3.3.0

[mathiascode]

WINDOWS USERS: The installer format has changed in Nicotine+ 3.2.0. If you are upgrading from Nicotine+ 3.1.1 or earlier, please uninstall Nicotine+ first (this will not remove your existing settings).

Changes

• Enabled GTK 4 support by default for new visual style on Windows, macOS and GNOME
• Added "Chat History" popover to view all previous private chats with users
• Added generic file type search result filters (audio | image | video | text | archive | executable)
• Added audio duration search result filter (HH:MM:SS | MM:SS | Seconds)
• Added support for phrase searching using quotation marks
• Added path bar when browsing user shares
• Added option to make specific shares available to trusted buddies only
• Added option to wait for active uploads to finish before quitting Nicotine+
• Added function to send a private message to all online buddies and users in upload queue
• Added a warning dialog if shared folders are unavailable before rescanning
• Added dropdown menu listing all open tabs
• Added function to reopen closed tab with Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut
• Added option to show exact file sizes in bytes
• Added popovers in the status bar for selecting download and upload speed limits
• Added option to configure text view font
• Added function to clear all deleted downloads that no longer exist on disk
• Added function to re-enter search when right-clicking search tabs
• Added preference to choose user interface language
• Added wishlist results found notification
• Added option to set custom handlers for opening downloaded files
• Added file type icons to file lists
• Added button to view personal profile
• Added buttons in Preferences to open download folder locations in file manager
• Added total size of all selected files to window title in the "File Properties" dialog
• Added new command system for plugins (type /help for a list of available commands)
• Added keyboard input with readline command editing and history to headless CLI
• Added support for NAT-PMP port forwarding
• Windows: Added option to bind Nicotine+ to a specific network interface
• macOS: Added native support for Apple Silicon
• Changed "Bitrate" column to "Quality" for displaying sample rate of uncompressed files
• Allow search result filters to be restored after clicking the "Clear Filters" button
• Restore initial list order when pressing the column header of a sorted column
• Remember last sorted column after restarting
• Filter out irrelevant folders when searching a user's shares
• Allow selecting multiple folders in a user's shares
• Insert new private chat tabs before older ones
• Resuming a single filtered download allows for bypassing download filter
• Transfer log files are now split into per-session download and upload logs
• Retry downloads limited due to maximum queue/file sizes more frequently
• Performance improvements when scanning and accessing shares
• Banned users can no longer read self descriptions on user profiles
• Moved buddy list position option from view menu to Preferences dialog
• Removed View menu, since all options in this menu can be toggled by other means
• Removed "Auto-join" check box, joined chat rooms are now remembered between sessions
• Removed command alias system in favor of plugin commands
• Removed some redundant user interface options and unified some configuration preferences
• Removed python3-gdbm dependency
• Bumped minimum Python version requirement to 3.6
• Bumped minimum GTK 3 version requirement to 3.22.30
• Windows: Removed support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as 32-bit systems
• macOS: Removed support for macOS 10.15 and 11
• Completed Soulseek protocol implementation of distributed peers, bumped protocol version to 160.2

Corrections

• Fixed a crash when downloading filenames containing special characters on some systems
• Fixed a crash when clicking a slsk:// root folder URL without a trailing slash
• Fixed an issue where enabling/disabling chat completions did not update them properly in some cases
• Fixed an issue where the global room feed was not restored on startup
• Fixed an issue where important tabs (e.g. chat highlights) were not always marked as such
• Fixed an issue where search results were not sent in rare cases
• Fixed an issue where sharing a lot of files could result in messages about not sharing
• Fixed an issue where finished downloads were not always automatically cleared
• Fixed an issue where recursively downloading a folder would include unwanted folders in some cases
• Fixed an issue where recommendations with a negative rating did not appear
• Improved performance when many queued transfers are added or retried
• Implemented monotonic timers to ensure that transfers are unaffected by system clock adjustments
• Check file modified times instead of folder when rescanning to ensure shares are properly updated
• Stop loading a user's shares after closing the tab, to avoid wasting bandwidth
• Leech Detector plugin no longer sends message to sharing users with incorrect file/folder counts
• Immediately show new chat room tab with no delay
• Show message in chat room tab if joining a private room is not successful
• Automatically resize panes and certain columns when window size changes
• Finding in tree view lists now searches data in all columns
• Enabled caret navigation for chat view screen reading and improved chat entry focusing when paging up and down
• Only open the listening port when connecting to the server
• Several fixes related to inconsistent behavior when banning or ignoring users/IP addresses
• Several fixes related to accessibility
• Windows/macOS: Fixed chat emoji rendering
• Windows: Stop using 'portable' term for standalone packages
• macOS: Fixed laggy list scrolling and window resizing

