From mldonkey webpage, and inside mldonkey message, the latest stable version is 2.5.22 so why we can only get the 2.5.16u ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Quote from http://mldonkey.berlios.de/: "With the official web site, MLdonkey's "motd", and even those MLdonkeyworld articles all referring to MLdonkey 2.5-22 as "the latest stable version", it seems many people are using that one. Let's get it straight. 2.5-22 has (with 2.5-21), several major known bugs; They are quickly banned by edonkey servers, for instance! So what should you run ? It's actually difficult to give a good-for-everyone answer, but I'll give it a try. Those that like gory details will go read the forums anyway :) Oldie but goodie, 2.5-16 with latest Spiralvoice patches (currently 2.5-16t) is still a safe choice. 2.5-28, also with Spiralvoice patches (currently 2.5-28f), is a serious challenger, thanks to people working on bugfixes and improvements. 2.5-28 seem slightly less resource hungry than 2.5-16 on my box, and they're reports of improved sources handling. On the other hand, several secondary features of the edonkey support, like "reliable sources", are currently disabled; So if you depend on them, you'll probably prefer to stick with 2.5-16 cores." /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask tells me: # <squinky86@gentoo.org> (17 Aug 2004) # Masked by request of upstream developers. >=net-p2p/mldonkey-2.5.17 It's been masked to a rather old version for a bit over 4 months. I was having problems using that version a month or two ago and upgraded to net-p2p/mldonkey-2.5.28-r1 which solved most of them, but it appears this is still there. I have no clue as to what bugs have been fixed (security, or otherwise), but given the older versions simply won't work on a number of servers, it might be a good idea to unmask it, or at least ask these mysterious 'developers' why they need to have a version that doesn't work? :)
Well, after checking the url you provide i must say i'm about to switch to another software :( - Totally stupid and crazy version numbering - OcamL language (might be fun for students, but who wants learn it just for 1 software ?) - Lack of support (except a guy called SpiralVoice) seems no one work on it (yeah cause of ocaml too) - Even the authors doesn't know what version is good, one says 2-5-16, other say 2-5-28, the www say 2.5.22...
