Software update: qBittorrent 3.1.10

A new version 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) and boost. The program is the brainchild of French student Christophe Dumez, who has been working on it since March 2006. Today it is maintained by the community. In version 3.1.10 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New features:

• Allow disabling of OS cache. This will prevent RAM increases on Windows when seeding many files. Close #1699.
• Add ‘Completed’ column. Closes #1241.
• Added ‘Ratio Limit’ column. Close #936.
• Add ‘Open’ and ‘Open Containing Folder’ entries in the content’s right-click menu. Closes #1143.
• Don’t listen on IPv6 address by default. Prevents network connectivity problems. Close #1880.
• Added ‘Shutdown now’ button in shutdown confirmation dialog. Close #969.
• Add peer port column to PeerListWidget. Close #1650.

cosmetics:

• Fix weird ratio values ​​when torrent was imported or downloaded history was lost due to crash.
• Use ‘µTP’ instead of ‘uTP’.
• Show the loaded torrents in the transferlist when qBT is launched with a torrent/magnet and the AddNewTorrentDialog is showing. Close #1564.
• Don’t mix finished/unifinished torrents when sorting by ETA. Close #1688.
• Sort finished torrents by completed date when sorting by queue number.
• Right align numerical values ​​in the transfer list. Partially reverts 51a9a9aab. Close #1903.
• Don’t display the Search Engine tab by default.

Windows:

• Correctly associate torrents and magnet links with qBittorrent under non-admin accounts. Closes #291 #527 #579 #614 #964.
• Check for python before creating the search engine tab. Prevents the creation of python specific files in the user’s PC if no python is found. Close #1370.
• Don’t create keys in the registry if python isn’t found. Close #1370.
• Can now correctly detect 64bit and 32bit python installations on 64bit Windows. Closes #1148 #445 #795 #1708.
• Search first in PATH for python. Close #956.

OSX:

• Enable system tray in MACOSX
• Fix headless (nox) build.

Web UI:

• Correctly save/load settings and other improvements
• Removed broken ‘Report a bug’ iframe. Closes #1343
• Removed broken ‘Documentation’. Improves fix for #1343
• Removed essentially useless ‘Visit website’ iframe and changed it to a regular link. Improves fix for #1343

Bug fixed:

• Fix RSS feed icon. The tmp file gets deleted in the feed destructor. Closes #1639
• fix issue #1674: AddNewTorrentDialog is shown again and again even if checkbox “dont ask me again” is set
• Don’t show availability bar for magnet links
• Fix crash when the selected torrent disappears from the transfer list. Closes #1661
• Fix tracker announcing problem(hit-and-run) when many torrents are being active. Closes #1571
• Count magnet links in the ‘downloading’ filter and make them prevent system inhibition. Closes #1558
• Pick up updated plugins. Close #1745.
• Bring mainwindow in front when notification is clicked and other windows are in front.
• Speedup torrent moving
• Fix bug when moving a torrent before the previous move is completed
• Add option to hibernate computer in Auto-Shutdown menu
• Fix column resizing issues
• Fix possible crashes. Closes #1814.
• Limit max cache to 1800MiB for 32bits compiled binaries and to 4GiB for other. Close #1698.
• Don’t localize double numbers in the webui. Close #1525.
• Don’t shrink transferlist rows when scrolling horizontally. Close #1613.
• When qBT is launched with a magnet don’t show it in the transferlist while the metadata are being loaded in the background.
• Show disk space while retrieving metadata. Close #1693.
• Don’t disable DHT/LSD/UPnP in the GUI when anonymous mode is enabled.
• Possible fix for crash in RSS code. Close #1901.
• Fixed SMTP email code
• Don’t display the context menu in ‘Content’ and ‘HTTP Sources’ buttons when no torrent is selected. It prevents crashes. Closes #1906, #1900.
• Don’t translate file extensions. Close #1907.
• Fix available disk space label on single file torrents.
• Show stalled downloads that are uploading under the ‘Active’ filter. Closes #1654.”
• fix import torrent with “Keep incomplete torrents in:” enabled
• Send a spoofed user agent for the search engines (fixes some of them)
• Support URLs that redirect to magnet links
• Consider queued items before deciding to ‘auto-shutdown on downloads completion’. Closes #1942.