Changelog for Opera 8.02 BitTorrent Technology Preview for UNIX

Information

• This is no longer our latest release. Please see our preview release page for more information.
• Build: 1236
• Released: July 7, 2005

Announcements

• My Opera Community forum
• Opera newsgroups (Google groups) or Opera newsgroups (news:// direct link)

Release Notes

This is a preview version of Opera. Use only on properly backed up computers and do not install over previous Opera versions.

Note that this preview is not available for Solaris.

Known limitations of the BitTorrent implementation

• BitTorrent relies on the e-mail client to be enabled. Do not set "Enable mail client" in opera6.ini to 0 or use the -nomail switch.
• Limitations in download and upload speeds will be correct in average over time, but will cause speed to change in bursts.
• Selecting "Retransfer" in the transfer manager works identically to "Resume" for torrent transfers.
• No notification of completed download is given until the transfer is stopped by the user.
• When stopping, then resuming a torrent, transfer will proceed while the progress bar will show "Checking files" and may display unreliable progress information.

Changes since 8.01

Implemented support for BitTorrent

• Use like any other file download in Opera -- click the torrent link and select "Save".
• Displays a warning on first use.
• A [BitTorrent] section has been added to opera6.ini:

  Setting	Description	Default
  Enable	Enables BitTorrent support in Opera	1
  Warning Dialog	Displays warning dialog before initiating BitTorrent download	1
  Listen Port	Port for incoming connections (make sure your port is available).	18768
  Bandwidth Restriction Mode	1 = automatic upload restriction, unlimited download, 2 = fixed rate restrictions for upload and download	1
  Max Upload Rate	Maximum upload rate in kB/s. Used only if bandwidth restriction mode is set to 2	0
  Max Download Rate	Maximum download rate in kB/s. Used only if bandwidth restriction mode is set to 2	0

Miscellaneous

• Improved default handling of encodings in spelling checker.
• Multiple stability fixes

More Information

• BitTorrent Resource Page
• Press release