Version history Vuze (Azureus Java BitTorrent client) for Linux

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Changes from v4.3.0.0 -> v4.3.0.4

• New Features:
• None.
• Changes:
• None.
• Corrected bugs:
• UI | Prevent main window from popping up when adding a torrent and "Add Torrent Silently" set
• UI | Ensure that the correct progress reports are passed to listeners
• UI | Fixed bug whereby the destruction of the torrent-open window was cancelling torrent download dialogs
• UI | (OSX) Fixed bug where scrollers on some mice would cause table to blank
• UIvz | Handle magnet links within internal browser
• Plug | Improved the fallback lookup service by passing the all params
• Plug | Verify that downloaded torrents are valid before passing to caller

Changes from v4.2.0.8 -> v4.3.0.0

• New Features:
• Core | Added support for UPnP based offline-downloader services
• Core | Obfuscated lookups for the DHT to prevent leakage of key values during lookup stage
• Core | Support copying of .mp3 and .wma files to PSP
• Core | Implementation of a piece-reordering file manager
• Core | DHT replication controls
• Core | Initial pairing support
• Core | Parse seed/leecher values from subscription text if found
• Core | Added bloom-filter persistence
• Core | Support ".utf-8" suffix for keys in .torrent files
• Plug | Added download-flags to Download object
• Plug | Plugin access to subscriptions
• Plug | Added verified plugins
• UIvz | Added "Reset Columns" ability to some views (in Column Setup)
• UIvz | Client now opens to last used static view, or Library by default
• UI | Support for switching between carbon and cocoa on OSX
• UI | Generic filter support for our tables
• UI | Support for showing real SI values rather than just changing units displayed
• UI | Advanced menu option for editing http seeds
• Changes:
• Core | Remove replicate-on-join from DHT as causing excessive key storage
• Core | Roll up subscription warnings when not expanded
• Core | Improved IPv6-handshaking and reconnects with other clients (see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/IPv6_compatibility for supported systems)
• Core | Switch back to k-select on OSX
• Core | Reduce CPU used for node-id calculation via MRU cache
• Core | Remove LAN transfer totals from data reported to tracker
• Core | Implemented port restriction for DHT node id generation
• Core | Reduce memory/CPU by disabling the largely unused Vivaldi V2 impl
• Core | Reduce DHT load by removing network-position derived tracking targets
• Core | Back off the initial DHT seeding
• Core | Use async keep-alive test to reduce thread creation on magnet download
• Core | Change defaults for I2P and Tor networks to fase
• Core | Support http seeds that don't support partial content
• Core | Added option to disable TiVo support completely
• Core | Support RSS feeds with incorrect 'summary' instead of 'description' entries
• Core | Support trackers that returned gzipped torrents even when not asked to
• Core | Migrate away from system-managed private keys
• Core | Support meta-search incremental result injection
• Core | Use cached scrape values on startup for DHT torrents to reduce thrashing
• Core | Switch version check to use HTTP by default
• Core | Resource resources by grabbing piecemap once during piece pick operation
• Core | Reduce cost of handling DHT store operations
• Core | Remove 'force write' option from random access file access
• Core | Move a few things to use the less costly stepped-monotime method
• Core | Re-use http connections when messaging the platform
• Core | Don't write diagnostic files to disk by default
• Core | Reduce small scratch file creation on startup
• Core | Don't write tables.config every start
• Core | If we don't have hosted content, don't write the config file
• Core | Potentially less Tracker Announces for those trackers not supplying "min interval"
• Plug | Reduce frequency of UPnP device specification download attempts
• UIvz | Removed Login and Friends, Content Networks menu
• UI | Order files in file view by torrent index if piece numbers same
• UI | Pulled out the RSS feed generation for devices and put into common location
• UI | Allows addition of http seeds to decentralised torrents
• UI | Make regex matching mode more obvious
• UI | Better "Associated Application" icon logic
• UI | (OSX) Switch to SWT for Cocoa Framework
• Corrected bugs:
• Core | Don't reset manually selected Vuze meta search templates on load
• Core | Removed 'watched' tag from torrents on import
• Core | index-out-of-bounds fix when global peer limit reached
• Core | Fix incorrect sync of scrape hashes
• Core | Prevent unwanted selection of in-error subscriptions
• Plug | Force UPnP operations not to use socks/http proxy when defined
• UI | Fixed case where Open Torrents Window might erase existing files
• UI | Fixed context menus sometimes hanging client on Windows 7
• UI | Fix missing icons for pause/resume in all-transfers bar
• UI | Fix invalid thread access in parameter change logic
• UI | Fix progress-dialog feedback for magnet downloads
• UI | Fix cases on OSX where a modal dialog box ended up under main window

