Also enable the enable_bad_libc_workaround by default for NetBSD,
FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin.
Changes in this release:
- Identify trackerless torrent files
- Not saving pause/play state across invocations of the GUI
- Small fixes to windows installer and corrupt config file recovery
- A number of small bug fixes
Changes in this release:
- Opening a torrent that is already open in the GUI now has the correct behavior rather than
raising an error
- Backported --chop_max_allow_in from 4.1 to help fix TCP stack flaking out problem on Windows
- Robustly handle config files corrupted by Windows
- Better error messages when a torrent already meets seeding limits
- File filters
2005-03-25: 4.0.1 is now available.
Changes since the last stable release:
- Possible workaround for the "TCP stack flaking out" bug as a preference.
- Preference option for the text color over the progress bar.
- Fixed problem picking config file and save locations on Win98/ME.
- Switched to GTK file save widgets to fix the problem of resuming multi-file
torrents.
- Bulk traffic flag was only being set on incoming connections.
- Some tweaks to the interface and more informative error messages.
- Fixes to installer, including location fixes for non-English users.
- Fix for interface lockups after being minimized.
- Fixed a couple tracebacks.
_ A few small tracker bugs fixed.
- An item which belonged in the previous notes: Improvments to seed behaviour
which addresses the problem for which super-seeding was created, but without
the problems of super-seeding.
2005-03-07: 4.0.0 is now available.
Changes since the last stable release:
- All new queue-based user interface
- Many options are now modifiable from the interface, including upload rate
- Lots of other interface improvements
- Extra stats are visible, for those who like it
- Remembers what it was doing across restarts
_ New .torrent maker "btmaketorrentgui" replaces "btcompletedir"
- Better performance, as always
- License has changed to the BitTorrent Open Source License
- Torrent fields are correctly created and interpreted as utf8
- Too many little things to list
A few technical notes, for those interested:
- Single port: launchmany can seed and client can download many files from a
single port and thread
- Interface now uses GTK instead of wxWidgets
- BitTorrent packets are marked as bulk data to make traffic shaping easier
2005-01-22: 3.9.1 beta is now available.
BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's extremely easy to use -
downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks. Whenever more than one
person is downloading at once they send pieces of the file(s) to each other,
thus relieving the central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many
simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server remains quite
small, since each new downloader introduces new upload capacity.
