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Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users:
- 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.
Many useful plugins are available:
- Auto-adjustment of your upload and download speeds according to your network charge with Autospeed
- Auto-download torrents with RSS Feed Scanner
- Schedule upload and download speed limits with Speed Scheduler
- Receive a mail when a download finishes with Status Mailer
- Add numerous info on torrents (Extra seeding columns, Country Locator)
- Remote control Azureus through the Swing Web Interface or the HTML Web
Requirements: Java JRE (1.5)
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Azureus: Vuze 3.0.5.2 Released !
FEATURE: UIv3 | Ability to rate directly from rating reminder activity entry
FEATURE: UIv3 | Added progress spinner animation for the LightBox
CHANGE: Core | Don't auto-UDP probe on initial announce if tracker not known to support UDP - hit on second and remember outcome
CHANGE: Core | Improve startup times by taking various torrent-load operations off main thread
CHANGE: Core | Add reason-messages for update check failures
CHANGE: Core | Use derived password to protect private key to allow us to persist password
CHANGE: Core | Get plugin update URL from version server to support potential future switch
CHANGE: UI | Run explicit tracker scrapes off UI thread to prevent blocking
CHANGE: UI | Allow UI initialisation to proceed before plugin init complete
CHANGE: UIv3 | Always start on "Dashboard" tab (unless Advanced UI chosen), instead of sometimes starting on "On Vuze" tab
CHANGE: Plug | Ensure that DHT republish events are scheduled using absolute time so recover correctly from computer suspend
BUGFIX: Core | Handle some badly formed torrents more gracefully (corrupt announce-lists)
BUGFIX: Core | Handle multiple SSL certs from same URL
BUGFIX: Core | URLDecode torrent filenames
BUGFIX: Core | Fix non-crypto fallback outgoing connections
BUGFIX: Core | Better (esp for Vista) detection of and setting of Azureus' .torrent file association
BUGFIX: UI | Fix broken per-torrent upload speed setting via options tab
BUGFIX: UI | Fix alternating bg color not updating after changing in config
BUGFIX: UIv3 | Fix resource leaks related to light box (login window)
Azureus 3.0.5.0 Released
New Features:
* Core | Added uTorrent PEX support
* Core | Azureus probes trackers for UDP-capabilities on first scrape/announce now and uses udp instead of http where available
* Core | Added option to enforce IP bindings even when the specified interfaces are not available (useful when Azureus should not use certain network interfaces)
* Core | Intervene with http seeds if progressive stall imminent
* Core | Message user on startup if they have installed Azureus to read-only location
* Core | Added dnd status to XML stats
* UI | Added option for "Open Containing Folder" menu action - which may integrate better with non-standard file browsers
* UI | Added option for "Show Torrent Menu" -- Users can now decide to see the Torrent menu in the menubar or not
* UI | Fast Renaming (not moving) in the Files tab (click on name column) and Open Torrent dialog (click on dest. name column)
* UI | Completed downloaders column
* UI | Added start/stop to category menu
* UI | Added per-category speed limits
* UI | Added per-category option setting
* UI | Added multiple-torrent options setting to MyTorrents view
* UIv3 | New menu configuration for Vuze and Vuze Advanced UI's
* UIv3 | Activity Tab
* UIv3 | Vuze Login from client
* Plug | Added Network Status plugin to perform some basic network tests
* Plug | Allow plugins to specify their minimum JDK requirements
Changes:
* Core | Further memory footprint reductions; for additional tweaks see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Reduce_memory_usage
* Core | Reimplemented LT extension protocol code
* Core | DND/Compact (aka Delete) priority now deletes all files that do not share pieces with normal/high priority files
* Core | Queuing rules now don't start any further torrents if the global up/download speed limits are reached
* Core | Made the crypto handshake a bit less predictable
* Core | Added support for IPv6 compact announces (client) and udp-multiscrapes (client+server)
* Core | Take note of more peer-source selections
* Plug | Added support for plugins which implement mainline DHT
Corrected bugs:
* Core | Request limiting/Priorities no longer pinch off LAN peers if seperate LAN speeds are enabled
* Core | Increase time Azureus holds open listen socket on close to reduce dual-start window
* Core | Allow ~ character in tracker addresses to support I2P
* Core | Determine app name correctly on OSX so that restart works for renamed apps
* UI | Shells no longer use the low-res frog icon, the normal main window icon is now used instead
* UI | Limiting comments in General View to 5k characters under WinXP to avoid crashes due to faulty comctl32.dll
* UI | Setting speed parameters manually now disables autospeed
* Plug | Encode spaces correctly in get-right web seed urls