Free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows.
eMule
eMule 0.50a
Original author(s)
Merkur
Developer(s)
eMule-Team
Initial release
May 13, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-05-13)
Final release
0.50a (April 7, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-04-07)[1]) [±]
Repository
sf.net/p/emule/code/
Written in
C++[2]
Operating system
Windows
Available in
43 languages[3]
Type
Peer-to-peer file sharing
License
GNU GPLv2
Website
emule-project.net
eMule Community
Developer(s)
fox88
Stable release
0.70a
/ August 26, 2023; 8 months ago (2023-08-26)[4]
Repository
github.com/irwir/eMule
Website
Forum community thread
eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are the direct exchange of sources between client nodes, fast recovery of corrupted downloads, and the use of a credit system to reward frequent uploaders. Furthermore, eMule transmits data in zlib-compressed form to save bandwidth.
eMule is coded in C++ using the Microsoft Foundation Classes. Since July 2002 eMule has been free software, released under the GNU General Public License; its popularity has led to eMule's codebase being used as the basis of cross-platform clients aMule, JMule, xMule, along with the release of many eMule mods (modifications of the original eMule) on the Internet.
As of October 2023,[update] it is the fifth most downloaded project on SourceForge, with over 693 million downloads.[5]
Development was later restarted by the community as eMule Community; the latest stable version is 0.70a.[4]
^"The eMule Project at SourceForge.net". eMule.SourceForge.net. 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
^Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
^eMule 0.50a Source Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine: /srchybrid/lang/
^ ab"Releases". GitHub. 2021-05-13. Archived from the original on 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
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