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libtorrent implements it, so most torrent clients should have it

Do clients actually expose that functionality? I haven't seen those BEPs being used in the wild, so I'm very curious of features using those BEPs are actually available to users in existing clients.

They don't need to enable it, it's enabled. Yes, you can put mutable data in the DHT used by all libtorrent programs (qBittorrent for instance).

I might be misunderstanding, but I would expect that both BEP 39 and BEP 46 would have to be exposed to the end user in the UI, and I don't see that in qBittorrent.

For BEP 39, "Updating Torrents Via Feed URL", added torrents with `info.update-url` would hit a feed to check for updates. Does qBittorrent actually do this?

For BEP 46, "Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items", qBitorrent would have to allow adding torrents via magnet link with `?xs=urn:btpk:PUBKEY`. I tried this, and it didn't work. Is there some other way to do this?

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