Version 3 Changelog

Newer versions

Please see Changelog and Changes in versions 4.0.0.0-4.3.1.4 for changes in newer versions of Azureus/Vuze.

2008.07.01 - Vuze 3.1.1.0

New Features:

• Core | Added Auto Starting rule to seed large swarms first; useful when many overseeded torrents are in the queue or the upload capacity is far above average [The 8472]
• UIv3 | Friend Chat (double click on friend icon to chat) [Gudy]
• UIv3 | Friends Online Status
• UIv3 | Ability to share content from your computer by dragging it to a Friend [Gudy]

Changes:

• Core | Built-in plugins can now be disabled - it didn't work properly in earlier versions [amc1]
• UI | Create Vivaldi views for each DHT in use [Groundy]
• UI | Added support for rotation in Vivaldi view [Groundy]
• UI | Peers view hostname column now sorts host names by the most significant part first [The 8472]
• UIv3 | Finished fixes for the new styled dialog which are now default in Vuze/Vuze Advanced [knguyen]
• UIv3 | Added friend icon next to activity entry [TuxPaper]
• UIv3 | New plugin bar look (removed arrows, added selectable list all plugin bar views) [TuxPaper]

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fixed bug which stopped downloads being stored in the chosen directory [amc1]
• Core | Fixed bug which prevented torrent files from being moved properly [amc1]
• Core | Reopening torrents does not delete files when setting some of the already existing files to DND anymore [The 8472]
• Core | Fixed bug which prevented UPnP mappings from being successful when a SOCKS proxy was used [amc1]
• UI | Fixed bug where delete icon on toolbar was not present on OSX [TuxPaper]
• UI | Blank cells are now properly put at the bottom when sorting a table column [amc1]
• UIv3 | Fixed bottom of list views not repainting properly [TuxPaper]
• UIv3 | Remove type headers when switching to date sorting [TuxPaper]

2008.06.16 - Vuze 3.1.0.0

New Features:

• UI | Protocol overhead is now shown in the speed graph [The 8472]
• UI | Downloads can now be moved and renamed while running - torrent will be auto-paused [amc1]
• UI | New "rename" action which renames torrent file, save file and displayed name at same time [amc1]
• UI | Plugin log views now support autoscrolling, pausing and regex filtering [The 8472]
• UI | Plugin menu items which in the right-click menu now appear in the "Torrent" menu also [amc1]
• UIv3 | Friends (sharing, bandwidth boost)
• UIv3 | Greatly Improved Search
• UIv3 | Experimental option to use Mozilla/Firefox as browser widget on any platform (XulRunner or Firefox 3 must be installed) [The 8472]
• Plug | Added support for plugins to easily use an external configuration file for settings [amc1]
• Plug | Plugins can now have full control over on-complete and on-removal file moving [amc1]
• Plug | Added resource downloader to provide way to download files from Sourceforge [amc1]
• Plug | Added API methods to generically pop up the message box to a user [amc1]
• Plug | Added API methods to listen to download-complete events [amc1]
• Plug | Added various convenience methods for using log views and config models [amc1]
• Plug | Added API to allow native UI objects to be added to config views [amc1]
• Plug | Added some more methods for plugins to control some transport mechanisms [amc1]
• Plug | Added ability to add menus to status entry objects [amc1]
• Plug | Plugins can now open files using default application handlers [amc1]

Changes:

• Core | added "upload_only" flag to AZMP/LTEP handshakes, disconnect any uploading_only peers we don't need / that don't need us when disconnect seeds when seeding is set [The 8472]
• Core | Further startup speed improvements [The 8472, amc1, Parg]
• Core | Speedup of various file batch operations (priority changes) [amc1, The 8472]
• Core | Added option to allow the removal of files linked outside the save directory when removing data [amc1]
• UI | Column menu option to disable fast renaming in files view, changed fast rename to behave more like the windows explorer [The 8472]
• UI | In console UI, shrunk help text down to be more concise [amc1]
• UIv3 | Removed Vuze Header (the top plugin bar is still there but you have to turn it on)

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Made change so that plugins could not inadvertently turn off Azureus extension protocol [amc1]
• Core | The UDP tracker client option has been nonfunctional for quite a while now -> fixed [The 8472]
• Core | Fixed various file-priority-change related bugs that resulted in error states [The 8472]

