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* added support for merkle hash tree torrents (.merkle.torrent)
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* added 'seed mode', which assumes that all files are complete
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and checks hashes lazily, as blocks are requested
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* added new extension for file attributes (executable and hidden)
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* added support for unbuffered I/O for aligned files
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* added workaround for sparse file issue on Windows Vista
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* added new lt_trackers extension to exchange trackers between
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peers
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* added support for BEP 17 http seeds
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* added read_piece() to read pieces from torrent storage
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* added option for udp tracker preference
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* added super seeding
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* added add_piece() function to inject data from external sources
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* add_tracker() function added to torrent_handle
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* if there is no working tracker, current_tracker is the
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tracker that is currently being tried
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* torrents that are checking can now be paused, which will
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pause the checking
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* introduced another torrent state, checking_resume_data, which
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the torrent is in when it's first added, and is comparing
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the files on disk with the resume data
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* DHT bandwidth usage optimizations
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* rate limited DHT send socket
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* tracker connections are now also subject to IP filtering
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* improved optimistic unchoke logic
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* added monitoring of the DHT lookups
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* added bandwidth reports for estimated TCP/IP overhead and DHT
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* includes DHT traffic in the rate limiter
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* added support for bitcomet padding files
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* improved support for sparse files on windows
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release 0.14.3
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* added python binding for create_torrent
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* fixed boost-1.38 build
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* fixed bug where web seeds would be connected before the files
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were checked
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* fixed filename bug when using wide characters
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* fixed rare crash in peer banning code
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* fixed potential HTTP compatibility issue
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* fixed UPnP crash
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* fixed UPnP issue where the control url contained the base url
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* fixed a replace_trackers bug
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* fixed bug where the DHT port mapping would not be removed when
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changing DHT port
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* fixed move_storage bug when files were renamed to be moved out
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of the root directory
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* added error handling for set_piece_hashes
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* fixed missing include in enum_if.cpp
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release 0.14.2
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* added missing functions to the python bindings torrent_info::map_file,
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torrent_info::map_block and torrent_info::file_at_offset.
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* removed support for boost-1.33 and earlier (probably didn't work)
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* fixed potential freezes issues at shutdown
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* improved error message for python setup script
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* fixed bug when torrent file included announce-list, but no valid
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tracker urls
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* fixed bug where the files requested from web seeds would be the
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renamed file names instead of the original file names in the torrent.
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* documentation fix of queing section
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* fixed potential issue in udp_socket (affected udp tracker support)
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* made name, comment and created by also be subject to utf-8 error
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correction (filenames already were)
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* fixed dead-lock when settings DHT proxy
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* added missing export directives to lazy_entry
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* fixed disk cache expiry settings bug (if changed, it would be set
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to the cache size)
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* fixed bug in http_connection when binding to a particular IP
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* fixed typo in python binding (torrent_handle::piece_prioritize should
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be torrent_handle::piece_priorities)
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* fixed race condition when saving DHT state
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* fixed bugs related to lexical_cast being locale dependent
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* added support for SunPro C++ compiler
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* fixed bug where messeges sometimes could be encrypted in the
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wrong order, for encrypted connections.
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* fixed race condition where torrents could get stuck waiting to
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get checked
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* fixed mapped files bug where it wouldn't be properly restored
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from resume data properly
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* removed locale dependency in xml parser (caused asserts on windows)
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* fixed bug when talking to https 1.0 servers
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* fixed UPnP bug that could cause stack overflow
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release 0.14.1
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* added converter for python unicode strings to utf-8 paths
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* fixed bug in http downloader where the host field did not
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include the port number
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* fixed headers to not depend on NDEBUG, which would prohibit
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linking a release build of libtorrent against a debug application
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* fixed bug in disk I/O thread that would make the thread
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sometimes quit when an error occurred
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* fixed DHT bug
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* fixed potential shutdown crash in disk_io_thread
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* fixed usage of deprecated boost.filsystem functions
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* fixed http_connection unit test
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* fixed bug in DHT when a DHT state was loaded
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* made rate limiter change in 0.14 optional (to take estimated
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TCP/IP overhead into account)
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* made the python plugin buildable through the makefile
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* fixed UPnP bug when url base ended with a slash and
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path started with a slash
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* fixed various potentially leaking exceptions
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* fixed problem with removing torrents that are checking
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* fixed documentation bug regarding save_resume_data()
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* added missing documentation on torrent creation
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* fixed bugs in python client examples
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* fixed missing dependency in package-config file
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* fixed shared geoip linking in Jamfile
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* fixed python bindings build on windows and made it possible
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to generate a windows installer
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* fixed bug in NAT-PMP implementation
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release 0.14
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* deprecated add_torrent() in favor of a new add_torrent()
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that takes a struct with parameters instead. Torrents
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are paused and auto managed by default.
