Changes in 4.2.1:
- Fix IP filter widget list not getting registered at startup (281245)
- Fix Queue Manager widget getting the priorities wrong (296536)
Changes in 4.2:
- Add new group switcher combobox in toolbar (290888)
- Make kio-magnet optional
- Improve handing magnet uris in search plugin
- Fix bug causing kio-magnet to deselect all files
- Close current scan widget when a new one is started for a torrent (292001)
- Fix syndication plugin not handling relative urls properly
- Fix magnet uri's not being handled properly in load torrent feature of webinterface
Changes in 4.2rc1:
- Make it possible to check individual files of a torrent
- Data checks for multiple torrents can now get started at the same time (265611)
- Make links clickable in the status tab comments field (266089)
- Revamp UPnP plugin (266397)
- Fix bug making it possible to add conflicting items to the schedule (268879)
- Make it possible for schedule items to span multiple days (225939)
- Include disk usage of existing files when calculating bytes left after download in FileSelectDlg (267220)
- Disable scripts in GUI, if no interpreter could be found for the script (270226)
- Show shutdown plugin's config dialog when no rules are present and the enable button is pressed (271311)
- Make it possible to wait for several events before activating the shutdown action
- Fix wrong required diskspace calculation in some rare circumstances (271097)
- Revamp scanfolder plugin (263813, 271657)
- Revamp GUI of mediaplayer plugin
- Make properties extender a dialog (274356)
- Fix bug causing scripts not to be selectable in scripting plugin
- Show info hash in status tab
- Improve video streaming support
- Add Open With option to FileView context menu (279386)
- Fix bug causing views to not get properly restored when the application language changes (279588)
- Check if new trackers have a supported protocol
- Remove usage of several deprecated KDE3 networking classes
- Remove obsolete config options of datacheck during upload feature
- Improve error display of syndication plugin errors (280814)
- Remove multiple views support (281675)
- Relabel Change Tracker button into Switch Tracker to avoid user confusion (282951)
- Revamp IP filter widget (281245)
- Fix scanfolder moving to loaded directory causing a flurry of popups about the torrent already being loaded (283508)
- Only enable the infowidget plugin by default (278283)
- Add force start option (213504)
- Add torrent search bar for view (269279)
- Make it possible to hide uploads, downloads and not queued torrents in the queue manager (253779, 251861, 210064)
- Merge status and name column into one column and use icons to show the status (272160, 228564)
- Highlight in bold and scroll to newly added torrents (145028)
- Show torrent names in remove torrent and data confirmation dialog (284728)
- Enable select new location button when all non excluded files are missing instead of when all files are missing
- Hide chunkbar when download of stream is complete (259788)
- Suspend/resume queue when middle clicking on tray icon (210027)
- Use dbus to show ktorrent window from plasma applet (287309)
- Fix crash due to dangling pointer (281196)
- Always make already loaded message of a torrent a passive popup (288201)
- Make torrent properties dialog modal (288448)
- Allow i2p addresses as a custom ip in tracker announces
- Fix bug causing homepage of search plugin not the render properly
Changes in 4.1.3:
- Fix statusbar hiding and showing not working (281674)
- Fix missing items in tray menu (282304)
- Fix move on completion location not being set when open all torrents silently is enabled (279582)
Changes in 4.1.2:
- Fix crash when duplicate trackers are added (274413)
- Fix bug causing quit action not be shown in system tray when not using KDE
- Fix edit script not working in scripting plugin
- Make log output suspension work again
- Fix crash when shutdown_rules files becomes corrupted (277602)
- Fix file rename leading to file being placed in the toplevel directory (279926)
Changes in 4.1.1:
- Make sure that libktorrent translation catalog is inserted (269515)
- Fix wrong tooltip in QM preference page
- Make sure activities list is added again to the GUI after toolbars are edited (269727)
- Prevent port conflicts from happening (268989)
- Clear labels of BasicJobProgressWidget in constructor (270035)
- Make tabbar widget icons follow KDE size changes (270277)
- Fix crash in search plugin (271516)
Changes in 4.1:
