Features of Vuze:

• Multiple torrent downloads
• Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
• Advanced seeding rules
• Adjustable disk cache
• Only uses one port for all the torrents
• UPnP sets the forward on your router
• Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
• Fast resume
• Can set a default download dir and move completed files
• Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
• Highly customizable interface
• IRC plugin included for quick help
• Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)...
• Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline.

Many useful plugins are available:

• Auto-adjustment of your upload and download speeds according to your network charge with Autospeed
• Auto-download torrents with RSS Feed Scanner
• Schedule upload and download speed limits with Speed Scheduler
• Receive a mail when a download finishes with Status Mailer
• Add numerous info on torrents (Extra seeding columns, Country Locator)
• Remote control Azureus through the Swing Web Interface or the HTML Web Interface

What's New in This Release:

New Features:

• Core | Monitor available JVM memory and warn user if it is running out and auto increase (Windows only)
• UI | Support opening .vuze files from URLs
• UI | Allow setting of JVM direct memory max from UI (Windows only)
• UI | Added 'protocol' column to peers view
• UI | Expanded state of Sidebar entries are now remembered
• UI | (Windows) Added Closeable Games sidebar entry

Changes:

• Core | Changed the trigger for upload rate bias when unlimited upload and inactive downloads
• Core | Permit export of all search templates
• Core | Reduce debug messages for connection-refused type tracker errors
• Core | Reduce version-check timeouts to prevent version server errors from adversely affecting Vuze
• Core | Be more tolerant of large PEX messages as clients are sending valid exchanges that exceeded our old limits
• Core | Improve detection of devices
• Core | Report better error messages for failed plugin installs
• Core | Add alert details to alert log
• Core | Log plugin load-at-start state to diagnostics
• UI | Better handling in in-client browser for search engines and (blocking) pop-ups
• UI | Device status column now reports when a file is being copied to the device

Corrected bugs:

• Core | Fixes to superseeding mode
• Core | Fixed up disabling of UDP tracker protocol and added option to control UDP probing
• Core | Fixed bug involving switching search template from manual to auto mode
• Core | Immediately drop incoming connections for stopped downloads (they used to persist and timeout later)
• Core | Fixed bug whereby add-for-seeding torrents with reorder-piece file mode and move-to dirs resulted in download being marked as incomplete
• Core | OSX - handle UTF-8 BOM in plist
• UI | Sort column editor available table correctly
• UI | Fix case where sidebar doesn't display properly at startup
• UI | Changing name of Device should now be remembered
• * | Fix various Null Pointer Exceptions