BitComet 1.56 File Sharing P2P Client for PC Windows

* GUI Improved: elevation is not needed to associate torrent file in Windows Vista
* GUI Improved: save to My Document in HTTP batch download dialog is supported
* GUI Improved: the client version and transfer mode of Long-Time Seeding peer is displayed in peer list of BT task
* GUI Improved: add piece error column in peer list of BT task, hidden by default
* GUI Improved: display connection time of Long-Time Seed in peer list of BT task
* GUI Bugfix: when using multi-monitor, BitComet do not restore window position to the monitor last exit from.
* GUI Bugfix: can't sort peer list by the cols that in the right of any hidden column
* Core Improve: support the UDP transfer mode of Long-Time Seeding, can be enabled in advanced options
* Core Improve: support test UDP port in WAN/LAN ip detector
* Core Improve: stop connect to a peer that send too many error pieces
* Core Improve: improve connection algorithm for Long-Time seeding
* Core Improve: improve the compatibility to the old versions of eMule plugin, support v1.06 and later
* Core Improve: delete Thumbs.db when remove task downloaded files
* Core Improve: set taskname.piece_part.bc! as hidden file, avoiding deleted accidently
* Core Improve: update BitTorrent client identification code
* Core Bugfix: program crash when using proxy server
* Core Bugfix: user and password setting for proxy server do not work
* Core Bugfix: making torrent file fail if containing empty sub-folders
* Core Bugfix: invalid local IP displayed in statistics pane
* Core Bugfix: publish date of very few torrent display incorrect in torrent collection list

* GUI Improved: add task search box in toolbar, which can be enable from View menu
* GUI Improved: add a button in HTTP task properties dialog to set current download folder as default
* GUI Improved: improve the file type filter in BT task properties dialog
* GUI Improved: improve the auto shutdown function in Tools menu
* GUI Improved: show item number count in HTTP batch download dialog
* GUI Improved: new command in context menu of task archive list: show torrent file properties dialog
* GUI Improved: show task index and total count in floating window when it's large enough
* GUI Improved: new setting in advance page of option dialog: User-Agent string for all HTTP task
* GUI Improved: add support for several new languages (see langHowTo-Translate.txt)
* GUI Improved: do not switch to task list after download a torrent file from torrent collection list
* GUI Bugfix: download several torrents from torrent collection list and display their task properties dialog at the same time may cause program no response
* GUI Bugfix: files large than 4GB can be downloaded to volume using exFAT
* Core Improve: improve file boundary data save for BT task
* Core Improve: enhance virus protect auto-config
* Core Improve: HTTP download task support redirection to relative path
* Core Bugfix: authentication information is not send to server in very few situations of HTTP redirection
* Core Bugfix: private BT task will search peers in DHT network in very few situations
* Core Bugfix: uploading of Long-Time seeding is unstable

* Core Bugfix: certain BT task may occur progress error caused by saving file boundary data when task stop

* GUI Improved: add filter by file type to file list in BT task properties dialog
* GUI Improved: display torrent create software and create date display BT task properties dialog
* GUI Improved: support to add mirror URL manually in HTTP task properties dialog
* GUI Improved: move the option of "power off or standby after download finish" from option dialog to Tools menu
* GUI Improved: remove toolkit VistaTcpPatch.exe, merged into main program
* GUI Improved: open torrent file directly if existed in torrent archive when open BC link
* GUI Improved: show task archive and torrent collection immediately after program startup, without pending load
* GUI Improved: improve the item number info in status bar when filter the torrent archive and torrent collection
* GUI Improved: append new torrent to the bottom of torrent archive or torrent collection list
* GUI Improved: remove old torrent from the top of torrent collection list, when the torrent number reaches the max number
* GUI Improved: new download status icon in torrent archive list, to indicate the task download finished
* GUI Improved: add "open save folder" command to the context menu of torrent archive list, available after task download finished
* GUI Improved: add "Unhide all" command to the context menu of torrent collection list
* GUI Improved: hit Del to delete selected items in torrent archive list, or block selected items in torrent collection list
* GUI Bugfix: when the item in torrent archive or torrent collection has no snapshot, click the empty snapshot icon area will open invalid webpage
* Core Improve: improve connection algorithm for Long-Time seeding
* Core Improve: improve file boundary data save for BT task
* Core Improve: ignore thumbs.db when making torrent file
* Core Bugfix: download failed from certain video website
* Core Bugfix: user name and password info filled in HTTP task don't take effect if reference page not filled

