Software Update: qBittorrent 3.3.0

Version 3.3.0 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) 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. The release notes for this release are as follows:

New features:

• Huge core code refactoring. Problems with labels, temp folders etc should be eliminated. Smoother UI should be observed too.
• speed graph
• Add multiple peers in Peers addition dialog. Closes #1563, #2245, #3133, #1419, #3287, #1419
• Allow to copy all peers with a keyboard shortcut
• Use GeoIP2 database, allows for country resolution of IPv6 peers. It is no longer embedded in the program but downloaded and updated monthly.
• Add more “Run External Program” parameters, closes #3053, #238, #1291, #1522.
• Add an option to allow the use of proxies only for torrents. Close #2701.
• Detect network interface state changes. It should detect VPN connection resets.
• Switch to using c++11
• Automatically add trackers to new downloads.
• You can now choose the path to download for watched folders.
• Switch to Qt5 by default.

Bug fixed:

• Fix progress calculation in Content tab. Closes #2639 Closes #2752
• Fix label filter. Close #3429.
• Fix “Run External Program Launches too Early” issue, closes #2107.
• Don’t remove torrent contents parent folder, even it is empty. Closes #2244.
• Always apply filter for manually banned IPs. Related #3988.
• Fix reporting or tracker status. Close #3101.
• Don’t connect to “any interface” when the configured network interface is missing. Closes #3943, #2741, #1159, #844 and #143.
• Fix reordering of first column with Qt5. Closes #2835.

cosmetics:

• Add back “qBittorrent” in program updater title, closes #3549.
• Use infinity symbol rather than -1 for nb_connections
• Move uTP options to it’s own section
• Fix availability bar & progress bar height being too small on high DPI displays
• Fix availability label & progress label clipped on high DPI displays, closes #3237.
• Add tooltips/legend for availability bar & progress bar
• Use theme color for background in PropertiesWidget
• Replace horizontal line with border in bottom panel
• Various visual changes in the side panel.
• Use thin border for transfer list
• Make URL in “Add Torrent File…” clickable. Close #3928.
• New view for errored torrents.

WebUI:

• Add information in General tab
• Reorder “Super seeding mode” option in right click menu
• Clean up JavaScript code
• Added tag support. #648
• Fix accessing the WebUI through IPv6
• Bump WebUI API_VERSION to 6.
• Change selected color to differentiate from the progress bar.

Search:

• Add “Copy description page URL” button in search tab. Closes #2371.
• Add https_proxy env variable. This forces Python to use the HTTP proxy for HTTPS connections.
• Detect new plugin URL from clipboard
• Update Torrentz trackers

Windows:

• Fix german translation of the installer

NOX:

• Don’t ask the user questions in nox build when in non-interactive mode. Close #3875.

Other:

• Fixed typos, spelling correction
• Fix need for restart to enable/disable peer countries resolution.
• Unload the GeoIP db when disabled.
• Reduce max value of “Disk cache size” to 1536MB for 32bit. Close to #4028.
• Make “Download in sequential order” and “Download first and last piece first” options independent.