Een kleine twee weken geleden is versie 5.9 van Tribler is uitgekomen en afgelopen donderdag de eerste update, versie 5.9.15. Tribler is een opensource p2p-client die ooit ontwikkeld is door studenten van de TU Delft en de VU Amsterdam, binnen het door de Nederlandse overheid gefinancierde I-share-project. Tegenwoordig werkt er een internationaal team van zeventig wetenschappers uit meer dan twintig organisaties samen aan dit project.
Binnen Tribler kunnen groepen met vrienden of mensen met dezelfde interesses worden aangemaakt, om zo content te kunnen delen. Er is een ingebouwde mediaspeler en er kan vaak direct worden gekeken of geluisterd wanneer een download wordt gestart. Het programma is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en Mac OS X. Hieronder zijn de release notes voor versies 5.9 en 5.9.15 te vinden:
Tribler 5.9 Release Notes
Tribler 5.9 is a complete rewrite of the BuddyCast core, moving further away from a TCP overlay we have implemented search and torrent collecting over UDP. This has huge benefits regarding NAT-firewalls, making Tribler more compliant with them.
Why 5.9, because its almost 6.0 except its missing one big feature (our new gui design).
Furthermore, Tribler 5.9 includes our new download engine called Swift (more information available at http://libswift.org/). Swift is the next step in download efficiency as it removes the TCP layer from the BitTorrent protocol. Tribler 5.9 will by default convert any complete BitTorrent downloads into Swift-swarms, allowing all Tribler users to benefit from its efficiency.
As its a two stack approach, Tribler will still upload to any normal BitTorrent user as well.
A list of changes/fixes:As this version contains some big changes to our core, it will include a background upgrade process. This process will convert all your collected .torrents into swift-enabled .torrents. This process will take a while, and will consume some cpu. You can close/restart Tribler at any moment, as the upgrade script will simply continue after a restart.
- NEW implemented search using UDP/removing buddycast
- NEW included the swift download engine
- FIXED selecting a file/files in a download actually works (expand a .torrent, go to the files tab and select the files you want to download)
- FIXED the io-load on your harddisk is lowered by reworking the database
Tribler 5.9.15 Release Notes
- FIXED: .torrents actually sometimes not being collected, hence never loading
- FIXED: not being able to delete a non-loading .torrent from downloads
- CHANGED: being less strict when a .torrent does not contain either announce or nodes field
- CHANGED: collecting a .torrent using the dht will now try to add trackers to the file
- CHANGED: a new SaveAs dialog allowing you to select files there
- FIXED: some other small stuff, unicodedecodeerrors, nr of connected peers not showing for mac, nr of connected peers having an incorrect background colour for ubuntu etc.
