v8.0.7

We're seeing a lower influx of bugs and more of your feature suggestions coming into GitHub. Therefore, rounding off the 8.0 series, this will be last bug fix release before the next feature release of 8.1. This release includes the last few stabilizing fixes before the dev team goes on a short break.

☃️ We wish you all happy holidays and good torrenting! ☃️

v8.0.6

After the first "official" 8.0 release and a lot of feedback from you (thanks!), we now have a bugfix release with notably:

• Debian 12 support.
• The watch folder is back.
• Fixes to the 7.14 upgrader script.
• Various fixes and improvements to the GUI.

v8.0.5

We're proud to present the first stable release of the 8.0 series and we would like to thank everyone who participated in testing the pre-release.

To import your old downloads and old decentralized torrent listing from Tribler 7.14, go to Settings / Versions and click the IMPORT button.

Some big differences between 8.0 and 7.14:

• Tribler now has a web GUI.
• Anonymous downloading is now powered by Rust and much faster.
• The disk space required for Tribler went down by roughly 400 MB.

v8.0.4

Just to be sure, we're going to release a final pre-release. Since the last one, we have implemented these noteworthy fixes and features:

• Ubuntu 20 (GTK-3) support.
• Sorting support and persistence for Tribler content.
• Fixes for UTF-8 support in the GUI and for downloads on your disk.
• Fixes for external translation tools crashing our GUI.
• Fixes for scrolling and content scaling.
• No more version control for your downloads: never lose them again after an upgrade.

We appreciate your continued efforts in reporting bugs and we (again) hope to get the stable 8.0 version out soon!

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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THOSE UPDATING FROM OLD PRE-RELEASE VERSIONS

To - once and for all - make sure that your downloads don't disappear between versions, we stopped requiring you to click the IMPORT button. HOWEVER, YOU HAVE TO MANUALLY COPY OVER YOUR DOWNLOADS STARTED IN A PREVIOUS PRE-RELEASE. To do so, find your state directory:

• On Windows: %APPDATA%/.Tribler
• On Mac/Linux: ~/.Tribler

The downloads you started in any of the 8.0.x pre-releases will be in .Tribler/8.0/dlcheckpoints COPY THESE TO .Tribler/dlcheckpoints to keep your downloads.

This is a one time thing and we apologize for the inconvenience.

v8.0.3

We are slowly inching our way to the new 8.0 release. In this pre-release we have implemented the following noteworthy fixes and features:

• Added the ability to export multiple torrents at once.
• Fixed the tray icon not appearing on Mac and extremely high CPU usage.

If you (our pre-release volunteers) are happy with this release, the first "full" Tribler release is coming next.

v8.0.2

Thanks to your feedback, we managed to fix yet another batch of nasty bugs and now we have another pre-release for you containing:

• Added Korean language support.
• A fix for a bug that caused your download list to disappear.

We would, once again, like to thank everyone who tested the previous pre-release. We hope to ship the main 8.0.x release to you soon!

v8.0.1

As we work toward the next stable Tribler release, we have another pre-release for you containing:

• Improvements to start-up error messages and restoration of the tree view for a torrent's files.
• Fixes to error reporting and version detection.

We would like to thank everyone who tested pre-release v8.0.0 for their help in finding issues and we hope to continue receiving your feedback on this pre-release.

v8.0.0

We would like to introduce you to our new Tribler generation, the 8 series. Our main goals are to provide you with faster anonymous download speeds and a smaller Tribler installation size. The biggest change is that Tribler now has a web GUI (saving roughly 400 MB of your drive space).

A lot changed between the 7 and 8 series and this could lead to some instability. We hope to hear from you if you encounter any bugs in this pre-release.

With this pre-release, we also say goodbye to our previous developers and maintainers of the 7 series: @kozlovsky, @drew2a and @xoriole. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors!

v7.14.0

Featured downloads

• Windows: Tribler_7.14.0_x64.exe - faster download speed!
• macOS: Tribler-7.14.0.dmg - now with a signature!
• Ubuntu: tribler_7.14.0_all.deb

What's Changed

• This release introduces grouping similar search results into nice bundles to help users see similar torrents.
• Some critical issues were fixed, like total connectivity loss or slow database queries.
• The Mac version is now signed, which makes Mac installation easier.

