New Features:

• Core | Disk cache
• Core | Ability to set IP type-of-service (TOS) field for outbound data
• Core | Show current upload and download limits in status area
• Core | Locale selection - options to add in all defined encodings + show lax list
• Core | Change the incoming data port without restarting
• Core | Display "warning message" responses in announce replies
• Core | Added option for tracker to perform a connectability check to peers
• Core | Have message aggregation, for bandwidth savings/efficiency
• Core | Torrent HTTP urls now accepted as program command line parameter
• Core | Option added to disable system tray
• Core | Concurrent hashing for >1 CPU
• Core | Added ability to not outward connect to a defined set of port numbers
• Core | SOCKS V4, V4a and V5 (no auth/user+password methods) support for outgoing data connections
• Core | Torrents created by Azureus now include .utf-8 fields
• Core | Dynamic piece request queue scaling
• Core | Added torrent name to authentication dialog
• Core | Per-torrent upload speed limits
• Core | Ability to change the sound played on torrent completion added
• Core | Added session uptime to stats
• UI | 'Download' menu added with start/stop all + pause/resume options
• UI | Table col sort order default option added, thanks to Charnobo!
• UI | URL Downloader window now support to set-up referrer and saves last used referrers
• UI | New Statistic page about the disk cache (yeah more CPU consuming graphs)
• UI | Down/Up speed indicators in main view are now double-clickable to open the Stats View
• UI | Added Path and # Remaining Pieces to Files view, Tracker Name to MyTorrents view
• Plug | webui support for torrent encoding choice
• Plug | Tracker torrent stats available via xml/http interface

Changes:

• Core | Show time to re-announce/scrape in general view using hh::mm::ss
• Core | Timeout tracker server operations
• Core | Torrent opener will now report errors opening torrents better
• Core | Complete core networking/messaging rewrite
• Core | Stop scrape on UDP V2 torrents when download running
• Core | Refactor of DiskManager
• Core | Protocol tweaking for significantly reduced discard rates
• Core | Tracker now treats port value of 0 as 'explicitly firewalled'
• Core | Tracker client will revert to "initialised" state after explicit failure from tracker
• Core | Locale selection changed to show more possible encodings
• Core | XML stats - downloads ordered by downloading/index then seeding/index
• Core | Reworked connection establishment to conform to new WinXP SP2 limits
• Core | When restarting torrents are checked in smallest->largest size
• Core | Reworked the piece picking so that slow peers don't "block" pieces to be completed
• Core | JAR signing for webui (etc) now based on "tools.jar" from Sun JDK due to changes with their 1.5 JRE
• Core | "Pause" command now greyed out if there is nothing to pause
• Core | Create-torrent wizard now remembers comment data on back button + defaults for open/save dirs
• Core | Reduced memory used of ipfilter list to help support large list sizes
• Core | Added "*.*" to list of selectable file types in open-torrent dialogs
• UI | Added a legend to the Pieces View
• UI | Pieces View now display if the blocks are in the cache or not
• UI | New Tools menu, Configuration --> Options, Plugins root menu, Language selection moved to config
• Plug | UPnP plugin now only uses plugin interfaces
• Plug | Differentiate UDP and TCP mappings in UPnP desc as some routers need this
• Plug | UpdateLanguagePlugin removed, as no longer maintained

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Throw an error message if existing data file length is too large
• Core | Fix new bug with tracker announce every 10s when no peers were connected
• Core | Fix for renaming files across volumes
• Core | Torrent auto-import now works with console UI
• Core | Bug when setting upload to unlimited (forced download to unlimited too)
• Core | Set downloaded amount correctly when opening a torrent with existing download data
• Core | Detect changed file sizes (smaller) when resuming torrents
• Core | Random shuffling of multi-tracker torrent URLs fixed
• Core | Fix occasional 60sec delay on initial tracker announce
• Core | Fix for reading piece data from a too-long file
• Core | Stop scraping all announce URLs in a torrent when removing torrent
• Core | File handle closing
• UI | Labels with '&' displaying incorrectly
• UI | Torrent Downloader Window : retry button now placed correctly
• UI | Fix for clicking the plugins directory and open the folder from the Configuration>Plugins view
• UI | Fix for animated message windows not being at the right place on dual monitors.
• Plug | Netgear WGT624 was crashing when processing UPnP requests
• Plug | Webui 'view' mode wasn't working
• Plug | Webui - excessively long status text messing up table
• Plug | azplugins - web tracker pages wasn't picking up "show details" option
• Plug | webui - fixed bug with re-ordering of columns