Changelog

We are cooking these at the moment:

• Public API (%98 done. Needs more testing. For now only Python lib. will be released)
• Put.io Boxee App (%99 done. Needs a bit more testing)
• More Paid sites as a source! (%100 done. Released on Apr 26)
• MP4s for iPad!
• Alternative payment options (Released for Germany)
• Sharing with MP4 version (Released)

Known Issues

• PayPal Germany technical problems prevent up getting payments from whole Germany (I can't believe we couldn't fix this already)
• Download speed issues from 3 ISPs (Some parts of France, USA Comcast, Turkey TTNET. Working really hard to solve this ASAP)
• Zip streaming issues occur rarely (Download selected feature)

April ’10

• 22 Apr - Update: Pager on sharing page is improved.
• 22 Apr - Feature: Search for friends on sharing page.
• 22 Apr - Feature: Ability to cancel own account added.
• 22 Apr - Feature: Add files feature added to the mobile UI.
• 21 Apr - Bug fix: Subscription filter bug is fixed.
• 21 Apr - Update: Better client handling on video pages of mobile UI.
• 20 Apr - Update: Better search results on mobile section. 404s removed.
• 19 Apr - Update: MP4 output is optimized for 3G connections.
• 19 Apr - Update: Dashboard, videos pages are redesigned on mobile UI.
• 19 Apr - Bug fix: Browse for music page sorting bug is fixed.
• 18 Apr - Update: MP4 codec is changed from mpeg4 to h264.
• 18 Apr - Feature: Ability to convert MKV files to MP4 is added.
• 18 Apr - Bug fix: Better error handling for MP4 conversion.
• 16 Apr - Update: Some session optimizations are made.
• 16 Apr - Update: Single transfer size limit is increased to 100G due to high demand.
• 15 Apr - Update: Background job added to tidy up traffic log page hourly.
• 14 Apr - Update: Some improvements are made for the MP4 converting component.
• 14 Apr - Update: “Retry 5 times silently” feature added to file fetching component.
• 14 Apr - Update: Ability to use Put.io account for the help section (Single sign on)
• 13 Apr - Update: Better, more clever search results
• 13 Apr - Update: Default search parameters added to the search inputbox on result pages to help users learn using them.
• 13 Apr - Bug fix: Folder select pull down css bug is fixed.
• 13 Apr - Update: Some improvements are made for the internal components which are responsible for fetching files.
• 12 Apr - Update: Optimizations are made for background jobs which cause clutter (and delay deleting/moving files)
• 11 Apr - Bug fix: PayPal “Unsupported characters” bug is fixed.
• 10 Apr - Feature: An optional link to clean traffic log is added to the page.
• 10 Apr - Bug fix: Gravatar problem related to uppercase email addresses is fixed.
• 10 Apr - Bug fix: Unshare file link is fixed.
• 10 Apr - Bug fix: Mobil UI login form bug is fixed.
• 10 Apr - Bug fix: Login cookie expiration bug is fixed.
• 10 Apr - Feature: Ability to upgrade twice without any restriction
• 09 Apr - Update: Improvements are made to component that takes screenshots from video files.
• 09 Apr - Uptate: Improvements are made to the RSS subscription system to prevent cluttering.
• 09 Apr - Update: GRAND OPENNING @ 01:00 GMT +1!
• 08 Apr - Update: Press page and press kit are added.
• 07 Apr - Update: Improvements are made for streaming authentication.
• 07 Apr - Bug fix: Some security improvements are made regarding XSS and code injection.
• 07 Apr - Update: Payment exceptions are being logged anonymously to improve the service quality.
• 06 Apr - Bug fix: Some javascript bugs regarding the active transfer count are fixed.
• 04 Apr - Bug fix: Directory and file caching problems are fixed.
• 04 Apr - Update: Bittorrent component is upgraded for better performance.
• 03 Apr - Bug fix: Minor HTML/CSS bugs are fixed
• 03 Apr - Update: Minor improvements to the payment system (precautions for loggin out during payment)
• 02 Apr - Update: Typos, minor bugs and adding missing copies to the marketing section after the launch
• 01 Apr - Update: SOFT LAUNCH for beta testers (debut of payment system)
• 01 Apr - Bug fix: “Files within rar file are corrupted” bug is fixed.
• 01 Apr - Feature: SSL Encrpyted connection support added.
• 01 Apr - Update: Big announcement: http://put.io/goodnewseveryone

