V7.5.3

This release bundles Libtorrent with BEP33 DHT scrape enabled to improve popular torrent sharing.

Changelog

• Fixed the installation name of PIL in dependencies
• Added a VENV option when building Tribler
• Logged traceback timestamp on crash
• Caught TimeoutError when checking API version
• Only alive torrents are sent on popularity share
• Updated torrent checker to start before popularity community
• Fixed torrent checker test
• Fixed remote updating channel node with type change
• Fixed database session over error

V7.5.2

This is a minor release with a heavy focus on bug fixes. We have addressed most of the issues reported in Tribler 7.5.1 and plan to fix the remaining issues in our next release.

Important changes:

• Updated Python interpreter to Python 3.8
• Disabled embedded VLC video player due to compatibility problems
• Updated Libtorrent version to 1.2.4 in Windows builds and fixed compatibility with Libtorrent 1.2.4+ in Unix versions
• Stopped fetching empty Channels from remote peers

Full changelog

• Disable video play buttons
• Add Mock in versionchecker tests
• Add timeout in async version check
• Update version check interval to six hours
• Add release url in the version check manager
• Fix RemoteQuery not using model properties
• Remove fault handler from pip3 requirements.txt
• Update run instruction in README file
• Fix Pony unique transaction error
• Using SelectorEventLoop in the Windows tests
• Fix mdblob squash test failing randomly
• Not starting libtorrent session in download tests
• Ported GUI tests to pytest
• Fix add to channel error
• Broke testnet settings into multiple ones
• Totally ignore gaierrors
• Fixed GUI test event loop policy
• Ignoring gaierror with errno -5
• Switched Win64 GUI test to SelectorEventLoop
• Updated IPv8 pointer
• Simplified Windows dev documentation
• Using SelectorEventLoop by default
• Removed too informative logging statements
• Added Windows batch script to start Tribler
• Removed cp65001 code
• Fixed SHOW_CONSOLE variable
• Removed built-in libraries from dependency checker
• Fixed dependency checker when starting Tribler
• Updated Windows development env docs
• Disable VLC loading
• Let unhandled_error_observer deal with gaierrors
• Check for new version immediately after starting
• Merge pull request #5487 from qstokkink/add_lt1.1.13_support
• Added libtorrent 1.1.13 support for listen_succeeded_alert
• Make GUI send last traceback on core timeout error
• Shutdown ResourceMonitor during unit tests
• Skip profiler test if Yappi is not installed
• Fix libtorrent 1.2.4+ compatibility
• Add default download path to recently used dirs cache
• Fix a minor comma issue in Debian control file
• Add build parameters on snap build script
• Made VLC a recommended dependency
• Fixed BUILD_TRIBLER_SNAP variable check
• Removed ffmpeg
• Updated Linux requirements
• Updated Debian building documentation
• Added more info to OverflowError
• Updated IPv8 pointer
• Removed unicode string prefix from TriblerTunnelCommunity
• Remove introduction point circuits from slots
• Update IPv8 pointer
• Fix gossiping zero-sized channels
• Merge pull request #5448 from devos50/shutdown_bootstrap
• Shutting down Bootstrap before IPv8
• Fix wrong table update
• Ask user for channel name on creation
• Workaround for channels table racecon
• Fix channels table uid remapping on removal
• Fix error on adding magnet to collection
• Fix wrong index in tablecontentmodel
• Fix double model reset
• Fixed loading VLC libraries on Windows
• Update snap base to core20 from core18
• Added fix for tribler.spec with latest setuptools
• Merge pull request #5423 from egbertbouman/various_fixes
• Fix TorrentDef.get_files_with_length
• Make debug panel work with latest IPv8
• Speedup tunnel tests + remove tests that check for tunnels not working
• Show task name when event loop is dirty
• Fix RESTManager shutdown
• Fix UDPTracker and fix test_check_torrent_health
• Fix loops and extra lines in trust balance graph
• Period tracker check changes
• Updated IPv8 pointer
• Delaying video player initialization
• Removed Twisted tutorial
• Removed Python 2.7 pyinstaller support
• Fixed test_error_observer_ignored_error
• Fixed peer count limit for RemoteQueryCommunity in debug panel
• Pathlib fix for profiler endpoint
• Handle CancelledError in download_channel
• Don't wait for the DHT while doing tunnel tests
• Fix TorrentDef.get_name_as_unicode

V7.5.1

This minor release fixes a bug where Tribler would crash or refuse to start when logging non-UTF8 characters.

Changelog:

• Fixed a bug where Tribler would crash or not startup when logging non-UTF8 characters.

V7.5.0

This release features a major refactor of Tribler Core for stability and performance and adds support for creating multiple personal channels with nested folder-like structure. Below, we list all major changes to the Tribler core and user interface. A comprehensive list of all minor changes between Tribler 7.4 and 7.5 can be found in the changelog of the release candidates.

