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Azureus: Vuze 3.1.1.0 Released !

Posted 3 months ago by no...@users.sourceforge.net (Alon Rohter)

Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client, content distribution platform and community hub.

What's New in Vuze 3.1.1.0:

FEATURE: Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when ... [More] many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average
FEATURE: UIv3 | Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat)
FEATURE: UIv3 | Friends Online Status
FEATURE: UIv3 | Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend

CHANGE: Core | Built-in plugins can now be disabled - it didn't work properly in earlier versions
CHANGE: UI | Create Vivaldi views for each DHT in use
CHANGE: UI | Added support for rotation in Vivaldi view
CHANGE: UI | Peers view hostname column now sorts host names by the most significant part first
CHANGE: UIv3 | Finished fixes for the new styled dialog which are now default in Vuze/Vuze Advanced
CHANGE: UIv3 | Added friend icon next to activity entry
CHANGE: UIv3 | New plugin bar look (removed arrows, added selectable list all plugin bar views)

BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug which stopped downloads being stored in the chosen directory
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug which prevented torrent files from being moved properly
BUGFIX: Core | Reopening torrents does not delete files when setting some of the already existing files to DND anymore
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug which prevented UPnP mappings from being successful when a SOCKS proxy was used
BUGFIX: UI | Fixed bug where delete icon on toolbar was not present on OSX
BUGFIX: UI | Blank cells are now properly put at the bottom when sorting a table column
BUGFIX: UIv3 | Fixed bottom of list views not repainting properly
BUGFIX: UIv3 | Remove type headers when switching to date sorting (0 comments) [Less]

Azureus: Vuze 3.1.0.0 Released !

Posted 4 months ago by no...@users.sourceforge.net (Alon Rohter)

Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client, content distribution platform and community hub.

What's New in Vuze 3.1.0.0:

FEATURE: UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph
FEATURE: UI ... [More] | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running - torrent will be auto-paused
FEATURE: UI | New "rename" action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time
FEATURE: UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering
FEATURE: UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the "Torrent" menu also
FEATURE: UIv3 | Friends (sharing, bandwidth boost)
FEATURE: UIv3 | Greatly Improved Search
FEATURE: UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed)
FEATURE: Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings
FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving
FEATURE: Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge
FEATURE: Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user
FEATURE: Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events
FEATURE: Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models
FEATURE: Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views
FEATURE: Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms
FEATURE: Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects
FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers

CHANGE: Core | added "upload_only" flag to AZMP/LTEP handshakes, disconnect any uploading_only peers we don't need / that don't need us when disconnect seeds when seeding is set
CHANGE: Core | Further startup speed improvements
CHANGE: Core | Speedup of various file batch operations (priority changes)
CHANGE: Core | Added option to allow the removal of files linked outside the save directory when removing data
CHANGE: UI | Column menu option to disable fast renaming in files view, changed fast rename to behave more like the windows explorer
CHANGE: UI | In console UI, shrunk help text down to be more concise
CHANGE: UIv3 | Removed Vuze Header (the top plugin bar is still there but you have to turn it on)

BUGFIX: Core | Made change so that plugins could not inadvertently turn off Azureus extension protocol
BUGFIX: Core | The UDP tracker client option has been nonfunctional for quite a while now -> fixed
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed various file-priority-change related bugs that resulted in error states
BUGFIX: Core | Stop premature creation of torrent directories before download has started (0 comments) [Less]

Azureus: Vuze 3.0.5.2 Released !

Posted 6 months ago by no...@users.sourceforge.net (Alon Rohter)

Azureus Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client and content distribution platform.

What's new in Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.2:

FEATURE: UIv3 | Ability to rate directly from rating reminder activity entry ... [More]
FEATURE: UIv3 | Added progress spinner animation for the LightBox

CHANGE: Core | Don't auto-UDP probe on initial announce if tracker not known to support UDP - hit on second and remember outcome
CHANGE: Core | Improve startup times by taking various torrent-load operations off main thread
CHANGE: Core | Add reason-messages for update check failures
CHANGE: Core | Use derived password to protect private key to allow us to persist password
CHANGE: Core | Get plugin update URL from version server to support potential future switch
CHANGE: UI | Run explicit tracker scrapes off UI thread to prevent blocking
CHANGE: UI | Allow UI initialisation to proceed before plugin init complete
CHANGE: UIv3 | Always start on "Dashboard" tab (unless Advanced UI chosen), instead of sometimes starting on "On Vuze" tab
CHANGE: Plug | Ensure that DHT republish events are scheduled using absolute time so recover correctly from computer suspend

BUGFIX: Core | Handle some badly formed torrents more gracefully (corrupt announce-lists)
BUGFIX: Core | Handle multiple SSL certs from same URL
BUGFIX: Core | URLDecode torrent filenames
BUGFIX: Core | Fix non-crypto fallback outgoing connections
BUGFIX: Core | Better (esp for Vista) detection of and setting of Azureus' .torrent file association
BUGFIX: UI | Fix broken per-torrent upload speed setting via options tab
BUGFIX: UI | Fix alternating bg color not updating after changing in config
BUGFIX: UIv3 | Fix resource leaks related to light box (login window) (0 comments) [Less]

Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.0 Released !

