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Vuze 4.5

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Android, Faster Downloads, Library Love!

More Devices: Android and iPhone 4

Among the tens of millions of worldwide Vuze users, almost 5 million of you are actively dragging and dropping videos from your library to enjoy Device Playback on iPhone, iPod, iPad, Xbox, PS3, PSP, Tivo, and Samsung Connected TVs. What are the rest of you waiting for? More devices, perhaps?

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Today we’re launching support for many of the most popular Android phones on the market, including:

* HTC Desire
* HTC Evo
* HTC Hero
* HTC Incredible
* HTC Magic
* HTC Wildfire
* Motorola Cliq
* Motorola Droid
* Motorola Droid X
* Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S)
* And more…

We’re big believers in open platforms, and we’re very happy to see the strong rise of the Android OS. If your Android device didn’t make the list, it may still be supported. Try plugging it into your computer, and see if an Android icon appears in the Vuze Sidebar. If it does, let us know in the comments, and we’ll add your device to the official list. If it doesn’t appear, tell us in the comments and we’ll work to support it in the near future.

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In addition to the new burst of Android support, we’re also launching support for the iPhone 4 with 960 x 640 video resolution, so you can take full advantage of your gorgeous new Retina screen. Tired of hearing about the death grip and AntennaGate? Simply drag-and-drop to the iTunes icon in Vuze (bypassing the antenna altogether) and watch HD video on your iPhone 4.

While we’re on the topic of devices, keep in mind that any mobile phone (or tablet) with a web browser can still manage downloads via Vuze Remote.

Feeling a Need for Speed?

We spend a lot of time thinking about how to deliver ever faster download speeds to you. Vuze 4.5 includes a number of behind-the-scene speed improvements. For many of you, the ultimate speed constraint is on your local area network. As part of Vuze 4.5 we’ve integrated a new speed test that will automatically optimize your Vuze settings for your network. The speed test will begin immediately after you launch the latest version of Vuze. We can’t make house calls to install faster broadband pipes for all of you, but we can make sure that Vuze adapts to your network and delivers the fastest download speed possible over your internet connection. Many of you should see significant increases in download speed after the speed test.

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Multi-file Torrent Support

Bittorrent is one of the most elegant technologies for efficiently distributing huge files over the web (leading to adoption by organizations including NASA, Facebook, and Twitter). One of the killer apps for bittorrent is allowing you to download multi-file torrents (those huge torrents that contain multiple files, or multiple songs within an album).

Bittorrent clients (including Vuze) have typically supported multi-file torrents with significant clunkiness (with separate library panels or pop-up dialogs). With this release, the Vuze team took some time to support multi-file torrents the right way — as an integrated part of your Library.

As a result, you’ll be able to quickly prioritize the specific files you want to download within a multi-file torrent, or the sequence in which you want to download them.
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2010.08.06 | Vuze 4.5.0.2

CHANGE: Core  | Prevent device manager initialisation in classic UI [Parg]

BUGFIX: UI    | Setting files to 'delete' state corrupting internal view of a torrent's files [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Added reworked progress column to library view by default in place of completion date to allow file manipulation from that view [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Consistently show the file-expand twisty [Parg]



2010.08.04 | Vuze 4.5.0.0

FEATURE: Plug | Android Devices support

CHANGE: Core  | Try alternative trackers when seeding and zero connected peers [Parg]

BUGFIX: UI    | Layout improvements in torrent Info view [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Fixed occasional crash when twisting twistie on Windows 7
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Vuze 4.5.0.4

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2010.09.01 - Vuze 4.5.0.4

New Features:

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

Changes:

    UI | Improved languages change detection so more of the text now shows in the new language (unfortunately not all) [TuxPaper]
    UI | (Windows) Bigger click area around the "X" in the Library's filter box [TuxPaper]
    UI | (Windows) Triple click in search box now selects all the text [TuxPaper]
    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" [TuxPaper] 

Corrected bugs:

    Core | (Windows) Fix drive detection/removal when multiple drives get added/removed at once [TuxPaper]
    Core | (Windows) Fix drive with letters D: H: L: P: T: X: not being detected when plugged in while Vuze was running [TuxPaper]
    Core | Fixed some hard drives incorrectly being added as a Device and shown in the sidebar [TuxPaper]
    Core | (OSX) Add additional (new?) crash log directory to crash log generator (debug.zip) [TuxPaper]
    Core | (OSX) Fixed two cases where main window would not show after clicking the dock icon [TuxPaper]
    Core | Don't open files with write-access unless required [Parg]
    Core | Ensure new profiles are picked up when xcode plugin reloads [Parg]
    Core | Correctly sequence plugin events to ensure that listeners see the correct plugin state [Parg]
    Core | Delete .vuze files when subscriptions are removed [Parg]
    UI | (*nix) Fix table cells not getting click events (affected triggering the "New" column's state) [TuxPaper]
    UI | Fix case where scrolling right in a table view (Library) didn't draw the newly visible columns [TuxPaper]
    UI | Fixed some cases where column re-ordering was not being remembered [TuxPaper]
    UI | Fix Help->Check for Updates not notifying user there were no new updates found [TuxPaper]
    UI | Fixed visual problems with Tracker Status column when "Don't Scrape Stopped" is enabled [TuxPaper]
    UI | Fixed Queue and Stop not working on Torrent menu and right click of Sidebar's download's details item [TuxPaper]
    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 [TuxPaper]
    UI | Fixed subscription name and count on Sidebar not redrawing when either changes [TuxPaper] 
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Unofficial Vuze 4.5.0.6

