7.5.0-rc2 is released!

Dear Tribler Community,

The second release candidate of Tribler 7.5 series is ready for testing. It fixes all bugs reported in 7.5.0-rc1 including the annoying pending task crash and DNS-related crashes.

Although this is an RC and we consider it pretty stable, it is still advised to backup your Tribler state directory before upgrading.

The binaries are available below or can be downloaded from the official release page at Github repository.
Windows(64-bit)
Windows (32-bit)
Linux (generic)
Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
MacOS

Regards, and thanks for testing!

Very impressive responsiveness of the GUI and solid download speed.
works on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

CPU usage is nicely low. Overlay health seems great. btw why is the RemoteQueryCommunity not simply 1 extra message within the GigaChannelCommunity?


There are several reasons for putting RemoteQuery functionality in a separate community.

First of all, there is no versioning in communities, so if we would add some request/response functionality to an already existing community, old clients would not be able to respond. That would create a lot of “black holes” unable to answer queries during transitional period.

Secondly, RemoteQuery at this moment lacks functionality for actively gossiping stuff around. It’s gossip is on-introduction pull-based.

Most important, we still did not decide on an exact algorithm for pull-based gossiping of Channels content. The old GigaChannelCommunity allows us to safely experiment with pull-based gossip based on RemoteQueryCommunity, while still keeping the network alive and safe.