
Castanet Transmitter 1.0beta57 Release Notes
Castanet Transmitter 1.0beta4 Release Notes
The beta4 transmitter release contains many bug fixes
some significant performance improvements:
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The transmitter will now compute diffs on each putback. This means that
minor changes to files will result in very small download sizes.
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It is now possible to publish a channel through an authenticated http proxy.
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The transmitter is now much more memory efficient.
Castanet Transmitter 1.0beta3 Release Notes
The beta3 release of the transmitter contains some significant
bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Transmitter Features
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The putback command has been renamed to publish.
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The transmitter protocol has been significantly improved and
is a lot more efficient.
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The transmitter can restart interrupted downloads in the middle of large files.
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The transmitter will now create intra-file diffs to send even less data.
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Each channel can now have a different password.
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The Transmitter will now expire gradually, and will continue to
run even after it has expired.
Features for Channel Developers
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It is now possible to specify a CLASSPATH for each channel.
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Channels can contain (uncompressed) zip files which contain
all classes.
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The Bongo GUI classes will be unbundled in a future release.
This means that you will have to put the marimba.zip file in
each channel.
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The icons can now be specified using the publish program.
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Many new API calls have been added to the ApplicationContext interface.
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The tuner can be extended (manually) by the user with a DLL which
can be used by any channel.
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Channels can access the CD-rom, if allowed by the user.