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Deluge (software)

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Deluge - BitTorrent client
Developer(s)Deluge BitTorrent client Team
Initial releaseSeptember 25, 2006;18 years ago(2006-09-25)
Stable release
2.1.1[1]Edit this on Wikidata / 10 July 2022;2 years ago(10 July 2022)
Repositorygit.deluge-torrent.org/deluge
Written inPython
Operating systemFreeBSD,Linux,macOS,Windows
TypeBitTorrent client
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later[a]
Websitedeluge-torrent.org

Deluge BitTorrent Clientis afree and open-source,cross-platformBitTorrent clientwritten inPython.Deluge uses afront and back endarchitecture wherelibtorrent,asoftware librarywritten inC++which provides the application's networking logic, is connected to one of various front ends including atext console,theweb interfaceand a graphical desktop interface usingGTKthrough the project's own Pythonbindings.

Deluge is released under the terms of theGPL-3.0-or-laterlicense.

Features

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Further information:Comparison of BitTorrent clients
Older version of Deluge

Deluge aims to be a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich client.[2][3][4]To help achieve this, most of its features are part of plugin modules which were written by various developers.

Starting with version 1.0, Deluge separated its core from its interface, running it instead in adaemon(server/service), allowing users to remotely manage the application over the web.[5]Deluge has supportedmagnet linkssince version 1.1.0 released in January 2009.[6]

History

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Deluge was started by two members of ubuntuforums.org, Zach Tibbitts and Alon Zakai, who previously hosted and maintained the project atGoogle Code,but who subsequently moved it to its own website.

In its first stages, Deluge was originally titled gTorrent, to reflect that it was targeted for theGNOMEdesktop environment. When the first version was released on September 25, 2006, it was renamed to Deluge due to an existing project namedgtorrentonSourceForge,in addition to the fact that it was finally coded to work not only on GNOME but on any platform which could support GTK.[7]

The 0.5.x release marked a complete rewrite from the 0.4.x code branch. The 0.5.x branch added support for encryption,peer exchange,binary prefix,andUPnP.

Nearing the time of the 0.5.1 release, the two original developers effectively left the project, leaving Rory Mobley and Andrew "andar" Resch to continue Deluge's development.

Version 0.5.4.1 saw support for bothMac OS X(viaMacPorts) and Windows being introduced.

Around 2008, Deluge became notable for its resistance toComcast's bandwidth throttlingwithout a change in code, while clients likeVuze (Azureus)andμTorrenthad to borrow the method implemented by Deluge.[8]

From version 1.1.1 through version 1.1.3, Windows installers were unavailable due to the Windows packager leaving the project. Windows became unavailable following the move to GTK3 in 2019. However, Windows installers, supporting both libtorrent 1.2.x and 2.0.x, are once again available starting with version 2.1.0 released in 2022.[9]

Following 1.1.3, packages for all non-Windows operating systems are no longer provided by the developers; instead, sourcetarsand community provided packages were released.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^GPL-3.0-or-later with OpenSSL exception

References

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  1. ^https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge/tag/?h=deluge-2.1.1.{{cite web}}:Missing or empty|title=(help)
  2. ^Kereki, Federico (December 27, 2007)."After torrents? Try Deluge!".Linux.SourceForge, Inc. Archived fromthe originalon 2009-05-31.RetrievedDecember 10,2010.
  3. ^Enigma x (June 14, 2007)."Deluge Torrent Client Aims to Thwart ISP Traffic Shaping".TorrentFreak.Archivedfrom the original on November 30, 2010.RetrievedDecember 10,2010.
  4. ^Wong, Chin (November 9, 2009)."Good Karma".Digital Life.Archivedfrom the original on November 25, 2009.RetrievedDecember 10,2010.
  5. ^andar (September 28, 2008)."Deluge 1.0.0 -" Sharks Are Bulletproof "Released!".Deluge.Archivedfrom the original on July 25, 2011.RetrievedDecember 10,2010.
  6. ^"Deluge 1.1.0_RC/ChangeLog".Deluge.June 15, 2009. Archived fromthe original(plain text)on April 30, 2011.RetrievedDecember 10,2010.
  7. ^Ty (September 26, 2006)."gTorrent becomes Deluge: Version 0.1.0 Released".Deluge.Ubuntu Forums.Archivedfrom the original on July 13, 2011.RetrievedDecember 20,2010.
  8. ^amc1 (January 3, 2008)."Re: Better encryption".uTorrent. p. 4.Archivedfrom the original on June 11, 2014.RetrievedDecember 10,2010.If there's anyone out there willing to help - we (Azureus devs) worked with alus to see what Deluge was doing differently to avoid being throttled... we've made changes as well, but we don't have anyone to test with. So if there's anyone who belongs to one of the affected ISPs, and they're willing to spend a few minutes helping us test our changes, that'd be appreciated.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^"Download – Deluge".Archivedfrom the original on 2009-02-19.Retrieved2022-07-09.
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