Tribler

**Changelog**

- Implemented payouts for direct downloading
- Fixed a bug when gossiping popular torrents
- Added support for cp65001 on Windows
- Fixed a crash due to a socket error
- Fixed various issues with unicode characters
- Improved performance of the matchmaking engine in the market
- Fixed various security issues in the market
- Added a testnet flag to the Tribler configuration
- Fixed bug when upgrading the database that stores market information
- Added multi-select functionality to search results
- Integrated a custom DHT for peer lookup
- Fixed error when downloading metadata using SSL
- Updated libtorrent version on MacOS build
- Fixed a bug when exporting torrent files
- Fixed a bug in the version checker where the dialog did not show

v7.1.0-exp3
**Changelog**
- improved relevance ranking algorithm by actively gossiping torrent health with others
- added type and timestamp fields to blocks in our TrustChain ledger
- added support for VLC 3.0.2 on Windows, Mac and Linux
- fixed a crash caused by the family filter
- fixed a crash in the debug panel
- improved the test suite
- improved performance of circuit dispatching during anonymous downloads
- fixed a crash in the upgrade process
- fixed two crashes caused by the torrent checker
- fixed various memory leaks
- fixed a crash when deciding relevance of torrents and channels
- fixed a crash adding a torrent to a channel
- fixed an error when paying out bandwidth tokens
- fixed a crash when adding a torrent with a non-UTF8 name
- fixed a crash when running Tribler on NixOS
- changed the presentation of the token balance

v7.1.0-exp2
**Changelog**
- Fixed issue with closing Torrent checker
- Fixed memory leak in GUI
- Fixed issue with restating Tribler
- Improved startup time
- Fixed runtime error with duplicate downloads
- Various fixes on Market Community
- Enabled fault handler
- Added disk usage to credit mining
- Fixed seeding time/ratio
- Fixed bug when sending error report in GUI
- Fixed file progress for multi file downloads
- Improved GUI tests
- Fixed Tribler request manager
- Removed VLC as separate windows installer
- Fixed issue with tray icon
- Fixed few unicode issues
- Fixed bug when changing downloads & exploring files in GUI

**Changelog:**

- Added Tribler request dispatcher with multiple priority request pools
- Fixed issues with Qt Http threads
- Fixed SSL support with treq on Windows
- Added proper resource cleanup on restarting Tribler
- Fixed error message on request manager
- Refactored Process Checker
- Checked for the existence of an index in lazy loading the list widget
- Added check for Tribler settings if it is available before starting download
- Fixed issue with log directory selection
- Fixed issues with None json results in downloads
- Torrents with invalid info hash are ignored
- Fixed few unicode issues

**Changelog:**

- fixed a GUI crash when torrent health information comes in
- fixed a crash when building anonymous tunnels
- fixed a GUI crash when receiving search results
- fixed a GUI crash when clicking on home page items that are not fully loaded yet
- fixed a crash when receiving torrent metainfo from the DHT
- added a disk space monitor and implemented a warning when the amount of free disk space is low
- fixed a crash when removing RSS feeds from your channel
- fixed a crash when entering invalid numbers for the maximum download/upload rates
- fixed an issue in the GUI where the magnet link was not correctly decoded for homepage items
- fixed a crash when loading recent picked locations for downloads
- fixed a crash when a torrent with an invalid infohash is added

v7.1.0-mining-preview
A preview version of our upcoming feature: _token mining_. Token mining is an automated process where you can earn bandwidth tokens by uploading content to others. To start mining, go to one of your discovered channels and click the mining button. Tribler will attempt to optimize the number of uploaded data while protecting your anonymity.

Tribler 7 is one of our biggest releases so far and has been in development for almost two years. Since the latest release, we made a total of **2,055** commits and changed **1,070** files (with 80,073 additions and 99,227 deletions). We closed over **400** issues on our Github repository, fixed hundreds of bugs and made major improvements to the user interface and torrent downloading mechanism. We added a blockchain fabric to Tribler to accurately keep track of bandwidth contributions on a dedicated page in the user interface. This innovation allows us to build new features to make Tribler more stable, faster and secure to use. We hope you enjoy this release and if you encounter any issues, please let us know by opening an [issue on our Github repository](https://github.com/tribler/tribler/issues/new) or by [posting on our forum](https://forum.tribler.org).

**Changelog:**
- Redesigned the user interface and dropped wxPython in favor of PyQt.
- Made a clean separation between the user interface and the Tribler core. This significantly improves speed and stability.
- Deployed a blockchain fabric within Tribler to keep track of bandwidth contributions.
- Added new RESTful API for developers.
- Created a twistd plugin, allowing users to run Tribler without a user interface.
- Refactored our test suite significantly. Unit tests execute faster now and are more reliable.
- Improved the build process of the Tribler executable on Windows and macOS.
- Updated dependencies of Tribler to the latest versions.
- Fixed compatibility with latest versions of libtorrent.
- Improved integration of the Twisted framework with the Tribler codebase.
- Executables on Windows are now signed.
- Fixed many race conditions due to context switches between various threads.
- Improved error reporting functionality when Tribler crashes.
- Improved the debug panel and expanded it with additional information.
- Fixed various memory leaks when running Tribler for several hours or days.
- Improved Unicode support.
- Fixed various bugs when receiving malformed packets from other peers.

The fifth release candidate of Tribler.

The fourth release candidate of Tribler.