Software update: qBittorrent 4.0.4

Version 4.0.4 of qBittorrent has been released. This open source torrent client has versions for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, and shows no ads. The program is with Qt 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 early 2006. Today it is maintained by the community.

In version 4, among other things, the switch from Qt4 to 5 has been made and the program has also been given a new appearance and logo. Furthermore, the program can be used in portable mode, torrents can now also be shared for a certain time and not only until a certain percentage is reached, and the screen in which you can create torrents yourself has been overhauled. In version 4.0.4 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Feature:

• Add source field in Torrent creator. Close #7965.
• Torrent creator: raise maximum piece size to 32 MiB
• Add a force reannounce option in the transfer list context menu. Close #6448.

bug fix:

• Fix sorting of country flags column in Peers tab.
• Fix natural sorting when the common part of 2 strings ends partially in a number which continues in the uncommon part. Closes #8080 #6732.
• Fix application of speed limits on LAN and µTP connections. Close #7745.
• Make peer information flags in peer list more readable.
• Fix gui issues on high DPI monitor.
• Fix dialog and column size on high DPI monitors.
• Fix constant state or ‘[F] download’. Close #7628.
• Fix translation context. Close #8211.
• Separate subnet whitelist options into two lines.
• Don’t set application name twice.
• Set default file log size to 65 KiB and delete backup logs older than 1 month.

WebUI:

• Only prepend scheme when it is not present. Close #8057.
• Add “Remaining” and “Availability” columns to webui Content tab.
• Make value formatting consistent with GUI
• Reposition Total Size column to match gui
• Add Tags and Time Active columns
• Use https for www.qbittorrent.org
• Match webui statuses to gui, closes #7516
• Right-align stat values
• Add missing units.

RSS:

• Fix crash when deleting rule because it tries to update. Closes #8094
• Don’t process new/updated RSS rules when disabled
• Remove legacy and corrupted RSS settings

Search:

• Search only when category is supported by plugin. Close #8053.
• Only add search separators as needed.

cosmetics:

• Tweak spacing in torrent properties widget and speed widget.

Windows:

• Use standard folder icon for open file behavior on Windows. Close #7880.
• Reverts “Run external program” function. Now you will not be able to directly run batch scripts.

macOS:

• Fix torrent file selection in Finder on mac
• Fix Finder reveal in preview and torrent contents
• Fix cmd+w not closing the main window on macOS

Other:

• Fix splitting or compiler flags in configure. Autoconf removes a set of [] during script translation, resulting in a wrong sed command.
• configure: Parse all compiler related flags together.
• Update copyright year.