Download BitComet 1.26

The BitTorrent client BitComet has support for dht, downloading torrents without a tracker and being able to preview part of a movie if it is not yet fully downloaded. It is also possible to create and seed a torrent yourself. In addition, certain IP addresses can be banned and you can chat with other BitComet users. Version 1.26 of BitComet was released on Thursday and below you can find everything that has changed in that release.

GUI Improved:

• Improve text information displayed in VIP acceleration dialog
• Improve progress bar of disk space in task properties dialog
• New setting in advanced option page to enable/disable auto hash check after downloaded file changed
• New setting in advanced option page to enable/disable disk boost service (Vista and later only)
• Display the status of disk boost service in statistical tab (only Vista and later)
• Tasks in queue will be displayed in Active task list
• Improve re-connection timers displayed in tracker list
• Do not display torrent downloading prompt dialog when open a magnet link
• Improve GUI font when choosing Traditional Chinese in non-Traditional Chinese Windows
• Simplify torrent status icon in torrent history and torrent share list
• Do not fix the width of date column in torrent history and torrent share list
• Improve display refreshing code of torrent history and torrent share list, reduce CPU usage
• Display the default command in context menu of torrent history and torrent share list as bold
• New command in context menu of Torrent Collect list: Add to Torrent Share
• Add openbittorrent and publicbt as default trackers when creating torrents
• Green light appears after incoming connection established from a remote peer
• Add large icon of 256*256 for Vista/Win7
• Add new column to Torrent History list: private torrent
• Don’t lock the width of preview column in task list
• Display total download time in task summary tab
• Display the number of days in case of downloading left time is more than 24 hours
• Check downloaded files at program startup, and display warning icon on task if file missing. It can be disabled in advanced option page.

GUI Changed:

• Long-Time Seeding renamed to Long-Term Seeding

GUI Bug Fix:

• The downloaded size in task statistical dialog when selecting multiple tasks is invalid
• When mouse cursor hovering on system tray icon in XP, the task running info balloon can not be shown
• The delete button in toolbar grayed out when pressing Ctrl to select multiple items in Torrent History and Torrent Share
• In the global option dialog, the max value of cache size for each connection of HTTP download should be 2MB
• After torrent downloaded for Magnet URI, the hidden options in advanced page of task properties dialog is not shown right away
• The error message of failure to listen on UDP port is not accurate

Core Improve:

• Using disk boost service to create large files when start downloading, to speed up disk operation, avoid UI no response (only Vista and later)
• Improve kernel to reduce CPU usage for UI refreshing when downloading BitTorrent task
• Connect to one only tracker at a time when downloading private torrent, and clear all peers when switching tracker
• Improve crash report program
• Improve transport interval or peer exchange
• Use worker thread to process socket message, thereby reduce message handling in UI thread

Core Bug Fix:

• do not connect to tracker when remove a tracker from tracker list (thanks to kluelos)
• When listening port disabled in option dialog, program will dead-loop when exit