| Azureus, the popular BitTorrent client has released a new version of the software. Azureus has introduced a few neat new features: send to a friend, auto upload speed, GUI improvements and OSX changes, along with major bug fixes. Click here to download Azureus  Send to a friend: A wizard to sending a link to content to a friend or to embed in a web page (e.g. a blog). This will be useful for small to medium sized webmasters who want to effieciently share thier content. Send to a friend explained When you click the "Send selected via email / webpage", an Azureus popup message appears. You have 2 options, either by email or blog/webpage. Clicking on email will create a URL link to "getazureus.com" Example: "http://getazureus.com/getContent.php?magnet=SLSEKPQS7KJ7IBFMZYHYEQLZH2IMUQPL&name=azplugins_2.0.jar". Clicking on this link will take you to a webpage where you can download the selected torrent file from getazureus.com. If you select the webpage option, Azureus creates a JavaScript snippit that allows webmasters to post this snippit on a webpage for others to download. This link will also take you to getazureus.com. Click here to download Azureus    Auto Upload Speed: Controls your upload speed based on the latency (speed) of your internet connection as gauged by pinging other members of the Distributed Database. Several reports have been sited that users have upload speeds turned up to high and are loosing bandwith to uploaders.  Other notable features: - OSX: Open .torrent files into Azureus via Finder/Desktop/etc. - Renaming of a download directories. - Moving of data files on torrent removal from Azureus. - Interface improvements - more information: date added, idle times, new info view, file piece view; more per-torrent options. - New remote control plugin - AzSMRC - LAN Peer Finder retains peers more effectively; explicit LAN peer identification. - Reduced CPU usage when connected to large numbers of peers.  Click here to download Azureus ######################################### Full Change Log ######################################### FEATURE: Core | Reduced CPU usage, especially in some unusual conditions [MjrTom] FEATURE: Core | Explicit local subnet and peer injection option for Lan Peer Finder [Parg] FEATURE: Core | Auto upload speed [Parg] FEATURE: Core | DND completion handled better [Parg,TuxPaper] FEATURE: Core | Added option for per-torrent max upload speed when upload busy [Parg] FEATURE: Core | Ranges allowed for port listing to ignore peers from. [TuxPaper] FEATURE: Core | Added option to move completed download on removal [amc1] FEATURE: Core | Signed updates for increased security [Parg] FEATURE: Core | UDP fallback on connection fail [Parg] FEATURE: Core | Support for initial crypto tracker spec [Parg] FEATURE: Core | Faster queued torrent startup [Parg] FEATURE: Core | Option to disable tracker support for full-scrape [Parg] FEATURE: Core | Added ability to rename the directory save name for a multi-file torrent [amc1] FEATURE: UI | File pieces shown in files view [Parg] FEATURE: UI | Ability to best guess folder you want to save torrent data to based on existing torrents [TuxPaper] FEATURE: UI | Filter for Config Options [TuxPaper] FEATURE: UI | "Help -> Generate Debug Info" to help us solve bugs [TuxPaper] FEATURE: UI | Ability to customise the speed intervals for download / upload speed menus [amc1] FEATURE: UI | Ability to rename the displayed title of a download [amc1] FEATURE: UI | "date added", "idle up", "idle down", "req in", "req out" colmns added to MyTorrents [Parg] FEATURE: UI | manual file recheck order [Parg] FEATURE: UI | Option to remember passwords [Parg] FEATURE: UI | OSX: Open .torrent files into Azureus via Finder/Desktop/etc [TuxPaper] FEATURE: UI | Option to send popup message when download of a torrent (or individual file) has completed [amc1] FEATURE: UI | Ability to change behaviour of popups: auto-hide behaviour and adding timestamp to messages [amc1] FEATURE: UI | Torrent-info panel added to show MyTorrent's column attributes in a single place. Torrent encoding moved from General tab to here [Parg] FEATURE: UI | Progress warning to user when long file operations in progress that would otherwise hang the UI [Parg] FEATURE: Plug | Simple NAT-PMP implementation [Marc Colosimo] CHANGE: Core | Reduced starting many pieces instead of completing current ones [MjrTom] CHANGE: Core | Further modifications to optimistic disconnect algorithm [MjrTom] CHANGE: Core | Longer scrape delays: [TuxPaper] - 1 hr min for torrents in stopped state - 2 hrs min for torrents in error state - 3 hrs min when tracker sends no torrent info (no hash error) - As per usual, flags->min_request_interval will override next scrape time CHANGE: Core | Asynchronous existing torrent loading at startup (makes startup feel faster) [TuxPaper] CHANGE: Core | Disk read cache disabled by default [Parg] CHANGE: Core | Better detection of unix OSes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc) and custom ports that do not conform to our install structure [TuxPaper,Parg] CHANGE: UI | More time periods in folder-rescan list [Parg] CHANGE: UI | Option to hide toolbar [TuxPaper] CHANGE: UI | Option to disable program icon for name column (may speed up OSX users) [TuxPaper] CHANGE: Plug | Use UPnP to read external IP address if possible [Parg] BUGFIX: Core | Fix for pieces not completing due to too many snubbed peers [MjrTom] BUGFIX: Core | Better handling of invalid peer/seed count from tracker [TuxPaper] BUGFIX: Core | ed2k hash wrong on block boundaries [Parg] BUGFIX: Core | upload slot default now applied correctly (was fixed at torrent add time) [Parg] BUGFIX: Core | Various seeding rules fixes, mostly related to Seed:Peer ratio, 1st Priority, or 'None' ranking mode [TuxPaper] BUGFIX: UI | speed graphics failing on high speeds [Parg] BUGFIX: UI | Per-torrent options view now synced with global defaults and has "reset" button [Parg] BUGFIX: UI | Slide-in alert message not closeable (GTK+ users) [TuxPaper] Digg It! |
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