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@arvidn arvidn released this 30 Jul 22:28
· 1450 commits to RC_2_0 since this release
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In this 2nd release candidate of libtorrent-2.0, a fair number of issues has been fixed in the 1.2.x branch and been merged into the 2.0 one.

One notable update is an overhaul of the documentation, a pre-release of it can be found here.

The updated changelog for libtorrent-2.0 is:

  • deprecate set_file_hash() in torrent creator, as it's superceded by v2 torrents
  • deprecate mutable access to info_section in torrent_info
  • removed deprecated lazy_entry/lazy_bdecode
  • stats_alert deprecated
  • remove bittyrant choking algorithm
  • update userdata in add_torrent_params to be type-safe and add to torrent_handle
  • add ip_filter to session_params
  • added support for wolfSSL for SHA-1 hash and HTTPS (no Torrents over SSL)
  • requires OpenSSL minimum version 1.0.0 with SNI support
  • deprecated save_state() and load_state() on session in favour of new
    write_session_params() and read_session_params()
  • added support for BitTorrent v2 (see docs/upgrade_to_2.0.html)
  • create_torrent() pad_file_limit parameter removed
  • create_torrent() merkle- and optimize-alignment flags removed
  • merkle_tree removed from add_torrent_params
  • announce_entry expose information per v1 and v2 info-hash announces
  • torrent_removed_alert, torrent_deleted_alert, torrent_delete_failed_alert: info_hash member is no longer a sha-1 hash, but (deprecated) implicitly convertible to one
  • undeprecate error_file_metadata for torrent errors related to its metadata
  • remove support for adding a torrent under a UUID (used for previous RSS support)
  • remove deprecated feature to add torrents by file:// URL
  • remove deprecated feature to download .torrent file from URL
  • requires boost >= 1.66 to build
  • update networking API to networking TS compatible boost.asio
  • overhauled disk I/O subsystem to use memory mapped files (where available)
  • libtorrent now requires C++14 to build
  • added support for GnuTLS for HTTPS and torrents over SSL

As well as new fixes merged in from 1.2.8:

  • don't time out tracker announces as eagerly while resolving hostnames
  • fix NAT-PMP shutdown issue
  • improve hostname lookup by merging identical lookups
  • fix network route enumeration for large routing tables
  • fixed issue where pop_alerts() could return old, invalid alerts
  • fix issue when receiving have-all message before the metadata
  • don't leave lingering part files handles open
  • disallow calling add_piece() during checking
  • fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
  • always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
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