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@diad87 diad87 released this 18 May 10:02
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v0.70b-eSE7.1.9
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eMule eSE LiveTV v0.70b-eSE7.1.9 — 2026-05-18

Cleanup release. Kills ghost channel entries (own + remote) and stale
Kad directory entries that survived broadcast stops, streamKey changes,
or eMule restarts. Also makes the remote-channel uptime stop resetting
to "0min" on every Kad poll.

Both emule.exe and ese-server.exe changed.

What this fixes

Ghost local channels in the directory

channel_search.js::registerChannel now sweeps every other isLocal
entry from the in-memory channel registry before inserting the new
broadcast. Previously each Start broadcast added a new entry keyed
by streamKey; old local_<ts> / obs_<ts> / external_<ts> entries
from prior sessions piled up and stayed visible because the
"pipeline-active" liveness flag in search() is GLOBAL, not
per-streamKey. After many broadcasts the same machine showed itself
3-4 times in the channel list.

Uptime reset on every Kad poll

channel_search.js::addRemoteChannel preserves the original started
timestamp across updates. The C++ Kad layer doesn't emit a stable
start time, so each poll passed new Date().toISOString() through
Object.assign, overwriting the existing one. Result: every remote
broadcast in the directory had its uptime reset to 0min 4 times a
minute, instead of growing as expected.

Immortal own-stream entries in Kad directory

LiveKadBridge::PublishStream now sweeps any prior isOwnStream
entries from m_streamDirectory when the streamKey changes. Before
this, m_streamDirectory[strKey] = entry just added the new one and
the previous own entries stuck around forever — until v7.1.9
PruneStaleEntries also explicitly skipped them. So any user who
broadcast more than once per session showed up multiple times in
their own directory.

PruneStaleEntries no longer skips own entries

The if (entry.isOwnStream) continue; early-skip is replaced with
keep only the currently-published own entry; everything else (including own-but-stale) gets pruned. Together with the new
PublishStream sweep, this guarantees the directory has AT MOST one
own entry at all times — the one for the active broadcast (or zero
if nothing is broadcasting).

Kad TTL shortened

ESE_KAD_ENTRY_TTL from 180 s (3 min) → 120 s (2 min). The
broadcaster republishes every 60 s, so any remote entry that misses
two consecutive republishes is presumed dead and pruned. (Original
upstream eMule was 10 min.) ESE_KAD_PRUNE_INTERVAL stays at 30 s.

Still pending (not urgent)

Remote-broadcaster entries in other Kad nodes' caches can still
outlive the broadcaster by hours — their lastSeen gets refreshed
locally by every echo of the original Kad publish even after the
broadcaster's emule has exited. Truly killing those requires a
separate lastVerifiedAlive field updated only when a heartbeat or
chunk arrives directly from the broadcaster. Bigger change, deferred
to v7.2.

Hashes

  • emule.exe → 4B8298EFE7D52E08D8648F48876960A5B07C257F62A1902AF6E35470262DB66C
  • ese-server.exe → 4B6483D524D015D01A3765E724E7B5CD6688D22D6CABC7089D733F49C117811C

Upgrading from v7.1.8

Hot-swap supported, but both binaries changed this time:

  1. Close eMule fully (kill emule.exe, ese-server.exe, and any
    leftover ffmpeg.exe — emule does not own ffmpeg as a child
    process via job-object, so it can survive an emule kill).
  2. Replace BOTH emule.exe and ese-server.exe from this release's
    assets (or re-extract the full ZIP).
  3. Reopen eMule.

Don't forget to also clean %TEMP%\eMule_RTMP\ if you had failed
broadcasts earlier — stale seg_*.ts files give the watcher a
misleading baseSeg start point.

Carried over

  • v7.1.8 — ~CUpDownClient → OnPeerDisconnected (use-after-free fix on viewer disconnect)
  • v7.1.7 — /live SyntaxError fix (real one) + Cache-Control headers
  • v7.1.6 — bitrate-driven ABR variant + muted autoplay
  • v7.1.5 — orphan ffmpeg reap on broadcast start
  • v7.1.4 — paste-link redirect fix
  • v7.1.3 — preflight badges SyntaxError + ilimitada cosmetic
  • v7.1.2 — Kad publish TAG_SOURCEIP
  • v7.1.1 — IPv4 localhost for login

GPL-2.0-only.

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