This is a minor release with a heavy focus on bug fixes. We have addressed most of the issues reported in Tribler 7.5.1 and plan to fix the remaining issues in our next release.
Important changes:
- Updated Python interpreter to Python 3.8
- Disabled embedded VLC video player due to compatibility problems
- Updated Libtorrent version to 1.2.4 in Windows builds and fixed compatibility with Libtorrent 1.2.4+ in Unix versions
- Stopped fetching empty Channels from remote peers
Full changelog
- Disable video play buttons
- Add Mock in versionchecker tests
- Add timeout in async version check
- Update version check interval to six hours
- Add release url in the version check manager
- Fix RemoteQuery not using model properties
- Remove fault handler from pip3 requirements.txt
- Update run instruction in README file
- Fix Pony unique transaction error
- Using SelectorEventLoop in the Windows tests
- Fix mdblob squash test failing randomly
- Not starting libtorrent session in download tests
- Ported GUI tests to pytest
- Fix add to channel error
- Broke testnet settings into multiple ones
- Totally ignore gaierrors
- Fixed GUI test event loop policy
- Ignoring gaierror with errno -5
- Switched Win64 GUI test to SelectorEventLoop
- Updated IPv8 pointer
- Simplified Windows dev documentation
- Using SelectorEventLoop by default
- Removed too informative logging statements
- Added Windows batch script to start Tribler
- Removed cp65001 code
- Fixed SHOW_CONSOLE variable
- Removed built-in libraries from dependency checker
- Fixed dependency checker when starting Tribler
- Updated Windows development env docs
- Disable VLC loading
- Let unhandled_error_observer deal with gaierrors
- Check for new version immediately after starting
- Merge pull request #5487 from qstokkink/add_lt1.1.13_support
- Added libtorrent 1.1.13 support for listen_succeeded_alert
- Make GUI send last traceback on core timeout error
- Shutdown ResourceMonitor during unit tests
- Skip profiler test if Yappi is not installed
- Fix libtorrent 1.2.4+ compatibility
- Add default download path to recently used dirs cache
- Fix a minor comma issue in Debian control file
- Add build parameters on snap build script
- Made VLC a recommended dependency
- Fixed BUILD_TRIBLER_SNAP variable check
- Removed ffmpeg
- Updated Linux requirements
- Updated Debian building documentation
- Added more info to OverflowError
- Updated IPv8 pointer
- Removed unicode string prefix from TriblerTunnelCommunity
- Remove introduction point circuits from slots
- Update IPv8 pointer
- Fix gossiping zero-sized channels
- Merge pull request #5448 from devos50/shutdown_bootstrap
- Shutting down Bootstrap before IPv8
- Fix wrong table update
- Ask user for channel name on creation
- Workaround for channels table racecon
- Fix channels table uid remapping on removal
- Fix error on adding magnet to collection
- Fix wrong index in tablecontentmodel
- Fix double model reset
- Fixed loading VLC libraries on Windows
- Update snap base to core20 from core18
- Added fix for tribler.spec with latest setuptools
- Merge pull request #5423 from egbertbouman/various_fixes
- Fix TorrentDef.get_files_with_length
- Make debug panel work with latest IPv8
- Speedup tunnel tests + remove tests that check for tunnels not working
- Show task name when event loop is dirty
- Fix RESTManager shutdown
- Fix UDPTracker and fix test_check_torrent_health
- Fix loops and extra lines in trust balance graph
- Period tracker check changes
- Updated IPv8 pointer
- Delaying video player initialization
- Removed Twisted tutorial
- Removed Python 2.7 pyinstaller support
- Fixed test_error_observer_ignored_error
- Fixed peer count limit for RemoteQueryCommunity in debug panel
- Pathlib fix for profiler endpoint
- Handle CancelledError in download_channel
- Don't wait for the DHT while doing tunnel tests
- Fix TorrentDef.get_name_as_unicode