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* removed 'connecting_to_tracker' torrent state. This changes
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the enum values for the other states.
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* Improved seeding and choking behavior.
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* Fixed rare buffer overrun bug when calling get_download_queue
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* Fixed rare bug where torrent could be put back into downloading
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state even though it was finished, after checking files.
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* Fixed rename_file to work before the file on disk has been
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created.
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* Fixed bug in tracker connections in case of errors caused
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in the connection constructor.
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* Updated alert system to be filtered by category instead of
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severity level. Alerts can generate a message through
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alert::message().
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* Session constructor will now start dht, upnp, natpmp, lsd by
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default. Flags can be passed in to the constructor to not
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do this, if these features are to be enabled and disabled
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at a later point.
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* Removed 'connecting_to_tracker' torrent state
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* Fix bug where FAST pieces were cancelled on choke
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* Fixed problems with restoring piece states when hash failed.
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* Minimum peer reconnect time fix. Peers with no failures would
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reconnect immediately.
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* Improved web seed error handling
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* DHT announce fixes and off-by-one loop fix
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* Fixed UPnP xml parse bug where it would ignore the port number
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for the control url.
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* Fixed bug in torrent writer where the private flag was added
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outside of the info dictionary
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* Made the torrent file parser less strict of what goes in the
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announce-list entry
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* Fixed type overflow bug where some statistics was incorrectly
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reported for file larger than 2 GB
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* boost-1.35 support
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* Fixed bug in statistics from web server peers where it sometimes
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could report too many bytes downloaded.
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* Fixed bug where statistics from the last second was lost when
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disconnecting a peer.
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* receive buffer optimizations (memcpy savings and memory savings)
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* Support for specifying the TOS byte for peer traffic.
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* Basic support for queueing of torrents.
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* Better bias to give connections to downloading torrents
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with fewer peers.
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* Optimized resource usage (removed the checking thread)
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* Support to bind outgoing connections to specific ports
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* Disk cache support.
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* New, more memory efficient, piece picker with sequential download
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support (instead of the more complicated sequential download threshold).
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* Auto Upload slots. Automtically opens up more slots if
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upload limit is not met.
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* Improved NAT-PMP support by querying the default gateway
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* Improved UPnP support by ignoring routers not on the clients subnet.
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release 0.13
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* Added scrape support
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* Added add_extension() to torrent_handle. Can instantiate
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extensions for torrents while downloading
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* Added support for remove_torrent to delete the files as well
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* Fixed issue with failing async_accept on windows
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* DHT improvements, proper error messages are now returned when
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nodes sends bad packets
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* Optimized the country table used to resolve country of peers
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* Copying optimization for sending data. Data is no longer copied from
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the disk I/O buffer to the send buffer.
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* Buffer optimization to use a raw buffer instead of std::vector<char>
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* Improved file storage to use sparse files
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* Updated python bindings
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* Added more clients to the identifiable clients list.
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* Torrents can now be started in paused state (to better support queuing)
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* Improved IPv6 support (support for IPv6 extension to trackers and
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listens on both IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces).
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* Improved asserts used. Generates a stacktrace on linux
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* Piece picker optimizations and improvements
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* Improved unchoker, connection limit and rate limiter
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* Support for FAST extension
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* Fixed invalid calculation in DHT node distance
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* Fixed bug in URL parser that failed to parse IPv6 addresses
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* added peer download rate approximation
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* added port filter for outgoing connection (to prevent
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triggering firewalls)
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* made most parameters configurable via session_settings
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* added encryption support
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* added parole mode for peers whose data fails the hash check.
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* optimized heap usage in piece-picker and web seed downloader.
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* fixed bug in DHT where older write tokens weren't accepted.
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* added support for sparse files.
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* introduced speed categories for peers and pieces, to separate
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slow and fast peers.
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* added a half-open tcp connection limit that takes all connections
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in to account, not just peer connections.
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* added alerts for filtered IPs.
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* added support for SOCKS4 and 5 proxies and HTTP CONNECT proxies.
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* fixed proper distributed copies calculation.
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* added option to use openssl for sha-1 calculations.
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* optimized the piece picker in the case where a peer is a seed.
