What is Deluge?
Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it's backend and PyGTK for it's user interface.
Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in the form of plugins.
Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. It is our belief that downloading shouldn't be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn't monopolize system resources.
Deluge is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work just fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.
Deluge is Free Software and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
What about features?
Deluge has a wide-array of features, including:
* Web UI
* BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
* Mainline DHT
* FAST protocol extension
* µTorrent Peer Exchange
* UPnP and NAT-PMP
* Proxy support
* Web seed
* Private Torrents
* Global and per-torrent speed limits
* Configurable bandwidth scheduler
* Password protection
* RSS
* And much more!
Changelog» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
Deluge 0.5.6.1 (28 October 2007)
* Fix invalid handle error
* Fix shutdown hang
Deluge 0.5.6 (24 October 2007)
* Web Interface Plugin
* Hopefully fix "losing data" and having to re-download parts (for real this time)
* Use new full allocation method which does not create files until one of its pieces is downloaded
* Tray lock password is no longer stored in plain text
* Update the Scheduler plugin and fix a bunch of bugs on it
* Double-clicking on a torrent opens up its containing folder
* Fix SpeedLimiter plugin when setting upload limits
* Fix MoveTorrent plugin when moving actively downloading torrents
* Pause torrents while importing blocklist and resume them when finished
* Remove TorrentPieces and disable its use
* A whole bunch of stuff for Win32
* Add private flag to TorrentCreator plugin
* Use SVG for internal logo usage (except on Win32)
* Use theme for tray icon instead of hard-coded
* Properly release port on shutdown
* TorrentFiles plugin now has progress bars
* Removing torrent files no longer deletes files that werent part of the torrent
* New max half-open connections setting to deal with cheap/broken routers
* Inherit UPnP fixes from libtorrent
* Use threading for everything, instead of spawnning
Deluge 0.5.5 (09 September 2007)
* Editing a torrent's tracker list is now persistent between sessions
* Persistence between sessions for Speed Limiter, Web Seed and Desired Ratio plugins
* New wizard to aid first-time users with configuration
* Reorderable tabs and remember order (with exception of details tab)
* Fix losing data and having to re-download parts
* Fix password lock showing when main window is not hidden
* Get rid of the plugin manager and integrate it into preferences
* New Move torrent plugin - takes over for "move completed downloads" feature and provides a "Move Torrent" option when right-clicking on a torrent
* Save column widths
* Queue order after restart fixes.
* Use payload instead of including protocol overhead to ease user confusion of seeding torrents "downloading"
* New Web Seed plugin for adding URLs to torrents for http seeding
* Add FAST-extension (http://www.bittorrent.org/fast_extensions.html)
Deluge 0.5.4.1 (10 August 2007)
* Add "Open containing folder" and "Open File" to the torrent and file menu, respectively
* Load Blocklist plugin last and have it not lock up the interface during import
* Add full allocation to preferences for clarification
* Catch SIGINT, SIGHUP, SIGTERM and Gnome logoff to quit properly
* Add send local info to developers
* Fix up pieces, peers and files plugins
* UPnP fixes
* Add ExtraStats plugin
* FreeBSD full allocation fix
* Added per torrent max upload slots and max connections preferences
* A lot of other less visible improvements
Deluge 0.5.4 (06 August 2007)
* Tray message includes session totals
* Ticket #198 - Display peers countries in the Peers tab.
* Ticket #474 - Multiple password prompts displayed
* Pause all/resume all in tray menu
* Peers and Files tabs are now plugins
* New Location plugin
* Option to use a random port every time
* Proxy system redone - you can now specify different information for each type of proxy (DHT, peer, tracker, web-seed)
* TorrentPieces plugin to view piece updates and show pieces table per file
* EventLogger plugin to view/log every activity
* SpeedLimiter plugin, which allows you to set speed limits on a per-torrent basis
* New release alerts - Client will inform user if their version of deluge is outdated
Deluge 0.5.3 (25 July 2007)
* Added ChangeLog
* Ticket #53 - Added files priorities within torrent
* Ticket #111 - Remember directory of last added torrent
* Ticket #232 - Added Move completed downloads to feature
* Ticket #245 - Added ability to select torrent files before starting
* Ticked #368 - Added ability to prioritize first and last pieces of files in torrents
* Ticket #371 - Proper full storage allocation of files on reiser4 and ntfs-3g filesystems
* Ticket #420 - Show size of torrent minus size of unselected files as Total Size
* Ticket #405 - Properly start in tray when run deluge --tray
* Ticket #437 - Gracefully upgrade from old versions
* Picking a file to not download now checks for compact_mode status to prevent all sorts of problems such as downloading pieces into the wrong file
* RSS plugin inclusion
* Added ability to queue new torrents above completed ones when seeds are set to queue at the bottom
* Added availability and piece size display in details, availablity column
* Added ability to automatically remove torrents when max share ratio is set
* Show text from clipboard in Add URL dialog only if it looks like an URL
* Added Torrent Notification plugin
* Added event handling callbacks for plugins
* Added ability to designate a torrent as private (in file selection dialog)
* Added merging trackers of duplicate torrents
* Details, Peers and Files tabs more responsible and their perfomance greatly improved especially on torrents with many files and peers
* A lot of other less visible improvements
Deluge 0.5.2 (05 July 2007)
* ticket #6 - Torrent creation built into main client
* ticket #315 - Plugins implemented as modules
* ticket #310 - Configuration options for PEX and UPnP
* ticket #390 - Individual file progress shown in File tab
* The usual slew of improvements
Deluge 0.5.1 (11 June 2007)
* Peer Exchange
* ticket #254 - Encryption
* ticket #142 - UPnP + NATPMP
* Improved user interface
* Redesigned preferences dialog
* Proper startup and shutdown
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This post has been edited by punkyswat: Nov 1 2007, 07:33 PM