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2 * Removed 'connecting_to_tracker' torrent state
3 * Fix bug where FAST pieces were cancelled on choke
4 * Fixed problems with restoring piece states when hash failed.
5 * Minimum peer reconnect time fix. Peers with no failures would
6 reconnect immediately.
7 * Improved web seed error handling
8 * DHT announce fixes and off-by-one loop fix
9 * UPnP fixes
10 * Fixed bug in torrent writer where the private flag was added
11 outside of the info dictionary
12 * Made the torrent file parser less strict of what goes in the
13 announce-list entry
14 * Fixed type overflow bug where some statistics was incorrectly
15 reported for file larger than 2 GB
16 * boost-1.35 support
17 * Fixed bug in statistics from web server peers where it sometimes
18 could report too many bytes downloaded.
19 * Fixed bug where statistics from the last second was lost when
20 disconnecting a peer.
21 * receive buffer optimizations (memcpy savings and memory savings)
22 * Support for specifying the TOS byte for peer traffic.
23 * Basic support for queueing of torrents.
24 * Better bias to give connections to downloading torrents
25 with fewer peers.
26 * Optimized resource usage (removed the checking thread)
27 * Support to bind outgoing connections to specific ports
28 * Disk cache support.
29 * New, more memory efficient, piece picker with sequential download
30 support (instead of the more complicated sequential download threshold).
31 * Auto Upload slots. Automtically opens up more slots if
32 upload limit is not met.
33 * Improved NAT-PMP support by querying the default gateway (no
34 linux support yet)
35 * Improved UPnP support by ignoring routers not on the clients subnet.
37 release 0.13
39 * Added scrape support
40 * Added add_extension() to torrent_handle. Can instantiate
41 extensions for torrents while downloading
42 * Added support for remove_torrent to delete the files as well
43 * Fixed issue with failing async_accept on windows
44 * DHT improvements, proper error messages are now returned when
45 nodes sends bad packets
46 * Optimized the country table used to resolve country of peers
47 * Copying optimization for sending data. Data is no longer copied from
48 the disk I/O buffer to the send buffer.
49 * Buffer optimization to use a raw buffer instead of std::vector<char>
50 * Improved file storage to use sparse files
51 * Updated python bindings
52 * Added more clients to the identifiable clients list.
53 * Torrents can now be started in paused state (to better support queuing)
54 * Improved IPv6 support (support for IPv6 extension to trackers and
55 listens on both IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces).
56 * Improved asserts used. Generates a stacktrace on linux
57 * Piece picker optimizations and improvements
58 * Improved unchoker, connection limit and rate limiter
59 * Support for FAST extension
60 * Fixed invalid calculation in DHT node distance
61 * Fixed bug in URL parser that failed to parse IPv6 addresses
62 * added peer download rate approximation
63 * added port filter for outgoing connection (to prevent
64 triggering firewalls)
65 * made most parameters configurable via session_settings
66 * added encryption support
67 * added parole mode for peers whose data fails the hash check.
68 * optimized heap usage in piece-picker and web seed downloader.
69 * fixed bug in DHT where older write tokens weren't accepted.
70 * added support for sparse files.
71 * introduced speed categories for peers and pieces, to separate
72 slow and fast peers.
73 * added a half-open tcp connection limit that takes all connections
74 in to account, not just peer connections.
75 * added alerts for filtered IPs.
76 * added support for SOCKS4 and 5 proxies and HTTP CONNECT proxies.
77 * fixed proper distributed copies calculation.
78 * added option to use openssl for sha-1 calculations.
79 * optimized the piece picker in the case where a peer is a seed.
80 * added support for local peer discovery
81 * removed the dependency on the compiled boost.date_time library
82 * deprecated torrent_info::print()
83 * added UPnP support
84 * fixed problem where peer interested flags were not updated correctly
85 when pieces were filtered
86 * improvements to ut_pex messages, including support for seed flag
87 * prioritizes upload bandwidth to peers that might send back data
88 * the following functions have been deprecated:
89 void torrent_handle::filter_piece(int index, bool filter) const;
90 void torrent_handle::filter_pieces(std::vector<bool> const& pieces) const;
91 bool torrent_handle::is_piece_filtered(int index) const;
92 std::vector<bool> torrent_handle::filtered_pieces() const;
93 void torrent_handle::filter_files(std::vector<bool> const& files) const;
95 instead, use the piece_priority functions.
