BitComet 0.83

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Supports 43 Languages.

Features of "BitComet":
· Support preview of video file which is being downloaded.
· Support DHT Network, download trackerless torrent!
· Completely new core written in C++, stable and fast, very low CPU usage.
· Clean and free, without any adware or spyware. ( Please note: Spybot may misreport "Comet Cursor" )
· Multiple simultaneous downloads, ability to select download files in one torrent and set file priority.
· Ability to limit the upload speed as well as download speed.
· Intelligent Connection Optimize, Auto Optimization for different connections, runs well using all default settings.
· Intelligent Rate Control, optimize the upload distribution in order to get the max download rate.
· Intelligent Disk Cache, decrease the potential damage to the hard disk when high-speed downloading (>500KB/s) by decrease the read / write frequency, extra memory usage is the cost.
· Intelligent Disk Allocating, no long-time disk allocation, also decrease the disk fragment to almost zero.
· Intelligent Hash Scan, no time-consuming scanning when seeding / resume.
· Firewall and NAT Traversal, users behind differect NAT can now connect to each other.
· Auto config ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP
· Auto config port mapping in router (UPnP support is required in router, Windows XP is required).
· Ability to block IP temporarily or permanently, compatiable with eMule ipfilter.dat.
· Ability to chat with other downloaders ( disabled by default ).
· Compatiable with Windows XP SP2 TCP/IP restriction.
· ZIP package is also provided, which runs withoust installation.
· Using only one TCP listening port.
· Support Multi-tracker, and utf-8 extension, UDP tracker Protocol v2.
· Support automatically power off with conditions.

Changes in version 0.83, 2007.02.04 :
GUI Improved: add option in HTTP task properties dialog to enable P2P http download
GUI Improved: add hot key Ctrl+R in add HTTP task group dialog, to replace selected text in url to wildcard "(*)"
GUI Improved: refer page url is filled to new http task when drag URL from IE to floating window
GUI Improved: new network rate graph of the floating window in large size
GUI Improved: improve the IE context menu for BitComet, add sub menu to download particular objects in the webpage
GUI Improved: add comment and preview/play column in task list
GUI Improved: WAN IP and network connection status is displayed in status bar of the main window, showing if the listen port is reachable to public domain peers
GUI Improved: enhance the RSS list display function
GUI Improved: add options in perferences dialog to enable network connection status auto check
GUI Improved: add options in perferences dialog to enable task statistical info submitting
GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that "save torrent as" in task context menu will save other task's torrent file if catogory is selected in fav list
GUI Bugfix: fix the bug of the sort operation in task list
GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the URL link name is not displayed in the selection dialog of downloading all links
GUI Bugfix: fix the display bug of floating window in Windows Vista
GUI Bugfix: fix the bug that the task list is not refreshed after cancel the operation of add HTTP task group
GUI Bugfix: fix the display bug of the HTTP task info window when switching selected task
Core Improved: add P2P download function to HTTP task, able to search more peers to speed up downloading
Core Improved: reconstruction NAT Traversal via UDP using encription connections
Core Improved: improve the robustness of video file preview. the crash of video codec will not terminate BitComet main program
Core Bugfix: fix the bug that HTTP download resume will fail if the web server is rebooted

Homepage - http://www.bitcomet.com/