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* overhauled listen socket and UDP socket handling, improving multi-home
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support and bind-to-device
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* added new read_resume_data() function, initializing add_torrent_params
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* removed deprecated fields from add_torrent_params
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* deprecate "resume_data" field in add_torrent_params
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* improved support for bind-to-device
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* deprecated ssl_listen, SSL sockets are specified in listen_interfaces now
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* improved support for listening on multiple sockets and interfaces
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* resume data no longer has timestamps of files
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1.1.1 release
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* Added missing alert categories in python binding
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* Added dht_get_peers_reply_alert alert in python binding
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1.1.0 release
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* improve robustness and performance of uTP PMTU discovery
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* fix duplicate ACK issue in uTP
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* support filtering which parts of session state are loaded by load_state()
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* deprecate support for adding torrents by HTTP URL
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* allow specifying which tracker to scrape in scrape_tracker
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* tracker response alerts from user initiated announces/scrapes are now
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posted regardless of alert mask
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* improve DHT performance when changing external IP (primarily affects
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bootstrapping).
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* add feature to stop torrents immediately after checking files is done
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* make all non-auto managed torrents exempt from queuing logic, including
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checking torrents.
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* add option to not proxy tracker connections through proxy
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* removed sparse-regions feature
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* support using 0 disk threads (to perform disk I/O in network thread)
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* removed deprecated handle_alert template
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* enable logging build config by default (but alert mask disabled by default)
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* deprecated RSS API
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* experimental support for BEP 38, "mutable torrents"
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* replaced lazy_bdecode with a new bdecoder that's a lot more efficient
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* deprecate time functions, expose typedefs of boost::chrono in the
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libtorrent namespace instead
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* deprecate file_base feature in file_storage/torrent_info
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* improve piece picker support for reverse picking (used for snubbed peers)
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to not cause priority inversion for regular peers
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* improve piece picker to better support torrents with very large pieces
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and web seeds. (request large contiguous ranges, but not necessarily a
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whole piece).
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* deprecated session_status and session::status() in favor of performance
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counters.
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* improve support for HTTP where one direction of the socket is shut down.
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* remove internal fields from web_seed_entry
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* separate crypto library configuration <crypto> and whether to support
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bittorrent protocol encryption <encryption>
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* simplify bittorrent protocol encryption by just using internal RC4
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implementation.
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* optimize copying torrent_info and file_storage objects
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* cancel non-critical DNS lookups when shutting down, to cut down on
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shutdown delay.
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* greatly simplify the debug logging infrastructure. logs are now delivered
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as alerts, and log level is controlled by the alert mask.
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* removed auto_expand_choker. use rate_based_choker instead
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* optimize UDP tracker packet handling
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* support SSL over uTP connections
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* support web seeds that resolve to multiple IPs
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* added auto-sequential feature. download well-seeded torrents in-order
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* removed built-in GeoIP support (this functionality is orthogonal to
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libtorrent)
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* deprecate proxy settings in favor of regular settings
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* deprecate separate settings for peer protocol encryption
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* support specifying listen interfaces and outgoing interfaces as device
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names (eth0, en2, tun0 etc.)
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* support for using purgrable memory as disk cache on Mac OS.
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* be more aggressive in corking sockets, to coalesce messages into larger
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packets.
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* pre-emptively unchoke peers to save one round-trip at connection start-up.
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* add session constructor overload that takes a settings_pack
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* torrent_info is no longer an intrusive_ptr type. It is held by shared_ptr.
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This is a non-backwards compatible change
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* move listen interface and port to the settings
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* move use_interfaces() to be a setting
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* extend storage interface to allow deferred flushing and flush the part-file
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metadata periodically
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* make statistics propagate instantly rather than on the second tick
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* support for partfiles, where partial pieces belonging to skipped files are
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put
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* support using multiple threads for socket operations (especially useful for
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high performance SSL connections)
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* allow setting rate limits for arbitrary peer groups. Generalizes
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per-torrent rate limits, and local peer limits
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* improved disk cache complexity O(1) instead of O(log(n))
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* add feature to allow storing disk cache blocks in an mmapped file
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(presumably on an SSD)
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* optimize peer connection distribution logic across torrents to scale
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better with many torrents
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* replaced std::map with boost::unordered_map for torrent list, to scale
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better with many torrents
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* optimized piece picker
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* optimized disk cache
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* optimized .torrent file parsing
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* optimized initialization of storage when adding a torrent
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* added support for adding torrents asynchronously (for improved startup
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performance)
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* added support for asynchronous disk I/O
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* almost completely changed the storage interface (for custom storage)
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* added support for hashing pieces in multiple threads
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* fix division by zero in super-seeding logic
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1.0.9 release
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* fix issue in checking outgoing interfaces (when that option is enabled)
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* python binding fix for boost-1.60.0
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* optimize enumeration of network interfaces on windows
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* improve reliability of binding listen sockets
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* support SNI in https web seeds and trackers
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* fix unhandled exception in DHT when receiving a DHT packet over IPv6
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1.0.8 release
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* fix bug where web seeds were not used for torrents added by URL
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* fix support for symlinks on windows
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* fix long filename issue (on unixes)
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* fixed performance bug in DHT torrent eviction
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* fixed win64 build (GetFileAttributesEx)
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* fixed bug when deleting files for magnet links before they had metadata
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1.0.7 release
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* fix bug where loading settings via load_state() would not trigger all
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appropriate actions
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* fix bug where 32 bit builds could use more disk cache than the virtual
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address space (when set to automatic)
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* fix support for torrents with > 500'000 pieces
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* fix ip filter bug when banning peers
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* fix IPv6 IP address resolution in URLs
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* introduce run-time check for torrent info-sections beeing too large
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* fix web seed bug when using proxy and proxy-peer-connections=false
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* fix bug in magnet link parser
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* introduce add_torrent_params flags to merge web seeds with resume data
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(similar to trackers)
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* fix bug where dont_count_slow_torrents could not be disabled
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* fix fallocate hack on linux (fixes corruption on some architectures)
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* fix auto-manage bug with announce to tracker/lsd/dht limits
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* improve DHT routing table to not create an unbalanced tree
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* fix bug in uTP that would cause any connection taking more than one second
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to connect be timed out (introduced in the vulnerability path)
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* fixed falling back to sending UDP packets direct when socks proxy fails
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* fixed total_wanted bug (when setting file priorities in add_torrent_params)
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* fix python3 compatibility with sha1_hash
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1.0.6 release
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* fixed uTP vulnerability
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* make utf8 conversions more lenient
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* fix loading of piece priorities from resume data
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* improved seed-mode handling (seed-mode will now automatically be left when
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performing operations implying it's not a seed)
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* fixed issue with file priorities and override resume data
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* fix request queue size performance issue
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* slightly improve UDP tracker performance
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* fix http scrape
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* add missing port mapping functions to python binding
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* fix bound-checking issue in bdecoder
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* expose missing dht_settings fields to python
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* add function to query the DHT settings
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* fix bug in 'dont_count_slow_torrents' feature, which would start too many
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torrents
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1.0.5 release
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* improve ip_voter to avoid flapping
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* fixed bug when max_peerlist_size was set to 0
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* fix issues with missing exported symbols when building dll
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* fix division by zero bug in edge case while connecting peers
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1.0.4 release
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* fix bug in python binding for file_progress on torrents with no metadata
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* fix assert when removing a connected web seed
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* fix bug in tracker timeout logic
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* switch UPnP post back to HTTP 1.1
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* support conditional DHT get
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* OpenSSL build fixes
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* fix DHT scrape bug
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1.0.3 release
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* python binding build fix for boost-1.57.0
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* add --enable-export-all option to configure script, to export all symbols
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from libtorrent
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* fix if_nametoindex build error on windows
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* handle overlong utf-8 sequences
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* fix link order bug in makefile for python binding
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* fix bug in interest calculation, causing premature disconnects
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* tweak flag_override_resume_data semantics to make more sense (breaks
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backwards compatibility of edge-cases)
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* improve DHT bootstrapping and periodic refresh
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* improve DHT maintanence performance (by pinging instead of full lookups)
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* fix bug in DHT routing table node-id prefix optimization
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* fix incorrect behavior of flag_use_resume_save_path
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* fix protocol race-condition in super seeding mode
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* support read-only DHT nodes
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* remove unused partial hash DHT lookups
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* remove potentially privacy leaking extension (non-anonymous mode)
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* peer-id connection ordering fix in anonymous mode
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* mingw fixes
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1.0.2 release
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* added missing force_proxy to python binding
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* anonymous_mode defaults to false
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* make DHT DOS detection more forgiving to bursts
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* support IPv6 multicast in local service discovery
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* simplify CAS function in DHT put
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* support IPv6 traffic class (via the TOS setting)
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* made uTP re-enter slow-start after time-out
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* fixed uTP upload performance issue
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* fix missing support for DHT put salt
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1.0.1 release
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* fix alignment issue in bitfield
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* improved error handling of gzip
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* fixed crash when web seeds redirect
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* fix compiler warnings
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1.0 release
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* fix bugs in convert_to/from_native() on windows
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* fix support for web servers not supporting keepalive
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* support storing save_path in resume data
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* don't use full allocation on network drives (on windows)
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* added clear_piece_deadlines() to remove all piece deadlines
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* improve queuing logic of inactive torrents (dont_count_slow_torrents)
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* expose optimistic unchoke logic to plugins
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* fix issue with large UDP packets on windows
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* remove set_ratio() feature
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* improve piece_deadline/streaming
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* honor pieces with priority 7 in sequential download mode
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* simplified building python bindings
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* make ignore_non_routers more forgiving in the case there are no UPnP
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devices at a known router. Should improve UPnP compatibility.
