Download Azureus 2.5.0.4

Version 2.5.0.4 of the Java-written BitTorrent client Azureus has just been released. Among other things, this program has the option to prioritize certain torrents or even individual files in a torrent and has a built-in tracker so that sharing files is also possible. In addition, the possibilities can be expanded even further by means of plugins, such as the Country Locator. Downloads in various formats are possible this page are being found. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

New features:

• Core | New users default save directory is now located in their “My Documents” directory, under “Azureus Downloads” [TuxPaper]
• Core | Show alerts raised during shutdown on next start as these often don’t get displayed due to UI shutdown [Parg]
• Core | Allow plugin installs to place jars into the plugin-shared “shared/lib” directory [Parg]
• Plug | Unsafe config read/write [parg]
• Plug | Plugins can now open and close download bars [amc1]

changes:

• Core | Added scrape delay for stopped/errored torrents, and torrents with high share ratios [TuxPaper]
• Core | Allow only one active scrape for each tracker [TuxPaper]
• Core | Release piece-map when not required [Parg]
• Core | ASN lookup via DNS queries only [Parg]
• Core | Full recheck of torrent when part of torrent fails hash check on completion [TuxPaper]
• Core | Take note of banned IPs when we have IP filter turned off – these are independent [Parg]
• Core | Disable download peer caching for private torrents [Parg]
• Core | Disconnect currently connected peers on tracker URL change for private torrents [Parg]
• Core | Remove unused download/upload specific stats from version-check message [Parg]
• Core | Include IP override in NAT check message for NAT check server to use [Parg]
• Plug | Timeout UPnP port releases during closedown to prevent Azureus hanging [Parg]

Bug fixed:

• Core | Fix choke/unchoke cycle bug for lan local peers [Nolar]
• Core | Fix auto moving torrent data with DND files [TuxPaper]
• Core | Fix NPE causing XML stats not to be written [Parg]
• onion | Fix crash when opening non-torrent URL when OS has no recognized HTML viewer [TuxPaper]
• onion | Fix big icon in name column for OSes using GTK [TuxPaper]
• onion | Make Download Basket work again for drag and dropping [TuxPaper]

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