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Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-a-thing dept.

wintermute1974 writes "After sitting at a stable release of 3.4.2 since last spring, Bram Cohen's official BitTorrent client has been upgraded to version 4. In addition to its existing, rock-steady functionality, BitTorrent now sports a new queue-based UI. The revision details are on the BitTorrent site. Packets are now marked as bulk data too, which is significant considering that about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data."

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  1. Good to see progress... by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The OS X client is still at 3.4.2. Is anyone working on an update? (I'd offer to help, but I don't program :p)

    1. Re:Good to see progress... by Coryoth · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The OS X client is still at 3.4.2. Is anyone working on an update? (I'd offer to help, but I don't program :p)

      It's in python so you should be able to just grab the source and use btdownloadcurses.py in Terminal.app (or whatever it is). Do you need a pretty GUI, or do you just want the new functionality etc.?

      Jedidiah.

      --
      Craft Beer Programming T-shirts
    2. Re:Good to see progress... by rsmith-mac · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Do you need a pretty GUI, or do you just want the new functionality etc.?

      In all seriousness, it's a Mac. The userbase is not going to accept an application that doesn't have a "pretty GUI" because the GUI is much of what the platform is about. Just see OpenOffice for an example of software that's underutilized for its lack of an effective Mac GUI.

    3. Re:Good to see progress... by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I use the command line under screen on my mac, in fact, I ssh into my mac more than sit at the desktop. My wife will be playing World of warcraft on it, and I'll just ssh for irssi/bt underscreen.

      There are alot of new users that see what OSX is, a kick ass unix box with a great multi user desktop.

  2. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The official client has been miles behind most of the unofficial ones, and as far as I know nobody with any sense uses it anymore. And as far as I can see, this new version only makes it slightly less inferior. So why does it matter that it's been released? For that matter, why was it even made?

    I don't see the point in reinventing the wheel as far as clients go when there are far better alternatives already out there. Let other people write the clients, and concentrate on improving the protocol.

  3. Re:Azureus rocks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately BitTornado runs in Python, which can get almost as slow as client-side Java when you have a lot of stuff running. I'd recommend the pure C++ BitComet.

  4. Re:Favourite torrent sites? by tooth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You forgot to add:

    Yours truly,
    The MPAA