* GUI Improved: add tags to task by context menu (support multi-selection)
* GUI Improved: filter tasks by tag from favorites list
* GUI Improved: new option in task setting panel of option dialog: add tag to new task by download file type
* GUI Improved: display task tags and public date for BT task in summary pane
* GUI Improved: display task tags for HTTP task in summary pane
* GUI Improved: add "Apply" button to option dialog
* GUI Improved: new option in Web Interface setting panel of option dialog: display prompt window for web interface operation
* GUI Improved: show prompt window when open a torrent file that already existed in torrent archive list
* GUI Improved: when modify the save path of an existed BT/HTTP task, show a prompt to choose whether to move downloaded files to new save path
* GUI Improved: when modify BT/HTTP task save path, show the path auto-complete drop list
* GUI Improved: when the width of file list in BT task properties dialog is not enough for file name, try to display the head and tail part of the filename, with the middle part as ellipsis
* GUI Improved: when switch task lists, task tags or torrent share list from favorites list, remember the scroll bar position and task selections before switch
* GUI Improved: add context menu to BitComet passport and DHT area in main status bar
* GUI Improved: when click comment or snapshot icon in task list, display them below task list, instead of open a browser window
* GUI Improved: add support for 10 new languages
* GUI Bugfix: program crash when display task delete confirm dialog under Win98/2K
* Core Improved: Web Interface support create new task from BC link
* Core Improved: When create a task that already existed, Web Interface will displays an webpage link to the existed task
* Core Improved: eMule plugin can download file boundary data for BT task, where one piece containing multi files
* Core Improved: create bak file when save task list to downloads.xml
* Core Bugfix: error data received in file boundary piece makes task download can not finish

* GUI Improved: rearrange main menu, "tools" changes to "software", "options" changes to "tools"
* GUI Improved: add submenu to select default save directory in tools menu
* GUI Improved: improve directory setting panel in option dialog. double click to set default save directory
* GUI Improved: new Web Interface setting panel in option dialog
* GUI Improved: add MD5 verify pane to HTTP/FTP task properties dialog
* GUI Improved: downloaded files can be moved to candidate directory from context menu of task list
* GUI Improved: add downloaded size and uploaded size columns in task list (hidden by default)
* GUI Improved: remove Flv player from install package
* GUI Improved: improve Long-Time seeding display in peer list
* GUI Bugfix: fix some translation errors.
* Core Improved: new Web Interface modular, to remote BitComet from web browser (disabled by default)
* Core Improved: improve Long-Time Seeding module
* Core Improved: increase first-time loading speed of torrent share list
* Core Improved: limit download rate for HTTP task automatically when download speeding larger than disk writing speed, to avoid wasting too many memory for disk cache
* Core Improved: update eMule plugin to v0.49b
* Core Bugfix: UI may response slowly when downloading BT task in high speed
* Core Bugfix: program crash after install IE8 beta