Changes from v4.2.0.6 -> v4.2.0.8

• New Features:
• Core | Drive Detection for Devices for OSX (for PSP devices)
• Core | Factory option to allow switchable unchoke algorithms
• Changes:
• UI | Less CPU usage for Seeding Rules
• Core | Only create the transcode directories when required
• Core | Allow OSX platform component to be updated properly
• Corrected bugs:
• UI | Fixed Speedtest not working
• UI | OSX 10.6 support (opening torrent from file)
• Core | OSX 10.6 support (not getting data from connected peers)
• Core | Fixed deadlock during UI initialisation

Changes from v4.2.0.0 -> v4.2.0.2

• BUGFIX: UI | Fix wrap on category buttons [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fix rare case when last sash position in My Torrents wasn't being obeyed [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Remove device toolbar when device feature not avail [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix hang on startup with some UPnP devices [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Plug | Force decode of HTTP headers to lowercase using ISO8859-1 charset to fix matching error in Turkish [Parg]

Changes from v4.1.0.4 -> v4.2.0.0

• FEATURE: Core | Devices [parg]
• FEATURE: UIvz | UI for Devices panel, individual Device panel, Device chooser, and Device Profile Chooser [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: Plug | Transcoding [gudy,parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix IP binding error when performing a NAT test under Vista [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Fix some notifications not getting pulled [TuxPaper]

Changes from v4.1.0.2 -> v4.1.0.4

• FEATURE: UI | Donation Window [TuxPaper]

Changes from v4.1.0.0 -> v4.1.0.2

• FEATURE: UI | Config option for max stalled seeding torrents (was hardcoded in 4100) [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix null-pointer-exception when initiasing old categorised shares [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Remove accidental invocation of the get-networks Vuze RPC when running in classic UI [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Remove null-pointer-exception in TCP connection manager [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix subscription auto-download with sites where supplied referer caused error [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Click area for Friend's "chat thought bubble" was wrong, preventing click to chat in some cases [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Fix share of vuze content (users could only share non-vuze content) [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Column Setup visual fixes for gtk [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Revert category buttons to working state [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed memory leak in All-Peers view [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed resource disposal in config view causing some status bar icons to not draw [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: Core | Remove various debug-spew [Parg]

