Bt v1.1 Release Notes
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Date: 04/10/2017
🔄 Changes/New Features:
- 👌 Support for auto-loading modules from the classpath
- ✨ Enhanced API for building standalone and shared-runtime clients
- Streaming (continuous) piece selectors
- 👌 Improvements in piece selection and peer assignments algorithm
- 👌 Support for multi-threaded hashing (verification) of torrent data on startup
- 👍 Lifecycle binding API improvements; support for asynchronous bindings
- ✅ Tools for creating custom protocol tests
🐛 Bug Fixes/Improvements:
- Torrent processing should not terminate when interaction with the tracker failed
- Announce key can be missing in trackerless torrents
- Failures on receiving unexpected blocks should be optional
- Peer connection occasionally stopped receiving/sending data due to a buffer compaction bug
- Verification tasks should be submitted only for complete pieces
- Chunk descriptor overlapping two files contained no blocks when the latter file was smaller than the leftovers from the former file
- Calculate total size for multi-file torrents
- 👷 NPE on UDP message worker shutdown
- 👻 Multi-tracker does not announce to next trackers in tier if an exception was thrown
- Querying trackers and other peer sources should be async
- Adaptive message processing interval in message dispatcher to reduce the CPU load
- Speed-up the initial startup by skipping verification if a storage unit is empty and by feeding larger blocks to the digester