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KTorrent
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KTorrent running on a KDE4 session.
Developer(s) Joris Guisson, Ivan Vasić
Stable release

4.0.2

 (July 8, 2010; 18 days ago (2010-07-08)[1]) [+/−]
Preview release

4.0rc1

 (May 3, 2010; 2 months ago (2010-05-03)[1]) [+/−]
Written in C++ (Qt)
Operating system Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows[2]
Type BitTorrent client
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.ktorrent.org

KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It is maintained in the KDE Extragear.

Contents

[edit] Features

  • Upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling
  • Internet searching with torrent search engines using KHTML part.
  • Support for UDP trackers.
  • IP address blocklist plugin
  • Port forwarding with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
  • Protocol encryption
  • DHT (mainline version), and support for trackerless torrents
  • µTorrent peer exchange (PEX) support
  • File Prioritization
  • Ability to import partially-downloaded files
  • Directory scanner to automatically watch directories for new torrents
  • Manual addition of trackers to torrents
  • RSS feed support
  • Web interface plugin with default port number 8080
  • IPv6 support
  • SOCKS v4 and v5 support

New features of KTorrent 4:

  • µTP support
  • Generation and parsing of magnet links
  • UDP tracker scraping
  • Enhanced usability of the queue manager
  • Optional disabling of the webinterface authentication

[edit] See also

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[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "KTorrent". ktorrent.org. 2010-07-08 - 19:21. http://ktorrent.org/. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 
  2. ^ KTorrent FAQ: 'Will there be a windows port?'
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