The highly popular BitTorrent client Azureus got a new version today, with a considerable list of new features, changes and bugfixes, including repairing invalid port numbers returned from trackers and working drag and drop in Windows and Linux. Check below for more details.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN AZUREUS 2.4.0.2 ***

New Features:
- Core Make default recheck behaviour after crash only check pieces active at last save point plus config to revert to old behaviour of checking everything
- Core Attempt to repair invalid port #s returned from trackers potentially improving outgoing connection success rate
- UI Allow some selection of split data/protocol stats in some views

Changes:
- Core Improved payload data vs. protocol overhead byte accounting
- Core Remove option to truncate files when setting to do-not-download as too many users confused by this
- Core Pick up alerts raised during closedown and give user chance to see them
- Core Improved optimistic disconnect algorithm in several ways - should speed up single seed torrents
- Core Only remove temp files created by Azureus in the “tmp” dir as some users placing files in there
… read full changelog information here

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Azureus Homepage
Download Azureus 2.4.0.2 for Windows (Installer - 7.60MB, md5=21efd2c6b9ed21463ff1b3bd00d7b9e3)
Download Azureus 2.4.0.2 for Windows (JAR - 6.55MB, md5=5df28a0f7e1b8651f5512420d97762aa)
Download Azureus 2.4.0.2 for Windows (JAR Torrent, md5=7cf7f87089eb503bcc9819f4de0e9ea9)
Main Azureus download page (other platforms and formats, older releases)