New Features:

• Core | Manual peer upload blocking (when seeding) and kick-banning
• Core | Control added to not cache small files (default no cache for < 1MB)
• Core | Ability to cancel torrent creation processes added
• Core | Ability to cancel sharing process added
• Core | Ability to pass multiple torrents to Azureus.exe
• Core | Added configuration items for tracker processing limits
• Core | Option to open torrent for seeding in create-torrent Wizard
• Core | Auto-rescan of shared resources + addition/deletion of shares accordingly
• Core | Persistence of download and tracker stats for shares
• Core | Advanced network settings: MTU, SO_RCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF, IPTOS
• Core | Optimistic Connect: drop inactive connections in order to find better ones
• Core | Added ability to apply updates and shutdown Azureus instead of restarting
• Core | Can now specify that password protected tracker web is only available via HTTPS, HTTP access -> access denied
• Core | Can now specify comment to be added to share torrents
• Core | resume data no longer saved to torrent files, stored in %user-dir%/active instead
• Core | Plugin support for installing and uninstaling plugins
• Core | Category support for shares
• Core | Apply updates and defer applicaton to later restart/close
• UI | Added 'share' support to console UI
• UI | Option to show confirmation dialog on torrent Removal
• UI | Added Seed2PeerRatio item to MyTorrents view
• UI | Added detailed connection State to peers view
• UI | Added Connected Time item to peers view
• UI | Option to add torrent downloads silently (without activating main Azureus window)
• UI | Added download speed limit column to MyTorrents
• UI | Telnet UI added
• UI | Auto-open stats option added
• UI | Plugin install/uninstall wizards
• UI | Double click on status bar progress area to give details of update/install/uninstall progress
• UI | SWT/Console share support for setting category
• UI | Pick out links (anything prefixed with http) in torrent comments in general view
• Plug | Status mailer support for SMTP port, user + password
• Plug | Status mailer support for plain text notifications

Changes:

• Core | Support azureus.install.path parameter, used by new linux launcher script
• Core | Moved config items for tracker client overrides + UDP to tracker client config
• Core | Also do dynamic tracker re-announce interval overrides when seeding; uses peer count only
• Core | NAT check url changed to aelitis server
• Core | Reduce tracker re-announce frequency when incoming connections are accepted (unfirewalled)
• Core | Remove old auto-migration code
• Core | Update restart logic now preserves JVM max mem setting for Sun JVMs
• Core | Cleanup and optimize choke-unchoke logic
• Core | Added an option to enable the prioritization of most completed Files, default is off
• Core | Default http tracker to disabled
• UI | Create torrent wizard now initially defaults torrent save path from save to default
• UI | Obey start stopped config item for dropped torrents
• UI | Torrents no longer need to be stopped before removal is allowed
• UI | Graphical view item refresh optimizations
• UI | Change context menu selection for queue/stop/force-start/recheck to be at least one can be... rather than all can be...
• UI | More pre-defined speed ranges for queue slot limits
• UI | Improve wording of delete torrent? prompt
• Plug | UPnP information messages now off by default

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fix for kernel panics under MacOSX
• Core | Handle passing of torrents to already running but not fully initialised process better
• Core | Default save dir was defaulting to ON, changed to OFF
• Core | Tidied up UPnP error handing if action missing
• Core | Scrape mult-tracker torrents correctly when download not running
• Core | Upload/download/share ratio frig for newly added seeds made consistent
• Core | Fix for stalls from system clock being set backwards in time
• Core | Fixed up bad behaviour on out-of-disk-space falures
• Core | Fixed torrents getting stuck in READY state
• Core | Fix potential connection establishment backlog
• Core | Fix potential DOS by timing out stalled connections
• Core | Fix bug in re-announce interval override calculation when connection limit has been reached
• Core | Fix for hangs when scraping due to slow DNS resolves
• Core | Fix for UPnP failing if trailing spaces in 'action name'
• Core | Fixed bug in choke/unchoke logic when number of connected peers < max upload slots
• Core | Updater problems with non-ascii chars in user dir (again!)
• Core | Created torrents had name.utf-8 tag in wrong place
• Core | UDP scrape responses being handled incorrectly
• Core | Fixed the high priority piece-picking for files
• UI | Old language files in user dir causing !missing! item texts
• UI | Fix for window state not being remembered between sessions
• UI | Fix for messages window being closed while animated
• UI | Fix for BUG 1059432 : Download bars spawning multiple times when set to auto open
• UI | Fix for BUG 1061538 : /0 error if no pieces
• UI | Fix create-torrent wizard to remember paths properly
• UI | Fixed up opening of torrent files not ending in .tor or .torrent
• UI | Fix Health icons sometimes not refreshing
• UI | Fix bug with Azureus crashing when quitting on OSX if the Stats view has been opened
• UI | Fix the fuzzy Azureus icon bug under OSX
• UI | IPFilter config view slow to display when thousands of ranges are set
• UI | Fixed bug 1081886 : stats graphics can now be 2000 pixels wide, instead of only 1600 before
• Plug | UPnP plugin support for multi-homed machines improved