2.5.0.0 - August 21, 2006

New Features:

  • Core | Reduced CPU usage, especially in some unusual conditions
  • Core | Explicit local subnet and peer injection option for Lan Peer Finder
  • Core | Auto upload speed
  • Core | DND completion handled better
  • Core | Added option for per-torrent max upload speed when upload busy
  • Core | Ranges allowed for port listing to ignore peers from.
  • Core | Added option to move completed download on removal
  • Core | Signed updates for increased security
  • Core | UDP fallback on connection fail
  • Core | Support for initial crypto tracker spec
  • Core | Faster queued torrent startup
  • Core | Option to disable tracker support for full-scrape
  • Core | Added ability to rename the directory save name for a multi-file torrent
  • UI | File pieces shown in files view
  • UI | Ability to best guess folder you want to save torrent data to based on existing torrents
  • UI | Filter for Config Options
  • UI | "Help -> Generate Debug Info" to help us solve bugs
  • UI | Ability to customise the speed intervals for download / upload speed menus
  • UI | Ability to rename the displayed title of a download
  • UI | "date added", "idle up", "idle down", "req in", "req out" colmns added to MyTorrents
  • UI | manual file recheck order
  • UI | Option to remember passwords
  • UI | OSX: Open .torrent files into Azureus via Finder/Desktop/etc
  • UI | Option to send popup message when download of a torrent (or individual file) has completed
  • UI | Ability to change behaviour of popups: auto-hide behaviour and adding timestamp to messages
  • UI | Torrent-info panel added to show MyTorrent's column attributes in a single place. Torrent encoding moved from General tab to here
  • UI | Progress warning to user when long file operations in progress that would otherwise hang the UI
  • Plug | Simple NAT-PMP implementation

Changes:

  • Core | Reduced starting many pieces instead of completing current ones
  • Core | Further modifications to optimistic disconnect algorithm
  • Core | Longer scrape delays:
  • Core | Asynchronous existing torrent loading at startup (makes startup feel faster)
  • Core | Disk read cache disabled by default
  • Core | Better detection of unix OSes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc) and custom ports that do not conform to our install structure
  • UI | More time periods in folder-rescan list
  • UI | Option to hide toolbar
  • UI | Option to disable program icon for name column (may speed up OSX users)
  • Plug | Use UPnP to read external IP address if possible

Corrected bugs:

  • Core | Fix for pieces not completing due to too many snubbed peers
  • Core | Better handling of invalid peer/seed count from tracker
  • Core | ed2k hash wrong on block boundaries
  • Core | upload slot default now applied correctly (was fixed at torrent add time)
  • Core | Various seeding rules fixes, mostly related to Seed:Peer ratio, 1st Priority, or 'None' ranking mode
  • UI | speed graphics failing on high speeds
  • UI | Per-torrent options view now synced with global defaults and has "reset" button
  • UI | Slide-in alert message not closeable (GTK+ users)
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