Azureus Version 3.0.5.0 Released This Week

posted by DrewWilson in file sharing // 179 days 16 hours 12 minutes ago

This last week, many Azureus users may have noticed a bunch of updates in their clients. This is because of an update for their client - moving up to version 3.0.5.0.

The update brings a number of updates to the system. The change log includes the following additions:

Core | Azureus probes trackers for UDP-capabilities on first scrape/announce now and uses udp instead of http where available

Added option for "Open Containing Folder" menu action - which may integrate better with non-standard file browsers

Fast Renaming (not moving) in the Files tab (click on name column) and Open Torrent dialog (click on dest. name column)

Added per-category speed limits

The following is a sample of changes made to the client:

Further memory footprint reductions; for additional tweaks see the Wiki Page

Queuing rules now don't start any further torrents if the global up/download speed limits are reached

Made the crypto handshake a bit less predictable

Added support for IPv6 compact announces (client) and udp-multiscrapes (client+server)

The release also features a number of bug fixes as well. The full change log is currently available

Azureus has been a popular BitTorrent client of choice for many. Some argue that it uses too many resources and opt to using uTorrent due to a smaller resource footprint. Ever since BitTorrent Inc. bought uTorrent, some have become skeptical about the client due to indirect ties with Hollywood.

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#1 The most important part of this update is now Azurues is compatible with uTorrent's Peer Exchanger (PEX) This makes the decentralized bittorrent network MUCH larger for both clients.

posted by AgentOrange 179 days 11 hours 8 minutes ago