Download PicoTorrent 0.12

Version 0.12 of PicoTorrent has been released. PicoTorrent is a relative new player in the bittorrent market. The program is written in C++ 14 and uses libtorrent like many other clients. PicoTorrent claims to be modern, fast and easy to use. Despite the core being cross-platform, the program is currently only available for Windows. The release notes for version 0.12 show the following changes and improvements:

release notes
You can now buy PicoTorrent in the Windows Store. It’s available for $4.99 and it’s an easy way to support development. Of course, PicoTorrent will always be available free of charge on the website. This version of PicoTorrent sees a bunch of new features, mostly regarding the flow in the user interface but also the WebSocket functionality which is back as a plugin!

At a glance

• Added a WebSocket plugin to provide real-time updates for connected clients (#350)
• The Add torrent dialog is now resizable, and also contains filters for including and excluding files (#357)
• Added an option to start PicoTorrent maximized (#365)
• The torrent file list can now be sorted (#369)
• Updated the Russian translation (#354)
• Grammar fixes in the German translation (#368)
• Added an option in the configuration file to allow enabling the anonymous mode (#355)

squash bugs

• Fixed keyboard accelerators (#363)
• Resolved an issue with the proxy configuration (#362)