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Tixati 3.36

Tixati is a free and easy to use BitTorrent client featuring detailed views of all seed, peer, and file transfer properties. Also included are powerful bandwidth charting and throttling capabilities, and a full DHT implementation. Tixati is one of the most advanced and flexible BitTorrent clients available. And unlike many other clients, Tixati contains NO SPYWARE, NO ADS, and NO GIMMICKS.

Tixati portable version is meant to run on a USB flash drive or other portable media. It stores all its configuration files in the same folder as the executable binary files, and all file paths are stored in a format relative to the program executable folder.It is important you do not delete the "tixati_portable_mode.txt" file within the executables folder. This file is what triggers Tixati to run in portable mode. (The executable binaries are actually the same as the standard edition binaries.)When running the portable edition from a USB flash drive, especially one that is formatted in FAT16/FAT32, you may experience some lag when initially loading a new transfer. This is because initializing and allocating large files on flash-based media consumes a greater amount of time and resources compared to a conventional hard-drive.

Tixati has the following features:

  • detailed views of all aspects of the swarm, including peers, pieces, files, and trackers
  • support for magnet links, so no need to download .torrent files if a simple magnet-link is available
  • super-efficient peer choking/unchoking algorithms ensure the fastest downloads
  • peer connection encryption for added security
  • full DHT (Distributed Hash Table) implementation for trackerless torrents, including detailed message traffic graphs and customizable event logging
  • advanced bandwidth charting of overall traffic and per-transfer traffic, with separate classification of protocol and file bytes, and with separate classification of outbound traffic for trading and seeding
  • highly flexible bandwidth throttling, including trading/seeding proportion adjustment and adjustable priority for individual transfers and peers
  • bitfield graphs that show the completeness of all downloaded files, what pieces other peers have available, and the health of the overall swarm
  • customizable event logging for each download, and individual event logs for all peers within the swarm
  • expert local file management functions which allow you to move files to a different partition even while downloading is still in progress
  • 100% compatible with the BitTorrent protocol
  • Windows and Linux-GTK native versions available

Tixati 3.36 changelog:

  • complete re-write of I2P over I2CP session management
  • I2P tunnel leases now contain both x25519 and ElGamal key sets for maximum compatibility with remote routers
  • greatly improved I2P streaming socket implementation, much faster connections
  • fixed problems with magnet link I2P tracker stripping option
  • in Settings > I2P > Advanced Settings, added presets button with options for standard / one-hop configuration
  • added tunnel quantity parameters to default I2P advanced settings
  • several improvements to I2P Monitor in Help > Diagnostics
  • I2P per-connection properties available by double-clicking or right-clicking any entry in the Cache or Connections tab in the I2P Monitor
  • added I2P per-connection charts for window management, round-trip time, time since loss, and raw packet flow
  • fixed problems with disabled file folders being created on disk during whole-torrent location changes
  • fixed rare crash during program startup after upgrade from pre v2.32 due to Bandwidth Quotas storage format changes
  • on newly created seeds, location changes are now disabled until the initial hashing has completed
  • fixed several problems handling disk files that have their last modified time set to the exact Unix time epoch (Jan 1, 1970)
  • rewrote torrent inner-folder custom location serialize / de-serialize procedure, eliminated rare crash
  • fixed problems with transfer preload window not auto-starting on remote-desktop Windows machines when user is logged out
  • in transfer options tab, in the Peers/Discovery section, added a button to add user-specified peers in bulk via a new Add Peers window
  • in transfer peers tab, can now use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to easily copy and paste peers or webseeds between transfers
  • in transfer trackers tab, ctrl-c will now copy URLs with an empty line between groups
  • fixed GTK menu keystroke processing to skip separators and navigate sub-menus more smoothly
  • fixed minor problems using ctrl-c to copy magnet links in main transfers list and also in sidebar categories list
  • seed/peer counts in transfer status column now correctly account for peers that are running but not yet fully online
  • added version info for GTK, GLib, and libc to Linux crash report generator
  • fixed crash in file/folder selection dialog on Windows 7 systems due to COM threading issues
  • in Windows builds, added a tray notification throttle to prevent problems with excess notification queuing when many small files complete
  • fixed rich-text view rendering problems in channel private message windows when there are more than 1,024 lines in the buffer
  • fixed minor control positioning problems in Settings > UI > Behavior > Scrolling window in Android and Windows builds
  • fixed minor problems with default color selection and rendering in Settings > UI > Colors
  • several other minor adjustments and improvements throughout the GUI