More crash logging and settings for Unite bandwidth throttling

Yet another new pretty face on the blog! :D I’m a Mac product tester who have been working at Opera for 8 months. You may have seen me on our excellent forums already. ;)

Things are settling down as we are now approaching the final release. Here we have got a new development snapshot for you to play around with while its too hot to be outside.

In this build, automated crash logging makes its first appearance on the Mac! :yes: Yey! (Will make my job a lot easier.) When Opera crashes, Developer Tools Access will pop-up asking you for an administrative password. It looks a bit dodgy :nervous:, but will [hopefully] not be necessary in the final release. Oh, and we’re doing code signing on the Mac now.

We have also added a new advanced settings dialog for Opera Unite. You can set preferences for using UPnP for router port forwarding as well as new preferences for using optional bandwidth throttling for Unite services. (So your friends don’t use up all your bandwidth.)

Have a great summer! :cheers:

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Link fixes and Unite search engine blocking

A new build is ready.

Search engine synchronization should be working again now, but those who are upgrading from certain previous Opera 10 builds (including the Unite labs build) may have problems with some search engines not being synchronized. If this happens, try to set opera:config#OperaSync|SyncClientStateSearches to 0 (no restart required).

Note: All Solaris builds and some FreeBSD builds are missing. The Windows MSI package is English-only.

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Second build of the week

We decided to release another build this week to let you have something to play with over the weekend. Since the previous build, there has been a bit of UI work going on, and some fixes to UPnP (Opera Unite).

We have also enabled some experimental UPnP code, so please report any unexpected network related issues that you come across. There may be more crashes than usual when using Unite with UPnP enabled, but any crashes can simply be reported through the new crash dialog.

In addition to that, we have the first 64-bit Qt4 builds for Linux.

As a final note, the native skin is still not finished, so there is no reason to comment on it yet. (Let's see how many of you actually read this ;))

No automatic updates this time around.

Changelog

User Interface
Core
Mail
Opera Unite
Windows
Unix
Mac

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Approaching the final Opera 10.0 release

We are quickly approaching the final release of Opera 10.0, so we have been working on fixing bugs and stabilizing the program.

What we need to do now is to identify any remaining issues that are serious enough to block the release (so-called "showstoppers"). There are some more bugfixes coming up, so we are not quite ready for a release candidate yet, but you should definitely let us know about any serious issues we may have missed.

This build includes numerous bugfixes and general stability work, as well as skin fixes, and some important changes to Opera Link. Opera Unite has also received some attention based on the feedback from the public.

Opera Link

There are a few changes in Opera Link, so we hope you can take it for a spin and report any regressions. Improvements include better automatic merging of duplicate bookmarks due to fixes on the client side.

Note that synchronizing search engines might not be working correctly, and requires a server-side fix which will arrive later.

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Mail
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Mac

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Freedom

Looking for freedom? Do you want to share things with who you want, when you want? Do you want to stay in touch with your friends, chat and collaborate, without your data being at the mercy of middlemen? Now, with your own web server, you'll be ready to do all this directly from your computer.

We call it Opera Unite, and it has capabilities like File I/O, server-side scripting with Javascript, combined with UPnP support and much more.

The two way internet is here, and with Opera, you're at both ends whenever you run it.

Do you think that sounds cool? Check out our Opera Unite introduction on labs.opera.com to learn more about how it works! If you are a web-developer, make sure you read the articles on dev.opera.com as well!

Opera Unite is included in this snapshot, so make sure you download and install it! ;)

Full changelog since Beta 1 below.

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