March ’10

• 22 Mar - Getting ready for the big announcement
• 19 Mar - Bug fix: “Browse for music” page fixed on the mobile UI.
• 19 Mar - Bug fix: Uppercase “MP3” file extentions preventing web music player to initiate.
• 19 Mar - Update: Improved multi part archive file detection in the URL analyzation
• 18 Mar - Update: Improved “Download Selected” feature. This will prevent corrupt zip files occurance when the downloading folder changes.
• 17 Mar - Bug fix: Corrected “sharing file size” on Sharing page
• 17 Mar - Bug fix: On some very rare occasions, fetching Torrent files resulted empty folders
• 16 Mar - Bug fix: “Download Selected” urls cached in js, url hidden before ajax response
• 16 Mar - Update: Ability to use username instead of email for logging to Put.io. Also works with Basic HTTP Auth.
• 12 Mar - Bug fix: File name representation bug fixed on Mobile UI
• 10 Mar - Bug fix: Range info is required in response for not-satisfied request
• 10 Mar - Bug fix: Any request with not-satisfyable range request will be responded
• 09 Mar - Update: Better handling for range requests
• 06 Mar - Update: Improvements on garbage collection, better memory management on internal fetchers.
• 05 Mar - Update: Info box added to the search page on Mobile UI.
• 04 Mar - Bug fix: Total sharing size bug fixed.
• 04 Mar - Update: Some Mobile UI improvements for better usability on Iphones and Ipods.
• 04 Mar - Update: Better disk health monitoring for the storage clusters.
• 04 Mar - Update: Better and faster CRC calculation
• 03 Mar - Update: Some patches made to the Torrent Library for better handling the torrent files.
• 02 Mar - Bug fix: Apache Web Server segmentation fault problem for ISO files.
• 02 Mar - Update: Some optimizations the improve the download and stream performance.

February '10

• 25 Feb - Bug fix: Fixed percent_done calculation for incomplete downloads
• 24 Feb - Bug fix: Spinner positions fixed on the Web UI.
• 23 Feb - Upgrade: Woohoo, We’ve doubled our file storage capasity.
• 22 Feb - Bug fix: Better handling files with “.djvu” extention
• 21 Feb - Update: Improvements are made for better file search
• 20 Feb - Bug fix: A new bug which is causing background jobs to halt without giving any notice is fixed.
• 18 Feb - Bug fix: Central bandwidth checks for downloads/streams/zip-streams
• 15 Feb - Update: Link source related improvements to improve fetching capabilities.
• 15 Feb - Update: GZip support for remote Torrent files.
• 14 Feb - Bug fix: Js bug fixed for blank state of Transfers page.
• 12 Feb - Bug fix: Fixed some “Copy To My Disk” feature issues.
• 09 Feb - Update: Re-enabled “Download Selected” feature.
• 04 Feb - Update: Design decision: failed transfers will no longer count as “active”
• 01 Feb - Update: Fetches from pay-sites will be deducted from your bandwidth quota from now on. (here is why)
• 01 Feb - Update: Single file size limit is increased to 20G due to high demand. But let us remind you, it takes longer to write and complete bigger files.

January '10

• 31 Jan - Update: All the incomplete transfers will pause instead of abort, if you have no disk space left.
• 31 Jan - Update: We've eliminated the negative disk quota. It wasn't actually a bug. More of a way to simplify things for users. But didn't work as we thought.
• 22 Jan - Bug fix: Rss items containing "[]" characters will be followed.
• 22 Jan - Update: Rss items without a link will be followed to find links.
• 22 Jan - Bug fix: Newly created folders didn't appear in the folder select pulldowns until the page refreshes.
• 22 Jan - Bug fix: Js bug is fixed about "Select All" and "Select None" buttons.
• 21 Jan - Feature: Copying friends' files to your own disk space
• 21 Jan - Feature: Downloading multiple items from your friends' shares
• 21 Jan - Feature: Mobile interface (m.put.io) is released for further testing.
• 21 Jan - Bug fix: "No response text" is removed from file pages.
• 21 Jan - Bug fix: Js bugs on "my account" pages are fixed.
• 20 Jan - Upgrade: Made some system upgrade to increase the Bittorrent performance.
• 18 Jan - Bug fix: Some mobile ui fixes.
• 15 Jan - Feature: "Block this user" link is added to friendship requests.
• 12 Jan - Bug fix: Some database optimizations are made to increase the performance.
  
