Vuze versions

Vuze can download large files using the bit torrent protocol
Sep 20, 2016
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Mar 4, 2015
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Nov 21, 2014
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Aug 15, 2014
Feb 8, 2014
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Nov 27, 2013
Aug 15, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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Feb 17, 2013
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Oct 19, 2012
4.7
Sep 22, 2011
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4.6
Jan 13, 2011
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4.5
Aug 5, 2010
4.3
Dec 16, 2009
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May 14, 2010
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Jul 4, 2008
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3.0
May 24, 2008
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Mar 1, 2008
Nov 30, 2008

What's new

v5.6.2 [Mar 4, 2015]
2015.06.08 - Vuze 5.6.1.2
New Features:
UI | Option to allow chat views to be independent windows [Parg]
UI | Added Tags column to archive view [Parg]
Core | Tag assignment is now persisted across archive/restore [Parg]
Changes:
UI | Pop-out views are now independent windows [Parg]
Corrected Bugs:
UI | Fix Stats view clearing graphs on each view (Classic UI) [TuxPaper]
UI | Fix remembering of minimized state of subtabs [TuxPaper]
UI | Torrent options window was throwing null-pointer exceptions [Parg]
UI | Reduced tab-rebuilds on tag property changes [Parg]
UI | The 'Restore and...' option in the archive view was incorrectly firing per-download [Parg]
2015.06.02 - Vuze 5.6.1.0
New Features:
Blog | See https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/vuze5610 for beta version blog posts
Idea | See http://vote.vuze.com/forums/170588-general/status/1561533
UI | New 'tagging' subview to allow easy download/tag assignment [TuxPaper]
UI | Many sidebar views can now be 'popped out' into a separate window [Parg]
UI | Show discovered tags when adding torrents [TuxPaper]
UI | Support escaped unicode character entry in chat UI via \unnnn [Parg]
UI | New tag settings view in Tags Overview panel [TuxPaper]
UI | Brought back client byte stats and added per-network stats [TuxPaper]
UI | Support for viewing downloads as local websites in web browser - http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Decentralized_Websites [Parg]
UI | Ability to completely disable use of the embedded browser in Vuze [Parg]
UI | Added 'torrent last active' column [TuxPaper]
UI | Additional option to edit multiple download's trackers in a single operation [Parg]
UI | Help menu option to import/export config files (etc) from bencoded <-> json format [Parg]
Core | Option to delete original .torrent files after addition [Parg]
Core | Automatically unzip torrents that happen to have been saved in compressed format [Parg]
Core | 'action on tag assignment' to support auto removal of peers [Parg]
Core | Per-peer up/down rate limiting on peer set assignment [Parg]
Core | Archival of downloads - http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Archiving_Downloads [Parg]
Changes:
UI | Torrent hash now shown in torrent options info view [Parg]
UI | Subscriptions ca now be shown in the classic UI [TuxPaper]
UI | More consistently handle 'do not download' file sizes when showing size/percent done/remaining [TuxPaper]
UI | Automatic closure of torrent download window when automatically invoked [Parg]
UI | Current version of components is now shown in update prompt [Parg]
UI | Latest 'private torrent' state now persisted across create-torrent operations [Parg]
Core | Treat protocol-relative URL's in RSS feeds as http:// [Parg]
Core | Changes to a download's networks are now applied directly [Parg]
Corrected Bugs:
UI | Fix 'reset columns' not resetting all colums [TuxPaper]
UI | Fix fancy menu bounds calculation to ensure correct visibility [TuxPaper]
UI | Creation date in torrent options dialog was incorerctly formatted [TuxPaper]
UI | Use updated trackers in open-torrent-options availability checker [Parg]
Core | Fix config corruption with non-ascii chat options [Parg]
Core | Fix edge case bug with swarm merging [Parg]
Core | Webseed rate limits weren't always being applied correctly [Parg]
Core | Removed small window when rate limits weren't being applied correctly [Parg]
Core | Incorrect tags were being included when getting existing download tags [Parg]
Core | Handle 301/302 redirects from trackers when binding to explicit IPs [Parg]
Core | Handle UPnP device URLs that don't have final / [Parg]
Core | Decode torrents with missing announce-urls correctly [Parg]
Core | Unlimited per-torrent connections not being enforced correctly [Parg]