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* added support for local peer discovery
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* removed the dependency on the compiled boost.date_time library
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* deprecated torrent_info::print()
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* added UPnP support
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* fixed problem where peer interested flags were not updated correctly
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when pieces were filtered
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* improvements to ut_pex messages, including support for seed flag
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* prioritizes upload bandwidth to peers that might send back data
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* the following functions have been deprecated:
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void torrent_handle::filter_piece(int index, bool filter) const;
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void torrent_handle::filter_pieces(std::vector<bool> const& pieces) const;
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bool torrent_handle::is_piece_filtered(int index) const;
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std::vector<bool> torrent_handle::filtered_pieces() const;
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void torrent_handle::filter_files(std::vector<bool> const& files) const;
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instead, use the piece_priority functions.
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* added support for NAT-PMP
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* added support for piece priorities. Piece filtering is now set as
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a priority
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* Fixed crash when last piece was smaller than one block and reading
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fastresume data for that piece
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* Makefiles should do a better job detecting boost
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* Fixed crash when all tracker urls are removed
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* Log files can now be created at user supplied path
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* Log files failing to create is no longer fatal
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* Fixed dead-lock in torrent_handle
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* Made it build with boost 1.34 on windows
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* Fixed bug in URL parser that failed to parse IPv6 addresses
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* Fixed bug in DHT, related to IPv6 nodes
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* DHT accepts transaction IDs that have garbage appended to them
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* DHT logs messages that it fails to decode
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release 0.12
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* fixes to make the DHT more compatible
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* http seed improvements including error reporting and url encoding issues.
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* fixed bug where directories would be left behind when moving storage
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in some cases.
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* fixed crashing bug when restarting or stopping the DHT.
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* added python binding, using boost.python
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* improved character conversion on windows when strings are not utf-8.
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* metadata extension now respects the private flag in the torrent.
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* made the DHT to only be used as a fallback to trackers by default.
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* added support for HTTP redirection support for web seeds.
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* fixed race condition when accessing a torrent that was checking its
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fast resume data.
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* fixed a bug in the DHT which could be triggered if the network was
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dropped or extremely rare cases.
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* if the download rate is limited, web seeds will now only use left-over
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bandwidth after all bt peers have used up as much bandwidth as they can.
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* added the possibility to have libtorrent resolve the countries of
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the peers in torrents.
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* improved the bandwidth limiter (it now implements a leaky bucket/node bucket).
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* improved the HTTP seed downloader to report accurate progress.
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* added more client peer-id signatures to be recognized.
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* added support for HTTP servers that skip the CR before the NL at line breaks.
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* fixed bug in the HTTP code that only accepted headers case sensitive.
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* fixed bug where one of the session constructors didn't initialize boost.filesystem.
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* fixed bug when the initial checking of a torrent fails with an exception.
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* fixed bug in DHT code which would send incorrect announce messages.
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* fixed bug where the http header parser was case sensitive to the header
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names.
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* Implemented an optmization which frees the piece_picker once a torrent
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turns into a seed.
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* Added support for uT peer exchange extension, implemented by Massaroddel.
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* Modified the quota management to offer better bandwidth balancing
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between peers.
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* logging now supports multiple sessions (different sessions now log
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to different directories).
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* fixed random number generator seed problem, generating the same
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peer-id for sessions constructed the same second.
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* added an option to accept multiple connections from the same IP.
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* improved tracker logging.
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* moved the file_pool into session. The number of open files is now
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limited per session.
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* fixed uninitialized private flag in torrent_info
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* fixed long standing issue with file.cpp on windows. Replaced the low level
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io functions used on windows.
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* made it possible to associate a name with torrents without metadata.
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* improved http-downloading performance by requesting entire pieces via
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http.
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* added plugin interface for extensions. And changed the interface for
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enabling extensions.
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release 0.11
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* added support for incorrectly encoded paths in torrent files
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(assumes Latin-1 encoding and converts to UTF-8).
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* added support for destructing session objects asynchronously.
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* fixed bug with file_progress() with files = 0 bytes
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* fixed a race condition bug in udp_tracker_connection that could
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cause a crash.
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* fixed bug occuring when increasing the sequenced download threshold
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with max availability lower than previous threshold.
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* fixed an integer overflow bug occuring when built with gcc 4.1.x
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* fixed crasing bug when closing while checking a torrent
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* fixed bug causing a crash with a torrent with piece length 0
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* added an extension to the DHT network protocol to support the
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exchange of nodes with IPv6 addresses.