2008.04.10 - Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.2

New Features:

• UIv3 | Ability to rate directly from rating reminder activity entry [TuxPaper]
• UIv3 | Added progress spinner animation for the LightBox [knguyen]

Changes:

• Core | Don't auto-UDP probe on initial announce if tracker not known to support UDP - hit on second and remember outcome [Parg]
• Core | Improve startup times by taking various torrent-load operations off main thread [Parg]
• Core | Add reason-messages for update check failures [Parg]
• Core | Use derived password to protect private key to allow us to persist password [Parg]
• Core | Get plugin update URL from version server to support potential future switch [Parg]
• UI | Run explicit tracker scrapes off UI thread to prevent blocking [Parg]
• UI | Allow UI initialisation to proceed before plugin init complete [Parg]
• UIv3 | Always start on "Dashboard" tab (unless Advanced UI chosen), instead of sometimes starting on "On Vuze" tab [TuxPaper]
• Plug | Ensure that DHT republish events are scheduled using absolute time so recover correctly from computer suspend [Parg]

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Handle some badly formed torrents more gracefully (corrupt announce-lists) [Parg]
• Core | Handle multiple SSL certs from same URL [Parg]
• Core | URLDecode torrent filenames [Parg]
• Core | Fix non-crypto fallback outgoing connections [Parg]
• Core | Better (esp for Vista) detection of and setting of Azureus' .torrent file association [TuxPaper]
• UI | Fix broken per-torrent upload speed setting via options tab [Parg]
• UI | Fix alternating bg color not updating after changing in config [TuxPaper]
• UIv3 | Fix resource leaks related to light box (login window) [knguyen]

2008.03.05 - Azureus Vuze 3.0.5.0

New Features:

• Core | Added µTorrent PEX support [amc1]
• Core | Azureus probes trackers for UDP-capabilities on first scrape/announce now and uses udp instead of http where available [The 8472]
• Core | Added option to enforce IP bindings even when the specified interfaces are not available (useful when Azureus should not use certain network interfaces) [The 8472]
• Core | Intervene with http seeds if progressive stall imminent [Parg]
• Core | Message user on startup if they have installed Azureus to read-only location [Parg]
• Core | Added dnd status to XML stats [Parg]
• UI | Added option for "Open Containing Folder" menu action - which may integrate better with non-standard file browsers [amc1]
• UI | Added option for "Show Torrent Menu" -- Users can now decide to see the Torrent menu in the menubar or not [knguyen]
• UI | Fast Renaming (not moving) in the Files tab (click on name column) and Open Torrent dialog (click on dest. name column) [The 8472]
• UI | Completed downloaders column [The 8472]
• UI | Added start/stop to category menu [Parg]
• UI | Added per-category speed limits [Parg]
• UI | Added per-category option setting [Parg]
• UI | Added multiple-torrent options setting to MyTorrents view [Parg]
• UIv3 | New menu configuration for Vuze and Vuze Advanced UI's [knguyen]
• UIv3 | Activity Tab [TuxPaper]
• UIv3 | Vuze Login from client [knguyen]
• Plug | Added Network Status plugin to perform some basic network tests [Parg]
• Plug | Allow plugins to specify their minimum JDK requirements [Parg]

Changes:

• Core | Further memory footprint reductions; for additional tweaks see http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Reduce_memory_usage [The 8472]
• Core | Reimplemented LT extension protocol code [amc1]
• Core | DND/Compact (aka Delete) priority now deletes all files that do not share pieces with normal/high priority files [The 8472]
• Core | Queuing rules now don't start any further torrents if the global up/download speed limits are reached [The 8472]
  • makes "don't count torrent ..." minimum speed rules more useful to dynamically regulate the queue lengths
  • recovers faster from chain reactions in case of connection loss
• Core | Made the crypto handshake a bit less predictable [The 8472]
• Core | Added support for IPv6 compact announces (client) and udp-multiscrapes (client+server) [The 8472]
• Core | Take note of more peer-source selections [Parg]
• Plug | Added support for plugins which implement mainline DHT [amc1]

