BitTorrent Changelog

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Version Notes

* 2006-05-02: 4.9.2-beta released for Windows, Linux
Changes in this release:
o completely new UI
o smart download/queuing behavior
o smart seeding behavior
o torrent priority system
o detailed progress bar and "piece bar" progress bar
o better save location management ("incomplete" and "finished" locations)
o automatic bandwidth management
o download rate control
o transfer rate graphs
o choose which files to download first from a torrent
o better error handling and reporting
o fast extensions (see bittorrent.org)
o torrent "title" support (see bittorrent.org)
o multiple tracker support
o encryption support
o Zeroconf ("Rendezvous") local discovery
o sparse files
o threaded Disk IO
o translation update system
o now using wxWidgets instead of GTK on Windows, GUI is now native and should be a lot more stable
o removed support for Python 2.2
o lots of bug fixes


* 2006-02-08: 4.4.1 released for OS X
Changes in this release:
o Fixed kernel panics on OS X 10.3
o Universal Plug and Play port forwarding is not yet supported on OS X 10.3.
o Fixed the console log spew on OS X 10.4.

* 2006-02-02: 4.4.1 released for Windows
Changes in this release:
o no longer violates Windows hardware DEP
o Windows installer no longer says "Could not initialize plugins directory"

* 2006-02-02: 4.4.0 released for OSX
Changes in this release:
o all bugfixes and improvements from BitTorrent 4.3 Beta

* 2006-01-31: 4.4.0 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o all bugfixes and improvements from BitTorrent 4.3 Beta
o memory leak fix
o adding Hebrew and Icelandic to the list of complete languages

* 2006-01-24: 4.3.6 released for OSX
Changes in this release:
o all improvements and bugfixes from 4.3.6 for Windows and *nix
o use kqueuereactor; should be a speed improvement

* 2006-01-23: 4.3.6 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o new icons
o twisted 1.3 support
o two fixes to list.remove(x): x not in list bug
o report failure to stop a torrent to the user
o status light respects empty list
o use struct.pack instead of slices; should be a speed improvement
o another BadStatusLine bug fix
o no global upload rate bug fix
o more 'Invalid Menu Handle' cases fixed
o Python 2.2 compatibility fixes
o --upnp config and command-line option
o various minor Windows bugfixes

* 2006-01-06: 4.3.5 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o version check now will upgrade across minor beta versions
o new signal-strength metaphor status light
o IPC bug fixes
o tracker drops pid file; FreeBSD initscript
o fix for the long-standing XP SP2 connection rate
o fix for fastresume error messages
o prevent use of well-known port range (< 1024)
o auto-update launches installer in silent mode
o a number of small bug fixes

* 2005-12-23: 4.3.5 released for OSX
* 2005-12-19: 4.3.4 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o Null byte IPC hack
o status light state machine improved
o a number of small bug fixes

* 2005-12-16: 4.3.3 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o Use DDE for IPC under Windows
o Status light only goes to NAT-ted state after five minutes of network activity with no remote peers
o Now remembers window size and position across invocations, support for --geometry command line argument
o Only set window title and system tray tooltip if they are different
o All bug fixes from 4.2.2

* 2005-12-16: 4.2.2 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o Fix "Invalid Menu Handle" when upgrading from old versions of BitTorrent
o Bug fix to Romanian translation
o Fixed very subtle bug in automatic seeding code
o Bug fix to launchmany-curses under Python 2.2

* 2005-12-09: 4.3.2 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o Fixed bug:
Gdk-ERROR **: file gdkgc-win32.c: line 966 (gdk_win32_hdc_get): should not be reached aborting...
o All windows have correct BitTorrent icons
o Better URL parsing for UPnP
o Fix gzip support broken by --bind bug fix patch
o Removed criminally idiotic error handling code

* 2005-12-05: 4.3.1 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o Included Twisted support accidentally omitted in previous beta which allows UPnP to work
o Command line options for testing auto-update

* 2005-12-02: 4.3.0 released for OSX
Changes in this release:
o All improvements in 4.3.0 for Windows and *nix included, see below

* 2005-12-02: 4.3.0 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o UPnP support (experimental)
o System tray icon on Windows (experimental)
o Start at startup on Windows
o start minimizied
o Internationalized installer
o Massive code reorganization in bittorrent.py
o All GTK 2.4 compatibility code removed, use GTK 2.6 or greater
o Auto-update won't migrate across different minor version numbers
o Improved file list (disabled)
o New internal state file format, storing save_as in torrent_config
o Many string changes and internationalization additions
o Fix for obscure --bind command line bug

