CHANGELOG.md

WebTorrent Version History

v0.107.13 - 2019-09-10

• Added tests to check the order of torrent events

v0.107.12 - 2019-09-08

• Fixed how first piece's irrelevant bytes are calculated

v0.107.11 - 2019-09-07

• Added timeout option for requestIdlecallback to prevent longer delays in download

v0.107.10 - 2019-09-07

• Server now uses relative urls

v0.107.9 - 2019-09-07

• Added a check in case user destroys torrent in response to metadata event

v0.107.8 - 2019-09-07

• Fixed the torrent event emission order; now metadata is emitted before ready and done

v0.107.7 - 2019-09-06

• Updated to simple-sha1@3
• Updated jsdelivr urls to use latest Webtorrent

v0.107.6 - 2019-08-28

• Fixed XSS vulnerability in the http Server (issue)

v0.107.5 - 2019-08-22

• No meaningful changes

v0.107.4 - 2019-08-19

• Added api documentation for some torrent properties
• Bug fix: trackers now recieve 0 while seeding file instead of the file size
• Updated org-wide security policies and contributing guidelines

v0.107.3 - 2019-08-10

• No meaningful changes

v0.107.2 - 2019-08-09

• Scripts are now more verbose

v0.107.1 - 2019-08-09

• Updated to stream-to-bolob-url@3
• Added chromeapp field to package.json for specifying Chrome App dependency substitutions

v0.107.0 - 2019-08-07

• Smaller build with tinify
• Added size-disc script to visualize bundle

v0.106.0 - 2019-08-05

• Updated to electron@6
• Dropped support for node versions < 10

v0.105.3 - 2019-08-02

• Now uses 'application/octet-stream' mimetype as fallback instead of null

v0.105.2 - 2019-07-31

• Fixed server hostname option to mitigate DNS rebinding attack (issue)

v0.105.1 - 2019-07-24

• Bug fixed: Video streaming is now fixed in Brave nightly and chromium nightly (issue)

v0.105.0 - 2019-07-06

• Updated to parse-torrent@7
• Added manual verification for torrent files

v0.104.0 - 2019-06-29

• Updated to chunk-store-stream@4
• Updated to multistream@3
• Updated to create-torrent@4
• Dropped support for node versions < 8

v0.103.4 - 2019-06-19

• No meaningful changes

v0.103.3 - 2019-06-19

• Updated to electron@5

v0.103.2 - 2019-06-12

• Added the ability to close and restore streaming server

v0.103.1 - 2019-03-11

• Updated to electron@4
• Bug fixed: File progress is no longer shown in negative

v0.103.0 - 2018-12-11

• No longer verifies file hashes passed to seed
• No longer calls torrent.load() when seeding FS filepath
• Reduced download impact on slower computers: now download chunks at a lower priority (rationale)

v0.102.4 - 2018-08-31

• No meaningful changes

v0.102.3 - 2018-08-31

• Removed xtend
• Removed the concurrency limit in browser
• Reduced installtion size by removing zero-fill
• Updated to bittorrent-dht@9

v0.102.2 - 2018-08-28

• Update some webtorrent packages to ES6 (webtorrent/#1443)

v0.102.1 - 2018-08-10

• No meaningful changes

v0.102.0 - 2018-08-04

• Updated to chunk-store-stream@3
• Updated to immediate-chunk-store@2

v0.101.2 - 2018-07-27

• Updated to [email protected]

v0.101.1 - 2018-07-27

• Updated to bittorrent-protocol@3
• Optimized peers: peers now start as uninterested and only move to interested if/once they have a piece that we need (webtorrent/#1059)

v0.101.0 - 2018-07-19

• No meaningful changes

v0.100.0 - 2018-05-23

• Implemented BEP53 to alow file selection using select only parameter in MagnetURIs (webtorrent/#1395)

v0.99.4 - 2018-05-03

• Use updated babel-minify minifier instead of deprecated babili

v0.99.3 - 2018-04-26

• Add extra check to prevent invalid peer.conn.remotePort from being used (webtorrent-hybrid/#76)

v0.99.2 - 2018-04-24

• Use .npmignore to prevent unneeded files from being included in the published package

v0.99.1 - 2018-04-24

• Expose WebTorrent.VERSION (#1358)
• Update to simple-get@3
• Update to parse-torrent@6

v0.99.0 - 2018-04-19

• renderTo()/appendTo() does not autoplay by default anymore (rationale)
  • Pass {autoplay: true} to renderTo()/appendTo() to get the old behavior.
• renderTo()/appendTo() has a new muted option to mute the video by default.

