Download Tixati 2.28

Version 2.28 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. Since version 2.25, the following improvements have been made:

Tixati version 2.28 is now available.
This release contains several important bug-fixes and minor improvements throughout the program:

• Category capture can now also compare file names and tracker URLs
• .url and .desktop files that contain magnet links are now also processed in folders that are being watched for .torrent files
• Fixed HTTP “server overflow” error when processing chunked encoding with zero-length initial segment
• Transfer preload window is no longer blocked by the presence of other modal dialogs
• Web UI can now optionally be run without a login
• Some improvements to the way RSS feed link refresh and item download errors are displayed
• rSS feed link error status and retry counts now persist between sessions
• Fixed RSS feed item URL formatting problem when sourced from feed links with custom headers or cookies
• Time span display formatting tweaks
• gUI tabbed views in Transfers and RSS will remember last tab between sessions
• Locations chosen when moving individual files within a transfer will now also be added to the recently-used list
• Check for missing download folder or missing incomplete piece folder will tolerate transient errors for up to 10 seconds
• Improvements to the Windows system shutdown config-saving process
• Config file saving sequence on program close has been slightly altered for more overall reliability
• Preload window option “Apply to All” now also applies trackers and category selection
• Fixed problems with using “Updated” torrents that overwrite files, force-check now overrides all errors when file is too small
• Seeding problems due to interaction of super-seeding algorithm with upload_only protocol extension have been solved
• Super-seeding will announce upload_only when no more useful pieces are available to upload
• Auto-shutdown will now wait for all moving/allocating activity plus a small additional delay to make sure all operations are complete
• Added some work-arounds for some extremely rare Windows bugs that cause a disabled main window
• Fixed a rare crash upon startup involving transfers that are in an indeterminant state when closing program
• Several minor fixes and tweaks to the Windows pop-up menu widgets, now using dynamically-created popups
• Minor URL formatting fixes affecting trackers that use username:password@ format in URL
• Minor tweaks to startup window positioning code on Windows platforms

Tixati version 2.27 is now available.
This is a last-minute update to yesterday’s release, and includes a few important fixes to prevent a crash under heavy file-checking activity, as well as a few minor tweaks to the peer connection management algorithms.

Tixati version 2.26 is now available.
This version has many new features as well as numerous other minor improvements and bug fixes:

• Several new tabs have been added to the category properties window
• Categories can auto-capture transfers that match a user-configured title filter, upon transfer loading and/or completion
• Categories can each watch their own file system folder for .torrent files to load
• Categories have individual settings to save .torrent or magnet link upon transfer loading and/or completion
• File-checking routines re-worked to be much more CPU friendly and more efficient, especially with large pieces
• Added two new pages in Settings > Transfers, one for magnet links, another for file locations
• Option to save .torrent or magnet link upon transfer completion
• Option in Settings > Transfers > Files to run shell command(s) upon completion of transfer, file, or specific file extension
• New optional column in transfer view, “Last Activity”, records the time of last block upload or download
• add Transfer and Preload windows now display free disk space on location tooltips
• When program starts up, peer connections will wait for any pending IP filter refresh/reload operations to complete
• New checks to make sure popup windows do not show offscreen, even with previously-visible saved positions
• Fixed URL parsing to work better with username:password@ after protocol and before address section
• When binding a local network interface, check for interface changes is done more often, every 10-15s, down from 30s
• New workarounds for tray icon problems in some Linux distros
• Eliminated problems with incomplete piece storage between sessions
• New transfer tracker adjustment now also applies to created transfers
• Better system shutdown handling in the Windows build
• Improved GUI input-focus processing in Windows systems
• Eliminated a minor category-jump (which would cause selection loss) when new downloads start up
• Adding a peer manually can now change the port of an existing offline peer with the same address
• Fixed some display issues in the ‘Tree View’ transfer layout
• Updated IP location tables