Vuze (formerly Azureus) 4.2.0.5 Beta 02 / 4.2.0.4 Stable

Vuze (formerly Azureus) 4.2.0.5 Beta 02 / 4.2.0.4 Stable is specifically created to be a useful freeware Java based BitTorrent client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus is a BitTorrent client with multiple torrent downloads and instant access to information. It also has an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.

Major Features: 

1. Multiple torrent downloads
2. Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
3. Advanced seeding rules
4. Adjustable disk cache
5. Only uses one port for all the torrents
6. UPnP sets the forward on your router
7. Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
8. Fast resume
9. Can set a default download dir and move completed files
10. Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
11. Highly customizable interface
12. IRC plugin included for quick help
13. Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)...
14. Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline.
    

Enhancements

1. Features:
   • Subscription options for auto-starting auto-downloads [Parg]
   • Support for sharing .vuze files [Parg]
   • Added support for adding categories to transcoded content [Parg]
   • Added default transcode dir option [Parg]
   • Support for keep-alive and more gzip on web contexts [Parg]
   • Added percentage complete and eta to content descriptor [Parg]
   • UI displays while core initializes [TuxPaper]
   • Plugin interface to the search functionality [Parg]
2. Changes:
   • Added another non-standard RSS date format [Parg]
   • Allow HTTP seeding for simple torrents without knowledge of file name [Parg]
   • Keep log files open rather than continually opening and closing them [Parg]
   • Improved reporting of no disk space errors for FAT32 [Parg]
   • Improved logging performance [Parg]
   • Support for updated via installer as opposed to incremental updates [Parg]
3. Bugfixes:
   • Work around for broken socket handling on freebsd7.x [Parg]
   • Recover from borked transcode queue config [Parg]
   • Fix xml stats export with undefi...