webtorrent-desktop

Added

• Support the .m2ts video container format (hicom150)

Changed

• Update to Electron 10.1.0 #1864 (feross)
• Update the Windows installer loading image #1841 (alxhotel)

Fixed

• Fix music metadata not showing up #1847 (Borewit)
• Fix the "Play in VLC" functionality #1850 (Hinara)
• Prevent shortcuts from activating when user input elements are focused #1840 (subins2000)

🔒 This release contains a critical security fix. Please update as soon as possible.

Added

• Add macOS Notarization #1834 (feross)

Changed

• Update to Electron 10 beta #1834 (feross)

❤️✨ A new version of WebTorrent Desktop is out! ❤️✨

Added

• Linux .rpm packages and arm64 builds are now available! #1694 (hicom150)
• Add support for multiple audio tracks #1712 (hicom150)
• Improve codec unsupported detection #1711 (hicom150)
• Report when files are being verified #1717 (pR0Ps)
• Support additional audio files: MPEG-Layer-2, Musepack, Matroska audio, WavePack #1772

Changed

• Update to Electron 9 #1729 #1832
• Update to music-metadata 4.8.0 #1719 (Borewit)
• Update Windows build documentation #1715 (RecoX)
• Remove unneeded dependencies (feross)

Fixed

• Fix a few type errors #1720 (mathiasvr)
• Fix electron SUID sandbox error #1707 (hicom150)
• Fix percentage rounding error #1716 (pR0Ps)
• Fix path-selector in preferences page #1702 (314eter)
• Fix path-selector in preferences page #1704 (mathiasvr)
• Fix: Increase height of 'About' window #1737 (akaustav)
• Fix "Save Torrent File As..." #1743 (gpatarin)

Added

• Add YouTube style hotkeys #1579 (dsernst)
• Toggle sound notifications on/off #1536 (adriantombu)
• Ability to play MPEG-4 Audio Book (.m4b) #1450 (Borewit)
• Add support for subtitles on Chromecast #1165 (janza)

Changed

• Update to Electron 4 #1590 (Borewit)
• Remove '(BETA)' from app window title #1562 (dsernst)
• Update React (v16) and Material-UI (v0.20) #1483 (mathiasvr)
• Show audio track and disk number #1454 (Borewit)
• Asynchronous music metadata updates while streaming #1449 (Borewit)
• If torrent is not private, leave private flag unset #1411 (feross)
• Improve audio poster selection: #1368 (Borewit)
• Save preferences immediately when changed #1042 (Flet)

Fixed

• Ensure that the minutes field in playback indicator is zero-padded. #1506 (bnjmnt4n)
• Bug Fix: Empty Array Reduce #1494 (clujin)
• Fix startup problems #1419 (Borewit)
• Add back loading spinner for player page. #1311 (bnjmnt4n)
• Fix Linux desktop file #1309 (bilelmoussaoui)

Added

• Added support for additional audio extensions: 'aiff', 'ape', 'mp2', 'oga', 'opus', 'wma' (#1240)

Changed

• Displaying filename while music metadata is being downloaded (#1361)
• Improved the poster selection for audio/music based torrents (#1334)
• Launch VLC player without the --video-on-top flag (#1286)

Fixed

• Fix silently failing to open magnets links on Linux (#1367)

Added

• Added watch folder feature: Automatically add new torrent files added to a folder on disk (#1154)
• Added highest playback priority feature: pauses other active torrents when playback starts (#840)
• Add 'Start Speaking' and 'Stop Speaking' menu item (Mac) (#439)
• Add pinch-to-zoom gesture to enter/exit fullscreen (#1148)

Changed

• [SECURITY] Mitigate Electron protocol handler issue (Windows)
• Moved project from Feross's GitHub account to the WebTorrent GitHub organization
• Updated to [email protected]
• Updated to [email protected]
• Treat .FLAC as playable audio (#1127)

Fixed

• Fix time and duration so it doesn't bounce in the UI (#1233)
• Fix 'About WebTorrent' menu location on Windows (#1120)

Added

• Add a new "Transfers" menu for pausing or resuming all torrents (#1027)

Changed

• Update Electron to 1.4.15
  • Windows 32-bit: App can use 4GB of memory instead of just 2GB
  • Fix "Portable App" writing crash reports to "%APPDATA%\Temp" (Windows)
• Updated WebTorrent engine to 0.98.5
  • Fix issue where http web seeds would sometimes stall
  • Don't send 'completed' event to tracker again if torrent is already complete
  • Add more peer ID entropy
  • Set user-agent header for tracker http requests

Fixed

• Fix paste shortcut in tracker list on Create Torrent page (#1112)
• Auto-focus the 'OK' button in modal dialogs (#1058)
• Fix formatting issue in the speed stats on the Player page (#1039)

Fixed

• Windows: Fix impossible-to-delete "Wired CD" default torrent
• Throttle browser-window 'move' and 'resize' events
• Fix crash ("Cannot read property 'files' of null" error)
• Fix crash ("TypeError: Cannot read property 'startPiece' of undefined")

Changed

• Faster startup (improved by ~25%)
• Update Electron to 1.4.2
• Remove support for pasting multiple newline-separated magnet links
• Reduce UX sound volume

