MirrorBrain

The most significant bugfix in this release is for a crash which could (only) occur when fallback mirrors were configured (hardcoded with the MirrorBrainFallback directive in the Apache configuration file). The other fixes are mostly to adjust for newer Python and build environments. The scanner is a little better. URL signing (introduced in 2.14.0) is now considered stable.

New features: support for generating Yum-style mirror lists. Support for scanning Nginx directory listings. Bugfixes and improvements in the mirror scanner. Extensive directions on tuning PostgreSQL for MirrorBrain.

This release improves the usability of the mirror scanner by adding a terse report format (which makes it easy to spot problems), and a totally quiet mode where only errors will be output. It improves usability in some other corners, and adds documentation, notably the added instructions on setting up automatic GeoIP database updates.

This release fixes two important bugs in the Metalink generator. The first bug was that magnet links embedded in Metalinks could cause clients to hang. The second bug was that under certain conditions (transparent negotiation of metalinks), mod_mirrorbrain could deliver a file "foo" when "foo.bar" was requested but didnt exist. In addition, a number of compatibility fixes for Torrents are included. Ordering of keys was fixed. The md5 key was renamed to md5sum and correctly encoded. A "created by" key was added.

The contents of the mirror lists (details pages) are now wrapped into an XHTML/HTML DIV container to allow for individual styling. In addition, an arbitrary XHTML/HTML header and footer can be specified to be placed around the page body. Due to popular demand, the way hashes are sent can now be influenced. A client can request the pure hash, without filename, via a query parameter in the URL. Likewise, admins can configure this site-wide with a new Apache configuration directive. mirmon integration was updated for the current mirmon release.