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Here are changes and known issues made to Torrent Server. Changes are in mostrecent-rst order. Changes made that apply to multiple Torrent products are summarized in the le Changes.txt.
Current Revision
Changes Added conguration le setting low_cpu Fixed bug that would accept invalid characters for hexadecimal representations of integer type values in conguration le Fixed timestamps in log les to reect local time Added conguration le setting localhost_authentication to allow administrators to override the default system behavior by disabling authentication for requests originating on the local host Changed data le list presentation in web UI for current torrent so that percent done for each data le updates during downloads Made alignment of advanced options in preferences dialog consistent among browsers Server version information now displays in about box when running IE Fixed bug where directory tab elds appeared at bottom of preferences dialog when re-opened Fixed bug where OK/Apply/Cancel buttons werent visible in preferences dialog when using Internet Explorer
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Added conguration le settings uconnect_enable, uconnect_password, and uconnect_username for participating in Torrent Remote Added validation of proposed values of webui.restrict setting
Known Issues Guest mode support is broken in the web UI and/or the server BEP22 isnt supported on POSIX platforms Theres no table of contents in the PDF form of the user manual Checking for and reporting that product updates are available isnt supported yet The web UI doesnt show an indication when a setting change fails to apply because the proposed value was invalid The web UI doesnt show an indicator if the port is blocked by a rewall The web UI doesnt provide control of RSS actions supported by the server The web UI doesnt show status and error messages generated by the server
20110320 - Revision 25053
Changes Eliminated race condition causing crashes when adding torrents Resolved problems associated with moving completed data les
20110228 - Revision 24733
Changes Incorporated bug xes from generic code 2 2010 BitTorrent, Inc.
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The usage argument now also reports product version information Added Changes.txt to the archive distributed for this product, so that users would have a list of changes made to parts of code shared with other products Stopped requiring that /etc/fstab not be empty, so that program will run on certain VMs
20110118 - Revision 24118
Changes Incorporated bug xes from generic code Added SSL support, requiring load-time resolution of libssl and libcrypto
20101206 - Revision 23418
Changes Fixed bug in web UI causing failure to run on Internet Explorer
20101111 - Revision 23090
Changes Enhanced speculative x for crash on POSIX platforms occurring when any congurable directories (e.g., active, completed, temporary, autoload, request) contain other than 7-bit characters, which should improve the experience of users using Cyrillic characters (the behavior in that case worsened after the previous release because the previous x was incomplete)
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Fixed crash when choosing to use an active directory without supplying a path to that directory (seen when users attempt to specify a nonexistent directory (possibly by misspelling the desired existing directory) for the active directory via the web UI)
20101027 - Revision 22789
Changes Added elds to the About box in the web UI to present the external IP address and UDP/TCP ports assigned by a UPnP router to the server Added speculative x for crash on POSIX platforms occurring when any congurable directories (e.g., active, completed, temporary, autoload, request) contain Unicode characters Fixed documentation by changing feed_id to feed-id in two places
20101022 - Revision 22708
Changes Added daemon argument which directs the server to run in its own process group Added usage argument which directs the server to display the set of valid command-line arguments before exiting - server also prints error and usage messages before exiting if it detects at least one unrecognized command-line argument Added settings finish_cmd and state_cmd to provide a way to invoke asynchronous processes for torrent lifecycle events The add torrent dialog in the web UI now allows the user to choose which download directory to use for the torrent being added Correct JSON output is now generated for the list-dirs action request 4 2010 BitTorrent, Inc.
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The name of the directory created by extracting the product archive now includes utorrent instead of bittorrent Removed ul_slots_per_torrent setting since it no longer has a function Added ut_webui_dir setting in the conguration le, which species the directory containing the webui.zip archive or the unarchived les to be served for the web UI Added pidfile argument which permits the specication of a le to be created by the utserver process which will contain the ID of the utserver process Added logmask setting in the conguration le which permits logging to be congured (and subsequently modied as part of handling a hangup signal), and removed support for LOGMASK environment variable The server rereads the conguration le upon receipt of a hangup signal or when creating or moving a le named rcf.utmr in the dir_request directory - see the cautions in the user manual about sending a hangup signal when attempting to change the value of dir_request Added settings admin_name and admin_password to allow administrators to dene initial non-default credentials for authenticating to the server via the HTTP interface Fixed documentation by changing filter_id to filter-id in one place
20100913 - Revision 21886
Changes Ensure alternative listening port setting persists when changed via web UI Include changes list in docs directory of product archive Add mention of configfile and settingspath commandline arguments, rearrange content of Getting Started section of user manual
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Support configfile argument to specify conguration le location Disable BEP22 DNS support on POSIX platforms Include plain text version of the user manual in docs directory of product archive Include a EULA le in the docs directory of the archive Change default log le for logfile argument to utserver.log Fix documentation error saying to use forward slash (/) to precede a command-line argument keyword - should use a dash (-) on POSIX systems
20100902 - Revision 21701
First release.
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