA3-512. The friends_public_keys.db must be removed.
• Fuzzy comparisons of reals.
• Ignore McEliece and NTRU signature-verification Rosetta errors.
• Kernel RSS import futures.
• Key comparisons.
• Manual Poptastic pop.
• New options; please see Options.
• OpenPGP Rosetta messaging.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1h; W32.
• Optional Poptastic.
• Optional SQLite synchronization.
• PostgreSQL 9.6.20; W32.
• Presentable key bundles.
• Qt 5.12.10 LTS; W32.
• Qt 5.15.2 LTS; OS X.
• Replaced key-bundling delimiter "\n" with "|".
• Resolved Qt 5.15 LTS warnings.
• SQLite 3.34; W32.
• Speedy populating of Rosetta contacts. Decreased memory utilization.
• Themes.
• Web server improvements: URL redirection, segmented delivery of lengthy content.
• libgcrypt 1.8.6 on W32.

Spot-On 2020.08.19

• Abort StarBeam writer on kernel termination.
• Allow for the limiting of the number of Spot-On Search Server (SOSS) clients.
• Beautiful text hints.
• Close Spot-On Search Server (SOSS) sockets after the maximum client counts are reached.
• CURL 7.71.1 on W32.
• Deprecated Qt 4.x.
• High DPI monitors support.
• Increased kernel URL batch size to 50.
• Kernel RSS. Container-less!
• Modal print preview dialogs.
• PostgreSQL 9.6.19; W32.
• Prepared the applications for Qt 5.15 LTS.
• Qt 5.12.9 LTS; W32.
• Qt 5.15.0 LTS; OS X.
• SQLite 3.33.0; W32.
• Task-safe spoton_kernel::s_crypts.
• Type of Service socket option. Not available on Windows.
• Various numeric conversions corrections.

Spot-On 2020.05.10

• Abort DTLS handshakes on extreme errors.
• Bluetooth listening status now examines both service and socket statuses.
• CURL 7.70.0 on W32.
• Corrected private-application context menu items for listeners and neighbors.
• Do not partition data over Web Sockets.
• Dropped packets statistics.
• Estimated time of arrival and rates; StarBeams. Please remove starbeam.db.
• HTTP and HTTPS Web searches.
• Number of pages in search engine URLs.
• OpenSSL 1.1.1g on W32.
• PowerPC and Qt 5.
• Prevent surreptitious forwarding for e-mail. Previous versions of Spot-On are not compatible with this release.
• Purge expired Forward Secrecy keys.
• Qt 5.12.8 LTS on W32.
• Removed SCTP on OS X as it's not properly supported by the operating system.
• Replaced deprecated Qt methods.
• StarBeam optimizations: decreased allowable read-rate interval, removed Unix file synchronization. Please remove starbeam.db.
• StarBeam writer queues.

Spot-On 2020.02.20

• Automatically clear Buzz and Chat fields. Please see Options.
• Bluetooth discovery.
• DTLS verification.
• Limit SCTP packet size to 500 bytes.
• Maximum pending connections set to 65535 on all listeners.
• NTL 11.4.3 on Unix.
• New Origin StarBeam magnet field. Please remove starbeam.db.
• PostgreSQL 9.6.17 on W32.
• Record DTLS certificates for user-defined nodes.
• SQLite 3.31.1 on W32.
• Temporary containers for dropped packets.
• WebSockets. Qt 5.3 required.
• libgcrypt 1.8.5 on W32.

Spot-On 2020.01.20

• ARM Qt 5 Debian package.
• Allow cancellation of silence timeouts.
• CURL 7.68 on W32.
• Container optimizations; replaced first().
• Corrected initialization of m_externalAddress in the UI.
• Custom PostgreSQL connection timeouts.
• Determine current IMAP UID values before fetching e-mail data via IMAP.
• Enable SSL/TLS PostgreSQL option.
• Enable default PostgreSQL connection options connect_timeout=10;sslmode=verify-full.
• Fancy e-mail tool tips.
• Funky neighbor statistics.
• Happy New Year!
• Maximum page count of the congestion_control.db SQLite database. Please see Settings.
• Numerous optimizations.
• Private PostgreSQL account credentials.
• Propagate PostgreSQL connection options into the kernel.
• Purge sensitive data: spot-on-buzzpage, spot-on-crypt, spot-on-smp.
• Retain RSS Record Notices setting.
• Retain Statistics selection.
• Set RSS request headers Accept and User-Agent.
• The maximum-neighbor-content-length should be a tenth of the maximum-neighbor-buffer-size.

Spot-On 2019.11.28

• Corrected detection of SMP secret streams in e-mail panels.
• Populate SMP secret streams during initialization.
• Previous optimizations mangled some communications.

Spot-On 2019.11.25

• Custom external IP URL.
• Multitasking SOSS server.
• Optional RSS notices.
• PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on W32.

Spot-On 2010.06.07

• Spot-On is born!