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[Jason Zurawski <>]

Richard Carlson wrote:
> Hi Tom;
>
> Jason fixed the web site and uploaded the new tarballs into the download 
> dir so yes, everything is now accessible.  


Let me edit that to 'will be accessible in a couple of hours' - the 
rysnc has not moved the files to the proper location yet.

Thanks;

-jason


> The source code is stored in 
> a sourceforge SVN repository so you should be able to access that as 
> well.  I would be happy to see this used more extensively by others 
> using the standard SVN functions to create branches and other more 
> formal release functions.
>
> As for changes:  I'll need to figure out how to get the svn-to-changelog 
> function to work, but until then
>
> Most of the recent changes have been to support the M-Lab deployment.  
> These include:
> ) limiting the number of clients that can wait in the queue.
> ) The client was updated to handle 'are you alive' queries, this allows 
> the quick removal of queued clients when the user leaves
> ) changes in the way the server processes/queues clients to handle this 
> new 'alive' function
> ) handling multiple simultaneous clients (this is still being worked on)
> ) changes to the log file structure.  If detailed logging is enabled 
> then these log files are stored in the 
> /usr/local/ndt/serverdata/yyyy/mm/dd structure
> ) new meta-data file is now written containing log results, and other 
> info from the client (IP, FQDN, detailed log file names, etc)
> ) changed the Applet version number to match the main NDT version number
>
> Those are the main things that have changes.  As noted, the multi-client 
> code is still being developed so you can expect a couple of new releases 
> in the next few weeks.
>
> Rich
>
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Tom Throckmorton wrote:
>
> > On 8/28/09 8:25 AM, Richard Carlson wrote:
> > > Hi Chris;
> > >
> > > Sorry about that.  There is a bug in the 3.5.0 release.  You can
> > > download the latest version (3.5.6 which will be posted soon)...
> >
> > Hi Rich,
> >
> > Glad to hear there is a new release coming - can you give us a preview
> > of what other fixes/changes are in this version?
> >
> > Also, is the NDT source available in a public repo anywhere, so that we
> > can follow/try (heck, possibly even *contribute* to) pre-release changes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -tt