qBittorrent

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

qBittorrent
A screenshot of qBittorrent v4.1.5 running on Lubuntu
Original author(s)Christophe Dumez[1]
Developer(s)Sledgehammer999, Chocobo1, glassez, pmzqla and others[2]
Initial releaseMay 16, 2006 (2006-05-16)[3]
Stable release
4.2.5 / April 25, 2020 (2020-04-25)[4]
Repository
Written inC++ (Qt),[5] Python
Operating systemCross-platform: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows
PlatformARM, x86, x64
Available in≈70 languages[6]
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 Bokmål, 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
TypeBitTorrent client
LicenseGPLv2+[7]
Websitewww.qbittorrent.org

qBittorrent is a native application written in C++. 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.

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,[8] 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[6]

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]

As of May 2020, FossHub statistics indicate qBittorrent as the second most downloaded software with over 75 million downloads.[12]

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

Reception

In 2012, Ghacks suggested qBittorrent as a great alternative to μTorrent, for anybody put off by recent controversial ad and bundleware changes made to μTorrent.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Authors file". qBittorrent.org.
  2. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/graphs/contributors
  3. Oldest available changelog
  4. "News Releases", qBittorrent.org
  5. "qBittorrent", Analysis Summary, Ohloh, retrieved 2012-08-23
  6. "Localization of qBittorrent". qBittorrent.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  7. "Copying file", qBittorrent.org
  8. "Team members", 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. "FossHub Download Statistics: All Files". FossHub.
  13. Brinkmann, Martin (21 February 2012). "Looking For A uTorrent Alternative? Try qBittorrent". Ghacks. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
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