BitComet Changelog

What's new in BitComet 2.06

Mar 3, 2024
  • GUI Improve: Improve the task log list to prevent lagging when displaying a large number of logs
  • GUI Improve: In expert mode, add the piece cache list and the long-term seeding cache list to the left fav bar
  • GUI Improve: In expert mode, add the piece cache size, the long-term seeding cache size in the flow graph and the disk write buffer size
  • GUI Improve: New advanced options in expert mode: bittorrent.cache.piece_cache_min_size_mb,bittorrent.cache.ltseed_cache_min_size_mb
  • GUI Improve: new advanced options: network.enable_dl_limit_for_large_writing_buffer, network.large_writing_buffer_enter_size_mb, network.large_writing_buffer_leave_size_mb
  • GUI Improve: Add a info tip icon to the disk cache page of the options dialog
  • GUI Improve: The health of BT tasks in seeding state counts unconnected seeds
  • GUI Improve: When adding a magnet link task, holding down the Ctrl key will not display the new task dialog box and will directly create the task using default parameters
  • GUI Bugfix: The help link to the support us page of the options window is broken
  • GUI Bugfix: If English is not included in the UI language list of macOS, the UI language fo BitComet cannot be switched to a non-English language
  • Core Improve: When the disk cache reaches its maximum limit and the allocation of reading cache fails, the data is read based on the upload request size, and the entire piece data is no longer read from the disk at once
  • Core Improve: Optimize long-term seed disk cache to avoid reading too much data from the disk at once
  • GUI Improve: When the disk write buffer is too large, change from task speed limit to global speed limit

New in BitComet 2.05 (Dec 11, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: The traffic graph displays the disk read and write speed
  • GUI Improve: Added advanced options related to disk write cache too large prompts:ui.disk_writing_buffer_warning 以及 ui.disk_writing_buffer_warning_size_mb
  • GUI Improve: Each task can be individually set in the properties dialog box to enable proxies
  • GUI Improve: After selecting multiple tasks, the right-click menu allows you to batch set whether to enable proxies
  • GUI Improve: New proxy server option: Use proxy to connect to CometID
  • GUI Improve: Handle the situation of cloud service not started in the AppBind Dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: Batch download dialog sorting fails
  • GUI Bugfix: Install package of v2.04 didn't copy app icon file for toast notification of Win 10/11 action center
  • GUI Bugfix: When sorting the task list by the number of BT task seeds, the program crashes in some cases
  • GUI Bugfix: After deleting the RSS feed, the corresponding download filter should also be deleted
  • Core Improve: Torrent History, Share,Collection list and RSS Torrents list support torrent files in v2 and hybrid format. DHT Torrents and Tracker Torrents list cannot support it due to protocol limit.
  • Core Improve: Change the HTTP task stop operation to asynchronous mode and add a new task status of 'Stopping' to avoid interface lag caused by saving cached data
  • Core Improve: You can use the right-click menu to move downloaded files while the task is running, which will automatically pause the task and resume the task after the move is completed
  • Core Bugfix: When importing and exporting tasks across platforms, the file path separator is not automatically converted
  • Core Bugfix: Cannot save items acquired from BitComet task list RSS Feed.

New in BitComet 2.04 (Oct 17, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: Added alert that the disk write cache is too large
  • GUI Improve: The remaining size of BT tasks in the task list, task summary, and task disk information no longer includes the size of the piece boundary padding area
  • GUI Improve: Add the Clear All command to the user name drop-down list in the Passport login window
  • GUI Improve: The Global option adds an option to automatically move all files in subdirectories after the task is completed
  • GUI Improve: Improved Fluent-style skin icon coloring
  • GUI Improve: When a single BT task is selected in the task list, the copy infohash command in the right-click menu is grayed out according to the torrent file version
  • GUI Improve: add advanced options log.bt_peer in Expert Mode for beta version. View the peer log from the right-click menu of the peer list.
  • GUI Improve: For torrent files of v2 or hybrid format, the peer list status column displays the piece hash download progress
  • GUI Improve: The file list shows the piece layer hash status for Torrent v2 task
  • GUI Improve: Display app icon in toast notification of Win 10/11 action center
  • GUI Bugfix: When the instant version uses a configuration file in the APP_DATA directory, the Fluent skin fails to load
  • Core Improve: For torrent files of v2 or hybrid format, increase the queue length of hash requests
  • Core Bugfix: Improved compatibility for parsing hybrid torrent files, handling cases where the last file is a padding file
  • Core Bugfix: The Hybrid torrent task does not accept connections from tasks created by infohash v2
  • Core Bugfix: After the Hybrid torrent task is created using infohash v2, the metadata download fails
  • Core Bugfix: The torrent v2 task should not initiate download from long-term seeds and eMule sources before obtaining the piece layer hashes

New in BitComet 2.03 (Aug 31, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: The Remote Download page of the Options window allows you to set the RSS feed password to access the local task list
  • GUI Improve: The torrent maker window displays the number of files the task contains
  • GUI Improve: Change the size of the BT task in the task list, task summary, and task disk information to the total file size without file boundary padding
  • GUI Improve: Optimized the behavior of automatically hiding tabs when switching tasks when "Always show all tabs" is not selected in the Tab bar in the lower right panel
  • GUI Improve: The server list of HTTP tasks and the tracker list of BT tasks are always displayed in the same position as the tab bar in the lower right corner
  • GUI Improve: The Connections list of HTTP tasks and the Peers list of BT tasks are always displayed in the same position as the Tab bar in the lower right corner
  • GUI Improve: support usernames and passwords in HTTP links of RSS feeds
  • GUI Improve: In the option, the eMule TCP and UDP listening port can be set separately
  • GUI Bugfix: When the tracker list is all selected, the right-click menu Update Tracker command is grayed out
  • Core Improve: Ignore .DS_Store files when making torrent files

New in BitComet 2.02 (Aug 23, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: The right-click context menu when selecting multiple tasks can set the task speed limit in batches
  • GUI Improve: Added option: When updating the tracker list from a URL, merge or replace the original tracker list
  • GUI Improve: New option to move all files in the directory when move a task to new folder
  • GUI Improve: After you click to enlarge the task screenshot, you can toggle whether it is displayed in full screen
  • GUI Improve: The Global Options window automatically remembers the window size
  • GUI Improve: Adds the option to not prompt again for the dialog of moving task download files to the directory associated with the tag displayed when adding a tag to a task
  • GUI Improve: Improved peer list freeze status prompt
  • GUI Bugfix: After setting tag for tasks, there is a problem refreshing the list of tags in the toolbar and left pane
  • GUI Bugfix: When "Tray Balloon" is not enabled, the task completion message in the notification list is empty
  • GUI Bugfix: When BT task seeding, the peer list does not display the user's upload speed
  • GUI Bugfix: Individual translation errors
  • Core Bugfix: When move a task folder, undownloaded tasks cannot be moved to a different directory with the same drive letter

New in BitComet 2.01 (Jun 26, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: New Option in BT Task of Option Window: Delete torrent file after adding task
  • GUI Improve: Add a scroll bar to the page on the right side of the options window
  • GUI Improve: Floating window supports dragging and dropping infohash to initiate BT download
  • GUI Improve: Add a notification prompt window in the bottom right corner of the main window, and display performance limit prompts when running 32-bit programs on a 64 bit system
  • GUI Improve: display performance limit prompts when running 32-bit programs on a 64 bit system
  • GUI Improve: Fluent style icons, can be enabled by Skins submenu of View menu (thanks to Aira Sakuranomiya)
  • GUI Improve: improve the batch download dialog box to prevent stuttering when displaying a large number of links
  • GUI Improve: support multiple lines of input when adding a peer to a BT task
  • GUI Bugfix: enhance the accuracy of clipboard recognition for infohash
  • GUI Bugfix: Fix local recorded cometID score data error
  • GUI Bugfix: When copying a task link, there is an extra line break at the end
  • GUI Bugfix: misjudgment of file association check
  • Core Improve: Add advanced settings: ui.preview_program_detection After disabling, use the system default program to open video files
  • Core Improve: Add task list rss feed to webui in expert mode
  • Core Improve: When moving task download folder, the Torrent file in the folder is also moved
  • Core Bugfix: if enabled moving files after downloa

New in BitComet 2.00 (May 15, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: the clipboard monitoring feature supports Infohash string recognition
  • GUI Improve: when monitoring links in the clipboard, malformed magnet links are ignored
  • GUI Improve: a prompt is displayed when the number of online devices for the same account reaches the limit
  • GUI Improve: new advanced setting network.enable_open_dns
  • GUI Improve: in the RSS page of Options window, the delete button is replaced with an add button for RSS list
  • GUI Improve: in the RSS page of Options window, double-click the RSS list to open the editing window
  • GUI Improve: the x2 high-scoring images are always loaded when the DPI scale is greater than 100%
  • GUI Improve: supports 64MB piece size when making torrents
  • GUI Improve: command line parameters can specify the piece size when making a torrent file
  • GUI Improve: when making torrent files in silent mode with command-line arguments, the default trackers are used
  • GUI Improve: display a introduction window when click the Subscriber tag in the passport pane
  • GUI Improve: display Support Us page of Options window when click the Supporter tag in the passport pane
  • GUI Improve: list grid lines are not displayed in dark mode
  • GUI Improve: improved pane splitter color in dark mode
  • GUI Bugfix: RSS sidebar reverts to borderless display style
  • GUI Bugfix: in the absence of any tasks, the status bar will still show preparing for long-term seeding
  • GUI Bugfix: the disk write statistics in the remote download web interface are displayed incorrectly
  • Core Improve: when exchange the magnet links, the proportion of content from Torrent Collection has increased
  • Core Improve: supports FUSE-rclone partitions
  • Core Bugfix: an error occurred when moving the downloaded file in the tasks in which only part of files are selected to download
  • Core Bugfix: program cannot start in Windows XP

New in BitComet 1.99 (Apr 6, 2023)

  • GUI Improve: Add dark mode, follow system settings by default, can be switched in the main window view menu (requires Win10 1809 or later)
  • GUI Improve: Task snapshots and task comments changed to WebView2 (requires Win7 or later, needs install necessary component for early Windows versions)
  • GUI Improve: The CometID pane in the left bottom corner changed to WebView2
  • GUI Improve: Add advanced option system.disable_edge_backend
  • GUI Improve: Add "submit snapshot" to context menu of task list in expert mode
  • GUI Bugfix: Task snapshots not shown for magnet links
  • GUI Bugfix: After clicking on the magnet link in the browser to start the main comet program, the main window becomes unresponsive
  • GUI Bugfix: When DPI is selected for 150% scaling, the toolbar's icons do not display correctly
  • GUI Bugfix: When dragging a URL from a browser page to a floating window, there is an additional underscore character at the end of the URL
  • Core Improve: Task snapshots and task comments switched to new transport protocol
  • Core Improve: Add local cache to task screenshots to avoid re-downloading each time when they are displayed
  • Core Improve: the cloud service for remote connection now available for all CometID users
  • Core Bugfix: The UDP tracker cache data is not cleaned up in time, causing the program to freeze when exiting
  • Core Bugfix: When the RSS Auto Downloader keyword is empty, downloads should be allowed
  • Core Bugfix: The downloaded file will not be deleted when deletes BT task immediately after moving the downloaded files
  • Core Bugfix: For a single-file BT task, the movement of the downloaded file will fail if the task is not completed
  • Core Bugfix: After an HTTP task stops downloading due to insufficient disk space, the downloaded files are not deleted when the task is deleted
  • Core Bugfix: No progress is displayed when moving files across partitions for HTTP task
  • Core Bugfix: The RSS auto-update interval setting does not take effect
  • Core Bugfix: fix incorrect reconnection algorithm when updating CometID score info

New in BitComet 1.98 (Dec 8, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: Remember whether to add to blacklist when remove torrent entries
  • GUI Bugfix: The status of UDP port in the global statistics is inaccurate
  • Core Bugfix: When the long-term upload cache is insufficient, the program may crash

New in BitComet 1.97 (Nov 22, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: RSS automatic download filter supports regular expressions
  • GUI Improve: The status icon when the task is moving is changed from orange to blue
  • GUI Improve: Improve the speed of batch adding tasks
  • GUI Improve: Save torrent list auto refresh option
  • GUI Improve: When deleting an entry from the torrent list, you can choose to add its infohash to the blocklist
  • GUI Improve: Settings menu from torrent list toolbar can clear infohash blocklist
  • GUI Improve: Infohash blocklist can be selected when importing and exporting backup files
  • GUI Improve: The statistics page shows the length of the torrent list infohash blocklist
  • GUI Improve: The maximum number of torrent lists supports customization
  • Core Bugfix: When the long-term upload cache is insufficient, the program may crash

New in BitComet 1.96 (Nov 15, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: when multiple BT tasks are selected in the task list, the right-click menu adds a command for batch setting long-term seeding
  • GUI Improve: add cache statistics reset command to the right-click menu of the statistics list
  • GUI Improve: associate the bc_bak file, double click to display the data import dialog
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: ui.file_size_prefix, set unit prefixes of file size to a multiple of 1000 or 1024 (keep 1024 for memory size)
  • GUI Improve: the maximum length of task tag has been changed from 30 characters to 50 characters
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: network.max_connecting_connections_per_tracker with default value 6
  • GUI Improve: add background tasks icons to the status bar, including torrent list loading, importing, and long-term seed preparation
  • GUI Improve: exit the program when the background task of torrent list import is not completed, and a prompt dialog box will be displayed
  • GUI Improve: in expert mode, the statistics page shows the number of HTTP trackers that are initiating connections
  • GUI Improve: in expert mode, the statistics page displays the message queue length
  • GUI Improve: add options menu to the search box in task list and torrent list, supports regular expressions
  • GUI Improve: supports regular expressions in blocklist of Torrent Collection
  • GUI Improve: updates the packages files of browser extension for Chrome and Edge in tools folder, fixes the problem that the onDeterminingFilename interface may conflict with other extensions
  • GUI Improve: peer list of BT task no longer shows eMule sources for files that are forbidden to download
  • GUI Bugfix: input focus should not be set when task completes
  • GUI Bugfix: when command line parameters --silent --url used together, BC links of HTTP type are not supported
  • GUI Bugfix: when RSS auto download creates tasks, the function of adding the RSS feed title as a tag fails
  • GUI Bugfix: after RSS auto download creates tasks, the number of tasks on the left fav bar is not refreshed
  • GUI Bugfix: when a large number of tasks are started and stopped, the message processing time of UI refresh is long and network transmission is delayed
  • Core Improve: optimize the long-term seeding disk caching strategy, improve the hit rate, and reduce the number of disk reads
  • Core Improve: supports filtering and sorting the task list for Remote Connection from Android APP
  • Core Improve: save the setting file regularly and record the cumulative upload and download amount
  • Core Improve: when the disk writing buffer of BT task is too large, the download request will no longer be suspended. Instead, the task will automatically limit the speed when the available memory is insufficient.
  • Core Bugfix: exiting the program when a large number of tasks are running will delay for a long time
  • Core Bugfix: fix the issue that the uTP initiation mode option when manually adding peer and the advanced option utp_after_holepunch didn't work
  • Core Bugfix: when separate_sources_for_failed_piece is enabled, after the piece hash verification fails, the entire piece cannot be re-downloaded separately from long-term seeds in some cases

New in BitComet 1.95 (Oct 17, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: new command in context menu of RSS list: Rename feed
  • GUI Improve: enhance RSS download filter in Option dialog: rename and set task tag for each feed
  • GUI Improve: after enable the expert mode, the BT task peer list shows the uTP MTU size
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.private_torrent_peer_hole_punch, supports UDP port hole_punch for private torrent without PEX
  • GUI Improve: CPU usage of long-term seeding thread can be displayed in flow graph
  • GUI Improve: at program startup, maximized window possibly not restored on the monitor when it was last exited
  • GUI Improve: the max value of network.max_udp_pkt_per_sec changed to 1000000 from 10000
  • GUI Improve: display CPU usage and storage usage in Statistics list
  • GUI Improve: web interface of remote download shows the full statistics list
  • GUI Improve: change moving files for stopped task to asynchronous operation in background thread
  • GUI Improve: the BT disk cache and long-term upload cache limit in option window increased to 1TB for 64-bit version
  • GUI Improve: the peer status in the BT task peer list shows the failure count of TCP, uTP, and UDP hole punching respectively.
  • GUI Bugfix: main window close button set to minimize to tray sometimes fails
  • Core Improve: automatically adjust the MTU size after uTP connection established
  • Core Improve: when connecting to uTP peers, prefer to use the previously connected remote port
  • Core Improve: BT task sends the PEX message as soon as possible after connecting to a peer
  • Core Improve: when advanced option bittorrent.utp_after_holepunch is set to auto, initiate uTP connection first, then try UDP hole punching after failure
  • Core Bugfix: disconnect websocket connections when timeout
  • Core Bugfix: data verify error for web seed downloading if there are files of the same size in the BT task

New in BitComet 1.94 (Sep 12, 2022)

  • New Feature: support the cloud service for remote connection, to let BitComet Mobile APP connects to the desktop edition of BitComet behind NAT/Firewall with end-to-end encryption. (requires BitComet Mobile App v1.8.0)
  • GUI Improve: select direct mode or cloud service mode when bind APP with QR code
  • GUI Improve: merge devices dialog into bind App dialog
  • GUI Improve: support multiple selection and rename in devices dialog
  • GUI Improve: display status icon of cloud service for remote connection in bottom status bar
  • GUI Improve: add option to enable cloud service for remote connection in Option window
  • Core Bugfix: websocket disconnect by remote not handled correctly

New in BitComet 1.93 (Aug 26, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: torrent_share.metadata_log_retention_period
  • GUI Bugfix: memory usage details display problem in Statistics list
  • Core Improve: optimize sqlite data loading speed for torrent lists
  • Core Bugfix: fix the issue of downloading the metadata of a magnet link from RSS torrent list while downloading the metadata of a DHT torrent with the same infohash
  • Core Bugfix: the torrent list is easy to freeze and crash when sorting by comments, screenshots, or popular
  • Core Bugfix: enhanced torrent list sqlite database operation stability
  • Core Bugfix: The operation may fail when creating a long path file

New in BitComet 1.92 (Jul 20, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: add toolbar to the Graph pane. Add torrent list data to memory usage graph
  • GUI Improve: set the main window to foreground if BitComet already running when open BitComet from browser extension
  • GUI Improve: when install Firefox extension in installer, open the plugin web in Firefox even if it's not the default browser
  • GUI Improve: add task logs, metadata download and reserved regions to memory usage graph
  • GUI Improve: save the options of flow graphs
  • GUI Improve: add the size of reserved memory regions to Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.multi_peers_same_ip, allow multiple peers connected from same IP by default
  • GUI Improve: refine the reason why the peer is banned
  • GUI Improve: optimize the operation of BT tasks with huge number of files
  • GUI Bugfix: should not show the task finish notification if the tray ballon disabled in the context menu of tray icon
  • Core Improve: improve program crash error reporting
  • Core Bugfix: when the number of metadata caches is large, the number of downloaded metadata displayed in the left favorites is inaccurate
  • Core Bugfix: when DHT is turned off, the task stops early when downloading the metadata of magnet link only from the peers returned from trackers

New in BitComet 1.91 (Jul 4, 2022)

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  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: fіlе nаmеѕ іn tоrrеnt саn bе rеnаmеd іn fіlе lіѕt раnе whеn tаѕk ѕtорреd
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd аdvаnсеd орtіоn: httр.mах_mіrrоr_соunt
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd аdvаnсеd орtіоn: uі.ѕhоw_аll_tаѕkѕ_аftеr_аdd_tаѕk
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: thе fіlе lіѕt bеlоw tоrrеnt lіѕt ѕuрроrtѕ tоrrеnt v2
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: whеn dіѕрlау thе fіlеѕ bеlоw tоrrеnt lіѕt, аutо uрdаtе mіѕѕіng іnfоrmаtіоn fоr thіѕ tоrrеnt
  • GUІ Вugfіх: whеn thе рееr lіѕt іѕ ѕоrtеd bу сlіеnt tуре, thе bаnnеd рееrѕ hаvе nо еffесt
  • GUІ Вugfіх: thеrе іѕ а а blаnk lіnе іn thе ѕаvе dіrесtоrу drор-dоwn bох оf ВТ tаѕk рrореrtіеѕ dіаlоg
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: lіmіt thе lеngth оf dаtа rесеіvеd frоm thе НТТР trасkеr
  • Соrе Вugfіх: ѕоmе іnfоrmаtіоn nоt uрdаtеd fоr RЅЅ tоrrеntѕ
  • Соrе Вugfіх: іmрrоvе ѕtаbіlіtу оf dоwnlоаdіng frоm Lоng-Теrm Ѕееdѕ

New in BitComet 1.90 (Jun 12, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: file names in torrent can be renamed in task properties dialog when task stopped
  • GUI Improve: file names in torrent can be renamed in file list pane when task stopped
  • GUI Improve: add advanced option: http.max_mirror_count
  • GUI Improve: add advanced option: ui.show_all_task_after_add_task
  • GUI Improve: the file list below torrent list supports torrent v2
  • GUI Improve: when display the files below torrent list, auto update missing information for this torrent
  • GUI Bugfix: when the peer list is sorted by client type, the banned peers have no effect
  • GUI Bugfix: there is a a blank line in the save directory drop-down box of BT task properties dialog
  • Core Improve: limit the length of data received from the HTTP tracker
  • Core Bugfix: some information not updated for RSS torrents
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of downloading from Long-Term Seeds

