rustTorrent v0.1.0-beta.3

rustTorrent v0.1.0-beta.3

Summary

rustTorrent 0.1.0-beta.3 improves migration safety, torrent recovery, and
qBittorrent compatibility. It adds fail-closed read-only payload access,
restores tracker lists that are missing from imported metainfo, supports force
rechecks, and corrects save-path handling for multi-file torrents.

This remains beta software. Back up the persistent session directory before
upgrading and avoid using it for data that cannot be downloaded again.

Torrent recovery and verification

• Tracker URLs can be added to existing torrents at runtime and are retained
  across JSON and PostgreSQL session reloads.
• Restored trackers start announcing immediately for live torrents. This
  recovers qBittorrent imports whose effective tracker lists existed only in
  .fastresume data rather than the exported .torrent file.
• Native and qBittorrent-compatible force-recheck endpoints verify payloads
  while preserving whether a torrent was paused or live.
• The Web UI exposes Force Recheck in the torrent context menu with
  appropriate disabled-state handling.

Read-only payload migration

• --storage-read-only and RTBIT_STORAGE_READ_ONLY opt into filesystem
  storage that refuses payload writes, creation, resizing, deletion, and
  directory removal.
• Existing payloads can be verified without modification, and missing payload
  paths remain absent instead of being created implicitly.
• qBittorrent savepath values are now treated as payload roots for multi-file
  torrents, including the single-entry multi-file metainfo edge case.
• Corrected output-folder roots persist through both JSON and PostgreSQL
  session backends and are reflected by qBittorrent-compatible API responses.

SwarmForge library family

• The reusable BitTorrent engine and protocol packages are now published as
  the coordinated swarmforge / swarmforge-* 0.1.0 family on crates.io.
• Cargo package identities changed, while compatible Rust library and import
  names such as librtbit::Session and librtbit_core::Id20 remain available
  through dependency aliases.
• All 12 family members must be migrated atomically in a consumer dependency
  graph. Mixing historical and SwarmForge package identities can duplicate
  shared types.
• The historical repositories and packages remain available as rollback
  sources. NGMS independently verified consumption of the complete public
  SwarmForge family before this release.

Web UI and deployment

• Production /web/ routes now use the same-origin API instead of incorrectly
  redirecting requests to the Vite development port.
• Source, CI, binary releases, containers, and website delivery now use the
  canonical GitHub repository and GitHub Actions workflows.
• Main builds publish immutable commit images and release tags publish public
  multi-architecture linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 images to GHCR.

Upgrade notes

• No intentional destructive session or RSS database migration is included.
• Keep /home/rtbit/db and /home/rtbit/cache persistent and back them up
  before upgrading.
• For qBittorrent migrations, use read-only storage for the first verification
  pass and confirm the payload root expected by each imported torrent.
• Consumers of the reusable libraries should follow the atomic migration and
  rollback guidance in docs/SWARMFORGE-0.1.0-RELEASE.md.
• latest and beta move to this release after publication. Pin
  v0.1.0-beta.3 when reproducibility matters.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo check --workspace --exclude rtbit-desktop --no-default-features --features default-tls
• cargo test --workspace --exclude rtbit-desktop --no-default-features --features default-tls
• cargo clippy --workspace --exclude rtbit-desktop --no-default-features --features default-tls -- -D warnings
• Web UI unit tests, lint, production build, and Playwright browser tests
• Website structural validation
• GitHub release binary build and multi-architecture container publication

Downloads

• Linux x86_64: rtbit-v0.1.0-beta.3-linux-x86_64
• Windows x86_64: rtbit-v0.1.0-beta.3-windows-x86_64.exe
• Debian/Ubuntu amd64: rtbit-v0.1.0-beta.3-amd64.deb
• Checksums: SHA256SUMS-v0.1.0-beta.3.txt
• Docker: ghcr.io/thedancingdeveloper-org/rusttorrent:v0.1.0-beta.3
• Source: automatic .zip and .tar.gz archives on the GitHub release tag

Release files are attached to the canonical GitHub release and are also
published at https://dl.rusttorrent.dev/v0.1.0-beta.3/.