v7.12.0-RC4

Overview

This release candidate includes important bugfixes, see the section "latest bugfixes of the v7.12.0-RC4 release"

• The main feature of this release is the auto-generation of torrent tags from torrent titles that work in the background.
• Also, the release contains numerous bug fixes.
• The Tribler codebase was significantly refactored to make further development faster.

Features

• Tags auto generation by @drew2a in #6718
• Local search for tags by @drew2a in #6617
• Remote search by tags by @drew2a in #6708
• Add docker support by @xoriole in #6715, #6773

Latest bugfixes of RC4 release:

• If a user decides to send a Tribler crash report, Tribler confirms that the report has been sent, but actually, it does not send anything, fixed in #6974
• Libtorrent session state gets lost when upgrading to a new Tribler version, fixed in #6978
• Fix Tribler crash when pressing Ctrl+O (Cmd+O on OSX) to add a torrent from a file, fixed in #6980

Bugfixes since 7.11 release:

• Fixes #6929 by @drew2a in #6937: Can't open torrent file from browser by clicking on it
• Fix #6968 Tribler freezes and requires "Force shutdown" on exit by @kozlovsky in #6969
• Fix #6961 Error when removing entries from the FeedbackDialog by @kozlovsky in #6962
• Fix the Tribler crash after closing of FeedbackDialog by @kozlovsky in #6960
• Fix the upgrader logic if the tags db file was not created yet by @kozlovsky in #6956
• Add a posiibility to manually trigger GUI and Core exceptions in Tribler for debugging purposes by @kozlovsky in #6959
• Fix processing URL-escaped characters by @drew2a in #6738
• Make sorting by name case insensitive by @kozlovsky in #6726
• Remove allow_exit_node_checkbox by @drew2a in #6736
• Customise categories for different pages by @drew2a in #6554
• Add exist_ok=True to mkdir by @drew2a in #6560
• Replace core_traceback by last_core_output by @drew2a in #6567
• Fixes for Tribler logger by @kozlovsky in #6585
• Fix api_key encoding/decoding by @kozlovsky in #6608, #6611, #6613, #6647
• Fix key error on metainfo fetch by @xoriole in #6610
• Fixes for GUI startup sequence by @ichorid in #6596
• Fixes #6665 - Graph can now go higher than TB. New PB Definition added. by @Joybuke in #6666
• Feature/report endpoint errors by @ichorid in #6649
• Set the correct range for Y-axis of the token balance graph by @kozlovsky in #6668
• Update Russian translation by @adem4ik in #6710
• Fix missing XML declaration by @overflw in #6703
• Swapped 'cancel' and 'download' buttons by @devos50 in #6727
• Decrease show threshold for tags by @drew2a in #6742
• Fixes #6747: OSError "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" in dragEnterEvent by @kozlovsky in #6748
• Fixes #6745: Missed dependency: PopularityComponent requires TorrentCheckerComponent to be active by @kozlovsky in #6746
• Fixes AttributeError on removing downloads by @xoriole in #6909
• Handle race condition when deleting lock file by @kozlovsky in #6776
• Fix Ubuntu 21.04+ startup issue by @xoriole in #6734
• Fixes #6777: suppress PermissionError in on_save_resume_data_alert by @kozlovsky in #6779
• Add null check to confirm_clicked_callback by @drew2a in #6798
• Handle OSError in TriblerWindow.clicked_force_shutdown() by @kozlovsky in #6816
• Handle ValueError "Data is not a bencoded string" in TorrentInfoEndpoint.get_torrent_info() by @kozlovsky in #6814
• Wrap Download.on_metadata_received_alert() with @check_handle decorator by @kozlovsky in #6818
• Fix a crash in the Events tab of the Debug pane by @kozlovsky in #6809
• Escape non-ASCII symbols when writing the tag value to the log by @kozlovsky in #6812
• Handle possible duplicates in random tags generated by tag_torrent by @kozlovsky in #6820
• Add missed arguments to RunTriblerArgsParser by @kozlovsky in #6804
• Replace get by select.limit in BandwidthDatabase.get_latest_transaction by @drew2a in #6821
• Add NPE check to handle_uri by @drew2a in #6829
• Add is_dir() check to add_directory_dialog by @drew2a in #6835
• Add UnicodeEncodeError to the except block by @drew2a in #6836
• Fix download progressbar paint issue by @xoriole in #6910
• Fix an error message that reports milliseconds as seconds by @kozlovsky in #6914
• Handle non-utf8 Tribler Core output in Tribler GUI by @kozlovsky in #6917