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* include reason in peer_blocked_alert
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* support magnet links wrapped in .torrent files
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* rate limiter optimization
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* rate limiter overflow fix (for very high limits)
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* non-auto-managed torrents no longer count against the torrent limits
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* handle DHT error responses correctly
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* allow force_announce to only affect a single tracker
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* add moving_storage field to torrent_status
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* expose UPnP and NAT-PMP mapping in session object
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* DHT refactoring and support for storing arbitrary data with put and get
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* support building on android
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* improved support for web seeds that don't support keep-alive
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* improve DHT routing table to return better nodes (lower RTT and closer
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to target)
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* don't use pointers to resume_data and file_priorities in
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add_torrent_params
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* allow moving files to absolute paths, out of the download directory
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* make move_storage more generic to allow both overwriting files as well
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as taking existing ones
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* fix choking issue at high upload rates
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* optimized rate limiter
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* make disk cache pool allocator configurable
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* fix library ABI to not depend on logging being enabled
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* use hex encoding instead of base32 in create_magnet_uri
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* include name, save_path and torrent_file in torrent_status, for
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improved performance
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* separate anonymous mode and force-proxy mode, and tighten it up a bit
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* add per-tracker scrape information to announce_entry
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* report errors in read_piece_alert
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* DHT memory optimization
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* improve DHT lookup speed
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* improve support for windows XP and earlier
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* introduce global connection priority for improved swarm performance
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* make files deleted alert non-discardable
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* make built-in sha functions not conflict with libcrypto
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* improve web seed hash failure case
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* improve DHT lookup times
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* uTP path MTU discovery improvements
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* optimized the torrent creator optimizer to scale significantly better
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with more files
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* fix uTP edge case where udp socket buffer fills up
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* fix nagle implementation in uTP
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* fix bug in error handling in protocol encryption
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0.16.18 release
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* fix uninitialized values in DHT DOS mitigation
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* fix error handling in file::phys_offset
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* fix bug in HTTP scrape response parsing
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* enable TCP keepalive for socks5 connection for UDP associate
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* fix python3 support
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* fix bug in lt_donthave extension
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* expose i2p_alert to python. cleaning up of i2p connection code
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* fixed overflow and download performance issue when downloading at high rates
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* fixed bug in add_torrent_alert::message for magnet links
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* disable optimistic disconnects when connection limit is low
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* improved error handling of session::listen_on
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* suppress initial 'completed' announce to trackers added with replace_trackers
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after becoming a seed
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* SOCKS4 fix for trying to connect over IPv6
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* fix saving resume data when removing all trackers
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* fix bug in udp_socket when changing socks5 proxy quickly
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0.16.17 release
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* don't fall back on wildcard port in UPnP
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* fix local service discovery for magnet links
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* fix bitfield issue in file_storage
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* added work-around for MingW issue in file I/O
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* fixed sparse file detection on windows
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* fixed bug in gunzip
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* fix to use proxy settings when adding .torrent file from URL
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* fix resume file issue related to daylight savings time on windows
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* improve error checking in lazy_bdecode
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0.16.16 release
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* add missing add_files overload to the python bindings
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* improve error handling in http gunzip
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* fix debug logging for banning web seeds
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* improve support for de-selected files in full allocation mode
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* fix dht_bootstrap_alert being posted
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* SetFileValidData fix on windows (prevents zero-fill)
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* fix minor lock_files issue on unix
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0.16.15 release
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* fix mingw time_t 64 bit issue
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* fix use of SetFileValidData on windows
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* fix crash when using full allocation storage mode
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* improve error_code and error_category support in python bindings
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* fix python binding for external_ip_alert
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0.16.14 release
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* make lt_tex more robust against bugs and malicious behavior
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* HTTP chunked encoding fix
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* expose file_granularity flag to python bindings
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* fix DHT memory error
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* change semantics of storage allocation to allocate on first write rather
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than on startup (behaves better with changing file priorities)
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* fix resend logic in response to uTP SACK messages
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* only act on uTP RST packets with correct ack_nr
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* make uTP errors log in normal log mode (not require verbose)
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* deduplicate web seed entries from torrent files
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* improve error reporting from lazy_decode()
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0.16.13 release
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* fix auto-manage issue when pausing session
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* fix bug in non-sparse mode on windows, causing incorrect file errors to
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be generated
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* fix set_name() on file_storage actually affecting save paths
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* fix large file support issue on mingw
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* add some error handling to set_piece_hashes()
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* fix completed-on timestamp to not be clobbered on each startup
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* fix deadlock caused by some UDP tracker failures
