Halite is an open-source BitTorrent client that is based on the libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. The program also relies heavily on the Boost libraries.
Features include:
- File selection and/or file priority specifications.
- Trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol).
- IP filtering with eMule style ipfilter.dat import.
- Protocol Encryption support.
- Translations of the UI into a number of languages through the help of volunteers.
- Minimize to tray with transfer rate summary.
- Full Unicode support through UTF-8 and native Windows wide-char strings.
- Login support where tracker requires it.
- Ability to edit trackers specified in the torrent.
- Transfer rate and connection limits both global and per-torrent.