Website: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Software Provider: Azureus Development Team Current Version: Azureus Vuze 4.0.0.2 Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista License: Freeware Learn More...
Core | Ability to add an alternative max-torrent-limit when seeding
Core | DHT NAT punching for firewalled peers
Core | Ability to rename and redirect files within a torrent
Core | Compact storage for do not download files
Core | Magnet URI protocol registration under windows
Plug | UPnP plugin will warn if it discovers a router that has known protocol problems
Plug | Magnet URI accessor method added to Torrent
Plug | Added launchable plugins that can be used to start Azureus
Plug | Added single-instance management function
Plug | Made some platform-specific functions available to plugins
Plug | Ability to add Swing based interfaces as plugin views
UI | Console UI support for viewing specific plugin logs
UI | Beginner configuration user mode provides a simplified interface
UI | Support for --closedown parameter to org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main to closedown an existing AZ instance
UI | Added Average Peer Completion percentage column to MyTorrents view and Details view
UI | Added NAT status icon to status area
UI | Indicate potential DHT port problems in SWT status area
UI | Added swarm average to activity view plus a legend
UI | Console support for listing shares improved, deleting of shares added
Changes:
Core | Countermeasures against swarm DOS/poisoning
Core | Health status for swarms where all known peers are connected now reported as OK
Core | Friendly hash-checking option now only applied during recheck operations and delay based on piece size
Core | Don't automatically remove directory contents shares if they (appear to) have been deleted
Core | Improved algorithm for detecting DHT port reachability
Core | DHT - removed cache-distance metrics and added value versions to handle value evolution correctly
Core | Reduced thread count by aggregating async listener dispatchers
Core | Major refactoring of Download and Disk managers
Core | Download totals don't include hash fails and discards and aren't included in share-ratio calculation
Core | Max simultaneous outbound connection attempts option no longer accepts zero as a disable value
Core | Under OSX, new bundle launches using the Java Preferences application configured JVM, enabling JRE 5.0 support
Core | Under Windows, now runs via a launcher built by exe4j - taskmanager process is now Azureus.exe
Plug | Major refactoring of plugin interface to separate out UI-level and core-level stuff
UI | Update to the latest release SWT library (3.1.1)
Corrected bugs:
Core | Fix interested flag being set sometimes when seeding
Core | Wrong file name returned for stopped simple torrents
Core | Seeder/leecher counts missing for published torrents
Core | Stats going negative for hosted torrent average up/down
Core | Fix piece request ignore bug
Core | Fixed DHT initialisation hang if port already in use
Core | Don't allow prohibited peer sources to be enabled (ui artifact only)
Core | Fixed too many socket selectors created when in safe selector mode
Core | Fixed re-announce interval when receiving failure reason error response from tracker
Core | Fixed and improved restarts under OSX (and linux)
Core | Fixed and improved one-to-one LAN transfer speeds
Plug | UPnP fix for picking up changed network interfaces
UI | Fixed 100% CPU problem with download bars
UI | Fixed UI foregrounding itself on every unverified localhost:6880 socket connection attempt
UI | Create-torrent wizard fix for multi-torrent checkbox enabling error
About:
Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client, with support for I2P and Tor anonymous communication protocols. It currently supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix. Azureus was started at Sourceforge.net mostly to experiment with the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse, in June 2003. It is possibly the most popular of all BitTorrent clients.
Azureus allows the user to download multiple files in a single graphical user interface (GUI). The program also features detailed statistics and a large number of user-configurable settings. While downloading a torrent, the user can view many different statistics.
Azureus Features:
Multiple torrent downloads
Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
Advanced seeding rules
Adjustable disk cache
Only uses one port for all the torrents
UPnP sets the forward on your router
Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
Fast resume
Can set a default download dir and move completed files
Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
Highly customizable interface
IRC plugin included for quick help
Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)...
Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline.
