Azureus for Windows 2.3.0.1 Beta 1

Changelog:

New Features:

* Core | Client support for the 'trackerid' announce extension
* Core | Client support for the 'min interval' announce extension
* Core | Added options to disable scrape entirely or just for non-running torrents
* Core | RSS Feed parse APIs added to plugin interface
* Core | Non-blocking sockets based TCP tracker implementation
* Core | Client identification plugin interface
* Core | Separate protocol payload and overhead stats
* Core | Data deletion can now defer to Recycle Bin and Trash under Windows and Mac OS X, respectively
* Core | Distributed Database
* Core | Decentralised tracking
* Core | Magnet URI for location of decentralised torrents
* Core | Ability to update built-in plugins independently of the core
* Core | Diagnostic collection for system properties and config settings
* Core | added option to move newly completed seeds to the end of the seeding list, rather than the front
* Core | Support for I2P plugin
* Core | Network selection support (public, i2p, tor)
* Core | Inter-client peer exchange
* UI | Option to disable small fonts under OSX
* UI | Console support for aliases
* UI | Torrent export option added to SWT UI
* UI | Keyboard shortcut parsing system
* UI | System tray menus for setting global upload and download bandwidth limits
* UI | Synthesized speech alerts for Mac OS X; Go to Azureus / Preferences to enable it
* UI | New file icon for Mac OS X
* Plug | Added local host configuration setting for statusmailer
* Plug | Reworked CSS for tracker web pages to create old and new styles
* Plug | StartStop Rules: First Priority ignore Rules: 0 Peers and SeedsPeers Ratio
* Plug | RSS Feed added to tracker web pages
* Plug | Tracker stats added to tracker web pages
* Plug | Generic Messaging API: inter-client message passing
* Plug | Joltid Peer Cache plugin is now bundled with Azureus
* Plug | I2P plugin

Changes:

* Core | Smarter re-announce interval handling, especially for lopsided swarms
* Core | Added many new peerid identifications
* Core | First piece priority option now also prioritizes last piece of file
* Core | NAT check functions even when downloads have already been started
* Core | Update check can now check via configured proxy
* Core | Rewritten download code: decreased cpu usage and faster speeds in LAN network environments
* Core | Network IP_TOS option now sets required registry setting under Win2K/XP
* Core | Favor establishing inbound peer connections, to increase the health of swarms with firewalled clients
* Core | Improved seeding unchoking algorithm: distributes data more evenly
* Core | Anti-leech code to prevent optimistic unchoke leechers
* Core | Reduced threads required for multiple torrents
* Core | Relaxed cross-torrent file locking to permit multiple read access
* Core | changed HTTP user-agent to include OS and java version
* Core | max cache size limited to 32M less than VM size
* UI | Reintroduced download completion alerts in Mac OS X (use System Preferences / Sound to set the alert sound of choice)
* UI | For Mac OS X, contextual menu items no longer carry images for better compliance with Apple Human Interface Guidelines
* UI | RFE #1092614: Informational popup messages now auto-close after 5 seconds - unless the message window is closed manually, or if the mouse is over it / details view is open (the timing will be 'reset' then)
* UI | Miscellaneous cosmetics updates for Mac OS X
* UI | Bug #1112278: https:// URLs now autopaste in Open URL window
* UI | Main menu bar should now be more streamlined in its arrangement
* UI | Console view will now display information logged (for the duration of the application session) when the Console view is closed
* UI | ETA and remaining now take into account DHD files
* Plug | More choices in First Priority ShareRatio

Corrected bugs:

* Core | IPFilters loaded from static config file weren't working
* Core | Fix re-announce interval bug when zero peers in swarm
* Core | Send uninterested message when complete while using do-not-download feature
* Core | Optimistic Connect, when seeding, no longer drops just random connections
* Core | Better recovery from corrupt resume data
* Core | Better handling of invalid torrent save locations
* Core | fix for SSL (https) problems introduced by changes in JDK 5.0
* Core | fix for hash-fails when running with cache + incremental file creation enabled
* Core | Fix scrape processing stall bug when scrape url was invalid
* UI | Corrected save dialog behaviour on Make Torrent Wizard regarding file selection
* UI | Bug #953619 concerning Mac OS X: Double-clicking .torrent files now activate Azureus with the expected Finder dialogs (Dragging files to the Dock icon will continue to malfunction for the indefinite future)
* UI | Bug #1120995: Improper validation could allow unreasonably low global upload cap
* UI | Main window no longer tries to steal focus on opening (Mac OS X)
* UI | Pop up messages no longer try to steal focus (Mac OS X)
* UI | Resolved fuzzy dock icon display under Mac OS X if Column Setup is opened
* UI | Upload caps for individual transfers now display more sensible values if global upload cap is set to unlimited
* UI | In My Torrents, a category view will no longer prevent its corresponding table view's horizontal scrolling
* UI | Download bars should no longer disappear when the main window is minimized (Mac OS X)
* UI | Certain table column contents no longer 'disappear' when a row is selected (Mac OS X)
* Plug | StartStop Rules: Autostart Seed Count Only and Prefer Large Swarms removed First Priority