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* fix potential integer overflow issue in timers on windows
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* minor fix to peer_proportional mixed_mode algorithm (TCP limit could go
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too low)
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* graceful pause fix
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* i2p fixes
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* fix issue when loading certain malformed .torrent files
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* pass along host header with http proxy requests and possible
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http_connection shutdown hang
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0.16.12 release
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* fix building with C++11
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* fix IPv6 support in UDP socket (uTP)
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* fix mingw build issues
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* increase max allowed outstanding piece requests from peers
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* uTP performance improvement. only fast retransmit one packet at a time
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* improve error message for 'file too short'
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* fix piece-picker stat bug when only selecting some files for download
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* fix bug in async_add_torrent when settings file_priorities
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* fix boost-1.42 support for python bindings
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* fix memory allocation issue (virtual addres space waste) on windows
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0.16.11 release
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* fix web seed URL double escape issue
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* fix string encoding issue in alert messages
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* fix SSL authentication issue
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* deprecate std::wstring overloads. long live utf-8
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* improve time-critical pieces feature (streaming)
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* introduce bandwidth exhaustion attack-mitigation in allowed-fast pieces
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* python binding fix issue where torrent_info objects where destructing when
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their torrents were deleted
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* added missing field to scrape_failed_alert in python bindings
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* GCC 4.8 fix
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* fix proxy failure semantics with regards to anonymous mode
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* fix round-robin seed-unchoke algorithm
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* add bootstrap.sh to generage configure script and run configure
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* fix bug in SOCK5 UDP support
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* fix issue where torrents added by URL would not be started immediately
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0.16.10 release
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* fix encryption level handle invalid values
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* add a number of missing functions to the python binding
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* fix typo in Jamfile for building shared libraries
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* prevent tracker exchange for magnet links before metadata is received
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* fix crash in make_magnet_uri when generating links longer than 1024
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characters
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* fix hanging issue when closing files on windows (completing a download)
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* fix piece picking edge case that could cause torrents to get stuck at
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hash failure
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* try unencrypted connections first, and fall back to encryption if it
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fails (performance improvement)
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* add missing functions to python binding (flush_cache(), remap_files()
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and orig_files())
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* improve handling of filenames that are invalid on windows
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* support 'implied_port' in DHT announce_peer
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* don't use pool allocator for disk blocks (cache may now return pages
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to the kernel)
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0.16.9 release
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* fix long filename truncation on windows
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* distinguish file open mode when checking files and downloading/seeding
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with bittorrent. updates storage interface
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* improve file_storage::map_file when dealing with invalid input
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* improve handling of invalid utf-8 sequences in strings in torrent files
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* handle more cases of broken .torrent files
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* fix bug filename collision resolver
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* fix bug in filename utf-8 verification
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* make need_save_resume() a bit more robust
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* fixed sparse flag manipulation on windows
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* fixed streaming piece picking issue
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0.16.8 release
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* make rename_file create missing directories for new filename
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* added missing python function: parse_magnet_uri
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* fix alerts.all_categories in python binding
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* fix torrent-abort issue which would cancel name lookups of other torrents
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* make torrent file parser reject invalid path elements earlier
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* fixed piece picker bug when using pad-files
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* fix read-piece response for cancelled deadline-pieces
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* fixed file priority vector-overrun
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* fix potential packet allocation alignment issue in utp
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* make 'close_redudnant_connections' cover more cases
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* set_piece_deadline() also unfilters the piece (if its priority is 0)
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* add work-around for bug in windows vista and earlier in
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GetOverlappedResult
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* fix traversal algorithm leak in DHT
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* fix string encoding conversions on windows
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* take torrent_handle::query_pieces into account in torrent_handle::statue()
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* honor trackers responding with 410
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* fixed merkle tree torrent creation bug
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* fixed crash with empty url-lists in torrent files
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* added missing max_connections() function to python bindings
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0.16.7 release
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* fix string encoding in error messages
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* handle error in read_piece and set_piece_deadline when torrent is removed
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* DHT performance improvement
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* attempt to handle ERROR_CANT_WAIT disk error on windows
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* improve peers exchanged over PEX
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* fixed rare crash in ut_metadata extension
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* fixed files checking issue
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* added missing pop_alerts() to python bindings
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* fixed typos in configure script, inversing some feature-enable/disable flags
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* added missing flag_update_subscribe to python bindings
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* active_dht_limit, active_tracker_limit and active_lsd_limit now
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interpret -1 as infinite
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0.16.6 release
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* fixed verbose log error for NAT holepunching
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* fix a bunch of typos in python bindings
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* make get_settings available in the python binding regardless of
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deprecated functions
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* fix typo in python settings binding
