cove

Changelog

v0.4.6

• Add -torrentPort flag.
• Add -version flag.
• Change Possum DB default cache size to 20 GB.
• Fix high CPU usage tracking transcoding events.
• Add some support for BitTorrent v2.
• Fix some Possum DB bugs.
• Performance improvements in torrent client.
• Fixes for missing IPv6 support in torrent client.
• Fix some bugs in hosts menu handling.

v0.4.5

• Debugging improvements for possum on Windows.
• Fix a crash on possibly corrupted torrents.db when searching.
• Make switching hosts and installing protocol handler easier.
• Bump transcoding limit to 5GB.
• Cleanup possum cache at startup.
• cove will open to the update docs if it’s out of date.

v0.4.4

• Hide the console on Windows. Run with run.bat for this behaviour or pass -windowsHideConsole.
• Add run.bat to Windows release that logs to a file named cove.log for issue reporting. Use run-console.bat to do this from a console and view the logs in the console too.
• Release Windows ffmpeg files separately for smaller downloads.
• Possum storage cache is now supported on Windows. Pass -possum to try it out.

v0.4.3

• Raise transcoding input file size limit to 4 GB.
• Fix squirrel storage write errors.

v0.4.2

• Statically link possum-db on Linux and Darwin.

v0.4.1

• Fix possum flags not being exposed.
• Linux and Darwin builds are missing the possum-db shared library and do not work.

v0.4.0

• Fix slow startup when search database is very large.
• Add possum DB support for disk caching on macOS and Linux.
• Linux and Darwin builds are missing the possum-db shared library and do not work.

v0.3.0

• Spread log messages across two lines.
• Use DHT index info names in recent torrent list.
• Make cove accessible on local networks via http://cove.local:8080. See Operation.

v0.2.0

• Reduce logging noise.
• Prefer IPv4 local network address.
• Nuke ledis dir if there’s an error during startup.
• Reduce indexer.db size leak.
• Fix a panic when info isn’t ready for some file handlers.

v0.1.1

• Fix transcoding on non-Apple platforms.
• Disable IPv6 on Darwin by default again.

v0.1.0

The last official release was v0.0.11, so all changes since then are below.

New features

• DHT indexing can now be paused/resumed.
• Added support for linux/aarch64 and linux/arm.
• Open browser automatically at startup. Disable with -noOpenBrowser.
• Add magnet links to files and torrents for third-party client use.
• Add metainfo download button.
• Show transcoding store progress.

Fixes

• Improvements to search result output.
• Fix preview video alerts.
• Improve metadata detection for nested files.
• Speed up file listings for very large torrents.
• Enable DHT indexing over IPv6 where supported.
• Exit handling improved.
• Torrent file listings served from local DHT index.
• DHT index searches query the database directly.
• Reduce transcoding overhead especially for HEVC.
• Fix playlist button.

News

• Documentation at https://www.coveapp.info/ improved.

v0.0.12

This was a prerelease with several undocumented revisions.

The main reason for the release was to get feedback on the linux/aarch64 and linux/arm builds.

v0.0.11

Changes

• Metainfos are also stored in the cache.
• Add -implicitTracker. Fixes https://github.com/anacrolix/cove/issues/12.
• Add -headless and handle systray failure gracefully. Fixes https://github.com/anacrolix/cove/issues/9.

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The prior release are yet to be imported here. See https://github.com/anacrolix/cove/releases.