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Civil Netizen Beta Release 7

Speed, speed, and more speed. Some of our loyal users have pointed out that Netizen was not taking total advantage of their LAN’s network capacity and that they were hoping for more speed in these situations. So for this release, we have included a number of enhancements to ensure that Netizen can detect, adjust and go full throttle in a LAN environment. Your speed will vary of course depending on how fast your computer can pump data to the network. We have added enhancements that will allow hyper-threaded and dual-core computers to scale better in those environments. This release also fixes some problems discovered by our users that would unexpectedly crash Netizen during the middle of transfers. We also make sure that, like the Windows version, the Mac OS X version only uses one window for the application and that permission problems during startup won’t prevent the application from running.

I would like to thank our beta users for providing feedback and sending us bug reports. It has helped improve our application a great deal. I invite all our users to continue innovating with us in the coming months. We are listening and we are going to make it happen.

A detailed set of changes and important known issues in this release is provided below.

1. Bugs Fixed in this release

Case 544: LAN transfers under utilize link capacities
Case 495: Upload progress calculation error
Case 546: Netizen crashes after remote peer disconnects
Case 548: Browsing for pickup slip fails under Mac OS X
Case 570: Netizen fails to launch on Mac OS X without Admin privileges
Case 550: Netizen opens multiple windows under Mac OS X
Case 545: Remove parcel archive rate limiter
Case 505: Fix auto update notification delay

2. What’s not included in this release

Not all localized text appears on screen for tooltips and error messages
Proxy server support is not yet included in this release
We are still working on making Netizen a bit more bandwidth friendly under heavy usage.

3. MD5 Fingerprint
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Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 04:06PM by

Paolo in Release Notes |

3 Comments

Reader Comments (3)

I am still very interested in this software and will be keeping an eye on it. And I do realize it is still in beta, so I will keep testing every version and post what in my opinion can be improved upon in my blog. I really have high expectations for your software. The theory is wonderful. I really hope you can pull it off.

December 7, 2006 |

Bardicknowledge

Thanks for your interest in our software. This release about pushing the speed of Civil Netizen. However, we understand our application needs to be "polite" -- to work in harmony and share bandwidth with other file transfer applications such as BitTorrent. We'll be working on a few techniques to automatically tune our network stack based on user traffic. As always, our solution will be free of complex sliders and config screens. That's our promise.

We'll contact you via your blog if we have pre-release software you can help us test. You are very knowledgeable about this space. Your help in helping us improve our application and the underlying P2P VPN network stack is greatly appreciated.

For more about our network stack, go to http://www.civilengines.com/safe-passage.html

December 8, 2006 |

Christopher

I have just discovered your software and I am currently trying it right now as I type this. So far I think it is awesome and the only thing I would love to see added is a progress bar on the outgoing side for active trasfers. I like to keep track of the bandwidth speeds I am getting and that would be a cool way to help with it.

Thanks for this cool program and I am looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.

December 31, 2006 |

Darren