Changelog for Opera 8.10 Preview 2 for UNIX

Information

• This is no longer our latest release. Please see our preview release page for more information.
• Build: 1275
• Released: July 29, 2005

Announcements

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Release notes

The Solaris version of this release does not have BitTorrent support.

Changes since 8.02

• Changed default browser identification to Opera.
• Enabled BitTorrent support.
• Fixed a crash related to JPEG EXIF data.

Changes in BitTorrent since 8.02 BitTorrent Technology Preview

• Improved transfer performance.
• Fixed an issue that could lead to Opera crashing.
• Added support for the "scrape" protocol to retrieve ongoing statistics about a torrent. See the transfer tooltip for the additional information.
• Better handling of out of disk space problems.
• Enabled full transfer context menu for BitTorrent downloads.
• Fixed a problem connecting to some trackers.

More Information

• Opera 8.02 BitTorrent Technology Preview changelog (containing additional details about BitTorrent support in Opera)
• Opera's BitTorrent Resource Page