Core

• The Tribler Core is now powered by the modern Asyncio framework which improves performance, reliability and compatibility.
• REST endpoints are now based on AIOHttp framework.
• The video player is completely rewritten, improving its performance.
• Tribler channels now support multiple channels per user with file-tree like nested structure.
• DHT requests are now anonymous by default.
• Improved the startup time of the core.
• Discovering the first Tribler channels on new installations is now much faster.
• The integrated market is disabled by default and can be enabled from the setting panel.
• The experimental 'Credit mining' feature is removed completely.

User Interface

• The home screen is removed; instead, Tribler now first shows the discovered channels.
• The torrent metainfo is loaded directly from DHT/tracker when unchecking the "anonymous" checkbox.
• The CPU-hungry animation of "loading" channel state is replaced with a static icon.
• You can now refresh the current page by clicking the selected button in the left menu again.
• Numerous small Channels GUI improvements.

Known issues:

• The 32-bit Windows version of Tribler lacks some VLC codecs.
• A newly subscribed channel is not immediately shown in the "Subscribed" list when the user subscribes to a channel. A workaround is to click on the "Subscribed" button an additional time to force refresh the list.

Attention, owners of big channels!
Previous versions of Tribler (7.3+) contained a bug that could have resulted in the corruption of the personal channel torrent. This release fixes the bug, and will automatically re-commit the channel in case it was corrupted. However, if your channel is very big, Tribler will appear stuck for a long time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

V7.5.0-rc6

This is the sixth release candidate for Tribler 7.5 series. It features numerous bugfixes and some minor usability improvements over 7.5-rc5.

Attention, owners of big channels! Previous versions of Tribler (7.3+) contained a bug that could have resulted in the corruption of the personal channel torrent. This release fixes the bug, and will automatically re-commit the channel in case it was corrupted. However, if your channel is very big, Tribler will appear stuck for a long time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

• Fix InvalidStateError in UdpSocketManager
• Disable BTC wallet
• Fix iteration on keys in request manager
• Fix race condition in subscription widget
• Refactored subprocess to QProcess
• Fixed dht_pkt_alert processing
• Increase channel regen timeout in accord with DHT wait
• Fix debug window crashing on memory history plot
• Fix losing trackers when adding by magnet
• Fix DHTHealthManager
• Update IPv8 pointer
• Change limits for DHT peer count
• Added DHT buckets tab to debug panel
• Added PingChurn strategy to DHTDiscoveryCommunity
• Fix flooding DHT with bursts of requests
• Do not reset channel view on tab switch
• Fix creating torrents outside a channel
• Remove unused files
• Stop notifiying the GUI on channel downloads finished
• Cache get_channel_name results
• Remove CreditMining feature
• Fix GUI tests
• Don't show circuit flags if not ready
• Exchange intro request/response with all peers in the TunnelCommunity
• Update IPv8 pointer
• Improve tunnel debug panel
• Define default downloads dir value
• Fix test_select_download_file
• Updated AnyDex pointer
• Fix exporting libtorrent stats
• Fix unicode error in peer_info
• Regenerate broken channel torrents on startup
• Fix channel corruption by delete entries
• Fix checkpoint upgrade
• Fix recheck after updating hop count
• Reuse DHT metainfo when downloading channels
• Updating items label when receiving new channels
• Hiding 'Complete' label in GUI
• Remove download option appearing on channel entries

V7.5.0-rc5

This is the fifth release candidate of Tribler 7.5.0 series.

Changelog:

• Improved the metainfo lookup of channel torrents.
• Fixed a bug where the sorting of column did not revert to their original state.
• Fixed a bug when removing a circuit.
• Loading metainfo directly when the unchecking 'anonymous' checkbox.

V7.5.0-rc4

This is the fourth release candidate of Tribler 7.5.0 series.

Changelog:

• New feature: you can now reset the current view by left-clicking on the active menu item in the left bar.
• Fixed a GUI crash when converting a string value from the settings.
• Removed the option to make Tribler the default client for .tstream files on Windows.
• Fixed various GUI glitches, including an incorrect width of various tables.
• The 'discovered' button in the left menu is now selected when opening Tribler.
• Fixed a bug when removing Tribler on Linux-based systems.
• Fixed a crash when loading an invalid download checkpoint.
• Fixed a bug where incorrect values would be written to the Tribler settings file when running scripts.
• Fixed a bug where the 'add torrent' dialog would not display.
• Fixed a crash when removing circuits.

V7.5.0-rc3

This is the third release candidate of Tribler 7.5.0 series. It includes a fix for (yet another) "pending task" crash as well as other bugfixes.

V7.5.0-rc2

This is the second release candidate for the initial release of Tribler 7.5 series. All reported crash-inducing bugs from 7.5.0-rc1 were fixed, including the "pending task" crash and DNS-related crashes.

V7.5.0-rc1

This is the first release candidate of Tribler 7.5.0 release. It features numerous bugfixes and some performance improvements over the the previous, experimental releases.