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PicoTorrent 0.21.0

PicoTorrent

PicoTorrent is designed to be a tiny, easy-to-use BitTorrent client with low memory usage for Windows (Vista and above). No ads, carefully selected features, and a native user interface integrating seamlessly with your desktop. PicoTorrent is built directly on the Windows APIs which means that it is native looking on all Windows versions. PicoTorrent is built on libtorrent which is a high performance BitTorrent library used by several of the most popular BitTorrent clients.

PicoTorrent portable requires manual installation of the Visual C++ 2017 redistributable.

At a glance:

  • Strong encryption with support for tunneling via I2P, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 and HTTP(S)
  • Works with both IPv4 and IPv6
  • Multi-lingual user interface
  • Supports DHT, PeX, LSD, UPnP.

  • Geo IP lookups based on libmaxminddb.

  • (Azureus-style) peer ID: -PI-. Example: -PI0151- (major: 0, minor: 15, patch: 1).

  • User agent: PicoTorrent/x.y.z.

  • Native look-and-feel across Windows versions.

  • Easy to use with high performance.

  • Free, open source, with a great community

PicoTorrent 0.21.0 changelog:

  • Updated Russian translations, by @birkoffe (#887)

  • Updated French translations, by @TechAdvancedCyborg (#890, #893)

  • Updated Indonesian translations, by @zmni (#896)

  • Fixed issues with how the torrent file tree is generated. (#898)

  • The ability to create torrents is finally here! It's not a groundbreaking feature at all, but it's now part of PicoTorrent and it supports creating both v1 and v2 torrents. (#892)

  • The preferences dialog now supports restoring most settings to their default value. Also, a width issue was fixed. (#899)

  • Fixed issues with preloading magnet links. (#910)

Notes: Upgrading might cause your default language to be reset.

Download: PicoTorrent 32-bit | Portable PicoTorrent |~5.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: PicoTorrent 64-bit | Portable PicoTorrent
View: PicoTorrent Home Page | Release Announcement

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