Tribler V6.3.1

Complete re-write of most important functions in Tribler.

• hot fix from 6.3.0 for database upgrade
• A year of bug fixing, polishing and performance tweaking
• towards anonymous streaming
  • Tor-like anonymous tunnel building, based on UDP
  • Support for Cell,Create,Extend, and Ping Tor protocol messages
  • Diffie-Hellman session key exchange
  • Real-time crawler for bandwidth performance (inspired by metrics.torproject.org)
  • decentralised directory service for Tor-like routers
  • automatic anonymous 50MByte test download using new Tor-like protocol
  • no general anonymous downloads yet, trial-only
• thumbnail navigation
  • single-click streaming from main screen
  • channels can now optionally be browsed by thumbnails
  • Youtube-like GUI composed of user-generated images
  • Prepares the way for remote control navigation & operation
• complete rewrite of the elastic database engine (the dispersy overlay)
  • use of Twisted frameworks instead of our custom event-handlers
  • less reliance on master bootstrap servers (new discovery community)
  • improvements in NAT puncturing efficiency
  • faster data synchronisation between Tribler peers
• dropped support for Mac models from 2008, due to Python support issues

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Tribler:v6.2.0...v6.3.0

Tribler V6.3.0

Never released, went to V6.3.1 directly.

v6.3.0-rc6: Merge pull request #808 from egbertbouman/less_strict_limiter

Update dispersy ref

v6.3.0-rc5: Merge pull request #799 from LipuFei/fix_metadata_next

Fix metadata injector

v6.3.0-rc4: Merge pull request #776 from egbertbouman/renametest

Rename test torrent

v6.3.0-rc3: Merge pull request #761 from whirm/dispersy_ref

Update dispersy ref.

v6.3.0-rc2: Merge pull request #744 from LipuFei/fix_rc1

fix channel refreshState()

v6.3.0-rc1: Merge pull request #733 from whirm/next

Increase release version

Tribler V6.2.0 release

Changes since last version:

• Video on demand is back! No more waiting for video downloads! Also, we have seeking now.
• Less disk and CPU consumption
• UI improvements
• Fixes for the bugs found in 6.1 and reported by the community during the 6.2 RCs (Thanks!)