New in BitComet 1.89 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: support multiple update URLs for trackerslist in Tracker page of option window
  • GUI Improve: torrent size estimation supports torrent v2
  • GUI Improve: improve the condition to show the enable DHT prompt for magnet URI
  • GUI Bugfix: should not display the task properties dialog after creating a new torrent file
  • Core Improve: improve crash report
  • Core Bugfix: bug when downloading torrent v2 larger than 4GB
  • Core Bugfix: advanced option bittorrent.enable_v1_upgrade_to_v2 does not work

New in BitComet 1.88 (May 24, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: add format option in torrent maker dialog, including v1, v2 and hybrid format
  • GUI Improve: display Infohash v1 and Infohash v2 separately in BitTorrent task summary pane
  • GUI Improve: display the number of piece hashes obtained for torrent v2
  • GUI Improve: display the protocol version of BitTorrent peers in the peer list of BT task
  • GUI Improve: add advanced option: bittorrent.enable_v1_upgrade_to_v2, to allow peer protocol upgrade for hybrid torrent
  • GUI Improve: copy the infohash v1, v2 and name of BT task from context menu
  • GUI Improve: supports mirror, user_agent and cookie parameters in BC link
  • GUI Bugfix: always using default save folder for magnet URI if torrent can be found in Torrent History
  • GUI Bugfix: do not select the URL text when displays the task Properties dialog of HTTP task
  • GUI Bugfix: the TAB key doesn't works with the save folder edit box in task Properties dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: handle the case of taskbar on top of screen when restore main window position
  • GUI Bugfix: the restored main window position is invalid after secondary monitor removed
  • Core Improve: support creating torrent of v2 format, which includes metadata of v2, and the piece hashes of v2
  • Core Improve: support creating torrent of hybrid format, which includes metadata of v1 & v2, and the piece hashes of v2
  • Core Improve: when exporting torrent from BT task of v2 format, a full v2 torrent file will be exported if all piece hashes of v2 are obtained, or a compact torrent file will be exported which only contains metadata
  • Core Improve: support open torrent of v2 format and hybrid format, in which the piece hashes of v2 are optional
  • Core Improve: support download the magnet URI of v2 format and hybrid format, whose metadata size are much smaller than magnet URI of v1 format
  • Core Improve: support hash request commands of BitTorrent v2 protocol in peer connections, to download the piece hashes of v2 format and the leaf hashes of file hash tree
  • Core Improve: support upgrade the peer connections to BitTorrent v2 protocol for hybrid torrent
  • Core Improve: when the leaf hashes of file hash tree are obtained, the file data can be verified in 16KB blocks
  • Core Bugfix: can't handle the Content-Disposition HTTP response header if filename and filename* attributes appear together
  • Core Bugfix: can not fetch Cookies from Chrome and Edge of new version

New in BitComet 1.87 (Mar 16, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: add super seed option to task list right-click menu
  • GUI Improve: add copy Infohash command to task list right-click menu
  • GUI Improve: add context menu with copy command to the task summary pane
  • GUI Improve: added a sequential download mode option to the Download Order page of the BitTorrent task properties dialog
  • GUI Improve: new proxy server option: enable proxy server for RSS feeds
  • GUI Improve: when no port listening, the port status in the lower right corner of the main window is changed from "not detected" to "not listening"
  • GUI Improve: if the task list is sorted, display a prompt to cancel the sorting first when using the shortcut keys to adjust the download order
  • GUI Improve: add translation of RSS update time
  • GUI Improve: the language menu item displays the native language name for each language
  • GUI Improve: after selecting the user group title such as "Connected" in the BT task peer list, you can directly ban or delete all users in the group
  • GUI Improve: peers which are banned in the BT task peer list will display the reason for the ban
  • GUI Improve: add advanced option?torrent_share.load_lists_at_startup
  • GUI Improve: add advanced option?bittorrent.separate_sources_for_failed_piece
  • GUI Improve: update Chrome extension file in install package
  • GUI Bugfix: The background color of the input box in some dialog boxes is abnormal
  • GUI Bugfix: after modifies the save directory in the HTTP task properties dialog several times, the disk space is displayed in the wrong color
  • GUI Bugfix: zero size file in the file list below torrent list should not be shown as a directory
  • Core Improve: after the downloaded piece has an error in the hash check, try to re-download the entire piece from different peers
  • Core Improve: support GBK encoding when parsing RSS XML data
  • Core Improve: if the parameters submitted from remote download are incomplete, use the default save path and number of connections
  • Core Bugfix: SNI should not be sent when the HTTPS connection hostname is an IP address
  • Core Bugfix: In some cases, the magnet URI task fails to complete the metadata download

New in BitComet 1.86 (Feb 28, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: display task tags in left favorites bar
  • GUI Improve: add copy LAN IP command to the context menu of listen port detect light
  • GUI Improve: new proxy options: use proxy for HTTP, webpage or other network traffic
  • GUI Improve: specify file save name, User-Agent, Cookie and mirror URLs when adding HTTP task in remote download webpage
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: task.stop_task_after_get_metadata
  • GUI Bugfix: folder choose button not work in BitTorrent task properties dialog while downloading metadata
  • GUI Bugfix: full URL of mirror servers added by user for HTTP task not displayed in Servers pane
  • GUI Bugfix: RSS update countdown log info displayed repeatedly
  • GUI Bugfix: settings of global download/upload speed limit displayed incorrectly in remote download webpage
  • Core Bugfix: metadata request not sent to incoming peers sometimes when downloading magnet URI
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash if super seeding enabled

New in BitComet 1.85 (Feb 28, 2022)

  • GUI Improve: display my download progress as a super seed in peer list if super seeding enabled
  • GUI Improve: remember the last peer address added to peer list manually
  • GUI Improve: add web_seed category in the connection detail list in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: add option of sorting for memory detail info in the context menu of Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: improve the Dump Memory Info command in help menu if expert mode enabled
  • GUI Improve: Chrome extension will choose correct main program edition either of x64/x86 from non-install folder
  • GUI Improve: server list of HTTP/FTP task will display the number of active connections
  • GUI Improve: add remove button for RSS auto-downloader filters
  • Core Improve: optimize the super seed piece selection algorithm, transmit the most rare block first
  • Core Improve: decrease the CPU usage for the DHT network
  • Core Improve: do not pre-allocate disk cache for HTTP task
  • Core Bugfix: the size of TCP transfer buffer in Statistics pane is incomplete
  • Core Bugfix: failed to allocate piece cache for uploading if the disk cache of BT task reaches max value
  • Core Bugfix: failed to download files from root directory of FTP server
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP/FTP task should stop only when all connections failed

New in BitComet 1.84 (Nov 29, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: save the list header width and order of flat list and tree list of files separately
  • GUI Improve: the cache size of HTTP task in Statistics pane is divided into receiving cache and disk writing cache
  • GUI Improve: display the TCP transfer buffer size in statistics pane, and sort the memory size list by size
  • GUI Improve: allow to use the clipboard keyboard shortcuts in embedded web pages
  • GUI Improve: display the number of opened files of BT task in Summary if expert mode enabled
  • GUI Improve: rename the Task Statistics dialog in context menu for multiple tasks to Disk Info dialog, also available for single task now
  • GUI Improve: display the detail info for the number of TCP connections in Statistics pane
  • GUI Bugfix: sometimes the piece size display in Torrent Maker dialog is incorrect if auto piece size is chosen
  • Core Improve: the trigger condition of download rate auto-limit for HTTP task changed from the size of disk flushing size to size of available memory size
  • Core Improve: the redirect URL in remote download web page is changed to relative path, to support reverse proxy
  • Core Improve: add a new DHT bootstrap node
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash when downloading metadata

New in BitComet 1.83 (Nov 20, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: allow to modify download URL of HTTP task when task stopped
  • GUI Improve: add User-Agent and Cookie settings in HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: http.auto_import_cookie
  • GUI Improve: the limit of HTTP connection cache size changed to 32MB in Option Dialog
  • GUI Improve: new Torrent Exchange page in Option Dialog
  • GUI Improve: new setting of custom save folder for torrent cache files in Torrent Exchange page of Option Dialog
  • GUI Improve: new setting of save in multi-level directories for torrent cache files in Torrent Exchange page of Option Dialog
  • GUI Improve: show status indication in toolbar of torrent list when filtering or sorting
  • GUI Improve: new option for Torrent Collect and RSS Torrents: Only show torrents with metadata
  • GUI Improve: show the memory size used for file list and metadata download in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: improve check-box display in file list when scaling in unequal multiples of DPI
  • GUI Improve: tag toolbar supports auto-wrap
  • GUI Improve: auto resize the width of file-name column in the file list of BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improve: the Chrome extension supports capture the file download invoked by JavaScript
  • GUI Improve: Capture download file option in Chrome extension no longer affected by the main program
  • GUI Bugfix: the Chrome extension can not get correct referrer URL when download links from Downloads Tab of Chrome
  • GUI Bugfix: fix refresh issues in task Summary pane
  • GUI Bugfix: do not show the UDP upload rate limit for long-term seeding if not enabled in Statistics pane
  • GUI Bugfix: do not reset the size of BT task properties dialog after metadata downloaded
  • GUI Bugfix: the text in the headers of file list not refreshed after switch UI language
  • GUI Bugfix: status bar will display incorrect DHT state if DHT disabled while DHT startup delay enabled
  • Core Improve: offer peer version info with Mac of Android suffix to other BitTorrent peers
  • Core Improve: try to retrieve cookie info from Chrome/Edge browser when download HTTP URL directly
  • Core Improve: support the filename* attribute in Content-Disposition info of HTTP response headers
  • Core Improve: user can suspend all active tasks and manually resumes them after program restart
  • Core Improve: decrease the CPU usage of torrent list when no sort applied
  • Core Improve: reduce the UI lag when operate the BT tasks with large number of files
  • Core Improve: reduce CPU usage for adding torrent records to torrent list
  • Core Bugfix: disk boost service is not invoked for HTTP task when the setting of allocate space before downloading disabled
  • Core Bugfix: key word filter for torrent list works incorrectly for non-Latin characters
  • Core Bugfix: program crash if export backup file while torrent list is loading from database file
  • Core Bugfix: when search mirror for HTTP task enabled, download may still failed after changing original URL
  • Core Bugfix: memory not released after metadata download finished in some cases
  • Core Bugfix: the disk boost service set file size incorrectly in some cases

New in BitComet 1.82 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: add HTTP servers pane below the task list
  • GUI Improve: the Files pane can display the downloaded file of HTTP task now
  • GUI Improve: improve the switching relationship for panes below the task list when switching between BT task and HTTP task
  • GUI Improve: display updating status in RSS list pane in the left of main window
  • GUI Improve: display the size of all files and the size of file boundary padding in tooltip of task size in BT task summary pane
  • GUI Improve: decode UTF8 failure info received from HTTP tracker
  • GUI Bugfix: mistaken of uTP packets recv number in the Statistics pane
  • GUI Bugfix: the tooltip display incorrectly after the header of peer list reordered
  • GUI Bugfix: the size of selected files in BT task dialog is incorrect for tree list
  • GUI Bugfix: failed to load passport pane under Windows 11 in certain case
  • Core Bugfix: the mirror URL added manually not used when restart HTTP task, if the option of search for mirror is disabled
  • Core Bugfix: fix error handling for IPv6 UDP trackers
  • Core Bugfix: improve the stability of DHT modular
  • Core Bugfix: improve the stability of hash calculating for BitTorrent task

New in BitComet 1.81 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: add blocklist for Torrent Collection. Blocking keywords can be added from menu of setting button in toolbar
  • GUI Improve: display tooltip for headers of peer list
  • GUI Improve: new setting in Advanced Options: task.add_to_top add new task to the top of download list
  • GUI Bugfix: program version definition mistake in v1.80
  • Core Bugfix: fix bugs in task disk space cleanup
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of uTP transfer

New in BitComet 1.79 (Aug 25, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: add NAT type detect dialog in Tools menu
  • GUI Improved: support Windows 11
  • GUI Bugfix: cached info not cleared when detect port status again in the green light state
  • GUI Bugfix: can not input IPv6 address in Add Peer dialog due to the length limit
  • GUI Bugfix: should not display the number of Long-Term Seeds for private task in task list
  • Core Improve: support NAT type detection for UDP packets
  • Core Bugfix: should not connect to the peer's IPv4/IPv6 address reported by itself if PEX disabled for the task
  • Core Bugfix: handle the case of folder name contains tailing space in torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: handle the case of file name contains emoji characters in torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of uTP transfer

New in BitComet 1.78 (Jul 27, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: new setting in Options Dialog: enable uTP for peer connection. Disabled by default.
  • GUI Improve: new setting in Advanced Options: bittorrent.peer_hole_punch. Enabled by default.
  • GUI Improve: new setting in Advanced Options: bittorrent.utp_after_holepunch. Enabled by default.
  • GUI Improve: display uTP status, protocol, encryption and flags in peer list of BitTorrent tasks
  • GUI Improve: add uTP initiation options in Add Peer Dialog
  • GUI Improve: add sub menu of uTP initiation mode in context menu of peer list of BitTorrent tasks
  • GUI Improve: display uTP packets info in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: display piece size when auto size selected in torrent maker dialog
  • GUI Improve: supports Ctrl+A in tracker list of BitTorrent task and Tracker Torrent list
  • GUI Improve: add command in context menu of tracker list: remove all unreachable trackers
  • GUI Bugfix: the tracker list of Tracker Torrent list can not sort by status
  • GUI Bugfix: piece index in file list is incorrect for zero size files
  • GUI Bugfix: display app exception of Windows Firewall in Statistics pane
  • Core Improve: supports connecting to other BitTorrent peers using uTP protocol
  • Core Improve: supports UDP hole punch via other BitTorrent peers to establish uTP connections
  • Core Improve: prevent Sonic Studio 3 DLL injection, enhance program stability
  • Core Bugfix: the total size of Long-Tern Seeding not loaded correctly when program starts

New in BitComet 1.77 (May 3, 2021)

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  • lіѕtѕGUІ Іmрrоvе: dіѕрlау Тіmе Rесеіvеd іnfо іn tоrrеnt
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  • раgеGUІ Іmрrоvе: dо nоt ѕwіtсh tо аll tаѕk lіѕt whеn аdd nеw tаѕk frоm RЅЅ fееdѕ аutоmаtісаllу
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: dіѕрlау рrоgrеѕѕ оf fоldеr іn fіlе lіѕt оf ВіtТоrrеnt
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  • tаѕkGUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd „DоwnlоаdѕВіtСоmеt“ tо dеfаult dоwnlоаd fоldеrѕ fоr nеw іnѕtаllаtіоn
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  • GUІ Вugfіх: fіх ѕоrt bug fоr tіtlе соlumn оf DНТ аnd Тrасkеr tоrrеnt
  • lіѕtGUІ Вugfіх: dо nоt аѕk tо еnаblе DНТ nеtwоrk whеn bаtсh dоwnlоаd tоrrеntѕ wіth tоrrеnt dоwnlоаd URL
  • GUІ Вugfіх: thе орtіоn оf mах іtеm соunt оf tоrrеntѕ lіѕt саn nоt ѕеt tо 100000
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  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt fеtсh tоrrеnt іnfоhаѕh lіѕt frоm НТТР/НТТРЅ trасkеr ѕсrаре URL оr ѕtаtѕ раgе
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt fеtсh tоrrеnt іnfоhаѕh lіѕt frоm WЅ/WЅЅ trасkеr wіth ѕсrаре асtіоn
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: іmрrоvе раrѕіng ѕрееd fоr ЈЅОN dаtа
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: іmрrоvе соmраtіbіlіtу wіth МіnіUРnРd/2.2.0
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: uрgrаdе ОреnЅЅL tо v1.1.1k
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: еnаblе ВіtТоrrеnt еnсrурtіоn рrоtосоl bу dеfаult
  • Соrе Вugfіх: ВіtТоrrеnt tаѕk саn nоt fіnіѕh dоwnlоаdіng іf tоrrеnt соntаіnіng іnсоrrесt ріесе-аlіgnmеnt раddіng fіlеѕ
  • Соrе Вugfіх: ВіtТоrrеnt tаѕk wіll ѕсаn fіlеѕ tо саlсulаtе hаѕh аftеr ѕtаrtіng еvеn іf Lоng-Теrm Ѕееdѕ аnd еМulе рlugіn nоt еnаblеd
  • Соrе Вugfіх: uрnр.ехе іnvоkеd rереаtеdlу іn ѕуѕtеm wіth multірlе nеtwоrkѕ
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New in BitComet 1.76 (Apr 9, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: new Tracker Torrents list displays Magnet URI fetched from tracker scrape
  • GUI Improve: tracker scrape URL can be added to the tracker list below tracker torrents list with the context menu
  • GUI Improve: add copy IP and port command to the context menu of peer list
  • GUI Improve: display loading progress for torrent lists
  • GUI Improve: display Time Received info in torrent list
  • GUI Improve: display memory used by torrent list in Statistics page
  • GUI Improve: do not switch to all task list when add new task from RSS feeds automatically
  • GUI Improve: display progress of folder in file list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: support xs parameter in magnet URI for specifying the URL of torrent file
  • GUI Improve: display the time left of Long-Term Seeds querying in Tracker list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: add "DownloadsBitComet" to default download folders for new installation
  • GUI Bugfix: the metadata icon not refreshed in time after metadata downloaded
  • GUI Bugfix: fix sort bug for title column of DHT and Tracker torrent list
  • GUI Bugfix: do not ask to enable DHT network when batch download torrents with torrent download URL
  • GUI Bugfix: the option of max item count of torrents list can not set to 100000
  • GUI Bugfix: when the floating window is enlarged, the ordinate display is abnormal in some cases
  • Core Improve: support arm64 instruction set for Apple M1 in Mac edition
  • Core Improve: support fetch torrent infohash list from HTTP/HTTPS tracker scrape URL or stats page
  • Core Improve: support fetch torrent infohash list from WS/WSS tracker with scrape action
  • Core Improve: improve parsing speed for JSON data
  • Core Improve: improve compatibility with MiniUPnPd/2.2.0
  • Core Improve: upgrade OpenSSL to v1.1.1k
  • Core Improve: enable BitTorrent encryption protocol by default
  • Core Bugfix: BitTorrent task can not finish downloading if torrent containing incorrect piece-alignment padding files
  • Core Bugfix: BitTorrent task will scan files to calculate hash after starting even if Long-Term Seeds and eMule plugin not enabled
  • Core Bugfix: upnp.exe invoked repeatedly in system with multiple networks
  • Core Bugfix: can not handle long packet of websocket
  • Core Bugfix: network.tcp_connection_timeout break long connection of websocket
  • Core Bugfix: remove .piece_part.bc! when remove tasks without deleting downloaded files

New in BitComet 1.75 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: add Display Score History item in CometID menu
  • GUI Improve: display CometID score update info in Global Log pane if expert mode enabled
  • GUI Improve: add an icon to the download metadata item in the content menu of torrent list
  • GUI Improve: support any DPI scale in Windows edition
  • GUI Improve: support open iso files after task downloaded
  • GUI Improve: add UDP packets rate info in Statistics page
  • GUI Improve: improve text in Add Peer dialog of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: display file count and alignment in summary pane of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: display piece index of files in file list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: support WS/WSS trackers in TrackerList of Option dialog
  • GUI Improve: support globle hotkey for hide/unhide main window in Mac edition
  • GUI Improve: improve initial size of Option window in Mac edition
  • GUI Bugfix: grid line in download list not shown when enabled from View menu
  • GUI Bugfix: do not create shortcut in start menu in systems other than Windows 10
  • GUI Bugfix: the prompt of existing in Torrent History not displayed if re-download Magnet link after task deleted
  • GUI Bugfix: Windows Library folder not handled in task batch download dialog from torrent list
  • GUI Bugfix: display tracker return 0 peer in status column of tracker list
  • Core Improve: the CometID score renewal cycle is shortened from one day to no more than one hour
  • Core Improve: store CometID score daily history in local file
  • Core Improve: improve database access performance
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash if error occurs when loading data from database
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash if force quit when task properties window display in Mac edition

New in BitComet 1.74 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • GUI Improve: display number of Long-Term Seeds in task list
  • GUI Improve: add the detection and repair of improper disk boost service permissions
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.enable_lsd
  • GUI Improve: add listening port, remote port and peer source columns in Peer list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: display LSD status info in Tracker list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: display LSD listening port status in Statistics page
  • GUI Improve: display listening port forwards status for Remote Download in Statistics page
  • GUI Improve: display detailed network speed info of protocol payload in Statistics page
  • GUI Improve: display host name of Web Seed in peer list
  • GUI Improve: display system notification when task download finish in Mac edition
  • GUI Bugfix: invalid path prompt when import/export tasks and settings in Mac edition
  • Core Improve: support Local Service Discovery, to search BT peers in local network using UDP multicast
  • Core Improve: support ws parameter in Magnet URI, to add web seed
  • Core Improve: upgrade OpenSSL to v1.1.1i
  • Core Improve: decrease CPU usage in Mac edition
  • Core Bugfix: fail to preview video files of huge size
  • Core Bugfix: fix bugs when auto add a suffix to default saving file/folder name automatically for BitTorrent task
  • Core Bugfix: fix bug in auto-rename when re-download HTTP tasks
  • Core Bugfix: When detect UDP listen port forwards status, UDP packets from local network should be ignored

