MirrorBrain

The 2.16.0 release sums up small fixes that piled up slowly, over a good year. Also, URL signing (introduced in 2.14.0) is now considered stable. See `Configuring URL signatures`_ for more information on this interesting way to restrict downloads ... [More] with temporary URLs. The following bugs were fixed: * The server could crash if there was configuration for fallback mirrors in place and acquisition of a database connection failed. * mb scan: If some directories on a mirror return 404, the scanner crashed. Patched by Thorsten Behrens. * logging messages in the scanner's large file check have been silenced and their formatting improved. * A compatibility issue with newer Python versions has been fixed, found by Christian Lohmaier. Also, non-availability of some feature in old (ancient) Python versions is handled better. Please refer to the `2.16.0 release notes`_ for more details. Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. Please consider a `donation`_ to support MirrorBrain and keep development going! Thanks everyone for their support! .. _`Configuring URL signatures`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/configuration/#configuring-url-signatures .. _`2.16.0 release notes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-16-0-r8251-feb-21-2012 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ [Less]

Tom Albers, sysadmin for the `KDE`__ Community, announced the `use of MirrorBrain for their extensive mirror network`__. `Further details`__. Welcome on board! __ http://www.kde.org/ __ http://dot.kde.org/2012/03/26/kde-enhances-mirroring-network __ http://www.omat.nl/2012/03/24/revamp-download-kde-org-completed/

The 2.17.0 release brings exciting new features – and some small bug fixes. New is that IPv6 geolocation for IPv6 clients is now enabled. (This requires recent versions of GeoIP (1.4.8) and mod_geoip (1.2.7).) Furthermore, MirrorBrain responses ... [More] now include HTTP headers containing cryptohashes, according to :rfc:`3230`/:rfc:`5843` HTTP Instance Digests. In addition, :rfc:`6249` (Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Hashes) is supported (based on :rfc:`5988` Web Linking). `Here's a screenshot`_ which says it all :-) .. _`Here's a screenshot`: http://mirrorbrain.org/static/images/screenshots/metalink_http.png mb vacuum has a new option: -q|--quiet. mb edit now respects the VISUAL environment variable. Internally, a database versioning and migration scheme was implemented. Bug fixes are: In mb makehashes a problem was fixed with filenames containing certain characters. mirrorprobe now handles incomplete responses better. As new platforms, Ubuntu 11.10 and Debian 6.0 packages are now built and tested! Please refer to the `2.17.0 release notes`_ for more details. Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. Please consider a `donation`_. Thank you for your support! .. _`2.17.0 release notes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-17-0-r8289-apr-21-2012 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ [Less]

I nearly missed this one! Since quite a while now, `VLC`__ downloads are handled via MirrorBrain. That's great news! The VLC folks describe `here`__ how they used Sourceforge for a certain time, and then rethought their mirror infrastructure to use ... [More] MirrorBrain. __ http://www.videolan.org/ __ http://blog.l0cal.com/2013/05/02/rethinking-the-vlc-mirrors-infrastructure/ [Less]

Here's 2.18.0, nearly two years after the last release. Well, with MirrorBrain running solidly here and there, what much should there be to do? Yes, one must prevent "bitrotting", make sure that building on today's platforms works, and there were ... [More] also quite some accumulated bug reports and even a few patches. So here we go! Foremostly, an annoying bug was fixed that hit new installs (error message about a missing database column). Plus numerous other small bug fixes. And most pleasingly, the HTML output of the .mirrorlist pages has been modernized. (You might want adjust your CSS styling, therefore.) **Update:** We issued another point release already, 2.18.1, because the geoip-lite-update script had a little bug now. Many people have contributed these changes; see the `detailed list of changes`_! Note: a new version of `mod_asn`_ was also issued recently. Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. Please consider a `donation`_. Thank you for your support! .. _`detailed list of changes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-18-0-r8365-feb-2-2014 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ .. _`mod_asn`: http://mirrorbrain.org/mod_asn/ [Less]

MirrorBrain 2.14.0 is out. It comes with several new features and bug fixes. A short summary follows below — please refer to the `2.14.0 release notes`_ for more details! * MirrorBrain can now use geographical distance as additional criterion in ... [More] mirror selection. * Per-file mirror lists visualize the closest mirrors via Google Maps. `Example.`_ * Running behind a load balancer or other reverse proxy was tested and a bug fixed in this regard. * MirrorBrain can now be used in conjunction with a multitude of access control mechanisms available in Apache. A bug has been fixed which prevented this. * Experimental support for restricted downloads has been implemented, by redirecting to temporary URLs whose validity can be verified by the mirrors. Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. Please consider a `donation`_ to support MirrorBrain development! Thanks everyone for their support! .. _`Example.`: http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.2.1/OOo-SDK_3.2.1_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz.mirrorlist .. _`2.14.0 release notes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-14-0-r8210-nov-6-2010 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ [Less]

Here comes MirrorBrain 2.15.0! Enjoy * support for generating Yum-style mirror lists, * scanning Nginx directory listings, * bugfixes and improvements in the scanner, and * extensive directions on tuning PostgreSQL for MirrorBrain. Please ... [More] refer to the `2.15.0 release notes`_ for more details! Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. Please consider a `donation`_ to support MirrorBrain development! Thanks everyone for their support! .. _`2.15.0 release notes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-15-0-r8232-nov-13-2010 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ [Less]

The 2.16.0 release sums up small fixes that piled up slowly, over a good year. Also, URL signing (introduced in 2.14.0) is now considered stable. See `Configuring URL signatures`_ for more information on this interesting way to restrict downloads ... [More] with temporary URLs. The following bugs were fixed: * The server could crash if there was configuration for fallback mirrors in place and acquisition of a database connection failed. * mb scan: If some directories on a mirror return 404, the scanner crashed. Patched by Thorsten Behrens. * logging messages in the scanner's large file check have been silenced and their formatting improved. * A compatibility issue with newer Python versions has been fixed, found by Christian Lohmaier. Also, non-availability of some feature in old (ancient) Python versions is handled better. Please refer to the `2.16.0 release notes`_ for more details. Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. Please consider a `donation`_ to support MirrorBrain and keep development going! Thanks everyone for their support! .. _`Configuring URL signatures`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/configuration/#configuring-url-signatures .. _`2.16.0 release notes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-16-0-r8251-feb-21-2012 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ [Less]

The 2.16.1 release fixes a few bugs, and includes just two little new features. Please refer to the `2.16.1 release notes`_ for details. Packaged binaries are built and ready for upgrading. You will find them on the `download page`_, as usual. ... [More] Please consider a `donation`_. Thank you for your support! .. _`2.16.1 release notes`: http://mirrorbrain.org/docs/changes/#release-2-16-1-r8261-mar-25-2012 .. _`download page`: http://mirrorbrain.org/download/ .. _`donation`: http://mirrorbrain.org/donations/ [Less]

Tom Albers, sysadmin for the `KDE`__ Community, announced the `use of MirrorBrain for their extensive mirror network`__. `Further details`__. Welcome on board! __ http://www.kde.org/ __ http://dot.kde.org/2012/03/26/kde-enhances-mirroring-network __ http://www.omat.nl/2012/03/24/revamp-download-kde-org-completed/