Release 1.1

Release 1.1 was published to Maven Central on April 10th, 2017. It includes a number of major performance and algorithmic improvements, critical bug fixes and API enhancements. It is strongly recommended for all users to switch to the new version.

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