* GUI Improved: split save location of BT task into 2 parts: save path and filename for single-file task, save path and subfolder for multi-files task.
* GUI Improved: when add new BT task, start now/start later combo box changes to 2 buttons below in the dialog
* GUI Improved: remove "set as default" button in BT and HTTP/FTP task properties dialog. Save path of new task will be added into candidate directory list in option dialog automatically.
* GUI Improved: new candidate directory list in option dialog. The directories in list can be pick up easily when add new task.
* GUI Improved: rewrite batch HTTP/FTP download dialog and download all dialog. They are merged into a new designed batch download dialog, which is more convenient.
* GUI Improved: new site password manager for HTTP/FTP download. Username & password will be filled automatically when add new task if existed. This can be enabled in option dialog.
* GUI Improved: in torrent maker dialog, network type combo list changes into private torrent check box and add DHT nodes check box.
* GUI Improved: after popular software update checking, updated softwares will be list under tools menu in main window.
* GUI Improved: show an error message box when click [play] on a finished task, while the downloaded file has been deleted.
* GUI Bugfix: under Windows Vista, search box in toolbar displays incorrectly after switch search type
* Core Improved: UI language files change from .xml format to .mo format, which are more universal and can be concurrent translated in https://translations.launchpad.net/bitcomet
* Core Bugfix: under Windows Vista, BitComet will lost task list if running under administrator privilege
* Core Bugfix: if the HTTP task stopped because the file locked by other program, data integrality can not be guaranteed when resume downloading.
* Core Bugfix: in few situations, the BT task finish progress is 100% after hash checking, but the file finish progresses are not displayed as 100%
* Core Bugfix: if a BT task has been specified file download order, program will lose respond when switch a file to be download or not.

* GUI Improved: "my shared torrent list" turns into "torrent archive". all downloaded torrent files will be saved there.
* GUI Improved: add filter edit box to torrent archive list.
* GUI Improved: remove deleted task list. when delete BT task, its torrent file can be kept in torrent archive
* GUI Improved: new option: clear peer sharing torrent list when program exits. enabled by default.
* GUI Improved: new option: standby, hibernate, restart or shutdown computer when all task downloaded and stopped
* GUI Improved: new command in Tools menu: check for BitComet updates
* GUI Improved: improve Long-Time Seeding download rate display in peer list
* GUI Improved: displays play button in task list after download audio file, like mp3, wma
* GUI Bugfix: open file from file list will fail, after rename BT task and restart BitComet
* GUI Bugfix: when make torrent file in v1.03, files in sub-directories will not be added into torrent
* GUI Bugfix: when main window is not wide enough, the search box in toolbar will display in invalid position
* GUI Bugfix: total downloaded/uploaded bytes in statistics list will be clear in some situation since v1.02
* Core Improved: all opened torrent files will be saved to archive folder

* GUI Improved: redesign preferences dialog, improve option layout
* GUI Improved: new advanced option: User-agent sent to HTTP tracker
* GUI Improved: new advanced option to adjust Anti-Leech rules
* GUI Improved: new advanced option to config file path of video player
* GUI Improved: improve connection number display in task list for HTTP/FTP task
* GUI Improved: add left size column to task list (hidden by default)
* GUI Improved: add context menu to BT task peer list header, to select columns to display
* GUI Improved: BT task peer list support group display
* GUI Improved: freeze BT task peer list when ScrollLock turned on
* GUI Improved: HTTP task properties dialog will display free disk space of save location
* GUI Improved: BitComet not responding dialog can be disabled
* GUI Improved: BitComet don't hide already running eMule plugin window when startup
* GUI Improved: remove task category management
* GUI Improved: remove history task list
* GUI Improved: remove video file preview window, launch external video player instead
* GUI Improved: remove BitComet resource browser from install package
* GUI Bugfix: FireFox extension can download flv file from FireFox cache
* Core Improved: remove NAT Traversal via UDP, to improve TCP transfer efficiency
* Core Improved: improve TCP half-open patch for Windows XP SP3
* Core Bugfix: after a file in BT task download finished, disconnect corresponding Long-Time Seeding connection immediately
* Core Bugfix: the pieces containing file boundary data of BT task will be download repeatedly in some situation
* Core Bugfix: BitComet does not save the BT tasks created by BC link when program exit

