Download qBittorrent 3.4.0 Beta

A beta release of qBittorrent has been released with version number 3.4.0. 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features:

• New icon theme with SVG source, so we can scale it appropriately in the future.
• Drop Qt 4 support. Raise minimum Qt version to 5.5.1
• UI for managing locally banned IP list
• Support for specifying where to save/load config files. Support for portable mode.
• It is now possible to pass options via ENV variables instead of cmd options.
• Allow to strip subfolder in multifile torrents.
• Allow cmd args to specify options when adding torrents.
• Widget for showing filesystem paths while typing. Used in the Add New Torrent and Options dialogs.
• Trackerlist: Allow to toggle columns
• Add availability column to torrent content model and torrent properties window
• Implemented share limit by seeding time
• Revamp Torrent creator
• Enable drag n drop to create torrent on mainwindow
• Add show/hide status bar option
• Show number of pieces. Close #6774.
• Allow to select & delete multiple entries in “Manage Cookies” dialog
• Fetch Favicons via google as a final fallback
• Add a Tags (multi-label) feature to the GUI. Close #13.
• Use the system icons for each file type in the Content tab
• Use SVG files for monochrome tray icons. Close #6085.

bug fix:

• Adjust icons names to better fit FDO scheme
• Optimized IP filter parsing, making blazingly fast
• Fix dialogs didn’t position on the correct screen which qBittorrent window is on. Closes #1690, #2474, #3538.
• Refactor and improve StatusBar
• Set expiration date for newly added cookie to +2 years from now, instead of +99 years.
• Don’t create subfolder inside temp folder
• Don’t replace existing files when relocating torrent

cosmetics:

• Trackerlist: Set text alignment of columns with numbers to the right
• Enable alternatingRowColors for “Manage Cookie” dialog

WebUI:

• Allow to load/use ECDSA certificate in webUI.
• Add copy options to webui context menu
• Set torrent location from webui context menu (addresses #6815) (#7062)

Search:

• Use explicit class for search plugin versions
• Remove all search plugins from repo. There is another repo named ‘search-plugins’.
• Update the backend when a new plugin favicon is downloaded.

RSS:

• Redesigned RSS subsystem
• Do not use hardcoded colors in RSS feed view

Windows:

• Installer detects running process when it is 64-bit

macOS:

• Various macOS UI improvements
• Fix main menu item location on macOS

Other:

• Use new classes/methods from libtorrent and stop using deprecate ones.
• Various string fixes