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  • Home / Windows / Internet / File Sharing / Vuze (formerly Azureus) / Changelog

    Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.1.1.1 Beta 70 / 3.1.1.0 Stable - Changelog


    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.1.1.0:

    · Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average
    · UIv3 | Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat)
    · UIv3 | Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend
    · UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph
    · UI | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running - torrent will be auto-paused
    · UI | New "rename" action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time
    · UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering
    · UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the "Torrent" menu also
    · UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed)
    · Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings
    · Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving
    · Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge
    · Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user
    · Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events
    · Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models
    · Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views
    · Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms
    · Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects
    · Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.1.0.0:

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



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.1.0.0:

    New Features:
    · UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph
    · UI | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running - torrent will be auto-paused
    · UI | New "rename" action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time
    · UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering
    · UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the "Torrent" menu also
    · UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed)
    · Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings
    · Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving
    · Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge
    · Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user
    · Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events
    · Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models
    · Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views
    · Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms
    · Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects
    · Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers
    Changes:
    · 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
    · Core | Further startup speed improvements
    · Core | Speedup of various file batch operations (priority changes)
    · Core | Added option to allow the removal of files linked outside the save directory when removing data
    · UI | Column menu option to disable fast renaming in files view, changed fast rename to behave more like the windows explorer
    · UI | In console UI, shrunk help text down to be more concise
    Corrected bugs:
    · Core | Made change so that plugins could not inadvertently turn off Azureus extension protocol
    · Core | The UDP tracker client option has been nonfunctional for quite a while now -> fixed
    · Core | Fixed various file-priority-change related bugs that resulted in error states
    · Core | Stop premature creation of torrent directories before download has started



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.0.5.2:

    New Features:
    · UIv3 | Ability to rate directly from rating reminder activity entry
    · UIv3 | Added progress spinner animation for the LightBox
    Changes:
    · Core | Don't auto-UDP probe on initial announce if tracker not known to support UDP - hit on second and remember outcome
    · Core | Improve startup times by taking various torrent-load operations off main thread
    · Core | Add reason-messages for update check failures
    · Core | Use derived password to protect private key to allow us to persist password
    · Core | Get plugin update URL from version server to support potential future switch
    · UI | Run explicit tracker scrapes off UI thread to prevent blocking
    · UI | Allow UI initialisation to proceed before plugin init complete
    · UIv3 | Always start on "Dashboard" tab (unless Advanced UI chosen), instead of sometimes starting on "On Vuze" tab
    · Plug | Ensure that DHT republish events are scheduled using absolute time so recover correctly from computer suspend
    Corrected bugs:
    · Core | Handle some badly formed torrents more gracefully (corrupt announce-lists)
    · Core | Handle multiple SSL certs from same URL
    · Core | URLDecode torrent filenames
    · Core | Fix non-crypto fallback outgoing connections
    · Core | Better (esp for Vista) detection of and setting of Azureus' .torrent file association
    · UI | Fix broken per-torrent upload speed setting via options tab
    · UI | Fix alternating bg color not updating after changing in config
    · UIv3 | Fix resource leaks related to light box (login window)



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.0.4.2:

    New Features:
    · UI | Added "Check Files Exist" menu option
    · Plug | Perform low resource usage tracking of online torrents for swarm cross-population purposes
    Changes:
    · Core | Added option to disable download speed focus
    · Core | Reduced memory usage for many-torrent instances
    · UI | Multiple selected torrent export now works
    Corrected bugs:
    · Core | Fixed IP filters not working when ALLOW instead of DENY was used
    · Core | Improve rebuffering behaviour when real-time pieces are too slow for any peers to get in time
    · Core | Ensure minimum buffer requirements are factored into ETA calculation
    · UI | Eliminated various memory leaks



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.0.3.0:

    · http://torrents.aelitis.com:88/torrents/Azureus3023-B12.jar.torrent



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 3.0.0.7 Beta 16 / 3.0.0.6 Stable:

    · FEATURE: Core | New users default save directory is now located in their "My Documents" directory, under "Azureus Downloads" [TuxPaper]
    · FEATURE: Core | Show alerts raised during closedown on next start as these often don't get displayed due to UI shutdown [Parg]
    · FEATURE: Core | Allow plugin installs to place jars into the plugin-shared "shared/lib" directory [Parg]
    · FEATURE: Plug | Unsafe config read/writing [parg]
    · FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can now open and close download bars [amc1]
    · CHANGE: Core | Added scrape delay for stopped/errored torrents, and torrents with high share ratios [TuxPaper]
    · CHANGE: Core | Allow only one active scrape for each tracker [TuxPaper]
    · CHANGE: Core | Release piece-map when not required [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Core | ASN lookup via DNS queries only [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Core | Full recheck of torrent when part of torrent fails hash check on completion [TuxPaper]
    · CHANGE: Core | Take note of banned IPs when we have IP filter turned off - these are independent [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Core | Disable download peer caching for private torrents [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Core | Disconnect currently connected peers on tracker URL change for private torrents [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Core | Remove unused download/upload specific stats from version-check message [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Core | Include IP override in NAT check message for NAT check server to use [Parg]
    · CHANGE: Plug | Timeout UPnP port releases during closedown to prevent Azureus hanging [Parg]
    · BUGFIX: Core | Fix choke/unchoke cycle bug for lan local peers [Nolar]
    · BUGFIX: Core | Fix auto moving torrent data with DND files [TuxPaper]
    · BUGFIX: Core | Fix NPE causing XML stats not to be written [Parg]
    · BUGFIX: UI | Fix crash when opening non-torrent URL when OS has no recognized HTML viewer [TuxPaper]
    · BUGFIX: UI | Fix big icon in name column for OSes using GTK [TuxPaper]
    · BUGFIX: UI | Make Download Basket work again for drag and dropping [TuxPaper]



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 2.5.0.0 Final:

    · 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
    · 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
    · 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)



    What's new in Vuze (formerly Azureus) 2.4.0.2:

    **New Features:
    · Core | Make default recheck behaviour after crash only check pieces active at last save point plus config to revert to old behaviour of checking everything
    · Core | Attempt to repair invalid port #s returned from trackers potentially improving outgoing connection success rate
    · UI | Allow some selection of split data/protocol stats in some views
    **Changes:
    · Core | Improved payload data vs. protocol overhead byte accounting
    · Core | Remove option to truncate files when setting to do-not-download as too many users confused by this
    · Core | Pick up alerts raised during closedown and give user chance to see them
    · Core | Improved optimistic disconnect algorithm in several ways - should speed up single seed torrents
    · Core | Only remove temp files created by Azureus in the "tmp" dir as some users placing files in there
    · Core | Resumed downloads now placed into queued state rather than started
    · Core | Improved magnet download potential
    · Plug | Added vendor id to DHT packets and increased version appropriately
    · Plug | Warn if UPnP port removal is slow as this can hang AZ closedown
    · UI | Add NAT Test item to OSX "Azureus" menu
    · UI | Filter-as-you-type is now more visible
    · UI | "Show In Explorer" on a Folder now opens to show what's in the folder
    · UI | Mr. Slidey formats URLs to clickable links
    · UI | Language Selection on first visible screen after initial installation
    · UI | Reduced the # of windows popping up at once on first run after installation
    **Corrected bugs:
    · Core | Ensure SO_REUSEADDR is set when binding during NAT test
    · Core | Retain data from terribly slow senders
    · Core | Fixed a case of potentially becoming uninterested in peers incorrectly
    · Core | Prevent infinite recursion and breakage of some file systems when moving torrent's data into a folder inside itself
    · Core | Improve fingerprint performance of shares
    · Core | Prevent reporting of double completion events to tracker under some circumstances
    · Core | Ensure DNS timeouts are set as early as possible as they weren't working
    · Core | Change per-torrent max peers so that values shown correctly in UI and also allow unlimited override
    · Core | Fix bug in crypto stream that could lead to corruption
    · Core | Strip unwanted attributes from imported torrents such as "file name"
    · Core | Ignore invalid Vivaldi coords that are too small
    · Core | Default to trivial url in torrent if it is missing
    · Core | Fix initialisation sequence problem that was causing startup errors if config corrupt
    · Core | Apply correct permissions when updated to Windows prog dir to fix multi-user problems on update
    · Core | Downloads stopped during seeding recheck sometimes came back as 99.x% complete
    · Core | Fix up timers on clock change to ensure announce and scrape work ok (amongst others)
    · Plug | Column dispose listener wasn't being called when there was no cell dispose listener
    · UI | Fixed window size/position not always being saved
    · UI | Fix default language: Use same language from diff. country when user's lang/country doesn't exist
    · UI | Fixed new table rows getting last graphic cell's image
    · UI | Column sort is now case-insensitive (again) for text columns
    · UI | Fix number display Seeds2Peer column (when radio is really small)
    · UI | Fixed Drag and Drop. Should work in Windows and Linux.
    · UI | Mr. Slidey no longer slides from (on slide-in) or onto (on slide-out) a different monitor






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