* 2005-12-02: 4.2.1 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o Japanese and Korean language support included
o "Invalid menu handle" bug fixed
o Auto-update now prompts to launch the installer if you quit and restart the client
o Installer now creates desktop shortcut
o Language can now be chosen from the settings window (requires restart)
o A number of very minor bug fixes

* 2005-11-21: 4.2.0 released for Windows and *nix
Changes in this release:
o First stable release of the 4.1 Beta series, incorporates all features and improvements from 4.1
o Two microscopic bug fixes:
+ Fix rare bug when opening trackerless torrent files
+ Removed extraneous print statement

* 2005-11-15: 4.1.8 released on all platforms
Changes in this release:
o Verified translations
o New status light icons
o Various OSX client bug fixes
o OSX client auto-update
o Trackerless bug fixes
o Many small bug fixes

* 2005-11-01: 4.1.7 released on all platforms
Changes in this release:
o Maximum upload rate slider works again
o Language chooser UI
o Limiting the available languages to sufficently complete translations
o Ignoring various irrelevant error messages
o Python 2.2 compatibility fixes
o (Un)installer no longer removes all files in BitTorrent program directory
o Various l10n related bug fixes
o Using peer ID as user-agent
o Faster peer list
o Using zurllib
o Improved peer identification
o Improved installer
o Many, many bug fixes
Mac specific changes:
o Fixed memory leaks
o Much less CPU consumption
o Fixed drawing problems

* 2005-10-12: 4.1.6 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Upload rate bug fix
o Debian installer bug fix

* 2005-10-11: 4.1.5 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Removed donation nagging
o TCP Stack flaking out bug fixed, using Twisted
o Controlsocket issues reduced
o Global status light (stopped,running,firewalled)
o Uses language based on Windows language settings
o Vastly improved installer
o Automatic XP firewall registration
o External drag-and-drop of files (and URLs under GTK/X11 only)
o Improved search box / upload slider GUI and layout
o (Re)seeded torrents seed forever by default
o Bug fix to time remaining display on (re)seeded torrents
o Improved peer identification
o Icon size/transparency fixes under Windows
o Startup time on trackerless torrents greatly improved
o Blank screen startup bug should be fixed
o Numerous small bug fixes on Windows

* 2005-08-17: 4.0.4 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Added fraud warning to installer
o Windows filesystem encoding bug fixes
o GTK file chooser bug fix
o Potential TCP stack flaking out fix
o RPM building bug fix
o Usage message printing bug fix

* 2005-08-15: 4.1.4 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Search box in client
o Renamed most BitTorrent command line scripts:
+ btdownloadgui.py ⇒ bittorrent.py
+ btdownloadheadless.py ⇒ bittorrent-console.py
+ btdownloadcurses.py ⇒ bittorrent-curses.py
+ btmaketorrentgui.py ⇒ maketorrent.py
+ btmaketorrent.py ⇒ maketorrent-console.py
+ btlaunchmany.py ⇒ launchmany-console.py
+ btlaunchmanycurses.py ⇒ launchmany-curses.py
+ bttrack.py ⇒ bittorrent-tracker.py
+ btreannounce.py ⇒ changetracker-console.py
+ btrename.py =× REMOVED, use maketorrent*.py
+ btshowmetainfo.py ⇒ torrentinfo-console.py
o Version check uses HTTP
o Auto-update under Windows
o Open torrent by URL
o Non-Latin/Unicode accelerator keys now work
o Improved installer with fraud warning
o Windows filesystem encoding bug fixes
o Queue can now seed individual or all torrents forever
o An open log window prevents error messages from appearing
o Potential TCP stack flaking out fix
o RPM building bug fix
o Usage message printing bug fix
o Some code cleanup
o A number of small bug fixes to the GUI and the trackerless code

* 2005-07-14: 4.0.3 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Identify trackerless torrent files
o Not saving pause/play state across invocations of the GUI
o Small fixes to windows installer and corrupt config file recovery
o A number of small bug fixes

* 2005-07-14: 4.1.3 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Many improvements to the trackerless torrent code
o Multi rate limiter backend (not connected to the UI yet)
o OSX client merged into the mainline client codebase
o Improved btmaketorrent GUI
o Modified some strings to make translation easier and added many new translations
o Remove fastresume data as well as metainfo when a torrent is removed
o Fixing bug when opening directory on OS without desktop manager
o Not saving pause/play state across invocations of the GUI
o CTRL+Click on cancel torrent button removes torrent without asking
o Adding support for opening urls (on the command line) and deprecating --responsefile and --url in favor of autodetection
o Temporary hack around controlsocket issues should prevent Could not send command: (10061, 'Connection refused') bug

