Software Update: PicoTorrent 0.19

Version 0.19 of PicoTorrent has been released. PicoTorrent is written in C++ and uses libtorrent like many other clients. PicoTorrent claims to be modern, fast and easy to use. Despite the core being cross-platform, the program is currently only available for Windows. The release notes for this release are as follows:

PicoTorrent 0.19

Hi everyone! I’ve baked a brand new version of PicoTorrent – and this time it’s a bit special. We have gone back to wxWidgets since Qt made some developer-hostile moves which I don’t agree with. The feeling I’ve had looking through issues has been that v0.15 was pretty sweet, much thanks to wxWidgets.

Anyway, there’s been a rewrite of most of the application, much code has been borrowed from the older wxWidgets release but not all.

I don’t have a structured list of PR’s this time around since most of the work took place in #843† Notable changes includes (but are not limited to),

• Reduced file size by a significant amount.
• A brand new About dialog which showcases dependencies and their versions. sweet!
• More information in the Overview panel.
• Better preferences page for listen interfaces.
• An experimental C API.

What’s next?

For the future, I’m planning a much faster release cadence. There’s also a few pretty sweet features I want to completely stabilize, such as support for v2 torrents, SSL torrents and more. You can read more about this release on the new blog – Behind the release† I will write a similar article for each release and try to publish news and development updates as well.