v5.3.0 [Feb 8, 2014]
Feature: UI - Content selection dialog when more than one file can be played [TuxPaper].
Feature: UI - Added a configurable 'share ratio progress' column to display times at which certain ratios were met [Parg].
Feature: UI - Added alert count to system tray tooltip and next download eta [Parg]
Feature: UI - Added column to sources view to show completed downloads reported by tracker, where available [Parg].
Feature: UI - Where permitted you can now edit subscription URLS via right-click in sidebar [Parg].
Feature: UI - Subscriptions can now be renamed in the sidebar [Parg].
Feature: UI - Expansion state of torrents in Library views now remembered [Parg].
Feature: UI - Added per-file read/write rates to files view [Parg].
Feature: UI - Added per-file ETA based on file write rate [Parg].
Feature: UI - Support explicit external browsers (or plugin provided) for opening external links [Parg].
Feature: UI - Permit search results and subscription views to be opened in an external browser [Parg].
Feature: UI - Added explicit proxy support for internal browser views [Parg].
Feature: UI - Menu option to delete tracker sources directly from the view [Parg].
Feature: UI - Multi-select support in sources view [Parg].
Feature: UI - Manual tags can now be closed + opened in the sidebar [Parg].
Feature: UI - Transparency can noe be applied to the transfer/mini bars [Parg].
Feature: Plug - Added tag support to scannerss plugin [Parg].
Feature: Plug - Added Tag support to rss feed scanner plugin [Parg].
Feature: Core - Added a downloading queue rules section to control 'rank downloads by speed' option [Parg].
Feature: Core - Added manual piece forcing and re-requesting [Parg].
Feature: Core - New option to remove 'skipped' partial files when removing download from library [Parg].
Feature: Core - DHT can now bootstrap via version server if needed [Parg].
Feature: Core - Added the ability to add new torrents in a paused state [Parg].
Change: UI - Column setup dialog initial sort order is alphabetic ascending [Parg].
Change: UI - Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan].
Change: UI - Basque translation update [Azpidatziak].
Change: UI - Korean translation update [Dong-yoon Han].
Change: UI - Improved system tray tooltip rendering time and added option to menu to enable [Parg].
Change: UI - Manual Tag menus are now subdivided when there's a lot of tags [Parg].
Change: UI - Defer updates to sub-tabs when not visible [Parg].
Change: Core - Don't permit torrent transfer if DHT peer source disabled [Parg].
Change: Core - Always merge trackers explicitly listed in a magnet URI into the resulting torrent [Parg].
Change: Core - IPv6 is no longer automatically enabled for Beta/CVS users [Parg].
Change: Core - Revert 'best guess' download save location logic to default to off when explicit save dir set [Parg].
Change: Core - Tag initial-save-location now applied when starting a torrent added in stopped state [Parg].
Change: Core - Tolerate failures to decode search results [Parg].
Change: Core - An aggregated scrape value is now used to drive seeding rules [Parg].
Bugfix: UI - Prevent potential GUI hang when constructing swarm view [Parg].
Bugfix: UI - Fix layout issue for total stats view [Parg].
Bugfix: UI - Reduce selected content thrashing when multiple selection operated on [Parg].
Bugfix: UI - Fix double listener addition in piece info view [Parg].
Bugfix: Plug - I2P plugin updated to work with latest I2P releases [Parg].
Bugfix: Plug - Fix XML-over-HTTP plugin when using Java 7 [amc].
Bugfix: Plug - MLab plugin now uses JSON based server selection [Parg].
Bugfix: Plug - Fixed azcron to accept up/download speed limits > 100K/sec [Parg].
Bugfix: Plug - Fixed Twitter plugin [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Fixed up test for writability to folders on Windows when ascertaining validity of default save locations [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Prevent subscription lookups from blocking DHT threads [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Fixed parsing of RSS feeds containing bad DTD refs [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Fixed synchronization in pairing state update [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Prevented top-level directories from prematurely being created for add-stopped torrents [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Thread safety improvements for config access [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Prevent open-torrent-options dialog from using low-noise downloads as guessing guidance [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - ensure that bind-fails are treated as permanent errors if force-set (fixes unwanted non-VPN connections during VPN connection failure) [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Fixed 100% cpu caused by corrupted hashset [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Added asyncronization to selector creation to work around some AV products blocking Vuze during startup [Parg].
Bugfix: Core - Fix tracker announcer issue when editting tracker URLs [Parg].