Changes from v4.0.0.4 -> v4.1.0.0

• FEATURE: Core | New FP Ignore rule: Ignore 1st Priority after X hours of idle upload speed (default 24h) [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: Core | Support for loading torrents when the HTTP response is an error (like 404, 500) but the data is still a torrent [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: UIvz | Support multiple Content Networks [parg,tuxpaper]
• FEATURE: UI | Experimental neuronal speed algorithm [Gudy]
• FEATURE: UI | Added AS/ASN peer column [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | Added properties view to buddies avatar widget [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | Control+I in library to open torrent info (torrent details) page [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: Plug | Share categories with friends as subscriptions [Parg]
• FEATURE: Plug | Support table column removal [Parg]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added getComputerName method [Parg]
• FEATURE: Plug | Cache connected friend details for faster reconnect on startup [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Pulled out Vuze related operations into ContentNetwork [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Go to CDP when torrent unauthorised if possible [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Added date field an modified case of response HTTP headers to improve behaviour of SSDP clients [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Limit # of stalled 'seeding' torrents to prevent cases where all completed torrents could start up [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: Core | Give stalled torrents a seeding rank handicap based on how long they've been stalled for [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UI | (Memory) Images that are unused after 60 seconds are now disposed of [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UI | Fixed regression of Auto Open Tabs not opening seeding torrents (Config option now split) [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UI | Bring back classic-share menu for non-basic mode users [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Setting files as do-not-download was deleting files [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | IPv6 compact tracker support [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix possible deadlock in generic connection handling [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Disable if-modified logic when editting RSS search templates to allow retrieval of results [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Clear down TLS stuff to reduce memory usage when plugins unloaded [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed rare case where table rows would display blank [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed 'close all details' in classic UI [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Prevent constuction of mytorrents context menu from flipping download stats [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fix cursor transition in table cell [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fix incorrect handling of weak references for UI views that resulted in them never being released [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Plug | Various fixes to correctly release unloaded plugin resources [Parg]

Changes from v4.0.0.2 -> v4.0.0.4

• FEATURE: UIvz | Ability to change List modes in View menu [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: UI | Added a 'mark all results unread' menu item [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | Added specification of data save directory to config wizard [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Added subscription support to customisations [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Added an 'azplug' URL protocol to allow plugins to handle URLs [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Allow subscriptions to handle azplug protocols thus allowing plugins to be the source of subscription content [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Allow magnet links in search results [Parg]
• CHANGE: UIvz | Deleting via toolbar now lets you apply action to all selected entries [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UIvz | Search bar shrinks a bit when there's not enough width to display all toolbar buttons [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UI | Date Column auto-sizer now shows day of month (mm/dd) instead of year (yy/mm) when column is small [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: Core | Only show feed errors after 3 consecutive fails to avoid distracting transient errors [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Add asset hash to subscriptions and auto-associate existing content on subscribe if avail [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Various performance improvements [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Modify DHT size calc algorithm to take account of firewalled contact [Parg]
• CHANGE: Plug | Assume buddies support chat [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | "Mark All Watched" now only affects completed content (which is also what Unwatched only shows) [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Fix Global Rating column not sorting properly [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | (Mac) Fixed closing sidebar entries sometimes showing a blank area instead of selecting a new sidebar entry [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Fixed bug where "My Library" info bar displayed on Downloading sidebar entry [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Fix some notification entries losing their related avatar image [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Log View's "Show Config" button wasn't going to proper config section [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIvz | Fix default visible columns, order, and sort column for new installs for "Advanced" library Lists [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | "Show Time" state on date columns now remembered accross sessions [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fix "Pieces" column in Library view not updating unless you clicked it [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Info tab in Torrent Details now displays more columns that it couldn't before (like share ratio) [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Localize the date in the subscription view correctly [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Synchonize access to file operations so that an close op can't be interleaved with file facade switching and bork disk channel operation [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Filter out duplicate skew reports to get more accurate figures [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Avoid NPE in chat when buddy unauthorised [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Preserve argument case in magnet link operations [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix mem leak when DHT router IP changed [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Plug | Use UTF-8 when decoding plugin descriptions [Parg]

