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Halite (named after the mineral) is a C++ BitTorrent client based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. The program also relies heavily on the Boost libraries.

Key Features

While still at an early state of development Halite is a functional BitTorrent client. So far its list of features is pretty standard but that is because I want to ensure it does the basic stuff well. That said it supports:

• File selection and/or file priority specifications.
• 'Managed torrent' queue system.
• Disk cache support.
• Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol).
• IP filtering with eMule style ipfilter.dat import.
• Protocol Encryption support.
• Translations of the UI into a number of languages through the help of volunteers.
• Minimise to tray with transfer rate summary.
• Full Unicode support through UTF-8 and native Windows wide-char strings.
• Login support where tracker requires it.
• Ability to edit trackers specified in the torrent.
• Transfer rate and connection limits both global and per-torrent.
• Torrent file creation.
• Port randomisation and forwarding (UnPlug and Play or NAT-PMP).
• Compatible with UAC.
• Shutdown scheduler.

Windows 7 users:

Win 7 myself but still support is not 100%. Notably ipfilter cause the UI to appear to freeze briefly after just starting Halite. Also the shutdown scheduler can't actually switch off the PC unless
started with Admin privileges which isn't necessarily recommended unless the feature is really needed.

Important note for people upgrading!

When installing through the MSI file download, Halite will make a registry entry pointing it to use the local Application Data directory for all configuration files. Users should manually copy any existing files from an older Halite version to that directory. The recommended files and folder to copy are:

Halite.xml
BitTorrent.xml
IPFilter.bin
DHTState.bin
resume/*
torrents/*

These changes were necessary to make Halite fully compatible with User Account Control. To revert to 'portable mode' whereby all config information will be saved alongside the executable simply delete that registry key (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Halite\path). If you only ever used the standalone 'zipped' download then this will not be necessary.
 

Changes from v 0.3.2 to 0.3.2.1:

1. Open folder behaviour changed to open torrent subfolder.
2. Queue positions correctly restored between sessions.
3. Right-click menu crash when no tracker selected fixed.
4. Fixed issue with displayed transfer payloads.