qBittorrent

qBittorrent
A screenshot of qBittorrent v4.1.1-2 running under Manjaro Linux
Original author(s) Christophe Dumez[1]
Developer(s) Sledgehammer999,[2] Christophe Dumez, Ishan Arora, Stefanos Antaris, Mohammad Dib[1]
Initial release May 16, 2006 (2006-05-16)[3]
Stable release
4.1.3 / September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18)[4]
Preview release N/A [±][5]
Repository
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Written in C++ (Qt)[6], Python
Operating system Cross-platform: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows
Platform ARM, x86
Available in 50 languages[7]
List of languages
Default UI: English

≥ 99% translated: Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Galician, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian

≥ 50% translated: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian (Latvia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Occitan (post 1500), Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish

≥ 10% translated: Croatian, Esperanto, Arabic, Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Georgian, Hindi (India), Icelandic, Latgalian, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese
Type BitTorrent client
License GPLv2+[8]
Website qbittorrent.org

qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client.

qBittorrent is written in C++, and thus is a native application. It uses Boost, Qt toolkit (version 4 or 5), and libtorrent-rasterbar library (for the torrent back-end). Its optional search engine is written in Python, so systems without a Python implementation installed cannot use that.

History

qBittorrent was originally developed in March 2006 by Christophe Dumez,[1] from the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard) in France.

It is currently developed by contributors worldwide and is funded through donations,[2] led by Sledgehammer999 from Greece, who became project maintainer in June 2013.[9]

Features

Some of the features present in qBittorrent include:

  • Bandwidth scheduler
  • Bind all traffic to a specific interface
  • Control over torrents, trackers and peers (Torrents queueing and prioritizing and Torrent content selection and prioritizing
  • Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OS/2
  • DHT, PeX, encrypted connections, LSD, UPnP, NAT-PMP port forwarding support, µTP, magnet links, private torrents
  • IP filtering: file types eMule dat, or PeerGuardian
  • Supports IPv6, but cannot use IPv4 and IPv6 at once[10]
  • Integrated RSS feed reader (with advanced download filters) and downloader
  • Integrated torrent search engine (Simultaneous search in many Torrent search sites and Category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Software))
  • Remote control through Secure Web User Interface
  • Sequential downloading (Download in order)
  • Super-seeding option
  • Torrent creation tool
  • Torrent queuing, filtering, and prioritizing
  • Unicode support, available in ~70 languages[7]

Versions

qBittorrent is cross-platform, available on many operating systems, including: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows.

As of July 2017, SourceForge statistics indicate that the most popular qBittorrent version of all supported platforms, 81% of downloads, were for Windows computers.[11]

Packages for different Linux distributions are available, though most are provided through official channels via various distributions.[4]

Reception

Ghacks suggested qBittorrent as a great alternative to μTorrent, for anybody put off by recent changes made to μTorrent.[12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Authors file". qBittorrent.org.
  2. 1 2 "Team members", qBittorrent.org
  3. ↑ Oldest available changelog
  4. 1 2 "Download", qBittorrent.org
  5. ↑ qBittorrent unstable builds, SourceForge.net
  6. ↑ "qBittorrent", Analysis Summary, Ohloh, retrieved 2012-08-23
  7. 1 2 "Localization of qBittorrent". qBittorrent.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  8. ↑ "Copying file", qBittorrent.org
  9. ↑ "qBittorrent is under a new maintainer". qBittorrent official forums.
  10. ↑ "GitHub Pull Request to enable dual-stack for qBittorrent". qBittorrent on GitHub.
  11. ↑ "Download Statistics: All Files". SourceForge.
  12. ↑ Martin Brinkmann (21 February 2012). "Looking For A uTorrent Alternative? Try qBittorrent". Ghacks. gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
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