Last week, there was an update to nicotine-plus, the GUI client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network (official site, Wikipedia), designed to distribute music through user distributions. The goal of the project is to create a free, lightweight and functional alternative to the official proprietary Soulseek client, written in Qt. The Python3 programming language and the GTK graphical toolkit are used in the development of nicotine-plus.

The application contains an interface for managing the download and distribution of files, and also supports searching for files in other users' distributions, viewing other people's distributions, personal and group chat, editing the user profile. It is possible to work in minimized mode from the system tray. nicotine-plus is supplied under the terms of a copyleft license GNU GPLv3+ и доступен для операционных систем GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, macOS и Windows.

The source code of the program is available at GitHub. You can evaluate the appearance of the application here.

Improvements in release 3.3.5

• added subcommand /plugin reload to reload plugins;
• Added combinations with cursor keys for collapsing and expanding tree lists;
• A switch for personal invitations to rooms has been added to the "Chats" settings section;
• added a list of all room participants who are not currently connected to the private room;
• now incompletely downloaded files will be deleted from the disk when deleting the download in the "Downloads" tab;
• the accuracy of the speed display in the interface has been improved;
• transmissions from users with the "offline" status will be displayed in the general list in gray;
• exiting via the tray icon menu will ask for confirmation if there are active distributions;
• the situation with entering an incorrect password in the Setup Assistant will be handled from within the wizard, without opening the settings window;
• performance has been significantly improved when displaying search results and when adding downloads (distributions);
• reduced consumption of RAM and disk space used by the IP2Location database;
• for platforms macOS и Windows интерфейс GTK4 будет использоваться по умолчание, если не выставлена переменная окружения NICOTINE_GTK_VERSION=3.

Rectification

• Fixed a program crash related to establishing a connection with peers;
• fixed crash when selecting a directory in the file dialog;
• Fixed a possible memory error when reading data while connecting to peers;
• Fixed issues with inability to continue loading after an error;
• Fixed issues with spontaneous expansion of download lists;
• Fixed an issue where blocking a user's IP address did not remove their shares;
• Fixed an issue where distributions could start with a delay;
• Fixed an issue where tooltips could not be closed under certain conditions;
• Fixed an issue where searching for wishlist items could stop working after closing the tabs that corresponded to them;
• Fixed an issue where automatically forwarded open ports could be closed when saving changes to settings;
• Fixed an issue where enabling search history would not update the contents of the search dropdown menu;
• Improved usability by fixing issues related to scrolling, display, and text input;
• various minor improvements related to the implementation of the Soulseek protocol;
• Windows: исправлена проблема, при которой иконка в трее оставалась видима после ее отключения;
• Windows: исправлена проблема, при которой окно приложения мешала отображению панели, если для нее включено автоскрытие;
• Windows: исправлена некорректная сортировка списков при использовании определенных системных локалей;
• macOS: исправлено падение при использовании испанской локали;
• macOS: исправлено падения, при которой окно не могло быть развернуто после работы в фоновом режиме;
• macOS: отлажено открытие контекстных меню сочетанием Ctrl+click;
• macOS: добавлено несколько недостающих сочетаний клавиш;
• GTK3: Fixed crash when selecting "run in background" in confirmation dialog.

Issues closed in the repository:

• Nicotine+ не запускается с сетевого диска в Windows (#1843);
• large variation in distribution speeds (#2219);
• Right click with control key pressed does not work on Macs with trackpad (#2724);
• Низкое удобство использования клавиш в стиле Windows в Nicotine 3.3.0 (#2880;
• downloads are stuck in "queued" state (#2926);
• the user's download list continues to expand when the "collapse all" mode is enabled (#2969);
• connection closure and other network problems(#2978).

and 28 more issues, see the full list in the official Release Notes.

Дополнительно можно отметить, что первые шаги для подготовки следующего релиза, 2.3.6, уже сделаны: исправлены малозначительные баги в реализации трея и специфичные для платформы macOS Problems.

Source: linux.org.ru