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* fix possible dangling pointer use in peer list
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* fix support for storing arbitrary data in the DHT
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* fixed bug in uTP packet circle buffer
|
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* fix potential crash when using torrent_handle::add_piece
|
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* added missing add_torrent_alert to python binding
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|
|
|
0.16.5 release
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|
|
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* udp socket refcounter fix
|
|
* added missing async_add_torrent to python bindings
|
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* raised the limit for bottled http downloads to 2 MiB
|
|
* add support for magnet links and URLs in python example client
|
|
* fixed typo in python bindings' add_torrent_params
|
|
* introduce a way to add built-in plugins from python
|
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* consistently disconnect the same peer when two peers simultaneously connect
|
|
* fix local endpoint queries for uTP connections
|
|
* small optimization to local peer discovery to ignore our own broadcasts
|
|
* try harder to bind the udp socket (uTP, DHT, UDP-trackers, LSD) to the
|
|
same port as TCP
|
|
* relax file timestamp requirements for accepting resume data
|
|
* fix performance issue in web seed downloader (coalescing of blocks
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|
sometimes wouldn't work)
|
|
* web seed fixes (better support for torrents without trailing / in
|
|
web seeds)
|
|
* fix some issues with SSL over uTP connections
|
|
* fix UDP trackers trying all endpoints behind the hostname
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|
|
|
0.16.4 release
|
|
|
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* raise the default number of torrents allowed to announce to trackers
|
|
to 1600
|
|
* improve uTP slow start behavior
|
|
* fixed UDP socket error causing it to fail on Win7
|
|
* update use of boost.system to not use deprecated functions
|
|
* fix GIL issue in python bindings. Deprecated extension support in python
|
|
* fixed bug where setting upload slots to -1 would not mean infinite
|
|
* extend the UDP tracker protocol to include the request string from the
|
|
tracker URL
|
|
* fix mingw build for linux crosscompiler
|
|
|
|
0.16.3 release
|
|
|
|
* fix python binding backwards compatibility in replace_trackers
|
|
* fix possible starvation in metadata extension
|
|
* fix crash when creating torrents and optimizing file order with pad files
|
|
* disable support for large MTUs in uTP until it is more reliable
|
|
* expose post_torrent_updates and state_update_alert to python bindings
|
|
* fix incorrect SSL error messages
|
|
* fix windows build of shared library with openssl
|
|
* fix race condition causing shutdown hang
|
|
|
|
0.16.2 release
|
|
|
|
* fix permissions issue on linux with noatime enabled for non-owned files
|
|
* use random peer IDs in anonymous mode
|
|
* fix move_storage bugs
|
|
* fix unnecessary dependency on boost.date_time when building boost.asio as separate compilation
|
|
* always use SO_REUSEADDR and deprecate the flag to turn it on
|
|
* add python bindings for SSL support
|
|
* minor uTP tweaks
|
|
* fix end-game mode issue when some files are selected to not be downloaded
|
|
* improve uTP slow start
|
|
* make uTP less aggressive resetting cwnd when idle
|
|
|
|
0.16.1 release
|
|
|
|
* fixed crash when providing corrupt resume data
|
|
* fixed support for boost-1.44
|
|
* fixed reversed semantics of queue_up() and queue_down()
|
|
* added missing functions to python bindings (file_priority(), set_dht_settings())
|
|
* fixed low_prio_disk support on linux
|
|
* fixed time critical piece accounting in the request queue
|
|
* fixed semantics of rate_limit_utp to also ignore per-torrent limits
|
|
* fixed piece sorting bug of deadline pieces
|
|
* fixed python binding build on Mac OS and BSD
|
|
* fixed UNC path normalization (on windows, unless UNC paths are disabled)
|
|
* fixed possible crash when enabling multiple connections per IP
|
|
* fixed typo in win vista specific code, breaking the build
|
|
* change default of rate_limit_utp to true
|
|
* fixed DLL export issue on windows (when building a shared library linking statically against boost)
|
|
* fixed FreeBSD build
|
|
* fixed web seed performance issue with pieces > 1 MiB
|
|
* fixed unchoke logic when using web seeds
|
|
* fixed compatibility with older versions of boost (down to boost 1.40)
|
|
|
|
0.16 release
|
|
|
|
* support torrents with more than 262000 pieces
|
|
* make tracker back-off configurable
|
|
* don't restart the swarm after downloading metadata from magnet links
|
|
* lower the default tracker retry intervals
|
|
* support banning web seeds sending corrupt data
|
|
* don't let hung outgoing connection attempts block incoming connections
|
|
* improve SSL torrent support by using SNI and a single SSL listen socket
|
|
* improved peer exchange performance by sharing incoming connections which advertize listen port
|
|
* deprecate set_ratio(), and per-peer rate limits
|
|
* add web seed support for torrents with pad files
|
|
* introduced a more scalable API for torrent status updates (post_torrent_updates()) and updated client_test to use it
|
|
* updated the API to add_torrent_params turning all bools into flags of a flags field
|
|
* added async_add_torrent() function to significantly improve performance when
|
|
adding many torrents
|
|
* change peer_states to be a bitmask (bw_limit, bw_network, bw_disk)
|
|
* changed semantics of send_buffer_watermark_factor to be specified as a percentage
|
|
* add incoming_connection_alert for logging all successful incoming connections
|
|
* feature to encrypt peer connections with a secret AES-256 key stored in .torrent file
|
|
* deprecated compact storage allocation
|
|
* close files in separate thread on systems where close() may block (Mac OS X for instance)
|
|
* don't create all directories up front when adding torrents
|
|
* support DHT scrape
|
|
* added support for fadvise/F_RDADVISE for improved disk read performance
|
|
* introduced pop_alerts() which pops the entire alert queue in a single call
|
|
* support saving metadata in resume file, enable it by default for magnet links
|
|
* support for receiving multi announce messages for local peer discovery
|
|
* added session::listen_no_system_port flag to prevent libtorrent from ever binding the listen socket to port 0
|
|
* added option to not recheck on missing or incomplete resume data
|
|
* extended stats logging with statistics=on builds
|
|
* added new session functions to more efficiently query torrent status
|
|
* added alerts for added and removed torrents
|
|
* expanded plugin interface to support session wide states
|
|
* made the metadata block requesting algorithm more robust against hash check failures
|
|
* support a separate option to use proxies for peers or not
|
|
* pausing the session now also pauses checking torrents
|
|
* moved alert queue size limit into session_settings
|
|
* added support for DHT rss feeds (storing only)
|
|
* added support for RSS feeds
|
|
* fixed up some edge cases in DHT routing table and improved unit test of it
|
|
* added error category and error codes for HTTP errors
|
|
* made the DHT implementation slightly more robust against routing table poisoning and node ID spoofing
|
|
* support chunked encoding in http downloads (http_connection)
|
|
* support adding torrents by url to the .torrent file
|
|
* support CDATA tags in xml parser
|
|
* use a python python dictionary for settings instead of session_settings object (in python bindings)
|
|
* optimized metadata transfer (magnet link) startup time (shaved off about 1 second)
|
|
* optimized swarm startup time (shaved off about 1 second)
|
|
* support DHT name lookup
|
|
* optimized memory usage of torrent_info and file_storage, forcing some API changes
|
|
around file_storage and file_entry
|
|
* support trackerid tracker extension
|
|
* graceful peer disconnect mode which finishes transactions before disconnecting peers
|
|
* support chunked encoding for web seeds
|
|
* uTP protocol support
|
|
* resistance towards certain flood attacks
|
|
* support chunked encoding for web seeds (only for BEP 19, web seeds)
|
|
* optimized session startup time
|
|
* support SSL for web seeds, through all proxies
|
|
* support extending web seeds with custom authorization and extra headers
|
|
* settings that are not changed from the default values are not saved
|
|
in the session state
|
|
* made seeding choking algorithm configurable
|
|
* deprecated setters for max connections, max half-open, upload and download
|
|
rates and unchoke slots. These are now set through session_settings
|
|
* added functions to query an individual peer's upload and download limit
|
|
* full support for BEP 21 (event=paused)
|
|
* added share-mode feature for improving share ratios
|
|
* merged all proxy settings into a single one
|
|
* improved SOCKS5 support by proxying hostname lookups
|
|
* improved support for multi-homed clients
|
|
* added feature to not count downloaded bytes from web seeds in stats
|
|
* added alert for incoming local service discovery messages
|
|
* added option to set file priorities when adding torrents
|
|
* removed the session mutex for improved performance
|
|
* added upload and download activity timer stats for torrents
|
|
* made the reuse-address flag configurable on the listen socket
|
|
* moved UDP trackers over to use a single socket
|
|
* added feature to make asserts log to a file instead of breaking the process
|
|
(production asserts)
|
|
* optimized disk I/O cache clearing
|
|
* added feature to ask a torrent if it needs to save its resume data or not
|
|
* added setting to ignore file modification time when loading resume files
|
|
* support more fine-grained torrent states between which peer sources it
|
|
announces to
|
|
* supports calculating sha1 file-hashes when creating torrents
|
|
* made the send_buffer_watermark performance warning more meaningful
|
|
* supports complete_ago extension
|
|
* dropped zlib as a dependency and builds using puff.c instead
