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Persepolis Download Manager 5.2.0

Persepolis Download Manager is a free, open-source, and cross-platform download manager built to simplify and speed up your file downloads. With support for up to 64 simultaneous connections per file, it significantly enhances download speeds. Persepolis includes advanced features like download scheduling, queuing, and support for both HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It also offers full proxy support, including SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, ensuring flexible network usage.

Unlike earlier versions, Persepolis no longer depends on Aria2 and now operates with its own dedicated download engine, offering improved stability and performance. With browser extensions available for Chrome, Firefox, and others, Persepolis integrates easily into your workflow on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD systems.

Key Features:

  • Up to 64 simultaneous connections per download for faster speeds
  • Multi-segment downloading to split files and accelerate downloads
  • Download scheduling and queuing for automated task management
  • Support for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols
  • SOCKS5 and HTTP proxy support for flexible network usage
  • Video and media downloading from various popular platforms via yt-dlp integration
  • Browser integration with WebExtensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge, and others
  • Retry mechanism for automatic recovery from failed downloads
  • Clipboard monitoring that auto-detects copied URLs for quick downloads
  • Drag and drop support for easy adding of links
  • Dark mode for comfortable use in low light environments
  • Tray icon and system tray integration for quick access and background operation
  • Custom system notifications about download progress, errors, and completion
  • Manual control over download segments allowing fine-tuning of connection splits
  • Automatic file organization by categories like videos, documents, etc.
  • Download files with unknown or unspecified sizes (e.g., GitHub ZIPs)

Persepolis Download Manager 5.2.0 changelog:

Added Bundle for Linux Distributions

  • Users have often requested that Persepolis, like Windows and Mac, have a standalone version or a bundle for Linux distributions that can be downloaded and run with one click without worrying about installing prerequisites. This has happened in this version. You just need to download the Persepolis Linux bundle, make it executable if necessary, and easily run it with a double click.

Persepolis Video finder has been improved

  • Nowadays, many video sharing sites use the m3u8. The Persepolis Video Downloader had issues downloading from some of these sites. This issue has been improved.
  • In the new version of Persepolis, when you use the Persepolis Video Finder, the video thumbnail will be displayed for you, and the highest quality version will be automatically selected for download. However, you can choose lower quality versions if you wish.

You can install Persepolis on FreeBSD and its derived distributions

  • Running Persepolis on FreeBSD and its derivatives had some issues. These issues have been resolved.

New styles have been added or modified for different operating systems

  • In Linux distributions and FreeBSD derivatives, by installing the Breeze package, the appearance of Persepolis will be aligned with GTK+ and QT desktops. If you are using the PySide6 version of Persepolis, we highly recommend installing the Breeze package on your operating system.
  • The Windows 11 style has also been added for Windows users.
  • The Fusion style of Persepolis, which is available for the Persepolis Linux bundle and all operating systems, has been redesigned using the BreezeStyleSheets project.

New notification sounds have been created for Persepolis.

  • Persepolis uses new notification sounds on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac operating systems. These notification sounds are created with a setar(a Persian instrument).

Many bugs have been fixed

  • In previous versions of Persepolis, long downloads encountered a Read timed out error, and the user had to resume the download. This issue has been improved.
  • Persepolis used to occupy a large amount of user RAM when downloading large files. This issue has been resolved.
  • Persepolis had issues downloading files of unknown size. This issue has been fixed.
  • New downloads sometimes caused overwriting of incomplete downloads with the same file name. This issue has been resolved.
  • The issue with the video finder not working on the Windows operating system has been fixed.
  • We thank all contributors who reported bugs or help us in fixing them. Special thanks to @eajaykumar