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KTorrent
Developer(s)Joris Guisson, Ivan Vasić
Stable release
23.08.3 [1] [2]  Edit this on Wikidata / 9 November 2023; 5 months ago (9 November 2023)
Preview release
22.11.90 [3]  Edit this on Wikidata / 23 November 2022; 17 months ago (23 November 2022)
Repository
Written in C++
Operating system Unix-like
Type BitTorrent client
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website kde.org/applications/internet/ktorrent/

KTorrent is a BitTorrent client that is part of the KDE Gear.

Features

KTorrent is often received as a client intended to be feature rich. [4] Features include: [5]

  • Upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling
  • Internet searching with torrent search engines.
  • 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
  • μTP support
  • Generation and parsing of magnet links
  • UDP tracker scraping
  • Enhanced usability of the queue manager
  • Super-seeding support
  • Streaming of video while downloading

See also

References

  1. ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  2. ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  3. ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  4. ^ Nick Veitch (13 September 2010). "7 of the best Linux BitTorrent clients". Linux Format. techradar. Archived from the original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  5. ^ Manual, ktorrent.org, archived from the original on 2012-07-19, retrieved 2012-08-25

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