|
|
* made the default cache size depend on available physical RAM
|
|
* added flags to torrent::status() that can filter which values are calculated
|
|
* support 'explicit read cache' which keeps a specific set of pieces
|
|
in the read cache, without implicitly caching other pieces
|
|
* support sending suggest messages based on what's in the read cache
|
|
* clear sparse flag on files that complete on windows
|
|
* support retry-after header for web seeds
|
|
* replaced boost.filesystem with custom functions
|
|
* replaced dependency on boost.thread by asio's internal thread primitives
|
|
* added support for i2p torrents
|
|
* cleaned up usage of MAX_PATH and related macros
|
|
* made it possible to build libtorrent without RTTI support
|
|
* added support to build with libgcrypt and a shipped version of libtommath
|
|
* optimized DHT routing table memory usage
|
|
* optimized disk cache to work with large caches
|
|
* support variable number of optimistic unchoke slots and to dynamically
|
|
adjust based on the total number of unchoke slots
|
|
* support for BitTyrant choker algorithm
|
|
* support for automatically start torrents when they receive an
|
|
incoming connection
|
|
* added more detailed instrumentation of the disk I/O thread
|
|
|
|
0.15.11 release
|
|
|
|
* fixed web seed bug, sometimes causing infinite loops
|
|
* fixed race condition when setting session_settings immediately after creating session
|
|
* give up immediately when failing to open a listen socket (report the actual error)
|
|
* restored ABI compatibility with 0.15.9
|
|
* added missing python bindings for create_torrent and torrent_info
|
|
|
|
0.15.10 release
|
|
|
|
* fix 'parameter incorrect' issue when using unbuffered IO on windows
|
|
* fixed UDP socket error handling on windows
|
|
* fixed peer_tos (type of service) setting
|
|
* fixed crash when loading resume file with more files than the torrent in it
|
|
* fix invalid-parameter error on windows when disabling filesystem disk cache
|
|
* fix connection queue issue causing shutdown delays
|
|
* fixed mingw build
|
|
* fix overflow bug in progress_ppm field
|
|
* don't filter local peers received from a non-local tracker
|
|
* fix python deadlock when using python extensions
|
|
* fixed small memory leak in DHT
|
|
|
|
0.15.9 release
|
|
|
|
* added some functions missing from the python binding
|
|
* fixed rare piece picker bug
|
|
* fixed invalid torrent_status::finished_time
|
|
* fixed bugs in dont-have and upload-only extension messages
|
|
* don't open files in random-access mode (speeds up hashing)
|
|
|
|
0.15.8 release
|
|
|
|
* allow NULL to be passed to create_torrent::set_comment and create_torrent::set_creator
|
|
* fix UPnP issue for routers with multiple PPPoE connections
|
|
* fix issue where event=stopped announces wouldn't be sent when closing session
|
|
* fix possible hang in file::readv() on windows
|
|
* fix CPU busy loop issue in tracker announce logic
|
|
* honor IOV_MAX when using writev and readv
|
|
* don't post 'operation aborted' UDP errors when changing listen port
|
|
* fix tracker retry logic, where in some configurations the next tier would not be tried
|
|
* fixed bug in http seeding logic (introduced in 0.15.7)
|
|
* add support for dont-have extension message
|
|
* fix for set_piece_deadline
|
|
* add reset_piece_deadline function
|
|
* fix merkle tree torrent assert
|
|
|
|
0.15.7 release
|
|
|
|
* exposed set_peer_id to python binding
|
|
* improve support for merkle tree torrent creation
|
|
* exposed comparison operators on torrent_handle to python
|
|
* exposed alert error_codes to python
|
|
* fixed bug in announce_entry::next_announce_in and min_announce_in
|
|
* fixed sign issue in set_alert_mask signature
|
|
* fixed unaligned disk access for unbuffered I/O in windows
|
|
* support torrents whose name is empty
|
|
* fixed connection limit to take web seeds into account as well
|
|
* fixed bug when receiving a have message before having the metadata
|
|
* fixed python bindings build with disabled DHT support
|
|
* fixed BSD file allocation issue
|
|
* fixed bug in session::delete_files option to remove_torrent
|
|
|
|
0.15.6 release
|
|
|
|
* fixed crash in udp trackers when using SOCKS5 proxy
|
|
* fixed reconnect delay when leaving upload only mode
|
|
* fixed default values being set incorrectly in add_torrent_params through add_magnet_uri in python bindings
|
|
* implemented unaligned write (for unbuffered I/O)
|
|
* fixed broadcast_lsd option
|
|
* fixed udp-socket race condition when using a proxy
|
|
* end-game mode optimizations
|
|
* fixed bug in udp_socket causing it to issue two simultaneous async. read operations
|
|
* fixed mingw build
|
|
* fixed minor bug in metadata block requester (for magnet links)
|
|
* fixed race condition in iconv string converter
|
|
* fixed error handling in torrent_info constructor
|
|
* fixed bug in torrent_info::remap_files
|
|
* fix python binding for wait_for_alert
|
|
* only apply privileged port filter to DHT-only peers
|
|
|
|
0.15.5 release
|
|
|
|
* support DHT extension to report external IPs
|
|
* fixed rare crash in http_connection's error handling
|
|
* avoid connecting to peers listening on ports < 1024
|
|
* optimized piece picking to not cause busy loops in some end-game modes
|
|
* fixed python bindings for tcp::endpoint
|
|
* fixed edge case of pad file support
|
|
* limit number of torrents tracked by DHT
|
|
* fixed bug when allow_multiple_connections_per_ip was enabled
|
|
* potential WOW64 fix for unbuffered I/O (windows)
|
|
* expose set_alert_queue_size_limit to python binding
|
|
* support dht nodes in magnet links
|
|
* support 100 Continue HTTP responses
|
|
* changed default choker behavior to use 8 unchoke slots (instead of being rate based)
|
|
* fixed error reporting issue in disk I/O thread
|
|
* fixed file allocation issues on linux
|
|
* fixed filename encoding and decoding issue on platforms using iconv
|
|
* reports redundant downloads to tracker, fixed downloaded calculation to
|
|
be more stable when not including redundant. Improved redundant data accounting
|
|
to be more accurate
|
|
* fixed bugs in http seed connection and added unit test for it
|
|
* fixed error reporting when fallocate fails
|
|
* deprecate support for separate proxies for separate kinds of connections
|
|
|
|
0.15.4 release
|
|
|
|
* fixed piece picker issue triggered by hash failure and timed out requests to the piece
|
|
* fixed optimistic unchoke issue when setting per torrent unchoke limits
|
|
* fixed UPnP shutdown issue
|
|
* fixed UPnP DeletePortmapping issue
|
|
* fixed NAT-PMP issue when adding the same mapping multiple times
|
|
* no peers from tracker when stopping is no longer an error
|
|
* improved web seed retry behavior
|
|
* fixed announce issue
|
|
|
|
0.15.3 release
|
|
|
|
* fixed announce bug where event=completed would not be sent if it violated the
|
|
min-announce of the tracker
|
|
* fixed limitation in rate limiter
|
|
* fixed build error with boost 1.44
|
|
|
|
0.15.2 release
|
|
|
|
* updated compiler to msvc 2008 for python binding
|
|
* restored default fail_limit to unlimited on all trackers
|
|
* fixed rate limit bug for DHT
|
|
* fixed SOCKS5 bug for routing UDP packets
|
|
* fixed bug on windows when verifying resume data for a torrent where
|
|
one of its directories had been removed
|
|
* fixed race condition in peer-list with DHT
|
|
* fix force-reannounce and tracker retry issue
|
|
|
|
0.15.1 release
|
|
|
|
* fixed rare crash when purging the peer list
|
|
* fixed race condition around m_abort in session_impl
|
|
* fixed bug in web_peer_connection which could cause a hang when downloading
|
|
from web servers
|
|
* fixed bug in metadata extensions combined with encryption
|
|
* refactored socket reading code to not use async. operations unnecessarily
|
|
* some timer optimizations
|
|
* removed the reuse-address flag on the listen socket
|
|
* fixed bug where local peer discovery and DHT wouldn't be announced to without trackers
|
|
* fixed bug in bdecoder when decoding invalid messages
|
|
* added build warning when building with UNICODE but the standard library
|
|
doesn't provide std::wstring
|
|
* fixed add_node python binding
|
|
* fixed issue where trackers wouldn't tried immediately when the previous one failed
|
|
* fixed synchronization issue between download queue and piece picker
|
|
* fixed bug in udp tracker scrape response parsing
|
|
* fixed bug in the disk thread that could get triggered under heavy load
|
|
* fixed bug in add_piece() that would trigger asserts
|
|
* fixed vs 2010 build
|
|
* recognizes more clients in identify_client()
|
|
* fixed bug where trackers wouldn't be retried if they failed
|
|
* slight performance fix in disk elevator algorithm
|
|
* fixed potential issue where a piece could be checked twice
|
|
* fixed build issue on windows related to GetCompressedSize()
|
|
* fixed deadlock when starting torrents with certain invalid tracker URLs
|
|
* fixed iterator bug in disk I/O thread
|
|
* fixed FIEMAP support on linux
|
|
* fixed strict aliasing warning on gcc
|
|
* fixed inconsistency when creating torrents with symlinks
|
|
* properly detect windows version to initialize half-open connection limit
|
|
* fixed bug in url encoder where $ would not be encoded
|
|
|
|
0.15 release
|
|
|
|
* introduced a session state save mechanism. load_state() and save_state().
|
|
this saves all session settings and state (except torrents)
|
|
* deprecated dht_state functions and merged it with the session state
|
|
* added support for multiple trackers in magnet links
|
|
* added support for explicitly flushing the disk cache
|
|
* added torrent priority to affect bandwidth allocation for its peers
|
|
* reduced the number of floating point operations (to better support
|
|
systems without FPU)
|
|
* added new alert when individual files complete
|
|
* added support for storing symbolic links in .torrent files
|
|
* added support for uTorrent interpretation of multi-tracker torrents
|
|
* handle torrents with duplicate filenames
|
|
* piece timeouts are adjusted to download rate limits
|
|
* encodes urls in torrent files that needs to be encoded
|
|
* fixed not passing &supportcrypto=1 when encryption is disabled
|
|
* introduced an upload mode, which torrents are switched into when
|
|
it hits a disk write error, instead of stopping the torrent.
