Download BitComet 1.14

Version 1.14 of BitComet was released on Friday. This BitTorrent client has support for dht, downloading torrents without a tracker and being able to preview a part of a movie that is not yet fully downloaded. It is also possible to create and seed a torrent yourself. In addition, IP addresses can be banned and you can chat with other BitComet users. Below is what has changed in this release:

GUI Improved:

• Support Wed Seed when make torrent file
• Support modify Wed Seed list in BT task properties dialog
• Display download/upload rate of user group in peer list or BT task
• Display downloading piece position in peer list of BT task
• Display balloon on system tray icon when disk busy leading to GUI losing response
• New appearance option: minimize when program starts
• Add loading page to bookmark in left fav bar
• Loading torrent collection list from xml file in working thread, avoid GUI freezing
• Decrease the delay switching to torrent collection list from task list
• Add new command in context menu or floating window: start uploading all
• Change the BitComet icon in system tray to gray when program exiting
• New setting in connection panel of option dialog: Alternate max upload rate when not downloading
• Statistics panel displays current download rate limit and upload rate limit
• Individual max concurrent downloading task numbers for BT tasks and HTTP tasks in option dialog
• New “Force” option for BT task protocol encryption in option dialog
• New setting in Long-Time Seeding panel of option dialog: Auto upload rate control
• Statistics panel displays current upload rate limit or long-time seeding
• BitComet not responding dialog will be closed automatically after GUI resumed

GUI Bug Fix:

• Can’t add HTTP Tracker whose port is 80 in BT task properties dialog
• If task selection state changed before task delete dialog displayed, the task will be deleted may not be the originally selected

Core Improve:

• BT task supports downloading from Web Seed, compatible with BitTorrent mainline
• Decrease CPU usage or DHT modular
• Ban the peers from the specified IP even they changed peer ID
• Improve connection algorithm for UDP download from Long-Time seed
• Send no-retry instruction to remote UDP peers when exiting
• Improve connection algorithm for BT uploading
• Give BT upload connection higher priority when auto upload rate control of long-time seeding enabled

Core Bug Fix:

• Max simultaneous half-open TCP connection number in advanced option page does not take effect
• Making torrent file may fail if there’re too many files in the specified folder