What's new in Retriever 2.1
Oct 8, 2010
- Fixed a bug in determining file names when downloading from certain sites
- Added support for Metalink 4
New in Retriever 2.0 (Jan 8, 2010)
- Fixed a regression introduced in the pevious version that prevented metalink downloads from working.
- Fixed a bug in determining metalink file names.
- Fixed a regression that aborted the download after one failure.
New in Retriever 1.9 (Nov 23, 2009)
- Fixed some issues that occurred using multi segmented downloading.
New in Retriever 1.8 (Sep 23, 2009)
- Added some additional checks for Opera browser integration and added "Download with Retriever" option to BiTorrent transfer dialog.
- During uninstallation you will have the option to disable Opera integration.
- Added functions for Retriever to import or export a url listing from a plain text file.
New in Retriever 1.4 (Oct 28, 2008)
- Integrated IECapture and OperaCapture into main distribution.
- Downloads can now be automaticaly saved into a specific folder by extension.
- Fixed bug where segmented downloads sometimes could not be resumed.
- Added option to pre-allocate storage for files.
- External commands can now be accessed at any time from a menu.
- Fixed issue where download was aborted after read timed out.
New in Retriever 1.3 (Jul 22, 2008)
- Fixed bittorrent "truncated string value" error message.
- Fixed an issue that occurred when bad data was received during bittorrent's endgame mode
New in Retriever 1.1 (Jun 4, 2008)
- Fixed download failure when metalinks contain no hash information.
- Added transparent metalink support.
- Changed the way upload bandwidth is distributed among multiple torrents.
New in Retriever 1.09 (Apr 23, 2008)
- Fixed some UPNP port forwarding bugs.
- Change path and segmenter buttons are now disabled during download.
- Added option in segmenter to force redownload of selected segments.
- Added "priority download" button where the download will immediately start regardless
New in Retriever 1.2 (Jun 23, 2008)
- Updated to use Tango icons as the default icon set.
- Fixed a few cosmetic problems.
- Fixed an out of memory error message.
New in Retriever 1.08 (Dec 17, 2007)
- Fixed issue with "disappearing" pieces during torrent transfer.
- Fixed regression where additional HTTP headers were not sent when retrieving initial download information.
- Added support for Metalinks.
- Add new download dialog will no longer block input to the rest of the application.
- Changed mirror selection in new download dialog.
- Added more control over execution of external commands.
- Added support for HTTP POST method.
- Added support for downloading a single file simultaneously from multiple sources.
New in Retriever 1.07 (Aug 31, 2007)
- A default option can now be selected for most pop up dialogs.
- Fixed conflict between jdic libraries and Linux JRE 1.6.
New in Retriever 1.05 (Dec 5, 2006)
- Removed "resume" button, paused downloads are now resumed with the "start download"
- button.
- Referer information can now be edited or input manually.
- Fixed problem with FTP servers that did not use the default port.
- Fixed issue where status information would be incorrect.
New in Retriever 1.03 (Mar 29, 2006)
- Now requires Java Runtime Environment 1.5.
- Improved performance of clipboard monitoring function.
- Replaced text labels for download functions with icons.
- Added an icon for downloads waiting to start.
- Application data is now stored in an xml formatted file.
- Various small interface improvements.
- Added UPnP support.