|
|
this lets libtorrent keep uploading the parts it has when it
|
|
encounters a disk-full error for instance
|
|
* improved disk error handling and expanded use of error_code in
|
|
error reporting. added a bandwidth state, bw_disk, when waiting
|
|
for the disk io thread to catch up writing buffers
|
|
* improved read cache memory efficiency
|
|
* added another cache flush algorithm to write the largest
|
|
contiguous blocks instead of the least recently used
|
|
* introduced a mechanism to be lighter on the disk when checking torrents
|
|
* applied temporary memory storage optimization to when checking
|
|
a torrent as well
|
|
* removed hash_for_slot() from storage_interface. It is now implemented
|
|
by using the readv() function from the storage implementation
|
|
* improved IPv6 support by announcing twice when necessary
|
|
* added feature to set a separate global rate limit for local peers
|
|
* added preset settings for low memory environments and seed machines
|
|
min_memory_usage() and high_performance_seeder()
|
|
* optimized overall memory usage for DHT nodes and requests, peer
|
|
entries and disk buffers
|
|
* change in API for block_info in partial_piece_info, instead of
|
|
accessing 'peer', call 'peer()'
|
|
* added support for fully automatic unchoker (no need to specify
|
|
number of upload slots). This is on by default
|
|
* added support for changing socket buffer sizes through
|
|
session_settings
|
|
* added support for merkle hash tree torrents (.merkle.torrent)
|
|
* added 'seed mode', which assumes that all files are complete
|
|
and checks hashes lazily, as blocks are requested
|
|
* added new extension for file attributes (executable and hidden)
|
|
* added support for unbuffered I/O for aligned files
|
|
* added workaround for sparse file issue on Windows Vista
|
|
* added new lt_trackers extension to exchange trackers between
|
|
peers
|
|
* added support for BEP 17 http seeds
|
|
* added read_piece() to read pieces from torrent storage
|
|
* added option for udp tracker preference
|
|
* added super seeding
|
|
* added add_piece() function to inject data from external sources
|
|
* add_tracker() function added to torrent_handle
|
|
* if there is no working tracker, current_tracker is the
|
|
tracker that is currently being tried
|
|
* torrents that are checking can now be paused, which will
|
|
pause the checking
|
|
* introduced another torrent state, checking_resume_data, which
|
|
the torrent is in when it's first added, and is comparing
|
|
the files on disk with the resume data
|
|
* DHT bandwidth usage optimizations
|
|
* rate limited DHT send socket
|
|
* tracker connections are now also subject to IP filtering
|
|
* improved optimistic unchoke logic
|
|
* added monitoring of the DHT lookups
|
|
* added bandwidth reports for estimated TCP/IP overhead and DHT
|
|
* includes DHT traffic in the rate limiter
|
|
* added support for bitcomet padding files
|
|
* improved support for sparse files on windows
|
|
* added ability to give seeding torrents preference to active slots
|
|
* added torrent_status::finished_time
|
|
* automatically caps files and connections by default to rlimit
|
|
* added session::is_dht_running() function
|
|
* added torrent_handle::force_dht_announce()
|
|
* added torrent_info::remap_files()
|
|
* support min_interval tracker extension
|
|
* added session saving and loading functions
|
|
* added support for min-interval in tracker responses
|
|
* only keeps one outstanding duplicate request per peer
|
|
reduces waste download, specifically when streaming
|
|
* added support for storing per-peer rate limits across reconnects
|
|
* improved fallocate support
|
|
* fixed magnet link issue when using resume data
|
|
* support disk I/O priority settings
|
|
* added info_hash to torrent_deleted_alert
|
|
* improved LSD performance and made the interval configurable
|
|
* improved UDP tracker support by caching connect tokens
|
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* fast piece optimization
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|
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release 0.14.10
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|
|
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* fixed udp tracker race condition
|
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* added support for torrents with odd piece sizes
|
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* fixed issue with disk read cache not being cleared when removing torrents
|
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* made the DHT socket bind to the same interface as the session
|
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* fixed issue where an http proxy would not be used on redirects
|
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* Solaris build fixes
|
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* disabled buggy disconnect_peers feature
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|
|
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release 0.14.9
|
|
|
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* disabled feature to drop requests after having been skipped too many times
|
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* fixed range request bug for files larger than 2 GB in web seeds
|
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* don't crash when trying to create torrents with 0 files
|
|
* fixed big_number __init__ in python bindings
|
|
* fixed optimistic unchoke timer
|
|
* fixed bug where torrents with incorrectly formatted web seed URLs would be
|
|
connected multiple times
|
|
* fixed MinGW support
|
|
* fixed DHT bootstrapping issue
|
|
* fixed UDP over SOCKS5 issue
|
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* added support for "corrupt" tracker announce
|
|
* made end-game mode less aggressive
|
|
|
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release 0.14.8
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|
|
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* ignore unkown metadata messages
|
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* fixed typo that would sometimes prevent queued torrents to be checked
|
|
* fixed bug in auto-manager where active_downloads and active_seeds would
|
|
sometimes be used incorrectly
|
|
* force_recheck() no longer crashes on torrents with no metadata
|
|
* fixed broadcast socket regression from 0.14.7
|
|
* fixed hang in NATPMP when shut down while waiting for a response
|
|
* fixed some more error handling in bdecode
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.7
|
|
|
|
* fixed deadlock in natpmp
|
|
* resume data alerts are always posted, regardless of alert mask
|
|
* added wait_for_alert to python binding
|
|
* improved invalid filename character replacement
|
|
* improved forward compatibility in DHT
|
|
* added set_piece_hashes that takes a callback to the python binding
|
|
* fixed division by zero in get_peer_info()
|
|
* fixed bug where pieces may have been requested before the metadata
|
|
was received
|
|
* fixed incorrect error when deleting files from a torrent where
|
|
not all files have been created
|
|
* announces torrents immediately to the DHT when it's started
|
|
* fixed bug in add_files that would fail to recurse if the path
|
|
ended with a /
|
|
* fixed bug in error handling when parsing torrent files
|
|
* fixed file checking bug when renaming a file before checking the torrent
|
|
* fixed race conditon when receiving metadata from swarm
|
|
* fixed assert in ut_metadata plugin
|
|
* back-ported some fixes for building with no exceptions
|
|
* fixed create_torrent when passing in a path ending with /
|
|
* fixed move_storage when source doesn't exist
|
|
* fixed DHT state save bug for node-id
|
|
* fixed typo in python binding session_status struct
|
|
* broadcast sockets now join every network interface (used for UPnP and
|
|
local peer discovery)
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.6
|
|
|
|
* various missing include fixes to be buildable with boost 1.40
|
|
* added missing functions to python binding related to torrent creation
|
|
* fixed to add filename on web seed urls that lack it
|
|
* fixed BOOST_ASIO_HASH_MAP_BUCKETS define for boost 1.39
|
|
* fixed checking of fast and suggest messages when used with magnet links
|
|
* fixed bug where web seeds would not disconnect if being resolved when
|
|
the torrent was paused
|
|
* fixed download piece performance bug in piece picker
|
|
* fixed bug in connect candidate counter
|
|
* replaces invalid filename characters with .
|
|
* added --with-libgeoip option to configure script to allow building and
|
|
linking against system wide library
|
|
* fixed potential pure virtual function call in extensions on shutdown
|
|
* fixed disk buffer leak in smart_ban extension
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.5
|
|
|
|
* fixed bug when handling malformed webseed urls and an http proxy
|
|
* fixed bug when setting unlimited upload or download rates for torrents
|
|
* fix to make torrent_status::list_peers more accurate.
|
|
* fixed memory leak in disk io thread when not using the cache
|
|
* fixed bug in connect candidate counter
|
|
* allow 0 upload slots
|
|
* fixed bug in rename_file(). The new name would not always be saved in
|
|
the resume data
|
|
* fixed resume data compatibility with 0.13
|
|
* fixed rare piece-picker bug
|
|
* fixed bug where one allowed-fast message would be sent even when
|
|
disabled
|
|
* fixed race condition in UPnP which could lead to crash
|
|
* fixed inversed seed_time ratio logic
|
|
* added get_ip_filter() to session
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.4
|
|
|
|
* connect candidate calculation fix
|
|
* tightened up disk cache memory usage
|
|
* fixed magnet link parser to accept hex-encoded info-hashes
|
|
* fixed inverted logic when picking which peers to connect to
|
|
(should mean a slight performance improvement)
|
|
* fixed a bug where a failed rename_file() would leave the storage
|
|
in an error state which would pause the torrent
|
|
* fixed case when move_storage() would fail. Added a new alert
|
|
to be posted when it does
|
|
* fixed crash bug when shutting down while checking a torrent
|
|
* fixed handling of web seed urls that didn't end with a
|
|
slash for multi-file torrents
|
|
* lowered the default connection speed to 10 connection attempts
|
|
per second
|
|
* optimized memory usage when checking files fails
|
|
* fixed bug when checking a torrent twice
|
|
* improved handling of out-of-memory conditions in disk I/O thread
|
|
* fixed bug when force-checking a torrent with partial pieces
|
|
* fixed memory leak in disk cache
|
|
* fixed torrent file path vulnerability
|
|
* fixed upnp
|
|
* fixed bug when dealing with clients that drop requests (i.e. BitComet)
|
|
fixes assert as well
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.3
|
|
|
|
* added python binding for create_torrent
|
|
* fixed boost-1.38 build
|
|
* fixed bug where web seeds would be connected before the files
|
|
were checked
|
|
* fixed filename bug when using wide characters
|
|
* fixed rare crash in peer banning code
|
|
* fixed potential HTTP compatibility issue
|
|
* fixed UPnP crash
|
|
* fixed UPnP issue where the control url contained the base url
|
|
* fixed a replace_trackers bug
|
|
* fixed bug where the DHT port mapping would not be removed when
|
|
changing DHT port
|
|
* fixed move_storage bug when files were renamed to be moved out
|
|
of the root directory
|
|
* added error handling for set_piece_hashes
|
|
* fixed missing include in enum_if.cpp
|
|
* fixed dual IP stack issue
|
|
* fixed issue where renamed files were sometimes not saved in resume data
|
|
* accepts tracker responses with no 'peers' field, as long as 'peers6'
|
|
is present
|
|
* fixed CIDR-distance calculation in the precense of IPv6 peers
|
|
* save partial resume data for torrents that are queued for checking
|
|
or checking, to maintain stats and renamed files
|
|
* Don't try IPv6 on windows if it's not installed
|
|
* move_storage fix
|
|
* fixed potential crash on shutdown
|
|
* fixed leaking exception from bdecode on malformed input
|
|
* fixed bug where connection would hang when receiving a keepalive
|
|
* fixed bug where an asio exception could be thrown when resolving
|
|
peer countries
|
|
* fixed crash when shutting down while checking a torrent
|
|
* fixed potential crash in connection_queue when a peer_connection
|
|
fail to open its socket
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.2
|
|
|
|
* added missing functions to the python bindings torrent_info::map_file,
|
|
torrent_info::map_block and torrent_info::file_at_offset.
