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RTorrent 0.10 Released After Five Years of Hiatus

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 30, 2024

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After a five-year hiatus, RTorrent, a command-line BitTorrent client, has made a significant comeback with the release of version 0.10. According to the dev, “Thanks to a 3rd party sponsoring development, and recent changes in my personal life, I’ve started actively developing rtorrent“.

For the unfamiliar, RTorrent is a lightweight and powerful command-line BitTorrent client for Linux/Unix systems. It’s written in C++ and interacts through a text-based interface, making it particularly suitable for remote or server-based setups, where graphical user interfaces are not needed or desired.

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