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Request limiting/Priorities no longer pinch off LAN peers if seperate LAN speeds are enabled [The 8472]
• Core | Increase time Azureus holds open listen socket on close to reduce dual-start window [Parg]
• Core | Allow ~ character in tracker addresses to support I2P [Parg]
• Core | Determine app name correctly on OSX so that restart works for renamed apps [Parg]
• UI | Shells no longer use the low-res frog icon, the normal main window icon is now used instead [amc1]
• UI | Limiting comments in General View to 5k characters under WinXP to avoid crashes due to faulty comctl32.dll [The 8472]
• UI | Setting speed parameters manually now disables autospeed [The 8472]
• Plug | Encode spaces correctly in get-right web seed urls [Parg]

2007.12.21 - Azureus Vuze 3.0.4.2

New Features:

• UI | Added "Check Files Exist" menu option [amc1]
• Plug | Perform low resource usage tracking of online torrents for swarm cross-population purposes [Parg]

Changes:

• Core | Added option to disable download speed focus [The 8472]
• Core | Reduced memory usage for many-torrent instances [The 8472]
• UI | Multiple selected torrent export now works [amc1]
• Core | Fixed IP filters not working when ALLOW instead of DENY was used [Parg]
• Core | Improve rebuffering behaviour when real-time pieces are too slow for any peers to get in time [Parg]
• Core | Ensure minimum buffer requirements are factored into ETA calculation [Parg]
• UI | Eliminated various memory leaks [The 8472]

2007.12.06 - Azureus Vuze 3.0.4.0

New Features:

• Core | Reconnect to peers after unexpected disconnect / recover stats of recently disconnected peers [Parg,The 8472]
• Core | Global download speed limit can also limit the number of outgoing requests, this should improve TCP performance [The 8472]
• Core | IP binding now provides primitive round-robin load balancing for users with multiple internet connections; accepts interface names and IPv6 binding (if supported on the platform) [The 8472]
• Core | Embed ChangeLog.txt in release jar [Nolar]
• UI | Column menu option to automatically put contents of cell into the tooltip [amc1]
• UI | Piece distribution view is now also available as a peer subview [The 8472]
• UI | Added 'time remaining' column to peers view [Parg]
• UI | Added option to suppress file download dialog [knguyen]
• UI | Various progress reports have been unified; main status bar can display progress for certain processes now [knguyen]
• Plug | Plugins can now change the color of rows [amc1]
• Plug | Plugins can add configuration colour parameters [amc1]

Changes:

• Core | Attempt to re-open a file when access fails to try and recover from a transient error [Parg]
• Core | Auto speed default is now the new 'beta' (v2) algorithm [ranul]
• Core | Revised piece picking code to deal better with some edge cases and snubbed peers [The 8472]
• Core | Share Ratio/min Seeds ignore rule now applies even when no tracker scrape is available [The 8472]
• UI | Added private torrent indicator to the general tab [The 8472]
• UI | Logging Consoles now have regex-based filters [The 8472]
• UI | Tweaked table views to use a bit less memory and run better when items are being quickly removed/added [TuxPaper]

Corrected bugs:

• UI | Don't hang UI redraw if file access is slow [Parg]
• UI | Fixed inconsistencies in the Torrent Open Dialog related to renaming and retargeting files and directories [The 8472]

3.0.3.4 - October 4, 2007

New Features:

• UI | Added "All Peers" view

Changes:

• Core | Added workarounds for some buggy UPnP router implementations
• UI | NAT status bar indicator and health icons now ignore UDP and LAN-local connections

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fixed bug where a torrent's save location is "forgotten" when a recheck is done in some circumstances
• UI | times > 365 days (such as the uptime) are now displayed properly [The 8472]
• Core | Fixed MacOSX playback bug
• Core | Fixed update restart bug

3.0.3.0 - September 20, 2007

New Features:

• Core | Added experimental support for LibTorrent extension protocol handshake
• UI | Added available disk space indicators to the torrent open dialog (requires Java 1.6)
• UI | Added "handshake reserved bytes" column in peer view
• UI | Added "Open Transfer Bar on start" and "Remember Transfer Bar" location options
• UI | Added http-seed config to torrent creation wizard
• UIv3 | Embedded Media Player

Changes:

• Core | Speedup hash-checking by ~30% / less CPU usage
• Core | More improvements to client identification code
• UI | Provide both "per-torrent" and "across-torrents" speed menu options
• UI | Speed improvements for menu generation and changing file priority in "Files" view
• Plug | Plugins can now dynamically register language resource bundles
• UI | Allow minibars to stick to any screen border in multi monitor setups

