Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users:
* 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.
Type : Open source
OS Support : Windows 2000/NT,Windows XP/2003,Windows 2008/Vista,Java
Date stamp / Size : Feb, 20. 2008 / 7400 kBytes
Asked : unassigned
Update history of Azureusv4.2.0.8 (September, 3. 2009)
New Features: - Core | Drive Detection for Devices for OSX (for PSP devices)
- Core | Factory option to allow switchable unchoke algorithms
Changes: - UI | Less CPU usage for Seeding Rules
- Core | Only create the transcode directories when required
- Core | Allow OSX platform component to be updated properly
Corrected bugs: - UI | Fixed Speedtest not working
- UI | OSX 10.6 support (opening torrent from file)
- Core | OSX 10.6 support (not getting data from connected peers)
- Core | Fixed deadlock during UI initialisation
v4.2.0.4 (July, 16. 2009)
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
v4.2.0.2 (April, 16. 2009)
New Features: None.Changes: None.Corrected bugs: UI | Fix wrap on category buttons UI | Fix rare case when last sash position in My Torrents wasn't being obeyed UI | Remove device toolbar when device feature not avail Core | Fix hang on startup with some UPnP devices Plug | Force decode of HTTP headers to lowercase using ISO8859-1 charset to fix matching error in Turkish
v4.2.0.0 (March, 26. 2009)
New Features: Core | Devices UIvz | UI for Devices panel, individual Device panel, Device chooser, and Device Profile Chooser Plug | Transcoding Changes: None.Corrected bugs: Core | Fix IP binding error when performing a NAT test under Vista UIvz | Fix some notifications not getting pulled
v4.1.0.4 (February, 26. 2009)
New Features: UI | Donation Window Changes: UI | Updated Translations
v4.1.0.2 (February, 12. 2009)
New Features: UI | Config option for max stalled seeding torrents (was hardcoded in 4100) Changes: Core | Remove various debug-spew Corrected bugs: Core | Fix null-pointer-exception when initiasing old categorised shares Core | Remove accidental invocation of the get-networks Vuze RPC when running in classic UI Core | Remove null-pointer-exception in TCP connection manager Core | Fix subscription auto-download with sites where supplied referer caused error UIvz | Click area for Friend's "chat thought bubble" was wrong, preventing click to chat in some cases UIvz | Fix share of vuze content (users could only share non-vuze content) UI | Column Setup visual fixes for gtk UI | Revert category buttons to working state UI | Fixed memory leak in All-Peers view UI | Fixed resource disposal in config view causing some status bar icons to not draw