Fixed

• Fix external player (VLC, etc.) opening before HTTP server was ready
• Windows (Portable App): Fix "Portable App" mode
  • Write application support files to the "Portable Settings" folder
  • Stop writing Electron "single instance" lock file to "%APPDATA%\Roaming\WebTorrent"
  • Some temp data is still written to "%APPDATA%\Temp" (will be fixed in future version)
• Don't show pointer cursor on torrent list checkbox
• Trim extra whitespace from magnet links pasted into "Open Torrent Address" dialog
• Fix weird outline on 'Create Torrent' button

Added

• Remember window size and position

Changed

• Torrent list redesign
• Quieter, more subtle sounds
• Got rid of the play button spinner, now goes to the player immediately
• Faster startup

Fixed

• Fix bug where playback rate could go negative
• Don't hide header when moused over player controls
• Fix Delete Data File on Windows
• Fix a sad, sad bug that resulted in 100+ MB config files
• Fix app DMG background image

Added

• Windows 64-bit support! (#931)
  • Existing 32-bit users will update to 64-bit automatically in next release
  • 64-bit reduces likelihood of out-of-memory errors by increasing the address space

Fixed

• Mac: Fix background image on .DMG

Added

• Option to start automatically on login
• Add integration tests
• Add more detailed telemetry to diagnose "buffer allocation failed"

Changed

• Disable playback controls while in external player (#909)

Fixed

• Fix several uncaught errors (#889, #891, #892)
• Update to the latest webtorrent.js, fixing some more uncaught errors
• Clicking on the "torrent finished" notification works again (#912)

Added

• Autoplay through all files in a torrent (#871)
• Torrents now have a progress bar (#844)

Changed

• Modals now use Material UI
• Torrent list style improvements

Fixed

• Fix App.js crash in Linux (#882)
• Fix error on Windows caused by setBadge (#867)
• Don't crash when restarting after adding a magnet link (#869)
• Restore playback state when reopening player (#877)

Fixed

• Fixed the Create Torrent page

Added

• Support .m4a audio
• Better telemetry: log error versions, report more types of errors

Changed

• New look - Material UI. Rewrote Create Torrent and Preferences pages.

Fixed

• Fixed telemetry [object Object] and [object HTMLMediaElement] bugs
• Don't render player controls when playing externally, eg in VLC
• Don't play notification sounds during media playback

Added

• Custom external media player
• Linux: add system-wide launcher and icons for Debian, including Ubuntu

Changed

• Telemetry improvements: redact stacktraces, log app version

Fixed

• Fix playback and download of default torrents ("missing path" error) (#804)
• Fix Delete Torrent + Data for newly added magnet links
• Fix jumpToTime error (#804)

Added

• New Preference to "Set WebTorrent as default handler for torrents and magnet links" (#771)
• New Preference to "Always play in VLC" (#674)
• Check for missing default download path and torrent folders on start up (#776)

Changed

• Do not automatically set WebTorrent as the default handler for torrents (#771)
• Torrents can only be created from the home screen (#770)
• Update Electron to 1.3.3 (#772)

Fixed

• Allow modifying the default tracker list on the Create Torrent page (#775)
• Prevent opening multiple stacked Preference windows or Create Torrent windows (#770)
• Windows: Player window auto-resize does not match video aspect ratio (#565)
• Missing page title on Create Torrent page

Added

• Drag-and-drop magnet links (selected text) is now supported (#284)
• Windows: Add "User Tasks" shortcuts to app icon in Start Menu (#114)
• Linux: Show badge count for completed torrent downloads

Changed

• Change WebTorrent Desktop peer ID prefix to 'WD' to distinguish from WebTorrent in the browser, 'WW' (#688)
• Switch UI to React to improve UI rendering speed (#729)
  • The primary bottleneck was actually hyperx, not virtual-dom.
• Update Electron to 1.3.2 (#738) (#739) (#740) (#747) (#756)
  • Mac 10.9: Fix the fullscreen button showing
  • Mac 10.9: Fix window having border
  • Mac 10.9: Fix occasional crash
  • Mac: Update Squirrel.Mac to 0.2.1 (fixes situations in which updates would not get applied)
  • Mac: Fix window not showing in Window menu
  • Mac: Fix context menu always choosing first item by default
  • Linux: Fix startup crashes (some Linux distros)
  • Linux: Fix menubar not hiding after entering fullscreen (some Linux distros)
• Improved location history (back/forward buttons) to fix rare exceptions (#687) (#748)
  • Location history abstraction released independently as location-history

Fixed

• When streaming to VLC, set VLC window title to torrent file name (#746)
• Fix "Cannot read property 'numPiecesPresent' of undefined" exception (#695)
• Fix rare case where config file could not be completely written (#733)

Added

• Save selected subtitles
• Ask for confirmation before deleting torrents
• Support Debian Jessie

Changed

• Only send telemetry in production
• Clean up the code. Split main.js, refactor lots of things

Fixed

• Fix state.playing.jumpToTime behavior
• Remove torrent file and poster image when deleting a torrent

Added

• New URI handler: stream-magnet

Fixed

• DLNA crashing bug