Kwooty 0.6.0 Released

Hi,

The Kwooty 0.6.0 release has been mainly focused on multi-server support trying to bring friendly features

Here the detailled changelog:

• Multi-server support:
  • Up to 4 backup servers can be added.
  • Server priority can be managed in settings by dragging and dropping tab to the desired position in “Connection” settings :

  

The “+” and “-”  buttons allows to respectively add and remove backup servers.
When a backup server is added a new tab is created. The priority of the current backup server over others can be changed by moving tab with drag & drop.

• • 4 modes are available for each backup server:
    • Passive: a Passive backup server will download files only not found on Master server and will stay Idle the rest of the time  ( A Passive backup server will stay Idle  if the Master server is down at any time: this can be useful to control the downloaded content size for a backup server with a pay-per-size account for example).
    • Active: an Active backup server will download files simultaneously with Master server until all pending files are processed (this kind of backup server can be in fact considered as a second Master server as it will have the same behavior. This can be useful to speed up a slowly Master server).
    • Failover: a Failover backup server will work as “Passive” as long as Master server is available. If Master server becomes down for what ever reason (account has been disabled, quota limit has been reached, …), the first “Failover” backup server found in tabs will replace and will act as the Master Server.
      • In any case Master server is down, the Failover backup server replaces Master server and downloads queued files until Master server come back available (several Failover backup servers are possible, priority is then managed by tab order in server settings)
      • If several servers are set in “Failover” Mode, the first “Failover” backup server will download pending files, the other “Failover” backup servers will download only queued files not found on first “Failover”backup server.
      • If Master server is down and first “Failover” backup is also down, the next  “Failover” backup server (if any) will supersede the two previous ones.
    • Disabled: server is not used by server configuration is kept for later usage

• An information bar allowing to watch the following information on a per-server basis has been added (hidden or shown by clicking on the “double arrow” icon at the right of the status bar):

  
  Clicking on  dedicated server button (Master, Backup server 1, etc…) will provide information about the current server.

• Added new icon to identify queued files that need to be downloaded by a backup server :

This icon notify that file remains in queue to be downloaded by another backup server

• Kwallet support : server passwords can now be stored in kwallet instead of plain text

• Pending downloads can be restored without confirmation at startup and / or be saved without confirmation at exit (configurable in “General > Confirmation dialogs” tab)

• Added context menu allows access to frequent actions (Start All, Start, Pause All , etc…)

• Added shortcuts to settings when double clicking on server status or shutdown information on status bar

That’s all for this release. I hope multi-server support will bring most of needs…

Finally I would like to thank Djellel, Guillaume and Michael who contributed in different ways in this release !

As usual after each release, it’s time for me to take a little break (development will start again within several weeks) !

Cheers,
Xavier