Complete re-write of most important functions in Tribler.
- hot fix from 6.3.0 for database upgrade
- A year of bug fixing, polishing and performance tweaking
- towards anonymous streaming
- Tor-like anonymous tunnel building, based on UDP
- Support for Cell,Create,Extend, and Ping Tor protocol messages
- Diffie-Hellman session key exchange
- Real-time crawler for bandwidth performance (inspired by metrics.torproject.org)
- decentralised directory service for Tor-like routers
- automatic anonymous 50MByte test download using new Tor-like protocol
- no general anonymous downloads yet, trial-only
- thumbnail navigation
- single-click streaming from main screen
- channels can now optionally be browsed by thumbnails
- Youtube-like GUI composed of user-generated images
- Prepares the way for remote control navigation & operation
- complete rewrite of the elastic database engine (the dispersy overlay)
- use of Twisted frameworks instead of our custom event-handlers
- less reliance on master bootstrap servers (new discovery community)
- improvements in NAT puncturing efficiency
- faster data synchronisation between Tribler peers
- dropped support for Mac models from 2008, due to Python support issues
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