There has no been an official release for ages

[anonymous]

rTorrent 0.7.9 is frankly outdated now: lots of bugfixes have occured since its release and the very neat DHT implementation has been added since.

I know and use the answer "just use SVN", but it prevents distros to package binaries (or to provide ebuilds in the case of Gentoo).

Rev. 1031 is maybe a good candidate. Why no builds for such a long time? I begin to see complaints on various distro's forums. See for instance  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4768280.html

'Release early, release often' is the motto of most free software and righlty so. It helps people who are not reading this site to be aware that rTorrent is _very_ actively developed. From an external point of view, rTorrent looks like a dormant project. It is all but a dormant project!

[rakshasa]

The next release will change parts of the API, thus it couldn't be released until the planned changes were done.

In addition I've just gotten through a rather tiring semester here in japan, so the work has been going slowly and I just haven't had the energy to get around to releasing soemthing.

You did how ever manage to post this ticket a couple hours after I said in IRC that there will be a release in the next few days.