Software Update: Vuze 4.7.0.0

Version 4.7.0.0 of Vuze has been released. 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 has a virus scanner and the possibility to burn CDs and DVDs on board for 25 euros. In this release, support for external media players has been improved and expanded, among other things. The full changelog looks like this:

New Features:

• Device | Improved Device Playback support: improved compatibility and many new devices added

Changes:

• Core | Moved some device detection code out of core
• Plug | Removed IView, AbstractIView, SWTManager and other deprecated plugin APIs
• Device | Button for “Do Not Transcode”
• Device | Sidebar icon for devices that supply one
• onion | Switched all views using IView to UISWTVIew
• onion | Moved all non UI table refreshing code out of SWT thread (should result in faster UI)
• misc | Removed various left over and unused code (saved a measly 200k)

Corrected bugs:

• none.

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