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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 | Added support for UPnP based offline-downloader services
* Core | Obfuscated lookups for the DHT to prevent leakage of key values during lookup stage
* Core | Support copying of .mp3 and .wma files to PSP
* Core | Implementation of a piece-reordering file manager
* Core | DHT replication controls
* Core | Initial pairing support
* Core | Parse seed/leecher values from subscription text if found
* Core | Added bloom-filter persistence
* Core | Support ".utf-8" suffix for keys in .torrent files
* Plug | Added download-flags to Download object
* Plug | Plugin access to subscriptions
* Plug | Added verified plugins
* UIvz | Added "Reset Columns" ability to some views (in Column Setup)
* UIvz | Client now opens to last used static view, or Library by default
* UI | Support for switching between carbon and cocoa on OSX
* UI | Generic filter support for our tables
* UI | Support for showing real SI values rather than just changing units displayed
* UI | Advanced menu option for editing http seeds

Changes:

* Core | Remove replicate-on-join from DHT as causing excessive key storage
* Core | Roll up subscription warnings when not expanded
* Core | Improved IPv6-handshaking and reconnects with other clients (see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/IPv6_compatibility for supported systems)
* Core | Switch back to k-select on OSX
* Core | Reduce CPU used for node-id calculation via MRU cache
* Core | Remove LAN transfer totals from data reported to tracker
* Core | Implemented port restriction for DHT node id generation
* Core | Reduce memory/CPU by disabling the largely unused Vivaldi V2 impl
* Core | Reduce DHT load by removing network-position derived tracking targets
* Core | Back off the initial DHT seeding
* Core | Use async keep-alive test to reduce thread creation on magnet download
* Core | Change defaults for I2P and Tor networks to fase
* Core | Support http seeds that don't support partial content
* Core | Added option to disable TiVo support completely
* Core | Support RSS feeds with incorrect 'summary' instead of 'description' entries
* Core | Support trackers that returned gzipped torrents even when not asked to
* Core | Migrate away from system-managed private keys
* Core | Support meta-search incremental result injection
* Core | Use cached scrape values on startup for DHT torrents to reduce thrashing
* Core | Switch version check to use HTTP by default
* Core | Resource resources by grabbing piecemap once during piece pick operation
* Core | Reduce cost of handling DHT store operations
* Core | Remove 'force write' option from random access file access
* Core | Move a few things to use the less costly stepped-monotime method
* Core | Re-use http connections when messaging the platform
* Core | Don't write diagnostic files to disk by default
* Core | Reduce small scratch file creation on startup
* Core | Don't write tables.config every start
* Core | If we don't have hosted content, don't write the config file
* Core | Potentially less Tracker Announces for those trackers not supplying "min interval"
* Plug | Reduce frequency of UPnP device specification download attempts
* UIvz | Removed Login and Friends, Content Networks menu
* UI | Order files in file view by torrent index if piece numbers same
* UI | Pulled out the RSS feed generation for devices and put into common location
* UI | Allows addition of http seeds to decentralised torrents
* UI | Make regex matching mode more obvious
* UI | Better "Associated Application" icon logic
* UI | (OSX) Switch to SWT for Cocoa Framework

Corrected bugs:

* Core | Don't reset manually selected Vuze meta search templates on load
* Core | Removed 'watched' tag from torrents on import
* Core | index-out-of-bounds fix when global peer limit reached
* Core | Fix incorrect sync of scrape hashes
* Core | Prevent unwanted selection of in-error subscriptions
* Plug | Force UPnP operations not to use socks/http proxy when defined
* UI | Fixed case where Open Torrents Window might erase existing files
* UI | Fixed context menus sometimes hanging client on Windows 7
* UI | Fix missing icons for pause/resume in all-transfers bar
* UI | Fix invalid thread access in parameter change logic
* UI | Fix progress-dialog feedback for magnet downloads
* UI | Fix cases on OSX where a modal dialog box ended up under main window