New in BitComet 1.72 (Nov 27, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: add a suffix to default saving file/folder name automatically for BitTorrent task if a file/folder has the same name exists
  • GUI Improve: stop time-out counting when click any option check-box in duplicate files prompt dialog for BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: auto switch unit for upload/download size in peer list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: display memory info in graph pane
  • GUI Improve: auto layout positions of legends in graph pane
  • GUI Improve: torrent size estimation handle the piece-alignment option in torrent make dialog
  • GUI Improve: remove advanced option dht.udp_sessions_threshold, add new advanced option dht.udp_send_queue_threshold
  • GUI Improve: display number of dropped DHT requires
  • GUI Improve: show CPU usage in flow graph in macOS version
  • GUI Bugfix: fix crash when click download eMule plugin button in Option window
  • GUI Bugfix: creation date in task summary not refreshed after metadata downloaded for BitTorrent task
  • GUI Bugfix: metadata icon in torrent list not refreshed after metadata downloaded
  • Core Improve: use worker thread for Long-Term Seeding to reduce UI lag
  • Core Improve: add support of Long-Term Seeding for files smaller than 1MB
  • Core Improve: when UDP send queue threshold of DHT reached, incoming DHT requires are dropped
  • Core Improve: able to identify Shareaza client
  • Core Bugfix: task queue operation incorrectly if choose seeding directly using exist files after opening torrent
  • Core Bugfix: if the DHT network startup delay is enabled, the auto-started tasks will not announce to DHT any more
  • Core Bugfix: crash when DNS querying

New in BitComet 1.71 (Oct 22, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: add new advanced option: ui.copy_magnet_with_tracker
  • GUI Improve: add new advanced option: dht.startup_delay_sec
  • GUI Improve: add new advanced option: dht.udp_sessions_threshold
  • GUI Improve: add Long-Term Seeding list to left channel list when expert_mode enabled
  • GUI Improve: display number of files for Long-Term Seeding in flow graph
  • GUI Improve: display number of DHT nodes and sessions by type in flow graph
  • GUI Improve: display CPU usage in flow graph
  • GUI Improve: display flow graph pane under torrent list also
  • GUI Improve: display UDP sending queue length for separate category in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: display number of DNS cache in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: tracker list supports sorting
  • GUI Improve: do not switch to download list after add new BitTorrent task from RSS page
  • GUI Improve: display banned peers of BitTorrent task in separate group
  • GUI Bugfix: binding IP address in advanced option can not be modified
  • GUI Bugfix: update time of RSS feeds not changed after manual refresh
  • GUI Bugfix: tooltip displayed incorrectly when the column order of peer list adjusted
  • Core Improve: UDP sending queue changed to multiple queues
  • Core Improve: prevent Sonic Studio 3 DLL injection, enhance program stability
  • Core Improve: BitTorrent task start Long-Term Seeding automatically if become 100% completed after hash checking
  • Core Improve: add cache for DNS query
  • Core Improve: UDP Tracker connect will retry later if length of sending queue reached limit
  • Core Improve: reduce unnecessary DHT transmission if reached the threshold of UDP sessions
  • Core Improve: increase the priority of connection for passport login
  • Core Bugfix: empty folder left after moving downloaded files for finished task

New in BitComet 1.70 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: add option to start seeding after generating torrent file
  • GUI Improve: advanced option system.show_debug_info renamed to system.enable_expert_mode
  • GUI Improve: add DHT network node list to left channel list when expert_mode enabled
  • GUI Improve: add flow graph for download speed, upload speed, DHT transfer
  • GUI Improve: display location code if no location image in peer list
  • GUI Improve: Add HTTP download in batch window support paste HTTP URL list
  • GUI Improve: "Remember my settings" in Auto Shutdown menu changed to "Remember Shutdown Condition"
  • GUI Bugfix: number of Torrent History not refreshed after generating torrent file
  • GUI Bugfix: peer download progress not displayed in peer list
  • GUI Bugfix: IP location icon dispay bug when using 150% DPI
  • GUI Bugfix: download speed display bug in floating window
  • GUI Bugfix: binding IP address in advanced option can not be set to unassigned
  • Core Bugfix: data save failure due to zero-size file in torrent
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash when downloading pieces containing file boundary in v1.69
  • Core Bugfix: initial seeding option can not be saved due to async modifacation operation of BT task properties (v1.68 - 1.69)

New in BitComet 1.69 (Jul 14, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: display Mobile APP traffic in the info-tips of upload size and upload speed in task summary pane
  • GUI Improve: display detailed failure info of download torrent in BT task log pane
  • GUI Improve: display IP location in peer list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Bugfix: the main window should not be restored by relaunch program if entered lock mode while the main window minimized
  • GUI Bugfix: can't change the default download directory for a task tag in the Option window
  • GUI Bugfix: handle the situation of LAN IP is the same with WAN IP in Remote Download page of Options window
  • Core Improve: improve error handling after piece hash check failure of BT task
  • Core Improve: part of the file operation is moved to the worker thread to reduce UI freeze
  • Core Improve: improve torrent share data processing and reduce UI freeze
  • Core Improve: supports brotli compress for HTTP Tracker, torrent download and visit RSS feeds
  • Core Improve: apply advanced option http.user_agent to all HTTP connections besides HTTP file download
  • Core Improve: remove HTTP request header: Pragma/Cache-Control: no-cache
  • Core Bugfix: occasionally crash when starting BT task asynchronously

New in BitComet 1.68 (Jun 16, 2020)

  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: іmрrоvе ісоnѕ іn tооlbаr аnd dоwnlоаd lіѕt fоr НіDРІ dіѕрlау
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd ѕеttіngѕ buttоn іn tооlbаr оf tоrrеnt lіѕt
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: nеw орtіоn fоr DНТ tоrrеntѕ: Оnlу ѕhоw tоrrеntѕ wіth mеtаdаtа
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd Fееd Nаmе іn RЅЅ tоrrеnt lіѕt
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: dіѕрlау numbеr оf ріесе іn tоrrеnt mаkеr dіаlоg
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: dіѕрlау mеtаdаtа dоwnlоаdіng іnfо іn Ѕtаtіѕtісѕ раnе
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: dо nоt dіѕрlау lіѕtеn роrt оf рееr іf unknоwn fоr ВТ рееrѕ
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  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: nеw аdvаnсеd орtіоn: bіttоrrеnt.dht_tоrrеnt_rеfrеѕh_іntеrvаl, 5 ѕес аѕ dеfаult tо dесrеаѕе dіѕk асtіvіtу tіmе
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  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: dіѕрlау Lоng-Теrm Ѕееdіng ѕtаtuѕ іn Ѕtаtіѕtісѕ Раnе
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd сору соmmаnd tо соntехt mеnu оf ѕеttіngѕ lіѕt іn аdvаnсеd орtіоn раgе
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: іmрrоvе НіDРІ ѕuрроrt fоr Ваtсh dоwnlоаd dіаlоg
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: nеw орtіоn іn Рrоху ѕеttіng раgе: DNЅ quеrу uѕіng рrоху ѕеrvеr
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd unіt сhоісе fоr Ѕрееd lіmіt іn Орtіоn dіаlоg
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt аdd bаtсh-dоwnlоаd bу drаg аnd drор multірlе URL lіnkѕ tо flоаtіng wіndоw оr mаіn wіndоw
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt аdd bаtсh-dоwnlоаd bу сlірbоаrd mоnіtоr
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: nеw аdvаnсеd орtіоn: bіttоrrеnt.hаѕh_сhесk_fоr_ltѕееd
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: аdd mеmоrу uѕаgе dеtаіlѕ аbоut рrосеѕѕ hеар ѕіzе аnd dіѕk wrіtе buffеr ѕіzе
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: nеw ѕеttіngѕ іn аdvаnсеd орtіоn раgе tо ѕеlесt ІР аddrеѕѕ tо bіnd tо whеn іnіtіаtе а соnnесtіоn
  • GUІ Іmрrоvе: ѕhоw реndіng DNЅ numbеr іn Ѕtаtіѕtісѕ раnе
  • GUІ Вugfіх: thе numbеr оf tоrrеntѕ іn thе lеft сhаnnеl lіѕt іѕ nоt rеfrеѕhеd іn tіmе
  • GUІ Вugfіх: ѕоrt bug fоr fіrѕt соlumn оf Тоrrеnt Ніѕtоrу lіѕt
  • GUІ Вugfіх: tаѕk ѕummаrу раnеl tехt аlіgnmеnt
  • GUІ Вugfіх: lеvеl рrоgrеѕѕ dіѕрlау еrrоr whеn рrоgrеѕѕ іѕ 0% іn thе lоwеr lеft соrnеr
  • GUІ Вugfіх: іnсоrrесt соnfіgurаtіоn fіlе fоldеr uѕеd іn сеrtаіn саѕе
  • GUІ Вugfіх: UІ lаg whеn ѕеlесt аll bу Сtrl+А іn tоrrеnt lіѕt
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: DНТ Тrасkеr uѕе wоrkеr thrеаd tо rеduсе thе UІ lаg
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt іnіtіаtе а соnnесtіоn uѕіng рrеfеrrеd nеtwоrk аdарtеr іf multірlе nеtwоrk аdарtеrѕ ехіѕt іn ѕуѕtеm
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt ІРv6 соnnесtіоn thrоugh ЅОСКЅ5 рrоху ѕеrvеr
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt UТF8 ВОМ whеn іmрrоvе URL lіѕt frоm tехt fіlе іn Ваtсh dоwnlоаd dіаlоg
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: ѕuрроrt ехtrасt URL lіnkѕ соntаіnіng Сhіnеѕе сhаrасtеrѕ frоm html раgе ѕеgmеnt drорреd tо ВіtСоmеt frоm wеb раgе
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: іmрrоvе mеmоrу аllосаtіоn, dесrеаѕе mеmоrу uѕаgе fоr UDР buffеr аnd lоg buffеr
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: орtіmіzе UDР расkеt ѕеndіng еffісіеnсу,dеfаult vаluе оf nеtwоrk.mах_udр_рkt_реr_ѕес сhаngеd tо 1000 frоm 500
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: аvоіd рrоgrаm сrаѕh саuѕеd bу ІЕ соmроnеnt dаmаgе
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: іmрrоvе Рrеvіеw dоwnlоаd mоdе fоr ВТ tаѕk
  • Соrе Іmрrоvе: rеduсе mеmоrу uѕаgе whеn dоwnlоаdіng mеtаdаtа fоr DНТ tоrrеnt lіѕt
  • Соrе Вugfіх: thе glоbаl орtіоn „аllосаtіоn dіѕk ѕрасе bеfоrе dоwnlоаd“ wоrkѕ еvеn whеn dіѕаblеd
  • Соrе Вugfіх: еmрtу fіlеѕ ѕhоuld nоt bе сrеаtеd whеn реrfоrmѕ hаѕh-сhесk
  • Соrе Вugfіх: соnnесtіоn еrrоr rеtrу іѕѕuе whеn dоwnlоаd frоm lоng-tеrm ѕееd
  • Соrе Вugfіх: fіх ѕрееd lіmіt dеvіаtіоn
  • Соrе Вugfіх: „Ѕеquеntіаl Dоwnlоаd Моdе“ dоеѕ nоt wоrk іf „Орtіmіzе dоwnlоаd ѕtrаtеgу fоr рrеvіеw“ dіѕаblеd іn Орtіоn dіаlоg

New in BitComet 1.66 (May 7, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: improve icons in toolbar and download list for HiDPI display
  • GUI Improve: add settings button in toolbar of torrent list
  • GUI Improve: new option for DHT torrents: Only show torrents with metadata
  • GUI Improve: add Feed Name in RSS torrent list
  • GUI Improve: display number of piece in torrent maker dialog
  • GUI Improve: display metadata downloading info in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improve: do not display listen port of peer if unknown for BT peers
  • GUI Improve: "Preview Download Mode" renamed to "Sequential Download Mode" in context menu of BT task
  • GUI Improve: add Compact Database command in settings menu of torrent list
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.dht_torrent_refresh_interval, 5 sec as default to decrease disk activity time
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: system.compact_memory_interval
  • GUI Improve: display configuration file folder in Global Log pane
  • GUI Improve: display Long-Term Seeding status in Statistics Pane
  • GUI Improve: add copy command to context menu of settings list in advanced option page
  • GUI Improve: improve HiDPI support for Batch download dialog
  • GUI Improve: new option in Proxy setting page: DNS query using proxy server
  • GUI Improve: add unit choice for Speed limit in Option dialog
  • GUI Improve: support add batch-download by drag and drop multiple URL links to floating window or main window
  • GUI Improve: support add batch-download by clipboard monitor
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.hash_check_for_ltseed
  • GUI Improve: add memory usage details about process heap size and disk write buffer size
  • GUI Improve: new settings in advanced option page to select IP address to bind to when initiate a connection
  • GUI Improve: show pending DNS number in Statistics pane
  • GUI Bugfix: the number of torrents in the left channel list is not refreshed in time
  • GUI Bugfix: sort bug for first column of Torrent History list
  • GUI Bugfix: task summary panel text alignment
  • GUI Bugfix: level progress display error when progress is 0% in the lower left corner
  • GUI Bugfix: incorrect configuration file folder used in certain case
  • GUI Bugfix: UI lag when select all by Ctrl+A in torrent list
  • Core Improve: DHT Tracker use worker thread to reduce the UI lag
  • Core Improve: support initiate a connection using preferred network adapter if multiple network adapters exist in system
  • Core Improve: support IPv6 connection through SOCKS5 proxy server
  • Core Improve: support UTF8 BOM when improve URL list from text file in Batch download dialog
  • Core Improve: support extract URL links containing Chinese characters from html page segment dropped to BitComet from web page
  • Core Improve: improve memory allocation, decrease memory usage for UDP buffer and log buffer
  • Core Improve: optimize UDP packet sending efficiency,default value of network.max_udp_pkt_per_sec changed to 1000 from 500
  • Core Improve: avoid program crash caused by IE component damage
  • Core Improve: improve Preview download mode for BT task
  • Core Improve: reduce memory usage when downloading metadata for DHT torrent list
  • Core Bugfix: the global option "allocation disk space before download" works even when disabled
  • Core Bugfix: empty files should not be created when performs hash-check
  • Core Bugfix: connection error retry issue when download from long-term seed
  • Core Bugfix: fix speed limit deviation
  • Core Bugfix: "Sequential Download Mode" does not work if "Optimize download strategy for preview" disabled in Option dialog

New in BitComet 1.65 (Apr 13, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: Display left time in torrent making dialog
  • GUI Improve: add more items to backup in Import/Export dialog from File menu
  • GUI Improve: display torrent creation time and RSS article publication time in Summary page of torrent list separately
  • GUI Improve: the publish time in torrent list changed from torrent creation time to RSS article publication time
  • GUI Improve: add new commands to context menu of RSS list: Copy title
  • GUI Improve: the publish time in torrent list can be updated by click Reload command in context menu of RSS torrent node in Channel list
  • GUI Improve: improve port mapping error message
  • GUI Improve: the start time of task renamed to added time
  • GUI Improve: LT Seed number in file list of BT task changed to "connected/total"
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option to set HTTP retry max number and interval for downloading torrent in BT task
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: network.tcp_connection_timeout
  • GUI Improve: default setting of UDP packets sent per second changed from 100 to 500 in advanced option page
  • GUI Improve: display task logs about downloading torrent file from HTTP link for BT task
  • GUI Improve: add memory usage details in statistics page
  • GUI Bugfix: task delete button in toolbar should not be grayed out when task is running
  • Core Improve: support import and export Torrent History, Torrent Exchange, RSS Torrents, DHT Torrents via backup file
  • Core Improve: improve DNS resolution for UDP packet to prevent sending congestion
  • Core Improve: add error retry for BT task when downloading torrent file from HTTP link
  • Core Improve: add TCP connecting timeout for automatic disconnection
  • Core Bugfix: after one file downloaded from a LT Seed, no requests for downloading other file are sent
  • Core Bugfix: out of memory due to huge number of peer requests to running BT task
  • Core Bugfix: while proxy server enabled, the program may crash when exiting
  • Core Bugfix: the max TCP connection setting should be cons considered when initiating a long-term download connection
  • Core Bugfix: fix improper operation in executable file name safety checking

New in BitComet 1.65 (Apr 13, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: Display left time in torrent making dialog
  • GUI Improve: add more items to backup in Import/Export dialog from File menu
  • GUI Improve: display torrent creation time and RSS article publication time in Summary page of torrent list separately
  • GUI Improve: the publish time in torrent list changed from torrent creation time to RSS article publication time
  • GUI Improve: add new commands to context menu of RSS list: Copy title
  • GUI Improve: the publish time in torrent list can be updated by click Reload command in context menu of RSS torrent node in Channel list
  • GUI Improve: improve port mapping error message
  • GUI Improve: the start time of task renamed to added time
  • GUI Improve: LT Seed number in file list of BT task changed to "connected/total"
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option to set HTTP retry max number and interval for downloading torrent in BT task
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: network.tcp_connection_timeout
  • GUI Improve: default setting of UDP packets sent per second changed from 100 to 500 in advanced option page
  • GUI Improve: display task logs about downloading torrent file from HTTP link for BT task
  • GUI Improve: add memory usage details in statistics page
  • GUI Bugfix: task delete button in toolbar should not be grayed out when task is running
  • Core Improve: support import and export Torrent History, Torrent Exchange, RSS Torrents, DHT Torrents via backup file
  • Core Improve: improve DNS resolution for UDP packet to prevent sending congestion
  • Core Improve: add error retry for BT task when downloading torrent file from HTTP link
  • Core Improve: add TCP connecting timeout for automatic disconnection
  • Core Bugfix: after one file downloaded from a LT Seed, no requests for downloading other file are sent
  • Core Bugfix: out of memory due to huge number of peer requests to running BT task
  • Core Bugfix: while proxy server enabled, the program may crash when exiting
  • Core Bugfix: the max TCP connection setting should be cons considered when initiating a long-term download connection
  • Core Bugfix: fix improper operation in executable file name safety checking

New in BitComet 1.64 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • GUI Improve: add new advanced option: Use toast notifications in action center under Windows 10 (Need to create shortcut in start menu)
  • GUI Improve: the max connection number for HTTP download task changed from 20 to 200 in HTTP task properties window
  • GUI Improve: the max default connection number for HTTP download task changed from 20 to 200 in option window
  • GUI Improve: show notification when the paging file is too small for memory allocation
  • GUI Improve: add info-tip for peer count, health and share ratio column in task download list
  • GUI Improve: improve display for HiDPI
  • GUI Bugfix: the display name parameter in the magnetic link caused the default save name of the downloaded file to be incorrect
  • GUI Bugfix: issues on sorting torrent list by snapshot or comments
  • GUI Bugfix: the speed graph not cleared after perform disk cleanup for HTTP task
  • GUI Bugfix: the queuing state icon not displayed if the task is in error state
  • GUI Bugfix: the function of sorting by task state not working for queuing tasks
  • Core Improve: enhanced the ability of HTTP download tasks to detect server support for download resume
  • Core Improve: reduce memory usage for torrent metadata download
  • Core Improve: improve video file snapshot, support thumbnail, decrease loading time
  • Core Improve: disable extra disk writing verify to decrease disk usage
  • Core Bugfix: if auto file moving launched after hash check when BitTorrent download finished, the files been moved will bot be removed
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP download should stop immediately after failure of creating file
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash at exit

New in BitComet 1.63 (Dec 26, 2019)

  • GUI Improve: new RSS Torrents list in Torrent Exchange, to collect torrent info from RSS feeds
  • GUI Improve: new DHT Torrents list in Torrent Exchange, to collect torrent info in peer request from DHT network
  • GUI Improve: add Download Metadata command to context menu of torrent list, to obtain torrent meta-data without creating download task
  • GUI Improve: add Logs pane to torrent list, to display logs when obtaining torrent meta-data
  • GUI Improve: decrease displaying time of waiting state when loading web page of task comments and snapshots
  • GUI Improve: new settings in Proxy option page: do not use proxy for long-term seeding and port forward detection
  • GUI Improve: display RSS update logs when advanced option system.show_debug_info enabled
  • GUI Improve: new option in context menu of DHT torrents in left channel pane: auto download meta-data
  • GUI Improve: new advanced options: Max number of concurrent downloading meta-data, Timeout seconds of downloading meta-data
  • GUI Bugfix: the default connection number in HTTP batch download window changed from 1 to the setting value in Option window
  • GUI Bugfix: the speed graph not cleared after perform disk cleanup for BitTorrent task
  • GUI Bugfix: when click the blank area in piece map scroll bar out of the thumb, page up or page down not triggered.
  • GUI Bugfix: the status bar of main window flickers when refresh
  • Core Improve: improve identification code of BitTorrent client name and version
  • Core Improve: do not detect IPv6 port forward status if global IPv6 address not found in system
  • Core Bugfix: fix moving operations of configuration files when switch use_app_data advanced option
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash when force stop tasks in stopping state
  • Core Bugfix: the option of clear Torrent Collection list at program exit does not work
  • Core Bugfix: the passkey parameter in tracker URL for private torrent should not be removed for non-MagnetURI torrents received from RSS feed
  • Core Bugfix: if no data received from RSS feed, the reconnection will not be preformed in certain case
  • Core Bugfix: if the torrent turned out private after meta-data received, no trackers should be added automatically from trackers-list

New in BitComet 1.62 (Dec 26, 2019)

