New development release (2.5.2) available

Hi all,

I've put a new development release -- 2.5.2 -- up on Sourceforge (see
http://sf.net/projects/zebedee). I wasn't really planning on adding new
features this time round, but a few seem to have sneaked in :-)

The changes are outlined below but there's a couple of things I need to
point out. The first is that I had to break protocol compatibility with
2.5.1 to fix cross-platform interoperability. I'm sorry, but that's why this
is still a development release. However, as I realise a number of you might
have deployed 2.5.1 more widely there is a *temporary* workaround. If you
set "bugcompatibility" to "251" it will behave exactly as at present. This
means it won't work between, say, Intel and SPARC systems but will work
between systems of the same type.

The other main area is in improved "reverse-mode" operation. The "out of the
box" behaviour should be pretty much the same as previously, but I have
implemented the long-requested feature for the server to loop round
repeatedly trying to contact the client. I'll probably need to give some
more concrete examples later as you might find the manual descriptions a bit
terse.

I'm also aware that there may be a lurking bug where Zebedee unexpectedly
terminates when using maximum encryption, compression, checksumming and
buffer sizes. I hope I've fixed it but any further bug reports on this will
be useful.

Anyway, please give this a hammering, particularly on multiple platforms if
at all possible.

	Regards,
		Neil

Change log follows ...

* Release 2.5.2

Cross-platform fix for checksumming code. This is *incompatible* with
version
2.5.1. As a temporary workaround, setting "bugcompatibility 251" will
maintain
compatibility with release 2.5.1 for little-endian platforms (e.g. Intel).
This will be removed from the final production release.

Upgrade to Inno Setup 4.

More documentation fixes.

Increased the default thread stack size to 64k and added "threadstacksize"
for
debug/test purposes.

Fix handling of HTTP/1.1 responses from proxies.

Added acceptconnecttimeout (supersedes "connecttimeout") along with
connectattempts, serverconnecttimeout and targetconnecttimeout.

Fixed bug with "clienthost" not being honoured when Zebedee was used as
a service.



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