* GUI Improved: task category will display "empty" when not set
* GUI Improved: whether to search for mirrors when add new HTTP task can be set as default setting
* GUI Improved: new option for preview window: keep aspect ratio of video
* GUI Improved: new switch button in toolbar of preview window: skip undownloaded range or waiting for buffering
* GUI Improved: BitComet resource browser (CometBrowser.exe) will exit immediately after close all its window
* GUI Improved: remove server mode option in advanced network settings
* GUI Bugfix: user name and password in HTTP/FTP task properties dialog do not take effect
* Core Improved: Long-Time Seeding can download file boundary data for BT task, where one piece containing multi files
* Core Improved: when select part files of a BT task to download, the file boundary data will be saved in taskname.piece_part.bc!
* Core Improved: enhance virus protect auto-config
* Core Improved: support TCP half-open patch for Windows XP SP3
* Core Improved: FireFox extension support FireFox 3.0
* Core Bugfix: error occurs when connect to certain trackers: "Tracker Return Zero Length Response"
* Core Bugfix: EVENT_COMPLETE should be sent to tacker only when all files in BT task downloaded, not only selected
* Core Bugfix: HTTP download task do not reconnect server after connection disconnected by server
* Core Bugfix: HTTP download task do not drop invalid data from out-of-date mirror server, lead to redownload after hash check failure

* GUI Improved: new option in advanced connection settings of preferences dialog: Enable Anti-Leech
* GUI Improved: FireFox extension add download video files command to context menu of web page
* Core Improved: after enable Anti-Leech, connections which transfer little data during a long time will be disconnected
* Core Improved: enhance video file preview, support avi, rmvb, wmv, mpg, flv, ogm, mkv, mp4 files

* New Features:
- Core | Allow multiple primordial UDP handlers
- UI | Ability to auto-send crash logs
- UI | Members of the Beta Program now get a Sidebar entry which will one day have useful beta information

* Changes:
- UI | Improved languages change detection so more of the text now shows in the new language (unfortunately not all)
- UI | (Windows) Bigger click area around the "X" in the Library's filter box
- UI | (Windows) Triple click in search box now selects all the text
- UI | Replaced "Remove And.." menu tree from Library's content menu with "Remove..." entry that gives you the same options. Two related configs are in Options->Files->"File Deletion"

* Corrected bugs:
- Core | (Windows) Fix drive detection/removal when multiple drives get added/removed at once
- Core | (Windows) Fix drive with letters D: H: L: P: T: X: not being detected when plugged in while Vuze was running
- Core | Fixed some hard drives incorrectly being added as a Device and shown in the sidebar
- Core | (OSX) Add additional (new?) crash log directory to crash log generator (debug.zip)
- Core | (OSX) Fixed two cases where main window would not show after clicking the dock icon
- Core | Don't open files with write-access unless required
- Core | Ensure new profiles are picked up when xcode plugin reloads
- Core | Correctly sequence plugin events to ensure that listeners see the correct plugin state
- Core | Delete .vuze files when subscriptions are removed
- UI | (*nix) Fix table cells not getting click events (affected triggering the "New" column's state)
- UI | Fix case where scrolling right in a table view (Library) didn't draw the newly visible columns
- UI | Fixed some cases where column re-ordering was not being remembered
- UI | Fix Help->Check for Updates not notifying user there were no new updates found
- UI | Fixed visual problems with Tracker Status column when "Don't Scrape Stopped" is enabled
- UI | Fixed Queue and Stop not working on Torrent menu and right click of Sidebar's download's details item
- UI | (OSX) Fixed bug where a false double click was registered when Vuze did not have the focus and you single clicked on a row in the Library
- UI | Fixed subscription name and count on Sidebar not redrawing when either changes

v1.00 2008.3.24
GUI Improved: move "add torrent to my sharing" check box in BT task properties dialog to Advanced page
GUI Improved: new command in Tools menu: check software update
GUI Improved: new command in context menu of Peer list: Remove peer
GUI Improved: new command in context menu of Tracker list: Remove tracker
GUI Improved: FireFox extension add download video files command to Tools menu, which can capture video files in webpage.
GUI Bugfix: puase and resume preview video file will lead to exit full-screen mode
GUI Bugfix: Refresh button in toolbar of BitComet resource browser does not work
Core Improved: update TCP half open limit modification for Windows Vista
Core Bugfix: Long-Time Seeding does not stop when Scheduler pause all download
Core Bugfix: BitComet resource browser cannot download video files embedded in webpage after install IE7