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2010.09.24 | Vuze 4.5.0.6

FEATURE: Core | Monitor available JVM memory and warn user if it is running out and auto increase (Windows only) [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Allow setting of JVM direct memory max from UI (Windows only) [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Added 'protocol' column to peers view [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Expanded state of Sidebar entries are now remembered [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: UI   | (Windows) Added Closeable Games sidebar entry [TuxPaper]

CHANGE: Core  | Changed the trigger for upload rate bias when unlimited upload and inactive downloads [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Permit export of all search templates [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Reduce debug messages for connection-refused type tracker errors [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Reduce version-check timeouts to prevent version server errors from adversely affecting Vuze [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Be more tolerant of large PEX messages as clients are sending valid exchanges that exceeded our old limits [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Improve detection of devices [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI    | Device status column now reports when a file is being copied to the device [TuxPaper]

BUGFIX: Core  | Fixes to superseeding mode [thanks Mmore1q3]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fixed up disabling of UDP tracker protocol and added option to control UDP probing [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fixed bug involving switching search template from manual to auto mode [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Immediately drop incoming connections for stopped downloads (they used to persist and timeout later) [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fixed bug whereby add-for-seeding torrents with reorder-piece file mode and move-to dirs resulted in download being marked as incomplete [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Sort column editor available table correctly [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Fix case where sidebar doesn't display properly at startup [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: UI    | Changing name of Device should now be remembered [TuxPaper]
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Vuze 4.5.1.0

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2010.10.05 | Vuze 4.5.1.0

FEATURE: Core | Monitor available JVM memory and warn user if it is running out and auto increase (Windows only) [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Support opening .vuze files from URLs [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Allow setting of JVM direct memory max from UI (Windows only) [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Added 'protocol' column to peers view [Parg]
FEATURE: UI   | Expanded state of Sidebar entries are now remembered [TuxPaper]
FEATURE: UI   | (Windows) Added Closeable Games sidebar entry [TuxPaper]

CHANGE: Core  | Changed the trigger for upload rate bias when unlimited upload and inactive downloads [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Permit export of all search templates [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Reduce debug messages for connection-refused type tracker errors [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Reduce version-check timeouts to prevent version server errors from adversely affecting Vuze [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Be more tolerant of large PEX messages as clients are sending valid exchanges that exceeded our old limits [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Improve detection of devices [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: Core  | Report better error messages for failed plugin installs [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Add alert details to alert log [Parg]
CHANGE: Core  | Log plugin load-at-start state to diagnostics [Parg]
CHANGE: UI    | Better handling in in-client browser for search engines and (blocking) pop-ups [TuxPaper]
CHANGE: UI    | Device status column now reports when a file is being copied to the device [TuxPaper]

BUGFIX: Core  | Fixes to superseeding mode [thanks Mmore1q3]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fixed up disabling of UDP tracker protocol and added option to control UDP probing [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fixed bug involving switching search template from manual to auto mode [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Immediately drop incoming connections for stopped downloads (they used to persist and timeout later) [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | Fixed bug whereby add-for-seeding torrents with reorder-piece file mode and move-to dirs resulted in download being marked as incomplete [Parg]
BUGFIX: Core  | OSX - handle UTF-8 BOM in plist [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Sort column editor available table correctly [Parg]
BUGFIX: UI    | Fix case where sidebar doesn't display properly at startup [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: UI    | Changing name of Device should now be remembered [TuxPaper]
BUGFIX: *     | Fix various Null Pointer Exceptions [TuxPaper]
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Vuze 4.5.1.0 Playback on Apple TV, Blackberry, More Android

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Playback on Apple TV, Blackberry, More Android

You asked for it. As of today’s release, we’re rolling out support for the new Apple TV, Blackberry devices, and a wider range of Android phones. For those who have been offline since early 2009, Vuze Device Playback enables you to drag-and-drop files you download with Vuze to easily play back on your TV and mobile. We launched support for Apple devices and a variety of living room favorites early in 2009 (PS3, Xbox, PSP, Tivo, and Samsung TVs).

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We tallied your requests for additional supported devices, went shopping, and are happy to announce Device Playback support for:

Apple TV (the new version from our favorite hobbyists)
Blackberry Devices
More Android Devices (beyond the initial devices launched in August):
Dell Streak
HTC Nexus One
LG Ally
Motorola Droid 2
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
WD TV

Click here
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Supported_Devices
for the full list of supported devices, which now includes over 25 major device brands. In addition, many Android phones will work despite not being included on our official support list. Broad support should now exist for Android phones from Dell, HTC, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson, as well as all Blackberrys. Even if you don’t see your Android phone or specific Blackberry on the list of supported devices, try connecting it to your PC or Mac with Vuze open. If the device works, feel free to verify it as a supported device on the official list.

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Apple, Google, and RIM… fight it out! We love you all, and we’ll gladly play Switzerland in your war games. As Larry David once said:

Switzerland is a place where they don’t like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

- Larry David

Alas, our version of Switzerland involves more coding and less skiing, but such is life…

Finally, this release includes a large range of optimizations and improvements in the base code for 4.5.

Give Vuze 4.5.1.0 a try, and let us know what you think!
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Vuze 4.5.1.0b Windows

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2010.10.24 | Vuze 4.5.1.0b Win
Updated platform specific support to 1.24: Fix occasional crash on startup. [Parg]
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