3.0 Release Notes
This chapter is divided into the following sections:
- 3.1 System Requirements
- discusses the hardware, software, and network requirements for running the VolanoChat server.
- 3.2 Upgrading
- gives instructions on how to upgrade your VolanoChat applets and server.
- 3.3 New Features
- lists the features new to VolanoChat 2.5.
- 3.4 Known Problems
- describes the problems of which we're aware, along with solutions to work around them when possible.
Listed below are some of the 42 new fixes and enhancements available in VolanoChat version 2.5:
- Client authentication
- Server-based flood control
- DNS-based blacklist support
- Enhanced banning control and logging
- Improved monitoring interface
- Detection of duplicate connections
- Better advertising capabilities and controls
- Automatic rotation of log files
- More flexible access control
- Applet color and font themes
Our initial tests also indicate as much as a 34 percent performance improvement in the message-passing capabilities of the VolanoChat 2.5 server over the performance of VolanoChat version 2.1.
