Vuze 5.0.0.0 Released!

2013.05.08 | Vuze 5.0.0.0

Some of the more major changes are

* Toolbar split to allow buttons to only show on relevant views
* Tags are introduced as a long-term replacement for categories: user tagging, auto-tagging (download state, ip/country sets), per-tag speed limits, tag activity view, swarm tagging
* Peer country details (flags, country code/name) are now available by default and shown in both peer views and the swarm view
* Simplified download details view now easily available at the bottom of library views
* New per-download speed graphic

User ideas implemented in this release: http://tinyurl.com/cg4v3k9

FEATURE: Blog | See http://devblog.vuze.com/tagged/5000 for beta version blog posts

FEATURE: UI | Buttons on toolbar now only shows on views that need the buttons [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: UI | Support dragging files out of Files View as a File object, allowing dragging to Explorer, Editor, Player, etc [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: UI | Program icon in file rows of Library view [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: UI | Added 'pause' as right-click menu option in Library [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added option to add-torrent dialog to perform a swarm file-size lookup for alternative torrents [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added 'DHT Graph' view to the statistics tab that shows the main DHT operation state [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added 'Tag Activity' view to the statistics tab that shows achieved up/down rates for selected tags [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added peer flag and country code as default columns in library view [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Swarm view now shows peer's flags and has tooltip for more information; double clicking on a peer takes you to the peer in the peer's view [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added torrent detail tab views to bottom of library views to give quick access to the download stats [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Made the Library view tabs closable [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added a new 'Speed' tab to Library tab view and torrent details view showing a particular download's activity [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added auto-tags for download state (queued, active, complete etc) [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added manual tags to allow manual tagging of downloads [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added 'ip set' tags to show peers belonging to ip sets (or country code sets) and optionally apply rate limits [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Flash the 'downloading' sidebar entry when a new download is added [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Table header info in Files views now shows number selected when > 1 [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added menu link to get from entries in all-peers view to the relevant download [Parg]
FEATURE: UI | Added 'remaining' count to aggregated torrents view [Parg]
FEATURE: Plug | Added option to Media Server plugin to ignore explicit bind-ips [Parg]
FEATURE: Plug | Added 'prevent computer sleep' option the the Embedded Media Player plugin [Parg]
FEATURE: Plug | Introduced the 'location provider' plugin to make location information (peer CC, flag) available to the Vuze core [Parg]
FEATURE: Plug | Added public tags to Swarm Discoveries information [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | uTP outbound connections now supported [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | uTP supported on Linux [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | JSON encoding support for .vuze files [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Added a new .vuze file component type to encapsulate download addition [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Introduced Tags as an (eventual) replacement for categories [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Added a --restart command to allow scripted restart of Vuze [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Speed Limit Handler now supports the inclusion of country codes into 'ip set' definitions [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Fixed up IPv6 version server and DHT bootstrap somewhat [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Support IP bind for HTTPS URLs [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Added option to retain 'force' status of a download when transitioning from downloading to seeding [Parg]
FEATURE: Core | Improvements to plugin interface to support embedding Vuze [Parg]

CHANGE: UI | Better magnet URL parsing when entering web page URL [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Torrent icon is now shown by default in name column [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Blue now is "incomplete" and green is "complete" for progress bar column, play button, download/upload arrow [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Default columns in "Simple View" have changed [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Added a up/down arrow to the "#"/"Order" column [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Progress column no longer shows speed and ETA by default (configurable) -- speed and ETA have been added as separate columns [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Start, Stop, Play/Stream, and View Mode buttons on toolbar updated [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Sidebar now has a "Content Discovery" section. Related views have been moved there (Vuze HD Network, Games, Search Results, Swarm Discoveries, Subscriptions) [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Renamed "Files" section to "My Torrents" and moved the section to the top [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI | Added the rating column by default to some library views [Parg]
CHANGE: UI | Tidied up some aspects of the rating plugin interface [Parg]
CHANGE: UI | Reset table config when the 'reset config' button selected in Options->Mode [Parg]
CHANGE: UI | Increase maximum manual piece size in torrent creation wizard [Parg]
CHANGE: UI | Improved the 'no updates available' text for beta users [Parg]
CHANGE: UI | Romainian language update [Laurentiu]
CHANGE: UI | Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan]
CHANGE: Plug | Vuze Web Remote: Support most of Transmission's remote API [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: Plug | Remember side-bar close state for Swarm Discoveries and Embedded Media Player [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: Plug | Remember Swarm Discoveries selection when switching away from the view and back [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Support faster refresh interval for the auto-torrent importer; ensure import run on startup [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Decrease memory used with queued UDP packets by trimming to MTU [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Decrease buffer copy operations for UDP operations (DHT and uTP) [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Added 'sleep' parameter to powrprof call when putting computer to sleep [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Improve performance for async-dispatcher operations [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Don't waste CPU creating anti-spoof ids for distant DHT nodes [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Cache torrent file count to reduce torrent file loading on startup [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Webseed downloader instantiation delayed until required [Parg]
CHANGE: Core | Pick up <link> value for download link if nothing else available in RSS feed subscriptions [Parg]

BUGFIX: UI | Library in "Simple View" mode is now tall enough to display two lines of text [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: UI | Sample column on Column Setup Window is no longer partially hidden by scrollbar [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: UI | Fixerd filter box flickering when mousing over [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: UI | Fixed resource leak in table views, in particular the 'all peers' view [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI | 'Play now' was not working properly with files using the 'incomplete suffix' feature [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI | Fixed classic view options panel not auto-reopening on start [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI | External seed peers weren't showing outgoing request details [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Files using the 'incomplete suffix' feature were not having this removed correctly if manually relocated [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Built-in tracker wasn't obeying the 'ignore key check' option [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Ensure UDP selector is deactivated when idle [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Auto-resume of auto-paused downloads on stop option was broken [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Stop completely failing SSL certificates containing ECC named curves that we don't know about [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Work around the occasional presence of alternative crypto providers that clash with the default [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Reworked the registration/lookup mechanism for the rating plugin to improve scalability [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Resource downloader wasn't ending the 'no proxy' block correctly [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Torrent paused state was not being cleared properly when the torrent was manually started [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed high CPU usage bug in magnet-uri handler when bind failed [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed deleted tracker URLs reappearing due to DNS TXT handling and main announce URL being same as deleted one in tracker group [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed UI deadlock in table sort code [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Fixed some performance issues caused by per-download listeners being added to various config variables [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Introduced a linked-list backed 'copy on write' implementation to fix some performance issues [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core | Prevent metadata downloads from triggering 'on download complete' actions [Parg]