FSP - File Service Protocol Suite News

Improved documentation and packaging. Now includes far JAR for easier operation.

Small bugfix release, fixed system wide fsp protocol support installation. Uploaded to Maven central as well.

WML was written in mid 90's and it is not maintained anymore. It was removed from unix distributions because it does not compile on newer system. Website switched to hugo. This means that we can start update website once again.

Hugo is much easier to work with then WML.

Since Bazaar VCS was not maintained for years and Python 2 needed to run bzr is not supported anymore it is time to migrate. We moving to Git. Git won VCS war against bzr, has more tools and its integrated with pretty everything.

FSP drifted through history hosted on lot of VCS.
1. It started with rcs
2. moved to gnu cvs. It is rcs with networking.
3. then to svn 0.8 by Collabnet. Its cvs with better branches.
4. then to gnu arch - first distributed VCS available
5. then Tom Lord Arch improved gnu arch and called it tla.
6. Canonical likes the idea of distributed VCS and wrote Bazaar in Python.
7. and now we are in Linus Git.

SCons build improvements:

1. added command line argument without-fspscan=yes
2. do not install shell scripts if we do not build clients
3. support for user defined examplesdir

Other improvements:

1. RPM packages available
2. Gentoo ebuild available
3. Improve error message when fspd can't open pid file

1. Fixed for compiling with SCons 3
2. Fixed for compiling SCons running on Python 3
3. Fixed fdclose() conflict in contrib/fspscan

FSPLIB now builds with SCons 3.0 used in combination with Python 3

FSPLIB, C FSP library, gets updated. There are no code changes - only SCons build system was updated. It builds correctly scons dist on SCons 3.0.X and user supplied install prefix is now respected; that was user reported bug.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fsp/files/fsplib/0.13/

New version released. Fixed build on FreeBSD 9 and newer due to utmpx.h, fixed few bugs discovered by Clang, docbook documentation is now valid SGML document, SCons check for CC supported compiler flags fixed.

FSP Proxy 0.8 released. This version comes with Maven 2 packaging, updated readme and minor code cleanups. It is now packaged as autostartable jar for easier use.

Beta 26 fixed all known b25 regressions and it is now recommended FSP version for use in production.

There are numerous problems with Beta25. Worst is that clients segfaults on newer linux systems. Expect Beta 26 version soon.

After more than 4 years, new beta version is out. Default packet size increased to make transfers about 30% faster, Gnu autotools replaced by SCons, command line options in fspd overrides configuration file, frmdir command fixed and fsetup command added to merged client which now prints short usage info.

This version fixed SCons building script. Library now builds under correct library name libfsplib.a

We migrated from old CVS to modern distributed version control system - Bazaar.

In FSPLIB 0.9 3 possible buffer were fixed. String data sent by server are now checked for \0 terminators before use.

This version fixes security problem https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150399

beta 24 is important bugfix version. Everybody should upgrade to it.

do not use large packets. set packetsize to 1024.

Latest FSP technology - Large packets is now included in
FSP win32 lamer pack and FSP client.

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FSPLIB - FSP stack implemented as C library released.

most requested feature from users - win32 binaries are finally there.
Special version of fspd is included for easier operation.
Lamer guide to fsp also...

Well, I have coded FSP to HTTP/1.0 protocol translation proxy for
use in web browsers. Configure it as proxy for gopher:// protocol.
Software needs jfsplib.

We have Java library for supporting FSP protocol in your application.
Download Machine uses this library for its FSP support.