Download Vuze 4.0.0.0

Yesterday version 4.0.0.0 of Vuze was released. This Bittorrent client written in Java is the successor to Azureus and has, among other things, the ability to prioritize certain torrents or even individual files in a torrent. In addition, it has a built-in tracker so that sharing your own files is possible. Furthermore, the possibilities can be expanded even further by means of plugins, such as with the Country Locator. Downloads in various formats can be this page are being found. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

New Features:

• Core | Async request processing for non-blocking tracker
• Core | Support HTTP redirects between http/https protocols in resource downloader
• Core | Add content to UPnP authentication dialogs
• Core | Support PList mods for app registration on OSX
• Core | Added http auth helper to support authenticated search templates/subscriptions
• Core | Fix built in RSS feed parser to handle Atom feeds
• Core | RSS based search templates
• Core | Light weight seeds to allow seeding of simple content such as subscriptions
• Core | Subscriptions
• Core | Added a ‘prefer UDP connections’ option
• Core | Config options for max queued outgoing connections
• Core | Support dht:// URL protocol
• Core | Advanced options for specifying TCP select timeouts
• UI | Added “Column Setup” icon to the iconbar
• UI | New console command – “plugin”. Displays plugin information and can toggle startup status
• UI | Console command “show” can now filter to list only torrents which are transferring
• UIv3 | SideBar (F7 to Hide/Show)
• UIv3 | New ToolBar with hideable text
• UIv3 | Library now has Large and Small view modes. Small view mode is classic My Torrents
• Plug | Added option to remove originators IP address from stored values
• Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average
• UIv3 | Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat)
• UIv3 | Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend
• UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph
• UI | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running – torrent will be auto-paused
• UI | New “rename” action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time
• UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering
• UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the “Torrent” menu also
• UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed)
• Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings
• Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving
• Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge
• Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user
• Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events
• Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models
• Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views
• Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms
• Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects
• Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers

Changes:

• Core | Improve app startup time
• Core | Make full name and namespace URI available to simple XML parser users
• Core | Improved handling of mixed IPv4 and IPv6 bindings
• Core | New option to refresh UPnP mappings when we become firewalled
• UI | Improve performance with single data source dispatch aggregator
• UI | Debug messages are no longer displayed by default when running the console UI
• UI | The comment icon column now displays a blank icon if there is no comment (rather than no icon)
• UI | Delete priority is now properly reflected in the Priority column
• UIv3 | Faster Startup
• UIv3 | Reduced UI memory footprint
• UIv3 | Friends moved to the bottom of the sidebar
• UIv3 | All table views (Library, Notifications) now use native table widget
• Plug | Essential plugins are now automatically re-enabled if previously disabled by user
• Plug | New command line option – “azureus.safemode”, to disable lots of functionality when debugging problems
• Plug | Client ID plugin has been removed
• Plug | New command line option – “azureus.loadplugins”, to skip plugins being loaded at startup
• Plug | Accept store operations from furher away contacts to decrease store fails
• Plug | Evict contacts sooner from DHT router to improve liveness
• Plug | Delay DHT task init to save memory
• Plug | Finer-mesh for DHT network position derived tracking
• Plug | De-prioritize DHT tracker put ops
• Core | Built-in plugins can now be disabled – it didn’t work properly in earlier versions
• UI | Create Vivaldi views for each DHT in use
• UI | Added support for rotation in Vivaldi view
• UI | Peers view hostname column now sorts host names by the most significant part first
• UIv3 | Finished fixes for the new styled dialog which are now default in Vuze/Vuze Advanced
• UIv3 | Added friend icon next to activity entry
• UIv3 | New plugin bar look (removed arrows, added selectable list all plugin bar views)
• Core | added “upload_only” flag to AZMP/LTEP handshakes, disconnect any uploading_only peers we don’t need / that don’t need us when disconnect seeds when seeding is set
• Core | Further startup speed improvements
• Core | Speedup of various file batch operations (priority changes)
• Core | Added option to allow the removal of files linked outside the save directory when removing data
• UI | Column menu option to disable fast renaming in files view, changed fast rename to behave more like the windows explorer
• UI | In console UI, shrunk help text down to be more concise

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fixed problem on Vista where “Failed to establish listen on port UDP:xxxxx” errors may be reported
• Core | Treat any address binds as no bind IP when rewriting URLs
• Core | Added third party impressions urls for torrent ads
• Core | Fix timer cancellation behaviour
• Core | Fixed DND deletion files in single-file torrents
• Core | Fixed occasional deadlocks on startup under linux
• Core | Fixed rare situation where user was prompted for authentication to connect to trackers which didn’t need it
• Core | Made the load and unload buttons on the plugin page behave properly
• Core | Fixed problem where queuing rules do not enter “seeding-only” mode when there are queued downloads
• Plug | DHT storage manager key removal fix
• Plug | Fix magnet download timeouts
• Plug | Fix DHT operation timeout bug introduced when moving to async exec
• Plug | Limit buddy reconnect to avoid thrashing
• Core | Fixed bug which stopped downloads being stored in the chosen directory
• Core | Fixed bug which prevented torrent files from being moved properly
• Core | Reopening torrents does not delete files when setting some of the already existing files to DND anymore
• Core | Fixed bug which prevented UPnP mappings from being successful when a SOCKS proxy was used
• UI | Fixed bug where delete icon on toolbar was not present on OSX
• UI | Blank cells are now properly put at the bottom when sorting a table column
• UIv3 | Fixed bottom of list views not repainting properly
• UIv3 | Remove type headers when switching to date sorting
• Core | Made change so that plugins could not inadvertently turn off Azureus extension protocol
• Core | The UDP tracker client option has been nonfunctional for quite a while now -> fixed
• Core | Fixed various file-priority-change related bugs that resulted in error states

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Vuze 4.0.0.0 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.