Changes from v3.1.1.0 -> v4.0.0.0

• FEATURE: Core | Async request processing for non-blocking tracker [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Support HTTP redirects between http/https protocols in resource downloader [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Add content to UPnP authentication dialogs [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Support PList mods for app registration on OSX [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Added http auth helper to support authenticated search templates/subscriptions [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Fix built in RSS feed parser to handle Atom feeds [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | RSS based search templates [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Light weight seeds to allow seeding of simple content such as subscriptions [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Subscriptions [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Added a 'prefer UDP connections' option [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Config options for max queued outgoing connections [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Support dht:// URL protocol [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Advanced options for specifying TCP select timeouts [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | Added "Column Setup" icon to the iconbar [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | New console command - "plugin". Displays plugin information and can toggle startup status [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | Console command "show" can now filter to list only torrents which are transferring [amc1]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | SideBar (F7 to Hide/Show) [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | New ToolBar with hideable text [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Library now has Large and Small view modes. Small view mode is classic My Torrents [TuxPaper]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added option to remove originators IP address from stored values [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Improve app startup time [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Make full name and namespace URI available to simple XML parser users [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Improved handling of mixed IPv4 and IPv6 bindings [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | New option to refresh UPnP mappings when we become firewalled [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Improve performance with single data source dispatch aggregator [Parg]
• CHANGE: UI | Debug messages are no longer displayed by default when running the console UI [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | The comment icon column now displays a blank icon if there is no comment (rather than no icon) [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Delete priority is now properly reflected in the Priority column [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | Faster Startup [parg,TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | Reduced UI memory footprint [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | Friends moved to the bottom of the sidebar [Khai]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | All table views (Library, Notifications) now use native table widget [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: Plug | Essential plugins are now automatically re-enabled if previously disabled by user [amc1] the "Start / Stop Rules" plugin was disabled by users in the past, this was causing torrents to be stuck in "waiting" state
• CHANGE: Plug | New command line option - "azureus.safemode", to disable lots of functionality when debugging problems [amc1]
• CHANGE: Plug | Client ID plugin is removed [amc1]
• CHANGE: Plug | New command line option - "azureus.loadplugins", to skip plugins being loaded at startup [amc1]
• CHANGE: Plug | Accept store operations from furher away contacts to decrease store fails [Parg]
• CHANGE: Plug | Evict contacts sooner from DHT router to improve liveness [Parg]
• CHANGE: Plug | Delay DHT task init to save memory [Parg]
• CHANGE: Plug | Finer-mesh for DHT network position derived tracking [Parg]
• CHANGE: Plug | De-prioritise DHT tracker put ops [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed problem on Vista where "Failed to establish listen on port UDP:xxxxx" errors may be reported [parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Treat any address binds as no bind IP when rewriting URLs [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Added third party impressions urls for torrent ads [JR]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fix timer cancellation behaviour [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed DND deleting files in single-file torrents [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed occasional deadlocks on startup under linux [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed rare situation where user was prompted for authentication to connect to trackers which didn't need it [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Made the load and unload buttons on the plugin page behave properly [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed problem where queueing rules do not enter "seeding-only" mode when there are queued downloads [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Plug | DHT storage manager key removal fix [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Plug | Various fixes to avoid DHT running out of control under extreme diversifications
• BUGFIX: Plug | Fix magnet download timeouts [Parg]
• BUGFIX; Plug | Fix DHT operation timeout bug introduced when moving to async exec [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Plug | Limit buddy reconnect to avoid thrashing [Parg]

Changes from v3.1.0.0 -> v3.1.1.0

• FEATURE: Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average [The 8472]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat) [Gudy]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Friends Online Status
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend [Gudy]
• CHANGE: Core | Built-in plugins can now be disabled - it didn't work properly in earlier versions [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Create Vivaldi views for each DHT in use [Groundy]
• CHANGE: UI | Added support for rotation in Vivaldi view [Groundy]
• CHANGE: UI | Peers view hostname column now sorts host names by the most significant part first [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | Finished fixes for the new styled dialog which are now default in Vuze/Vuze Advanced [knguyen]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | Added friend icon next to activity entry [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | New plugin bar look (removed arrows, added selectable list all plugin bar views) [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug which stopped downloads being stored in the chosen directory [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug which prevented torrent files from being moved properly [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Reopening torrents does not delete files when setting some of the already existing files to DND anymore [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug which prevented UPnP mappings from being successful when a SOCKS proxy was used [amc1]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed bug where delete icon on toolbar was not present on OSX [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Blank cells are now properly put at the bottom when sorting a table column [amc1]
• BUGFIX: UIv3 | Fixed bottom of list views not repainting properly [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UIv3 | Remove type headers when switching to date sorting [TuxPaper]

