Azureus Changelog

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Old Version of Azureus can be found here at http://www.oldapps.com

For cplete changelog pelase go here: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/changelog.php

2.4.0.2

New Features:

* Core | Make default recheck behaviour after crash only check pieces active at last save point plus config to revert to old behaviour of checking everything
* Core | Attempt to repair invalid port #s returned from trackers potentially improving outgoing connection success rate
* UI | Allow some selection of split data/protocol stats in some views

Changes:

* Core | Improved payload data vs. protocol overhead byte accounting
* Core | Remove option to truncate files when setting to do-not-download as too many users confused by this
* Core | Pick up alerts raised during closedown and give user chance to see them
* Core | Improved optimistic disconnect algorithm in several ways - should speed up single seed torrents
* Core | Only remove temp files created by Azureus in the "tmp" dir as some users placing files in there
* Core | Resumed downloads now placed into queued state rather than started
* Core | Improved magnet download potential
* Plug | Added vendor id to DHT packets and increased version appropriately
* Plug | Warn if UPnP port removal is slow as this can hang AZ closedown
* UI | Add NAT Test item to OSX "Azureus" menu
* UI | Filter-as-you-type is now more visible
* UI | "Show In Explorer" on a Folder now opens to show what's in the folder
* UI | Mr. Slidey formats URLs to clickable links
* UI | Language Selection on first visible screen after initial installation
* UI | Reduced the # of windows popping up at once on first run after installation

Corrected bugs:

* Core | Ensure SO_REUSEADDR is set when binding during NAT test
* Core | Retain data from terribly slow senders
* Core | Fixed a case of potentially becoming uninterested in peers incorrectly
* Core | Prevent infinite recursion and breakage of some file systems when moving torrent's data into a folder inside itself
* Core | Improve fingerprint performance of shares
* Core | Prevent reporting of double completion events to tracker under some circumstances
* Core | Ensure DNS timeouts are set as early as possible as they weren't working
* Core | Change per-torrent max peers so that values shown correctly in UI and also allow unlimited override
* Core | Fix bug in crypto stream that could lead to corruption
* Core | Strip unwanted attributes from imported torrents such as "file name"
* Core | Ignore invalid Vivaldi coords that are too small
* Core | Default to trivial url in torrent if it is missing
* Core | Fix initialisation sequence problem that was causing startup errors if config corrupt
* Core | Apply correct permissions when updated to Windows prog dir to fix multi-user problems on update
* Core | Downloads stopped during seeding recheck sometimes came back as 99.x% complete
* Core | Fix up timers on clock change to ensure announce and scrape work ok (amongst others)
* Plug | Column dispose listener wasn't being called when there was no cell dispose listener
* UI | Fixed window size/position not always being saved
* UI | Fix default language: Use same language from diff. country when user's lang/country doesn't exist
* UI | Fixed new table rows getting last graphic cell's image
* UI | Column sort is now case-insensitive (again) for text columns
* UI | Fix number display Seeds2Peer column (when radio is really small)
* UI | Fixed Drag and Drop. Should work in Windows and Linux.
* UI | Mr. Slidey no longer slides from (on slide-in) or onto (on slide-out) a different monitor


Version Azureus v2
2.0.3.0 Changes:

* Azureus now uses chunks of 16k, instead of 32k
* You have to choose a nick for irc now, nicks like user12345 are not generated anymore
* Multi-Tracker support.

Corrected bugs :

* Overall code improvement
* Corrected some memory leak with the GUI
* Piece availability unstability
* Connection / deconnection from peers after an update
* Password protection broken while opening a torrent

New Features:

* Automatically setting file priority according to extension
* Irc tab displays a flashing '!' when there are new messages
* Displays amount of discarded data
* Displays the 'comment' field of some torrent files
* Added a 'Do not download' priority level for files
* Priority setting of each torrent is restored after restart
* Order added in 'my torrents' view and restored after restart
* Ability to change the torrent order (usefull when queueing for example)
* Downloaded-uploaded amount is saved.
* Share-ratio is computed.
* Ability to stop seeding after a given share-ratio is reached (at least 1)
* Ability to stop seeding if there is more than 1 seed per N peers (N:1 to 5)
* Ability to start seeding if there is less than 1 seed per N peers(N:6 to 15)