• 11 Jan - Bug fix: Some zip streaming bugs fixed.
• 10 Jan - Bug fix: Breadcrumb js bugs on Google Chrome are fixed.
• 08 Jan - Update: Authorization methods of file downloads are changed to increase the compatibility. Download manager users have to enter their email and password as http basic auth username and password to be able to download. Cookie supported download managers work without a hassle.
• 07 Jan - Upgrade: We've made some internal changes to decrease the local network traffic. It was time consuming, but successful.
• 01 Jan - Feature: Started working on mobile ui apart from some backend improvements.

December '09

• 29 Dec - Bug fix: Some more unraring UTF-8 formatted files bugs fixed.
• 21 Dec - Bug fix: Search index bug fixed. Need to keep an eye on it. Followup fixes may be needed.
• 20 Dec - Bug fix: Torrent upload bug fixed.
• 16 Dec - Bug fix: Unraring UTF-8 formatted files bug fixed. Needs more work though.
• 14 Dec - Update: Spinner images added to all the buttons to indicate it's working or not.
• 14 Dec - Feature: Ability to change password, display name, email.
• 14 Dec - Feature: Ability to reset password (at last)
• 14 Dec - Bug fix: Js bug on search input field fixed.
• 14 Dec - Bug fix: Unable to close getting started box fixed.
• 14 Dec - Bug fix: Deleting file but leaving it shared.
• 14 Dec - Bug fix: Searching now supports UTF-8 characters.
• 14 Dec - Update: Better download speed indicator implemented for direct file fetches.
• 14 Dec - Bug fix: Automatic folder selection in the add file forms disabled when browsing friends' files
• 14 Dec - Bug fix: Notification added for the video files we can't detect codecs for. (Precaution with malicious video codecs)
• 14 Dec - Update: Option to stream MKV files via the new DivX Web Player added.
• 13 Dec - Bug fix: Js bug on search input field fixed.
• 12 Dec - Bug fix: Some html bugs fixed.
• 12 Dec - Features: Help section added.
• 9 Dec - Bug fix: "Torrent corrupted" bug fixed for some sites. Still needs work.
• 8 Dec - Update: Pagination added to the bandwidth usage log.
• 8 Dec - Bug fix: MP4 convert bug for some codecs (quicktime, some windows codecs) fixed.
• 8 Dec - Update: Got rid of automatic logging out when user ip changed. Causes trouble on the user side.
• 4 Dec - Update: Select folder box redesigned.
• 4 Dec - Bug fix: Minor bugs fixed on recursive unraring.
• 3 Dec - Update: Notification added to url analyze table for the sites that doesn't allow direct file fetching.
• 3 Dec - Feature: KML viewer added.
• 3 Dec - Update: Better sort on transfers page
• 2 Dec - Bug fix: SWF embedding bug fixed.
• 2 Dec - Bug fix: "Move file" javascript problem fixed.
• 2 Dec - Bug fix: Cancel sharing bug on Safari fixed.
• 2 Dec - Bug fix: Disappearing "cancel sharing" button problem fixed.
• 2 Dec - Bug fix: Folder selection on Safari fixed.
• 2 Dec - Feature: Add file folder automatically selecting when browsing among your folders.
• 1 Dec - Bug fix: Zip basket freezing solved.