Code improvements

• Use ipv8 as an external dependency by @drew2a in #6757
• Add maybe_component by @drew2a in #6557
• Refactor/remove obsolete upgrades by @ichorid in #6558
• Run Upgrader in a GUI thread by @ichorid in #6559
• Remove unused methods by @devos50 in #6605
• Make notifier more generic by @drew2a in #6702
• Move discovery_booster to ipv8 component by @drew2a in #6719
• Move EVA protocol to ipv8 component by @drew2a in #6723
• Add session context manager by @drew2a in #6724
• Remove common package by @drew2a in #6755
• Statically typed notifier by @kozlovsky in #6728
• Enable origin tracking for coroutine objects by @kozlovsky in #6762
• Refactoring the folders structure by @drew2a in #6803
• Remove popularity community experiments by @drew2a in #6805
• Rename QtSingleApplication.activation_window() to tribler_window by @drew2a in #6830
• Remove pre-commit by @drew2a in #6837
• Refactor rest utils by @drew2a in #6838
• Fix build for release 7.12 by @kozlovsky in #6896
• Update Debian build by @xoriole in #6901
• Updated IPv8 pointer by @qstokkink in #6669
• Update issue templates by @drew2a in #6580
• [Snyk] Security upgrade pillow from 8.4.0 to 9.0.0 by @snyk-bot in #6705
• [Snyk] Security upgrade pillow from 9.0.0 to 9.0.1 by @snyk-bot in #6765

Documentation fixes

• Update development on linux by @drew2a in #6536
• Fixes #6624: specify the exact version of mistune library in doc/requirements.txt by @kozlovsky in #6625
• Specify exact version of MarkupSafe in doc requirements by @kozlovsky in #6781
• Add Faker and sentry as common dependency by @xoriole in #6656
• Added v7.11 download badge to README by @devos50 in #6768
• Fix broken link by @drew2a in #6796
• Add python 3.9 and python 3.9 badges by @drew2a in #6797

Test improvements

• Make --core and --gui-test-mode separate flags with all combinations possible by @kozlovsky in #6602
• Using SelectorEventLoop during tests by @devos50 in #6527
• Apply MockIPv8 key injection by @drew2a in #6544
• Added small delay after mouse click in GUI test by @devos50 in #6547
• Make CoreExceptionHandler scope-dependent by @drew2a in #6543
• Change mock type for encode_message by @drew2a in #6540
• Use in-memory SQLite DB for Tags in GUI test mode by @ichorid in #6574
• Fix and speedup test_drop_silent_peers by @ichorid in #6578
• Simplify GUI-Core startup sequence by @ichorid in #6573
• Improve tests for patch_import.py by @drew2a in #6588
• Replace random char generation by fake words by @drew2a in #6592
• Make sure generated tags have a valid length by @devos50 in #6615
• Remove spam in pytest output by @kozlovsky in #6620
• Fix gui tests stability by @kozlovsky in #6619
• Fix for #6603 by @drew2a in #6629
• Fixed channel subscribe GUI test by @devos50 in #6643
• Remove SOCKS component from GUI test mode requirements by @ichorid in #6651
• Fix #6653 Sentry test failures by @drew2a in #6694
• Add faker and sentry_sdk as common modules to mock during doc build by @xoriole in #6675
• Fix unstable test_channels_peers_mapping_drop_excess_peers by @kozlovsky in #6731
• Fix run_bandwidth_crawler script by @kozlovsky in #6730
• Fix tunnel experiments by @kozlovsky in #6732
• Fix unstable tests by @kozlovsky in #6763
• Add "no_parallel" pytest's mark by @drew2a in #6799
• Add no_parallel to pytest.ini by @drew2a in #6800
• For test run with '--no-parallel' argument, skip all "normal" tests by @drew2a in #6824
• Fix Tribler startup/shutdown and GUI tests stability by @kozlovsky in #6828
• Refactor add_fake_torrents_channels fixture by @drew2a in #6827

New Contributors

• @Joybuke made their first contribution in #6666
• @adem4ik made their first contribution in #6710

Full Changelog: v7.11.0...v7.12.0-RC4