v0.5.1

v0.5.1

ENHANCEMENTS

• Sort the mirrors by the last state date in the list command

BUGFIXES

• Regression: mirrors were not able to transition between up and down states

v0.5

FEATURES

• Allow renaming a mirror directly from mirrorbits edit
• Option to exclude a country from being served by a mirror

ENHANCEMENTS

• Use of GeoIP2 mmdb databases
• RPC between the CLI and the server
• Use SHA256 as new default hash
• General improvements on the web templates
• Google Maps replaced by OpenStreetMap (#74)
• Google Charts replaced by Flot (#76)
• Possibility to fetch and serve Javascript locally without relying on CDNs (#76)
• Dockerfile improvements
• Systemd service file with process isolation

BUGFIXES

• Add the Redis database index in pubsub announcements (#75)
• Exclude partial directories from rsync (#64)

Changes

• JSON API:
  • Name contains the name of the mirror (previously known as ID)
  • ID now contains the unique ID of the mirror

v0.4

FEATURES

• Allow negative scores to reduce the weight of a mirror
• Follow symbolic links within a repository
• Allow/Disallow per-mirror redirects configuration
• Display the sync offset between each mirrors and the source on the mirrorstats page (requires a trace file on the repository)
• New cli option to force a rehashing of all files during a refresh
• Added a Dockerfile

ENHANCEMENTS

• Support password protected rsync URLs
• Allow https URLs when adding a mirror
• Display location and score in the list output
• Display mirror status in the stats output
• Improvements in the selection algorithm
• Load OSM tiles using https
• Keep the list of mirrors sorted by score in the mirrorlist
• Set cache-control to disable caching
• Log unauthorized redirection from a mirror
• New option to set the maximum number of backup mirrors to return in link headers
• Support for Google Maps API keys
• Mirrorlist and Mirrorstats UI refresh
• Use UTC time on mirrorlist / mirrorstats page
• Improved error reporting
• Add dependency vendoring

BUGFIXES

• Fix a possible crash while Redis is loading the dataset
• Fix a race condition when updating mirrors state
• Fix a rare deadlock within the FTP client

v0.4-rc1

FEATURES

• Allow negative scores to reduce the weight of a mirror
• Follow symbolic links within a repository
• Allow/Disallow per-mirror redirects configuration
• Display the sync offset between each mirrors and the source on the mirrorstats page (requires a trace file on the repository)
• New cli option to force a rehashing of all files during a refresh
• Added a Dockerfile

ENHANCEMENTS

• Support password protected rsync URLs
• Allow https URLs when adding a mirror
• Display location and score in the list output
• Display mirror status in the stats output
• Improvements in the selection algorithm
• Load OSM tiles using https
• Keep the list of mirrors sorted by score in the mirrorlist
• Set cache-control to disable caching
• Log unauthorized redirection from a mirror
• New option to set the maximum number of backup mirrors to return in link headers
• Support for Google Maps API keys
• Mirrorlist and Mirrorstats UI refresh
• Use UTC time on mirrorlist / mirrorstats page
• Improved error reporting
• Add dependency vendoring

BUGFIXES

• Fix a possible crash while Redis is loading the dataset
• Fix a race condition when updating mirrors state
• Fix a rare deadlock within the FTP client

v0.3

FEATURES

• Support for HA via Redis sentinel
• Clustering support (multiple Mirrorbits instances) #6
• Support for Redis DB index
• SHA256 and MD5 hashing support (in addition to SHA1) #4
• Configurable interval for sync and check
• CLI: get stats by matching regular expressions
• HTTP: get the checksum of any file by appending ?sha1, ?sha256 or ?md5 to any served file
• Added a Makefile to support different builds

ENHANCEMENTS

• Improved systemd service file
• New mirrorlist template #15
• Geoip databases are now updated (in memory) during a reload
• Reuse all Redis connections when possible
• Detect and wait until Redis has loaded the dataset into memory
• Improved handling of X-Forwarded-For IP addresses #23
• Logging: enable the colored output only if supported by the terminal
• More configuration items can be applied with a simple reload
• Improved scan behavior for newly added mirror (healthcheck only after successful scan)
• Limit redis verbosity in CLI operations
• CLI: reduce the number of database requests required to fetch stats by time interval
• CLI: differentiate down vs disabled mirrors
• FTP: add a connection timeout
• Don't try to open download logs when using the cli
• process: ensure the file descriptor is valid before finalizing a seamless binary upgrade
• Mirrors with a weight less than 1% will show <1% instead
• Graceful exit is now faster
• General improvements on error reporting

BUGFIXES

• Fix Redis password authentication
• Fix a crash in the weight randomization algorithm
• Fix a bug causing a rescan of all mirrors during startup
• Fix a bug causing some disabled mirrors to be health-checked
• Don't reload logs if outputting on stderr (journald is now happy)
• Fix a crash if no mirrors and no fallbacks are available
• CLI: fix matching of a mirror ID containing the same substring #19
• scan: fix an issue causing a constant rehashing of all files #18
• The geoip-lite-update script did not update the databases correctly

v0.2

Changes:

========

cli:
- Request a scan using a specific protocol (rsync or ftp)
- Print basic download stats (mirrorbits stats <identifier>)

core:
- Improve parse errors in the configuration
- Don't log if logdir in unset
- Fix a minor corner case when the client and server are in the exact same
  location.

v0.1.2

This version fixes a possible division by zero during mirror selection.
It is strongly advised to upgrade.

v0.1.1

This is the second alpha release of mirrorbits.

Changes:
========

cli:
    - A parse error in the mirror configuration can now be retried
    - Add supports for taking notes / comments on a mirror
    - Add a flag to auto-enable a mirror after a successful scan
    - Add a flag to scan all mirrors at once

core:
    - Improved mirror selection algorithm
    - Fix few corner cases in weight distribution

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament.
    --Kent Beck

First alpha release

This version is stable enough for production environment but some API are still subject to change including:

• JSON query API (return values of download requests and stats)
• URL and parameters to query mirrorlist, mirrorstats and stats