PicoTorrent | A Tiny Hackable BitTorrent Client Written In Modern C++ | High Performance & Low Memory Usage

PicoTorrent

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A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client written in modern C++. Based on Rasterbar-libtorrent to provide high performance and low memory usage.

Quick facts

  • Full support for BitTorrent 2.0 (BEP-52), v1, v2 and v1+v2 hybrid torrents.
  • Supports DHT, PeX, LSD, UPnP.
  • (Azureus-style) peer ID: -PI- . Example: -PI0151- (major: 0, minor: 15, patch: 1).
  • User agent: PicoTorrent/x.y.z .
  • Native look-and-feel across Windows versions.
  • Easy to use with high performance.

The portable version of PicoTorrent requires manual installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019

Building PicoTorrent

To successfully build PicoTorrent, you need the following libraries and applications installed,

Make sure all submodules are updated.

λ git submodule update --init --recursive

Build your desired configuration and architecture.

λ .\build.ps1 --platform [x86|x64] --configuration [Debug|Release]

License

Copyright (c) Viktor Elofsson and contributors. PicoTorrent is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

GitHub:

Furthermore:

PicoTorrent v0.20.0

Release notes

:information_source: Full release notes in the blog - Behind the release - v0.20.

In a nutshell :chipmunk:

  • Rasterbar-libtorrent has been updated to 2.0. This adds real v2 and v1+v2 hybrid torrent support. Yay! (#863, #874, #883, #884)
  • Fixed a bug when displaying Cyrillic characters. (#865)
  • Removed the minimum size constraint. PicoTorrent can now be resized freely. (#866)
  • Added GitVersion to automagically version everything. No more VERSION.txt juggling. (#868)
  • Updated the C++ redistributable version downloaded when installing. (#869)
  • Added empty columns to the list views to prevent the last column from stretching. (#875)
  • Activating the torrent selection (either double clicking or pressing Enter) will open the paths in Explorer. (#877)
  • Updated Russian translations - thanks @birkoffe! (#878, #881)
  • Fixed a bug where the status bar didn’t place itself correctly when restoring from the taskbar. (#880)

Enjoy!

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