- Check if source files are missing before moving them (265607)
- Fix scanextender showing when they are not supposed to (259483)
- Fix mediaplayer unable to stop in buffering mode when streaming (266100)
- KDE 4.4 compatibility fix in search plugin
- Make sure overwrite is possible for the torrent copy file feature
- Fix critical Qt warning when opening context menu in view
Changes in 4.1rc1:
- Make sure that apply button of config dialog is enabled properly when the group changes in the scanfolder settings
- Add kio-magnet
- Improve performance of ktorrent in situations where there are many torrents (262571)
- Fix memory leak on exit (263802)
- Fix tab bar not matching TabBarWidget state in some circumstances (263068)
- Fix libktorrent not gettting updated when the download of a magnet link finishes and the FileSelectDlg is shown
- Update view tab when switching to it, fixes data scan widget showing in the wrong place (259483)
- Update view captions every GUI update (264215)
- Use user modified path for file column in chunks view (264814)
- Fix QM bug causing torrents to get started when it is not needed (262570)
Changes in 4.1beta1:
- Remove libktupnp it is now part of libktorrent
- Add support for superseeding (171661)
- Change from and to fields to always ensure that from is smaller then to in the bandwidth scheduler plugin (225951)
- Show if a peer is using the µTP protocol or not
- Cleanup file dialog filters for torrents and make sure that files named torrent, are also seen by the filter (241259)
- Ensure that webinterface plugin works properly with bindv6only flag on (238688)
- Add option to not restore the previous session of the search plugin (233288)
- Save suspended state on exit and restore on restart (241675)
- Add support for cookies in syndication plugin (244967)
- Change GUI to use KParts
- Add feature to set the move on completion directory in the syndication plugin filters
- Improve display of errors in the syndication plugin when downloading a feed fails (246421)
- Make ChunkDownloadView and PeerView use a QSortFilterProxyModel (246835)
- Add download and move when completed location history buttons to FileSelectDlg (218048)
- Make file view of FileSelectDlg sortable (248090)
- Clicking item in day list of AddItemDlg of bwscheduler plugin now toggles it (225953)
- Add support for emule blocklists (194915)
- Add option to configure the number of log lines shown in the logviewer (223887)
- Add default move on completion location to group policy (248092)
- Prevent torrents from sharing the same files (228220)
- Add option to open all torrents silently
- Add exclusion patterns to syndication plugin filters (251141)
- Show current upload and download limit in trayicon submenus instead of limits from the settings (251953)
- Show notifications when automatic update of IP filter fails (243458)
- Add video streaming support (234212)
- Make ratio configurable at which the share ratio becomes green (254144)
- Don't show an error message for each duplicate tracker which is added
- Stop using hardcoded colors in system tray tooltip (255732)
- Add support for tracking jobs inside the GUI of ktorrent
- Ask if an existing file must be overwritten when exporting a torrent (256416)
- Don't reinclude files when changing priority of a directory (252555)
- Open new search tab on middle click (151429)
- Search plugin now uses webkit instead of KHTML
- Add do not ask again option to dialog shown when torrent file is downloaded in the search plugin (210701)
- Add option to rename single file torrents to the file inside (251799)
- Make sure that items in history of download locations and completed locations end with a slash (259499)
- Make search filter in MediaView of mediaplayer plugin case insensitive (259782)
Changes in 4.0.5:
- Fix crash due to uncaught exception when creating torrent (255020)
- Modify tracker grouping script to avoid a memory leak in krosspython
- Fix bug causing extenders to be shown when the torrent is hidden (248205)
- Fix restoring hidden state of bottom tab bar in the torrent activity
- Improve performance of View (258324)
- Fix bug causing user modified filename not be shown for single file torrents (258860)
- Ensure that lastSaveDir is saved to the config (259041)
- Make sure ktorrent compiles and works with new solid powermanagement api introduced in KDE 4.6beta2 (258331)
- Fix bug causing the wrong path to be opened when opening a nested directory in a multifile torrent
Changes in 4.0.4:
- Make sure that syndication filter save location overrides group save location (250116)
