Download Tixati 2.18

Version 2.18 of Tixati has been released. Tixati is a comprehensive and efficient bittorrent client with support for dht, magnet links and rss feeds. The program provides extensive information about all aspects of the download and the incoming and outgoing network traffic. Downloads are available for Windows and Linux. The program does not display advertisements, unlike for example µTorrent. The release comes with the following notes:

Tixati version 2.18 is now available.
With this update, we are nearing completion of an ongoing transition to a new C++14-based cross-platform framework that gives Tixati increased reliability and performance. Even more importantly, this new framework allows us to write more concise and straightforward code, which makes maintaining existing code and developing new features much much easier and faster.

There have been many changes since the last release:

• Random-port feature with adjustable interval
• NAT-PMP port-mapping support in parallel with UPNP
• Greatly improved UPNP compatibility
• All HTTPS connections (trackers/RSS/etc) support Server Name Indication (SNI)
• WebUI now has full HTTPS capabilities, generates self-signed certs
• Torrent file loading compatibility improvements (work-around broken encodings in .torrent files)
• Raised incoming block request queue declared (“reqq”) limit to 256, raised actual limit to 512
• Outgoing block request pipelining algorithms are greatly improved
• Numerous improvements to automatic upload/download queue slot management
• Channel stream hash-checking has a few important fixes to better cope with naturally zerod-out sections in streams
• Several minor fixes to channel information propagation, and channel topic change logic
• New HTTP framework and core logic for trackers, RSS, IPFilter downloader, .torrent downloader, web seed client
• New incoming port manager and configuration GUI
• Bandwidth throttle has been fully replaced, including all core proportioning logic
• New UDP Peer Connection protocol driver (used by transfer peers and channel connections)
• Linux versions now leave a crash-dump on desktop if there is a SIGSEGV, SIGABRT, SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGINT, or SIGQUIT
• Process time-scheduler and runtime profiler have been upgraded
• Completely new event-logging engine that uses much less memory to hold backscroll buffers
• A completely new filesystem driver, which offers improved performance when saving/loading any data to/from files
• New DNS resolver
• New low-level TCP/UDP event-driving and notification systems
• All tracker code, including UDP tracking, has been fully re-implemented
• Outgoing connection pacing engine is new (regulation of simultaneous outgoing connections, eg. “Waiting to connect”)
• All core shell-integration features are now relying on the new framework
• Peer connection attempt sequencing and timing logic (udp/tcp/enc/plain) is now much more accurate
• New ICMP driver for auto-throttle (ping/traceroute)
• Major revisions to auto-throttle trace/ping failure handling logic
• Several other minor GUI fixes and improvements

In the near future, we will be completing the final step of our framework transition (GUI/widgets) and then immediately proceed to implement some major improvements to the way users share and communicate. We are working as quickly as possible toward these goals. Please stay tuned.