Software Update: Vuze 5.2.0.0

Version 5.2.0.0 of Vuze has been released. This Java-written Bittorrent client, formerly known as Azureus, has among other things the ability to prioritize individual torrents or the 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 plugins, such as for example with the Country Locator. In addition to the standard version, there is now also a plus version, which offers a virus scanner for 25 euros, as well as the option to burn CDs and DVDs, and to play media even before the complete download has been completed. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features:

• UI: Added menu option to notification area to dismiss all notifications
• UI: Added download name to sidebar tooltip as may be truncated in sidebar view
• UI: Added some image types to the ‘quick view’
• UI: Manual update option for DHT tracker
• UI: Added current IP to transfer stats view
• UI: Support the assignment of colors to manual tags
• UI: Menu option to select folder contents in open torrent options dialog
• UI: Added Option to use a single open torrent options dialog for multiple torrents
• UI: Torrent options dialog now supports file priorities
• UI: Automatic setting of decreasing file priorities within a torrent (based on selection order)
• UI: Added session up/down stats to library views
• UI: Option to edit trackers when adding a download
• UI: Added ‘open torrent’ option to tray icon
• UI: Option to add peer(s) from peers view
• UI: Multi-select files in the open torrent options dialog and move them to a folder in one operation
• Core: Support Per-download and per-file alerts
• Core: Some interesting config parameters (port numbers for example) are now exported into a readable file in the config dir
• Core: Auto-tagging based on torrent tracker hosts
• Core: Support tags on devices
• Core: Support never-transcode as option for device auto-transcoding
• Core: Added an ‘Untagged’ tag to represent downloads with no manual tag assigned
• Core: Added script actions as options for downloading/seeding complete events
• Core: Added ability to set a download’s tags in the open torrent options dialog
• Core: Option to set a tag’s initial save location
• Core: Per tag target share ratio

Changes:

• UI: XML torrent import function was lost in the Vuze UI at some point – brought it back
• UI: Added download size to archived download display in console UI
• UI: Support maximizing or torrent options window
• UI: Brazilian Portuguese translation update
• UI: Basque translation update
• UI: Spanish translation update
• UI: Brought back the select all/mark/unmark buttons to open torrent options dialog
• UI: Brought back ability to set top level folder name for multi-file torrents
• UI: Non-simple torrents with a single file were displaying inconsistently
• UI: Handle double-click actions in files view correctly
• UI: Sidebar download details order no maintained over restart
• UI: Scale minibar fixed widget widths to accommodate font changes
• Plug: Report removed downloads for a while in xmwebui in case there are multiple active clients
• Plug: Ignore any socks proxy when using loopback connection to analysis content
• Core: Disabled metadata exchange for private torrents
• Core: Improved performance of JSON encoding
• Core: Prefer UTF-8 over system encoding for torrents if it seems to be as good
• Core: Support more date formats when parsing search results

Bug fixed:

• UI: Persist column add/remove via header menu
• UI: Table structure change was losing a tag listener and subsequently failing to update correctly
• UI: Multiple concurrent torrent additions causing duplicate dialogs
• UI: Unloading a plugin was causing a second plugins images to be disposed
• UI: Search bar was truncating long URIs
• Plug: Magnet plugin wasn’t handling URIs with ‘xt’ sections properly
• Core: Removed blocking call to get public IP address from initialization path
• Core: Downloads were being auto-stored in the wrong location
• Core: Respect ‘do not activate UI’ on download addition again
• Core: Fixed end game mode looping bug
• Core: Lots of minor fixes detected by Coverity static code analysis tool
• Core: Improved performance or timer event handling
• Core: Fixed ‘upload only’ message support
• Core: Prevent a hanging UPnP device from blocking caller
• Core: Handle separators other than ‘-‘ when parsing port ranges
• Core: Remove unnecessary retry on downloads that will most likely fail identically
• Core: Alert audio files weren’t playing when contained in folders with certain characters in name
• Core: Improved robustness of magnet URI handling