Issues closed on GitHub

• Sort by speed (#373)
• Bind Nicotine+ to specified network adapter (#871)
• Finish running transfers and quit (#885)
• Implement search request delivery to child peers (#994)
• Improvement ideas for the search result filters (#1400)
• Force download a filtered file (#1419)
• Reopen closed tabs (#1424)
• Anyone willing to maintain an official Nicotine+ Debian package? (#1448)
• M1 Mac support? (#1475)
• Show list of logged private chat users (#1509)
• List of GTK 4 regressions (#1554)
• Crashes when sending emoji (#1556)
• Leech Detector is bugging people who have folders shared already. (#1565)
• Get date in transfer total up/dl statistic (#1598)
• Determine the size etc of a folder / selected files (#1628)
• Warning if no files are shared (#1698)
• Filter for song length (#1727)
• Split log file on certain file size threshold? (#1758)
• An option to silently run command when a download is finished (#1847)
• Mass PM (#1860)
• Show files to all but locked (#1870)
• Bumping minimum version requirements for Python and GTK 3 (#1871)
• [3.3.0.dev1] After rescan complete, No GUI just crashes python 3.10.2 errors? (#1915)
• I need file sizes to be displayed in bytes, not interested in abbreviated MiB sizing. (#1948)
• Turn the ✉ blue, instead of adding a blue dot. (#1954)
• Gdk-CRITICAL messages related to tray icon (#1973)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Breakage on latest master (#1982)
• Add toggles for global upload/download speed limits to the status bar (#1987)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Critical error dialog on start up (#1989)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Critical error on file transfer if not looking at tab (#1994)
• Chat rooms go out of order and names disappear and walls seem inaccessible (#2003)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Flashing Window (#2010)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Value: argument child: Expected Gtk.Widget, but got str (#2021)
• Nicotine+ listening on port before manually connecting (#2025)
• Make log history font configurable (#2074)
• Feature: Provide a list of all open chat and chat room tabs (#2079)
• Clear deleted files (#2084)
• Granular control over shares with trusted buddies (+ custom buddy shares?) (#2093)
• Let other users know the minimum number of files and folders set in the Leech Detector plugin (#2103)
• Save leechers persistently (#2105)
• Easier way to remove ban from a user (#2111)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Tray icon has disappeared in the latest version (#2113)
• [3.3.0.dev1] Critical error (UI window with bug report) (#2116)
• Option to choose language in Nicotine+ (#2134)
• Bitrate filter does not work as expected (#2141)
• Random hanging + zombie process on MacOS with VPN and Little Snitch (#2154)
• Chat emoji scaling issue (#2169)
• Remember last sorted column for each tab (Downloads, Uploads, Search Files, etc) (#2170)
• Window resizing glitchy on MacOS 12.1 (#2178)
• [3.3.0.dev3] Unstable Windows builds fail to start due to missing .dll (#2218)
• Notifications for wish list results (#2221)
• Save wishlists automatically after closing the corresponding window (#2249)
• In the downloads tab, filter by filename (#2251)
• [3.3.0.dev3] Removing a second user from the buddy list makes nicotine crash (#2252)
• [3.3.0.dev3] Tray icon changing while nicotine minimized causing crashes (#2258)
• Nicotine+ split-tunneling connection to server issue (#2285)
• Error launching (#2290)
• Add sortable audio properties/quality column (#2296)
• [3.3.0.dev4] macOS: jumpy window with straight corners and unresizable (#2298)
• Add dates to statistics dialog (#2316)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Nicotine crashes on launch (#2320)
• "Add to Buddy List" button in User Info should be greyed/disabled out if already on Buddy List (#2325)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Nicotine+ crashes some time after launch (#2341)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Unusual CPU usage (#2361)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Crash upon download start (#2391)
• Upnp Port does not close upon exit of nicotine+ (#2393)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Critical error after clicking "close" button in "Transfer statistics" (#2394)
• Visit my own user profile (#2412)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Critical error upon opening File Properties of search results (#2415)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Crash on startup (#2439)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Nicotine crash on many downloads, all folder downloads. (#2446)
• Uploads erroneously getting listed as complete, actually "aborted" at 99% (#2447)
• Very strange bug with program interface (#2448)
• Date format in buddy list (#2450)
• [3.3.0.dev4] Fatal run-time error involving file descriptors (#2451)
• Show list of logged private chat users (#2469)
• [3.3.0.dev3] Gtk.CssProvider crashes Nicotine 3.3.0.dev3 at startup (#2474)
• Closing Nicotine as a background app on Gnome 44 (#2487)
• Rejoin rooms in order (#2490)
• Turn off display of automatic chat messages (#2510)
• Unable to Connect to SoulSeek Server when Dual Network Interface Is Configured (#2518)
• Search filter: username (#2537)
• Wishlist results - sound alert and flashing icon when minimized (#2551)
• Default image viewer (#2552)
• Auto resume/retry (#2555)
• RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object when trying to share files (#2560)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Crash (#2566)
• Downloads appearing in the "received" folder (#2568)
• UnicodeEncodeError (#2569)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Crash (maybe before network reconnect, not sure) (#2573)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Couldn't remember the password for one of my usernames, crashed when i tried to change login (#2582)
