Software Update: Azureus 2.4.0.0

The developers of Azureus have released a new version, namely 2.4.0.0. This program is a BitTorrent client written in Java and can be installed on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Azureus has features such as prioritizing certain torrents or even individual files in a torrent. It also has a built-in tracker so that sharing files yourself is also possible and the functionality can be expanded by means of plugins. Version 2.4.0.0 is out this page for the previously mentioned operating systems and has the following changes and new features:

New Features:

• Core | Logging separated into sections
• Core | Plugins can be disabled from starting up
• Core | Separate high-speed transfer rates between peers within the local LAN
• Core | Encrypted peer connections
• Core | Revamped and much improved piece picking code
• Core | Option to bind outgoing connections to the same local port, may help with NAT router instability
• Plug | HTTP web seed support (
• Plug | New “team seeder” plugin
• Dev | Plugins can now add views/tabs to Torrent Details, Peers View, etc
• onion | Draggable column reordering and column indicator (w/SWT 3.2+)
• onion | Peer piece map in Peers Tab
• onion | Manual tracker scrape option if auto-scrape disabled
• onion | Share ratio indicator and options to hide the various indicators
• onion | Separate per-torrent options panel

changes:

• Core | Clearer firewalled/NAT status reporting
• Core | Do not open the wiki NAT problem page if firewall status is OK
• Core | Disk manager threads – limited pool now serves all disk read/write requests
• Core | Single thread now serves torrent piece picking etc (was one per download)
• Core | Persistent IP bans now have limited lifetime
• Core | Reworked compact storage type to support migration of formats
• Core | Less requirements to pause downloads when changing file priorities
• Core | Only one torrent can now be checking at a time
• Core | DHT size estimation improved
• Core | Default listen port number now randomized for new installs
• Core | Interrupted “seeding+checking” files now rechecked on startup
• onion | Seeding+checking completeness now shown in status
• onion | Faster filling of tables (Mac/some Linux)
• onion | Opening torrents changed to use one opener dialog (w/options to change destination filenames, disable files, etc)
• onion | Find-As-You-Type in ‘My Torrents’ changed to Filter-As-You-Type. Ctrl-BS to clear filter.

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fix transfer stall bug when MTU size is greater than max upload/download rate
• Core | Improved peer connection counting
• Core | Tracker wasn’t handling “accept-encoding” properly
• Core | Multiple file renames/retargets wasn’t working
• Core | Synchronous scrape wasn’t working
• Core | Fixed move-on-complete bug when target was a link
• Core | Fixed DND/Delete vs piece needed/interested in peer issues
• Core | Properly catch Windows shutdown/logoff events
• onion | Selection moves properly with CTRL+ and sorting
• onion | URL Drag’nDrop Improvements – Unicode, IE Links (Windows)

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