Internationalisation: Russian (limited)
2.0.2.7 Added possibility to change tracker URL
Fast resume now saves downloading pieces
Corrected memory usage of the GUI
Corrected upload freezes
Several bug fixes.
2.0.2.6 Added password support
Corrected some bugs (upload problems)
Corrected some memory problems
Internationalisation: Traditional Chinese.
2.0.2.5 Three new options available on startup:

* Open console on startup
* Open configuration on startup
* Start minimized

Added IRC features:

* /help : displays the help message
* /nick | /name : changes your name
* /me action : sends an action
* /msg nick message : sends a private message to
* /r message : reply to last private message
* /join #channel : changes current channel

2.0.2.4 Added an IRC client: Pircbot
2.0.2.3 Fixed some connection freezes
File checking is 250% faster now
2.0.2.2 Official release with 2.0.2.1 changes
Fixed connection stability problems and improves overall performance
Fast resume data saved in a regular interval
Torrents should not freeze the GUI anymore
Files are not locked anymore when allocation is interrupted
Auto Updater only looks for newer versions
Fixed several bugs
Internationalisation: Danish, Italian
2.0.2.1 Filename encodings can be chosen and saved
Chinese and Polish support should be working now, please test
Azureus should be closed within a few seconds
GUI is updated during downloading a new upgrade
Azureus window is restored if azureus.exe or just org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main is rerun
(ie. lost System Tray Icon can be restored by starting Azureus again (without stopping))
Configuration dialog is scrollable
Added Internet links to About window
Close Window minimizes to System Tray can be disabled
Minimize Window to System Tray added
Added splash screen (can be disabled)
2.0.2.0 Fixed several bugs
Duplicate torrents (already in the list) cannot be added
The download and upload speed is always updated if main window is visible
The size of the columns in My Torrents are saved now
Added minimize and maximize buttons to the main window
Added download bar snapping
Config path is $HOME/.azureus under linux
Automatic opening of the Update window can be disabled
Update window can be opened by clicking on the red version info
Added Help menu and About window
Less cpu and memory usage
Internationalisation: Finnish
2.0.1.1 Fixed several bugs
Closed file handles
Less cpu and memory usage
The size and position of the main window is saved now
Added a progress bar and a manual download link to the Upgrade window
Internationalisation: you can choose between English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish now
Internationalisation: limited support for Polish and Chinese
2.0.1.0 Official release with 2.0.0.9 changes
Added spanish language support.
2.0.0.9 Corrected most (if not all) memory leaks problems.
Drag and drop support.
Multiple torrent selection in 'My torrents' view.
Corrected a bug with files of length 0.
Corrected a bug with small torrents (smaller than one piece).
Modified the socket scheduling / Speed limitation process (should be more consistent now).
Changed the way single file torrents are handled, so you can choose a different filename.
2.0.0.8 Bug fixes.
2.0.0.7 Added a files view.
Completion of most advanced files first (still following the rarest first rule).
Priority on files.
2.0.0.6 Added sorting on the 'details' tab (peers list).

[roipatrick]

4.2.0.2 - April 9, 2009

New Features:

None.

Changes:

None.

Corrected bugs:

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

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4.2.0.0 - March 22, 2009

New Features:

- Core | Devices
- UIvz | UI for Devices panel, individual Device panel, Device chooser, and Device Profile Chooser
- Plug | Transcoding

Changes:

None.

Corrected bugs:

- Core | Fix IP binding error when performing a NAT test under Vista
- UIvz | Fix some notifications not getting pulled

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4.1.0.4 - February 24, 2009

New Features:

- UI | Donation Window

Changes:

- UI | Updated Translations

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4.1.0.2 - February 5, 2009

New Features:

- UI | Config option for max stalled seeding torrents (was hardcoded in 4100)

Changes:

- Core | Remove various debug-spew

Corrected bugs:

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

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4.1.0.0 - January 26, 2009

New Features:

- Core | New FP Ignore rule: Ignore 1st Priority after X hours of idle upload speed (default 24h)
- Core | Support for loading torrents when the HTTP response is an error (like 404, 500) but the data is still a torrent
- UIvz | Support multiple Content Networks
- UI | Experimental neuronal speed algorithm
- UI | Added AS/ASN peer column
- UI | Added properties view to buddies avatar widget
- UI | Control+I in library to open torrent info (torrent details) page
- Plug | Share categories with friends as subscriptions
- Plug | Support table column removal
- Plug | Added getComputerName method
- Plug | Cache connected friend details for faster reconnect on startup

Changes:

- Core | Pulled out Vuze related operations into ContentNetwork
- Core | Go to CDP when torrent unauthorised if possible
- Core | Added date field an modified case of response HTTP headers to improve behaviour of SSDP clients
- Core | Limit # of stalled 'seeding' torrents to prevent cases where all completed torrents could start up
- Core | Give stalled torrents a seeding rank handicap based on how long they've been stalled for
- UI | (Memory) Images that are unused after 60 seconds are now disposed of
- UI | Fixed regression of Auto Open Tabs not opening seeding torrents (Config option now split)
- UI | Bring back classic-share menu for non-basic mode users

Corrected bugs:

- Core | Setting files as do-not-download was deleting files
- Core | IPv6 compact tracker support
- Core | Fix possible deadlock in generic connection handling
- Core | Disable if-modified logic when editting RSS search templates to allow retrieval of results
- Core | Clear down TLS stuff to reduce memory usage when plugins unloaded
- UI | Fixed rare case where table rows would display blank
- UI | Fixed 'close all details' in classic UI
- UI | Prevent constuction of mytorrents context menu from flipping download stats
- UI | Fix cursor transition in table cell
- UI | Fix incorrect handling of weak references for UI views that resulted in them never being released
- Plug | Various fixes to correctly release unloaded plugin resources

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4.0.0.4 - November 21, 2008

New Features:

- UIvz | Ability to change List modes in View menu
- UI | Added a 'mark all results unread' menu item
- UI | Added specification of data save directory to config wizard
- Core | Added subscription support to customisations
- Core | Added an 'azplug' URL protocol to allow plugins to handle URLs
- Core | Allow subscriptions to handle azplug protocols thus allowing plugins to be the source of subscription content
- Core | Allow magnet links in search results

Changes:

- UIvz | Deleting via toolbar now lets you apply action to all selected entries
- UIvz | Search bar shrinks a bit when there's not enough width to display all toolbar buttons
- UI | Date Column auto-sizer now shows day of month (mm/dd) instead of year (yy/mm) when column is small
- Core | Only show feed errors after 3 consecutive fails to avoid distracting transient errors
- Core | Add asset hash to subscriptions and auto-associate existing content on subscribe if avail
- Core | Various performance improvements
- Core | Modify DHT size calc algorithm to take account of firewalled contact
- Plug | Assume buddies support chat

Corrected bugs:

- UIvz | "Mark All Watched" now only affects completed content (which is also what Unwatched only shows)
- UIvz | Fix Global Rating column not sorting properly
- UIvz | (Mac) Fixed closing sidebar entries sometimes showing a blank area instead of selecting a new sidebar entry
- UIvz | Fixed bug where "My Library" info bar displayed on Downloading sidebar entry
- UIvz | Fix some notification entries losing their related avatar image
- UIvz | Log View's "Show Config" button wasn't going to proper config section
- UIvz | Fix default visible columns, order, and sort column for new installs for "Advanced" library Lists
- UI | "Show Time" state on date columns now remembered accross sessions
- UI | Fix "Pieces" column in Library view not updating unless you clicked it
- UI | Info tab in Torrent Details now displays more columns that it couldn't before (like share ratio)
- UI | Localize the date in the subscription view correctly
- Core | Synchonize access to file operations so that an close op can't be interleaved with file facade switching and bork disk channel operation
- Core | Filter out duplicate skew reports to get more accurate figures
- Core | Avoid NPE in chat when buddy unauthorised
- Core | Preserve argument case in magnet link operations
- Core | Fix mem leak when DHT router IP changed
- Plug | Use UTF-8 when decoding plugin descriptions