Bitflu is a BitTorrent client designed to run non-stop as a daemon. It does not provide a graphical interface, but offers a telnet interface and can handle multiple torrent downloads.
| Tags | Communications File Sharing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Artistic |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases


Changes: This release includes the new RSS plugin to automate .torrent downloads. The internal resolver and tab completion have also been enhanced.


Changes: The networking code has been rewritten to use Danga::Socket, so Bitflu can now use epoll/kqueue on modern operating systems. The BitTorrent-Tracker plugin will now accept broken HTTP/1.0 responses.


Changes: This release implements Kademlia (DHT) IPv6 support, fixes a resolver bug, and features improved performance while running on FreeBSD (and others).


Changes: This is the first release with IPv6 support. Support for initial seeding has also improved by implementing two new commands: seedprio and seedhide.


Changes: Udp-tracker support has been implemented.
An infrastructure for linking tools together to act like a single application.