97 * added support for NAT-PMP
98 * added support for piece priorities. Piece filtering is now set as
99 a priority
100 * Fixed crash when last piece was smaller than one block and reading
101 fastresume data for that piece
102 * Makefiles should do a better job detecting boost
103 * Fixed crash when all tracker urls are removed
104 * Log files can now be created at user supplied path
105 * Log files failing to create is no longer fatal
106 * Fixed dead-lock in torrent_handle
107 * Made it build with boost 1.34 on windows
108 * Fixed bug in URL parser that failed to parse IPv6 addresses
109 * Fixed bug in DHT, related to IPv6 nodes
110 * DHT accepts transaction IDs that have garbage appended to them
111 * DHT logs messages that it fails to decode
113 release 0.12
115 * fixes to make the DHT more compatible
116 * http seed improvements including error reporting and url encoding issues.
117 * fixed bug where directories would be left behind when moving storage
118 in some cases.
119 * fixed crashing bug when restarting or stopping the DHT.
120 * added python binding, using boost.python
121 * improved character conversion on windows when strings are not utf-8.
122 * metadata extension now respects the private flag in the torrent.
123 * made the DHT to only be used as a fallback to trackers by default.
124 * added support for HTTP redirection support for web seeds.
125 * fixed race condition when accessing a torrent that was checking its
126 fast resume data.
127 * fixed a bug in the DHT which could be triggered if the network was
128 dropped or extremely rare cases.
129 * if the download rate is limited, web seeds will now only use left-over
130 bandwidth after all bt peers have used up as much bandwidth as they can.
131 * added the possibility to have libtorrent resolve the countries of
132 the peers in torrents.
133 * improved the bandwidth limiter (it now implements a leaky bucket/node bucket).
134 * improved the HTTP seed downloader to report accurate progress.
135 * added more client peer-id signatures to be recognized.
136 * added support for HTTP servers that skip the CR before the NL at line breaks.
137 * fixed bug in the HTTP code that only accepted headers case sensitive.
138 * fixed bug where one of the session constructors didn't initialize boost.filesystem.
139 * fixed bug when the initial checking of a torrent fails with an exception.
140 * fixed bug in DHT code which would send incorrect announce messages.
141 * fixed bug where the http header parser was case sensitive to the header
142 names.
143 * Implemented an optmization which frees the piece_picker once a torrent
144 turns into a seed.
145 * Added support for uT peer exchange extension, implemented by Massaroddel.
146 * Modified the quota management to offer better bandwidth balancing
147 between peers.
148 * logging now supports multiple sessions (different sessions now log
149 to different directories).
150 * fixed random number generator seed problem, generating the same
151 peer-id for sessions constructed the same second.
152 * added an option to accept multiple connections from the same IP.
153 * improved tracker logging.
154 * moved the file_pool into session. The number of open files is now
155 limited per session.
156 * fixed uninitialized private flag in torrent_info
157 * fixed long standing issue with file.cpp on windows. Replaced the low level
158 io functions used on windows.
159 * made it possible to associate a name with torrents without metadata.
160 * improved http-downloading performance by requesting entire pieces via
161 http.
162 * added plugin interface for extensions. And changed the interface for
163 enabling extensions.
165 release 0.11
167 * added support for incorrectly encoded paths in torrent files
168 (assumes Latin-1 encoding and converts to UTF-8).
169 * added support for destructing session objects asynchronously.
170 * fixed bug with file_progress() with files = 0 bytes
171 * fixed a race condition bug in udp_tracker_connection that could
172 cause a crash.
173 * fixed bug occuring when increasing the sequenced download threshold
174 with max availability lower than previous threshold.
175 * fixed an integer overflow bug occuring when built with gcc 4.1.x
176 * fixed crasing bug when closing while checking a torrent
177 * fixed bug causing a crash with a torrent with piece length 0
178 * added an extension to the DHT network protocol to support the
179 exchange of nodes with IPv6 addresses.
180 * modified the ip_filter api slightly to support IPv6
181 * modified the api slightly to make sequenced download threshold
182 a per torrent-setting.
183 * changed the address type to support IPv6
184 * fixed bug in piece picker which would not behave as
185 expected with regard to sequenced download threshold.
186 * fixed bug with file_progress() with files > 2 GB.