- Don't hardcode background of bandwidth schedule to white so that system colors are used (251925)
- Improve performance of ViewModel when there are many torrents (216501)
- Backport several improvements for IP filter auto update from trunk
- Fix bug causing two instances of ktorrent to be started when missing files dialog is shown at startup (252099)
- Fix bug causing KT to use invalid dbus paths in group paths
- Fix crash at exit due to a Core::update getting called during exit (254214)
Changes in 4.0.3:
- Fix bug causing wrong encoding to be used when the default save location of a group is read (244873)
- Fix crash in QueueManagerWidget when moving torrents in the queue
- When renaming files in a torrent prevent duplicate names (244624)
- Fix crash on exit when cleaning up UPnP requests
- Fix crash due to uncaught exception when a tor directory cannot be removed (247979)
Changes in 4.0.2:
- Fix wrong X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name in ktzeroconfplugin.desktop
- Fix crash caused by 0 pointer in webinterface plugin (242273)
- Increase auto update retry interval of ipfilter plugin to 15 minutes
- Fix bug causing groups file to grow very large over time (243182)
Changes in 4.0.1:
- Make sure that the proper encoding is used when loading syndication filters
- Display filename if TagLib doesn't know the title of a file in the mediaplayer plugin
- Fix memory leak in plasma dataengine (238948)
- Use routers XML file URL to distinguish between UPnP routers
- Make sure that there are no uncaught exceptions (223243)
Changes in 4.0:
- In Core::onExit shutdown TCP and UTP servers a bit later to prevent crashes
Changes in 4.0rc1:
- Split of libbtcore as libktorrent
- Make sure that QM handles max share ratio and max seed time a bit better
- Clear selection of ActivityListWidget before selecting the current item (233289)
- When a torrent row is double clicked open the data directory (230618)
- Switch to new style tray icon (210811,233422)
- Make sure that state is set to active when rendering progress bar in ViewDelegate (232727)
- Suspend KTorrent -> Suspend Torrents to avoid confusion (233421)
- Workaround memory leak in krosspython by not passing QObject pointers as arguments to callMethod (223885, 226924)
- Make move on completion a per torrent feature
- Make compiling plasma applet dependant on Qt version
- Make sure extenders can be resized
- Make sure float is not used in scripting api, doesn't seem to work with python scripts
- Add dbus functions to set and get the maximum and current share ratio and seed time
Changes in 4.0beta2:
- Use proper KDE function to format date in syndication plugin
- Make sure HTMLPart uses proper charset when rendering page
- Add copy URL item to popupmenu in search plugin view
- Pause becomes suspend
- Revamp torrent creation code
- Avoid unnecessary memcpy when generating hash
- Add UDP tracker scraping
- Improve handling of incomplete handshakes (218875)
- When switching back from fullscreen video make sure the tab shown is the video tab
- Replace KMultiTabBar by QToolBar, because it handles not enough space better (214524)
- Make tab moving possible in TorrentActivity and SearchActivity (215053)
- Show arrows in qm widget to indicate if a torrent is a seed or a download
- Fix crash caused by not checking for 0 pointer (220442)
- Add search line in QM widget which highlights and scrolls to found items (220428)
- Moving multiple items in QM widget is now possible (220428)
- Prevent trackers from sending back to much data (220684)
- Fix typo in in log message of QM (223888)
- Added patch witch adds an additional column to a View showing the date and time a torrent was added
- Fix compilation not working on solaris due to missing NAME_MAX define (222598)
- Fix check for existing files for single file torrents in FileSelectDlg (225900)
- Add pathOnDisk dbus call on a torrent to retrieve the output path
- Fix crash in GroupView (226134)
- Cleanup notifier before closing socket in webinterface plugin, fixes a crash (225956)
- Make sure that weekdays deselects weekend, and weekend deselects weekdays in scheduler plugin (225952)
- Don't show 0 KB/s when there is no limit in scheduler plugin (225943)
- Make warning icon when no trackers can be reached, work for non private torrents (227670)
- Reset bandwidth schedule when network comes up again (227423)
- Make sure TOS is set when setting up a connection
- Fix crash in AuthenticationMonitor, caused by dangling pointer (228395)
