Software Update: qBittorrent 4.4.1

Version 4.4.1 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. Version 4.4 includes the switch to libtorrent 2.0 and there is a separate download with an interface that uses Qt 6, which is still referred to as experimental. In version 4.4.1 the following changes and improvements have also been made:

Windows:

Users of Windows 10+ can also use the Qt6 version of the installer. Qt6 offers better HiDPI compatibility. Known issue: The text on the progress bar may have wrong color or not appear at all. You may switch to the regular version(Qt5 based) until it is resolved. The Qt6 version isn’t tested much. The v4.4.x series will probably be the last one that supports Qt5 and therefore Windows 7 and 8. It will see releases at least until the summer of 2022.

Linux:

An AppImage is now offered. It uses the latest versions of Qt6, libtorrent, boost, openssl. It is created on Ubuntu 20.04 and it should work on any other similarly aged distro. It isn’t well tested. Also Ubuntu 20.04 is dropped from the PPAs because it doesn’t have the minimum required Qt5 version

macOS:

Builds will take a few days to be uploaded.

New:

• Restore all torrent settings to the torrent’s main context menu
• Add confirmation for enabling Auto TMM from context menu
• Add tooltip to Automatic Torrent Management context menu action
• Add Select All/None buttons in new torrent dialog

Fixed:

• Keep “torrent info” alive while generate .torrent file
• Correctly handle Auto TMM in Torrent Files Watcher
• Correctly track the root folder name change
• Various fixes to the moving torrent code
• Update the torrent’s download path field when changing category
• Correctly handle received metadata
• Store hybrid torrents using legacy filenames
• Open correct directory when clicked on Browse button
• Fix crash when shutting down and clicing on system tray icon
• Fix “Free space on disk” in new torrent dialog
• Optimize completed files handling
• Migrate proxy settings
• Try to recover missing categories

WebUI:

• WebAPI: fix wrong key used for categories
• Remove hack for outdated IE 6 browser

RSS:

• Correctly handle XML parsing errors