[Libtorrent-devel] LibTorrent 0.12.5 and rTorrent 0.8.5 released

[Jari Sundell]

* Add support for any number of custom download values identified by
string keys.
  d.set_custom=key,value
  d.get_custom=key (returns "" if not set)
  d.get_custom_throw=key (returns error if not set)

* With this patch, rtorrent will detect and complain about .torrent
files with broken bencode representation (e.g. where the order of
dictionary keys is not lexicographic).

* Choose a different poll type using the RTORRENT_POLL env. variable
(if it's implemented), probably only useful as RTORRENT_POLL=select.

* Add the commands execute_capture and execute_capture_nothrow that
work like their other counterparts but return the OUTPUT (stdout) of
the given command.

  Note that the output is not modified in any way, in particular a
trailing newline is NOT removed. To work around this, have the command
write its output without it e.g. using echo -n. Also note that with
execute_capture_nothrow there is no way to check if the command
failed.

  Example usage: d.set_custom4=$execute_capture=handler.sh

* Fixes the code that detects which peer was sending bad data. Peers
are then automatically banned after sending three bad chunks.

* Stops rtorrent from always creating and resizing ALL files, even
those set to "off". Files will still be created, but with a size of
zero, until a part of them is getting downloaded. This helps with
filesystems that don't support sparse files (such as FAT, HFS+, and
others).

* Fix inefficient piece distribution due to linear chunk request
strategy by randomizing position every few (on average 32) chunks, see
ticket #190.

* Enable custom throttles, both per-download or per-IP. See
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/20 for info and instructions.

* Fix crashes/errors due to rtorrent attempting to pass non-utf-8
strings to xmlrpc.

=== All patches above by Josef Drexler ===


* Added support for using posix_fallocate on newly resized files.

* Include locally available chunks in the "chunks seen" statistics for
completed/distributed copies. Patch by Josef Drexler.

* Added 'd.get_bitfield' command for retrieving the bitfield in hex
format. Patch by Thomas Rosner.

* Fixed include headers for gcc-4.4.0. Patch by 'kloeri'.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.12.5.tar.gz
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.8.5.tar.gz

This release contained mostly patches provided by other people,
particularly Josef Drexler.

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