  • GUI Improve: a new option to seed using existing files when create task by torrent file, check piece hash until uploading the piece
  • GUI Improve: improve refresh algorithm of piece map to decrease CPU usage
  • GUI Improve: display a piece in yellow if the piece is unchecked in the piece map pane of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improve: improve display refreshing code of torrent share list, reduce the UI lag when display large amounts of torrents
  • GUI Improve: a new prompt to choose download one by one or in batches when select multiple magnet links in torrent share list
  • GUI Improve: add tooltip to display peer_id when mouse hover on client name of peer list
  • GUI Improve: the default allowed max size of torrent file changed from 10MB to 20MB, and a new advanced option added: bittorrent.max_torrent_size_mb
  • GUI Improve: boss key renamed to lock / unlock main window hot-key. password will be needed when unlock if startup password is set.
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.anti_leech_banned_peer_ids
  • GUI Improve: new advanced option: bittorrent.anti_leech_private_torrent, disabled by default
  • GUI Improve: show notification when out of memory
  • GUI Improve: Task disk space cleanup can only be invoked when task stopped
  • Core Improve: BT stop changes to asynchronous operation with new task Stopping state, to reduce the UI lag when stopping tasks
  • Core Improve: improve processing flow to reduce the UI lag when task finishes downloading
  • Core Improve: improve processing flow to reduce the UI lag when deleting running tasks
  • Core Improve: discard cache data in running BitTorrent tasks when quit BitComet to reduce the UI lag
  • Core Improve: improve processing flow of task start to reduce the UI lag
  • Core Improve: improve processing flow of task progress auto save to reduce the UI lag
  • Core Improve: the format of data file of torrent share list changed from xml to sqlite, conversation will be performed automatically when program launch
  • Core Improve: reduce the memory consume for loading torrent share list, to avoid program crash due to large amounts of torrents
  • Core Improve: use worker thread to save data file of torrent share list incrementally, to avoid UI lag caused by saving data file at program exit
  • Core Improve: decrease CPU usage when uploading in high speed
  • Core Improve: increase the max allowed length of request queue for BitTorrent task
  • Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code for Tixati
  • Core Improve: support retrieve peer client name and version from extension protocol, on the basis of the identification from peer_id
  • Core Improve: auto fix mistaken creation date format in torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: when completed task list selected in left pane, Magnet tasks downloading meta data should not be displayed
  • Core Bugfix: fix data error from uploading disk cache in rare cases

New in BitComet 1.61 (Nov 4, 2019)

  • GUI Improve: improve filter for auto torrent download from RSS feed
  • GUI Improve: do not display unknown as name for tasks created from HTTP URL of torrent file
  • GUI Improve: new command in context menu of RSS article list: copy torrent link
  • GUI Improve: show tooltip when mouse hover on status column of peer list
  • GUI Improve: check disk boost service when program starts, display fix notification if not installed
  • GUI Improve: task finish popup changed to toast notification of Action Center in Windows 10
  • GUI Improve: auto update interval of RSS feed changed to the shorter one of user setting and feed setting
  • GUI Improve: add new setting bittorrent.anti_leech_banned_ports in Advanced page of Options window
  • GUI Improve: The option window automatically adjusts the window size according to the minimum size of the page when switching pages
  • GUI Improve: add search options box in Advanced page of Options window
  • GUI Bugfix: the setting of max number of RSS article works incorrectly
  • GUI Bugfix: refresh task properties dialog after meta-data downloaded right away
  • GUI Bugfix: fix display problem of floating window with HiDPI scale
  • GUI Bugfix: remove obsoleted option: display task properties dialog after meta-data downloaded for Magnet link
  • GUI Bugfix: publisher info not displayed in BitTorrent task properties dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: copy RSS feed URL will get RSS feed web-page URL
  • Core Improve: Improve compatibility with XML file formats returned by RSS feeds
  • Core Improve: for the option that start a new task from waiting queue when total download speed lower than setting value, also stop a slowest task at the same time
  • Core Improve: switch to IE11 render mode for RSS web-page in Window 10
  • Core Bugfix: The Magnet link task addition time is changed from the time of torrent file downloaded to the time of task created.
  • Core Bugfix: problem about the auto refresh interval for RSS feeds

New in BitComet 1.60 (Oct 21, 2019)

  • GUI Improve: add new command to File menu: add torrents from RSS feed
  • GUI Improve: add RSS page in Option window, to configure RSS feed auto refresh and RSS torrent auto download
  • GUI Improve: new setting in RSS page of Option window: add tag to task using feed title when auto download torrent from RSS feed
  • GUI Improve: new setting in RSS page of Option window: pause download when auto download torrent from RSS feed
  • GUI Improve: new setting in RSS page of Option window: filters for RSS torrent auto download
  • GUI Improve: add new commands to context menu of RSS list: Copy RSS feed URL, Open page in Browser
  • GUI Improve: able to download torrents using multiple-selection in RSS article list
  • GUI Improve: add toolbar to web page pane of RSS article
  • GUI Improve: new column in task list: number of task files
  • GUI Improve: improve display speed of opening Option windows
  • GUI Improve: support copy text in multiple lines of Statistics pane
  • Core Improve: add RSS feed auto refresh and RSS torrent auto download function
  • Core Improve: display corresponding RSS article title in task log when add torrent from RSS feed
  • Core Improve: improve disk reading cache for BitTorrent uploading, decrease UI lag
  • Core Bugfix: fix memory leakage when connecting to trackers using HTTPS protocol
  • Core Bugfix: fix bug in task merging when one task downloaded a torrent from HTTP having the same infohash as another task

New in BitComet 1.59 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • GUI Improved: revert task remove window, add Cleanup command to task context menu
  • GUI Improved: improve Torrent Share list refresh
  • GUI Improved: the max value of advanced setting network.max_connecting_connections changed from 1000 to 10000
  • GUI Improved: add advanced option log.tracker_limit to set the max number of logs for tracker
  • GUI Improved: add advanced option log.task_limit to set the max number of logs for task
  • GUI Improved: add Clear Log command to context menu of Tracker list, available when system.show_debug_info enabled
  • GUI Improved: add Clear Log command to context menu of task log list, available when system.show_debug_info enabled
  • GUI Improved: display number of pending TCP connections in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improved: add indicator for private torrent in summary pane of BitTorrent task
  • Core Improve: improve memory allocation strategy, decrease memory fragment
  • Core Improve: decrease interval of creating new TCP connections, and increase network throughput
  • Core Improve: remove passkey parameter from tracker URL for private torrent received from Magnet Link
  • Core Improve: active Long-Term seeding after task downloading finished immediately
  • Core Improve: do not retry when failed to send STOP action to tracker
  • Core Bugfix: improve peer connection request algorithm, avoid new added peers not been connected for a long time

New in BitComet 1.58 (Jul 19, 2019)

  • GUI Improved: support 32MB piece size when creating torrent file, and show estimated size of torrent
  • GUI Improved: add fit column size command in context menu of list view header
  • GUI Improved: add 2 new options in task remove window: delete unfinished download files only, delete all downloaded files
  • GUI Improved: display torrent creator info in task summary page
  • GUI Improved: improve floating window display for HiDPI
  • GUI Improved: allow up to 10 new task windows to be displayed simultaneously
  • GUI Improved: display flag for registered BitComet users of IPv6 in peers list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improved: display tracker returned leechers amount in tracker list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Bugfix: display issue of item group fold/unfold in Statistics pane
  • GUI Bugfix: max upload rate per BitTorrent task in Option window does not take effect immediately when changed
  • GUI Bugfix: Long-Term seeding upload speed not displayed in tooltip of BitTorrent task summary pane when task stopped
  • Core Improve: improve peer connection request algorithm: assign high priority for new added peers, and cleanup dead peers with failures
  • Core Improve: enable Long-Term seeding immediately after new torrent created
  • Core Improve: max allowed connection interval of tracker changed to 120 minutes
  • Core Improve: add advanced option: bittorrent.save_connected_peers_only
  • Core Bugfix: when select part of files in torrent to download, the left size sent to tracker should include all uncompleted files
  • Core Bugfix: the upload, download size in first announce to tracker is incorrect when task restart after stop
  • Core Bugfix: announcement not sent to tracker when task restart immediately after stop
  • Core Bugfix: no DHT nodes should be written into torrent when DHT Network option unselected in torrent maker window
  • Core Bugfix: connection error after first announce to HTTPS tracker
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP download fails when URL contains IPv6 address host
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of Long-Term Seeding disk cache

New in BitComet 1.57 (May 22, 2019)

  • GUI Improved: choose only KB/s or MB/s as speed unit automatically, excluding B/s
  • GUI Improved: do not allow reentrancy of new task creating window to avoid stack overflow
  • GUI Bugfix: program may crash at exit triggered by Windows shutdown/restart/logoff
  • Core Improve: support TLS v1.3 for HTTPS
  • Core Improve: support Server Name Indication for multiple domains hosted HTTPS sever
  • Core Bugfix: Long-Term Seeding does not work for certain torrents

New in BitComet 1.56 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • GUI Bugfix: mistake in UI translations
  • Core Bugfix: disk cache setting for Long-Term Seeding does not take effect
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of Long-Term Seeding
  • Core Bugfix: Long-Term Seeding does not work in pure IPv6 network
  • Core Bugfix: after all trackers in private torrent been replaced, no tracker will be connected when task downloading

New in BitComet 1.55 (Jan 20, 2019)

  • GUI Improved: add new task categories "Uncompleted" and more in left Channel pane, which can be switch by context menu
  • GUI Improved: add RSS feeds in left Channel pane
  • GUI Improved: Statistics pane displays listening port status of IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP separately
  • GUI Improved: Trackers pane displays peer number from PEX
  • GUI Improved: Peers pane displays downloaded and uploaded size of disconnected peers
  • GUI Improved: new Long-Term Seeding disk cache setting in Option window
  • GUI Improved: Statistics pane displays disk cache info of BitTorrent transfer, HTTP download and Long-Term Seeding separately
  • GUI Improved: choose KB/s or MB/s as speed unit automatically
  • GUI Improved: when sort task by time, display tasks of unknown time as earliest
  • GUI Improved: identify video file type of .webm and .ogv
  • GUI Bugfix: toolbar display incorrectly after change Windows UI theme
  • GUI Bugfix: tooltip of task summary will show up even when window not in foreground
  • GUI Bugfix: occasionally crash when display popup window of task download progress
  • Core Improve: support Long-Term Seeding in IPv6 network
  • Core Improve: optimize the disk cache for Long-Term Seeding
  • Core Improve: add UDP incoming status detect for listening port
  • Core Improve: report IPv4, IPv6 address to other peer in dual-stack network, to establish double way connections
  • Core Bugfix: decrease UI lag when executable file download finished
  • Core Bugfix: too many tracker connections when multiple BitTorrent tasks download at the same time
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of Long-Term Seeding

New in BitComet 1.55 (Jan 20, 2019)

  • GUI Improved: add new task categories "Uncompleted" and more in left Channel pane, which can be switch by context menu
  • GUI Improved: add RSS feeds in left Channel pane
  • GUI Improved: Statistics pane displays listening port status of IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP separately
  • GUI Improved: Trackers pane displays peer number from PEX
  • GUI Improved: Peers pane displays downloaded and uploaded size of disconnected peers
  • GUI Improved: new Long-Term Seeding disk cache setting in Option window
  • GUI Improved: Statistics pane displays disk cache info of BitTorrent transfer, HTTP download and Long-Term Seeding separately
  • GUI Improved: choose KB/s or MB/s as speed unit automatically
  • GUI Improved: when sort task by time, display tasks of unknown time as earliest
  • GUI Improved: identify video file type of .webm and .ogv
  • GUI Bugfix: toolbar display incorrectly after change Windows UI theme
  • GUI Bugfix: tooltip of task summary will show up even when window not in foreground
  • GUI Bugfix: occasionally crash when display popup window of task download progress
  • Core Improve: support Long-Term Seeding in IPv6 network
  • Core Improve: optimize the disk cache for Long-Term Seeding
  • Core Improve: add UDP incoming status detect for listening port
  • Core Improve: report IPv4, IPv6 address to other peer in dual-stack network, to establish double way connections
  • Core Bugfix: decrease UI lag when executable file download finished
  • Core Bugfix: too many tracker connections when multiple BitTorrent tasks download at the same time
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of Long-Term Seeding

New in BitComet 1.54 (Dec 12, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: add log out action when all task finished
  • GUI Improved: increase disk cache max limit for 64 bits system
  • GUI Improved: add option to disable peer exchange globally in advanced page of Option window
  • GUI Improved: update translations
  • GUI Bugfix: crash when remove task if file list pane tab reordered
  • GUI Bugfix: should not use index.html as default file name if no name found in Magnet URI dragged from web page
  • Core Improve: decrease disk cache size when page file insufficient
  • Core Bugfix: incoming connection should be disconnected immediately when invalid encryption BitTorrent protocol detected

New in BitComet 1.53 (Nov 5, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: support add BitTorrent task using 32-byte Base32 encoded infohash of magnet link directly in "Open torrent from URL" dialaog
  • GUI Improved: increase maximum text length of input box in "Open torrent from URL" dialaog
  • GUI Improved: add resize ability to "Open torrent from URL" dialaog
  • GUI Improved: improve support for high-DPI monitor of statistic information dialog of multiple tasks
  • GUI Changed: remove VIP Acceleration page from Channels in left pane
  • GUI Changed: remove VIP Acceleration tab from BitTorrent task properties dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: dialog display will be deferred while high-speed downloading
  • Core Improve: the max value of network.max_connecting_connections in advanced options changed from 200 to 1000
  • Core Bugfix: the default value of network.start_connect_interval_ms in advanced options changed from 200 to 100
  • Core Improve: support IPv6 address when detecting listening port status
  • Core Changed: remove VIP Acceleration and Anonymous Download for BitTorrent task

New in BitComet 1.52 (Sep 3, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: HTTP(S)/FTP download support IPv6 URL link
  • GUI Improved: Peer list and Tracker list support display IPv6 address
  • GUI Improved: IPv6 address of LAN/WAN displayed in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improved: DHT network node info of IPv4 and IPv6 displayed in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improved: add SHA256 checksum verification to HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add DNS resolve error info for UDP Tracker
  • GUI Improved: upgrade UI text translation website https://bbcomet.com/projects/bitcomet/
  • GUI Bugfix: unable to add HTTPS URL as Web Seed in torrent file maker window
  • GUI Bugfix: errors when displaying new version upgrade window
  • Core Improve: support IPv6 network (Windows XP SP1 or later required)
  • Core Improve: support IPv6 HTTP Tracker
  • Core Improve: support IPv6 UDP Tracker
  • Core Improve: support IPv6 DHT Tracker
  • Core Improve: allow upload pieces containing file boundary when part of files in torrent selected for download
  • Core Bugfix: data not saved into piece_part file correctly in a few particular situations when part of files in torrent selected for download

New in BitComet 1.51 (Jun 15, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: new settings in Tracker page of option window, automatically add trackers when start BitTorrent download
  • GUI Improved: new settings in Tracker page of option window, automatically update trackers list every day
  • GUI Improved: increase max value for global rate limit, task rate limit and scheduler rate limit from 9999kB/s to 100MB/s
  • GUI Improved: improve support for high-DPI monitor
  • GUI Bugfix: unsupport download torrent file from HTTPS link
  • GUI Bugfix: remove P2PCache function from Advanced page of Option window, which was out-of-service for a long time
  • Core Improve: improve download speed stability of BitTorrent downloading
  • Core Improve: increase max download speed of single connection of BitTorrent downloading
  • Core Improve: refine Crash Report program
  • Core Bugfix: fix problems when exit program while high-speed downloading

New in BitComet 1.50 (May 16, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: the file list in BitTorrent task properties dialog can switch between simple list and tree list
  • GUI Bugfix: background color of URL input box displayed incorrectly when create new HTTP task
  • GUI Bugfix: speed graph displayed incorrectly when high speed downloading
  • Core Improve: refine Crash Report program
  • Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code
  • Core Bugfix: certain file name displayed incorrectly in BitTorrent task

New in BitComet 1.49 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: improve context menu of Torrent History list, Torrent Share list and Torrent Collection list
  • GUI Improved: add Transmission to allowed client list in Option window
  • GUI Improved: improve support for high-DPI monitor
  • GUI Bugfix: order disordered when collapse or expand sorted file list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Bugfix: when open directory of a file in sub-directory from the file list of BitTorrent task, incorrect directory opened
  • Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code
  • Core Improve: decrease piece_part file size for BitTorrent task with only part files selected to download

New in BitComet 1.48 (Jan 24, 2018)

  • GUI Improved: enhance webpage security
  • GUI Improved: minor UI improvement

New in BitComet 1.47 (Aug 28, 2017)

  • GUI Improved: minor UI improvement

New in BitComet 1.46 (Jul 6, 2017)

  • GUI Improved: enhance webpage security
  • Core Improve: improve HTTPS download ablility

New in BitComet 1.45 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • GUI Improved: support login account using email
  • GUI Improved: client IP address moved from status bar to context menu
  • GUI Bugfix: task size not displayed when opening torrent

New in BitComet 1.44 (Nov 11, 2016)

  • GUI Bugfix: dialog layout mistake in high-DPI monitor
  • GUI Bugfix: the columu width of some list not saved properly

New in BitComet 1.43 (Oct 20, 2016)

  • GUI Bugfix: fix icon display in high-DPI monitor

New in BitComet 1.41 (May 25, 2016)

  • GUI Improved: display Batch Download window when open multiple torrent files in File Explorer
  • GUI Improved: merge 32bit/64bit editions into one install package
  • Core Improve: increase default disk cache limit from 50 MB to half of total momory, up to 1GB
  • Core Improve: add peer software version recognization

New in BitComet 1.40 (Sep 6, 2015)

  • GUI Improved: support Windows 10
  • GUI Bugfix: Torrent make dialog not displayed when drag-n-drop files to the web-view pane in main window
  • Core Bugfix: when delete download task and its files together, sometimes certain sub-directories are not removed

New in BitComet 1.39 (Jun 29, 2015)

  • GUI Bugfix: fix the expired code signing certificate

New in BitComet 1.38 (Mar 30, 2015)

  • GUI Improved: add open-folder button in download finish pop-up window
  • GUI Improved: display download speed and progress together when floating window re-sized large enough
  • GUI Improved: change the option of auto-stop seeding time from minutes to day-hour-minute
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the floating window display problem when using multiple monitors
  • Core Improve: improve file read/write performance, reduce UI stuck
  • Core Improve: support ReFS disk volume
  • Core Improve: support Chrome browser extension
  • Core Bugfix: the minimize value of network.max_connecting_connections in advanced options changed to 8
  • Core Bugfix: fix bugs in IE extension

New in BitComet 1.37 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • GUI Improved: add download speed/progress graph in task summary pane
  • GUI Improved: add download size in total, upload size in total, torrent create time in task list, hidden by default
  • GUI Improved: display new finished tasks in bold
  • GUI Improved: display proxy server connection errors in task log
  • GUI Improved: after hash checking, mark the banned and removed files in piece map as empty
  • GUI Improved: improve the operation of open file, open folder and invoke anti-virus software, avoid UI not response
  • GUI Improved: add new language: Kurdish
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug of missing file extension name when start download by Magnet URI
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug of not keeping selection state when switch between task list and torrent exchange list
  • GUI Bugfix: install package supports Windows 8.1
  • Core Improve: improve Firefox extension to support multiple Firefox versions
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug in Firefox extension that unable to start BitComet from Save As dialog
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug of the save folder of HTTP/FTP file is not set to the desired one from remote download webpage

New in BitComet 1.36 (May 2, 2013)

  • GUI Bugfix: program crash occasionally when delete task
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 20

New in BitComet 1.35 Final (Feb 19, 2013)

  • GUI Improved: show the "Saving data" tip when shut down computer while BitComet running (Vista or later)
  • GUI Improved: max seeding time changes from 1000min to 99999min. max share ratio changes from 2000% to 9999%
  • GUI Improved: do not show right-bottom corner popup tips by default
  • GUI Improved: changes some text in UI
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 18
  • Other Change: switch to new translation site

New in BitComet 1.34 Final (Sep 18, 2012)

  • GUI Improved: improve Remote Download web page
  • GUI Bugfix: the torrent file creation time in UTC is not displayed correctly
  • GUI Bugfix: support jump list of taskbar in Windows 8
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 15
  • Core Improve: add queuing state to VIP Acceleration, which can be canceled anytime while queuing or preparing.
  • Core Bugfix: cannot finish hash check for torrents with 16MB piece size
  • Core Bugfix: the proxy settings cannot be saved when the IE proxy setting is empty

New in BitComet 1.33 Final (Jul 31, 2012)

  • GUI Improved: update comment info in torrent list when torrent comment page loaded
  • GUI Improved: remember export folder when selecting multiple tasks to save torrent files
  • GUI Improved: store the settings of Socks and HTTP proxy server separately
  • GUI Bugfix: after clear all in Torrent Collection list, the corresponding number in left Fav bar not cleared
  • GUI Bugfix: remove the space at the beginning of the first column in each line of Tracker list
  • GUI Bugfix: in BitTorrent task properties dialog, the selection size is always 0 when the folder collapsed
  • GUI Bugfix: certain language names displayed in Tools menu incorrectly
  • GUI Bugfix: using Tab key to navigate among panels of main window
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 14
  • Core Bugfix: program crashes when connect to proxy server with authentication info

New in BitComet 1.32 Final (Mar 14, 2012)

