Download qBittorrent 4.1.2

Version 4.1.2 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 4.1.2 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New:

• New options for “inhibit sleep”
• Add option for regexps in the transferlist search filter’s context menu
• Add async io threads option to AdvancedSettings
• Allow save resume interval to be disabled
• Add checkbox for recursive download dialog
• Add changelog link in program updater

Fixed:

• Avoid allocating large memory when loading a .torrent file
• Notify users on 1st time close/minimize to tray
• Fix I/O error after fetching magnet metadata
• Never save resume data for already paused torrents
• Make ProgramUpdater upgrade to 64-bit qbt when running on 64-bit Windows
• Put temporary files in qbt own temp folder
• Avoid potentially setting the wrong piece priorities
• Various code refactorings/improvements
• Add options “Download in sequential order” and “Download first and last pieces first” in AddNewTorrentDialog
• Download favicon using appropriate protocol
• Apply proxy settings on DownloadManager creation
• Improve torrent initialization
• Save resume data on torrent change events
• Increase default resume data save interval
• Work around crash when processing recursive download. Closes #9086
• Reduce queries to python version
• Disable certain mouse wheel events in Options dialog

WebUI:

• Send all rechecks in one request
• Add WebUI Force Reannounce option
• Create non-existing path in setLocationAction()
• Add WebUI support for Mac ⌘ (Command) key
• Show current save path in ‘Set location’ window
• Fix WebUI cache behavior for css files
• Send Cache-Control header in WebUI responses
• Add form-action to CSP
• Add upgrade-insecure-requests to CSP when HTTPS is enabled
• Reset WebUI ban counter on login success
• Add logging messages in WebUI login action
• Add option to control CSRF protection
• Add option to control WebUI clickjacking protection

rss:

• Implement “Sequential downloading” feature. Closes #6835
• Don’t use RSS feed URLs as base for file names. Closes #8399

Search:

• Add a name filter for search results
• Fix python version detection
• Clear python cache conditionally
• Properly normalize version string before parsing it

Windows:

• Turn on Control Flow Guard for MSVC builds

macOS:

• Replace deprecated function IOPMAssertionCreate() on macOS

Other:

• Fix CMake build with QtSingleApplication. Fixes #9196