Changes from v3.0.5.0 -> v3.1.0.0

• FEATURE: UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph [The 8472]
• FEATURE: UI | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running - torrent will be auto-paused [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | New "rename" action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering [The 8472]
• FEATURE: UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the "Torrent" menu also [amc1]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Friends (sharing, bandwidth boost)
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Greatly Improved Search
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed) [The 8472]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers [amc1]
• CHANGE: Core | added "upload_only" flag to AZMP/LTEP handshakes, disconnect any uploading_only peers we don't need / that don't need us when disconnect seeds when seeding is set [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | Further startup speed improvements [The 8472, amc1, parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Speedup of various file batch operations (priority changes) [amc1, The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | Added option to allow the removal of files linked outside the save directory when removing data [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Column menu option to disable fast renaming in files view, changed fast rename to behave more like the windows explorer [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | In console UI, shrunk help text down to be more concise [amc1]
• CHANGE: UIv3 | Removed Vuze Header (the top plugin bar is still there but you have to turn it on)
• BUGFIX: Core | Made change so that plugins could not inadvertently turn off Azureus extension protocol [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | The UDP tracker client option has been nonfunctional for quite a while now -> fixed [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed various file-priority-change related bugs that resulted in error states [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Stop premature creation of torrent directories before download has started [amc1]

Changes from v3.0.4.2 -> v3.0.5.0

• New Features:
• Core | Added uTorrent PEX support
• Core | Azureus probes trackers for UDP-capabilities on first scrape/announce now and uses udp instead of http where available
• Core | Added option to enforce IP bindings even when the specified interfaces are not available (useful when Azureus should not use certain network interfaces)
• Core | Intervene with http seeds if progressive stall imminent
• Core | Message user on startup if they have installed Azureus to read-only location
• Core | Added dnd status to XML stats
• UI | Added option for "Open Containing Folder" menu action - which may integrate better with non-standard file browsers
• UI | Added option for "Show Torrent Menu" -- Users can now decide to see the Torrent menu in the menubar or not
• UI | Fast Renaming (not moving) in the Files tab (click on name column) and Open Torrent dialog (click on dest. name column)
• UI | Completed downloaders column
• UI | Added start/stop to category menu
• UI | Added per-category speed limits
• UI | Added per-category option setting
• UI | Added multiple-torrent options setting to MyTorrents view
• UIv3 | New menu configuration for Vuze and Vuze Advanced UI's
• UIv3 | Activity Tab
• UIv3 | Vuze Login from client
• Plug | Added Network Status plugin to perform some basic network tests
• Plug | Allow plugins to specify their minimum JDK requirements
• Changes:
• Core | Further memory footprint reductions; for additional tweaks see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Reduce_memory_usage
• Core | Reimplemented LT extension protocol code
• Core | DND/Compact (aka Delete) priority now deletes all files that do not share pieces with normal/high priority files
• Core | Queuing rules now don't start any further torrents if the global up/download speed limits are reached
• Core | Made the crypto handshake a bit less predictable
• Core | Added support for IPv6 compact announces (client) and udp-multiscrapes (client+server)
• Core | Take note of more peer-source selections
• Plug | Added support for plugins which implement mainline DHT
• Corrected bugs:
• Core | Request limiting/Priorities no longer pinch off LAN peers if seperate LAN speeds are enabled
• Core | Increase time Azureus holds open listen socket on close to reduce dual-start window
• Core | Allow ~ character in tracker addresses to support I2P
• Core | Determine app name correctly on OSX so that restart works for renamed apps
• UI | Shells no longer use the low-res frog icon, the normal main window icon is now used instead
• UI | Limiting comments in General View to 5k characters under WinXP to avoid crashes due to faulty comctl32.dll
• UI | Setting speed parameters manually now disables autospeed
• Plug | Encode spaces correctly in get-right web seed urls