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fixed bug when trying to add torrents with semi-colon characters in filename
• Core | LAN peer detection for explicit IP addresses was broken

3.0.2.2 - August 30, 2007

Changes:

• UI | Improved usability of speed scale widget.
• UI | Restored reposition functionality of torrent context menus

Corrected bugs:

• Core | *nix: Allowing multi-instance now works again
• Core | IPv6 DHT v4 pollution fix
• UI | MacOSX: Fixed not remembering user turned off Maximized state
• UI | MacOSX: Fixed Drag and Drop for moving torrents in My Torrents view
• UI | A few config pages had their labels missing

3.0.2.0 - August 20, 2007

New Features:

• Core | Act on suspend/resume events on Windows
• Core | Added new AZ message to inform of bad pieces
• Core | Added new stacked HAVE message to reduce peer-peer overhead
• Core | IPv6 support - dht, version server, tracker and improved transport
• UI | New "Torrent" menu in the menu bar
• UI | New "Piece Distribution" subview in the pieces tab
• UI | Auto-speed ping views in Tools->Statistics->Transfers when Auto Speed is enabled
• UI | "Clear Resume Data" menu option added
• UI | "Clear remembered save paths" option added (for the Open Torrent dialog)

Changes:

• Core | Optimise memory usage for single-file downloads
• Core | Optimise memory usage for queued torrents (no need to keep resume data in memory)
• Core | Much better peer ID identification code added, many more clients now correctly identified
• Core | Changes made to identify some "fake" clients (or other clients which identify themselves in a problematic way)
• Core | Biased optimistic disconnect slightly against leechy peers
• Core | Core changes in some places to allow "Default save path" to be used without requiring "Use default data dir" to be enabled
• Core | Reduce CPU usage when many (queued) torrents are present and in the the pieces view
• Core | *nix: New startup script to detect Gecko/XULRunner and to allow better restarting
• UI | UL/DL speed selection on right click of status bar changed from menu to scale widget.
• UI | Open Torrent Window now asks to create directories if they don't exist yet, instead of evilly auto-creating them when you click the Browse button
• UI | Added download status, distributed copies and completed piece count to the General torrent view
• UI | User Comment field more useful in General torrent view - easy edit link, hyperlink formatting, auto-resizing
• UI | "Show Transfer Bar" menu option is now a checkbox menu item - so you can now hide the transfer bar using the menu item
• Plug | Added setVisible method for plugin menu items

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fixed bug where renaming a download for a single file torrent would sometimes cause data to get out of sync and cause file errors
• Core | Allow pipelined http seed requests to switch torrents
• Core | Bootstrap DHT better when no contacts
• Core | Fixed bug where renaming a download in some conditions would generate "Target is sub-directory" errors
• UI | Fixed swarm view rendering bug where some incomplete peers were shown as full circles
• Plug | Fixed bug where previously removed child menu items would still be present when generating some menus

3.0.1.6 - June 21, 2007

New Features:

• Core | IP Filter Autoloading. Supports DAT (eMule), P2P (PeerGardian, splist), and P2B v1,2,3 (Peer Gardian 2) formats.
• UI | Option to display divider lines every 60 updates on the Statistics view
• Plug | Added helper class to make listening to download events across all downloads easier
• Core | Azureus AutoSpeed v2 Beta
• Core | Byte-level download control for Downloads
• Core | Speed tester wizard
• UI | Added "Transfers Bar" (similar to the "Download Bar")
• UI | Correctly identifies FoxTorrent and Blizzard Downloader peers
• UI | Determines version information for Bits On Wheels and Opera peers
• UI | Vivaldi view can use mouse wheel too zoom now (requires clicking on the view first)
• UI | Date Completed column
• UI | (Beta) Various Auto Speed algorithms
• UI | Auto-open MyShares if any shares
• Core | Auto-speed: added control for forced-max network speed
• Core | Option to clear stored tracker list used for creating torrents
• UI | Option to add full UPnP debug information to the log view
• Core | Alerts can now be shown in individual message popup boxes
• Core | Alerts can now be suppressed and shown on demand
• Core | Per-peer upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-category upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-torrent super-seeding via MyTorrents context menu
• UI | Option to auto-download and install updates
• UI | Overall piece map for Piece View
• UI | New "Peer ID" columns in the Peers View
• Plug | Plugins can now add their own status indicators on the status bar
• Plug | Plugins can now add menu items to the system tray, download bars, menu bar
• Plug | Plugins can now remove menu items that are created (allows for dynamic menus)
• Plug | Added extra methods on DownloadManager making it easier to listen to download events