* 2005-06-06: 4.1.2 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Many improvements to the trackerless torrent code
o Support for testing translations with --language command line option
o Translations into Italian (Gianluca Palladini), Norwegian (Audun Einangen), and Brazillian Portuguese (Vandrei Cerqueira)
o Window resizability bugs have been fixed
o Vastly improved client identification code from Ed Savage-Jones
o Small fixes to windows installer and corrupt config file recovery

* 2005-05-23: 4.1.1 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Many, many improvements to the trackerless torrent code
o Partial French language translation thanks to Adrien Frey
o Adding information about trackerless operation in TRACKERLESS.txt
o Support for torrent comment fields in the GUI
o Lots of little bug fixes
o Improvements to peer identification
o Improvements to btmaketorrentgui.py
o Proper fork() & exec() handling on *nix
o Improved file saving behavior in btlaunchmany*.py

* 2005-05-23: 4.0.2 released for Windows & *nix
Changes in this release:
o Opening a torrent that is already open in the GUI now has the correct behavior rather than raising an error
o Backported --chop_max_allow_in from 4.1 to help fix TCP stack flaking out problem on Windows
o Robustly handle config files corrupted by Windows
o Better error messages when a torrent already meets seeding limits
o File filters

* 2005-05-17: 4.1.0 released on all platforms
Changes in this release:
o Trackerless support
o Internationalization, a few translations are on their way
o Integrate torrent creation into the UI
o Fix for corrupted config files
o Fix (hopefully) for TCP stack flaking out problem
o Fix for seeding a torrent you created when there are other torrents in the queue
o Fix error display for btdownloadheadless.py when there are lots of errors

* 2005-05-01: 4.0.2 for OS X released.
Changes in this release:
o Works on Tiger
o Fixed problem with non-English characters in the file name
o Allows changing the port number if there's a problem on startup

* 2005-04-01: 4.0.1 for OS X released.
* 2005-03-25: 4.0.1 is now available.
Changes since the last stable release:
o Possible workaround for the "TCP stack flaking out" bug as a preference.
o Preference option for the text color over the progress bar.
o Fixed problem picking config file and save locations on Win98/ME.
o Switched to GTK file save widgets to fix the problem of resuming multi-file torrents.
o Bulk traffic flag was only being set on incoming connections.
o Some tweaks to the interface and more informative error messages.
o Fixes to installer, including location fixes for non-English users.
o Fix for interface lockups after being minimized.
o Fixed a couple tracebacks.
o A few small tracker bugs fixed.
o An item which belonged in the previous notes: Improvments to seed behaviour which addresses the problem for which super-seeding was created, but without the problems of super-seeding.

* 2005-03-07: 4.0.0 is now available.
Changes since the last stable release:
o All new queue-based user interface
o Many options are now modifiable from the interface, including upload rate
o Lots of other interface improvements
o Extra stats are visible, for those who like it
o Remembers what it was doing across restarts
o New .torrent maker "btmaketorrentgui" replaces "btcompletedir"
o Better performance, as always
o License has changed to the BitTorrent Open Source License
o Torrent fields are correctly created and interpreted as utf8
o Too many little things to list
A few technical notes, for those interested:
o Single port: launchmany can seed and client can download many files from a single port and thread
o Interface now uses GTK instead of wxWidgets
o BitTorrent packets are marked as bulk data to make traffic shaping easier

* 2005-01-22: 3.9.1 beta is now available.
* 2004-12-20: 3.9.0 beta, with a whole new interface, is now available on the download page.
* 2004-04-04: 3.4.2, probably the last release before 3.5, is now out, download here.
* 2004-03-11: 3.4.1, which fixes all the major problems in 3.4 and has yet even more tracker bandwidth savings, is now out.
* 2003-09-24: Long awaited release 3.3 is out. Everybody please upgrade
* 2003-09-24: New website launched

[roipatrick]

bittorrent (3.4.2-11) unstable; urgency=low

* Add LSB logging functionality. (thanks David!) Closes: #384724
* Clarify short desciptions of packages. Closes: #418964.
* Moved initscript into examples directory, as it was largely
unused. Closes: #423901.
* Example initscript now honors START_BTTRACK. Closes: 369831.



bittorrent (3.4.2-10) unstable; urgency=low

* Remove dependency on obselete python-wxgtk2.4.



