baretorrent is released in the public domain in the hope that someone else can make it better than I could. You can get the code from launchpad. Information on how to build it and create extensions is mostly complete. I can be reached at baretorrent@gmail.com.

News

June 22, 2013

0.4.2 is out with quite a few bug fixes and a couple of new features, particularly file and magnet link associations. Don't hesitate to write in the forum if there's any problem.

I've decided to drop the alpha tag since it's pretty stable for now. I'm not sure whether I'll put this in beta and release 1.0 or just leave it like that.

June 7, 2013

I just finished getting the new forums up. If there's any problem with them, contact me.

May 13, 2013

I've just release 0.4.1 with a couple of fixes, but not much. Thanks to Kyle for kicking my butt.

I spent a lot of time on baretorrent from June to December 2012, but work and life has a way of using up all your free time, so getting new features in is more difficult right now. However, now that I started working on it again, I'm hopeful that I'll be able to spend a bit more time on it.

I was sad to see that my update notification seems broken, where the closing bracket is on the next line after the version number :( Not a great first appearance.

Concerning the updates, 0.4.1 now switched the url to baretorrent.org/u.txt instead of the old sourceforge website. It will also allow me to know how many people are using it by tracking hits. I keep the apache logs for 3 days.

I originally wanted to throw away logs immediately (or at least anonymize them, I hate being tracked myself), but I need to at least keep track of the spammers on the forum. I banned about ten IPs so far, which substantially reduced spam.

baretorrent does not send any information to the server. It only gets the content of the file to know what the most recent version is. It will never phone home under any circumstances.

January 24, 2013

I've finished moving to launchpad and http://baretorrent.org is available. I also added a FluxBB forum to replace the one I had on sourceforge. I'm not moving the posts because there was nothing really important in there.

I'm mostly done on the Windows installer, but I have only tested it on 7 x64. I've settled on NSIS because it was easier than WiX or the plain Installer SDK. I might decide to keep a 7z archive for a portable version that saves the configuration next to the executable, although there's already a --conf command line option for that. I'm not sure I want to have to maintain two executables per platform.

I'm working towards 0.5 by going through the list of tickets. I expect to be done at the beginning of February.