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BitTorrent Library 0.6 Released

I've just released 0.6 of the BitTorrent library, which (in spite of the version number) is a major reworking of large components of the library and includes some major new features. One of the major additions is caching functionality, which will ...

Version 0.4

I've just released 0.4 of the BitTorrent library with a few minor improvements. Silo kindly pointed out to me that the "modified-by" field (used in most isoHunt torrents and possibly elsewhere) was being neglected, so its now part of the Torrent c...

Future BitTorrent Protocol To Be Closed

From perousing Slashdot today it would seem that BitTorrent Inc have decided to make all future releases of the BitTorrent client and protocol closed source. While a number of the clients are already closed source, I suppose this will create diffi...

BitTorrent Library 0.3 Released

I've been in correspondence with a user of my BitTorrent library, who has pointed out a number of issues that existed in the previous versions of the tracker library. I've worked to try and remedy those issues, as well as improving the general str...

BitTorrent Tracker Library Update

I received an email today about the error handling in my BitTorrent Tracker Library, and I realised that it could fail more gracefully than it currently was. The issue lies in providing corrupted or completely invalid .torrent files to the bencode...