Bit Torrent 4.0 releases.

Author: admin

9 Mar

The Bane of Hollywood and RIAA, Bit Torrent, has upgraded to version 4.0 with the following new updates:

2005-03-07: 4.0.0 is now available.

Changes since the last stable release:

All new queue-based user interface

Many options are now modifiable from the interface, including upload rate

Lots of other interface improvements

Extra stats are visible, for those who like it

Remembers what it was doing across restarts

New .torrent maker “btmaketorrentgui” replaces “btcompletedir”

Better performance, as always

License has changed to the BitTorrent Open Source License

Torrent fields are correctly created and interpreted as utf8

Too many little things to list

A few technical notes, for those interested:

Single port: launchmany can seed and client can download many files from a single port and thread

Interface now uses GTK instead of wxWidgets

BitTorrent packets are marked as bulk data to make traffic shaping easier