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# WebTorrent Desktop Version History
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## v0.2.0 - 2016-03-29
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Added
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- Minimise to tray (Windows, Linux)
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- Show spinner and download speed when player is stalled waiting for data
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- Highlight window on drag-and-drop
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- Show notification to update to new app version (Linux)
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- We have an auto-updater for Windows and Mac. We don't have one for Linux yet, so
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Linux users need to download new versions manually.
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Changed
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- Renamed WebTorrent.app to WebTorrent Desktop
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- Add Cosmos Laundromat as a default torrent
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Fixed
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- Only capture media keys when player is active
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- Update WebTorrent to 0.88.1 for performance improvements
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- When seeding, do not proactively connect to new peers
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- When seeding, do not accept new peers from peer exchange (ut_pex)
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- Fixed leaks, and other improvements that result in less garbage collection
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Thanks to @dcposch, @ungoldman, and @feross for contributing to this release.
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## v0.1.1 - 2016-03-28
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- Performance improvements
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- Improve app startup time by over 100%
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- Reduce the number of DOM updates substantially
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- Update UI immediately anytime state is changed, instead on 1 second interval
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- Added right-click menu
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- Save .torrent File
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- Copy Instant.io Link to Clipboard
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- Copy Magnet Link to Clipbaord
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- Added keyboard shortcut for volume up (⌘/Ctrl + ↑) and volume down (⌘/Ctrl + ↓)
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- Add desktop launcher shortcuts, like OS X has, for KDE and GNOME (Linux)
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- Add "About" window (Windows, Linux)
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- Better default window size that fits all the default torrents
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- Fixed
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- Crash when ".local/share/{applications,icons}" path did not exist (Linux)
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- WebTorrent executable can be moved without breaking torrents in the client
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- Video progress bar shows progress for current file, not full torrent
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- Video player window shows file title instead of torrent title
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Thanks to @dcposch, @ungoldman, @rom1504, @grunjol, @Flet, and @feross for contributing to
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this release.
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## v0.1.0 - 2016-03-25
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- **Windows support!**
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- Includes auto-updater, just like the OS X version.
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- Installs desktop and start menu shortcuts.
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- **Audio file support!**
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- Supports playback of .mp3, .aac, .ogg, .wav
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- Audio file metadata gets shown in the UI
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- Top menu is no longer automatically hidden (Windows)
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- When magnet links are opened from third-party apps, the WebTorrent window now gets focus.
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- Subtler app sounds.
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- Fix for an issue that caused some magnet links to fail to open.
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**NOTE:** OS X users must install v0.1.0 manually because the app bundle ID was changed in this release, and the auto-updater cannot handle this condition.
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Thanks to @dcposch, @ungoldman, and @feross for contributing to this release.
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## v0.0.1 - 2016-03-21
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- Wait 10 seconds (instead of 60 seconds) after app launch before checking for updates.
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## v0.0.0 - 2016-03-21
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The first official release of WebTorrent Desktop, the streaming torrent client for OS X,
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Windows, and Linux. For now, we're only releasing binaries for OS X.
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WebTorrent Desktop is in ALPHA and under very active development – expect lots more polish in
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the coming weeks! If you know JavaScript and want to help us out, there's
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[lots to do](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+contribution%22)!
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### Features
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- **Lightweight, fast torrent client**
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- **Beautiful user experience**
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- **Instantly stream video and audio** from torrents!
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- WebTorrent fetches file pieces from the network **on-demand**, for instant playback.
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- Even when the file is not fully downloaded, **seeking still works!** (Seeking just reprioritizes what pieces are fetched from the network.)
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- Stream videos to **AirPlay** and **Chromecast**
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- **Pure Javascript**, so it's very easy to contribute code!
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- Based on the most popular and comprehensive torrent package in Node.js, [`webtorrent`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorrent).
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- Lots of **features**, without the bloat:
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- Opens magnet links and .torrent files
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- Drag-and-drop makes adding torrents easy!
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- Seed files/folders by dragging them onto the app
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- Discovers peers via tracker servers, DHT (Distributed Hash Table), and peer exchange
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- Make the video window "float on top" for watching video while you work!
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- Supports WebTorrent protocol – for connecting to WebRTC peers (i.e. web browsers)
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