25.10.2019, 11:46
Releasing 0.3.7 as 0.3.9 with changed addresses has no point in my opinion. Current hacks will become obsolete, but it's matter of week until new hacks appear. Currently, server-side anticheats can detect reliably 95% of all hacks, the only issues are with "client-side" hacks such as aimbots, wall hacks, locate hacks, but those will always be difficult or impossible to detect.
If however 0.3.DL was released as an official release 0.3.9 with changed addresses, then I would definitely switch to 0.3.9, because the DL feature can hook a lot of players and servers to SA-MP. Unless there are some security issues with the DL version, then I assume there is no reason to not use it.
The only downside I noticed with 0.3.DL is that the most server owners do not use HTTP downloads, making the downloading extremely slow, which could annoy some players. If it is easy to implement, I would add filtering to SA-MP client "No Downloads" (for example under "No Password"), in case some players would like to find servers without downloadable models for some reason.
If however 0.3.DL was released as an official release 0.3.9 with changed addresses, then I would definitely switch to 0.3.9, because the DL feature can hook a lot of players and servers to SA-MP. Unless there are some security issues with the DL version, then I assume there is no reason to not use it.
The only downside I noticed with 0.3.DL is that the most server owners do not use HTTP downloads, making the downloading extremely slow, which could annoy some players. If it is easy to implement, I would add filtering to SA-MP client "No Downloads" (for example under "No Password"), in case some players would like to find servers without downloadable models for some reason.