Changes:

• Core | Handle 503s better with webseeds
• Core | Disable HTTP authentication dialog for webseeds
• Core | Reduce DHT registration counts for queued torrents
• UI | Running Azureus while azureus is already running now brings Azureus to front
• UI | OSX: Make minimize to status bar icon hide the main window instead of putting it in the doc
• Core | Include msvcr71.dll in Windows installation bundles, for compatibility with Java6
• Plug | Added full set of config parameter methods for completeness

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Plugin installation/updates using Vista
• Core | Updater now works on Vista with security challenged users
• Core | Fixup "Get Right" webseed handling as per the spec
• Core | Fixed bug which sometimes prevented corrupted torrents being removed properly
• Core | Fix rare case where app dir on win32 could report wrong azureus dir on multi-az computers
• Core | Prevent upnp dispatcher queue from growing too large
• Core | Limit UPnP write-request exec threads
• UI | Fixed force starting a torrent via the Open Torrent Window options.
• Core | 100% CPU problem in network code under some conditions
• UI | Fixed issue where excessive file checks were being done when generating the torrent context menu
• Plug | UPnP plugin now correctly attempts to remove existing mappings if they are in the way of new mappings
• Core | Fix Re-adding a torrent causing "1-" or "-1" directories or files
• Core | Fixed bug where files were sometimes moved into a subdirectory, where the directory name was only one character long
• Plug | Fixed bug where some plugin menu items didn't appear under certain conditions

3.0.1.4 - May 29, 2007

New Features:

• Core | Byte-level download control for Downloads
• Core | Speed tester wizard
• UI | Added "Transfers Bar" (similar to the "Download Bar")
• UI | Correctly identifies FoxTorrent and Blizzard Downloader peers
• UI | Determines version information for Bits On Wheels and Opera peers
• UI | Vivaldi view can use mouse wheel too zoom now (requires clicking on the view first)
• UI | Date Completed column
• UI | (Beta) Various Auto Speed algorithms
• UI | Auto-open MyShares if any shares
• Core | Auto-speed: added control for forced-max network speed
• Core | Option to clear stored tracker list used for creating torrents
• UI | Option to add full UPnP debug information to the log view
• Core | Alerts can now be shown in individual message popup boxes
• Core | Alerts can now be suppressed and shown on demand
• Core | Per-peer upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-category upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-torrent super-seeding via MyTorrents context menu
• UI | Option to auto-download and install updates
• UI | Overall piece map for Piece View
• UI | New "Peer ID" columns in the Peers View
• Plug | Plugins can now add their own status indicators on the status bar
• Plug | Plugins can now add menu items to the system tray, download bars, menu bar
• Plug | Plugins can now remove menu items that are created (allows for dynamic menus)
• Plug | Added extra methods on DownloadManager making it easier to listen to download events

Changes:

• Core | Handle 503s better with webseeds
• Core | Disable HTTP authentication dialog for webseeds
• Core | Reduce DHT registration counts for queued torrents
• UI | Running Azureus while azureus is already running now brings Azureus to front
• UI | OSX: Make minimize to status bar icon hide the main window instead of putting it in the doc
• Core | Include msvcr71.dll in Windows installation bundles, for compatibility with Java6
• Plug | Added full set of config parameter methods for completeness

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Updater now works on Vista with security challenged users
• Core | Fixup "Get Right" webseed handling as per the spec
• Core | Fixed bug which sometimes prevented corrupted torrents being removed properly
• Core | Fix rare case where app dir on win32 could report wrong azureus dir on multi-az computers
• Core | Prevent upnp dispatcher queue from growing too large
• Core | Limit UPnP write-request exec threads
• UI | Fixed force starting a torrent via the Open Torrent Window options.
• Core | 100% CPU problem in network code under some conditions
• UI | Fixed issue where excessive file checks were being done when generating the torrent context menu
• Plug | UPnP plugin now correctly attempts to remove existing mappings if they are in the way of new mappings
• Core | Fix Re-adding a torrent causing "1-" or "-1" directories or files
• Core | Fixed bug where files were sometimes moved into a subdirectory, where the directory name was only one character long
• Plug | Fixed bug where some plugin menu items didn't appear under certain conditions

