Rtorrent 16 16.27-12C

Major​

• RSS acts at once: a rule now adds the matching items its feed lists the moment you save it, then each new one. While you write a rule, the editor lists the feed's items, the matching ones first, and says how many will be added when you save. Every rule has Run now and every feed Check now; both run in the background and show the result under the row. The Log lists by day what went into downloading, with each torrent's state now. Rules saved before this version keep taking only new items until you save them again.
• Convert… for pictures: in Files, a picture's menu has Convert…. It turns JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF and JPEG 2000 pictures and the HEIC, HEIF and AVIF photos of phones and cameras into a JPEG or a PNG, at the same size or smaller, with the photo data (date, camera, location) kept or removed. The new picture is always the right way up, and the original stays as it is.
• Paths open Files: press a folder in a path on the panel's pages and Files opens at that folder; a file's name opens its folder with the file selected. If a file or folder is gone, the line under the path says so and opens the nearest folder above it that is still there. Settings shows the folder in use under every path field.
• Synthwave theme: a sun setting behind wireframe mountains, with a colour split along the bottom and a short glitch now and then. It is also offered as a wallpaper for any other theme.

Minor​

• A click on a wallpaper always shows it. Before, every second switch between two pixel patterns or two StorageDiag animations showed the plain page. Pixel patterns now show in more themes, by day too; where a theme leaves one no room, its tile says Not visible in this theme.
• Profile has a Themes tab between Profile and Login, with all 20 themes in one list.
• The avatars' credits moved out of the panel into the package's NOTICE file and the sources page.
• MKV tools and Media studio messages now say what happened to your file and what to do next.

New in 16.27-12B​

• MKV tools (Files, a video's menu, Tools): make a new MKV from the tracks you keep, in your order, with names, languages and flags, and add subtitles, sound or fonts from other files. The same window saves tracks as files, splits a film, converts or mixes sound and exports channels. The picture is copied, never re-encoded, and the original file stays unchanged.
• Media studio (same menu): cut, move and copy pieces of picture and sound on a timeline, add a sound track and fit it to the picture with stretch markers, preview it, and save the result as a new MKV. The original film stays unchanged.

What changed from 16.27-11P to 16.27-12B​

• Public torrents keep 16 public trackers through restarts.
• Download slot rotation and the IPv6 DHT run the code upstream libtorrent merged.
• Own scheduler instead of the system crontab.
• On a phone: pull a sheet down to close it, swipe right to go back in a menu.
• Profile page with avatars in three groups (People, Animals & birds, Occupations) and wallpapers, StorageDiag's moving ones included.
• Movie Agent: a newer download of equal or higher resolution takes the library copy's place, within the same Plex edition.
• Tidy up in place: Movie Agent's rescrape window takes any folder, a whole share too, and gives each title its Plex folder where it lies.
• qBittorrent import: the torrent list comes over, the files stay where they are.
• LinkDrop has its own page, and a browser now reaches a sharing NAS behind a VPN or a strict router.
• Swarm card: totals, a world map of your peers and a replay of the last four hours.
• Search results as short rows with a poster and a quality badge.
• New Scraper page; Files can rescrape folders with Movie Agent or Game Agent.
• Files: Total Commander look, DOS-style messages, NFO files on the CP437 grid, and a copy stays on the clipboard for more than one paste.
• Processor and memory card with Jobs.
• One shape for controls in each of the 19 themes, and the Dashboard fits a phone.
• Paste or drop torrents and links on any page.
• rtorrent stops faster: it waits at most 15 seconds for trackers that do not answer.
• If another program holds the BitTorrent port, rtorrent takes the nearest free one for that start.
• New installs get a short first-run guide.
• Repair configs on Diagnostics writes the config files again; after an update from before 16.25-09U it also brings back ruTorrent's settings and logs.

