twister-core repository has just been updated to 0.9.34 fixing a somewhat serious connectivity bug: due to an old logic inherited from Bitcoin, our client almost never tried connecting to peers with non-standard ports. this might have been a reasonable idea…

Hi, I’ve finally backported two security fixes from libtorrent: uTP vulnerability (also known as DRDoS in torrent world) and lazy_bdecode overrun. These are already in github tagged with version 0.9.31. Also notice that recent changes in twister-core are also required…

New twister-core 0.9.30 has just been tagged on github: https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core The most noticeable change from 0.9.29 is that we now listen to a random port number on initialization. So users who want to preserve the old behavior must now add…

Very cool: developer @erkanyuksel has successfully built twisterd for ios! running twisterd on ios #339 We might not yet be ready to deliver an easy-to-install mobile client, but at least Erkan has proved it is possible to port twister to…

twister paper has just been published on International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems: twister: the development of a peer-to-peer microblogging platform Thanks everybody that contributed! The access to the revised version above is probably restricted to university and…

Hi people, I’m still trying to make complete sense of this, so please apologize me for any mistakes. I don’t read Chinese and automatic translations tools sometimes produce nonsense stuff. This is utterly complicated by Orwellian police procedures. A Chinese…

After another great climbing vacation (with two new summits climbed for the first time ) I’d like to post a quick update on latest twister developments… Users following our github repositories commits may have noticed that two cool new features…

New twister-core 0.9.29 fixes a long standing connectivity bug: sometimes twisterd failed to properly detect when the external IP changes. IP changes are relatively common, they may be due to a router reboot, ISP forcing an IP change, switching from…

We’ve just merged another great contribution by Сёма Мрачный (@tasty) for twister-html client: advanced language filtering support. This new feature may allow people to follow more users and display only the posts on language they understand. Given the heterogeneous twister community with…

A new VirtualBox image is available pre-configured with all utilities (android-sdk, ndk…) and dependencies (openssl, boost etc) needed to compile twisterd for Android. Grab it here: Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-amd64_twister-gitian-android.ova (2.2GB from Google Drive)