  • GUI Improved: improve the snapshot icon display in task list
  • GUI Improved: when resize the main window, keep the width of left fav bar unchanged
  • GUI Improved: when load a URL list file to do a batch download, show a message if duplicated URLs detected
  • GUI Bugfix: after sort task list, the sort state will not be restored when program restart
  • GUI Bugfix: when download a Magnet URI, the default save folder is not filled in the new task dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: when multiple URL links are selected in IE9 web page, they cannot be drag&drop to the floating window
  • GUI Bugfix: the sort state of task list will be broken when modify the task filter
  • GUI Bugfix: if the multiple-monitor configuration of Windows changed during program running, some dialog will be displayed in invalid position
  • GUI Bugfix: when multiple tasks are selected, the refresh of task number in status bar will flicker
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the program icon of 256x256
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 10
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash if failed to load detail file of any task

New in BitComet 1.31 Final (Dec 12, 2011)

  • GUI Improved: save the heights of task list pane and Torrent History pane separately
  • GUI Improved: keep the tasks which occur downloading error together when sort task list by state
  • GUI Improved: add confirm dialog when restore the display of hidden torrents in Peer Share list
  • GUI Bugfix: Auto-Shutdown at specified time does not work
  • GUI Bugfix: open URL using system default browser instead of IE
  • GUI Bugfix: torrent file icon should not use the program icon
  • GUI Bugfix: when adding new Torrent, all files will be downloaded instead of only selected
  • GUI Bugfix: task position in the task list should not be changed when press Home/End
  • GUI Bugfix: the setting of View - Task list - Show filter does not work when program starts
  • Core Bugfix: handle torrent file not using UTF-8 encoding

New in BitComet 1.30 Final (Nov 11, 2011)

  • GUI Improved: cleaned up and improved a lot of code, reduce program size
  • GUI Improved: add VIP download list button in task list toolbar
  • GUI Improved: do not allow hide the title column of task list
  • GUI Improved: new command in View menu: Find Task (Ctrl+F)
  • GUI Improved: switch file list to Simple List or Tree List, from context menu
  • GUI Improved: display the tree list of files correctly when the files in Torrent are not sorted by directories
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 7
  • Core Improve: the file size limit of Torrent changed to 10MB
  • Core Improve: support torrents whose piece size is not the integral multiple of 16 KB

New in BitComet 1.29 Final (Sep 23, 2011)

  • GUI Improved: display prompt message when UI no response while writing piece_part file
  • GUI Improved: new option in advance page of BitTorrent task properties dialog: Bypass task seeding rules, keeps active
  • GUI Improved: change the health value of task displayed on the right of availability graph in task summary to the availability value
  • GUI Improved: display the download size/rate from VIP Acceleration in the tooltip of task summary
  • GUI Improved: after click the prompt balloon of task finish, the corresponding task will be highlighted in the list
  • GUI Bugfix: task list failed to sort by download/upload size
  • GUI Bugfix: tracker setting not saved after remove a tracker from the context menu of tracker list
  • Core Improve: Web seeding supports HTTP servers which do not accept range request
  • Core Improve: improve connection request algorithm, decrease unnecessary connection number
  • Core Improve: disable eMule plugin for Anonymous Download
  • Core Improve: support Firefox 6
  • Core Bugfix: BitTorrent download containing too many files can not launch VIP Acceleration
  • Core Bugfix: failed to autoshutdown after all download finished if any queued seeding task exists

New in BitComet 1.28 Final (Jun 28, 2011)

  • GUI Improved: move VIP Acceleration window into BitTorrent task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: new option in VIP Acceleration tab of BitTorrent task properties dialog: Anonymous Download
  • GUI Improved: add Anonymous Download state to VIP icon in task list
  • GUI Improved: bookmark list in left favorites bar recovered
  • GUI Improved: remember the position and size of task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add Folder and Private columns in task list, hidden by default
  • GUI Improved: display a balloon tip when accessing network share folder leads to UI no response
  • GUI Improved: 32/64 bit editions use separate install packages
  • GUI Improved: auto update identify 32/64 bit editions correctly
  • GUI Improved: the language list uses the language names provided by Windows
  • GUI Improved: add icons to the main menu and context menu of floating window
  • GUI Improved: display a balloon tip when launch a new instance of BitComet while another is exiting
  • GUI Improved: the default action of minimize button of main window changed to minimize to task bar under Win 7
  • GUI Improved: remove the AutoRefresh option in Torrent Collection toolbar. new torrents are appended to the bottom directly
  • GUI Improved: when the display number of Torrent Collection list reaches max value, a info bar will be displayed
  • GUI Improved: add Remove command to Torrent Collection list
  • GUI Improved: decrease start-up delay of Torrent Collection by loading torrents information asynchronously
  • GUI Improved: display a balloon tip when sorting the list of Torrent Collection leads to UI no response
  • GUI Improved: add a icon for "Properties" in the context menu of task list
  • GUI Improved: improve the thumbnail task list for system tray icon and floating window when mouse hovering
  • GUI Improved: add "reset to default layout" the context menu of detailed tabs of Torrent Share and Torrent History
  • GUI Improved: the option of "show detailed info" in View menu works for Torrent Share and Torrent History
  • GUI Improved: display free memory of BitComet process in Statistics pane
  • GUI Bugfix: disable task operation buttons in toolbar when display VIP download list
  • GUI Bugfix: the setting of show toolbar and show status bar in View menu not remembered
  • GUI Bugfix: failed to read cookie from Firefox 4 when add HTTP download
  • GUI Bugfix: support saving files larger than 4G in volume of HFS+/HFSJ/HFSX
  • GUI Bugfix: v1.27 failed to start under Win2000
  • GUI Bugfix: the text of weekday in Schedule setting page misplace in certain display setting condition
  • GUI Bugfix: batch adding torrents have Chinese file name will fail under English Windows XP
  • Core Improve: support Anonymous Download for tasks enabled VIP Acceleration, preventing any direct connection to trackers or BitTorrent peers
  • Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code
  • Core Bugfix: memory access violation leading to program crash

New in BitComet 1.27 Final (Apr 22, 2011)

  • GUI Improved: display Batch Download window when drag&drop multiple torrent files to main window or floating window
  • GUI Improved: remove the drop-down menu from the delete button in toolbar of Torrent History or Torrent Share list
  • GUI Improved: add "Show Detailed Info" option in View menu
  • GUI Improved: new setting in option dialog: add to Torrent Share when opening torrent
  • GUI Improved: display translation text of "Day" and "Hour" in task left time
  • GUI Improved: display recovered and dropped data size by hash-checking in task log list
  • GUI Improved: display used memory size in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improved: new setting in Advanced Option page: max number of UDP packets sent per second
  • GUI Improved: display upload/download speed in the left of main window's title bar
  • GUI Improved: display more accurate error info when opening Magnet URI of unsupported types
  • GUI Improved: display preview window of task downloading progress when mouse hovers on floating window or system tray icon
  • GUI Improved: display Batch Download window when open multiple torrent files from File menu
  • GUI Improved: display confirm window if tasks need hash-check when started
  • GUI Improved: add new global option: display hash-check confirm window
  • GUI Improved: enhance video file capture ability of Firefox extension
  • GUI Improved: max cache size in global options page up to 16 GB under 64-bit system
  • GUI Improved: display download/upload size of this session in Statistics pane
  • GUI Improved: drop-down menu of remove button in toolbar is removed. click remove button with shift key can remove download task and files together
  • GUI Improved: decrease the context menu level of floating window and system tray icon
  • GUI Improved: available space can be displayed correctly even if the save folder is a symbol link to other volume
  • GUI Improved: improve the crash report program
  • GUI Improved: new task list of VIP Downloads
  • GUI Improved: "delete task and files" removed from task context menu. click "delete task" menu command with shift key to delete download task and files together.
  • GUI Improved: support context menu of IE 9 to download using BitComet
  • GUI Improved: modify the size of BT task properties dialog, compatible with 1024x600 resolution
  • GUI Improved: display navigation pane of Windows Explorer when open task download folder under Windows XP
  • GUI Improved: the text of task status in summary pane can't be displayed completely when it's too long
  • GUI Improved: new button in toolbar: add Magnet URI
  • GUI Improved: BitComet video download extension for Firefox supports Firefox 4
  • GUI Improved: BitComet plugin for Firefox supports Firefox 4
  • GUI Improved: un-installation program will notify running BitComet to exit
  • GUI Changed: update check for popular software removed totally
  • GUI Changed: remove the "Don't show again" option in task remove confirm window
  • GUI Bugfix: "Open Forum" button in toolbar become invalid when file list is showing
  • GUI Bugfix: after remote connection established, the network status light turns green, but the tooltip of the light and the listening port status in Statistics pane not refreshed
  • GUI Bugfix: in v1.26, certain settings in Proxy page can't be saved
  • GUI Bugfix: in v1.26, unable to create new tag from Task Tag option page
  • GUI Bugfix: in v1.26, the seed number not displayed in task summary pane
  • GUI Bugfix: the option "add to Torrent Share when opening torrent" doesn't work
  • GUI Bugfix: when mouse hovers on the system tray icon, the preview window of task downloading progress displayed in incorrect position
  • GUI Bugfix: the detail info windows of download/upload size in task summary pane couldn't be able to shown up after program running for a long time
  • GUI Bugfix: the task state icon displayed as warning if only download part of files of a BitTorrent and choose "Download Later"
  • GUI Bugfix: after increase text size of Windows (DPI setting), the layouts of certain windows went wrong
  • GUI Bugfix: the function of shutdown computer after all task download finished ignores tasks in queue
  • Core Improve: native support for 64-bit system
  • Core Improve: read file in working thread after disk cache of BitComet used up, to avoid UI responding slowly while high-speed seeding
  • Core Improve: slow down download speed when disk writing speed can not catch up, to avoid UI responding slowly while high-speed downloading
  • Core Improve: improve uploading queue handing, to boost uploading speed in LAN
  • Core Improve: if the the download drive not accessible when task starts, hash-check will be skipped to avoid download progress be reset
  • Core Bugfix: stop and restart BT task containing 0 size files will lead to unnecessary hash-checking
  • Core Bugfix: drop incoming peers whose listening port is unknown when their connection disconnected
  • Core Bugfix: files not closed after task stopped as disk space full, making those files locked for moving or removing
  • Core Bugfix: if only select part of files in a BitTorrent download, the task progress may fall back after hash-checking
  • Core Bugfix: when the setting of allocate space before downloading enabled, only the space of the first 50 files is allocated
  • Core Bugfix: if the save folder is a junction of directory, the download will fail
  • Core Bugfix: download rate limit for single BT task not applied to downloading from Long-Term Seeds

New in BitComet 1.26 Final (Jan 27, 2011)

  • GUI Improved: improve text information displayed in VIP acceleration dialog
  • GUI Improved: improve progress bar of disk space in task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: new setting in advanced option page to enable/disable auto hash check after downloaded file changed
  • GUI Improved: new setting in advanced option page to enable/disable disk boost service (only Vista and later)
  • GUI Improved: display the status of disk boost service in statistical tab (only Vista and later)
  • GUI Improved: tasks in queue will be displayed in Active task list
  • GUI Improved: improve re-connection timers displayed in tracker list
  • GUI Improved: do not display torrent downloading prompt dialog when open a magnet link
  • GUI Improved: improve GUI font when choosing Traditional Chinese in non-Traditional Chinese Windows
  • GUI Improved: simplify torrent status icon in torrent history and torrent share list
  • GUI Improved: do not fix the width of date column in torrent history and torrent share list
  • GUI Improved: improve display refreshing code of torrent history and torrent share list, reduce CPU usage
  • GUI Improved: display the default command in context menu of torrent history and torrent share list as bold
  • GUI Improved: new command in context menu of Torrent Collect list: Add to Torrent Share
  • GUI Improved: add openbittorrent and publicbt as default trackers when creating torrents
  • GUI Improved: green light appears after incoming connection established from a remote peer
  • GUI Improved: add large icon of 256*256 for Vista/Win7
  • GUI Improved: add new column to Torrent History list: private torrent
  • GUI Improved: do not lock the width of preview column in task list
  • GUI Improved: display total download time in task summary tab
  • GUI Improved: display the number of days in case of downloading left time is more than 24 hours
  • GUI Improved: check downloaded files at program startup, and display warning icon on task if file missing. It can be disabled in advanced option page.
  • GUI Changed: Long-Time Seeding renamed to Long-Term Seeding
  • GUI Bugfix: the downloaded size in task statistical dialog when selecting multiple tasks is invalid
  • GUI Bugfix: when mouse cursor hovering on system tray icon in XP, the task running info balloon can not be shown
  • GUI Bugfix: the delete button in toolbar grayed out when pressing Ctrl to select multiple items in Torrent History and Torrent Share
  • GUI Bugfix: in the global option dialog, the max value of cache size for each connection of HTTP download should be 2MB
  • GUI Bugfix: after torrent downloaded for Magnet URI, the hidden options in advanced page of task properties dialog is not shown right away
  • GUI Bugfix: the error message of failure to listen on UDP port is not accurate
  • Core Improve: using disk boost service to create large files when start downloading, to speed up disk operation, avoid UI no response (only Vista and later)
  • Core Improve: improve kernel to reduce CPU usage for UI refreshing when downloading BitTorrent task
  • Core Improve: connect to one only tracker at a time when downloading private torrent, and clear all peers when switching tracker
  • Core Improve: improve crash report program
  • Core Improve: improve transport interval of peer exchange
  • Core Improve: use worker thread to process socket message, thereby reduce message handling in UI thread
  • Core Bugfix: do not connect to tracker when remove a tracker from tracker list (thanks to kluelos)
  • Core Bugfix: when listening port disabled in option dialog, program will dead-loop when exit

New in BitComet 1.25 Final (Dec 8, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: new global option: customize actions of mouse double-click on task list
  • GUI Improved: show log of trackers from tracker list
  • GUI Improved: display progress bar of disk space in task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add Torrent History button to toolbar of task list
  • GUI Improved: add task list button to toolbars of Torrent History ad Torrent Share
  • GUI Improved: remember sort state of task list after program restart
  • GUI Improved: new icon for Torrent History
  • GUI Improved: VIP Acceleration can be canceled if a task can not complete for a long time
  • GUI Bugfix: UNC path can not be set as default download folder in option dialog
  • Core Bugfix: improve kernel stability
  • Core Bugfix: improve stability of BHO

New in BitComet 1.24 Final (Nov 11, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: add "VIP Accelerate" for BitTorrent download, enable from the VIP icon in task list
  • GUI Improved: new global settings: move downloaded files to specified folder after task finished
  • GUI Improved: add task filter on the top of task list, filter tasks by states, tags and keywords
  • GUI Improved: move task tag list from the favorites bar at left to the task filter bar above task list
  • GUI Improved: add keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F to find task
  • GUI Improved: show batch download dialog when open multiple magnet links using Ctrl+U
  • GUI Improved: change the text of preview/open in task list to icon
  • GUI Improved: remove the upper limit of the peer number displayed in peer list of BitTorrent task and display all
  • GUI Improved: display a yellow warning icon for tasks that failed to move/rename files after download finished
  • GUI Improved: improve the "Search ED2K links" dialog launched from the file list of BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improved: add thumbnail picture for task bar button in Windows 7, to display downloading task information
  • GUI Improved: display download progress on task bar button in Windows 7
  • GUI Improved: add frequent used operations to context menu of task bar button in Windows 7
  • GUI Improved: new global settings to specify main window action when program starts, minimized or closed
  • GUI Improved: new option for auto-shutdown, to action once or forever
  • GUI Improved: OpenDir, Properties and Delete buttons in toolbar available when switched to Torrent History list
  • Core Improve: support "VIP Accelerate" for BitTorrent download
  • Core Improve: keep original creator name of torrent file when save torrent as
  • Core Bugfix: connect to peers returned from DHT network using encryption protocol by force (thanks to Ori)
  • Core Bugfix: VideoSnapshot.exe can not exit normally when processing abnormal video files
  • Core Bugfix: change the limit of disk cache up to 2GB

New in BitComet 1.23 Final (Sep 1, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: add Summary tab to Torrent History and Torrent Share list
  • GUI Improved: open Torrent from URL dialog supports multiple URLs
  • GUI Improved: export all torrents in one time by selecting multiple tasks in task list, Torrent History or Torrent Share list
  • GUI Improved: display "click to add" in file list when BitTorrent task missing ED2K links
  • GUI Improved: add Snapshot and Comment tab to Torrent History and Torrent Share list
  • GUI Improved: new command in context menu of Torrent History: "add to task list"
  • GUI Improved: support import unfinished download files with any extension name
  • GUI Improved: new advanced option: allow preview program to open files of any type from file list (thanks to greywizard)
  • GUI Improved: enhance video file capture ability of Firefox extension
  • GUI Change: CometPassport renamed to CometID
  • GUI Bugfix: percent of score bar for CometID level up displays invalid for level 50+ (v1.22)
  • GUI Bugfix: after modifying save path in task properties dialog and selecting moving files, the downloaded files are copied to new folder, not moved
  • GUI Bugfix: no beeps after download completed (v1.22)
  • GUI Bugfix: after changing torrent file encoding in task properties dialog, the task name in Torrent History is not refreshed
  • GUI Bugfix: cannot send crash report under XP
  • GUI Bugfix: after switched to Torrent History, some buttons in toolbar should disabled
  • Core Improve: supports HTTP 301/302 redirecting for Web Seed
  • Core Improve: eMule plugin Xtreme Mod upgraded to v8.0 (eMule v0.50a)
  • Core Improve: after error code received from Tracker, increase retry interval and re-connect later
  • Core Improve: increase priority of HTTP tracker connection
  • Core Improve: improve piece request algorithm for BitTorrent task, reduce CPU usage
  • Core Bugfix: if BitTorrent task containing multiple files, multiple eMule plugin will be launched incorrectly(v0.50a)
  • Core Bugfix: failed to generate Crash Report in Vista/Win7 (v1.22)
  • Core Bugfix: upload task number limit works incorrectly when there are any task whose torrent not downloaded yet
  • Core Bugfix: perform hash-check if file changed or missing when start BitTorrent task
  • Core Bugfix: FTP download did not handle the error of disconnect by server unexpectedly
  • Core Bugfix: FTP download failed to resume download from certain FTP servers
  • Core Bugfix: fix DNS query function

New in BitComet 1.22 Final (Jun 30, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: improve IE context menu display effect under Vista/Win7
  • GUI Bugfix: tab key response incorrectly in Torrent Maker dialog
  • Core Improve: improve compatibility of UDP transmission modular with third-party software
  • Core Improve: eMule plugin upgraded to v0.50a
  • Core Bugfix: failed to fetch cookie info from Firefox 3.0 and above when HTTP downloading
  • Core Bugfix: failed to save DHT nodes file when program exiting in some situation
  • Core Bugfix: fix DNS query function
  • Core Improve: do not reset task progress to 0% when disk drive inaccessible(e.g. flash disk unplugged)
  • Core Bugfix: fail to save task list when use_app_data == false under Vista/win7 (v1.21)
  • Core Bugfix: improve kernel stability

New in BitComet 1.21 Final (May 28, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: support open magnet URI with multiple tracker parameters
  • GUI Improved: include multiple tracker parameters when copy magnet URI from BitTorrent task
  • GUI Improved: download installation package of new version in background automatically if enabled
  • GUI Improved: support SHA1 verification for downloaded file in HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: display confirmation dialog when choose re-download HTTP task
  • GUI Improved: improve icons in context menu of task list
  • GUI Improved: rename "Web Interface" to "Remote Download" in Option dialog
  • GUI Improved: username, password and referrer can be specified when add HTTP download in Remote Download web page
  • GUI Improved: add log list for HTTP task connections in Remote Download web page
  • GUI Improved: add start/stop operations in task info web page of Remote Download
  • GUI Improved: Firefox extension supports capture .hlv video file
  • GUI Improved: when using multiple user accounts of Windows, each user has individual task list and program settings
  • GUI Bugfix: share ratios of BitTorrent tasks are displayed incorrectly when program just started
  • GUI Bugfix: displaying tooltip in toolbar may lead to crash
  • Core Improve: support file path longer than 260 characters
  • Core Improve: remove LUA scripts support for intelligent rename of HTTP download
  • Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code
  • Core Bugfix: fail to download HTTP URL containing single quotes

New in BitComet 1.20 Final (Mar 27, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: new command in file menu: "Import Unfinished Download", supports BitComet, uTorrent, Xunlei
  • GUI Improved: start download from torrent infohash directly in "Open torrent from URL" dialog
  • GUI Improved: drag & drop task names to rearrange task list(when task list not sorted)
  • GUI Improved: BT task summary tab: show BT task pieces number; show down/upload speed/size detail info in tooltip when mouse hovers on them
  • GUI Improved: BT task peer list: new command "Friend Upload Slot" in the context menu, for only one IP at the same time
  • GUI Improved: BT task tracker list: show seeds, peers, downloaded number returned from tracker
  • GUI Improved: BT task file list: sort file names in the same order as Windows Explorer(thanks to RadioNoise)
  • GUI Improved: display snapshots tab in new BT task dialog when open torrent file
  • GUI Improved: modify the size of BT task properties dialog, compatible with 1024x600 resolution
  • GUI Improved: for finished BT task, "search for Long-Time Seeds" displayed as "enable Long-Time Seeding", "search for eMule sources" as "enable upload to eMule sources" in task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: new global option: maximum number of concurrent seeding BitTorrent tasks
  • GUI Improved: new global option: Don't use proxy for tracker/peer connections
  • GUI Improved: new global option: specify separated listen port for Web UI
  • GUI Improved: supports Occitan language(see lang\HowTo-Translate.txt)
  • GUI Improved: when using remote desktop, disable highlight the row on which mouse hovers in file list, peer list and tracker list
  • GUI Improved: improve compatibility of install package with Vista/Win7
  • GUI Bugfix: tailing space in tracker address leads to connection failure
  • GUI Bugfix: can't start BitTorrent download when drag&drop a Magnet URI text to floating window
  • Core Improve: use UTF-8 encoding when making torrent file by default for all language versions of Windows
  • Core Improve: improve algorithm, reduce CPU usage of DHT modular, avoid GUI blocked
  • Core Improve: improve algorithm, reduce CPU usage of Long-Time Seeds download modular, avoid GUI blocked
  • Core Improve: support HTTPS tracker
  • Core Bugfix: after Scheduler stopped all tasks, the option of "Auto start task when download rate less than specified rate" will still start tasks
  • Core Bugfix: after BT task stopped, corresponding DHT connections didn't stop totally
  • Core Bugfix: invalid DHT packet may lead to program crash(thanks to Pierre Noguès)
  • Core Bugfix: task list backup file from v1.19 can't be imported by itself

