Deluge is a lightweight, full-featured, free cross-platform BitTorrent client for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It uses libtorrent in its backend and features multiple user interfaces including GTK+, web, and console.
The Deluge has been designed using the client-server model with a daemon process that handles all the BitTorrent activity. The Deluge daemon can run on headless machines with user interfaces to connect remotely from any platform.
The application features a rich plugin collection. Most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form of plugins.
Deluge is lightweight and unobtrusive. The downloading shouldn’t be the primary task on your computer and therefore shouldn’t monopolize system resources.
The app is not designed for any one desktop environment and will work fine in GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and others. It is a free program under the GNU General Public License.
Deluge Features:
- Core/UI split allowing this app to run as a daemon
- Connect remotely to the Deluge daemon
- BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
- Mainline DHT
- Local Peer Discovery (aka LSD)
- FAST protocol extension
- µTorrent Peer Exchange
- Private Torrents
- UPnP and NAT-PMP
- Web seed
- Global and per-torrent speed limits
- Configurable bandwidth scheduler
- Password protection
- RSS (via Plugin)
- Proxy support
- Web UI
- Console UI
- GTK+ UI
- Other libtorrent features
- And much more!
What’s New in Deluge 2.0:
- Migrated to Python 3 with minimal support retained for Python 2.7.
- Shiny new logo.
- Multi-user support.
- Performance updates to handle thousands of torrents with faster loading times.
- A New Console UI that emulates GTK/Web UIs.
- GTK UI migrated to GTK3 with UI improvements and additions.
- Magnet pre-fetching to allow file selection when adding torrent.
- Fully support libtorrent 1.2 release.
- Language switching support.
- Improved documentation hosted on ReadTheDocs.
- AutoAdd plugin replaces built-in functionality.
Changes in Version 2.1.1 :
These applications are available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