v0.98.24 - 2018-03-02

• Add hostname option to mitigate DNS rebinding (#1260)
• Update to simple-peer@9
• Browser testing: switch from zuul to airtap

v0.98.23 - 2018-02-20

• Update to bitfield@2

v0.98.22 - 2018-02-17

• Update to browserify@16
• Update to bittorrent-dht@8
• Update to pump@3

v0.98.21 - 2018-01-26

• Update to pump@2
• Update to mime@2
• Update to cross-spawn@6
• Update to browserify@15

v0.98.20 - 2017-10-17

• Fix file.downloaded for last piece
• Fix destroyed torrent debug
• Update to mime@2
• Update to debug@3
• Update to electron@1

v0.98.19 - 2017-06-25

• Add origin option for torrent.createServer() (#1096)
• Add file.progress property (#1140)
• Switch to ES6-compatible minifier

v0.98.18 - 2017-04-14

• Transfer webtorrent from @feross to @webtorrent organization.

v0.98.17 - 2017-04-13

• Fix uncaught exception (#1103)

v0.98.16 - 2017-04-07

• Update to simple-peer@8

v0.98.15 - 2017-03-30

• No meaningful changes

v0.98.14 - 2017-03-17

• Add filename to URLs on server index page (#1078)

v0.98.13 - 2017-03-16

• No meaningful changes

v0.98.12 - 2017-03-13

• Fix files under 16Kb are not downloaded correctly (#1077)

v0.98.11 - 2017-03-13

• Fix detection of seeding peers (#1076)

v0.98.10 - 2017-03-06

• Update to bittorrent-tracker@9

v0.98.9 - 2017-03-01

• Update to finalhandler@1
• Update to simple-peer@7

v0.98.8 - 2017-02-13

• wait to notify() or updateInterest() at end of GC (#1044)
• Update to cross-spawn@5

v0.98.7 - 2017-02-11

• Change os.tmpDir() to os.tmpdir() (#1043)

v0.98.6 - 2017-02-09

• Refactor http server; support content-disposition (#1039)

v0.98.5 - 2017-02-02

• Don't print debug log after torrent is destroyed

v0.98.4 - 2017-02-02

• Be more defensive: prevent code from running after destroy
• Fix "Cannot read property 'complete' of null" (#1022)
• Include infoHash in torrent.js debug logs
• Update to browserify@14

v0.98.3 - 2017-01-19

• Emit more warnings (#1021)
• Set user-agent header for http tracker requests (#1019)

v0.98.2 - 2017-01-18

• Don't send 'completed' event to tracker on client.seed (#991)
• Set user-agent header for http tracker requests (#962)

v0.98.1 - 2017-01-13

• Don't emit 'completed' on client.seed
• Do not choke on web seeds (#972)

v0.98.0 - 2016-11-23

• Add property for downloaded bytes per file (file.downloaded) (#974)
• Cross-origin HTTP redirect workaround for web seeds (#909)

v0.97.2 - 2016-09-26

• Creating a WebTorrent client with the {tracker: false} to disable communication with trackers should not affect creating a torrent with .seed(). The resulting torrent file should still contain the normal announce field. (#928)
• Add more peer ID entropy

v0.97.1 - 2016-09-17

• Handle invalid range handers instead of throwing (#921)

v0.97.0 - 2016-09-17

• Add option to disable BEP19 web seeds (webSeeds option to the WebTorrent constructor)

v0.96.5 - 2016-09-13

• Fix exceptions in server.close() and server.destroy()

v0.96.4 - 2016-08-23

• Warn when WebTorrent is installed on Node.js older than v4.0.0.

v0.96.3 - 2016-08-22

• Better docs for .renderTo()

v0.96.2 - 2016-08-20

• Replace 'hat' with 'randombytes'
• Better debug logs

v0.96.1 - 2016-08-18

• Prevent possible stack overflow

v0.96.0 - 2016-08-03

• Add options to disable autoplay/hide controls with appendTo() and renderTo()

v0.95.6 - 2016-07-28

• Allow deselecting the entire torrent with deselect() to happen earlier

v0.95.5 - 2016-07-26

• Fix support for FileList input to client.seed()

v0.95.4 - 2016-07-26

• Skip blocklist logic when opts.blocklist is not set


v0.95.3 - 2016-07-26

• Fix WebTorrent version string

v0.95.2 - 2016-06-22

• HEAD requests
 to HTTP server should not send entire body
• WebTorrent, LLC is now the steward of the project