New in BitComet 1.19 Final (Mar 27, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: Torrent maker dialog changed to modeless window
  • GUI Improved: supports edit Tracker URL for Magnet URI task before torrent downloaded
  • GUI Improved: new command in Tools menu: enable eMule plugin, show/hide plugin window
  • GUI Improved: support set task tags in BT/HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: move downloaded files to tag associated folder optionally when add task tag using task context menu
  • GUI Improved: supports switch input focus to list control inside task tabs by Tab key
  • GUI Improved: add icons to task context menu
  • GUI Improved: display "not supported" in ed2k link field of file list for private torrents
  • GUI Improved: new setting in advanced page of option dialog: system.show_debug_info
  • GUI Bugfix: can't drag&drop download links to floating windows from IE8 in Win7
  • GUI Bugfix: the save path edit-box in BT/HTTP task properties dialog doesn't support mouse wheel
  • GUI Bugfix: Web interface doesn't support to download Magnet URI
  • GUI Bugfix: the last task in task list doesn't get refreshed in some situation
  • Core Improve: support BitTorrent Extension Protocol of peer exchange, compatible with BitTorrent mainline
  • Core Improve: new eMule plugin (based on Xtreme 7.2 mod)
  • Core Bugfix: after removing tasks without removing files, the Long-Time Seeding for these files won't stop immediately
  • Core Bugfix: after disable LT Seeding in option dialog, running tasks won't stop downloading from Long-Time Seeding immediately

New in BitComet 1.18 Final (Jan 21, 2010)

  • GUI Improved: display the properties of multiple tasks will show a task statistics dialog
  • GUI Improved: drag&drop a Magnet URI or HTTP URL to main window of BitComet will launch a download
  • GUI Improved: add legend to the piece map tab of task
  • GUI Improved: new setting in advanced page of option dialog: system.use_app_data, detailed info refer to wiki
  • GUI Improved: display error message when failed to load/save task list xml file
  • GUI Improved: new command in context menu of tracker list: add tracker
  • GUI Improved: new setting in connection page of option dialog: randomize port each start
  • GUI Improved: display "added date" in torrent history, and hide "snapshots", "comments", "rating", "popular" by default
  • GUI Improved: display translator info in about dialog
  • GUI Improved: enhance BHO, display BitComet icon in context menu of IE8
  • GUI Improved: enhance video downloader extension for Firefox, display captured files in Tools menu besides in context menu
  • GUI Improved: new setting in BT task page of option dialog: display task properties dialog after torrent downloaded from Magnet URI
  • GUI Improved: display batch download dialog when multiple torrents selected to download in Torrent Exchange
  • GUI Bugfix: when shutdown scheduled at specified time, shutdown will still be launched when all download finished
  • GUI Bugfix: error occurred when non-admin user try to modify IE integration setting under Vista/Win7
  • GUI Bugfix: task properties dialog displayed incorrectly for right-to-left languages, e.g. Arabic and Hebrew
  • GUI Bugfix: the setting of shutdown at specified time does not take effect at first time
  • Core Improve: save bak files for task list xml file up to 7 copies
  • Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code
  • Core Improve: the BT tasks which haven't downloaded torrent will not enter the task queue
  • Core Bugfix: enhance the stability of UDP transport
  • Core Bugfix: enhance the stability of HTTP proxy connection

New in BitComet 1.17 Final (Dec 29, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: support download Magnet URI when click "Open Torrent from URL" from file menu
  • GUI Improved: change "copy BC link" in context menu of task list, Torrent History and Torrent Exchange to "Copy Magnet URI"
  • GUI Improved: new auto-shutdown condition: shutdown at specified time
  • GUI Improved: display information of every connection to the same server in connection tab of HTTP task
  • GUI Improved: add context menu to BT task file list header, to select columns to display
  • GUI Improved: display the preview buttons of files in BT task file list according to each file's downloading progress
  • GUI Improved: support mouse wheel in task summary
  • GUI Improved: remove "Task Content" tab
  • GUI Improved: highlight the row on which mouse hovers in file list, peer list and tracker list
  • GUI Improved: rename "Super-Seeding" to "Initial-Seeding" in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: display local-language name of every language in Tools menu, besides theirs English name
  • GUI Improved: remove es_ar language due to the limit in launchpad.net, and add Uighur
  • GUI Improved: rename Torrent Archive under Torrent Share to Torrent Share under Torrent Exchange, and add Torrent History in addition
  • GUI Improved: display introduction page when click Torrent Exchange in left fav tree
  • GUI Improved: new option in BT task page of options dialog: add to Torrent History when open .torrent file
  • GUI Improved: new option in BT task page of options dialog: list of BitTorrent clients allowed connecting to
  • GUI Improved: new option in Integration page of options dialog: associate with Magnet URI
  • GUI Improved: option to restart program immediately when send crash report
  • GUI Improved: when opening video file, use the player program configured in advanced option
  • GUI Bugfix: fix many spell mistakes in GUI (thanks to greywizard)
  • GUI Bugfix: cannot input Web Seed address longer than one row of the input edit-box
  • Core Improve: support BitTorrent Extension Protocol of metadata exchange, compatible with BitTorrent mainline
  • Core Improve: support BitTorrent Extension Protocol of report DHT port, compatible with BitTorrent mainline
  • Core Bugfix: display file failed to create in task log when start new BT task in certain situation
  • Core Bugfix: can not open torrent file containing multi-files, in which the name field ends with space

New in BitComet 1.16 Final (Nov 10, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: add "Task Tags" page to Options dialog, default download folder for each tag can be set here.
  • GUI Improved: improve "Directories" page in Options dialog, task tags for each candidate download directory can be set here.
  • GUI Improved: set task tag and default download folder for new task automatically according to file extension name.
  • GUI Improved: improve drop list of save folder in task properties dialog, display candidate download directories and corresponding tags
  • GUI Improved: add "Set as Default Directory" button in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add "Super Seeding" option in advanced page of BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add BT task log list
  • GUI Improved: add preview/open button in BT task file list
  • GUI Improved: display user group info in peer list of BT task in blue
  • Core Improve: support Super Seeding for BT task (for initial seeding server only)
  • Core Improve: improve preview download mode for BT task
  • Core Improve: improve connection algorithm of Long-Time seed
  • Core Bugfix: save task list failed in Vista/Win7 64bit
  • Core Bugfix: data in first/last piece of file may not be saved properly when select part of files in BT task to download
  • Core Bugfix: failed to remove torrent file with read-only attribute in program data folder when remove BT task

New in BitComet 1.15 Final (Sep 25, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: task information panel lists change to task information tabs, support drag & drop and context menu
  • GUI Improved: redesign "Task Summary" tab
  • GUI Improved: task "Recommend" page changes to "Start Page" tab
  • GUI Improved: hide unnecessary task tabs when no task selected or task stopped
  • GUI Improved: add "Network Setting Wizard" to "Network" page in Option dialog
  • GUI Improved: improve context menu of status bar, add "port mapping again" and "help"
  • GUI Improved: add download/upload limit setting to context menu of floating window and system tray icon
  • GUI Improved: show "ED2K link" in file list of BT task
  • GUI Improved: highlight the current time block in scheduler setting page
  • GUI Bugfix: password not cleared when change user name in CometPassport sign in dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: pieces status and upload speed of emule plugin display incorrectly in peer list
  • Core Improve: emule plugin upgraded to v0.49c
  • Core Improve: improve connection algorithm of Long-Time seed for high-speed network
  • Core Improve: "Start all seeding" from context menu of floating window do not start tasks with file missing
  • Core Improve: improve DNS query
  • Core Improve: update task finish time when BT task download finished again after selecting more files to download
  • Core Bugfix: EVENT_COMPLETE should be sent to tracker only when all files in BT task downloaded, not only selected (v1.13 and v1.14)
  • Core Bugfix: connection number too small after some files in BT task finished
  • Core Bugfix: UPNP modular can not exit normally sometimes
  • Core Bugfix: task should enter in queue if when started during stopped time of schedule
  • Core Bugfix: remove port mapping of eMule plugin when program exiting

New in BitComet September 21, 2009 Beta (Sep 22, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: improve context menu of task information tab
  • GUI Improved: improve layout of task summary tab

New in BitComet 1.14 Final (Jul 31, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: support Wed Seed when make torrent file
  • GUI Improved: support modify Wed Seed list in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: display download/upload rate of user group in peer list of BT task
  • GUI Improved: display downloading piece position in peer list of BT task
  • GUI Improved: display balloon on system tray icon when disk busy leading to GUI losing response
  • GUI Improved: new appearance option: minimize when program start
  • GUI Improved: add loading page to bookmark in left fav bar
  • GUI Improved: loading torrent collection list from xml file in working thread, avoid GUI freezing
  • GUI Improved: decrease the delay switching to torrent collection list from task list
  • GUI Improved: add new command in context menu of floating window: start uploading all
  • GUI Improved: change the BitComet icon in system tray to grey when program exiting
  • GUI Improved: new setting in connection panel of option dialog: Alternate max upload rate when not downloading
  • GUI Improved: statistics panel displays current download rate limit and upload rate limit
  • GUI Improved: individual max concurrent downloading task numbers for BT tasks and HTTP tasks in option dialog
  • GUI Improved: new "Force" option for BT task protocol encryption in option dialog
  • GUI Improved: new setting in Long-Time Seeding panel of option dialog: Auto upload rate control
  • GUI Improved: statistics panel displays current upload rate limit of long-time seeding
  • GUI Improved: BitComet not responding dialog will be closed automatically after GUI resumed
  • GUI Bugfix: can't add HTTP Tracker whose port is 80 in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: if task selection state changed before task delete dialog displayed, the task will be deleted may not be the originally selected
  • Core Improve: BT task supports downloading from Web Seed, compatible with BitTorrent mainline
  • Core Improve: decrease CPU usage of DHT modular
  • Core Improve: ban the peers from the specified IP even they changed peer ID
  • Core Improve: improve connection algorithm for UDP download from Long-Time seed
  • Core Improve: send no-retry instruction to remote UDP peers when exiting
  • Core Improve: improve connection algorithm for BT uploading
  • Core Improve: give BT upload connection higher priority when auto upload rate control of long-time seeding enabled
  • Core Bugfix: max simultaneous half-open TCP connection number in advanced option page does not take effect
  • Core Bugfix: making torrent file may fail if there're too many files in the specified folder

New in BitComet 1.13 Final (Jun 23, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: add "Uploading" queue to the left fav bar
  • GUI Improved: BT task file list in properties dialog and right-bottom pane changes to tree list for directory structure
  • GUI Improved: BT task file list in properties dialog and right-bottom pane support sorting
  • GUI Improved: add new commands to context menu of BT task file list: expand/collapse folders
  • GUI Improved: add check box to BT task file list pane for each file and folder, to switch download it or not
  • GUI Improved: add connection status icon for each peer in BT task peer list
  • GUI Improved: add "new peer" command to context menu of BT task peer list
  • GUI Improved: BT task peer list displays prompt string when frozen by ScrollLock
  • GUI Improved: support only export selected tasks into backup file
  • GUI Improved: support import tasks from backup file and merge them into task list
  • GUI Improved: select whether import global program settings while import tasks from backup file
  • GUI Improved: language list in Tools menu changes to a 2-level sub menu
  • GUI Improved: add loading page to task content, Snapshot, Comment and Recommend pane
  • GUI Improved: do not clear rate graph in floating window when stop all tasks
  • GUI Improved: do not show the message of missing BitCometAgent.dll when program start
  • GUI Improved: optimize reconnect time after Comet Passport sign in failed
  • GUI Improved: add support for several new languages (see langHowTo-Translate.txt)
  • GUI Bugfix: when open a GB2312 encoding torrent file in traditional Chinese Windows, the task name and publish info displays incorrectly after change character encoding
  • GUI Bugfix: TCP, UDP mode setting of Long-Time seeding in advanced options can not be saved
  • GUI Bugfix: restore the torrent archive list which removed in v1.12
  • GUI Bugfix: if select none of files in BT task to download, the task progress will display incorrectly when program start next time
  • Core Improve: improve taskname.piece_part.bc! file structure, which used to save file boundary data for BT task, therefore decreased memory usage
  • Core Improve: BT task Anti-Leech setting changes to three levels: "disable", ""auto", "strict"
  • Core Improve: improve network modular code, avoid program losing response when download in high speed
  • Core Improve: add disk cache for UDP Long-Time seeding, 50MB max
  • Core Improve: set the thread priority of UDP Long-Time seeding below normal
  • Core Bugfix: memory leak in UDP uploading modular of Long-Time seeding
  • Core Bugfix: too many memory and CPU used when Long-Time seeding in high speed using UDP

New in BitComet 2009.06.11 Beta (Jun 12, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: add "Uploading" queue to the left fav bar
  • GUI Improved: BT task file list in properties dialog and right-bottom pane changes to tree list for directory structure
  • GUI Improved: BT task file list in properties dialog and right-bottom pane support sorting
  • GUI Improved: add new commands to context menu of BT task file list: expand/collapse folders
  • GUI Improved: add check box to BT task file list pane for each file and folder, to switch download it or not
  • GUI Improved: add connection status icon for each peer in BT task peer list
  • GUI Improved: add "new peer" command to context menu of BT task peer list
  • GUI Improved: BT task peer list displays prompt string when frozen by ScrollLock
  • GUI Improved: support only export selected tasks into backup file
  • GUI Improved: support import tasks from backup file and merge them into task list
  • GUI Improved: select whether import global program settings while import tasks from backup file
  • GUI Improved: language list in Tools menu changes to a 2-level sub menu
  • GUI Improved: add loading page to task content, Snapshot, Comment and Recommend pane
  • GUI Improved: do not clear rate graph in floating window when stop all tasks
  • GUI Improved: do not show the message of missing BitCometAgent.dll when program start
  • GUI Bugfix: when open a GB2312 encoding torrent file in traditional Chinese Windows, the task name and publish info displays incorrectly after change character encoding
  • GUI Bugfix: TCP, UDP mode setting of Long-Time seeding in advanced options can not be saved
  • GUI Bugfix: restore the torrent archive list which removed in v1.12
  • Core Improve: improve taskname.piece_part.bc! file structure, which used to save file boundary data for BT task, therefore decreased memory usage
  • Core Improve: BT task Anti-Leech setting changes to three levels: "disable", ""auto", "strict"
  • Core Improve: improve network modular code, avoid program losing response when download in high speed

New in BitComet 1.12 Final (May 18, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: remove torrent share list in simplified Chinese version

New in BitComet 1.11 Final (Apr 29, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: elevation is not needed to associate torrent file in Windows Vista
  • GUI Improved: save to My Document in HTTP batch download dialog is supported
  • GUI Improved: the client version and transfer mode of Long-Time Seeding peer is displayed in peer list of BT task
  • GUI Improved: add piece error column in peer list of BT task, hidden by default
  • GUI Improved: display connection time of Long-Time Seed in peer list of BT task
  • GUI Bugfix: when using multi-monitor, BitComet do not restore window position to the monitor last exit from.
  • GUI Bugfix: can't sort peer list by the cols that in the right of any hidden column
  • Core Improve: support the UDP transfer mode of Long-Time Seeding, can be enabled in advanced options
  • Core Improve: support test UDP port in WAN/LAN ip detector
  • Core Improve: stop connect to a peer that send too many error pieces
  • Core Improve: improve connection algorithm for Long-Time seeding
  • Core Improve: improve the compatibility to the old versions of eMule plugin, support v1.06 and later
  • Core Improve: delete Thumbs.db when remove task downloaded files
  • Core Improve: set taskname.piece_part.bc! as hidden file, avoiding deleted accidently
  • Core Improve: update bittorrent client identification code
  • Core Bugfix: program crash when using proxy server
  • Core Bugfix: user and password setting for proxy server do not work
  • Core Bugfix: making torrent file fail if containing empty sub-folders
  • Core Bugfix: invalid local IP displayed in statistics pane
  • Core Bugfix: publish date of very few torrent display incorrect in torrent collection list

New in BitComet 1.10 Final (Mar 10, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: add task search box in toolbar, which can be enable from View menu
  • GUI Improved: add a button in HTTP task properties dialog to set current download folder as default
  • GUI Improved: improve the file type filter in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: improve the auto shutdown function in Tools menu
  • GUI Improved: show item number count in HTTP batch download dialog
  • GUI Improved: new command in context menu of task archive list: show torrent file properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: show task index and total count in floating window when it's large enough
  • GUI Improved: new setting in advance page of option dialog: User-Agent string for all HTTP task
  • GUI Improved: add support for several new languages (see langHowTo-Translate.txt)
  • GUI Improved: do not switch to task list after download a torrent file from torrent collection list
  • GUI Bugfix: download several torrents from torrent collection list and display their task properties dialog at the same time may cause program no response
  • GUI Bugfix: files large than 4GB can be downloaded to volume using exFAT
  • Core Improve: improve file boundary data save for BT task
  • Core Improve: enhance virus protect auto-config
  • Core Improve: HTTP download task support redirection to relative path
  • Core Bugfix: authentication information is not send to server in very few situations of HTTP redirection
  • Core Bugfix: private BT task will search peers in DHT network in very few situations
  • Core Bugfix: uploading of Long-Time seeding is unstable

New in BitComet 1.09 Final (Jan 20, 2009)

  • Core Bugfix: certain BT task may occur progress error caused by saving file boundary data when task stop

New in BitComet 1.08 Final (Jan 19, 2009)

  • GUI Improved: add filter by file type to file list in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: display torrent create software and create date display BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: support to add mirror URL manually in HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: move the option of "power off or standby after download finish" from option dialog to Tools menu
  • GUI Improved: remove toolkit VistaTcpPatch.exe, merged into main program
  • GUI Improved: open torrent file directly if existed in torrent archive when open BC link
  • GUI Improved: show task archive and torrent collection immediately after program startup, without pending load
  • GUI Improved: improve the item number info in status bar when filter the torrent archive and torrent collection
  • GUI Improved: append new torrent to the bottom of torrent archive or torrent collection list
  • GUI Improved: remove old torrent from the top of torrent collection list, when the torrent number reaches the max number
  • GUI Improved: new download status icon in torrent archive list, to indicate the task download finished
  • GUI Improved: add "open save folder" command to the context menu of torrent archive list, available after task download finished
  • GUI Improved: add "Unhide all" command to the context menu of torrent collection list
  • GUI Improved: hit Del to delete selected items in torrent archive list, or block selected items in torrent collection list
  • GUI Bugfix: when the item in torrent archive or torrent collection has no snapshot, click the empty snapshot icon area will open invalid webpage
  • Core Improve: improve connection algorithm for Long-Time seeding
  • Core Improve: improve file boundary data dave for BT task
  • Core Improve: ignore thumbs.db when makiing torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: download failed from certain video website
  • Core Bugfix: user name and password info filled in HTTP task don't take effect if reference page not filled

New in BitComet 1.07 Final (Dec 4, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: add tags to task by context menu (support multi-selection)
  • GUI Improved: filter tasks by tag from favorites list
  • GUI Improved: new option in task setting panel of option dialog: add tag to new task by download file type
  • GUI Improved: display task tags and public date for BT task in summary pane
  • GUI Improved: display task tags for HTTP task in summary pane
  • GUI Improved: add "Apply" button to option dialog
  • GUI Improved: new option in Web Interface setting panel of option dialog: display prompt window for web interface operation
  • GUI Improved: show prompt window when open a torrent file that already existed in torrent archive list
  • GUI Improved: when modify the save path of an existed BT/HTTP task, show a prompt to choose whether to move downloaded files to new save path
  • GUI Improved: when modify BT/HTTP task save path, show the path auto-complete drop list
  • GUI Improved: when the width of file list in BT task properties dialog is not enough for file name, try to display the head and tail part of the filename, with the middle part as ellipsis
  • GUI Improved: when switch task lists, task tags or torrent share list from favorites list, remember the scroll bar position and task selections before switch
  • GUI Improved: add context menu to BitComet passport and DHT area in main status bar
  • GUI Improved: when click comment or snapshot icon in task list, display them below task list, instead of open a browser window
  • GUI Improved: add support for 10 new languages
  • GUI Bugfix: program crash when display task delete confirm dialog under Win98/2K
  • Core Improved: Web Interface support create new task from BC link
  • Core Improved: When create a task that already existed, Web Interface will displays an webpage link to the existed task
  • Core Improved: eMule plugin can download file boundary data for BT task, where one piece containing multi files
  • Core Improved: create bak file when save task list to downloads.xml
  • Core Bugfix: error data received in file boundary piece makes task download can not finish

New in BitComet 1.06 Final (Nov 12, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: rearrange main menu, "tools" changes to "software", "options" changes to "tools"
  • GUI Improved: add submenu to select default save directory in tools menu
  • GUI Improved: improve directory setting panel in option dialog. double click to set default save directory
  • GUI Improved: new Web Interface setting panel in option dialog
  • GUI Improved: add MD5 verify pane to HTTP/FTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: downloaded files can be moved to candidate directory from context menu of task list
  • GUI Improved: add downloaded size and uploaded size columns in task list (hidden by default)
  • GUI Improved: remove Flv player from install package
  • GUI Improved: improve Long-Time seeding display in peer list
  • GUI Bugfix: fix some translation errors.
  • Core Improved: new Web Interface modular, to remote BitComet from web browser (disabled by default)
  • Core Improved: improve Long-Time Seeding module
  • Core Improved: increase first-time loading speed of torrent share list
  • Core Improved: limit download rate for HTTP task automatically when download speeding larger than disk writing speed, to avoid wasting too many memory for disk cache
  • Core Improved: update eMule plugin to v0.49b
  • Core Bugfix: UI may response slowly when downloading BT task in high speed
  • Core Bugfix: program crash after install IE8 beta

New in BitComet 1.05 Final (Oct 10, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: split save location of BT task into 2 parts: save path and filename for single-file task, save path and subfolder for multi-files task.
  • GUI Improved: when add new BT task, start now/start later combo box changes to 2 buttons below in the dialog
  • GUI Improved: remove "set as default" button in BT and HTTP/FTP task properties dialog. Save path of new task will be added into candidate directory list in option dialog automatically.
  • GUI Improved: new candidate directory list in option dialog. The directories in list can be pick up easily when add new task.
  • GUI Improved: rewrite batch HTTP/FTP download dialog and download all dialog. They are merged into a new designed batch download dialog, which is more convenient.
  • GUI Improved: new site password manager for HTTP/FTP download. Username & password will be filled automatically when add new task if existed. This can be enabled in option dialog.
  • GUI Improved: in torrent maker dialog, network type combo list changes into private torrent check box and add DHT nodes check box.
  • GUI Improved: after popular software update checking, updated softwares will be list under tools menu in main window.
  • GUI Improved: show an error message box when click [play] on a finished task, while the downloaded file has been deleted.
  • GUI Bugfix: under Windows Vista, search box in toolbar displays incorrectly after switch search type
  • Core Improved: UI language files change from .xml format to .mo format, which are more universal and can be concurrent translated in https://translations.launchpad.net/bitcomet
  • Core Bugfix: under Windows Vista, BitComet will lost task list if running under administrator privilege
  • Core Bugfix: if the HTTP task stopped because the file locked by other program, data integrality can not be guaranteed when resume downloading.
  • Core Bugfix: in few situations, the BT task finish progress is 100% after hash checking, but the file finish progresses are not displayed as 100%
  • Core Bugfix: if a BT task has been specified file download order, program will lose respond when switch a file to be download or not.

