rTorrent 0.9.8, -jc Release 16

- allow to preallocate space for the whole torrent at once

  To enable, "system.file.allocate.set = 2".

  Currently, with system.file.allocate = 1, rTorrent preallocates space
  only after the file is opened for write.

  In many cases, it is preferable to preallocate space for the whole
  torrent at once, to reduce fragmentation of contents inside the
  torrent.

  It allows more efficient filesystem organization, where files that
  are likely to be read together are packed in contiguous area of the
  disk, improving the performance and I/O patterns of future read
  operations.

rTorrent 0.9.8, -jc Release 15

- "d.timestamp.last_active" is now updated when
  the user stops an active torrent manually.

- when JSON RPC is used, rTorrent is able to acquire
  global lock later and release it earlier. Hopefully,
  this would allow less contention and better performance.

rTorrent 0.9.8, -jc Release 14

- Add "download.{active,inactive}" events
  and "d.timestamp.last_active":

  The function is fully event-based, and has a
  well-defined and stable behavior.

  "Activity" here means "last time any peer was
  connected", consistent with @pyroscope's
  definition of "d.timestamp.last_active" in
  https://rtorrent-docs.readthedocs.io.

  Some caveats: the date would only be recorded
  when the last peer disconnects naturally. So if
  the user manually stopped the torrent, or stop
  the rTorrent when the torrent is still active,
  the timestamp would not be recorded. This is
  because when the torrent closes (or download
  object destructs), pending events are destroyed
  as well. Additionally, users have to check if
  the torrent is currently active by themselves,
  so rTorrent does not have to frequently write
  current time to the session.

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