bittorrent (3.4.2-9) unstable; urgency=low

* Acknowledge NMU. Closes: #383744
* Remove nowxmsg code from btdownloadgui, since btdownloadgui depends
on python-wxgtk2.6 now, we don't need to detect it.
Closes: #393428
* Remove wxWidgets detection code from btdownloadgui, we depend on it
so don't need to detect it anymore. Closes: #393431
* Fix distutils shebang lines so that we don't depend on python2.3.
Closes: #387022
* Add /var/log/bittorrent for the default log location when running
tracker from initscript. Closes: #383510
* Add some helpful remarks in /etc/default/bittorrent.


bittorrent (3.4.2-8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

* Non-maintainer upload.
* Applied a patch from Michael Vogt to make it work with python2.4
(HTTPHandler.http_open() return changed) pulled from 3.4.2-3ubuntu2.
Closes: #383744



bittorrent (3.4.2-8) unstable; urgency=low

* Make BitTorrent modules accessible. Closes: #381586


bittorrent (3.4.2-7) unstable; urgency=low

* Output a period if we try to stop the tracker when it's not running.
Closes: #345902
* Fix logging in tracker init script to actually log.
Closes: #369820
* Install the init script at the defaults, since we disable the daemon
in /etc/default/bittorrent now.
* Add LSB comments to the top of the init script.
Closes: #376944
* Add some code to fix the "GUI doesn't update" bug.
Closes: #212809
* Python transition.
Closes: #380773


bittorrent (3.4.2-6) unstable; urgency=medium

* Change dependencies so that bittorrent-gui is installable again.
Closes: #323556
* Include initscript (off by default) for bttrack.
Closes: #198848, #325573, #322736
* Change URL in debian/copyright. Closes: #329706
* Move fmttime and fmtsize into the library. Closes: #219381


bittorrent (3.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

* Fix btcompletedir(gui) so they work. Closes: #306398
* Ship btcompletedir and btmakemetafile in site-packages so that
btcompletedir(gui) work. Closes: #298974
* The fix for #284809 breaks many torrents, therefore I'm reversing it.
Closes: #315510
* Don't continue trying to write torrent names when we don't have
space on the window to do so. Closes: #311547
* Standards Version 3.6.2.0
* New manpage btcompletedirgui.1. Closes: #311933


bittorrent (3.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=high

* High-urgency upload for sarge targetted probably-should-be-RC bugfix.
* Invoke update-alternatives --remove in the prerm scripts. This was not
only leaving dangling symlinks around, but preventing bittornado to
properly set up itself after bittorrent was removed. See dpkg bugs
#285686 and #308838 for reference. Thanks go highly to Adeodato Simó
for the patch. Closes: #286966, #281371.
* Reinitialize curses when the window is resized, and make a flag for
when the window is reinitializing - this should fix this persistent
bug. Closes: #247361.
* Added announce URL existence check. Closes: #267210.
* Use incoming ports as outgoing ports also for easier traffic shaping.
Closes: #284809.
* Limit errors spewed by btdownloadheadless to 5 so that they don't
fill up the screen. Closes: #296184.
* Remove mimetype stuff from scripts because dh_installmime does it
for us, isn't that nice?
* Place new btcompletedir manpage. Thanks to Danilo Piazzalunga.
Closes: #285187.
* Fix typos in bttrack.1. Closes: #288668, #310346.
* I'm so tired of the KiB/KB issue, so I'm following the lead of
a great tool called df. When it outputs human-readable units,
they're in powers of 2, but they don't have any B or iB or
whatever. BitTorrent in Debian is now similar. Closes: #289321.
* Fix bittorrent-downloader manpage so --spew and --max_initiate
don't run together. Closes: #306480.


bittorrent (3.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

* Split bittorrent package into bittorrent and bittorrent-gui
to be compliant with Policy 11.8.1. closes: #180396
+ Falling back to btdownloadcurses from btdownloadgui
is pointless if it isn't installed. closes: #219466
+ This also solves the problem with the obsolete
message, it doesn't exist anymore. closes: #278583
* Use the alternatives system so that we can all get along,
and be installed together in harmony. closes: #263003
* Apply patch so that --allow_get uses hex for it's URLs
instead of raw SHA-1 binary hashes. closes: #275637
* Fix typo in btlaunchmany. closes: #262974
* Fix problem with guide.html. closes: #265506



bittorrent (3.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

* Changed KiB/s and KB/s to kB/s, changed / to : in btlaunchmany,
added "/s" to transfer rates. closes: #247236
* Sort display of files on btlaunchmany, btlaunchmanycurses to be
sorted by torrent file name. closes: #247237
* Set download rate to 0 when complete with file (btlaunchmany).
closes: #247239
* Add TOS setting code to outgoing as well as incomign connections.
closes: #253499