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* modified the ip_filter api slightly to support IPv6
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* modified the api slightly to make sequenced download threshold
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a per torrent-setting.
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* changed the address type to support IPv6
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* fixed bug in piece picker which would not behave as
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expected with regard to sequenced download threshold.
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* fixed bug with file_progress() with files > 2 GB.
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* added --enable-examples option to configure script.
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* fixed problem with the resource distribution algorithm
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(controlling e.g upload/download rates).
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* fixed incorrect asserts in storage related to torrents with
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zero-sized files.
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* added support for trackerless torrents (with kademlia DHT).
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* support for torrents with the private flag set.
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* support for torrents containing bootstrap nodes for the
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DHT network.
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* fixed problem with the configure script on FreeBSD.
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* limits the pipelining used on url-seeds.
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* fixed problem where the shutdown always would delay for
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session_settings::stop_tracker_timeout seconds.
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* session::listen_on() won't reopen the socket in case the port and
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interface is the same as the one currently in use.
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* added http proxy support for web seeds.
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* fixed problem where upload and download stats could become incorrect
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in case of high cpu load.
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* added more clients to the identifiable list.
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* fixed fingerprint parser to cope with latest Mainline versions.
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release 0.10
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* fixed a bug where the requested number of peers in a tracker request could
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be too big.
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* fixed a bug where empty files were not created in full allocation mode.
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* fixed a bug in storage that would, in rare cases, fail to do a
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complete check.
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* exposed more settings for tweaking parameters in the piece-picker,
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downloader and uploader (http_settings replaced by session_settings).
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* tweaked default settings to improve high bandwidth transfers.
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* improved the piece picker performance and made it possible to download
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popular pieces in sequence to improve disk performance.
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* added the possibility to control upload and download limits per peer.
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* fixed problem with re-requesting skipped pieces when peer was sending pieces
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out of fifo-order.
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* added support for http seeding (the GetRight protocol)
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* renamed identifiers called 'id' in the public interface to support linking
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with Objective.C++
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* changed the extensions protocol to use the new one, which is also
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implemented by uTorrent.
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* factorized the peer_connection and added web_peer_connection which is
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able to download from http-sources.
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* converted the network code to use asio (resulted in slight api changes
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dealing with network addresses).
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* made libtorrent build in vc7 (patches from Allen Zhao)
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* fixed bug caused when binding outgoing connections to a non-local interface.
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* add_torrent() will now throw if called while the session object is
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being closed.
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* added the ability to limit the number of simultaneous half-open
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TCP connections. Flags in peer_info has been added.
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release 0.9.1
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* made the session disable file name checks within the boost.filsystem library
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* fixed race condition in the sockets
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* strings that are invalid utf-8 strings are now decoded with the
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local codepage on windows
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* added the ability to build libtorrent both as a shared library
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* client_test can now monitor a directory for torrent files and automatically
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start and stop downloads while running
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* fixed problem with file_size() when building on windows with unicode support
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* added a new torrent state, allocating
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* added a new alert, metadata_failed_alert
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* changed the interface to session::add_torrent for some speed optimizations.
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* greatly improved the command line control of the example client_test.
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* fixed bug where upload rate limit was not being applied.
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* files that are being checked will no longer stall files that don't need
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checking.
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* changed the way libtorrent identifies support for its excentions
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to look for 'ext' at the end of the peer-id.
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* improved performance by adding a circle buffer for the send buffer.
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* fixed bugs in the http tracker connection when using an http proxy.
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* fixed problem with storage's file pool when creating torrents and then
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starting to seed them.
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* hard limit on remote request queue and timeout on requests (a timeout
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triggers rerequests). This makes libtorrent work much better with
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"broken" clients like BitComet which may ignore requests.
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Initial release 0.9
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* multitracker support
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* serves multiple torrents on a single port and a single thread
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* supports http proxies and proxy authentication
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* gzipped tracker-responses
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* block level piece picker
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* queues torrents for file check, instead of checking all of them in parallel
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* uses separate threads for checking files and for main downloader
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* upload and download rate limits
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* piece-wise, unordered, incremental file allocation
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* fast resume support
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* supports files > 2 gigabytes
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* supports the no_peer_id=1 extension
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* support for udp-tracker protocol
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* number of connections limit
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* delays sending have messages
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* can resume pieces downloaded in any order
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* adjusts the length of the request queue depending on download rate
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* supports compact=1
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* selective downloading
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* ip filter
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