Download qBittorrent 3.3.8

Version 3.3.8 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 March 2006. Today it is maintained by the community. The changelog for this release can be found below.

New:

• Start using new libtorrent 1.1.x APIs (needs at least 1.1.2). Still unofficial support.
• Add a new DHT bootstrap node run by libtorrent author arvidn.
• Option to disable tracker’s favicon download.
• Shift + scroll = horizontal scroll. Close #5980. Only for TransferListWidget, PeerListWidget.

Fixed:

• Actually set new path as default when checkBox is enabled in Add New Torrent dialog.
• Properly fix the handling of default save path store/load.
• Fix crash when restoring from tray. Close #5854.
• Export torrents added only after the setting was enabled.
• Delete old RSS favicon before assigning new one.
• Don’t revert save path value in the Dialog when metadata are received. Close #5482.
• Don’t ever stop seeding forced torrent. Close #5784.
• Fix potential crash in TransferList widget. Close #5873.
• Sort torrent names case insensitively.
• Fix mistake in getting values ​​for sorting in TransferList widget.
• Fix memory leaks.

WebUI:

• Fix webui port overflow.
• Changed meaning of the value of the ‘dl_limit’, ‘up_limit’, ‘alt_dl_limit’ and ‘alt_up_limit’ tokens. The value is expressed in bytes and not in KiB.
• Don’t request client SSL certificate. Close #3883.
• Bump API_VERSION and API_VERSION_MIN to 11.

Search:

• Fixed extratorrent search not working Closes #5736 #5753.
• Update Demonoid plugin.
• Remove Torrent Reactor plugin.
• Fix python auto install, deletion of installer and use 3.5.x series for Vista+. Close #5871.
• Set /usr/local/bin before default PATH on macOS. close #5639 #5571. This enables finding newer python installs.

cosmetics:

• Log: set embedded Tracker [OFF] msg type as info.
• Remove (mostly) useless log warnings about tracker’s favicon.
• Change RSS view layout to horizontal. Close #5920.

macOS:

• Fix crash on exit using Qt4.
• Change QSettings to IniFormat on macOS. Close #5770 #5808.

Linux:

• Workaround a Qt5 bug which results in a flood of network interface change singals.

Other:

• Turkish translation for installer.
• Update portugueseBR for installer.
• Update portuguese for installer.
• Add –disable-qt-dbus to configure if $host_os is macOS.
• New translations: Icelandic, Latvian, Malay, Occitan, Uzbek.
• A whole lot of code refactoring by various people.