New in BitComet 1.04 Final (Aug 22, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: "my shared torrent list" turns into "torrent archive". all downloaded torrent files will be saved there.
  • GUI Improved: add filter edit box to torrent archive list.
  • GUI Improved: remove deleted task list. when delete BT task, its torrent file can be kept in torrent archive
  • GUI Improved: new option: clear peer sharing torrent list when program exits. enabled by default.
  • GUI Improved: new option: standby, hibernate, restart or shutdown computer when all task downloaded and stopped
  • GUI Improved: new command in Tools menu: check for BitComet updates
  • GUI Improved: improve Long-Time Seeding download rate display in peer list
  • GUI Improved: displays play button in task list after download audio file, like mp3, wma
  • GUI Bugfix: open file from file list will fail, after rename BT task and restart BitComet
  • GUI Bugfix: when make torrent file in v1.03, files in sub-directories will not be added into torrent
  • GUI Bugfix: when main window is not wide enough, the search box in toolbar will display in invalid position
  • GUI Bugfix: total downloaded/uploaded bytes in statistics list will be clear in some situation since v1.02
  • Core Improved: all opened torrent files will be saved to archive folder

New in BitComet 1.03 Beta 08.07.2008 (Jul 8, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: redesign preferences dialog, improve option layout
  • GUI Improved: new advanced option: User-agent sent to HTTP tracker
  • GUI Improved: new advanced option to adjust Anti-Leech rules
  • GUI Improved: new advanced option to config file path of video player
  • GUI Improved: improve connection number display in task list for HTTP/FTP task
  • GUI Improved: add left size column to task list (hidden by default)
  • GUI Improved: add context menu to BT task peer list header, to select columns to display
  • GUI Improved: BT task peer list support group display
  • GUI Improved: freeze BT task peer list when ScrollLock turned on
  • GUI Improved: HTTP task properties dialog will display free disk space of save location
  • GUI Improved: BitComet not responding dialog can be disabled
  • GUI Improved: BitComet don't hide already running emule plugin window when startup
  • GUI Improved: remove task category management
  • GUI Improved: remove history task list
  • GUI Improved: remove video file preview window, launch external video player instead
  • GUI Improved: remove BitComet resource browser from install package
  • Core Improved: remove NAT Traversal via UDP, to improve TCP transfer efficiency
  • Core Bugfix: after a file in BT task download finished, disconnect corresponding Long-Time Seeding connection immediately
  • Core Bugfix: the pieces containing file boundary data of BT task will be download repeatedly in some situation
  • Core Bugfix: BitComet does not save the BT tasks created by BC link when program exit

New in BitComet 1.02 (Jun 3, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: task category will display "empty" when not set
  • GUI Improved: whether to search for mirrors when add new HTTP task can be set as default setting
  • GUI Improved: new option for preview window: keep aspect ratio of video
  • GUI Improved: new switch button in toolbar of preview window: skip undownloaded range or waiting for buffering
  • GUI Improved: BitComet resource browser (CometBrowser.exe) will exit immediately after close all its window
  • GUI Improved: removw server mode option in advanced netword settings
  • GUI Bugfix: user name and password in HTTP/FTP task properties dialog do not take effect
  • Core Improved: Long-Time Seeding can download file boundary data for BT task, where one piece containing multi files
  • Core Improved: when select part files of a BT task to download, the file boundary data will be saved in taskname.piece_part.bc!
  • Core Improved: enhance virus protect auto-config
  • Core Improved: support TCP half-open patch for Windows Vista SP1
  • Core Improved: FireFox extension support FireFox 3.0
  • Core Bugfix: error occurs when connect to certain trackers: "Tracker Reture Zero Length Response"
  • Core Bugfix: EVENT_COMPLETE should be sent to tacker only when all files in BT task downloaded, not only selected
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP download task do not reconnect server after connection disconnected by server
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP download task do not drop invalid data from out-of-date mirror server, lead to redownload after hash check failure

New in BitComet 1.01 (May 22, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: task category will display "empty" when not set
  • GUI Improved: whether to search for mirrors when add new HTTP task can be set as default setting
  • GUI Improved: new option for preview window: keep aspect ratio of video
  • GUI Improved: new switch button in toolbar of preview window: skip undownloaded range or waiting for buffering
  • GUI Bug fix: user name and password in HTTP/FTP task properties dialog do not take effect
  • Core Improved: Long-Time Seeding can download file boundary data for BT task, where one piece containing multi files
  • Core Improved: when select part files of a BT task to download, the file boundary data will be saved in taskname.piece_part.bc
  • Core Improved: enhance virus protect auto-config
  • Core Improved: support TCP half-open patch for Windows XP SP3
  • Core Improved: FireFox extension support FireFox 3.0

New in BitComet 1.0 (Mar 27, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: move "add torrent to my sharing" check box in BT task properties dialog to Advanced page
  • GUI Improved: new command in Tools menu: check software update
  • GUI Improved: new command in context menu of Peer list: Remove peer
  • GUI Improved: new command in context menu of Tracker list: Remove tracker
  • GUI Improved: FireFox extension add download video files command to Tools menu, which can capture video files in webpage.
  • GUI Bugfix: puase and resume preview video file will lead to exit full-screen mode
  • GUI Bugfix: Refresh button in toolbar of BitComet resource browser does not work
  • Core Improved: update TCP half open limit modification for Windows Vista
  • Core Bugfix: Long-Time Seeding does not stop when Scheduler pause all download
  • Core Bugfix: BitComet resource browser cannot download video files embedded in webpage after install IE7

New in BitComet Build 20080125 Beta (Jan 25, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: check software update in system automatically, can be enable in option dialog
  • GUI Improved: new FireFox extension, support download file using BitComet
  • GUI Improved: new option in advanced setting page: query task comment and snapshot info automatically
  • GUI Improved: when browse the save location folder of task, do not open new window if this folder has already been opened
  • GUI Improved: add time interval setting to context menu of floating window
  • GUI Bug fix: BC link of BT task displayed as error link in HTTP task properties dialog
  • Core Bug fix: preview in full screen mode for more than twice do not work properly under Windows Vista

New in BitComet 0.98 (Jan 10, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: start downloading torrent file while show the task properties dialog of new opened BC link
  • GUI Improved: search box in toolbar remains in the same row of the toolbar buttons when resize main window
  • GUI Improved: HTTP task properties dialog support query file size and server resume-supported ability for HTTP/FTP link with password authentication
  • GUI Improved: improve display effect of peer download statusbar in BT task peer list
  • GUI Improved: BT task peer list support sorting
  • GUI Improved: BT task peer list display download statusbar of each peer
  • GUI Improved: HTTP task connection list display download statusbar of each source
  • GUI Improved: new command in HTTP task context menu: Verify MD5 checksum
  • GUI Bugfix: ESC key donot work in download all links dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: task remains in queue after deleted into recycle bin
  • Core Improved: improve HTTP task download algorithm to avoid download speed decrease near finish
  • Core Improved: HTTP task support redirect to FTP url
  • Core Bugfix: preview unfinished HTTP task may cause program crash
  • Core Bugfix: tasks which disable Long-Time Seeding download should not upload for Long-Time Seeding
  • Core Bugfix: tasks in recycle bin should not upload for Long-Time Seeding(persistent seeding)

New in BitComet 02 January 2008 Beta (Jan 3, 2008)

  • GUI Improved: when torrent download finished, start BT task until user close task properties dialog

New in BitComet 26 December 2007 Beta (Dec 27, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: search box in toolbar remains in the same row of the toolbar buttons when resize main window
  • GUI Improved: HTTP task properties dialog support query file size and server resume-supported ability for HTTP/FTP link with password authentication
  • GUI Improved: improve display effect of peer download statusbar in BT task peer list
  • Core Bugfix: tasks which disable Long-Time Seeding download should not upload for Long-Time Seeding

New in BitComet 5 December 2007 Beta / 0.97 (Dec 7, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: improve BC link support when download all links from web page
  • GUI Improved: add overwrite prompt when save torrent file of a BT task to another location
  • GUI Improved: new command in Tools menu: Show eMule plugin
  • GUI Bugfix: after sort URL list in download all links dialog, the downloaded links do not match the selected links
  • GUI Bugfix: torrent file association icon cannot display
  • GUI Bugfix: install package compatible with Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: invaild input prompt for save location in BT/HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: status bar language not changed after switch UI language
  • Core Bugfix: program may crash when download HTTP file from redirected server
  • Core Bugfix: task added at eMule plugin startup will not be created successfully
  • Core Bugfix: cannot connect to certain tracker that forbid web browser connection
  • Core Bugfix: v0.96 cannot load configuration file bitcomet.xml in Windows Vista/2K

New in BitComet 0.96 (Nov 7, 2007)

  • GUI Bugfix: bugs in install pachage script
  • Core Bugfix: cannot query file size of FTP link containing non-english character in FTP task properties dialog
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP connection logs do not display in version 0.95
  • Core Improved: main program compressed, decrease loading time

New in BitComet 0.95 (Nov 5, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new hotkey Ctrl B for HTTP/FTP batch download
  • GUI Improved: remove search bar below favorites list
  • GUI Improved: remove recommend window
  • GUI Improved: if download rate in user list of BT task less than 1K, display it as "

New in BitComet 0.94 (Oct 9, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new function in context menu of BT task file list: search ED2K link for selected file
  • GUI Improved: enable Windows open file security warning for downloaded executable files
  • GUI Improved: new option in preferences dialog: Login BitComet Passport Automatically
  • GUI Improved: hide notify window of start downloading torrent file immediately after download finished
  • GUI Improved: support query file size and server resume-supported ability for BC link in HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: lanuch BitComet resource browser to capture video file when click "download video" in IE context menu
  • GUI Improved: add Accelerate Keys page to Help menu
  • GUI Improved: remove horizontal scroll-bar of fav list and task info pane list
  • GUI Bugfix: tasks in queue will not start automatically at next time of BitComet launch
  • GUI Bugfix: task list and file list do not refresh after rename task
  • GUI Bugfix: get invaild BC link when copy BC link from FTP task
  • GUI Bugfix: the display effect of resizing floating window is not correct under Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: zero-size BT task will display in downloading list all the time
  • Core Improved: eMule plugin supports searching ED2K link for selected file of BT task, to help BitComet download from ED network
  • Core Improved: new toolbar button in BitComet resource browser to capture flv video files in webpage and download them
  • Core Improved: HTTP task decrease download rate automatically when disk writing speed much lower than downloading rate
  • Core Bugfix: HTTP task will download file repeatedly in some special situation of hash check failure
  • Core Bugfix: the file name and sub-directory name in torrent file is invaild when make torrent of an entire disk from root directory
  • Core Bugfix: in-queue task number may get wrong if select to download remainder files of a BT task after part files of which download finished
  • Core Bugfix: eMule plugin window appears incorrectlly sometimes
  • Core Bugfix: preview download mode does not work correctly sometimes
  • Core Bugfix: play button does not display in task list after download video file from HTTP server without resume-supported ability

New in BitComet 20070830 Beta / 0.92 (Sep 1, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: task list sorting by task name use pronunciation order
  • GUI Improved: add "toolkit" menu to download softwares correlated with BitComet
  • GUI Improved: the global max upload rate in preferences dialog must larger than 10kB/s
  • GUI Improved: the notice window of free disk space insufficiency will not close until user click
  • GUI Improved: improved torrent file maker dialog layout, supporting dialog resize
  • GUI Improved: display file type icons in file list of BT task
  • GUI Improved: display connection time in peer list of BT task
  • GUI Improved: HTTP/FTP task support hash check (only support certain files)
  • GUI Bugfix: bug in sorting my shared torrent list by whether shared
  • GUI Bugfix: torrent file association error in Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: downloaded file is not selected correctly when view task save folder in Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: the right and bottom edge of torrent file maker dialog and BT task properties dialog is not displayed correctly in Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: RealMediaSplitter.ax registration failed in Windows Vista, result in fail to preview rmvb file
  • GUI Bugfix: available space size in BT task properties dialog displayed in red color mistakenly, not considering task downloaded size
  • GUI Bugfix: the option of replace wildcard "(*)" to letters does not work in add HTTP download group dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: fail to set torrent file create date when add it to my shared torrent list from new BT task dialog
  • Core Improved: add "preview download mode" in BT task context menu, supporting download pieces in sequence
  • Core Improved: eMule plugin support sending crash report
  • Core Bugfix: new BT task will stop downloading due to nonexistent disk error in some situation
  • Core Bugfix: default TCP half open limit in Windows Vista is displayed as 0. it's 10 actually

New in BitComet 0.91 (Jul 19, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: double click un-downloaded torrent file in my shared torrent list to start download it
  • GUI Improved: restore option: add .bc! file extension to unfinished file
  • GUI Improved: new function in context menu of BT task file list: search ED2K link for selected file
  • GUI Improved: add real-time sort to task list. enable it from View menu
  • GUI Improved: new operation in context menu of peer shared torrent list: "add to my share list"
  • GUI Improved: new status icon for BT task downloading torrent file in task list
  • GUI Improved: add torrent publish date info to torrent share list
  • GUI Improved: right click torrent share list header to choose displayed column
  • GUI Improved: a notifier window will display after add a BC link task
  • GUI Improved: add file category combo list to torrent share list toolbar
  • GUI Improved: support multi key words in peer shared torrent list filter, separated by sapce
  • GUI Improved: torrent file name in torrent share list will be displayed in infotip when mouse hover on it if too long
  • GUI Improved: specify ED2K link from context menu in file list of BT task, to help ED plugin search ED download resource
  • GUI Improved: when double click .bc! file, prompt to open the unfinished file using the program associated with the original file without .bc! suffix
  • GUI Improved: right click toolbar of main window to choose displayed buttons, or using View/Toolbar/Buttons menu
  • GUI Improved: enable auto adjust column width from View/Tasklist menu
  • GUI Improved: when HTTP/FTP task connection failed, detail error and retry info will be displayed in connection log
  • GUI Improved: add HTTP/FTP task error retry interval time option in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: restore allocate disk space before downloading option in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: display upload rate and left time in task list by default
  • GUI Improved: when available space of save location in BT task properties dialog is not enough, the available space size is displayed in red color
  • GUI Improved: add copy IP address to context menu of status bar in main window
  • GUI Improved: display task size, progress and preview button in history task list by default
  • GUI Bugfix: the order of tasks in queue does not match the order in tasklist when start all task from context menu of floating window
  • GUI Bugfix: the task number in fav list does not refresh when move task to a new category using context menu of tasklist
  • GUI Bugfix: the wildcard "(*)" does not work in add HTTP/FTP download group dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: the HTTP/FTP task in queue failed to stop when double click it in tasklist
  • GUI Bugfix: the wildcard "(*)" does not work in add HTTP/FTP download group dialog for FTP links
  • GUI Bugfix: when click cancel button of BT task properties dialog after torrent file downloaded from BC link, the BT task will not be removed
  • GUI Bugfix: unable to handle non-english character in publisher URL of BT task
  • Core Improved: support persistent seeding to seed finished torrents in background automatically without starting the task
  • Core Improved: support uploading rate limit for all persistent seeding, tweak in perferences dialog
  • Core Improved: support customize file download order for BT task, in BT task properties dialog
  • Core Improved: support patch TCP half-open limit in Windows Vista
  • Core Bugfix: program will lose respond for a while to flush disk cache when high-speed downloading HTTP/FTP file from LAN
  • Core Bugfix: ED plugin will upload invalid data in some situation
  • Core Bugfix: scheduler failed to resume download after stop tasks for 2 hour or longer
  • Core Bugfix: unfinished tasks will not auto-start at program startup if BitComet is not closed normally

New in BitComet 20070614 Beta / 0.89 (Jun 14, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add an option in BT task properties dialog to add this torrent file to my shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add "view task" command to the context menu of my shared torren list
  • GUI Improved: add a filter in the toolbar of peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: display peer shared torrent file number in peer shared node of fav list
  • GUI Improved: add an option to enable BT task search for HTTP/FTP download source in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add commands to import/export task list and global settings under file menu
  • GUI Improved: add "rename task" function in context menu of task list
  • GUI Improved: detail error information will be displayed in tooltip when mouse cursor hover on the red-cross icon of a task which encounter error like disk full
  • GUI Improved: task rating information will be displayed in tooltip when mouse cursor hover on comment region of the task list
  • GUI Improved: add hotkey Ctrl Home/End to move selected tasks to the top/bottom of task list
  • GUI Improved: support scroll information in all panes on which the mouse cursor is hovering by rolling mouse wheel
  • GUI Improved: add an options in perferences dialog to enable submit video file snapshot after task download finish
  • GUI Improved: add an options in perferences dialog to enable protection against ARP cheating attack from LAN
  • GUI Improved: new designed BitComet resource browser to accelerate open web page from BitComet
  • GUI Improved: improve displayed information layout in task summary pane
  • GUI Improved: add "minimize to system tray" to system menu of BitComet button in windows taskbar
  • GUI Bugfix: all tasks will be displayed as in queue if enabled auto-start task when download rate below specified value
  • GUI Bugfix: all tasks displayed in task list will be removed if launch clear recycle bin in recycle bin context menu even they are not in recycle bin
  • Core Bugfix: fix a bug sometimes lead to memory leakage

New in BitComet 20070613 Beta / 0.89 (Jun 14, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add an option in BT task properties dialog to add this torrent file to my shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add "view task" command to the context menu of my shared torren list
  • GUI Improved: add a filter in the toolbar of peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: display peer shared torrent file number in peer shared node of fav list
  • GUI Improved: add an option to enable BT task search for HTTP/FTP download source in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add commands to import/export task list and global settings under file menu
  • GUI Improved: add "rename task" function in context menu of task list
  • GUI Improved: detail error information will be displayed in tooltip when mouse cursor hover on the red-cross icon of a task which encounter error like disk full
  • GUI Improved: task rating information will be displayed in tooltip when mouse cursor hover on comment region of the task list
  • GUI Improved: add hotkey Ctrl Home/End to move selected tasks to the top/bottom of task list
  • GUI Improved: support scroll information in all panes on which the mouse cursor is hovering by rolling mouse wheel
  • GUI Improved: add an options in perferences dialog to enable submit video file snapshot after task download finish
  • GUI Improved: add an options in perferences dialog to enable protection against ARP cheating attack from LAN
  • GUI Improved: new designed BitComet resource browser to accelerate open web page from BitComet
  • GUI Improved: improve displayed information layout in task summary pane
  • GUI Improved: add "minimize to system tray" to system menu of BitComet button in windows taskbar
  • GUI Bugfix: all tasks will be displayed as in queue if enabled auto-start task when download rate below specified value
  • GUI Bugfix: all tasks displayed in task list will be removed if launch clear recycle bin in recycle bin context menu even they are not in recycle bin
  • Core Bugfix: fix a bug sometimes lead to memory leakage

