LeechCraft News

LeechCraft is a full-featured cross-platform modular "Internet client" application written in C++, Qt and Boost. LeechCraft currently includes plugins for a web browser, news feed reader, BitTorrent client, FTP client, a simple media player and much more.

Plugins are easily added with no effort, and they can reuse and further intergrate with each other via the LeechCraft core. So, you can use rich broadcatching abilities, for example, or enjoy podcasts — all this inside LeechCraft.

LeechCraft 0.3.0 is, in fact, completely different from previous releases and is almost rewritten from scratch.

This stable release introduces following plugins:

Aggregator, sophisticated RSS/Atom feed reader,

BitTorrent, feature-rich BitTorrent client,

CSTP, simple plugin for HTTP transfers,

DBusManager, plugin for D-Bus support,

DeadLyrics, client for the LyricWiki.org service,

History Holder, which keeps track of downloaded files,

LMP, the LeechCraft Media Previewer, a small and simple media player,

NetworkMonitor, which shows current HTTP requests and responses,

Poshuku, full-featured web browser,

* Poshuku CleanWeb, ad blocker for the Poshuku compatible with AdBlockPlus,

* Poshuku FileScheme, which adds support for the file:// URLs,

* Poshuku FUA, which allows to set fake user agents for different domains,

* SeekThru, client for OpenSearch-aware search engines.

This release is feature-frozen, and new features are added to the master branch which will some day become LeechCraft 0.4.

Instructions for installing LeechCraft on different platforms as well as building from source could be found on the project's site:
http://leechcraft.org/wiki/GetLeechCraft

For discussion, you could join the xmpp:leechcraft@conference.jabber.ru Jabber room.