9001/copyparty v1.5.1

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named after that other thing, not the song

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/

new features

• new protocols!
  • native IPv6 support, no longer requiring a reverse-proxy for that
  • webdav server -- read/write-access to copyparty straight from windows explorer, macos finder, kde/gnome
  • smb/cifs server -- extremely buggy and unsafe, for when there is no other choice
  • zeroconf -- copyparty announces itself on the LAN, showing up in various file managers
    • mdns -- macos/kde/gnome + makes copyparty available at http://hostname.local/
    • ssdp -- windows
  • commands to mount copyparty as a local disk are in the web-UI at control-panel --> connect
• detect buggy / malicious clients spamming the server with idle connections
  • first tries to be nice with Connection: close (enough to fix windows-webdav)
  • eventually bans the IP for --loris minutes (default: 1 hour)
• new arg --xlink for cross-volume detection of duplicate files on upload
• new arg --no-snap to disable upload tracking on restart
  • will not create .hist folders unless required for thumbnails or markdown backups
• config includes -- split your config across multiple config files
• ux improvements
  • hotkey ? shows a summary of all the hotkeys
  • hotkey Y to download selected files
  • position indicator when hovering over the audio scrubber
  • textlabel on the volume slider
  • placeholder values in textboxes
  • options to hide scrollbars, compact media player, follow playing song
  • phone-specific
    • buttons for prev/next folder
    • much better ui for hiding folder columns

bugfixes

• now possible to upload files larger than 697 GiB
  • technically a breaking change if you wrote your own up2k client
    • please let me know if you did because that's awesome
• several macos issues due to hardcoded syscall numbers
• sfx: fix python 3.12 support (forbids nullbytes in source code)
• use ctypes to discover network config -- fixes grapheneos, non-english windows
• detect firefox showing stale markdown documents in the editor
• detect+ban password bruteforcing on ftp too
• http 206 failing on empty files
• incorrect header timestamps on non-english locales
• remind ftp clients that you cannot cd into an image file -- fixes kde dolphin
• ux fixes
  • uploader survives running into inaccessible folders
  • middleclick documents in the textviewer sidebar to open in a new tab
  • playing really long audio files (1 week or more) would spinlock the browser

other changes

• autodetect max number of clients based on OS limits
  • -nc is probably no longer necessary when running behind a reverse-proxy
• allow/try playing mkv files in chrome
• markdown documents returned as plaintext unless ?v
• only compress -lo logfiles if filename ends with .xz
• changed sfx compression from bz2 to gz
  • startup is slightly faster
  • better compatibility with embedded linux
• copyparty64.exe -- 64bit edition for running inside WinPE
  • which was an actual feature request, believe it or not!
• more attempts at avoiding the firefox fd leak
  • if you are uploading many small files and the browser keeps crashing, use chrome instead
    • or the commandline client, which is now available for download straight from copyparty
      • control-panel --> connect --> up2k.py