After my break in Michigan to which I didn't post anything, I am back in school. The classes are decent, and this quarter appears to be better then last. *shrugs* We will see what it has to offer.
As for TorrentVolve? The project has sort of exploded. There have been many downloads since I went on break, and vancottt has posted some nice updates. We were going to try and have a full time team dedicated again this quarter, but it didn't work out for now. However, I will be personally placing more requested features into the system and so will the current developers. Look for more and enjoy what is there.
As the title states, we released the TorrentVolve Beta. There are a ton of bug fixes integrated on the project, and it has been tested extensively on Linux and Windows. Just as a note, here are some of the fixes and features we have done to the project.
Bug Fixes:
New Features:- Fixed Linux issue with PHP execution so the application is completely functional under Linux.
- Server restarting concurrency issue resolved.
- Fixed Change Password allowing users to change password when they use the forgot password feature.
- Archive directory viewing with automatic zipping of directories for HTTP downloads
- ETA, peers, and torrent total displays on the home page
- Enabling and disabling automatic page refreshing
Well we have successfully released another alpha. It seemed really fast, but the system acts totally different with this new alpha release. You can get this new release at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/torrentvolve Some of the features include:
- Archive browsing of previously downloaded torrents and their torrent files.
- Administration of user archives.
- The ability to reload an archived .torrent file.
- Browsing to other user's archives and getting their downloaded files.
We also had a chance to fix some of the current bugs within the system. Some of these fixes include:
- HTML and CSS is XHTML compliant.
- Users can now upload renamed torrents.
- The torrent upload name doesn't have to be consistent with the actual torrent name.
- Layout and graphics tweaks for a more asthetic interface.
- Fixed a security flaw in changing passwords.
One thing I would like to mention is the archiving feature. The point of this system is to clean up the primary interface and allow better access to downloaded material for the system. After a torrent is uploaded, a user can choose to archive it at any time. It removes the torrent from the main interface to clear things up a little. Users can then view archives and re-upload them for seeding, or get the downloaded material of the torrent.
We are working on a number of things for the next release. Some of these new features include:
- Automatic zipping of archive directories for direct downloads.
- More torrent display information.
- Sub-directory listing within archive feature.
- More speed optimizations of the code.
Hopefully we will get some more feedback from the community as to what features should be put in the system next. I hope all of our users enjoy this latest release and I will be sure to post more periodic updates.
]]>Fortunatly, throughout all of the commotion of classes, I did manage to complete a project. Although it has been kept pretty much under wraps, I finally released the software alpha to the world today. Projects class brought the opportunity to develop my own open-source project. So I put together a great development team, and 7 weeks later TorrentVolve emerged. It is hosted at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/torrentvolve
What TorrentVolve is:
TorrentVolve is an open-source, multi-user, bittorrent client written with PHP. The intention was to make a web based torrent client that was really fast and supported any torrent client that users would like to use. We definitely accomplished that. The torrent client ships with a server version of Azureus so downloads can start immediately. If you would like to use a different client, we have a couple of interfaces to implement so the system knows how to use your particular client, drop it in the torrent modules directory, and select it in the admin page.
TorrentVolve Development Team: