Software Update: qBittorrent 3.1.0

Version 3.1.0 of qBittorrent has been released. This open source torrent client has versions for Windows, Linux, OS X and FreeBSD and shows no ads. The program is with Qt4 developed and based on libtorrent (raster bar). The program is the brainchild of French student Christophe Dumez, who has been working on it since March 2006. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features:

• Add command line option to daemonize qbittorrent-nox (ngaro)
• Add “Shutdown qBittorrent” button to Web UI (ngaro)
• Add setting to copy .torrent files for finished downloads (Driim)
• Add option to start qBittorrent on Windows startup (sledgehammer999)
• Add context menu to Web seed list (Gelmir)
• Add support for tracker tiers / groups to creator (Gelmir)
• Allow clearing execution and ban logs (Gelmir)
• Add option to use random port on each startup (irallylikeher)
• Expose the cache expiry to the user (Gelmir)
• Support Atom feeds (Gelmir)
• Add “save path” column (John Peterson)
• Add µTorrent-compatible “Flags” column in the peer tab(sledgehammer999)
• Load magnet metadata in the background while the “Add New Torrent” Dialog is showing (Gelmir)
• Allow to enter only an info-hash for download(sledgehammer999)
• Bring the “Add New Torrent” Dialog to the front (glassez)

Bug fixed:

• Add confirmation dialog for “Force recheck” action (closes #131)
• Greatly improve RSS manager performance (closes #34)
• Ensure that all columns in the transferlist have a size > 0.
• Don’t mark RSS item as read when it failed to download (Gelmir)
• Fix ETA calculation when some files are downloaded and marked afterwards as ‘do not download'(sledgehammer999)
• Make the UI show that PEX/DHT/LSD are actually disabled on private torrents(sledgehammer999)
• Scheduler should be much more robust and correct now(sledgehammer999)
• Now qBt won’t forget torrent settings after an unclean shutdown(sledgehammer999)
• Text boxes in edit dialogs will fit to text width(Gelmir)
• Enable edit/rename via F2 or double click in various places(Gelmir)
• Allow to edit trackers and copy their urls(Gelmir and Driim)
• Add Uploaded column to main view(Gelmir)
• Calculate ETA for seeding torrents(Gelmir)
• Add option to ignore global share ratio limits for created torrents(Gelmir)

Other:

• Many RSS bug fixes and improvements all over the place(Gelmir)
• Generate translations at configure time to reduce tarball size
• Make peer tab sortable by ip too (Gelmir)
• Translations moved to Transifex(https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/qbittorrent/)
• New Translation – Vietnamese (Anh Phan)

Performance:

• Impove drawing speed of transferlist when there are many torrents(>100)
• Impove drawing speed of peers list when there are many peers