Changes from v3.0.4.0 -> v3.0.4.2

• FEATURE: UI | Added "Check Files Exist" menu option [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Perform low resource usage tracking of online torrents for swarm cross-population purposes [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Added option to disable download speed focus [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | Reduced memory usage for many-torrent instances [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | Multiple selected torrent export now works [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed IP filters not working when ALLOW instead of DENY was used [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Improve rebuffering behaviour when real-time pieces are too slow for any peers to get in time [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Ensure minimum buffer requirements are factored into ETA calculation [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Eliminated various memory leaks [The 8472]

Changes from v3.0.3.4 -> v3.0.4.0

• FEATURE: Core | Reconnect to peers after unexpected disconnect / recover stats of recently disconnected peers [Parg,The 8472]
• FEATURE: Core | Global download speed limit can also limit the number of outgoing requests, this should improve TCP performance [The 8472]
• does not work with auto-speed since an explicit download speed-limit must be set
• downloads from as few peers as possible when the global limit is reached
• prioritizes downloads which are on the head of the queue
• FEATURE: Core | IP binding now provides primitive round-robin load balancing for users with multiple internet connections; accepts interface names and IPv6 binding (if supported on the platform) [The 8472]
• FEATURE: Core | Embed ChangeLog.txt in release jar [Nolar]
• FEATURE: UI | Column menu option to automatically put contents of cell into the tooltip [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | Piece distribution view is now also available as a peer subview [The 8472]
• FEATURE: UI | Added 'time remaining' column to peers view [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | Added option to suppress file download dialog [khai]
• FEATURE: UI | Various progress reports have been unified; main status bar can display progress for certain processes now [khai]
• FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can now change the color of rows [amc1]
• FEATURE: Plug | Plugins can add configuration colour parameters [amc1]
• CHANGE: Core | Attempt to re-open a file when access fails to try and recover from a transient error [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Auto speed default is now the new 'beta' (v2) algorithm [ranul]
• CHANGE: Core | Revised piece picking code to deal better with some edge cases and snubbed peers [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | Share Ratio/min Seeds ignore rule now applies even when no tracker scrape is available [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | Added private torrent indicator to the general tab [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | Logging Consoles now have regex-based filters [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | Tweaked table views to use a bit less memory and run better when items are being quickly removed/added [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | Don't hang UI redraw if file access is slow [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed inconsistencies in the Torrent Open Dialog related to renaming and retargeting files and directories [The 8472]

Changes from v3.0.3.0 -> v3.0.3.4

• FEATURE: UI | Added "All Peers" view [amc1]
• CHANGE: Core | Added workarounds for some buggy UPnP router implementations [parg]
• CHANGE: UI | NAT status bar indicator and health icons now ignore UDP and LAN-local connections [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug where a torrent's save location is "forgotten" when a recheck is done in some circumstances [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed MacOSX playback bug [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed update restart bug [Parg]

Changes from v3.0.2.2 -> v3.0.3.0

• FEATURE: Core | Added experimental support for LibTorrent extension protocol handshake [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | Added available disk space indicators to the torrent open dialog (requires Java 1.6) [The 8472]
• FEATURE: UI | Added "handshake reserved bytes" column in peer view [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | Added "Open Transfer Bar on start" and "Remember Transfer Bar" location options [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | Added http-seed config to torrent creation wizard [Parg]
• FEATURE: UIv3 | Embedded Media Player [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: Core | Speedup hash-checking by ~30% / less CPU usage [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | More improvements to client identification code [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Provide both "per-torrent" and "across-torrents" speed menu options [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Speed improvements for menu generation and changing file priority in "Files" view [amc1]
• CHANGE: Plug | Plugins can now dynamically register language resource bundles [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | Allow minibars to stick to any screen border in multi monitor setups [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug when trying to add torrents with semi-colon characters in filename [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | LAN peer detection for explicit IP addresses was broken [Parg]