Major​

• Tidy up in place: Movie Agent's rescrape window now takes any folder, a whole share of films too. Tidy up in place gives each film or series its Plex folder inside the folder where it lies, by a rename on the same volume. Into the Media library files the titles into the library, as before. Each row shows From: and To:, nothing changes before Apply, and Undo in Scraper history puts every file back under its old name. A folder a torrent seeds from stays as it is, with the reason on its row.
• More avatars: the Profile page's avatars come in three groups: People (60), Animals & birds (198) and Occupations (154). A group's pictures load only when you open it.
• More wallpapers: the Wallpapers tab has StorageDiag's 17 moving wallpapers and 10 still patterns, in the panel's colours.

Minor​

• The Scraper page's One release and Many releases open the same rescrape window as Files.
• A torrent imported from qBittorrent counts as finished when qBittorrent finished it, so Movie Agent no longer takes it for the newest download.
• Diagnostics > Health: the package version keeps clear of its label and wraps only between its parts.
• The new avatars are "Animals & Birds" and "Occupations" by Luna UI (CC BY 4.0).

Major​

• Gestures: on a phone, a sheet that opens from the bottom edge closes when you pull it down, the same as its Cancel. If typed text would be lost, the panel asks "Discard changes?" first. In Files, a sideways swipe moves between the two panels. In a menu, a swipe right goes back one level.
• Profile page: your avatar and name at the foot of the menu open Profile, with three tabs. Profile holds the display name, the avatar (60 new ones) and the theme. Login picks the animation beside the sign-in form. Wallpapers picks what is drawn behind the panel. The NAS keeps the choices per account, so another browser opens with them.
• Movie Agent, versions and editions: a newer download of a film or an episode takes the library copy's place when its resolution is the same or higher. The old copy goes to the library's trash and its torrent keeps seeding. A Director's Cut, an Extended or an IMAX release goes beside the plain copy as its own Plex edition. When the new one has a lower resolution, Scraper history asks which copy stays. The nightly duplicate sweep follows the same rule.
• libtorrent from upstream: the download slot rotation and the IPv6 DHT are now exactly the code upstream libtorrent merged.

Minor​

• "Already in vault" shows only on search results, before a download. An opened torrent says "Another version of this item was downloaded before" only when this NAS holds another version.
• A long folder name in a path chip wraps inside one rounded box.
• Scraper history: after a version swap, the rows say which copy is in the library, and Undo refuses a row whose file was set aside.
• The avatars are "Cartoon Avatars" by Angelina (CC BY 4.0).

Major​

• Own scheduler: Rtorrent 16 runs its periodic jobs from its own scheduler instead of the QTS crontab, one copy of each job at a time. Nothing starts rtorrent again while QTS stops it, for example during a shutdown or a restart.
• WebPortico: when WebPortico holds port 80, the panel's Let's Encrypt check goes through WebPortico's ACME folder, and the message names WebPortico's Sites page.

Minor​

• The update takes Rtorrent 16's two old lines out of the crontab. Nothing else in the crontab changes.
• Swarm card: one point every five minutes, also on a NAS where the watchdog used to run twice.
• Diagnostics: the watchdog line says running or stopped. On the Dashboard, the Services card shows the watchdog as a process with its memory.

Major​

• Opened torrent: the release name is no longer repeated under the plot. The IMDb rating stands under the title beside a gold IMDb mark that opens the film's page, with the running time and genres on the same line ("143′ — Adventure, Drama, Romance"). The plot shows three lines and drifts slowly when it is longer.
• Already in vault: a small badge on an opened torrent when your account has completed another version of the title. Its (?) names the copies on this NAS, and their folders open in Files.
• Swarm card: a play button beside the title replays the last four hours. Rtorrent 16 records a point every five minutes, so the replay fills up during the first four hours after the update.
• LinkDrop: a link opened in a web browser now reaches a NAS behind a strict NAT more often.

Minor​

• Opening a torrent while another one is open keeps the row you tapped in place.
• The Swarm map and the time zone map in Settings draw their dots with smaller gaps.

