14 DAY TRIAL // We are thrilled to announce today that the final version of the uGet 2.0 download manager has been released for GNU/Linux operating systems, available for download right now for Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora-based distributions.
After a long development cycle that included no more than eleven development releases, uGet 2.0 has been moved to the stable channel and it's ready to manage all your downloads in style, no matter the Linux operating system used.
While there's no official announcement on the application's website at the moment of writing this article, we can tell you that uGet 2.0 includes numerous attractive features, such as a new settings dialog, better BitTorrent and Metalink support in the aria2 plugin, and support for uGet RSS messages in the banner.
Moreover, uGet 2.0 now lets users to adjust the category selector in the main window for touch screens, remembers panel position and category selection, supports sorting of all downloads by status, and supports launching of custom commands when download is complete.
Some under-the-hood features were implemented in uGet 2.0, such as usage of the JSON file format for all data files, global speed control no affects all plugins, categories for each data file, ability to set priority for each downloaded file, automatic classifier by file scheme, host, and extension, and the ability to change category order.
The cURL and aria2 plugins have been updated as well
uGet 2.0 also brings improvements to the cURL and aria2 plugins, such as support for mirrors and multi-thread downloads in the cURL plugin, support for RPC authorization secret token in the aria2 plugin, support for version 1 of aria2 control file format in the cURL plugin, and support for allocating files by their size before downloading in the cURL plugin.
Additionally, users will be able to add aria2's "--out" command-line argument to set the output filename, JSON-RPC batch request are now supported in the aria2 plugin in order to improve remote aria2 downloading, add a "split" option has been added to the aria2 plugin in order to avoid having fewer connections when specifying mirrors.
All Linux users can download uGet 2.0 right now from Softpedia. When upgrading from uGet 1.x, please note that the downloaded files can't be resumed by uGet 2.x if using the cURL plugin. uGet 2.0 will also be available for Android, BSD, and Windows platforms in the coming days.