BTG
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What is BTG?
Bittorrent client implemented in C++ and using the Rasterbar Libtorrent library.
Provides a Ncurses, SDL, Gtkmm and WWW GUI, which communicate with a common backend running the actual bittorrent operation.
License
BTG is released under the GNU GPL license.
Features
- Daemonized backend.
- Number of different clients.
- Ability to change client without stopping downloads.
- Common interface (transport layer) used to access the daemon shared by the clients.
- Portability.
- Session saving.
- Per user event callback (execute script when torrent status changes).
- IPv4 filter (level1.txt and Emule lists).
- Port forwarding using UPnP (Using Cyberlink or Libtorrent).
- Periodic session saving.
- DHT and encryption (since Rasterbar libtorrent supports both).
- Allocation mode selection (sparse vs full).
Third Party Clients
- BTGFox - a Firefox extension written by Nelson Silva.
Platforms
BTG is being used or was tested on:
- OSX (PowerPC-32).
- FreeBSD (PowerPC-32, amd64).
- GNU Linux - Debian (PowerPC-32, amd64, i686) / Gentoo (PowerPC-64, i686) / Slackware (i586) / OpenWrt (XScale-IXP42x).
Builds and Releases
Two different branches exist at this point. The "stable-branch" and the "devel-branch".
Development is done on the "devel-branch" and the changes are merged into the "stable-branch" as soon as they are well tested and all classes are documented.
Planned Releases
The following table lists the future planned releases. The changes will be done when I have time and feel like it, unless people send me patches, which will be incorporated as soon as possible.
| Codename | When | Contents |
| Papa Legba | Soon. | Fix session saving in both stable and 2.x branch. |
| Erzulie Freda | 2-3 months from now. | First 2.0 release. Arch changes. Remove support for LT<0.14.x. |
| Simbi | Not defined. | Not defined. |
| Kouzin Zaka | Not defined. | Not defined. |
| The Marasa | Not defined. | Not defined. |
Stable Releases
| Source | Release note | Changelog | Rasterbar Libtorrent version |
| btg-1.0.0.tar.gz | 1.0.0 release note | 1.0.0 changelog | 0.12.1/0.13/0.13.1/0.14/0.14.x |
| btg-0.9.9.tar.gz | 0.9.9 release note | 0.9.9 changelog | 0.12.1/0.13/0.13.1/0.14/0.14.1 |
| btg-0.9.8.tar.gz | 0.9.8 release note | 0.9.8 changelog | 0.12.1/0.13/0.13.1 |
| btg-0.9.7.tar.gz | 0.9.7 release note | 0.9.7 changelog | 0.12.x/0.13rc1 |
| btg-0.9.6.tar.gz | 0.9.6 release note | 0.9.6 changelog | 0.12 |
| btg-0.9.5.tar.gz | 0.9.5 release note | 0.9.5 changelog | 0.9/0.10/0.11/0.12 |
| btg-0.9.0.tar.gz | 0.9.0 release note | 0.9.0 changelog | 0.9/0.10/0.11 |
| btg-0.8.5.tar.gz | 0.8.5 release note | 0.8.5 changelog | 0.9/0.10/0.11 |
Experimental Releases
| Codename | Source | Release note | Changelog | Rasterbar Libtorrent version |
| Papa Legba RC3 | btg-2.0.0-rc3.tar.gz | 2.0.0 RC3 release note | 2.0.0 RC3 changelog | 0.14.x |
| Papa Legba RC2 | btg-2.0.0-RC2.tar.gz | 2.0.0 RC2 release note | 2.0.0 RC2 changelog | 0.14.x |
| Papa Legba RC1 | btg-2.0.0-rc1.tar.gz | 2.0.0 RC1 release note | 2.0.0 RC1 changelog | 0.14.x |
Documentation
- BTG FAQ.
- BTG howto (current).
- BTG howto (1.0.0).
- BTG howto (0.9.9).
- BTG howto (0.9.8).
- BTG howto (0.9.7).
- BTG howto (0.9.6).
- BTG howto (0.7).
- BTG howto (0.6).
- BTG howto (0.5).
- BTG howto (0.4).
- BTG howto (0.3).
- Manual pages contained in the releases.
- BTG Developer Howto.
- BTG Release Procedure.
- BTG Links.
Authors
- Michael Wojciechowski.
- Johan Ström (XML-RPC transport and externalization, WWW UI, session saving, porting).
- Roman Rybalko (making btgui look pretty, countless bugfixes, packaging).
- Rodolphe Saugier (bugfix #10588).
- Gabor Tanka (DHT fixes).
- Richard S. Allen (bugfix #14751).
- Maarten Bosmans (bugfix #15216).
- gH0StArthour (bugfix #15571 - Hungarian translation).
- Jesper Nyholm Jensen (Testing).