• Its not possible to set download folders when they are already set to invalid drive (#2586)
• [3.3.0.dev5] N+ crashes on startup on macos 13.4.1 (#2587)
• Nicotine+ Low FPS/Stuttering on Mac OS (#2589)
• Log function not working (#2591)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Download does not seem to work (#2595)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Share scanning process not working in Windows and macOS builds (#2608)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Error message whilst exiting n+ (#2610)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Clicking Clear All > Finished or User Actions > Send Message doesn't do anything. (#2617)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Nicotine silently crashes/exits when disconnecting external monitor (#2627)
• [3.3.0.dev5] When typing in "Include text" box and hitting enter, Nicotine runs into a critical error (#2628)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Nicotine+ App won't open (#2638)
• Read-only editfields aren't read by Orca screen-reader correctly (#2647)
• Enable GTK3 while running Orca by default (#2652)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Crash on the Upload window (#2663)
• [3.3.0.dev5] Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/deprecated/gtktreeview.c:12838:gtk_tree_view_is_blank_at_pos: code should not be reached (#2665)
• Download folder for remote user keeps appearing (#2667)
• Can you swap "close" and "reset" buttons? (#2678)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Crashing when uploading folders to user (#2690)
• PORT Issue! (#2694)
• Show total folder size on search tab (#2697)
• Nicotine+ freezes for minutes at a time (#2700)
• Remove "Send To Player" from main right-click menu (#2705)
• Make banning user stop them from viewing profile (#2710)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Nicotine crashing (#2713)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Some 3.3.0.dev6 issues (#2714)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Clicking "Clear Finished" crashes (sometimes) (#2729)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Crash on master updating completion from "user_left_room" (#2733)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Crash on DL tab CLEAR files right-click option (#2745)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Private chat: messages showing with wrong sender (#2755)
• Ability to set default Buddies tab list sort (#2758)
• UI/UX improvement: move the buddies only option out of the edit subwindow to the share window (#2763)
• Critical Error: UnicodeEncodeError (#2767)
• "Invisible Border" Around Program? (#2768)
• Launching 25-NOV Build Causes Frequent & Prolonged Freezing Of Win10 OS+Frequent Disconnects (#2770)
• No handler for class <class 'pynicotine.slskmessages.UserLeftRoom'> (#2771)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Network connectivity lost until a server reconnect (#2778)
• [3.3.0.dev6] Copying search result filenames causes crash (#2781)
• Recursive folder download matches extra siblings starting with the same name (#2782)
• Critical 'TypeError' on macOS Monterey, N+ won't launch (#2785)
• [3.3.0rc1] "Unknown search mode" Reopening a whishlist search tab (#2798)
• Right clicking into the search bar or ctrl+v copy paste causes application to crash (#2809)
• Browse Shares: folder downloads should always be recursive (#2812)
• [3.3.0rc2] Some event causes text copied to clipboard outside Nicotine+ to be ignored (#2815)
• Change search share behavior to classic Soulseek (#2819)
• Sudden stop while selecting 'grey' files to download (#2820)
• Classic Soulseek re-enter search function (#2826)
• N+ 3.3.0 transfers not working (#2827)
• "Browse Files" doesn't always work on the first try (#2829)
• [3.3.0rc2] Disable sorting in search (#2830)
• Notification on new results from wishlist (#2840)
• [3.3.0rc3] SVG icons not shown (#2841)
• [3.3.0rc3] Instant crash with Nicotine+ 3.3.0-rc3 with Apple Silicon image (#2842)
• [3.3.0rc3] Styling of contextual menu in higlighted tabs (#2845)

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This discussion was created from the release 3.3.0.

[ghaarth]

The fabled stable update is finally here. I'm eternally grateful for your hard work. I've been waiting an ungodly amout for the wishlist notification feature but every minute of it was worth it. Wonderful work with the UI and performance improvements too.

n+ is missing one thing only to ascend to perfection in my eye: A bitrate filter (that filters out unwanted low bitrates before showing results) But I assume there is a reason this hasn't been implemented yet, and I'm hoping it's on the horizon somewhere in the future.

[mathiascode]

Thanks!

A bitrate filter

Already exists, but are you specifically talking about another filter that rejects results entirely? UI-wise I'm not too thrilled about duplicating work there.

I think a better idea would be to wait for the port from Gtk.TreeView to Gtk.ColumnView for the search result list, so we can allow adding more results for non-destructive filtering without lagging.

Right now, you can bump the maximum number of results to 15k in Preferences -> Searches (at your own risk).

[ghaarth]

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are you specifically talking about another filter that rejects results entirely?

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Yes, that's what I meant, sorry for the misunderstanding. I have many wishlist entries which are extremely rare in higher bitrates but rather common in 128kbps, so I'm getting daily wishlist notifications for unwanted low quality mp3's. Would be nice to have a wishlist which ignores low quality matches.