Changes:

• Azureus now identifies itself via User-Agent in tracker http communications
• Less flickering, on all platforms (tested on both windows and linux+GTK)
• Azureus now responds as Server: Azureus <version> in tracker http comms
• Unwritten blocks in Pieces view shown in red
• Prioritizing first piece of file(s) now optional in config
• Confirmation on data deletion now optional in config
• More intelligent announce url '&numwant=' handling
• On tracker announce errors, retry interval now uses exponential backoff
• Removed multi-port listening, as shared single port is far superior
• More reliable .config and .torrent file writing
• Tracker scraper now honors a 'flags: min_request_interval' response
• Plugins can be initialised from plugin.properties freestanding (not just in .jar file)

Corrected bugs:

• Problem with tracker not responding with Connection: close causing SSL session maintainance with HttpsURLConnection to stuff up and fail clients with ecv fail
• Fast resuming with Chinese directories: Bug #869749
• System tray icon re-shown after explorer.exe crash (again)
• Fix for potential memory leaks
• Fix for stalled piece writing
• Fix for .torrent file data not being fully written on shutdown
• Fix for OutOfMemoryError in DiskManager: Bug #865553
• Fix for 'Open a URL' downloading of .torrent file which contains white spaces: Bug #878990
• Fix for Fast Resume with Chinese torrents: Bug #878015
• Fix for excess thread creation when tracker does not support single-infohash scrapes
• Fix for hash checking 0-byte files: Bug #853126
• Fix for opening files via Files tab when using MoveOnComplete: Bugs #860822, #878795
• Fix for 100% cpu usage after network disconnect/reconnect: Bugs #873957, #879498
• Fix for downloaded blocks not being written to disk, due to write-thread stall under high load
• Fix for various non-unicode torrent encoding issues regarding resume data

New Features:

• Under Linux + GTK, added an option to setup a vertical offset to re-align graphics
• SSL tracker client now gives option to import certificate rather than manually doing so via keytool
• Start All Downloads option on tray icon
• Support for trackers that do not return peerIDs on announce
• Sharing - allows files/dirs/dir contents (recursive) to automatically have torrents created for them and torrents hosted
  The shared resources will automatically have their torrents recalculated if they change (over Azureus restart)
• Tracker allows number of peers returned to be limited
• Experimental UDP tracker protocol (see Config->Tracker->Extensions). Azureus client/tracker supports this, as does the XBT tracker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbtt/)
• Tracker support for GZIP encoding
• Tracker support for multiple pages
• Tracker pages skinable by placing pages in %azhome%/web
• Major extensions to plugin interfaces
• Simple Swing based remote admin interface (over SSL+password auth) - email parg@users.sourceforge.net for details
• Click on hash in general view to copy hash to clipboard
• Quick Change of up speed by right-clicking on the up speed indicator