Software Update: BitTornado 0.3.1

BitTornado, formerly known as TheShad0w’s BitTorrent client, has released version 0.3.1. This program is a BitTorrent client written in Python, so it also runs on operating systems other than Windows. Version 0.3.1 came out a few hours later than 0.3.0 and fixt some bugs that caused the client to crash. TheShad0w reported the following regarding the release of 0.3.0:

I am pleased to announce that BitTornado T-0.3.0 has just been released. It has many features, including UPnP port forwarding access, engine improvements, a pretty per-file priority system hiding in the Details view, a fast-resume system that will make restarting torrents a breeze (and is helpful for those of you running seed servers , since you only have to hash-check once)… Other new functionality includes an option to flush data to disk every 5 minutes, for those of you using Windows 98 who want to run BitTorrent despite having problems with crashes… A download-rate limiter (I shoehorned it into the Advanced window since the main UI is going to be redesigned) for people with bandwidth quotas and problems with downstream flooding… An option to auto-save in the default directory, and a feature that automatically resumes files you’ve started downloading without needing your input… I think there’s more, but you’ll just have to go look![break] People who run Windows only have the installer needed, people with a Unix-based OS can here pull down the source code. These people also have Python and wxPython required. There is a discussion on the forum about the pros and cons of the various BitTorrent clients.