Download Vuze 4.6.0.0

Vuze has been updated to version 4.6.0.0. This Java-written Bittorrent client, formerly known as Azureus, includes the ability to prioritize individual torrents and even individual files within a particular torrent. In addition, the program has a built-in tracker, so that sharing your own files is possible. Furthermore, the functionality of Vuze can be increased by means of plug-ins, such as for example with the Country Locator. In addition to the standard version, there is now also a plus version which also has a virus scanner and the possibility to burn CDs and DVDs on board for 25 euros. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features:

• Core | UDP NAT Test tool
• Core | Added device export/import feature
• Plug | uTP support
• Plug | streaming playback
• Plug | Added simple HTML view and explicit download option to device RSS feed
• UI | Add menu link from sidebar entries to plugin options where applicable
• UI | Option for what happens when pressing delete key or tb delete in My Torrents/Library
• UI | Allow dropping torrent URLs onto sidebar (to add torrent)

Changes:

• Core | Prevent UDP scrape probes and DHT fallback scrape values ​​from overriding more relevant values
• Core | Added some more client type peer id decodes
• Core | Ensure piece picker file priorities take precedence over first/last piece
• Core | Don’t auto-xcode low noise torrents
• Core | Propagate cookies across http->https redirects
• Core | Various minor startup tweaks to increase startup performance
• Plug | Bump up the DHT minimum supported version
• Plug | Added option to force delayed restart on install
• UI | Rate limit various update operations to improve performance
• UI | Make tracker update button scrape torrents that are stopped
• UI | Wire up play button to xcoded content
• UI | Sidebar redesign
• UI | Categories can now be shown in sidebar
• UI | Filter text in Config view now gets highlighted

Bug fixed:

• Core | Fix poor perf with large peer connection count
• Core | Pickup changes in transcode file categories
• Core | Disable outbound UDP data connections if proxy set
• Core | Fix reading some rare .torrent files with only UTF-8 keys
• Core | Fix bug when loading multiple .torrent files at once when they have the same URL filename
• Plug | Fixup names displayed during plugin load/init
• UI | Prevent sources from being added multiple times

Vuze 4.0.0.0 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.