Changes from v3.0.2.0 -> v3.0.2.2

• CHANGE: UI | Improved usability of speed scale widget. [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UI | Restored reposition functionality of torrent context menus [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: Core | *nix: Allowing multi-instance now works again [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: Core | IPv6 DHT v4 pollution fix [Parg]
• BUGFIX: UI | MacOSX: Fixed not remembering user turned off Maximized state [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | MacOSX: Fixed Drag and Drop for moving torrents in My Torrents view [TuxPaper]
• BUGFIX: UI | A few config pages had their labels missing [TuxPaper]

Changes from v2.5.0.4 -> v3.0.2.0

• FEATURE: Core | Act on suspend/resume events on Windows [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Added new AZ message to inform of bad pieces [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | Added new stacked HAVE message to reduce peer-peer overhead [Parg]
• FEATURE: Core | IPv6 support - dht, version server, tracker and improved transport [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | New "Torrent" menu in the menu bar [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | New "Piece Distribution" subview in the pieces tab [The 8472]
• FEATURE: UI | Auto-speed ping views in Tools->Statistics->Transfers when Auto Speed is enabled [Parg]
• FEATURE: UI | "Clear Resume Data" menu option added [amc1]
• FEATURE: UI | "Clear remembered save paths" option added (for the Open Torrent dialog) [amc1]
• CHANGE: Core | Optimise memory usage for single-file downloads [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Optimise memory usage for queued torrents (no need to keep resume data in memory) [Parg]
• CHANGE: Core | Much better peer ID identification code added, many more clients now correctly identified [amc1]
• CHANGE: Core | Changes made to identify some "fake" clients (or other clients which identify themselves in a problematic way) [amc1]
• CHANGE: Core | Biased optimistic disconnect slightly against leechy peers [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | Core changes in some places to allow "Default save path" to be used without requiring "Use default data dir" to be enabled [hasturkun]
• CHANGE: Core | Reduce CPU usage when many (queued) torrents are present and in the the pieces view [The 8472]
• CHANGE: Core | *nix: New startup script to detect Gecko/XULRunner and to allow better restarting [TuxPaper]
• CHANGE: UI | UL/DL speed selection on right click of status bar changed from menu to scale widget. [TuxPaper] Usage: (1) MouseDown+Drag+MouseUp (2) Click+Move+Click (3) Click+type number+Enter
• CHANGE: UI | Open Torrent Window now asks to create directories if they don't exist yet, instead of evilly auto-creating them when you click the Browse button [The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | Added download status, distributed copies and completed piece count to the General torrent view [amc1, The 8472]
• CHANGE: UI | User Comment field more useful in General torrent view - easy edit link, hyperlink formatting, auto-resizing [amc1]
• CHANGE: UI | "Show Transfer Bar" menu option is now a checkbox menu item - so you can now hide the transfer bar using the menu item [amc1]
• CHANGE: Plug | Added setVisible method for plugin menu items [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug where renaming a download for a single file torrent would sometimes cause data to get out of sync and cause file errors [amc1]
• BUGFIX: Core | Allow pipelined http seed requests to switch torrents [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Bootstrap DHT better when no contacts [Parg]
• BUGFIX: Core | Fixed bug where renaming a download in some conditions would generate "Target is sub-directory" errors [amc1]
• BUGFIX: UI | Fixed swarm view rendering bug where some incomplete peers were shown as full circles [The 8472]
• BUGFIX: Plug | Fixed bug where previously removed child menu items would still be present when generating some menus [amc1]

Changes from v2.5.0.0 -> v2.5.0.4

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

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