v0.15.1

Fixed minor issues with release 0.15.0.

libtorrent

Stability Improvements

1. Resolved a crash with Handshake buffer resizing.

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#254 by @rakshasa
   • rakshasa/libtorrent#264 by @slingamn

2. Respect failure intervals for trackers.

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#260 by @rakshasa and @kannibalox

3. Fix file truncation on resume with fallocate enabled

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#261 by @rakshasa and @jmakovicka

4. Change _sync* to std::atomic for cross platform compatibility.

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#266 by @rakshasa
   • rakshasa/libtorrent#267 by @rakshasa

5. Resolve Wclass-memaccess compile warning with std::memset.

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#280 by @neheb

Performance Improvements

1. Only write uncertain_pieces.timestamp when necessary.

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#257 by @kannibalox

2. Use emplace instead of push for std::array objects.

   • rakshasa/libtorrent#279 by @neheb

Code Cleanup

1. rakshasa/libtorrent#263 by @kannibalox
2. rakshasa/libtorrent#262 by @kannibalox
3. rakshasa/libtorrent#273 by @kannibalox
4. rakshasa/libtorrent#274 by @kannibalox
5. rakshasa/libtorrent#277 by @kannibalox
6. rakshasa/libtorrent#277 by @neheb
7. rakshasa/libtorrent#282 by @rakshasa
8. rakshasa/libtorrent#281 by @neheb

rTorrent

Stability Improvements

1. Resolved scgi software crash with SIGPIPE exception.

   • #1310 by @stickz
   • #1329 by @stickz

2. Various build stability improvements.

   • #1317 by @PPN-SD

3. Change _sync* to std::atomic for cross platform compatibility.

   • #1324 by @kannibalox

4. Resolved a crash with the curl stack during shutdown.

   • #1338 by @rakshasa

5. Resolve Wclass-memaccess compile warning with std::memset.

   • #1344 by @rakshasa

6. Fixed d.group.name returning the wrong value.

   • #1326 by @trim21

7. Fixed compatibility checks for file types.

   • #1327 by @kannibalox and @rakshasa

Tinyxml2 to replace xmlrpc-c

• #1322 by @kannibalox and @rakshasa
• #1331 by @kannibalox
• #1348 by @kannibalox
• #1347 by @stickz

Please configure rTorrent with --with-xmlrpc-tinyxml2 to enable tinyxml2. It contains 2-3 times performance improvements for small responses and up to 30 times performance improvements for large responses. This is a significant reduction in overhead!

xmlrpc-c:

Benchmark               Time             CPU   Iterations
---------------------------------------------------------
small_response       3417 ns         3413 ns       204332
large_response   46159260 ns     46074301 ns           15

tinyxml2:

Benchmark               Time             CPU   Iterations
---------------------------------------------------------
small_response       1595 ns         1593 ns       462388
large_response    1512614 ns      1509299 ns          463

Code Cleanup

1. #1311 by @kannibalox
2. #1312 by @kannibalox
3. #1314 by @rakshasa
4. #1340 by @rakshasa
5. #1343 by @kannibalox
6. #1345 by @rakshasa

RTorrent release version 0.10.0

Thanks to a 3rd party sponsoring development, and recent changes in my personal life, I've started actively developing rtorrent.

Some of the recent PR's merged include:

libtorrent

1. Significant performance improvements to improve throughput and reduce CPU usage.
2. A fix for a torrent client crash with the socket address object.
3. Support for 33 gigabit speed throttles on ruTorrent.

rTorrent

1. A fix for a torrent client stack overflow crash with the lockfile buffer.
2. New trackers.delay_scrape command for .rtorrent.rc to avoid crashes with thousands of torrents and allow instant startups.
3. A fix for compiling the software with LTO (Link Time Optimizations) for additional performance.
4. A fix for a critical memory leak with RPC commands which may waste an alarming amount of memory.
5. A fix for critical torrent client breakage if a power outage/failure occurs during a session saving interval.

Please consider donating (https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/donate.html) to help fund the development of this client.

RTorrent release version 0.9.8

The feature-bind branch is still not ready, so here's more bug-fixes and pull requests merged.

Please consider donating (https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/donate.html) to help fund the development of this client.

• Close log files when reusing a name. (pyroscope)
• Increased max timeout for tracker requests.
• Set max piece size 512mb.
• Switch to C++11 MRT RNG for random bytes. (lps-rocks)
• Added support for openssl 1.1.
• Fix honoring throttle.min_peers* settings in rtorrent. (chros)
• Improved failed tracker bencode parsing. (chros)
• Added example rtorrent.rc. (g0tmi1k)
• Added a temporary name filter. (Toff)
• Added 'log.close' command.
• Added 'd.tracker_announce.force' command.
• Added 'event.system.startup_done/shutdown' commands/events. (chros)
• Added 'd.custom.if_z' command. (pyroscope)
• Added 'd.multicall.filtered' command. (pyroscope)
• Added 'event.view.hide/show' commands. (pyroscope)

RTorrent/libTorrent release version 0.9.7/0.13.7

Bug-fix release while feature-bind is being worked on.

• Fixed ip filter memory usage. (sallyswiss/chros73)
• Add space to fmt str in log_gz_file_write. (pastly)
• Fix compilation issue with gcc v6.x and empty CXXFLAGS. (chros73)
• Fix BEP7 compatibility with IPv6 trackers and IPv4 peers.
• Include SCGI/XMLRPC example in rtorrent.rc. (ss23)
• Handle SIGHUP like SIGINT. (pyroscope)
• Fix Throttle args. (chros73)
• Fix missing ranlib - not defined but used. (duraki)
• Fix no // are at start of expanded paths. (pyroscope)
• Fix ncurses header include. (theirix)
• Fix segfault when viewing a magnet download in the leeching view. (slingamn)