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aria2 is a multi-protocol, multi-source and cross-platform download utility.
The application supports the following protocols: HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink. It can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· mingw32: Re-open files with read-only mode enabled on seeding
· On Mingw32 build, if aria2 opens file with GENERIC_WRITE access right, some programs cannot open the file aria2 is seeding. To avoid this situation, re-open files with read-only enabled when seeding is about to begin.
· Save gid option with --save-session option
· Added --gid option
· This option sets GID manually. aria2 identifies each download by the ID called GID. The GI D must be hex string of 16 characters, thus [0-9a-zA-Z] are allowed and leading zeros must not be stripped. The GID all 0 is reserved and must not be used. The GID must be unique, otherwise error is reported and the download is not added. This option is useful when restoring the sessions saved using --save-session option. If this option is not used, new GID is generated by aria2.
· Use 64 bits random bytes as GID
· This change replaces the current 64 bit sequential GID with 64 bits random bytes GID in an attempt to support persistent GID. Internally, the GID is st...

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