v0.1.0-rc1

First release candidate of carl — a privacy-first BitTorrent light client.

Highlights:

• Anonymity routes: direct, SOCKS5/proxy, Tor (hidden-service seeding), and native I2P (SAM v3) — download and seed over .b32.i2p destinations, at parity with Tor.
• Discovery via Nostr (NIP-35 / kind-30078 peer-announce), with zero-peer retry so a download recovers when a seed appears.
• Desktop app (Tauri) + daemon + CLI in one binary.

Download carl over carl (dogfooded)

This release is also hosted on carl's own network — fetch it anonymously over I2P:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fcb2856772978ce50ec292d3d55e3ec9036a7fdb&dn=carl_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3ee50640620d879c65b4dbd2dc72bc6f617b34ff&dn=carl_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8b4767132a7585e0e36ea7f1b0c8386b037a82ab&dn=carl-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ec49640d110d97a35fe81f6232325a7872af58b3&dn=carl-aarch64-apple-darwin

Grab it with a daemon on the matching route, e.g.:

carl daemon --route i2p --i2p-sam 127.0.0.1:7656   # then add the magnet (nostr on)
carl daemon --route tor --socks socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050

(Availability depends on the seeders being online — best-effort for this RC.)

Direct downloads

• carl_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg — macOS desktop app (Apple Silicon). Unsigned for this RC: first launch needs right-click → Open (or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/carl.app).
• carl-aarch64-apple-darwin — macOS CLI/daemon (Apple Silicon).
• carl-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu — Linux CLI/daemon (x86_64).
• carl_0.1.0_amd64.deb / carl_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage — Linux desktop installers (x86_64).
• SHA256SUMS — verify with shasum -c SHA256SUMS.

This is a release candidate — please test and report issues before v0.1.0.