- Fix SHA1 hash generation crashes by using shared pointers to PieceData (227400)
- Fix crash in PeerConnector cleanup (228955)
- Make it possible to change the ChunkSelector at runtime
- Make torrents reannounce and kill all stale peers, when network comes back up after some downtime (184766)
- Before mapping a piece, use posix_fallocate to ensure that we can't get a SIGBUS when the disk is full (229081)
- Revamp stats file implementation so the QM can no longer block things when there are many torrents (228974)
- Use pause functionality instead of stopping and restarting a torrent when doing jobs (179456)
- Fix handling of keep-alive in webinterface plugin (225167)
- Don't open files to determine disk usage when files are not open
- Change listen backlog to SOMAXCONN
- Do preallocation properly (or not at all depending on settings) when file is recreated
- Add support for the µTP protocol (197749)
- Fix crash in HTTPConnection due to 0 pointer (231859)
- Add patch to disable authentication in webinterface (226291)
- Add plugin to generate magnet URI's
- Fix crash in webseed downloading code (232971)
Changes in 4.0beta1:
- Make adding multiple trackers at once possible (213194)
- Bandwidth scheduler can now be deactivated temporarely
- Show information message instead of error when trackerlists are merged (213772)
- Add patch from Leo Trubach which adds support for IP rangs to the IP filter dialog
- Add support for metadata extension
- Remove own flags, now using exclusively those from KDE
- Add support for reqq parameter in extended handshake
- Ignore diskspace check when it cannot be determined on a gvfs mounted filesystem (187141)
- DHT can no longer be disabled at compile time
- Add support for magnet URL's (214375)
- Fix crash due to uncaught warning
- Expand open url dialog, it is now possible to open silently and to select the group
- Fix crash when loading magnets file (218227)
Changes in 3.3.4:
- Fix SHA1 hash generation crashes once and for all (222753)
- Check for invalid addresses in reverse resolver, fixes a crash
- Fix sorting bug in choking algorithm
- Fix crash caused by handling exceptions badly (224097)
- Fix bug causing global max share ratio and seed time to override group policy (223745)
Changes in 3.3.3:
- Fix crash caused by 0 pointer in Downloader::saveDownloads (219019)
- Don't remove torrent when jobs are running, wait until they are done, this fixes a crash (218853)
- Disable editing of items in ActivityListModel (219355)
- Make sure checks for ftello and fseeko are done, fixes a problem with large file sizes on BSD (217523)
- Make sure reannounce timer in UDPTracker is always stopped in the stop call (219663)
- Fix broken FilterListModel::removeFilter fixes a crash (219760)
- Revamp adding trackers to TrackerListModel, should fix a crash (218738)
- Don't allow nested event loops when iterating over the incomplete url list in scanfolder plugin, fixes a crash (219885)
- Fix crash due to uncaught exception in TorrentFileTreeModel::loadExpandedState
- Fix bug causing error message that the QM limits are reached to be shown instead of a torrent to be enqueued (220171)
- Fix crash caused by not checking for 0 pointer (221333)
- Fix crashes when DHT socket could not be bound (221872)
- Fix bug causing files to be created which are to big in some rare circumstances (222036)
- Fix bug causing wrong location hint to be used when no default save location is selected (222783)
Changes in 3.3.2:
- Fix crash when loading Feed in syndication plugin at startup (216207)
- Replace newlines with spaces when displaying multiline comments in statustab (216683)
Changes in 3.3.1:
- Make sure exceptions in DHT code are caught, fixes a crash (213819)
- Fix several memory leaks at exit
- Fix bug in edge detection of items on the bandwidth schedule
- Fix crash when webinterface plugin is removed and there are active connections to the webserver (214187)
- Fix bugs causing context menus to be shown in wrong location (214657)
- Don't store the color for normal file priority in FileView, use system default (214748)
- Fix bug causing current tab in TorrentActivity not to be restored (214959)
- Fix IP filter download going wrong in some cases, by specifying mimetype in KFilterDev::deviceForFile
- Fix crash when not able to bind for DHT socket (215079)
- Make it optional to intercept Qt debug messages in InitLog call
- Fix crash when trying to unzip broken zip file in ipfilter download (215353)
- Add some limits so DHT tasks don't run for to long and eat up to much memory