|
|
* removed support for boost-1.33 and earlier (probably didn't work)
|
|
* fixed potential freezes issues at shutdown
|
|
* improved error message for python setup script
|
|
* fixed bug when torrent file included announce-list, but no valid
|
|
tracker urls
|
|
* fixed bug where the files requested from web seeds would be the
|
|
renamed file names instead of the original file names in the torrent.
|
|
* documentation fix of queing section
|
|
* fixed potential issue in udp_socket (affected udp tracker support)
|
|
* made name, comment and created by also be subject to utf-8 error
|
|
correction (filenames already were)
|
|
* fixed dead-lock when settings DHT proxy
|
|
* added missing export directives to lazy_entry
|
|
* fixed disk cache expiry settings bug (if changed, it would be set
|
|
to the cache size)
|
|
* fixed bug in http_connection when binding to a particular IP
|
|
* fixed typo in python binding (torrent_handle::piece_prioritize should
|
|
be torrent_handle::piece_priorities)
|
|
* fixed race condition when saving DHT state
|
|
* fixed bugs related to lexical_cast being locale dependent
|
|
* added support for SunPro C++ compiler
|
|
* fixed bug where messeges sometimes could be encrypted in the
|
|
wrong order, for encrypted connections.
|
|
* fixed race condition where torrents could get stuck waiting to
|
|
get checked
|
|
* fixed mapped files bug where it wouldn't be properly restored
|
|
from resume data properly
|
|
* removed locale dependency in xml parser (caused asserts on windows)
|
|
* fixed bug when talking to https 1.0 servers
|
|
* fixed UPnP bug that could cause stack overflow
|
|
|
|
release 0.14.1
|
|
|
|
* added converter for python unicode strings to utf-8 paths
|
|
* fixed bug in http downloader where the host field did not
|
|
include the port number
|
|
* fixed headers to not depend on NDEBUG, which would prohibit
|
|
linking a release build of libtorrent against a debug application
|
|
* fixed bug in disk I/O thread that would make the thread
|
|
sometimes quit when an error occurred
|
|
* fixed DHT bug
|
|
* fixed potential shutdown crash in disk_io_thread
|
|
* fixed usage of deprecated boost.filsystem functions
|
|
* fixed http_connection unit test
|
|
* fixed bug in DHT when a DHT state was loaded
|
|
* made rate limiter change in 0.14 optional (to take estimated
|
|
TCP/IP overhead into account)
|
|
* made the python plugin buildable through the makefile
|
|
* fixed UPnP bug when url base ended with a slash and
|
|
path started with a slash
|
|
* fixed various potentially leaking exceptions
|
|
* fixed problem with removing torrents that are checking
|
|
* fixed documentation bug regarding save_resume_data()
|
|
* added missing documentation on torrent creation
|
|
* fixed bugs in python client examples
|
|
* fixed missing dependency in package-config file
|
|
* fixed shared geoip linking in Jamfile
|
|
* fixed python bindings build on windows and made it possible
|
|
to generate a windows installer
|
|
* fixed bug in NAT-PMP implementation
|
|
|
|
release 0.14
|
|
|
|
* deprecated add_torrent() in favor of a new add_torrent()
|
|
that takes a struct with parameters instead. Torrents
|
|
are paused and auto managed by default.
|
|
* removed 'connecting_to_tracker' torrent state. This changes
|
|
the enum values for the other states.
|
|
* Improved seeding and choking behavior.
|
|
* Fixed rare buffer overrun bug when calling get_download_queue
|
|
* Fixed rare bug where torrent could be put back into downloading
|
|
state even though it was finished, after checking files.
|
|
* Fixed rename_file to work before the file on disk has been
|
|
created.
|
|
* Fixed bug in tracker connections in case of errors caused
|
|
in the connection constructor.
|
|
* Updated alert system to be filtered by category instead of
|
|
severity level. Alerts can generate a message through
|
|
alert::message().
|
|
* Session constructor will now start dht, upnp, natpmp, lsd by
|
|
default. Flags can be passed in to the constructor to not
|
|
do this, if these features are to be enabled and disabled
|
|
at a later point.
|
|
* Removed 'connecting_to_tracker' torrent state
|
|
* Fix bug where FAST pieces were cancelled on choke
|
|
* Fixed problems with restoring piece states when hash failed.
|
|
* Minimum peer reconnect time fix. Peers with no failures would
|
|
reconnect immediately.
|
|
* Improved web seed error handling
|
|
* DHT announce fixes and off-by-one loop fix
|
|
* Fixed UPnP xml parse bug where it would ignore the port number
|
|
for the control url.
|
|
* Fixed bug in torrent writer where the private flag was added
|
|
outside of the info dictionary
|
|
* Made the torrent file parser less strict of what goes in the
|
|
announce-list entry
|
|
* Fixed type overflow bug where some statistics was incorrectly
|
|
reported for file larger than 2 GB
|
|
* boost-1.35 support
|
|
* Fixed bug in statistics from web server peers where it sometimes
|
|
could report too many bytes downloaded.
|
|
* Fixed bug where statistics from the last second was lost when
|
|
disconnecting a peer.
|
|
* receive buffer optimizations (memcpy savings and memory savings)
|
|
* Support for specifying the TOS byte for peer traffic.
|
|
* Basic support for queueing of torrents.
|
|
* Better bias to give connections to downloading torrents
|
|
with fewer peers.
|
|
* Optimized resource usage (removed the checking thread)
|
|
* Support to bind outgoing connections to specific ports
|
|
* Disk cache support.
|
|
* New, more memory efficient, piece picker with sequential download
|
|
support (instead of the more complicated sequential download threshold).
|
|
* Auto Upload slots. Automtically opens up more slots if
|
|
upload limit is not met.
|
|
* Improved NAT-PMP support by querying the default gateway
|
|
* Improved UPnP support by ignoring routers not on the clients subnet.
|
|
|
|
release 0.13
|
|
|
|
* Added scrape support
|
|
* Added add_extension() to torrent_handle. Can instantiate
|
|
extensions for torrents while downloading
|
|
* Added support for remove_torrent to delete the files as well
|
|
* Fixed issue with failing async_accept on windows
|
|
* DHT improvements, proper error messages are now returned when
|
|
nodes sends bad packets
|
|
* Optimized the country table used to resolve country of peers
|
|
* Copying optimization for sending data. Data is no longer copied from
|
|
the disk I/O buffer to the send buffer.
|
|
* Buffer optimization to use a raw buffer instead of std::vector<char>
|
|
* Improved file storage to use sparse files
|
|
* Updated python bindings
|
|
* Added more clients to the identifiable clients list.
|
|
* Torrents can now be started in paused state (to better support queuing)
|
|
* Improved IPv6 support (support for IPv6 extension to trackers and
|
|
listens on both IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces).
|
|
* Improved asserts used. Generates a stacktrace on linux
|
|
* Piece picker optimizations and improvements
|
|
* Improved unchoker, connection limit and rate limiter
|
|
* Support for FAST extension
|
|
* Fixed invalid calculation in DHT node distance
|
|
* Fixed bug in URL parser that failed to parse IPv6 addresses
|
|
* added peer download rate approximation
|
|
* added port filter for outgoing connection (to prevent
|
|
triggering firewalls)
|
|
* made most parameters configurable via session_settings
|
|
* added encryption support
|
|
* added parole mode for peers whose data fails the hash check.
