Tribler 7.0 is undergoing internal testing, ready soon

Hi All,
Long overdue update… We have not posted here for months, but there is a shiny big release coming. “7.0”

Tribler7 has total re-doing of the GUI. The whole user interface has been rewritten from scratch with performance and responsiveness in mind. Tribler itself is also much more polished and tuned. Coming weeks we will be focused on getting the bugs out. We’re doing internal testing now on Mac, Win and Linux. Streaming works, amazing sub-second search, real-time recommendations, etc. We’re still fixing lots of low-level bugs, like: Error when creating channel with long unicode description field · Issue #2614 · Tribler/tribler · GitHub

Plus anonymous downloading should be faster and able to exploit a multi-core architecture.

See screenshot for preview.

There are now 22 students in my university lab. It’s been hard to juggle hard-core science and the boring engineering fixes that Tribler needs, but we’re managing mostly. This is due to my: http://blockchain-lab.org work -j

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Looking forward to testing, been on 6.6.0-exp1 (i’m too lazy to roll back) and there’s been a few GUI bugs that’s been around. Of course, not much to do with that until the new one is out.

Also, since the screenshot is dark, is that the new UI, or just a dark mode. Regardless, that’s going to be easier on the eyes when you are on late at night!

Looks nice :relaxed:, might be good to have possibility to change background color from dark to white.
The search results rows seems quite height, might be good to save vertical space by creating columns and adding “Size” details before/behind names. It would allow more results on a screen and less time for scrolling and focusing eyes.

I just hope picking the file location where the Torrent is placed, is finally fixed. I am fed up retyping the location and filename every time. History with 6.6.0-exp1 is also not working properly, Anonymous uploading is not working, because all my seeds have a 0 ratio upload.
I also hope that excluded files are not being downloaded, and not like now just placed in a unwanted folder. which I have to clear every time. If I miss one episode of a TV serie, then I just want to download that episode and not all others!
Can’t wait to test the 7.0. version.

Yeah, our designer made it quite dark. This is by default, similar to darkness of market leader VLC.

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I just hope picking the file location where the Torrent is placed, is finally fixed.
We’ll try to make this release more stable and polished then ever before…

Anonymous uploading and seeding is not yet as good as we need it to be. Fixes are ongoing, https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/pull/2607. Most people still use our exit node to download. We’ll thinking of doing a “campaign” to get people to seed anonymously next year. If 10000 people seed 100GByte, we would be able to offer amazing performance…

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We now have the excluded file feature also in Tribler7. Sadly the .unwanted directory has to store a few KByte or MByte of those Bittorrent pieces which contain data for two files. That data has to be stored somewhere, but you would like it to not pollute the download dir itself. You would prefer a system temp dir?

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Yes for Windows I guess the tmp/Temp environmental ;variable could be used.

Installed on my E: drive, because C: is am M2 SSD, but when starting Tribler complained value not c: but a switch to e: apparently failed.
uninstalled and reinstalled on C: and program started normally, but screen disappeared at soon as I picked settings, with the console
screen showing
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “TriblerGUI\tribler_request_manager.py”, line 74, in on_finished
File “lib\json_init_.py”, line 338, in loads
File “lib\json\decoder.py”, line 366, in decode
File “lib\json\decoder.py”, line 384, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

This is on Windows 10 Prerelease 14965

Can you please post the link to the installer you used?

Thank you for posting that bug, we’ve created a bugreport. Hopefully you have time to test out our solution once we’ve figured out what went wrong. https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/2631

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We aimed at releasing Tribler 7.0 before X-mas, but we’re not happy yet with the current stability and need for polishing. We’re now aiming for early Jan. The Android version of Tribler is becoming somewhat usable, it’s in better shape then I expected: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/2231#issuecomment-261721519

We are working hard on ensuring the new Tribler 7.x series has solid performance. Our goal for 2017 is stable HD streaming at 24 Mbit/sec with Tor-like privacy, using hidden seeding and solid end-to-end crypto. Plus Kodi support.

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I hope so since I was offline from Nov 10 to Dec 20 because of the crash of 6.6.0 exp.
I re installed 6.5.2 but all of the torrents were initializing for over an hour.
ON Dec 21, I re installed 75 torrents manually and added 10 new torrents.
Everything worked fine for four hours then I turned off the computer and went to sleep.
Dec. 22, all the torrents, including the 10 new ones, went back to initializing and stayed there.
I will be offline for another month???

I have been running 7.0 from an Odroid XU4. It has four cores and is able to do hyperthreading. But regardless of what I try, always one single core is maxed out and because of this downloads are hardly happening, even with just using a single anonymous hop.

The other cores are hardly used at all.

I wish all a merry Christmas and a good new year.

Hopefully a good bug-free version of Tribler

That would be awesome :sunglasses: