Azureus 2.2.0.0 is out!!! OMG!!!

**silent h3ro** · 11-02-2004, 02:17 AM

Its out!! Get this program if u don't already have it. It is faster and I broke an upload record the first time I uploaded with the new version. I can't wait to try a download. The torrent speeds up much faster too. U need this client!!!

2.2.0.0 - October 31, 2004
New Features:

Core | Disk cache
Core | Ability to set IP type-of-service (TOS) field for outbound data
Core | Show current upload and download limits in status area
Core | Locale selection - options to add in all defined encodings + show lax list
Core | Change the incoming data port without restarting
Core | Display "warning message" responses in announce replies
Core | Added option for tracker to perform a connectability check to peers
Core | Have message aggregation, for bandwidth savings/efficiency
Core | Torrent HTTP urls now accepted as program command line parameter
Core | Option added to disable system tray
Core | Concurrent hashing for >1 CPU
Core | Added ability to not outward connect to a defined set of port numbers
Core | SOCKS V4, V4a and V5 (no auth/user+password methods) support for outgoing data connections
Core | Torrents created by Azureus now include .utf-8 fields
Core | Dynamic piece request queue scaling
Core | Added torrent name to authentication dialog
Core | Per-torrent upload speed limits
Core | Ability to change the sound played on torrent completion added
Core | Added session uptime to stats
UI | 'Download' menu added with start/stop all + pause/resume options
UI | Table col sort order default option added, thanks to Charnobo!
UI | URL Downloader window now support to set-up referrer and saves last used referrers
UI | New Statistic page about the disk cache (yeah more CPU consuming graphs)
UI | Down/Up speed indicators in main view are now double-clickable to open the Stats View
UI | Added Path and # Remaining Pieces to Files view, Tracker Name to MyTorrents view
Plug | webui support for torrent encoding choice
Plug | Tracker torrent stats available via xml/http interface

Changes:

Core | Show time to re-announce/scrape in general view using hh::mm::ss
Core | Timeout tracker server operations
Core | Torrent opener will now report errors opening torrents better
Core | Complete core networking/messaging rewrite
Core | Stop scrape on UDP V2 torrents when download running
Core | Refactor of DiskManager
Core | Protocol tweaking for significantly reduced discard rates
Core | Tracker now treats port value of 0 as 'explicitly firewalled'
Core | Tracker client will revert to "initialised" state after explicit failure from tracker
Core | Locale selection changed to show more possible encodings
Core | XML stats - downloads ordered by downloading/index then seeding/index
Core | Reworked connection establishment to conform to new WinXP SP2 limits
Core | When restarting torrents are checked in smallest->largest size
Core | Reworked the piece picking so that slow peers don't "block" pieces to be completed
Core | JAR signing for webui (etc) now based on "tools.jar" from Sun JDK due to changes with their 1.5 JRE
Core | "Pause" command now greyed out if there is nothing to pause
Core | Create-torrent wizard now remembers comment data on back button + defaults for open/save dirs
Core | Reduced memory used of ipfilter list to help support large list sizes
Core | Added "*.*" to list of selectable file types in open-torrent dialogs
UI | Added a legend to the Pieces View
UI | Pieces View now display if the blocks are in the cache or not
UI | New Tools menu, Configuration --> Options, Plugins root menu, Language selection moved to config
Plug | UPnP plugin now only uses plugin interfaces
Plug | Differentiate UDP and TCP mappings in UPnP desc as some routers need this
Plug | UpdateLanguagePlugin removed, as no longer maintained

Corrected bugs:

Core | Throw an error message if existing data file length is too large
Core | Fix new bug with tracker announce every 10s when no peers were connected
Core | Fix for renaming files across volumes
Core | Torrent auto-import now works with console UI
Core | Bug when setting upload to unlimited (forced download to unlimited too)
Core | Set downloaded amount correctly when opening a torrent with existing download data
Core | Detect changed file sizes (smaller) when resuming torrents
Core | Random shuffling of multi-tracker torrent URLs fixed
Core | Fix occasional 60sec delay on initial tracker announce
Core | Fix for reading piece data from a too-long file
Core | Stop scraping all announce URLs in a torrent when removing torrent
Core | File handle closing
UI | Labels with '&' displaying incorrectly
UI | Torrent Downloader Window : retry button now placed correctly
UI | Fix for clicking the plugins directory and open the folder from the Configuration>Plugins view
UI | Fix for animated message windows not being at the right place on dual monitors.
Plug | Netgear WGT624 was crashing when processing UPnP requests
Plug | Webui 'view' mode wasn't working
Plug | Webui - excessively long status text messing up table
Plug | azplugins - web tracker pages wasn't picking up "show details" option
Plug | webui - fixed bug with re-ordering of columns

Link - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

**100%** · 11-02-2004, 08:21 AM

never tried it before - dwnlding
are there any other plugins i need or is the standard package enough?
or which ones would u advize?

Plugins List

Name Description Version Download
(for latest AZ release)
Auto Speed Automatically adjust global upload speed limit based on network latency. 0.3
Auto Seeder Automatically seeds files based on the contents of torrent and data directories. 0.1
AZCVSUpdater, A CVS Build Updater This plugin helps manage Azureus CVS releases by automating the process of checking for new builds, downloading them and installing them (and more!). 2.1
Azureus Platform Plugins Not user downloadable. 1.4
Azureus Core Plugins Due to refactoring the Tracker Templates and IRC have been moved to a separate plugin. This is it. 0.8.7
Share Exporter Exports torrents for shared resources to a directory. 0.1
Status Mailer Sends an email via SMTP when a download completes. 0.2
Azureus Update Support Not user downloadable. 1.5.7
BitTorrent IRC Bot This plugin for Azureus works as an IRC bot. 2.2.2
Column Example 1 This sample adds 3 columns to Azureus. 1.1
Column Example 2 Adds a graphical share ratio column. 1.1
Country Locator Adds a column identifying the peer country in the details view 1.3
Example Lists torrent files from a directory. 1.0
i18nAZ Modifying/Create Azureus language files. 1.0
Multi-Port Trackers Some over-loaded trackers use multiple ports to handle announces. 1.0
RSS Feed Scanner An RSS feed parser that allows unattended, automated download of torrents by means of advanced feed filter configurability. 1.1
RSS Import This plugin reads an rss feed and imports the torrent files into azureus, according to the filters you set. 2.2
SafePeer This plugin allows you to use SafePeer to import a list of IPs to block to the IpFilter from some database (by default the one of PeerGuardian) Forums & Bug Report. 2.2
Extra Seeding Columns Adds three columns to give seeding information: Actual Torrent file name, 1:1 upload ratio Eta and upload remaining percentage. 1.0
Speed Scheduler Schedule your upload and download speeds based on time and day of week. 0.9.1
Swing Web Interface This plugin lets you control Azureus remotely via a browser. 1.4.11
XML over HTTP This plugin lets you control Azureus using an XML over HTTP remote interface. 1.0