9001/copyparty v1.3.11

webworkers

on GitHub

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• latest gzip edition of the sfx: v1.0.14

new features

• multithreaded file hashing! 300% average speed increase
  • when uploading files through the browser client, based on web-workers
    • 4.5x faster on http from a laptop -- 146 -> 670 MiB/s
    •  30% faster on https from a laptop -- 552 -> 716 MiB/s
    • 4.2x faster on http from android -- 13.5 -> 57.1 MiB/s
    • 5.3x faster on https from android -- 13.8 -> 73.3 MiB/s
    • can be disabled using the mt togglebtn in the settings pane, for example if your phone runs out of memory (it eats ~250 MiB extra RAM)
  • 2.3x faster u2cli (cmd-line client) -- 398 -> 930 MiB/s
  • 2.4x faster filesystem indexing on the server
  • thx to @kipukun for the webworker suggestion!

bugfixes

• ux: reset scroll when navigating into a new folder
• u2cli: better errormsg if the server's tls certificate got rejected
• js: more futureproof cloudflare-challenge detection (they got a new one recently)

other changes

• print warning if the python interpreter was built with an unsafe sqlite
• u2cli: add helpful messages on how to make it run on python 2.6

trivia: due to a chrome bug, http can sometimes be faster than https now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