Changes in 2.2.7
- Fix crash when loading articles in RSS plugin fails (161475)
- Fix SIGBUS caused crash on sparc
- Backported fix from KDE4 version for an infinite recursive loop in the QM
Changes in 2.2.6 :
- Some OpenBSD compile fixes
- Fix lock file not working on NFS home directories by moving it to /tmp
- Fix wrong name being in torrentcreator dialog when path contains #
- Don't show progress info for each file we are moving in a MoveDataFilesJob (160338)
- Fix infinite loop in DHT code
- Fix group name encoding in saving and loading
- Fix problem with speedbars staying drawn when they were disabled
- Ported DHT ping storm fix from KDE4 version
- Added patch from carucciio to load torrents silently from the command line
- Set output_path of torrent as default location when the users selects set download location in the viewmenu (157486)
- Torrents with no file selected are now always shown as download
- Ditch KIO::NetAccess when moving data files (157462)
- Fix stop all and start all from system tray menu (it used to apply to the current view, now it applies to all torrents) (157991)
- Make sure that set download location and add to group are disabled when no torrent is selected
- Fix ktshell when there are multiple dcop sessions (158115)
- ETA algorithm -> Time left estimation algorithm (158277)
- Fix issue with time functions on openbsd (158945)
- Put lock file in /tmp to make sure that KT works when the users home directory is on an NFS filesystem
- Added small fix in css of default webgui
- Added PeerID of KGet and BitsOnWheels
- Sort list of blocks before saving them to file in ipfilter plugin
Changes in 2.2.5 :
- Fix moving of files slowing things down under certain circumstances
- Use avahi_qt_poll_get instead of the threaded stuff, should get rid of the zeroconf crashes
- After 3 mmap failures, allways use buffered mode
- Fix bug in DHT token storage and checking
- Fix free diskspace calculation on FreeBSD
- Fix a problem with the PHP code
- Use QTextStream in webgui instead of creating very big strings
- Backported KT ETA algorithm fix from KDE4 trunk
- Fix socket code for Dragonfly BSD (139081 and 139110)
- Make sure hidden files also get deleted when deleting directory (155414)
- Make sure that preallocate does not interfere with read only files (155437)
- Fix slow saving of file_info and chunk_info files (155447)
- Ported bdecoder fix from KDE4 version
- Fix adding to groups (& added by Qt screwed things up)
- Don't save groups at exit anymore (149212)
- Ported close_wait bugfix from KDE4 version
- Ported recent DHT fixes from KDE4 version
Changes in 2.2.4 :
- Fix crash in fileview
- Added patch from Rafel Milecki to add file selection in the coldmilk webgui
- Added patch from Rafel Milecki to add a confirmation dialog when the user shutsdown KT in the default webgui
- Fixed bug which caused the set max rate menu in the system tray icon menu to fail in recent KDE versions
- Optimized SHA1HashGen a bit
- Use Qt int types to be sure size is correct
- Do not stop ONLY_SEED chunks, but let them finish
Changes in 2.2.3 :
- Fix datacheck of 4GB+ files on 32 bit systems
- Prioritise at least 1 % of multimedia files instead of 1 chunk
- Fix crashes caused by SIGXFSZ (BUG: 149747)
- Make sure body tag is OK in 404 and 500 error defines in webgui (BUG: 150023)
- Fix bug which allows clients to trick KT in enabling PEX on private torrents
- If do not use KDE proxy is enabled and no alternative proxy is set, make sure we use no proxy at all for HTTP tracker connections. (BUG: 150284)
- Removed slashes which prevent opening torrents to work in ktshell
- Fix broken preexsting file check, which can result in files being deleted when the user deselects them and they already exist. (
BUG: 150563)
- When stop all and start all is pressed, make sure that start and stop buttons are updated properly (BUG: 149549)
- Make URL of tracker selectable in tracker tab
- Fix issue with speed calculating, causing the displayed speed to grow enormously
- Updated Peer ID list with more clients
- Fix crash when trying to download an empty link with the RSS plugin (BUG: 150879)
- Fix crash at exit when the RSS plugin was loaded
- Make TrayHoverPopup dissapear faster (BUG: 148243)
- Sort IP addresses by their actual value and not by their string representation (BUG: 150328)
- Added patch from Jaak Ristioja, which updates the FileView in a separate thread.
- Make sure only the files of a torrent are moved when the data directory is changed.
