Azureus 2.5.0.0 released

[Robert]

Bit Torrent client

 

2.5.0.0 - August 21, 2006

 

New Features:

 

Core | Reduced CPU usage, especially in some unusual conditions

Core | Explicit local subnet and peer injection option for Lan Peer Finder

Core | Auto upload speed

Core | DND completion handled better

Core | Added option for per-torrent max upload speed when upload busy

Core | Ranges allowed for port listing to ignore peers from.

Core | Added option to move completed download on removal

Core | Signed updates for increased security

Core | UDP fallback on connection fail

Core | Support for initial crypto tracker spec

Core | Faster queued torrent startup

Core | Option to disable tracker support for full-scrape

Core | Added ability to rename the directory save name for a multi-file torrent

UI | File pieces shown in files view

UI | Ability to best guess folder you want to save torrent data to based on existing torrents

UI | Filter for Config Options

UI | "Help -> Generate Debug Info" to help us solve bugs

UI | Ability to customise the speed intervals for download / upload speed menus

UI | Ability to rename the displayed title of a download

UI | "date added", "idle up", "idle down", "req in", "req out" colmns added to MyTorrents

UI | manual file recheck order

UI | Option to remember passwords

UI | OSX: Open .torrent files into Azureus via Finder/Desktop/etc

UI | Option to send popup message when download of a torrent (or individual file) has completed

UI | Ability to change behaviour of popups: auto-hide behaviour and adding timestamp to messages

UI | Torrent-info panel added to show MyTorrent's column attributes in a single place. Torrent encoding moved from General tab to here

UI | Progress warning to user when long file operations in progress that would otherwise hang the UI

Plug | Simple NAT-PMP implementation

 

Changes:

 

Core | Reduced starting many pieces instead of completing current ones

Core | Further modifications to optimistic disconnect algorithm

Core | Longer scrape delays:

Core | Asynchronous existing torrent loading at startup (makes startup feel faster)

Core | Disk read cache disabled by default

Core | Better detection of unix OSes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc) and custom ports that do not conform to our install structure

UI | More time periods in folder-rescan list

UI | Option to hide toolbar

UI | Option to disable program icon for name column (may speed up OSX users)

Plug | Use UPnP to read external IP address if possible

 

Corrected bugs:

 

Core | Fix for pieces not completing due to too many snubbed peers

Core | Better handling of invalid peer/seed count from tracker

Core | ed2k hash wrong on block boundaries

Core | upload slot default now applied correctly (was fixed at torrent add time)

Core | Various seeding rules fixes, mostly related to Seed:Peer ratio, 1st Priority, or 'None' ranking mode

UI | speed graphics failing on high speeds

UI | Per-torrent options view now synced with global defaults and has "reset" button

UI | Slide-in alert message not closeable (GTK+ users)

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