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BitComet v0.88 stable out

Written by James Delahunty @ 24 May 2007 9:48 User comments (1)

BitComet v0.88 stable out BitComet v0.88 (latest stable) has been released, providing a whole host of GUI improvements and bugfixes. BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely free. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more. AfterDawn users have downloaded this item 1,530,555 times.
Here is the changelog...
  • 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
Download BitComet v0.88 from:
https://www.afterdawn.com/software/p2p_software/p2p_applications/bitcomet.cfm



Visit BitComet homepage at: http://www.bitcomet.com/

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116.6.2007 21:14

Sounds like they are trying to get more users than Azureus.

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