bittorrent (3.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

* New upstream release


bittorrent (3.4.1a-1) unstable; urgency=low

* The "not enough time in the day" release.
* New upstream release. closes: #236740
+ Tracker problems don't popup error messages if the transfer
is still working anymore. closes: #217572
* Use dh_python to get python deps and postinst handled, yay!
closes: #215119
* Remove empty usr/sbin directory from the package. closes: #219382
* Fix btreannounce manpage. closes: #228116
* Add some html documentation to the package. (thanks Javier)
closes: #219038


bittorrent (3.3-4) unstable; urgency=low

* Made btdownloadgui exit cleanly when we can't find wxpython.
* Remove some useless code that got included from backport patches
when the 3.2.1 -> 3.3 switch happened.


bittorrent (3.3-3) unstable; urgency=low

* Removed annoying and unreliable, non-policy compliant donation
asking code. closes: #215983, #212940
* Re-add warning code for people who don't have wxpython.
* Fix manpage because btdownloadprefetched doesn't exist anymore.
closes: #213388



bittorrent (3.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

* The "test before you upload" release.
* Fixed problem with btdownloadgui because of executable renaming.
closes: #212662


bittorrent (3.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

* New upstream release
+ Files/URLs accepted on command line now. closes: #200267
+ New allocation method. closes: #193455
+ Major curses updates. closes: #212172
* Fixed typo in bittorrent-downloader page. closes: #211377



bittorrent (3.2.1b-5) unstable; urgency=low

* The "DOH!" release.
* Fix syntax error in btlaunchmanycurses. closes: #206135



bittorrent (3.2.1b-4) unstable; urgency=low

* The "why oh why am I not following CVS" release.
* Import the system function before we use it. closes: #196305
* Release the lock if a thread dies while checking the file(s).
closes: #196397
* Call WINCH handler when an error happens in btlaunchmanycurses,
so that the screen doesn't get as garbled. closes: #200559
* Add ^L parsing to btdownloadcurses so that people can get rid of
annoying urllib bugs. closes: #200648, #195605
* Repackage against new python. closes: #205850
* Change error time displayed by btdownloadcurses to use the appropriate
locale's representation. closes: #196395



bittorrent (3.2.1b-3) unstable; urgency=low

* The "summer is finally here" release.
* Change btdownloadcurses to display only as many errors that can fit
on the screen. closes: #189371
* Remove .py manpages I forgot about last time. closes: #191801
* Fix mailcap so it doesn't point to a nonexistent script.
closes: #193502
* Change the non-X11 entry to start the curses version
* Make files get closed cleanly. closes: #193624
* Change the mass downloaders so they only check one torrent at a time
so we don't step on each other for disk accesses. closes: #193302



bittorrent (3.2.1b-2) unstable; urgency=low

* The "didn't I do this once already?" release.
* Change shebang line to use python2.2 (again).
closes: #190089, #190150
* Rename scripts without .py and removed links. closes: #189304
* Change recommends to libwxgtk2.4-python. closes: #189570
* Fixed mailcap. closes: #189015, #188691



bittorrent (3.2.1b-1) unstable; urgency=low

* New Upstream Release. closes: #187054
* Wrote manpages for bittorrent-multi-downloader, btrename,
btreannounce, btshowmetainfo


bittorrent (3.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

* Change '/usr/bin/env python' to '/usr/bin/env python2.2' since
we depend on python > 2.2 | python2.2, and python2.2 doesn't
have 'python' in it.
* Call python2.2 in postinst as well. closes: #185852



bittorrent (3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

* Add optional depend on python2.2 so we can get into testing.
* Add options --max_upload_rate, --check_hashes, --alloc_pause, and
--snub_time to bittorrent-downloaders.1. closes: #182634
* Make btdownloadcurses die nicely and display the list of
arguments like btdownloadheadless does. closes: #183289
* Change the filename in FAQ.txt to a unix-like filename.
closes: #179159
* Update to Standards-Version 3.5.9.
* Update to debhelper 4, change depends line appropriately.
* Install btlaunchmany.py too.



bittorrent (3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

* Added python-dev to build-depends. closes: #179035
* Changed wxGtk test to fail instead of pass when
libwxgtk2.2-python is installed, which bittorrent doesn't work
with. closes: #179047
* Changed wxGtk failure message to note that libwxgtk2.2-python is
insufficient.



bittorrent (3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

* Don't ship .pyc. Compile .pyc and .pyo when installed.
* libwxgtk2.3-python isn't in testing, tell people this.
* Added mime-support to Suggests.


bittorrent (3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

* Initial Release.