Download Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.0

Version 3.0.5.0 of Azureus has been released today. This Java-written BitTorrent client includes the ability to prioritize certain torrents or even individual files in a torrent and has a built-in tracker so that you can share files yourself. 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 | Added uTorrent PEX support
• Core | Azureus probes trackers for UDP capabilities on first scrape/announce now and uses udp instead of http where available
• Core | Added option to enforce IP bindings even when the specified interfaces are not available (useful when Azureus should not use certain network interfaces)
• Core | Intervene with http seeds if progressive stall imminent
• Core | Message user on startup if they have installed Azureus to read-only location
• Core | Added dnd status to XML stats
• onion | Added option for “Open Containing Folder” menu action – which may integrate better with non-standard file browsers
• onion | Added option for “Show Torrent Menu” — Users can now decide to see the Torrent menu in the menubar or not
• onion | Fast Renaming (not moving) in the Files tab (click on name column) and Open Torrent dialog (click on dest. name column)
• onion | Completed downloaders column
• onion | Added start/stop to category menu
• onion | Added per-category speed limits
• onion | Added per-category option setting
• onion | Added multiple-torrent options setting to MyTorrents view
• UIv3 | New menu configuration for Vuze and Vuze Advanced UIs
• UIv3 | Activity tab
• UIv3 | Vuze Login from client
• Plug | Added Network Status plugin to perform some basic network tests
• Plug | Allow plugins to specify their minimum JDK requirements

changes:

• Core | Further memory footprint reductions; for additional tweaks see here.
• Core | Reimplemented LT extension protocol code
• Core | DND/Compact (aka Delete) priority now deletes all files that do not share pieces with normal/high priority files
• Core | Queuing rules now don’t start any further torrents if the global up/download speed limits are reached
  • makes “don’t count torrent …” minimum speed rules more useful to dynamically regulate the queue lengths
  • recovers faster from chain reactions in case of connection loss
• Core | Made the crypto handshake a bit less predictable
• Core | Added support for IPv6 compact announces (client) and udp-multiscrapes (client+server)
• Core | Take note of more peer source selections
• Plug | Added support for plugins which implement mainline DHT

Bug fixed:

• Core | Request limiting/Priorities no longer pinch off LAN peers if separate LAN speeds are enabled
• Core | Increase time Azureus holds open listen socket on close to reduce dual-start window
• Core | Allow ~ character in tracker addresses to support I2P
• Core | Determine app name correctly on OSX so that restart works for renamed apps
• onion | Shells no longer use the low-res frog icon, the normal main window icon is now used instead
• onion | Limiting comments in General View to 5k characters under WinXP to avoid crashes due to faulty comctl32.dll
• onion | Setting speed parameters manually now disables autospeed
• Plug | Encode spaces correctly in get-right web seed urls

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