Software Update: qBittorrent 4.1.3

Version 4.1.3 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 been given a new look 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 4.1.3 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New features:

• Preselect name without extension when renaming files
• Allow setting seq & first/last from context menu without metadata

bug fix:

• Show “N/A” if there is no scrape
• Save option about tracker favicons under correct key
• When file data are unreachable pause torrent and show “Missing Files” status (temporary fix)
• Don’t disable DHT when using force proxy
• Correctly save torrent queue position/state/priority changes in fastresume
• Fix icon height/width ratio
• Fix values ​​sorted wrong in “Last Activity” column
• Replace png icons with svg

WebUI:

• Allow WebUI sidebar filters to be hidden
• Increase WebUI Options initial height
• Adjust WebUI Options form alignment
• Fix WebUI unreachable issue
• Require torrent category creation to be explicit
• Include category save path in web api sync data
• Add save path and editing to WebUI new category dialog
• Bump Web API version

Search:

• Refactor in searchjob to always color visited entries
• Set “enter” as shortcut to download the selected torrents in search job
• Add regex option in the search filter’s context menu

Linux:

• Fix GUI scaling issue on Linux
• Fix regression that broke installing desktop file

OpenBSD:

• Better filesystem support for filewatcher