[Libtorrent-devel] LibTorrent 0.12.4 and rTorrent 0.8.4 released

[Jari Sundell]

* Work-around for OpenBSD's broken sys/event.h, which fails to compile
if it's the first (or only) included header. (Ticket #1470)

* Fixes compilation with old libcurl versions. (Ticket #1471)

* Fix compile error on systems that lack mincore(2).

* Fixes a crash in epoll due to libcurl/c-ares bug:
PollEPoll::modify(...) epoll_ctl call failed.

* Enforce an http transfer timeout when libcurl fails to honor
it. Also set a 5-minute timeout for (previously unlimited) torrent
transfers and fixes the argument type for curl_easy_setopt values.

* Allows bandwidth throttles to work without floating point support.

* Added the 'd.add_peer=host[:port]' command to manually add a peer
(not for torrents marked "private"), port 6881 is the default.

* Allows banning the selected peer with "B". No unbanning is possible
yet.

All the above patches were written by Josef Drexler.


* Added system.method.{insert,erase} commands that allows
user-specified commands. E.g "system.method.insert=foo,print=Bar".

* Differentiate between commands that have no target, and those that
take generic targets, when using XMLRPC.

* Added 'event.download.inserted_{new,session}' that are triggered
when a new or a session torrent is added. Ticket #1516.

* Added 'system.method.get', 'ui.current_view.set' and 'group.insert'
commands.

* Enabled different ratio settings for different groups of
downloads.

* Added 'view.persistance' command that makes downloads inserted into
that view persist across sessions. Only call on user-created views.

* Added 'ratio.*' commands that call the 'group.seeding.ratio.*'
equivalents.

* Changed torrent::DownloadList::close_directly() so doesn't save the
session if the underlying file/directory has been moved or
removed. This change, in addition to calling 'd.set_directory=' before
'execute=mv,...', as previously shown in the examples, will make
rtorrent behave correctly when 'check_hash=no' is set.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.12.4.tar.gz
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.8.4.tar.gz

Support for ratio groups, where e.g. different watch directories can 
have different ratios, was sponsored by a paypal donation. And I'm still 
looking for a programmer job in the Tokyo area.

Jari Sundell