aMule Portable 3.0.0

What's new in 3.0.0

3.0.0 — The "alive again" version
Hi! We are back.
This is the first major release in 5+ years (since 2.3.3, 2021-02-07). Headline changes are dramatic throughput improvements, full build-system overhaul, modernized dependency stack, native binaries for Linux / macOS / Windows, and a broad legacy-API cleanup.
We went through hard times, we missed programmers and maintainers. There were doubts whether aMule could reemerge. People called aMule a dead project. But eD2k still has users, and those users need working software. So here we are — back to bring you the best eD2k client.
One unfortunate thing happened: Gonosztopi, one of aMule's most prolific devs, who has been the maintainer for many years, is missing. We have no news from him (we hope you are well, man!). And he was the only owner of the original GitHub repo. The other members left in amule-project do not have enough rights on the organization to properly manage the project. So we were forced to create a new one. New org, new repos, but the same folks.
You can find the new aMule site here.
You will find everything there: the home page, complete documentation, download links, news and links to the source code.
Highlights
- Throughput rewrite. Disk I/O moved off the main thread, ASIO/EPOLLET races fixed, throttlers replaced with proper token-bucket limiters. Peer-to-peer download on the same hardware sees ~100–380× speedups across macOS / Linux / Windows over 2.3.3, plus aMule 3.0.0 sustains ~4.8× the upload throughput of eMule 0.70b on Windows. See Performance for the full matrix and per-PR breakdown.
- Both throttlers (MaxUpload, MaxDownload) were also broken pre-fix — MaxUpload=0 capped at "current rate + 5 KB/s", MaxDownload was a ratio controller rather than a literal cap. Both rewritten (#461, #491). Important user-facing bug fixes, but secondary to the headline numbers.
- Big-library / big-shareset scaling. Follow-up wave targeting nodes with 100 k+ shared files: per-file EC payload caches (#725, #736), skip-unchanged EC updates (#727), local-peer ZLIB bypass (#728), and a string of O(N²) → O(N log N) / O(1) algorithmic fixes across SharedFileList, SharedFilesCtrl, KnownFileList, wxListCtrl, ExternalConn, and amuleweb — the WebUI / amulegui stay responsive even on libraries where the previous GUI took minutes to redraw.
- CMake replaces autotools. Single build system, modern toolchain — minimum CMake 3.10, minimum wxWidgets 3.2.0.
- Native binaries for every major desktop. …

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