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Update: qBittorrent 3.3.9

qBittorrent

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. qBittorrent is an advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt4 user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible. qBittorrent project needs help on Windows front: qBittorrent was downloaded 145 000 times last month on Sourceforge and almost 80 percent of those downloads are for Windows. qBittorrent is a truly Open Source project, and as such, anyone can and should contribute to it.

qBittorrent features:

  • Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
  • Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
  • Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
  • Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
  • All Bittorrent extensions
  • DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, ...
  • Remote control through a Web user interface
  • Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
  • Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
  • Torrents queueing and prioritizing
  • Torrent content selection and prioritizing
  • UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
  • Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
  • Torrent creation tool
  • Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
  • Bandwidth scheduler
  • IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
  • IPv6 compliant
  • Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD

qBittorrent 3.3.8 changelog:

  • FEATURE: Start using new libtorrent 1.1.x APIs (needs at least 1.1.2). Still unofficial support. (glassez, sledgehammer999)
  • FEATURE: Add a new DHT bootstrap node run by libtorrent author arvidn. (sledgehammer999)
  • FEATURE: Option to disable tracker's favicon download. (sledgehammer999)
  • FEATURE: Shift + scroll = horizontal scroll. Closes #5980. Only for TransferListWidget, PeerListWidget. (Chocobo1)
  • BUGFIX: Actually set new path as default when checkBox is enabled in Add New Torrent dialog. (erikssm)
  • BUGFIX: Properly fix the handling of default save path store/load. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Fix crash when restoring from tray. Closes #5854. (Chocobo1)
  • BUGFIX: Export torrents added only after the setting was enabled. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Delete old rss favicon before assigning new one. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Don't revert save path value in the Dialog when metadata are received. Closes #5482. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Don't ever stop seeding forced torrents. Closes #5784. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Fix potential crash in TransferList widget. Closes #5873. (Chocobo1)
  • BUGFIX: Sort torrent names case insensitively. (Yez Ezey)
  • BUGFIX: Fix mistake in getting values for sorting in TransferList widget. (Anton Lashkov)
  • BUGFIX: Fix memory leaks. (dzmat, Chocobo1)
  • WEBUI: Fix webui port overflow. (thalieht)
  • WEBUI: Changed meaning of the value of the 'dl_limit', 'up_limit', 'alt_dl_limit' and 'alt_up_limit' tokens. The value is expressed in bytes and not in KiB. (sledgehammer999)
  • WEBUI: Don't request client SSL certificate. Closes #3883. (borouhin)
  • WEBUI: Bump API_VERSION and API_VERSION_MIN to 11.
  • SEARCH: Fixed extratorrent search not working Closes #5736 #5753. (Yez Ezey)
  • SEARCH: Update Demonoid plugin. (ngosang)
  • SEARCH: Remove TorrentReactor plugin. (ngosang)
  • SEARCH: Fix python auto install, deletion of installer and use 3.5.x series for Vista+. Closes #5871. (sledgehammer999)
  • SEARCH: Set /usr/local/bin before default PATH on macOS. closes #5639 #5571. This enables finding newer python installs. (Yez Ezey)
  • COSMETIC: Log: set embedded Tracker [OFF] msg type as info. (thalieht)
  • COSMETIC: Remove (mostly) useless log warnings about tracker's favicon. (sledgehammer999)
  • COSMETIC: Change RSS view layout to horizontal. Closes #5920. (Chocobo1)
  • OSX: Fix crash on exit using Qt4. (Yez Ezey)
  • OSX: Change QSettings to IniFormat on macOS. Closes #5770 #5808. (Yez Ezey)
  • LINUX: Workaround a Qt5 bug which results in a flood of network interface change singals. (Eugene Shalygin)
  • OTHER: Turkish translation for installer. (Burak Yavuz)
  • OTHER: Update portugueseBR for installer. (DaRKSoM)
  • OTHER: Update portuguese for installer. (EdwardLinux)
  • OTHER: Add --disable-qt-dbus to configure if $host_os is macOS. (Yez Ezey)
  • OTHER: New translations: Icelandic, Latvian, Malay, Occitan, Uzbek.
  • OTHER: A whole lot of code refactoring by various people.

qBittorrent 3.3.9 changelog:

  • BUGFIX: Fix slider for per torrent speed limits when no global speed limit has been set. Closes #6046. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Fix GUI for proxy settings. Closes #6045. (sledgehammer999)
  • OSX: Correctly migrate settings/rss/usage stats in macOS. Closes #6041. (sledgehammer999)

Download: qBittorrent 3.3.9 | 16.0 MB (Open Source)
View: qBittorrent Home page

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