05/06/2008: Updated to Beta3
04/30/2008: Updated to Beta2 To gain more testing of this release, we hand out a Beta version of the coming 0.49a.
Please read this post for details about beta versions.
About 0.49a:
If we would name our versions instead of giving them plain version numbers, the name of 0.49a series would be something like "Kad Love". Well probably not, because it sounds stupid, but I hope you get the idea 
: eMule 0.49a concentrates on improving Kad making it more stable, reliable and future proof. Of course other areas got some attention too:
The mainfeatures of this version are
- Major Kad protocol improvements, like kad obfuscation, better NAT handling, direct callbacks, flood protections, etc.
- Several changes to the message system to get rid of spammers (by Captchas) and stay in touch with friends with dynamic IPs
- Several GUI improvements like storing searches between eMule sessions, a searchfilter for shared files and easier access to the comment filter
- And as always fixing bugs and adding other small changes
For all the details, check out the complete changelog below! Win9x users only:
The following has to be installed on Win9x/ME only -- it enables the Unicode functionality for eMule on those OSes.
Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems (MSLU) version 1.0
You can download this beta version as follows :
v0.49a BETA3 - Installer
ed2k://|file|eMule0.49a_BETA3-Installer.exe|3299623|BB611637DC1DE2DDAAFB7D37A12DED8B|/
v0.49a BETA3 - Binary
ed2k://|file|eMule0.49a_BETA3.zip|2845228|879366D85980767C7DA752FAD17FDE31|/
v0.49a BETA3 - Sources
ed2k://|file|eMule0.49a_BETA3-Sources.zip|5220778|5112F56EE8A5CE19D6290ABF18DDC6A1|/
Your eMule-Team
Note: Bugs which are still present, not mentioned in the changelog but posted in the Beta forum are known to us.. just not fixed yet. Please do not repost or bump them.
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Quote ("Changelog for 0.49a Beta2")
0.49a BETA3
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- May, 5. 2008 -
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.: Made sure to always use the intern UDP port if both (intern and extern) ports succeed in the firewall test
.: Control chars are now filtered out of ed2k-links / received filenames [eklmn]
.: Fixed a small bug with handling removed category directories on startup [tHeWiZaRdOfDoS]
.: Changed installer to set the currently used shared usage setting as default if available
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- May, 3. 2008 -
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.: Fixed another bug in the new UDP firewalltest, causing it to fail for results on the extern UDP port and for unreachable clients
.: Captchas can consist of numbers now too (except 0)
.: Fixed a smaller issue with finding and connecting to a buddy
.: Buddy search interval has been reduced, to increase the chance to find a buddy without waiting too long
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- May, 1. 2008 -
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.: Changed the Crypt functions a bit for faster processing [netfinity]