v5.1.0 [Aug 15, 2013]
--'open-torrent' dialog design
--OSX: Detect and reset torretnt file/url associations
--Added option to show/hide the icon in the Rank column
--Added plugin lifecycle operations to console UI
--Added some pairing commands to the console UI
--Added 'Tags Overview' view [TuxPaper/Parg]
--Option to toggle the 'new' download state for multiple selection
--Per-file availability column added
--Option to alter the top-level spacer rows in sidebar to allow compressed view
--Added a peak up/down column and some smoothed stats (up/down/eta)
--You can now rename any of the columns in table views to suit your needs
--Added 'Tags' column to Library views
--Library and Files view header now shows selected done/total file sizes when multi-selected
--Added config option to show the Options View as a sidebar entry rather than a separate window
--Added 'reset transfer stats' option to the torrent options/info view
--Added 'hide all' option to auto-tags
--Added Console view to Library sub-tabs (requires logging to be enabled)
--Added discoveries tab to Library views for specific download/size lookup
--No-proxy option for RSS Feed Scanner
--No-proxy option for Satus Mailer
--Added support for user-provided flags to location provider
--Added simple IPv6 connectivity test
--Support renaming of device content correctly
--Added a 'mark' feature to overall stats so you can count from a point in time as opposed to install date
--Speed limit handler now supports profile specific network limits
--Per-tag minimum share ration option
--Added option to move files (rather than copy+delete) on Windows when source+target same file system
--Added roll-up ability for the 'Discovery' sidebar entry
--Sidebar pop-up menu now shown in a tree/submenu layout
--Removed unreliable/unsupported ping/tracert network tests
--Classic UI tab order memory added
--Moved search results and swarm discoveries to top of 'Discovery' entry
--Auto-hide devices that haven't been seen in a (configurable) time and alert when this happens
--Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan]
--Basque translation update [Azpidatziak]
--Added serbian and montenegro flags to location provider
--Improved performance of some averaging classes
--Major rework to file linking support
--Fixed the min/max button shown for tab view
--Fixed some toolbar selection issues
--Fix last view not opening
--Bring back sidebar popup menu
--Better MDI entry/data source handling over restarts
--Hack for SWT icon transparency issue on Win 8
--DNS config section wiki link was broken
--indicator wasn't being cleared for 'launch' actions
--Fixed weird sort bug caused by sort occurring on hidden column
--Fixed deadlock with authentication dialog
--Fixed cell-specific cursor changes not working correctly
--Newly added subscriptions were not showing correctly
--Fixed sort order bug with file view index column
--Get the Twitter plugin working again
--Occasional stack-overflow in Transcoder plugin fix
--Few bugfixes for Java 1.7 detection of comparator contract violation
--Fix initialisation deadlock
--Increase maximum message size limit due to enormous bit fields
--Prevent scheduler from incorrectly resuming manually paused downloads
--Got thread-dumping diagnostic logic working again
--Work around for some plugin lock files preventing auto-backup from working
--Update IPFilter modification time so that it correctly is applied to existing peer connections when modified
--Fixed IPFilter bug that was causing it not to work correctly when the DHT plugin was disabled
--Fixed speed limit handler day-selection bug
--Fixed incomplete-file-suffix logic not being applied to plugin added downloads
--Allow renaming of files in torrents that resolve to an identical file system name when transformed to object FS naming standards

v4.3 [Dec 16, 2009]
Re-designed interface.
3-step wizard helps to get started with the new Vuze.
Social networking.
Torrent channel with filtering.
Application size reduction.

v4.0.0.2 [May 14, 2010]
Bug Fixes.

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