187 * added --enable-examples option to configure script.
188 * fixed problem with the resource distribution algorithm
189 (controlling e.g upload/download rates).
190 * fixed incorrect asserts in storage related to torrents with
191 zero-sized files.
192 * added support for trackerless torrents (with kademlia DHT).
193 * support for torrents with the private flag set.
194 * support for torrents containing bootstrap nodes for the
195 DHT network.
196 * fixed problem with the configure script on FreeBSD.
197 * limits the pipelining used on url-seeds.
198 * fixed problem where the shutdown always would delay for
199 session_settings::stop_tracker_timeout seconds.
200 * session::listen_on() won't reopen the socket in case the port and
201 interface is the same as the one currently in use.
202 * added http proxy support for web seeds.
203 * fixed problem where upload and download stats could become incorrect
204 in case of high cpu load.
205 * added more clients to the identifiable list.
206 * fixed fingerprint parser to cope with latest Mainline versions.
208 release 0.10
210 * fixed a bug where the requested number of peers in a tracker request could
211 be too big.
212 * fixed a bug where empty files were not created in full allocation mode.
213 * fixed a bug in storage that would, in rare cases, fail to do a
214 complete check.
215 * exposed more settings for tweaking parameters in the piece-picker,
216 downloader and uploader (http_settings replaced by session_settings).
217 * tweaked default settings to improve high bandwidth transfers.
218 * improved the piece picker performance and made it possible to download
219 popular pieces in sequence to improve disk performance.
220 * added the possibility to control upload and download limits per peer.
221 * fixed problem with re-requesting skipped pieces when peer was sending pieces
222 out of fifo-order.
223 * added support for http seeding (the GetRight protocol)
224 * renamed identifiers called 'id' in the public interface to support linking
225 with Objective.C++
226 * changed the extensions protocol to use the new one, which is also
227 implemented by uTorrent.
228 * factorized the peer_connection and added web_peer_connection which is
229 able to download from http-sources.
230 * converted the network code to use asio (resulted in slight api changes
231 dealing with network addresses).
232 * made libtorrent build in vc7 (patches from Allen Zhao)
233 * fixed bug caused when binding outgoing connections to a non-local interface.
234 * add_torrent() will now throw if called while the session object is
235 being closed.
236 * added the ability to limit the number of simultaneous half-open
237 TCP connections. Flags in peer_info has been added.
239 release 0.9.1
241 * made the session disable file name checks within the boost.filsystem library
242 * fixed race condition in the sockets
243 * strings that are invalid utf-8 strings are now decoded with the
244 local codepage on windows
245 * added the ability to build libtorrent both as a shared library
246 * client_test can now monitor a directory for torrent files and automatically
247 start and stop downloads while running
248 * fixed problem with file_size() when building on windows with unicode support
249 * added a new torrent state, allocating
250 * added a new alert, metadata_failed_alert
251 * changed the interface to session::add_torrent for some speed optimizations.
252 * greatly improved the command line control of the example client_test.
253 * fixed bug where upload rate limit was not being applied.
254 * files that are being checked will no longer stall files that don't need
255 checking.
256 * changed the way libtorrent identifies support for its excentions
257 to look for 'ext' at the end of the peer-id.
258 * improved performance by adding a circle buffer for the send buffer.
259 * fixed bugs in the http tracker connection when using an http proxy.
260 * fixed problem with storage's file pool when creating torrents and then
261 starting to seed them.
262 * hard limit on remote request queue and timeout on requests (a timeout
263 triggers rerequests). This makes libtorrent work much better with
264 "broken" clients like BitComet which may ignore requests.
266 Initial release 0.9
268 * multitracker support
269 * serves multiple torrents on a single port and a single thread
270 * supports http proxies and proxy authentication
271 * gzipped tracker-responses
272 * block level piece picker
273 * queues torrents for file check, instead of checking all of them in parallel
274 * uses separate threads for checking files and for main downloader
275 * upload and download rate limits
276 * piece-wise, unordered, incremental file allocation
277 * fast resume support
278 * supports files > 2 gigabytes
279 * supports the no_peer_id=1 extension
280 * support for udp-tracker protocol
281 * number of connections limit
282 * delays sending have messages
283 * can resume pieces downloaded in any order
284 * adjusts the length of the request queue depending on download rate
285 * supports compact=1
286 * selective downloading
287 * ip filter