Installous 5 Released Through Cydia

Today marks the official release of Installous 5. It has a number of significant feature additions and bug fixes, but no notable design changes. Some of those features include BitTorrent downloading support, support for the new iOS notification system, and several improvements for filehost compatibility.

Let’s walk through the changes.

Bit Torrent Downloading

Installous is the first mobile file installation client to support BitTorrent downloading. This is a huge milestone for the community but right now, very few applications have torrent support — but that’s a statistic that should change over the next month as the community harnesses the use of torrents.

Installous uses magnet links, a decentralized way of obtaining torrent metadata.  And also peer exchange (PEX), otherwise known as trackerless torrents. Both of these features make the entire process completely decentralized and uninterruptible. De-magnetization may be slow in some cases (especially for obscure apps), but the developers will be working hard to speed up that process.

The best part is being able to pause and resume downloads, something most filehosts don’t support for free users.

Installous will seed from the device only while the download is ongoing, and only if you’re on WiFi. When the download finishes, it will stop seeding.

New local notification support

Installous now supports iOS 5’s notification system. As an aside, Apple made it a bit difficult for non-sandboxed applications to use the notification system, so a custom BulletinBoard plugin was built to offer that functionality. To keep Installous running smoothly in semitethered jailbreaks, Hackulo are using chpwn’s WeeLoader package.

Adapted from Hackulo official press release.

For details on magnetizing on Installous 5, check out this post.

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