New in BitComet 0.89 (Jun 1, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add "Hide this" to context menu of peer shared torrent list, no longer display the selected torrent files
  • GUI Improved: add "copy title" to context menu of peer shared torrent list, copy the title of selected torrent file to clipboard
  • GUI Improved: double click downloaded torrent file in peer shared torrent list to view corresponding task in task list
  • GUI Improved: new icon in my shared torrent file list to show the shared, but not downloaded torrent file
  • GUI Improved: peer shared torrent list will only refresh once when typing continuously in the filter edit box
  • GUI Improved: items in peer shared torrent list will keep selected when auto-refresh
  • GUI Improved: no torrent file will be displayed in shared torrent list in torrent file share disabled in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: the default number to show in the shared torrent list is set to "unlimit"
  • GUI Improved: new option of socket start interval(ms) in perferences dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: upload rate displays text error in task list if max upload rate of task is set
  • GUI Bugfix: operation to torrent will be misplaced after set filter to peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Bugfix: task number in history task list is not refreshed upon 0 clock at midnight
  • GUI Bugfix: "Open BC link" in file menu does not work if task summary pane is current active window
  • Core Bugfix: Share ratio of BT task is always 0 if only uploading without any downloading

New in BitComet 0.88 (May 24, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add an option to verify login password at program startup in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add default task related info pane option in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add an option to set Bitcomet as default IE download tool in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add an option to enable torrent share in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: open BCTP link dialog replaced by open BC link dialog, which can create HTTP/FTP/BT task from BC link
  • GUI Improved: add "copy BC link to clipboard" command to task list context menu, with hotkey Ctrl C
  • GUI Improved: add snapshot number column in task list
  • GUI Improved: add tooltip to display detail task status info when mouse hover on task icon in task list
  • GUI Improved: add tooltip to display upload rate, left time, health when mouse hover on download rate, progress, seed number
  • GUI Improved: upload rate, left time, health will not display in task list by default (can be shown in View menu)
  • GUI Improved: when task stopped, task can be renamed even if task is not completed
  • GUI Improved: double click to download torrent file in peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add popular column in peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: new icon and tooltip to designate whether the torrent has been downloaded or shared by me in peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add auto-refresh checkbox in toolbar of peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add share-all checkbox in toolbar of my shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: improve statistic pane display effect
  • GUI Improved: add save file already exist check when open torrent file to create new BT task
  • GUI Improved: able to save files to UNC path of shared folder in network during HTTP/BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: add warning prompt if save file large than 4GB to non-NTFS volume when create HTTP/BT task
  • GUI Improved: add balloon prompt on disk full error during HTTP/BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: add prompt dialog to close program and send error report when program is not responding
  • GUI Improved: add context menu to WAN IP detect light in status bar of main window
  • GUI Improved: remove some infrequent options in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: floating window remember its postion and size automatically
  • GUI Bugfix: unfinished tasks will not auto-start at program startup if BitComet is not closed normally before shut down computer
  • GUI Bugfix: average download rate in task summary pane is cleared after BT task stopped
  • GUI Bugfix: comment number and snapshot number in shared torrent list is not refreshed in time
  • GUI Bugfix: operation to torrent will be misplaced after sort shared torrent list
  • GUI Bugfix: text in toolbar of shared torrent list and passport pane is displayed incorrectly after switch display resolution
  • GUI Bugfix: refresh of peer shared torrents list lead to high CPU usage
  • Core Bugfix: program crash in some condition

New in BitComet 20070522 Beta / 0.87 Stable (May 22, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add search for eDonkey download source option in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add ED download plugin configuration page in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add an option to verify login password at program startup in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add default task related info pane option in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add an option to set Bitcomet as default IE download tool in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add an option to enable torrent share in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: open BCTP link dialog replaced by open BC link dialog, which can create HTTP/FTP/BT task from BC link
  • GUI Improved: add "copy BC link to clipboard" command to task list context menu, with hotkey Ctrl C
  • GUI Improved: add snapshot number column in task list
  • GUI Improved: add tooltip to display detail task status info when mouse hover on task icon in task list
  • GUI Improved: add tooltip to display upload rate, left time, health when mouse hover on download rate, progress, seed number
  • GUI Improved: upload rate, left time, health will not display in task list by default (can be shown in View menu)
  • GUI Improved: when task stopped, task can be renamed even if task is not completed
  • GUI Improved: double click to download torrent file in peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add popular column in peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: new icon and tooltip to designate whether the torrent has been downloaded or shared by me in peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add auto-refresh checkbox in toolbar of peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add share-all checkbox in toolbar of my shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: improve statistic pane display effect
  • GUI Improved: add save file already exist check when open torrent file to create new BT task
  • GUI Improved: able to save files to UNC path of shared folder in network during HTTP/BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: add warning prompt if save file large than 4GB to non-NTFS volume when create HTTP/BT task
  • GUI Improved: add balloon prompt on disk full error during HTTP/BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: add prompt dialog to close program and send error report when program is not responding
  • GUI Improved: add context menu to WAN IP detect light in status bar of main window
  • GUI Improved: remove some infrequent options in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: display download rate from HTTP/FTP sources and ED sources in BT task summary pane
  • GUI Improved: floating window remember its postion and size automatically
  • GUI Bugfix: unfinished tasks will not auto-start at program startup if BitComet is not closed normally before shut down computer
  • GUI Bugfix: average download rate in task summary pane is cleared after BT task stopped
  • GUI Bugfix: comment number and snapshot number in shared torrent list is not refreshed in time
  • GUI Bugfix: operation to torrent will be misplaced after sort shared torrent list
  • GUI Bugfix: text in toolbar of shared torrent list and passport pane is displayed incorrectly after switch display resolution
  • Core Improved: BT task support downloading from eDonkey network (ED plugin for BitComet is required)

New in BitComet 0.87 (May 9, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add an option in BT task properties dialog to add this torrent file to my shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: add "view task" command to the context menu of my shared torren list
  • GUI Improved: add a filter in the toolbar of peer shared torrent list
  • GUI Improved: display peer shared torrent file number in peer shared node of fav list
  • GUI Improved: add an option to enable BT task search for HTTP/FTP download source in perferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: add commands to import/export task list and global settings under file menu
  • GUI Improved: add "rename task" function in context menu of task list
  • GUI Improved: detail error information will be displayed in tooltip when mouse cursor hover on the red-cross icon of a task which encounter error like disk full
  • GUI Improved: task rating information will be displayed in tooltip when mouse cursor hover on comment region of the task list
  • GUI Improved: add hotkey Ctrl Home/End to move selected tasks to the top/bottom of task list
  • GUI Improved: support scroll information in all panes on which the mouse cursor is hovering by rolling mouse wheel
  • GUI Improved: add an options in perferences dialog to enable submit video file snapshot after task download finish
  • GUI Improved: add an options in perferences dialog to enable protection against ARP cheating attack from LAN
  • GUI Improved: new designed BitComet resource browser to accelerate open web page from BitComet
  • GUI Improved: improve displayed information layout in task summary pane
  • GUI Improved: add "minimize to system tray" to system menu of BitComet button in windows taskbar
  • GUI Improved: delete file check box in task delete dialog is displayed in red color
  • GUI Bugfix: View/download list/Columns menu does not work after switch UI language
  • GUI Bugfix: all tasks will be displayed as in queue if enabled auto-start task when download rate below specified value
  • GUI Bugfix: all tasks displayed in task list will be removed if launch clear recycle bin in recycle bin context menu even they are not in recycle bin
  • Core Bugfix: fix a bug sometimes lead to memory leakage
  • Core Bugfix: handle some BT task with zero-size file incorrectly

New in BitComet 0.86 (Apr 3, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new torrent share function: click my sheard or peer shared in fav list to manage shared torrents
  • GUI Improved: add option to calculate ED2K link for each file in torrent make dialog
  • GUI Improved: add preset button to choose preset save folder in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add option to download from the mirror when the source url can't be connected in HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: remove movie info related staffs from torrent make dialog and BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add mark highlight button and filter popup menu to download all links dialog
  • GUI Improved: add server mode option to preferences dialog, which support more connections but can't set precise rate
  • GUI Improved: improve search box in toolbar of main window
  • GUI Improved: if choose to open URL inside BitComet, new web window will open, without effect to main window
  • GUI Improved: after a torrent file downloaded by http task, the BT download will start automatically
  • GUI Improved: HTTP/FTP resources number for BT task is displayed in file list
  • GUI Improved: add hotkey PageUp/PageDown, Ctrl Left/Right and Alt Left/Right for preview window to seek 10 sec, 30 sec and 120 sec
  • GUI Improved: bufferred time length is display in status bar when preview
  • GUI Improved: when close BT/HTTP task properties dialog, save folder and filename is verified to be valid
  • GUI Bugfix: ban IP menu in peer list of BT task do not work sometimes
  • GUI Bugfix: avoid system entering suspend/sleeping mode do not work in Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: left time in task list is not correct if task size is too largr or download rate is too low
  • Core Improved: new torrent share function, to download torrent files from peers
  • Core Improved: support HTTPS download
  • Core Improved: support download FTP resource for BT task
  • Core Improved: improve SHA1 algorithm, decrease CPU usage
  • Core Improved: improve NAT Traversal via UDP component, decrease CPU usage
  • Core Bugfix: upnp.exe launch fail in Windows 2000

New in BitComet 20070330 Beta / 0.85 (Mar 30, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new torrent share function: click my sheard or peer shared in fav list to manage shared torrents
  • GUI Improved: add option to calculate ED2K link for each file in torrent make dialog
  • GUI Improved: add preset button to choose preset save folder in BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add option to download from the mirror when the source url can't be connected in HTTP task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: remove movie info related staffs from torrent make dialog and BT task properties dialog
  • GUI Improved: add mark highlight button and filter popup menu to download all links dialog
  • GUI Improved: add server mode option to preferences dialog, which support more connections but can't set precise rate
  • GUI Improved: improve search box in toolbar of main window
  • GUI Improved: if choose to open URL inside BitComet, new web window will open, without effect to main window
  • GUI Improved: after a torrent file downloaded by http task, the BT download will start automatically
  • GUI Improved: roll mouse wheel will PgUp/PgDn the window on which mouse hover
  • GUI Improved: HTTP/FTP resources number for BT task is displayed in file list
  • GUI Improved: add hotkey PageUp/PageDown, Ctrl Left/Right and Alt Left/Right for preview window to seek 10 sec, 30 sec and 120 sec
  • GUI Improved: bufferred time length is display in status bar when preview
  • GUI Improved: when close BT/HTTP task properties dialog, save folder and filename is verified to be valid
  • GUI Bugfix: ban IP menu in peer list of BT task do not work sometimes
  • GUI Bugfix: avoid system entering suspend/sleeping mode do not work in Windows Vista
  • GUI Bugfix: left time in task list is not correct if task size is too largr or download rate is too low
  • Core Improved: new torrent share function, to download torrent files from peers
  • Core Improved: support HTTPS download
  • Core Improved: support download FTP resource for BT task
  • Core Improved: improve SHA1 algorithm, decrease CPU usage
  • Core Improved: improve NAT Traversal via UDP component, decrease CPU usage
  • Core Bugfix: upnp.exe launch fail in Windows 2000

New in BitComet 0.85 (Mar 19, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new option in torrent maker dialog to enable large file(>1MB) align to piece boundary
  • GUI Improved: new option in torrent maker dialog to allow user search for HTTP/FTP resources when BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: new option in BT task properties dialog to enable search for HTTP/FTP resources for BT task files
  • GUI Improved: new history task filter in fav list, in which tasks displayed in the order of download finish date
  • GUI Improved: improve task delete dialog, able to remove downloaded files while keep task record in recycle bin
  • GUI Improved: new option in preferences dialog to enable BT task access P2PCache server (need ISP support)
  • GUI Improved: task created date and finish date are displayed in task summary
  • GUI Improved: improve task piece graph, support page down using mouse wheel
  • GUI Improved: new recomment side-bar which can be toggled in view menu
  • GUI Improved: BitComet main window minimize to windows taskbar, and system tray icon always displays
  • GUI Improved: if the task name/publisher name in task list is too long to display, it will be displayed in tooltip
  • GUI Improved: new search toolbar in the top of BitComet passport view
  • GUI Improved: improve the clipboard monitor, only capture url links of specific files type
  • GUI Improved: add support for Maxthon browser
  • GUI Improved: unhide the option of browse url in BitComet
  • GUI Improved: downloaded file will be selected when open task save folder
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that some HTTP download fail due to missing cookie info
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that hash check of multi BT tasks not running in queue
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that move to other location command in task context menu does not work
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that some particular language can not be input to IE edit control when BHO loaded
  • Core Improved: add P2SP download function to BT task, able to search for HTTP/FTP resources to accelerate download
  • Core Improved: add large file(>1MB) align to piece boundary function to torrent maker and BT download module
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that may lead to crash when download HTTP task using P2P connection
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that may lead to crash when an error UDP packet received
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that downloaded file may save fail if unsupported characte in current code-page occurred in torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug about GZIP decode in HTTP 1.0
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the task created from BCTP link is not properly saved if torrent had not downloaded.
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that unable to connect to some FTP server

New in BitComet 20070315 Beta / 0.84 (Mar 15, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new option in torrent maker dialog to enable large file(>1MB) align to piece boundary
  • GUI Improved: new option in torrent maker dialog to allow user search for HTTP/FTP resources when BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: new option in BT task properties dialog to enable search for HTTP/FTP resources for BT task files
  • GUI Improved: new history task filter in fav list, in which tasks displayed in the order of download finish date
  • GUI Improved: improve task delete dialog, able to remove downloaded files while keep task record in recycle bin
  • GUI Improved: new option in preferences dialog to enable BT task access P2PCache server (need ISP support)
  • GUI Improved: task created date and finish date are displayed in task summary
  • GUI Improved: improve task piece graph, support page down using mouse wheel
  • GUI Improved: new recomment side-bar which can be toggled in view menu
  • GUI Improved: BitComet main window minimize to windows taskbar, and system tray icon always displays
  • GUI Improved: if the task name/publisher name in task list is too long to display, it will be displayed in tooltip
  • GUI Improved: new search toolbar in the top of BitComet passport view
  • GUI Improved: improve the clipboard monitor, only capture url links of specific files type
  • GUI Improved: add support for Maxthon browser
  • GUI Improved: unhide the option of browse url in BitComet
  • GUI Improved: downloaded file will be selected when open task save folder
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that some HTTP download fail due to missing cookie info
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that hash check of multi BT tasks not running in queue
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that move to other location command in task context menu does not work
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that some particular language can not be input to IE edit control when BHO loaded
  • Core Improved: add P2SP download function to BT task, able to search for HTTP/FTP resources to accelerate download
  • Core Improved: add large file(>1MB) align to piece boundary function to torrent maker and BT download module
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that may lead to crash when download HTTP task using P2P connection
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that may lead to crash when an error UDP packet received
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that downloaded file may save fail if unsupported characte in current code-page occurred in torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug about GZIP decode in HTTP 1.0
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the task created from BCTP link is not properly saved if torrent had not downloaded.
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that unable to connect to some FTP server

New in BitComet 20070314 Beta / 0.84 (Mar 15, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new option in torrent maker dialog to enable large file(>1MB) align to piece boundary
  • GUI Improved: new option in torrent maker dialog to allow user search for HTTP/FTP resources when BT downloading
  • GUI Improved: new option in BT task properties dialog to enable search for HTTP/FTP resources for BT task files
  • GUI Improved: new history task filter in fav list, in which tasks displayed in the order of download finish date
  • GUI Improved: improve task delete dialog, able to remove downloaded files while keep task record in recycle bin
  • GUI Improved: new option in preferences dialog to enable BT task access P2PCache server (need ISP support)
  • GUI Improved: task created date and finish date are displayed in task summary
  • GUI Improved: improve task piece graph, support page down using mouse wheel
  • GUI Improved: new recomment side-bar which can be toggled in view menu
  • GUI Improved: BitComet main window minimize to windows taskbar, and system tray icon always displays
  • GUI Improved: if the task name/publisher name in task list is too long to display, it will be displayed in tooltip
  • GUI Improved: new search toolbar in the top of BitComet passport view
  • GUI Improved: improve the clipboard monitor, only capture url links of specific files type
  • GUI Improved: add support for Maxthon browser
  • GUI Improved: unhide the option of browse url in BitComet
  • GUI Improved: downloaded file will be selected when open task save folder
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that some HTTP download fail due to missing cookie info
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that hash check of multi BT tasks not running in queue
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that move to other location command in task context menu does not work
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that some particular language can not be input to IE edit control when BHO loaded
  • Core Improved: add P2SP download function to BT task, able to search for HTTP/FTP resources to accelerate download
  • Core Improved: add large file(>1MB) align to piece boundary function to torrent maker and BT download module
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that may lead to crash when download HTTP task using P2P connection
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that may lead to crash when an error UDP packet received
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that downloaded file may save fail if unsupported characte in current code-page occurred in torrent file
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug about GZIP decode in HTTP 1.0
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the task created from BCTP link is not properly saved if torrent had not downloaded.
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that unable to connect to some FTP server

New in BitComet 20070212 Beta / 0.84 (Mar 13, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: new task piece graph for both BT and HTTP, displaying detail file piece downloading state
  • GUI Improved: enhanced video codec version detection for preview. the extra video codec check wizard is removed.
  • GUI Improved: add clipboard monitor, which can be enabled in floating window context menu
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that fail to open torrent file during preview
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the UPNP opeartion results are not displayed in statistics view
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the floating window is not hide when hit boss key
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the uplading rate is too low in some situation
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug in the decode of GZIP data returned from HTTP server

New in BitComet 0.82 (Jan 19, 2007)

  • GUI Improved: add sound prompt when task download finish, which can be configured in preferences dialog
  • GUI Improved: improve the context menu of floating window and system tray icon
  • GUI Improved: processing progress dialog will be displayed when add http task group
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the task start order is not correct if reduce task queue length while the queue is not empty
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug of version 0.81 that program can not run under win98/me
  • Core Improved: the NAT port mapping and Windows Firewall operation is moved to a separated toolkit program, therefor the CPU usage of main program decrease
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the preview window will lose response if click stop button while preview video file of BT task

New in BitComet 0.72 (Sep 17, 2006)

  • GUI Improved: Add the function to move task downloded files to corresponding folder when change task catalog
  • GUI Improved: Improve task list diaply speed
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the publisher's webpage may be openned incorrectly when selecting multi-task using mouse
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.71 that the UPNP gateway NAT port mapping function does not work
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.71 that the task download rate in balloon tip is not diaplayed correctly when main window is minimized
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.71 that the balloon tip will not diaplay when task download finish and main window is minimized
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.71 that stop task while playing video may cause program crash

New in BitComet 0.70 (Jun 23, 2006)

  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the program can not run in certain OS due to mistaken compile option

New in BitComet 0.69 (Jun 23, 2006)

  • GUI Improved: download status infomation will be displayed in preview window info-bar when preview is buffering
  • GUI Improved: BitComet Forum URL is updated
  • GUI Bugfix: controls in Task Properity Dialog will reposition correctly when resizing the dialog
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the spin buttons of min/max upload rate edit-box in Task Properity Dialog do not work
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the peer list doesn't display any peer in very occasional situation
  • GUI Bugfix: be able to handle BCTP link opened from FireFox properly
  • Core Improved: improve preview buffer schedule algorithm, start buffer if data in buffer pool less than 50%, resume play if full
  • Core Improved: improve piece request algorithm when preview, decrease the chance of buffering
  • Core Improved: improve error detection of video decoder when start preview
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the video and audio sometimes become asynchronous caused by preview buffering
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the program may crash when parsing some non-standard HTTP protocol packet

New in BitComet 0.66 (May 12, 2006)

  • GUI Bugfix: fix the incorrect prompt text when open torren file failed
  • GUI Bugfix: change PayPal picture auto-update period to one day
  • GUI Bugfix: improve the detecting algorithm of Real file decoder in Video Codec Check Wizard
  • Core Improved: enhanced ICF/UPNP port mapping operation
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the program may crash when received incorrect packet

New in BitComet 0.66 (Apr 27, 2006)

  • Core Improved: more program run-time error can be detected by the crash report
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the sometimes program will crash when display chat message

New in BitComet 0.65 (Apr 25, 2006)

  • GUI Improved: add IE favorites list
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the Goto button on address bar doesn't work properly
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the program will crash if any torrent file is opened with the "Can't listen to port" dialog displayed
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the program will crash when loading some non-standard rss xml
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.64 that the torrent maker dialog doesn't display the tracker url entered last time
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.64 that the task properities dialog can not be opened when the task is paused
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the media file playback will pause when preview window is minimized
  • GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the text on switch buttons of channel, search and IE fav doesn't change when language switched
  • Core Improved: add a new function to add a listenning port of Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2
  • Core Improved: connect to the previous peers immediately when restarting a task
  • Core Bugfix: fix the bug in version 0.64 that the function to ban user temporarily doesn't work

New in BitComet 0.64 (Apr 12, 2006)

  • Support Previewing.

New in BitComet 0.63 (Mar 7, 2006)

  • GUI Improved: fix the bug that somtimes torrent file can't be open properly after downloaded in BitComet embedded browser
  • Core Improved: Remove the old protocol header encryption, add new protocol encryption compatible with Azureus and uTorrent