3.0.1.2 - April 12, 2007

New Features:

• Core | Auto-speed: added control for forced-max network speed
• Core | Option to clear stored tracker list used for creating torrents
• UI | Option to add full UPnP debug information to the log view
• Core | Alerts can now be shown in individual message popup boxes
• Core | Alerts can now be suppressed and shown on demand
• Core | Per-peer upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-category upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-torrent super-seeding via MyTorrents context menu
• UI | Option to auto-download and install updates
• UI | Overall piece map for Piece View
• UI | New "Peer ID" columns in the Peers View
• Plug | Plugins can now add their own status indicators on the status bar
• Plug | Plugins can now add menu items to the system tray, download bars, menu bar
• Plug | Plugins can now remove menu items that are created (allows for dynamic menus)
• Plug | Added extra methods on DownloadManager making it easier to listen to download events

Changes:

• Core | Include msvcr71.dll in Windows installation bundles, for compatibility with Java6
• Plug | Added full set of config parameter methods for completeness

Corrected bugs:

• Core | 100% CPU problem in network code under some conditions
• UI | Fixed issue where excessive file checks were being done when generating the torrent context menu
• Plug | UPnP plugin now correctly attempts to remove existing mappings if they are in the way of new mappings
• Core | Fix Re-adding a torrent causing "1-" or "-1" directories or files
• Core | Fixed bug where files were sometimes moved into a subdirectory, where the directory name was only one character long
• Plug | Fixed bug where some plugin menu items didn't appear under certain conditions

3.0.1.0 - April 5, 2007

New Features:

• Core | Option to clear stored tracker list used for creating torrents
• UI | Option to add full UPnP debug information to the log view
• Core | Alerts can now be shown in individual message popup boxes
• Core | Alerts can now be suppressed and shown on demand
• Core | Per-peer upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-category upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-torrent super-seeding via MyTorrents context menu
• UI | Option to auto-download and install updates
• UI | Overall piece map for Piece View
• UI | New "Peer ID" columns in the Peers View
• Plug | Plugins can now add their own status indicators on the status bar
• Plug | Plugins can now add menu items to the system tray, download bars, menu bar
• Plug | Plugins can now remove menu items that are created (allows for dynamic menus)
• Plug | Added extra methods on DownloadManager making it easier to listen to download events

Changes:

• Core | Include msvcr71.dll in Windows installation bundles, for compatibility with Java6
• Plug | Added full set of config parameter methods for completeness

Corrected bugs:

• UI | Fixed issue where excessive file checks were being done when generating the torrent context menu
• Plug | UPnP plugin now correctly attempts to remove existing mappings if they are in the way of new mappings
• Core | Fix Re-adding a torrent causing "1-" or "-1" directories or files
• Core | Fixed bug where files were sometimes moved into a subdirectory, where the directory name was only one character long
• Plug | Fixed bug where some plugin menu items didn't appear under certain conditions

3.0.0.8 - March 15, 2007

New Features:

• Core | Alerts can now be shown in individual message popup boxes
• Core | Alerts can now be suppressed and shown on demand
• Core | Per-peer upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-category upload/download speed limits
• Core | Per-torrent super-seeding via MyTorrents context menu
• UI | Option to auto-download and install updates
• UI | Overall piece map for Piece View
• UI | New "Peer ID" columns in the Peers View
• Plug | Plugins can now add their own status indicators on the status bar
• Plug | Plugins can now add menu items to the system tray, download bars, menu bar
• Plug | Plugins can now remove menu items that are created (allows for dynamic menus)
• Plug | Added extra methods on DownloadManager making it easier to listen to download events

Changes:

• Core | Include msvcr71.dll in Windows installation bundles, for compatibility with Java6
• Plug | Added full set of config parameter methods for completeness

Corrected bugs:

• Plug | UPnP plugin now correctly attempts to remove existing mappings if they are in the way of new mappings
• Core | Fix Re-adding a torrent causing "1-" or "-1" directories or files
• Core | Fixed bug where files were sometimes moved into a subdirectory, where the directory name was only one character long
• Plug | Fixed bug where some plugin menu items didn't appear under certain conditions

Previous Versions

Please see the Azureus 2 changelog for earlier changes.