November '09

• 30 Nov - Update: Sharing and folder select boxes load with AJAX to reduce the html file size.
• 30 Nov - Bug fix: Some Google Chome bugs fixed.
• 30 Nov - Bug fix: Some Opera bugs fixed.
• 28 Nov - Bug fix: Page refresh bug fixed when approving friendship requests.
• 28 Nov - Feature: Creating folders with the same name allowed. Adds suffixes like (1), (2)...
• 28 Nov - Update: Backend for converting to MP4 files improved.
• 28 Nov - Bug fix: DMG files are not auto-extracted from now on.
• 28 Nov - Update: Pagination added to friends section.
• 28 Nov - Feature: Getting Started box added for newly registered beta users.
• 28 Nov - Update: Sharing ui improved.
• 28 Nov - Update: Create a subscription tab removed from "add new files" box for clarity.
• 26 Nov - Bug fix: Video preview bug fixed.
• 26 Nov - Bug fix: Multipart rar archives containing files larger than 8G are handled better. Related disk space bug fixed.
• 26 Nov - Update: MP4 conversion improved, some minor bugs fixed.
• 26 Nov - Update: Some ui improvements about mp4 conversion are done.
• 24 Nov - Update: Cancel link added to "move" menu.
• 22 Nov - Update: pt01, p01, pa01, par01, prt01, 001 patterns are considered as multipart archive files by default.
• 22 Nov - Update: UTF-8 support added for multilingual file names in the archive files.
• 21 Nov - Bug fix: File sizes in the Zip & Download Basket are fixed.
• 20 Nov - Update: Session handling improved for security.
• 20 Nov - Bug fix: Friendship request from empty username bug fixed.
• 19 Nov - Update: Limit added for the torrents containing over 1000 files.
• 18 Nov - Update: Some architectural changes made to improve the direct download performance.
• 17 Nov - Update: CPUlimit applied to extracting archive files to manage the load.
• 17 Nov - Bug fix: CPU overload when deleting files bug fixed.
• 17 Nov - Update: Torrent files containing more than 1000 files are not executed due to load problem. A notification added to the url analyze table.
• 17 Nov - Update: Recurring archive extraction level is reduced to 3.
• 17 Nov - Bug fix: Thumbnails fixed for mp4 files.
• 17 Nov - Update: Search results quality improved.
• 17 Nov - Update: Similar images algoritm updated.
• 17 Nov - Update: Swf files are embedded from another Put.io domain for security reasons.
• 16 Nov - Update: Getting started message updated for clarity.
• 15 Nov - Feature: Close all messages link added to the dashboard.
• 13 Nov - Bug fix: Algoritm of similar items box updated. It should be more accurate.
• 13 Nov - Feature: Similar items box added for audio and image formats.
• 13 Nov - Update: Made improvements for torrent engine.
• 13 Nov - Note: Active transfers cancelled to upgrade the torrent engine.
• 13 Nov - Bug fix: Recognition of ogg format improved.
• 11 Nov - Bug fix: Broken links fixed in the "similar audio files" box.
• 11 Nov - Update: Directory size calculation is now a background job.
• 10 Nov - Update: Improvements made for viewing text files.
• 09 Nov - Update: File and folder listings refactored for better performance.
• 06 Nov - Update: Better sorting for search results.
• 06 Nov - Bug fix: Breadcrumb link bug fixed on the file pages.
• 06 Nov - Bug fix: Friendship approval link fixed.
• 06 Nov - Bug fix: Adding to zip & download basket quota control bug fixed.
• 06 Nov - Bug fix: Unnecessary pager link removed on the "items shared with you" folder.
• 06 Nov - Bug fix: Searching "*.avi" bug fixed.
• 06 Nov - Feature: Ability to using asterix char. added to the search function.
• 05 Nov - Update: Main javascript file refactored for better performance.
• 04 Nov - Update: "Upload from computer" form edited visually.
• 04 Nov - Feature: Remembering which folder you are in when uploading or fetching a file.
• 04 Nov - Bug fix: UTF-8 support added for the invitation codes.
• 03 Nov - Feature: A simple dashboard filter was added to reduce the noise of dashboard messages.
• 03 Nov - Bug fix: Broken links in "Similar items box" fixed.
• 02 Nov - Bug fix: Minor bug in "sharing all friends" function fixed.
• 02 Nov - Update: Files you are shared with are included in the search results.
• 02 Nov - Update: We no longer extract archive files containing over 500 files, or a file that exceeds single file size limit (8G).
• 01 Nov - Update: Notification messages will be sent to the dashboard if a transfer encounters a problem.
• 01 Nov - Bug fix: Minor bug fixed in the subscriptions form.

October '09

• 30 Oct - Note: We are no longer labeled "alpha". Core features seem to be intact.