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Connection bonding, a tuned BitTorrent engine, and a menu bar presence.

Added

  • Connection bonding. MacGet can download one file over several internet links at once — Wi-Fi plus a USB-tethered iPhone or Android phone, Ethernet, or any other interface macOS sees. Off by default; turn it on from the new Connections toolbar item or Settings › Network.
    • Each link must prove it reaches the internet before it joins, and drops out only after two consecutive failed probes.
    • The existing 1–16 connection budget is split across links rather than enlarged; work stealing gives the faster link more pieces.
    • A link the server rejects sits out the rest of that download without restarting it or being counted against the host.
    • Download rows and the inspector show a per-link speed breakdown and a stacked chart.
    • Applies to resumable HTTP(S) downloads. Any proxy disables it, so it can never bypass one.
    • Torrent peer connections can be spread across bonded links too (experimental).
  • Menu bar item — a progress ring and total speed, with a menu to check or pause downloads without opening the window.
  • Torrent Performance settings — max peers, public tracker injection (skipped for private torrents), encryption preference with an opt-in strict mode, and port mapping.
  • IPv6 DHT when the Mac has a global IPv6 address.

Changed

  • Faster torrents. The peer-discovery ceiling rises from 10M to 100M (the old value stopped looking for peers at ~80 Mbps), the disk cache is larger, seeding no longer holds a download slot, and the concurrency setting is honoured.
  • Chrome extension ships without media capture. Media extraction now lives in the Firefox build only, as required by the Chrome Web Store; download capture, cookies and referrer are unchanged.

Fixed

  • Downloads without a Content-Length work. Servers using chunked transfer no longer fail with "Server did not report file size."
  • Clicking a magnet link adds it. MacGet launched as the magnet: handler but then dropped the URL.
  • The list keeps updating after the window is closed and reopened from the Dock, instead of going silent.
  • Fast downloads no longer fail with "Chunk not found" or "Unexpected HTTP status 0". When workers finished during the 100 ms spawn stagger, the engine could start a worker on a piece that had just been split, or treat a download that completed mid-stagger as stalled.
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