Major​

• qBittorrent import: Diagnostics, Backups has a qBittorrent tile. Import brings over the torrent list of a qBittorrent package on the NAS. The files stay where they are, each torrent is checked once and the complete ones seed. Your current list is saved first, and nothing is imported while qBittorrent runs. @miwis, it is in this version.
• Public trackers: a public torrent keeps the 16 best addresses of the public tracker list through restarts. Torrents that lost the list get it back once.
• Files: after Copy or Cut, Paste and Cancel float over the panels. A copy stays on the clipboard, so one copy can go into several folders.
• Touch: hold a finger on a row to open its menu in Quick access, the Full view and Files. One press on a name copies it.
• Open in Files: an opened torrent has Open in Files, and its folder chips go there too.
• Repair configs on Diagnostics, Maintenance brings back ruTorrent's settings and logs of an install older than 16.25-09U. The automatic repairs for such old installs are gone.
• LinkDrop: 36 new profile pictures.

Minor​

• Swarm card: it shows the same upload speed as the tiles and the Traffic chart, and a tracker that answers 0 and 0 no longer shows as "no seeds". Neighbouring countries on the map no longer run together.
• Traffic chart: the axis reads 1 MiB/s instead of "1K KiB/s".
• Search: titles with an old IMDb number now get their poster.
• Scraper: Override detection says Media type and offers Movies, TV Shows, Anime, Music and Unsorted.
• Phone: Check hash and Super seed are icons, and the top bar keeps one height on every page.
• Checks and finished marks use the theme's own colour at full strength.
• Notifications: the events card is called Notification types. The update switch in Settings reads Search for updates from qnaputilities.com.
• Download slots: the rotation picks its waiting peers in one pass over the queue, the form reviewed for upstream libtorrent.

Major​

• Search: results are short rows with a small poster, the year, one coloured quality badge and language badges. Tap a row for the full release name, audio and description.
• Themes: all 19 themes draw buttons, fields and corners the same way, and controls on a phone are 44 px tall.
• Phone: the Dashboard tiles stand two by two, Refresh sits beside the badges, the Swarm map is higher up, and Select tasks is an icon.
• Processor and memory card: the chart is scaled to rtorrent, its services and Jobs, with the NAS as a grey hatched background. Tap a chart to read that moment for 5 seconds.
• Scraper: a new page beside Media library with Organise a folder manually, the library and Scraper history.
• Launcher: the tiles follow the menu, and LinkDrop, Add torrent, Scraper, Trash and Guides have joined them.
• Paste and drop work on every page, several files at once.

Minor​

• LinkDrop leaves hidden QTS, macOS and Windows folders and files such as .@__thumb out of a share.
• rtorrent stops faster: it waits 15 seconds at most for trackers that do not answer.
• Media library: Rescan is the new name for Sweep for missed downloads, and it is an icon on a phone. The detailed settings show with Advanced on.
• Game folder: Show last lists only real games, and Show examples appears before the first one.
• Search: the Show adult switch now works for every source.

Major​

• LinkDrop: a browser can now open a link from a NAS behind a VPN. If your NAS shares through a VPN, update Rtorrent 16 so that a browser can reach your links.
• Dashboard: the swarm card shows totals for all active torrents and a world map where the countries and cities of your peers pulse. The list under the map names the biggest countries, and All places opens the rest.
• New installs are offered a short guide after the first sign-in. Guides → First run opens it later. An upgrade does not show it.

Minor​

• LinkDrop sends far less through a VPN when it connects, and it waits after a failed try.
• The swarm card asks rtorrent only while you can see it, and every open panel shares one reading.
• Settings: the time zone map is now the same dotted map, and the country of your time zone pulses.

Major​

• LinkDrop has its own page in the menu, beside Files. It lists your downloads with Pause, Resume, Cancel and Retry, and the links you have shared.
• Paste a LinkDrop link and the download starts at once, on the LinkDrop page and everywhere the panel takes a paste. There is no Check step any more.

Minor​

• Change on a download's row sends it to another folder, also while it runs.
• A link with a password asks for it on the download's row. One wrong password counts as one try.
• A revoked or expired link says so at once.
• The progress bar has its own line and no longer sits on top of text.
• The panel shows pre-RC before the build. The package version does not change.