v1.16.9

9001/copypartyv1.16.9Jan 22, 2025by 9001

AI Summary

Boosts Android performance for file hashing and adds configuration examples for various tools.

Key Highlights

10x faster file hashing in Android Chrome
PUT/multipart uploads can return JSON instead of HTML
Configuration examples for iShare and other uploaders
Fix for potential upload deadlock with partial-uploads

New Features

10x faster Android file hashing
PUT/multipart JSON response
iShare config example
Upload deadlock fix

Full Release Notes

<img src="https://github.com/9001/copyparty/raw/hovudstraum/docs/logo.svg" width="250" align="right"/>

* read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
* [docker image](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/scripts/docker) ╱ [similar software](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/versus.md) ╱ [client testbed](https://cd.ocv.me/b/)

there is a [discord server](https://discord.gg/25J8CdTT6G) with an `@everyone` in case of future important updates, such as [vulnerabilities](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/security) (most recently 2023-07-23)

## recent important news

* [v1.15.0 (2024-09-08)](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/tag/v1.15.0) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
* [v1.14.3 (2024-08-30)](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/tag/v1.14.3) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to **data loss** -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

## 🧪 new features

* event-hooks can send zeromq / zmq / 0mq messages; see [readme](https://github.com/9001/copyparty#zeromq) or `--help-hooks` for examples d9db1534
* new volflags to specify the [allow-tag](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Permissions-Policy#iframes) of the markdown/logue sandbox, to allow fullscreen and such (see `--help-flags`) 6a0aaaf0
* new volflag `nosparse` for possibly-better performance in very rare and specific scenarios 917380dd
  * only enable this if you're uploading to s3 or something like that, and do plenty of benchmarking to make sure that it actually improved performance instead of making it worse

## 🩹 bugfixes

* restrict max-length of filekeys to 72 characters e0cac6fd
* the hash-calculator mode of the commandline uploader produced incorrect whole-file hashes 4c04798a
  * each chunk (`--chs`) was okay, but the final sum was not

## 🔧 other changes

* selftest the xml-parser on startup with malicious xml b2e8bf6e
  * just in case a future python-version suddenly makes it unsafe somehow
* disable some features if a dangerously misconfigured reverseproxy is detected 3f84b0a0
* the download-as-zip feature now defaults to utf8 filenames 1231ce19

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