Posted 7 months ago by no...@users.sourceforge.net (Alon Rohter)

Azureus Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client and content distribution platform.

What's new in Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.0:

FEATURE: Core | Added uTorrent PEX support
FEATURE: Core | Azureus probes ... [More] trackers for UDP-capabilities on first scrape/announce now and uses udp instead of http where available
FEATURE: Core | Added option to enforce IP bindings even when the specified interfaces are not available (useful when Azureus should not use certain network interfaces)
FEATURE: Core | Intervene with http seeds if progressive stall imminent
FEATURE: Core | Message user on startup if they have installed Azureus to read-only location
FEATURE: Core | Added dnd status to XML stats
FEATURE: UI | Added option for "Open Containing Folder" menu action - which may integrate better with non-standard file browsers
FEATURE: UI | Added option for "Show Torrent Menu" -- Users can now decide to see the Torrent menu in the menubar or not
FEATURE: UI | Fast Renaming (not moving) in the Files tab (click on name column) and Open Torrent dialog (click on dest. name column)
FEATURE: UI | Completed downloaders column
FEATURE: UI | Added start/stop to category menu
FEATURE: UI | Added per-category speed limits
FEATURE: UI | Added per-category option setting
FEATURE: UI | Added multiple-torrent options setting to MyTorrents view
FEATURE: UIv3 | New menu configuration for Vuze and Vuze Advanced UI's
FEATURE: UIv3 | Activity Tab
FEATURE: UIv3 | Vuze Login from client
FEATURE: Plug | Added Network Status plugin to perform some basic network tests
FEATURE: Plug | Allow plugins to specify their minimum JDK requirements

CHANGE: Core | Further memory footprint reductions; for additional tweaks see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Reduce_memory_usage
CHANGE: Core | Reimplemented LT extension protocol code
CHANGE: Core | DND/Compact (aka Delete) priority now deletes all files that do not share pieces with normal/high priority files
CHANGE: Core | Queuing rules now don't start any further torrents if the global up/download speed limits are reached
- makes "don't count torrent ..." minimum speed rules more useful to dynamically regulate the queue lengths
- recovers faster from chain reactions in case of connection loss
CHANGE: Core | Made the crypto handshake a bit less predictable
CHANGE: Core | Added support for IPv6 compact announces (client) and udp-multiscrapes (client server)
CHANGE: Core | Take note of more peer-source selections
CHANGE: Plug | Added support for plugins which implement mainline DHT

BUGFIX: Core | Request limiting/Priorities no longer pinch off LAN peers if seperate LAN speeds are enabled
BUGFIX: Core | Increase time Azureus holds open listen socket on close to reduce dual-start window
BUGFIX: Core | Allow ~ character in tracker addresses to support I2P
BUGFIX: Core | Determine app name correctly on OSX so that restart works for renamed apps
BUGFIX: UI | Shells no longer use the low-res frog icon, the normal main window icon is now used instead
BUGFIX: UI | Limiting comments in General View to 5k characters under WinXP to avoid crashes due to faulty comctl32.dll
BUGFIX: UI | Setting speed parameters manually now disables autospeed
BUGFIX: Plug | Encode spaces correctly in get-right web seed urls (0 comments) [Less]

Azureus Vuze 3.0.4.2 Released !

Posted 10 months ago by no...@users.sourceforge.net (Alon Rohter)

Azureus Vuze is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client and content distribution platform.

What's new in Azureus Vuze 3.0.4.2:

FEATURE: UI | Added "Check Files Exist" menu option
FEATURE: Plug ... [More] | Perform low resource usage tracking of online torrents for swarm cross-population purposes

CHANGE: Core | Added option to disable download speed focus
CHANGE: Core | Reduced memory usage for many-torrent instances
CHANGE: UI | Multiple selected torrent export now works

BUGFIX: Core | Fixed IP filters not working when ALLOW instead of DENY was used
BUGFIX: Core | Improve rebuffering behaviour when real-time pieces are too slow for any peers to get in time
BUGFIX: Core | Ensure minimum buffer requirements are factored into ETA calculation
BUGFIX: UI | Eliminated various memory leaks (0 comments) [Less]

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