tribler

Second release candidate for Tribler 7.

First release candidate for Tribler 7.

Beta release of Tribler 7.

This is our first public alpha release of Tribler 7.

This alpha release contains fixes for common crashes.

First multichain community experimental release

• Fallback for when netifaces fails to obtain local network information.
• Don't crash if the hostname contains non-ASCII characters on Windows.
• Add some missing VC redist dependencies to the installer.
• Fix libnacl so it finds libsodium on recent Debian/Ubuntu releases.
• Some workarounds for openssl's applink bugs.
• Update builtin Dispersy Tracker list.

Bugfix release:

• Don't break when non-ASCII chars are on the %PATH% on Windows
• Catch and log InvalidTags when decrypting relay messages
• Lower "cannot exit data" log entry level

One year worth of bug fixes and polish.

A total of 1455 changes: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/compare/v6.4.3...v6.5.0
Significant code cleanup: 663 changed files with 2,101 additions and 7,033 deletions.
Hundreds of fixes to stability and usefulness of Tribler. Addressed various threading and locking issues.
Also improvements to security and speed of the anonymous downloading and seeding.
Basically very boring stuff, now Tribler is ready for new shiny features.

Major changes:

• Support for recent versions of Windows
• Support for recent versions of OSX
• Support for non ASCII user names on Windows (OSX and Linux where already supported)
• More miscellaneous fixes for unicode named torrents, files and paths.
• Fixes for the builtin player initialization when leftover files from old versions of VLC where left on Windows.
• Improved tunnel community usability (for people that just don't read popup windows and blindly click on "accept") Not the exit node feature can only be toggled from the settings panel, so people don't get in trouble as easily.
• Some performance improvements and bug fixes on the anontunnel community, tunneled downloads should be more stable now.
• Tunneled downloads will use both end to end encrypted and exit node terminated circuits when downloading concurrently instead of trying a pure end to end encrypted download and then falling back to tunneled download after a couple of minutes.
• There's a "safe seeding" mode now which will seed your downloaded torrents through the tunnel community only. This can be enabled even for plain downloads.
• The automatically added tunneled download test torrent has been disabled.
• Collected torrents are now stored in a levelDB database, which should help a lot with disk usage, IO performance and filesystem fragmentation.
• Fixed several download state switching issues.
• Download bandwidth settings are now applied to all download modes (tunneled, and plain) but accounted for separately.
• Bundled libtorrent and libvlc got upgraded (Windows and OSX, on Linux it uses the system's version).
• Fixed adding torrent urls via the search bar.
• All releases are cryptographically signed now.
• Bittorrent opportunistic encryption for plain downloads is enabled now.
• A bunch of minor usability improvements and fixes.

Changes since 6.4.1:

• Add a checkbox for anonymity slider and use correct descriptions for anonymity levels
• Add default anonymous level in settings
• Add default anonymous level slidebar to SettingsDialog
• Add packaging instructions for Debian,OSX,Windows
• Add python version runtime check.
• Add python-pil dependency
• Check if we are running an old tribler with a new db version
• Dont use hostname as nick
• Ensure we don't try to remove the same relay twice
• Fix FamilyFilter log exception
• Fix FamilyFilter tracker encoding problem
• Fix SettingsDialog restart segfault problem
• Fix SettingsDialog restart segfault problem
• Fix SetttingsDialog
• Fix TFTP issues during shutdown
• Fix TunnelOptin dialog buttons
• Fix adding magnet link download
• Fix anon dialog
• Fix anonymous_slidebar in SaveAs dialog
• Fix binary data being put in a couple assertion messages.
• Fix hidden_service unit test
• Fix mac crash on startup
• Fix nickname problem
• Fix nickname problem
• Fix proxy settings for normal downloads
• Fix pymdht
• Fix socket reading loop.
• Fix some log entries formatting.
• Fix the anontunnel opt-in dialog.
• Fix the problem that ListItem is not registered
• Fix typo in home tab.
• Fix windows installer signing
• Reset the nickname to "Tribler user" if the nickname contains the hostname.
• Show a meaningful message before doing a slow task during upgrade
• Update README
• Update default download config
• Use default anonymous level for new downloads
• Use shutil.move instead of os.rename in several places to allow to move files across filesystems.

For a detailed changelog, see: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/compare/v6.4.1...v6.4.2

For changelog, see: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/compare/v6.4.1...v6.4.2-rc2