Some users experience CoreConnectTimeoutError when starting Tribler with a large number of downloads. When a user sends an error report, it includes only minimal information by default, making it hard to detect the actual reason for the error. If you experience a repeating error like CoreConnectTimeoutError, we'd like to ask you to install the debug version of binaries (Tribler_7.14.0-debug_x64.exe). The debug version tracks the stack state of the Tribler Core process and is able to see where exactly it freezes. This additional information is not sensitive and does not reveal any details about the user; it only shows what instructions the Tribler Core process executes at the moment of the timeout.

On Windows, the Microsoft Defender antivirus sometimes falsely alarms about the Tribler binaries. This false alarm is caused by how cx_freeze makes binaries. We are working on it; in the meantime, it is possible to overcome alarms manually in the Virus & threat protection dashboard.

New features

• Add Content Bundling feature by @drew2a in #7953
• Add torrent information to a snippet by @drew2a in #7961
• Remove the torrent grouping feature based on names by @drew2a in #7986

Bugfixes

• UDP server stops accepting datagrams from any clients after a single client disconnects by @kozlovsky in #7972
• Process manager should not attempt to unlink the processes database file in case of OperationalError by @kozlovsky in #7932
• Fix "ValueError: Can redirect only to HTTP or HTTPS" in query_http_uri by @kozlovsky in #7947
• Close database connections after exiting from the db_session to avoid access violation by @kozlovsky in #7945
• Fix slow database queries by using partial index idx_torrentstate__last_check__partial by @kozlovsky in #7955
• Fix coroutine stack tracking by @kozlovsky in #7962
• Add a sentry tag for the program file architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) by @kozlovsky
• Fix Sentry report corruption by SentryScrubber by @kozlovsky in #7966

Build process improvements

• Add codesign for macOS build by @xoriole in #7971
• Fix Release build on 7.14 branch by @xoriole in #7959

Full Changelog: v7.13.3...v7.14.0

v7.14.0-RC1

What's Changed

• This release introduces grouping similar search results into nice bundles to help users see similar torrents.
• Some critical issues were fixed, like total connectivity loss or slow database queries.
• The Mac version is now signed, which makes Mac installation easier.

Some users experience CoreConnectTimeoutError when starting Tribler with a large number of downloads. When a user sends an error report, it includes only minimal information by default, making it hard to detect the actual reason for the error. If you experience a repeating error like CoreConnectTimeoutError, we'd like to ask you to install the debug version of binaries. The debug version tracks the stack state of the Tribler Core process and is able to see where exactly it freezes. This additional information is not sensitive and does not reveal any details about the user; it only shows what instructions the Tribler Core process executes at the moment of the timeout.

On Windows, the Microsoft Defender antivirus sometimes falsely alarms about the Tribler binaries. This false alarm is caused by how cx_freeze makes binaries. We are working on it; in the meantime, it is possible to overcome alarms manually in the Virus & threat protection dashboard.

New features

• Add Content Bundling feature by @drew2a in #7953
• Add torrent information to a snippet by @drew2a in #7961
• Remove the torrent grouping feature based on names by @drew2a in #7986

Bugfixes

• UDP server stops accepting datagrams from any clients after a single client disconnects by @kozlovsky in #7972
• Process manager should not attempt to unlink the processes database file in case of OperationalError by @kozlovsky in #7932
• Fix "ValueError: Can redirect only to HTTP or HTTPS" in query_http_uri by @kozlovsky in #7947
• Close database connections after exiting from the db_session to avoid access violation by @kozlovsky in #7945
• Fix slow database queries by using partial index idx_torrentstate__last_check__partial by @kozlovsky in #7955
• Fix coroutine stack tracking by @kozlovsky in #7962
• Add a sentry tag for the program file architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) by @kozlovsky
• Fix Sentry report corruption by SentryScrubber by @kozlovsky in #7966

Build process improvements

• Add codesign for macOS build by @xoriole in #7971
• Fix Release build on 7.14 branch by @xoriole in #7959

Full Changelog: v7.13.3...v7.14.0-RC1