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Vuze for Mac

Vuze 5.6.1

  -  30.94 MB  -  Open Source

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Vuze 5.6.1.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Vuze for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


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What's new in this version:

New Features:
- UI | New 'tagging' subview to allow easy download/tag assignment
- UI | Many sidebar views can now be 'popped out' into a separate window
- UI | Show discovered tags when adding torrents
- UI | Support escaped unicode character entry in chat UI via \unnnn
- UI | New tag settings view in Tags Overview panel
- UI | Brought back client byte stats and added per-network stats
- UI | Support for viewing downloads as local websites in web browser - http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Decentralized_Websites
- UI | Ability to completely disable use of the embedded browser in Vuze
- UI | Added 'torrent last active' column
- UI | Additional option to edit multiple download's trackers in a single operation
- UI | Help menu option to import/export config files (etc) from bencoded json format
- Core | Option to delete original .torrent files after addition
- Core | Automatically unzip torrents that happen to have been saved in compressed format
- Core | 'action on tag assignment' to support auto removal of peers
- Core | Per-peer up/down rate limiting on peer set assignment
- Core | Archival of downloads - http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Archiving_Downloads

Changes:
- UI | Torrent hash now shown in torrent options info view
- UI | Subscriptions ca now be shown in the classic UI
- UI | More consistently handle 'do not download' file sizes when showing size/percent done/remaining
- UI | Automatic closure of torrent download window when automatically invoked
- UI | Current version of components is now shown in update prompt
- UI | Latest 'private torrent' state now persisted across create-torrent operations
- Core | Treat protocol-relative URL's in RSS feeds as http://
- Core | Changes to a download's networks are now applied directly

Corrected bugs:
- UI | Fix 'reset columns' not resetting all colums
- UI | Fix fancy menu bounds calculation to ensure correct visibility
- UI | Creation date in torrent options dialog was incorerctly formatted
- UI | Use updated trackers in open-torrent-options availability checker
- Core | Fix config corruption with non-ascii chat options
- Core | Fix edge case bug with swarm merging
- Core | Webseed rate limits weren't always being applied correctly
- Core | Removed small window when rate limits weren't being applied correctly
- Core | Incorrect tags were being included when getting existing download tags
- Core | Handle 301/302 redirects from trackers when binding to explicit IPs
- Core | Handle UPnP device URLs that don't have final /
- Core | Decode torrents with missing announce-urls correctly
- Core | Unlimited per-torrent connections not being enforced correctly