Download Halite 0.3.2 RC

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It has been quiet around Halite for a while, but Binary Notions released a new version of its Bittorrent client on Wednesday, namely the release candidate for version 3.2. Halite, which takes its name from the eponymous mineral thanks, is open source and is being developed by the Irishman Eóin O’Callaghan. The program uses the Arvid Norberg created libtorrentlibrary and some boostlibraries. Below is the full list of changes since the previous stable release:

Changes from v0.3.1.8 to 0.3.2 RC:

  • Peer details exception fixed.
  • Updated to OpenSSL 0.98k
  • Updated to Boot 1.40
  • Updated to libtorrent 0.14.6
    • UPnP bug fixed.
    • fixed bug when setting unlimited upload or download rates for torrents.
    • replaces invalid filename characters with ‘.’
    • fixed bug where web seeds would not disconnect if being resolved when the torrent was paused.
  • Contributed language translations updated.
  • Numerous other small bug fixes and improvements.

Changes from v0.3.1 to 0.3.1.8:

  • Shutdown scheduler.
  • Updated to libtorrent 0.14.4
    • Potential libtorrent vulnerability fixed.
  • Numerous small bug fixes and improvements.

Changes from v0.3.1 to 0.3.1.6:

  • Queue View Fixed
  • Sorting fixed.
  • libtorrent 0.14 integration finished.

Changes from v0.3.1 to 0.3.1.6:

  • Based on libtorrent 0.14 which brings with it:
    • Disk cache support
    • Managed torrent queue system
    • Improved seeding and choking behavior
    • Resource usage optimizations
    • Many more fixes and improvements
  • Optional port randomizations (both main and DHT).
  • Numerous internal settings are now exposed by the GUI.
  • Plays nice by Vista/Server 2008 UAC rules. See note above.
  • Rewritten XML fileformat (again) with greatly improved robustness.

Version number 0.3.2 RC
Release status beta
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP x64, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows Server 2008
Website Binary Notions
Download http://sourceforge.net/projects/halite/files/
File size 1.22MB
License type GPL
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