- Make sure window is not hidden when hidden_on_exit is true and the system tray icon is not enabled
- Added patch from Stefan Monov to hide the menubar (BUG: 151450)
- Fix crash at exit (BUG: 149827)
- Added patch from The_Kernel, which allows you to change file priorities in the webgui
- Backported fix for refresh bug from KDE4 version
- Added option to limit the number of outgoing connection setups, so that people can limit the number of TCP connections in SYN_SENT state, should their router not be able to handle to much
- Replaced TOS setting by DSCP setting
- Added several patches from Rafael Mileki which fix and improve some things in the webgui
- Change buttons in recreate popup to Recreate and Do Not Recreate (BUG: 151805)
- Added patch from Lukasz Fibinger which adds a filter bar to search for torrents
- Make sure that day and month names are not translated in HTTP headers.
Changes in 2.2.2 :
- Several minor bugfixes
- Fix file selection bug
- Fix several webgui bugs
- Make sure plugin list is sorted on the plugin name
- Fix bug with UPnP plugin not releasing ports when KT is shutdown
Changes in 2.2 :
- Allow user to create torrents without tracker
- Double clicking on files in files tab opens them
Changes in 2.2rc1
- Revamped plugin settings page, looks much nicer now.
- Scan dialog now has only one button cancel, which becomes close when the
scan is finished
- Add max seed time feature
- Add download and seed time columns in view
Changes in 2.2beta1
- Ditch KMDI in favor of KDevelop IDEA code
- Infowidget has been fully moved to the bottom tabbar
- Possibility to open as many views as needed
- By default a downloads and uploads tab is now shown
- Immediatly hide system tray icon at exit
- Make sure to many files open bug is very unlikely to happen
- Search plugin tab has now become a toolbar
- Added option to fully preallocate diskspace for torrents
- Added support for seeding from readonly filesystems
- Make sure FileView remembers it's state
- Sleep time of upload and download is now configurable through a CPU usage
slider in the settings
- Added option to move finished downloads to a different directory
- Readded feature to show the total and the number of running torrents in the
tab of each view
- Added progress bar in status bar when searching
- Redesigned FileSelectDlg
- Added option to add torrent to group when loading
- Added option to choose download directory for torrent when loading
- Added option to copy .torrent files to user specified directory
- Show torrent path when trying to load a corrupt torrent from torX/ directory
- Added speed limits for individual torrents
- Added dynamic diskspace checking.
- Added option to disable diskspace preallocation
- Improved system tray popup icon : we now use boxed style KPassivePopup instead
of Qt tooltips, it also only disappears when the cursor
is moved away from the tray icon and the text can be updated
- The log now gets autorotated when it gets larger then 10 MB
- Import dialog is now network transparent for the torrent file
- Added statistics plugin which was developed by Krzysztof Kundzicz
by Sergey Svishchev.
Changes in 2.1.4
- Fixed crash in parsing of DHT messages
- Fixed problem with files with .. in their name
- ScanFolder can now handle incomplete torrent files properly
Changes in 2.1.3
- Fixed crash in torrent parsing
Changes in 2.1.2
- Fix 2 security vulnerabilities (thanks to Bryan Burns from Juniper Networks
for finding them)
Changes in 2.1.1
- Rewrite of webserver
- New webgui : coldmilk
- Networking thread has been split up in 2 threads, one for upload, one for
download
- Significant speed improvements when downloading over a LAN
Changes in 2.1
- Some minor bug fixes
Changes in 2.1rc1
- Share ratio column added in main view
- Added option to use a different proxy then the default KDE proxy for HTTP trackers
- Added feature to show/hide columns in main view
- Moved search box to bottom, so that the window is not enlarged in 1024 x 768 resolutions, when you search for something
- Made sure no duplicates get into search box history
- Fixed 'Trackers' tab in InfoWidget to properly resize tracker URL label
- Zeroconf plugin added
- Added µTorrent compatible PEX
- Fixed a bug in WebInterface plugin causing JS tooltips not to show.
- Fixed a bug with 'Stop All' not stopping queued torrents.
by Sergey Svischev (updated to latest version by me).
KTorrent is a BitTorrent program for KDE.
Among the new features you can find:
* Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version)
* Protocol encryption
* Bandwith scheduling
* Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in
certain directories
* Trackers can now be added to torrents
* File prioritization for multi file torrents
And of course a whole bunch of bug fixes. We already supported
the following features in the previous version:
* Downloads torrent files
* Upload and download speed capping
* Internet searching using various search engines, you
can even add your own UDP Trackers
* Port forwarding with UPnP
* IP blocking plugin
* Importing of partially or fully downloaded files
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