We have cooked up a regular release for you. No massive changes this time. We've mostly made things faster and smaller.

We added a new setting (in the General tab) to control Tribler's memory consumption. If you have memory to spare, you can enable fetching torent info into RAM using the Prefer storing torrent info in RAM setting. Otherwise, if you want to avoid filling your memory, Tribler will use your disk for this.

For Mac users

Our .app signing is currently broken (issue #8835). This means that you will have to manually tell your Mac to clear the "quarantine this app because it was downloaded from the Internet"-flag using one of the following commands in your terminal:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/tribler-8.4.3-i386.app
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/tribler-8.4.3-arm.app

Our 8.4.1 release did not actually fix the critical "random files on your disk" issue. This had us demote the release to a "pre-release". In this release, our feature seems to - finally - be working as intended again. We also fixed an issue with the Windows installer not being able to use the default state directory.

After that bit of chaos, we now have v8.4.2 as the first "actually stable" 8.4 release.

For Mac users

Our .app signing is currently broken (issue #8835). This means that you will have to manually tell your Mac to clear the "quarantine this app because it was downloaded from the Internet"-flag using one of the following commands in your terminal:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/tribler-8.4.2-i386.app
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/tribler-8.4.2-arm.app

Note: this release has been demoted to pre-release due to reported Windows issues and the metadata issue (see below) not being solved.

This release builds on the 8.4.0 release and is the first "real" release in the 8.4 series. Since 8.4.0 we:

• Fixed an issue that causes files to be allocated on your disk when fetching torrent metadata.
• Added an advanced bandwidth allocation widget to the GUI, based on the time of day.

For Mac users

Our .app signing is currently broken (issue #8835). This means that you will have to manually tell your Mac to clear the "quanrantine this app because it was downloaded from the Internet"-flag using one of the following command in your terminal:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Tribler.app

This release contains many of the features planned for 8.3.0, which had to be released early due to the "blacklisting incident":

• GUI improvements: a restart button, a disk usage icon, a v2/hybrid torrent creation option, an anonymization service online/offline status icon, new filters for "not downloading" and "unqueued", an orphaned .parts file removal setting, custom fonts.
• Bug fixes: no more clearing the seeding ratio when changing anonymity hops or stuck torrents after moving storage.
• New Mac universal2 releases: one for aarch64 and one for x86_64. Make sure to select the right one!
• New Windows installer options: change your state directory and register Tribler as a Startup App.

For Mac users

Our .app signing is currently broken (issue #8835). This means that you will have to manually tell your Mac to clear the "quanrantine this app because it was downloaded from the Internet"-flag using one of the following command in your terminal:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Tribler.app

During the not-so-relaxing holidays, Tribler has been blacklisted.. everywhere! Let's see this in a positive light and say that we are very popular (albeit with the wrong crowd).

• Exitnodes have been blacklisted by ISPs.
• The VPNs to introduce you to exit nodes have been blacklisted by ISPs.
• Even the tribler.org website has been blacklisted by our DNS provider. You can find us on https://tribler.github.io/ now.

This release should come with the tools you need to get your anonymous downloads working again. For most users, this will mean that you can keep anonymously downloading as usual. Some of you that are deep in blacklisted zones may need to set your anonymous hop count to "2" from now on.

Before we head into the holidays (and Tribler dev team vacation), we want to leave you with this new prerelease.

A fair few of you have experienced an outage in anonymous downloading due to ISPs - all over the world - blacklisting Tribler exit nodes (#8807). This prerelease includes some fixes to circumvent this blacklisting. However, for those of you deep in "blacklisting territory", it will take some time for the network to heal itself and form paths out of the blacklisted Internet regions.

This is a quick follow-up release to amend the hashchecking loop bug that plagues the v8.2.2 release.

This release includes fixes for the v8.2.1 release.

This release includes fixes for the v8.2.0 pre-release.

A new feature release has landed! We have some exciting new features for you:

• Auto-management/queuing support for torrents.
• A status bar to show upload and download speed.
• More tooltips in the GUI!
• Upload/download limits for individual torrents.
• A setting to ask for download locations when adding multiple torrents.
• Magnet link support in the watch folder.
• Auto-generation of .torrent files for your downloads.

In this release, we also say goodbye to Windows 32 bit support 😢