Rtorrent 16 16.27-12G

Major​

• Updates no longer wait for a running unpack. Before it stops Rtorrent 16, an update now pauses the package's own jobs (an unpack, a Files copy or move, a conversion, the MKV tools, a save from the Media studio). Once the installer has finished, they go on from where they stopped. On a test NAS with a slow disk, an update during an unpack kept rtorrent down for 27 s instead of 145 s; the unpacked file was complete.
• Background jobs button. While something works in the background, a button with a ring and the number of jobs stands in the top bar's corner, and in the Media studio's header. Its list names each job, says how far it is, and has Stop for each one.
• Clearer reasons in Send to Media library and Scraper history. Each reason now names both copies with their values, for example "This download is 720p and the copy in the library is 1080p, so the library copy stays."

Minor​

• On a phone, a row's last figure (a ratio, a time, Refresh) stays on its line instead of dropping to a line of its own.
• Media studio: a project file that is deleted or moved stops its own work. The waveform grows while the NAS reads the sound. Three workspaces (Editing, Timeline, Captions, also Alt+Shift+1 to 3) and a captions panel you can widen by its edge. Discard changes shows an eraser. Two more Casino Royale looks, in Alegreya Sans and Proza Libre. With your own speech service, a captions track can be transcribed and read aloud while the film plays.
• The blocklist accepts lists in CIDR format. When automatic port forwarding is off, the certificate run no longer asks the router for port 80, and the Security page says to forward TCP 80 by hand.

Major​

• Convert: a smaller window. One Format list puts the formats you used last for that kind of file under Recently used. A picture's size is width × height in pixels with the aspect ratio kept, or a percent, and the window shows the pixels it will get. Advanced has Remove metadata (EXIF, XMP, GPS) and Remove colour profile for pictures, and Fixed bitrate instead of quality and Frame rate for films.
• Two new themes, Chase and Midnight. Chase is dark grey, with warm and cyan rings spreading out from the centre. Midnight is silver by day and midnight blue by night, with a wave of light along the bottom of the page. Both scenes can also be picked as a wallpaper under any theme.
• Media studio: a 5.1 or 7.1 sound track shows its single channels on the timeline, each with Mute, Solo and Gain; a channel can also play another audio track instead of its own sound, or mixed with it. A SubRip captions track can take the Casino Royale Track Style in Cronos Pro, or the same look in Lato or Montserrat. You can type new captions on an empty captions track, Info lists the film's fonts, and a cut film now starts with its sound in sync.

Minor​

• Windows that ask you to choose put their answers in one row of buttons at the bottom, on a phone too, and every window shows a sign for what it is: a question, a warning, information or its tool.
• The pictures in the guides of Quick access, the torrent list, the player and several Settings cards are drawn by the panel's own components and match what you see.

Major​

• Send to Media library: a finished film or episode now goes to the Media library from its row in Quick access or the Full view (Send to Media library… in the row's menu). The window shows the plan first and changes nothing until you apply it. When the library already has the title, it shows both copies; Replace in library puts the new copy in its place and moves the old one to the library's trash (Undo in Scraper history brings it back), and Keep both keeps a film's second copy beside the first. The torrent keeps seeding.
• Media studio: editing tools on a toolbar, zoom with the mouse wheel, Keyboard Shortcuts, an Info panel, Lock track, Audio Gain with Fade In and Fade Out in the preview and in the saved file, frame steps and Audio Meters. Import… brings in captions, a font, chapters or another file's tracks, and Match to Film lines an imported soundtrack up with the film. Captions are drawn by the NAS and can be edited in place.

Minor​

• With UPnP only, Rtorrent 16 checks the router's port mappings every five minutes and adds back any the router lost, for example after a router restart.
• Panels show their edge in every theme that draws one; in Lime, Slate, Dracula, Nord, Solarized and several other themes the line was too faint to see.
• The guides follow the current panel, in English and Polish.

Major​

• Multichannel sound in Convert: a film's 5.1 or 7.1 sound no longer has to become stereo. The Convert window has a Sound part: MP4 with AAC, AC-3 up to 640 kbit/s or E-AC-3 up to 1536 kbit/s, WebM with Opus, with the channels as in the source or stereo. MKV tools write AC-3 and E-AC-3 too. When a track is mixed down to fewer channels, its levels are lowered so the sound does not clip.
• All public sources: the Public sources card on the Trackers page starts with one switch. While it is off, no search asks a public site, whether it comes from the panel, WhatsApp, Telegram or the shell, and your tracker accounts work as before. Each source keeps its own setting for when you turn the switch back on.
• The bot's search answers in time: a WhatsApp or Telegram search on a NAS with the Search add-on now gets the add-on's results. It asks every source at once, your tracker accounts too, and answers with what arrived within 12 seconds.
• Media studio: the waveform now draws on a NAS that uses swap. Your changes stay when you leave the studio and it tells you so when you come back; Ctrl+Z still undoes them, and Discard changes drops them.

Minor​

• A series that was identified through TheTVDB now shows its poster in Quick access, the Full view and Search.
• Files messages say what happened to your files and what to do next. A tool's own output goes to the service log (Diagnostics, Logs) instead of the job's card.

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.