|
|
* optimized heap usage in piece-picker and web seed downloader.
|
|
* fixed bug in DHT where older write tokens weren't accepted.
|
|
* added support for sparse files.
|
|
* introduced speed categories for peers and pieces, to separate
|
|
slow and fast peers.
|
|
* added a half-open tcp connection limit that takes all connections
|
|
in to account, not just peer connections.
|
|
* added alerts for filtered IPs.
|
|
* added support for SOCKS4 and 5 proxies and HTTP CONNECT proxies.
|
|
* fixed proper distributed copies calculation.
|
|
* added option to use openssl for sha-1 calculations.
|
|
* optimized the piece picker in the case where a peer is a seed.
|
|
* added support for local peer discovery
|
|
* removed the dependency on the compiled boost.date_time library
|
|
* deprecated torrent_info::print()
|
|
* added UPnP support
|
|
* fixed problem where peer interested flags were not updated correctly
|
|
when pieces were filtered
|
|
* improvements to ut_pex messages, including support for seed flag
|
|
* prioritizes upload bandwidth to peers that might send back data
|
|
* the following functions have been deprecated:
|
|
void torrent_handle::filter_piece(int index, bool filter) const;
|
|
void torrent_handle::filter_pieces(std::vector<bool> const& pieces) const;
|
|
bool torrent_handle::is_piece_filtered(int index) const;
|
|
std::vector<bool> torrent_handle::filtered_pieces() const;
|
|
void torrent_handle::filter_files(std::vector<bool> const& files) const;
|
|
|
|
instead, use the piece_priority functions.
|
|
|
|
* added support for NAT-PMP
|
|
* added support for piece priorities. Piece filtering is now set as
|
|
a priority
|
|
* Fixed crash when last piece was smaller than one block and reading
|
|
fastresume data for that piece
|
|
* Makefiles should do a better job detecting boost
|
|
* Fixed crash when all tracker urls are removed
|
|
* Log files can now be created at user supplied path
|
|
* Log files failing to create is no longer fatal
|
|
* Fixed dead-lock in torrent_handle
|
|
* Made it build with boost 1.34 on windows
|
|
* Fixed bug in URL parser that failed to parse IPv6 addresses
|
|
* Fixed bug in DHT, related to IPv6 nodes
|
|
* DHT accepts transaction IDs that have garbage appended to them
|
|
* DHT logs messages that it fails to decode
|
|
|
|
release 0.12
|
|
|
|
* fixes to make the DHT more compatible
|
|
* http seed improvements including error reporting and url encoding issues.
|
|
* fixed bug where directories would be left behind when moving storage
|
|
in some cases.
|
|
* fixed crashing bug when restarting or stopping the DHT.
|
|
* added python binding, using boost.python
|
|
* improved character conversion on windows when strings are not utf-8.
|
|
* metadata extension now respects the private flag in the torrent.
|
|
* made the DHT to only be used as a fallback to trackers by default.
|
|
* added support for HTTP redirection support for web seeds.
|
|
* fixed race condition when accessing a torrent that was checking its
|
|
fast resume data.
|
|
* fixed a bug in the DHT which could be triggered if the network was
|
|
dropped or extremely rare cases.
|
|
* if the download rate is limited, web seeds will now only use left-over
|
|
bandwidth after all bt peers have used up as much bandwidth as they can.
|
|
* added the possibility to have libtorrent resolve the countries of
|
|
the peers in torrents.
|
|
* improved the bandwidth limiter (it now implements a leaky bucket/node bucket).
|
|
* improved the HTTP seed downloader to report accurate progress.
|
|
* added more client peer-id signatures to be recognized.
|
|
* added support for HTTP servers that skip the CR before the NL at line breaks.
|
|
* fixed bug in the HTTP code that only accepted headers case sensitive.
|
|
* fixed bug where one of the session constructors didn't initialize boost.filesystem.
|
|
* fixed bug when the initial checking of a torrent fails with an exception.
|
|
* fixed bug in DHT code which would send incorrect announce messages.
|
|
* fixed bug where the http header parser was case sensitive to the header
|
|
names.
|
|
* Implemented an optmization which frees the piece_picker once a torrent
|
|
turns into a seed.
|
|
* Added support for uT peer exchange extension, implemented by Massaroddel.
|
|
* Modified the quota management to offer better bandwidth balancing
|
|
between peers.
|
|
* logging now supports multiple sessions (different sessions now log
|
|
to different directories).
|
|
* fixed random number generator seed problem, generating the same
|
|
peer-id for sessions constructed the same second.
|
|
* added an option to accept multiple connections from the same IP.
|
|
* improved tracker logging.
|
|
* moved the file_pool into session. The number of open files is now
|
|
limited per session.
|
|
* fixed uninitialized private flag in torrent_info
|
|
* fixed long standing issue with file.cpp on windows. Replaced the low level
|
|
io functions used on windows.
|
|
* made it possible to associate a name with torrents without metadata.
|
|
* improved http-downloading performance by requesting entire pieces via
|
|
http.
|
|
* added plugin interface for extensions. And changed the interface for
|
|
enabling extensions.
|
|
|
|
release 0.11
|
|
|
|
* added support for incorrectly encoded paths in torrent files
|
|
(assumes Latin-1 encoding and converts to UTF-8).
|
|
* added support for destructing session objects asynchronously.
|
|
* fixed bug with file_progress() with files = 0 bytes
|
|
* fixed a race condition bug in udp_tracker_connection that could
|
|
cause a crash.
|
|
* fixed bug occuring when increasing the sequenced download threshold
|
|
with max availability lower than previous threshold.
|
|
* fixed an integer overflow bug occuring when built with gcc 4.1.x
|
|
* fixed crasing bug when closing while checking a torrent
|
|
* fixed bug causing a crash with a torrent with piece length 0
|
|
* added an extension to the DHT network protocol to support the
|
|
exchange of nodes with IPv6 addresses.
|
|
* modified the ip_filter api slightly to support IPv6
|
|
* modified the api slightly to make sequenced download threshold
|
|
a per torrent-setting.
|
|
* changed the address type to support IPv6
|
|
* fixed bug in piece picker which would not behave as
|
|
expected with regard to sequenced download threshold.
|
|
* fixed bug with file_progress() with files > 2 GB.
|
|
* added --enable-examples option to configure script.
|
|
* fixed problem with the resource distribution algorithm
|
|
(controlling e.g upload/download rates).
|
|
* fixed incorrect asserts in storage related to torrents with
|
|
zero-sized files.
|
|
* added support for trackerless torrents (with kademlia DHT).
|
|
* support for torrents with the private flag set.
|
|
* support for torrents containing bootstrap nodes for the
|
|
DHT network.
|
|
* fixed problem with the configure script on FreeBSD.
|
|
* limits the pipelining used on url-seeds.
|
|
* fixed problem where the shutdown always would delay for
|
|
session_settings::stop_tracker_timeout seconds.
|
|
* session::listen_on() won't reopen the socket in case the port and
|
|
interface is the same as the one currently in use.
|
|
* added http proxy support for web seeds.
|
|
* fixed problem where upload and download stats could become incorrect
|
|
in case of high cpu load.
|
|
* added more clients to the identifiable list.
|
|
* fixed fingerprint parser to cope with latest Mainline versions.
|
|
|
|
release 0.10
|
|
|
|
* fixed a bug where the requested number of peers in a tracker request could
|
|
be too big.
|
|
* fixed a bug where empty files were not created in full allocation mode.
|
|
* fixed a bug in storage that would, in rare cases, fail to do a
|
|
complete check.
|
|
* exposed more settings for tweaking parameters in the piece-picker,
|
|
downloader and uploader (http_settings replaced by session_settings).
|
|
* tweaked default settings to improve high bandwidth transfers.
|
|
* improved the piece picker performance and made it possible to download
|
|
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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