v1.4.0

This release adds built-in Torrent downloads and a dedicated Properties window, while making regular downloads, browser handoffs, and cross-platform packages more dependable.

New features

• Torrent downloads
  • Add .torrent files and magnet links from the Add window, file associations, magnet: links, and Firelink Companion.
  • Resolve remote metadata before enqueueing and safely reuse validated Torrent metadata.
  • Select files, prioritize pieces, preallocate or allocate as needed, verify existing data, remove unselected files safely, and add per-file web seeds.
  • Manage trackers and exclusions, tracker timing, DHT/IPv6/PEX/LPD discovery, encryption, peer limits, network identity, and resource limits.
  • View file progress, piece availability, connected and listed peers, seeders, upload totals and speed, and the info hash.
  • Set upload limits, seed time or ratio, stop timeout, concurrent seed slots, and move Torrent data to a new location.
  • Use a dedicated Torrents category with pause, resume, retry, redownload, and safe cleanup.
• Download and Torrent Properties windows
  • Open a selected download in its own window with overview, transfer, and advanced controls.
  • Use Torrent tabs for file selection, trackers, peers, options, and live diagnostics.
  • Edit supported settings while a transfer is active, including speed, connections, Torrent upload and peer limits, seeding, verification, allocation, and encryption.
  • Inspect allocation, exact progress, resume failures, destinations, and current diagnostics; copy long URLs or paths and export magnet links where available.
  • Keep the window size during the app session while the window follows the current theme and locale.
• Adaptive mirror selection
  • Optionally use recent transfer performance to choose among multiple mirrors. Mirror statistics stay private on this device.
• Transfer and layout visibility
  • Show the file-allocation phase while a normal download prepares its destination.
  • Remember the main-window size and position and the Folders collapse preference between launches.

Improvements

• Improve normal-download recovery across restarts, stale transfers, redirects, mirrors, connection-pool slowdowns, retries, and resume operations without saved credentials.
• Improve media recovery and resume messaging, preserve exact progress at the end of a transfer, and restore adaptive YouTube formats. This responds to the interrupted-YouTube-download report in #36.
• Make browser and deep-link inputs arrive in order, keep magnet clipboard handoffs usable, and make Add-window destination and metadata validation clearer.
• Improve the download table, sidebar, Add window, Settings, RTL keyboard navigation, and accessibility behavior at narrow window sizes.
• Add clear guidance for the macOS first-launch security warning and safe approval steps, responding to #34.
• Refresh bundled engines and dependencies, resume interrupted engine downloads safely, and strengthen package, release, and cross-platform verification.

Fixes

• Retry affected transfers through the system resolver when a VPN or network tunnel leaves aria2 unable to resolve a host, addressing #35.
• Prevent late or duplicate lifecycle events from reviving, removing, or misreporting a download after a newer action has already won.
• Keep replacement, removal, and pre-admission cleanup from leaving stale queue entries, partial files, or misleading progress behind.
• Keep completed, paused, failed, and retrying downloads authoritative while allocation and progress updates arrive asynchronously.
• Make scheduled actions, speed limits, logs, persisted settings, and browser credentials safer when several changes happen close together.

Compatibility

• Use Firelink Companion 2.2.0, or the latest Companion release, with Firelink 1.4.0.