qBittorrent 5.0.0

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. qBittorrent is an advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice 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 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 5.0.0 changelog:

  • FEATURE: Support creating .torrent with larger piece size (Chocobo1)
  • FEATURE: Improve tracker entries handling (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add separate filter item for tracker errors (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Allow to remove tracker from tracker filter widget menu (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Implement Reannounce In column (Hanabishi)
  • FEATURE: Expose DHT bootstrap nodes setting (Chocobo1)
  • FEATURE: Add support for Mark-of-the-Web (Chocobo1)
  • FEATURE: Allow to keep unwanted files in separate folder (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add Copy Comment to the torrent list"s context menu (thalieht)
  • FEATURE: Allow relative profile paths (Victor Chernyakin)
  • FEATURE: Enable Ctrl+F hotkey for more inputs (thalieht)
  • FEATURE: Add seeding limits to RSS and Watched folders options UI (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Subcategories implicitly follow the parent category options (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add option to name each qbittorrent instance (Chocobo1)
  • FEATURE: Add button for sending test email (Thomas Piccirello)
  • FEATURE: Allow torrents to override default share limit action (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Use Start/Stop instead of Resume/Pause (thalieht)
  • FEATURE: Add the Popularity metric (Aliaksei Urbanski)
  • FEATURE: Focus on Download button if torrent link retrieved from the clipboard (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add ability to pause/resume entire BitTorrent session (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add an option to set BitTorrent session shutdown timeout (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Apply "Excluded file names" to folder names as well (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Allow to use regular expression to filter torrent content (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Allow to move content files to Trash instead of deleting them (glassez)
  • FEATURE: Add ability to display torrent "privateness" in UI (ManiMatter)
  • FEATURE: Add a flag in Peers tab denoting a connection using NAT hole punching (stalkerok)
  • BUGFIX: Display error message when unrecoverable error occurred (glassez)
  • BUGFIX: Update size of selected files when selection is changed (glassez)
  • BUGFIX: Normalize tags by trimming leading/trailing whitespace (glassez)
  • BUGFIX: Correctly handle share limits in torrent options dialog (glassez)
  • BUGFIX: Adjust tracker tier when adding additional trackers (Chocobo1)
  • BUGFIX: Fix inconsistent naming between Done/Progress column (luzpaz)
  • BUGFIX: Sanitize peer client names (Hanabishi)
  • BUGFIX: Apply share limits immediately when torrent downloading is finished (glassez)
  • BUGFIX: Show download progress for folders with zero byte size as 100 instead of 0 (vikas_c)
  • BUGFIX: Fix highlighted piece color (Prince Gupta)
  • BUGFIX: Apply "merge trackers" logic regardless of way the torrent is added (glassez)
  • WEBUI: Improve WebUI responsiveness (Chocobo1)
  • WEBUI: Do not exit the app when WebUI has failed to start (Hanabishi)
  • WEBUI: Add Moving filter to side panel (xavier2k6)
  • WEBUI: Add dark theme (d47081)
  • WEBUI: Allow to remember torrent content files deletion (David)
  • WEBUI: Leave the fields empty when value is invalid (Chocobo1)
  • WEBUI: Use natural sorting (Chocobo1)
  • WEBUI: Improve WebUI login behavior (JayRet)
  • WEBUI: Conditionally show filters sidebar (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Add support for running concurrent searches (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Improve accuracy of trackers list (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Fix error when category doesn"t exist (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Improve table scrolling and selection on mobile (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Restore search tabs on load (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Restore previously used tab on load (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Increase default height of Share ratio limit dialog (thalieht)
  • WEBUI: Use enabled search plugins by default (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBUI: Add columns Incomplete Save Path, Info Hash v1, Info Hash v2 (thalieht)
  • WEBUI: Always create generic filter items (skomerko)
  • WEBUI: Provide Use Category paths in Manual Mode option (skomerko)
  • WEBUI: Provide Merge trackers to existing torrent option (skomerko)
  • WEBAPI: Fix wrong timestamp values (Chocobo1)
  • WEBAPI: Send binary data with filename and mime type specified (glassez)
  • WEBAPI: Expose API for the torrent creator (glassez, Radu Carpa)
  • WEBAPI: Add support for SSL torrents (Chocobo1, Radu Carpa)
  • WEBAPI: Provide endpoint for listing directory content (Paweł Kotiuk)
  • WEBAPI: Provide "private" flag via "torrents/info" endpoint (ManiMatter)
  • WEBAPI: Add a way to download .torrent file using search plugin (glassez)
  • WEBAPI: Add "private" filter for "torrents/info" endpoint (ManiMatter)
  • WEBAPI: Add root_path to "torrents/info" result (David Newhall)
  • RSS: Show RSS feed title in HTML browser (Jay)
  • RSS: Allow to set delay between requests to the same host (jNullj)
  • SEARCH: Allow users to specify Python executable path (Chocobo1)
  • SEARCH: Lazy load search plugins (milahu)
  • SEARCH: Add date column to the built-in search engine (ducalex)
  • SEARCH: Allow to rearrange search tabs (glassez)
  • WINDOWS: Use Fusion style on Windows 10+. It has better compatibility with dark mode (glassez)
  • WINDOWS: Allow to set qBittorrent as default program (glassez)
  • WINDOWS: Don"t access "Favorites" folder unexpectedly (glassez)
  • LINUX: Add support for systemd power management (Chocobo1)
  • LINUX: Add support for localized man pages (Victor Chernyakin)
  • LINUX: Specify a locale if none is set (Chocobo1)
  • MACOS: Display download/upload speed in dock icon (Nick Korotysh)
  • MACOS: Add support for quarantine on macOS (Chocobo1)
  • OTHER: Drop support for Qt5, qmake, autotools, Windows
  • OTHER: Minimum supported versions: Qt: 6.5, Boost: 1.76, OpenSSL: 3.0.2
  • OTHER: Switch to C++20

Download: qBittorrent 5.0 | 37.5 MB (Open Source)
Download: qBittorrent 64-bit installer (qt6) | 39.8 MB
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