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Vuze is a great utility that brings the popular Java-based BitTorrent client to a new level of stability, usability, and speed.

Very actively developed, this latest version includes a new split-window MyTorrents view with support for categories and advanced downloading / seeding / queuing rules for powerful and automated torrent management, a customizable user interface, seeding from read-only media, and significant reductions in resource usage.

The multiplatform Vuze client greatly extends the original python client's feature set, with: managing multiple downloads at once from a single GUI window, detailed real-time download statistics with export to XML, advanced download and seeding management rules, configuration and torrent creation wizards, embedded tracker for easy and automated hosting of your own files, PeerGuardian IP address filtering, web browser and console UIs, 27 available languages, a powerful plugin interface, and much much more.

Features:

· Multiple torrent downloads
· Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
· Advanced seeding rules
· Adjustable disk cache
· Only uses one port for all the torrents
· UPnP sets the forward on your router
· Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
· Fast resume
· Can set a default download dir and move completed files
· Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
· Highly customizable interface
· IRC plugin included for quick help
· Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)...
· Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline.

Many useful plugins are available:
· Auto-adjustment of your upload and download speeds according to your network charge with Autospeed
· Auto-download torrents with RSS Feed Scanner
· Schedule upload and download speed limits with Speed Scheduler
· Receive a mail when a download finishes with Status Mailer
· Add numerous info on torrents (Extra seeding columns, Country Locator)
· Remote control Azureus through the Swing Web Interface or the HTML Web Interface

What's New:

New Features:

* Core | Subscription options for auto-starting auto-downloads
* Core | Support for sharing .vuze files
* Core | Added support for adding categories to transcoded content
* Core | Added default transcode dir option
* Core | Support for keep-alive and more gzip on web contexts
* Core | Added percentage complete and eta to content descriptor
* UIvz | UI displays while core initializes
* Plug | Plugin interface to the search functionality

Changes:

* Core | Added another non-standard RSS date format
* Core | Allow HTTP seeding for simple torrents without knowledge of file name
* Core | Keep log files open rather than continually opening and closing them
* Core | Improved reporting of 'no disk space' errors for FAT32
* Core | Improved logging performance
* Core | Support for updated via installer as opposed to incremental updates

Corrected bugs:

* Core | Work around for broken socket handling on freebsd7.x
* Core | Recover from borked transcode queue config
* Core | Fix xml stats export with undefined characters
* Core | Support >2GB resource downloads
* Core | Fixed HTTP seeding when switching content on a keep-alive connection
* Core | Fix tracker announcer to pay attention to user options correctly
* Core | Multi-file torrents were borked in content directory
* UI | Set speeds in bits/sec when bits/sec display is selected