qBittorrent 3.3

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

Changes in qBittorrent 3.3:

  • This series have switched to Qt5 but Qt4 is still supported. Temporarily OS X builds will use Qt4.
  • FEATURE: Huge core code refactoring. Problems with labels, temp folders etc should be eliminated. Smoother UI should be observed too. (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Speed graph (Anton Lashkov)
  • FEATURE: Add multiple peers in Peers addition dialog. Closes #1563, #2245, #3133, #1419, #3287, #1419 (ngosang)
  • FEATURE: Allow to copy all peers with a keyboard shortcut (ngosang)
  • FEATURE: Use GeoIP2 database, allows for country resolution of IPv6 peers. It is no longer embedded in the program but downloaded and updated monthly. (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add more "Run External Program" parameters, closes #3053, #238, #1291, #1522. (Chocobo1, glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add an option to allow the use of proxies only for torrents. Closes #2701. (pmzqla)
  • FEATURE: Detect network interface state changes. It should detect VPN connection resets. (Pawel Polewicz)
  • FEATURE: Switch to using c++11 (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Automatically add trackers to new downloads. (ngosang)
  • FEATURE: You can now choose the path to download for watched folders. (dsimakov, sledgehammer999)
  • FEATURE: Switch to Qt5 by default.
  • BUGFIX: Fix progress calculation in Content tab. Closes #2639 Closes #2752 (ngosang)
  • BUGFIX: Fix label filter. Closes #3429. (glassez)
  • BUGFIX: Fix "Run External Program Launches too Early" issue, closes #2107. (Chocobo1)
  • BUGFIX: Don"t remove torrent contents parent folder, even it is empty. Closes #2244. (Chocobo1)
  • BUGFIX: Always apply filter for manually banned IPs. Related #3988. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Fix reporting of tracker status. Closes #3101. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Don"t connect to "any interface" when the configured network interface is missing. Closes #3943, #2741, #1159, #844 and #143. (sledgehammer999)
  • BUGFIX: Fix reordering of first column with Qt5. Closes #2835. (sledgehammer999)
  • COSMETIC: Add back "qBittorrent" in program updater title, closes #3549. (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Use infinity symbol rather than -1 for nb_connections (pmzqla)
  • COSMETIC: Move uTP options to it"s own section (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Fix availability bar & progress bar height being too small on high DPI displays (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Fix availability label & progress label clipped on high DPI displays, closes #3237. (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Add tooltips/legend for availability bar & progress bar (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Use theme color for background in PropertiesWidget (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Replace horizontal line with border in bottom panel (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Various visual changes in the side panel. (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Use thin border for transfer list (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: Make URL in "Add Torrent File..." clickable. Closes #3928. (Chocobo1)
  • COSMETIC: New view for errored torrents. (sledgehammer999)
  • WEBUI: Add information in General tab (ngosang)
  • WEBUI: Reorder "Super seeding mode" option in right click menu (ngosang)
  • WEBUI: Clean up JavaScript code (ngosang)
  • WEBUI: Added labels support. #648 (Felipe Barriga Richards, ngosnag)
  • WEBUI: Fix accessing the WebUI through IPv6 (ngosang)
  • WEBUI: Bump WebUI API_VERSION to 6.
  • WEBUI: Change selected color to differentiate from the progressbar. (Daniel Peukert, ngosang)
  • SEARCH: Add "Copy description page URL" button in search tab. Closes #2371. (pmzqla)
  • SEARCH: Add https_proxy env variable. This forces Python to use the HTTP proxy for HTTPS connections. (pmzqla)
  • SEARCH: Detect new plugin URL from clipboard (ngosang)
  • SEARCH: Update Torrentz trackers (ngosang)
  • WINDOWS: Fix german translation of the installer (netswap)
  • NOX: Don"t ask the user questions in nox build when in non-interactive mode. Closes #3875. (sledgehammer999)
  • OTHER: Fixed typos, spelling correction (dartraiden)
  • OTHER: Fix need for restart to enable/disable peer countries resolution. (glassez)
  • OTHER: Unload the GeoIP db when disabled. (sledgehammer999)
  • OTHER: Reduce max value of "Disk cache size" to 1536MB for 32bit. Closes to #4028. (Chocobo1)
  • OTHER: Make "Download in sequential order" and "Download first and last piece first" options independent. (glassez)

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