v0.95.1 - 2016-06-15

• Emit 'seed' event on the torrent object

v0.95.0 - 2016-06-15

• API: Add file.getBlob() method

• Fix rare exception in lib/tcp-pool.js

v0.94.4 - 2016-06-10

• Support torrent with a single 0 byte file
• Use < since it handles NaN in a predictable way, i.e. false

v0.94.3 - 2016-05-30

• Use safe-buffer for improved buffer safety

v0.94.2 - 2016-05-28

• Fix rare exception in lib/file.js

v0.94.1 - 2016-05-26

• Make WebTorrent user agent string consistent across whole codebase

v0.94.0 - 2016-05-19

• Support exact source (xs) paramter of magnet URIs, for retreiving metadata

v0.93.4 - 2016-05-17

• Fix rare exception caused by race condition in lib/peer.js

v0.93.3 - 2016-05-13

• Don't unset {tracker: {wrtc: false}} option to WebTorrent constructor.

v0.93.2 - 2016-05-12

• When a duplicate torrent is added, don't emit the 'infoHash' event after 'error'. The 'error' event should be the last event.

v0.93.1 - 2016-05-08

• Remove path-exists dependency.

v0.93.0 - 2016-05-08

• Move tracker options (rtcConfig and wrtc) into opts.tracker.

  Before:

  var client = new WebTorrent({ rtcConfig: {}, wrtc: {} })

  After:

  var client = new WebTorrent({ tracker: { rtcConfig: {}, wrtc: {} } })

v0.92.0 - 2016-05-05

• Add new event: torrent.on('noPeers', function (announceType) {})

  Emitted whenever a DHT or tracker announce occurs, but no peers have been found. announceType is either 'tracker' or 'dht' depending on which announce occurred to trigger this event. Note that if you're attempting to discover peers from both a tracker and a DHT, you'll see this event separately for each.

v0.91.4 - 2016-05-05

• Fix exception: "peer._destroy is not a function" when calling torrent.pause()

v0.91.3 - 2016-05-04

• Fix torrent.swarm from causing an infinite recursion.

v0.91.2 - 2016-04-28

• Test node v6

v0.91.1 - 2016-04-24

• Emit 'done' event after sending the 'complete' message to the tracker.

v0.91.0 - 2016-04-21

Added

• client.listening property to signal whether TCP server is listening for incoming connections.

• client.dhtPort property reflects the actual DHT port when user doesn't specify one (this is parallel to client.torrentPort for the TCP torrent listening server)

Changed

• Merged Swarm class into Torrent object. Properties on torrent.swarm (like torrent.swarm.wires) now exist on torrent (e.g. torrent.wires).

• Deprecate: Do not use torrent.swarm anymore. Use torrent instead.

• torrent.addPeer can no longer be called before the infoHash event has been emitted.

• Remove torrent.on('listening') event. Use client.on('listening') instead.

• Remove support from TCPPool for listening on multiple ports. This was not used by WebTorrent and just added complexity. There is now a single TCPPool instance for the whole WebTorrent client.

• Deprecate: Do not use client.download() anymore. Use client.add() instead.

• Only pass torrent.infoHash to the Chunk Store constructor, instead of the Torrent instance itself, to prevent accidental memory leaks of the Torrent object by the store. (Open an issue if you were using other properties. They can be re-added.)

• Non-fatal errors with a single torrent will be emitted at torrent.on('error'). You should listen to this event. Previously, all torrent errors were also emitted on client.on('error') and handling torrent.on('error') was optional. This design is better since now it is possible to distinguish between fatal client errors (client.on('error')) when the whole client becomes unusable versus recoverable errors where only a single torrent fails (torrent.on('error')) but the client can continue to be used. However, if there is no torrent.on('error') event, then the error will be forwarded to client.on('error'). This prevents crashing the client when the user only has a listener on the client, but it makes it impossible for them to determine a client error versus a torrent error.

• Removed torrent.numBlockedPeers property. Use the blockedPeer event to track this yourself.

Fixed

• If client.get is passed a Torrent instance, it now only returns it if it is present in the client.

• Errors creating a torrent with client.seed are now emitted on the returned torrent object instead of the client (unless there is no event listeners on torrent.on('error') as previously discussed). The torrent object is now also destroyed automatically for the user, as was probably expected.

• Do not return existing torrent object when duplicate torrent is added. Fire an 'error' event instead.

• Memory leaks of Torrent object caused by many internal subclasses of WebTorrent, including RarityMap, TCPPool, WebConn, Server, File.

• client.ratio and torrent.ratio are now calculated as uploaded / received instead of uploaded / downloaded.

Previous versions

We did not maintain a changelog for versions prior to v0.91.0. The initial release of WebTorrent was on Dec 4, 2013.