qBittorrent is a torrent client, similar to µTorrent, which was recently ported to the Linux systems. Among others, qBittorrent has built-in search engine for searching in the popular BitTorrent sites, has torrent queueing and prioritizing features, has IP Filtering options, provides a tool for creating torrents and bandwidth limitations.
The latest version available is qBittorrent 3.3.2, which has been released, bringing a big list of changes:
- FEATURE: Add a new column to peers list that shows list of files which are downloaded right now from a peer.
- FEATURE: Improve the “Watch folders” UI. Closes #4300. You’ll need to redo your watch folders settings.
- FEATURE: Support loading multiple magnets/hashes/urls per .magnet file in the watched folder(one per line).
- BUGFIX: Fix resolution of peer host names.
- BUGFIX: Don’t recheck twice after ‘Force Recheck’ with ‘Recheck torrents on completion’ enabled.
- BUGFIX: Don’t apply some settings again if they weren’t changed.
- BUGFIX: Update ISO 3166 country codes.
- BUGFIX: Fix moving torrents to Temp after app restart.
- BUGFIX: Fix crash in favicon code due to null pointer dereference.
- BUGFIX: Move the ‘qBittorrent-resume’ file even when no magnets were recovered. Also make sure to rename it with a unique name.
- BUGFIX: Don’t add the watch folder before the user closes the Preferences window.
- BUGFIX: Remove watch folders permanently only if the user accepts the Preferences dialog.
- BUGFIX: Better handling of cookies in the download manager
- BUGFIX: Use the download manager for RSS, the program updater and the dns updater.
- BUGFIX: Fix reconfigure additional trackers
- BUGFIX: Fix loading corrupted .fastresume file
- WEBUI: Show filtered torrents number
- WEBUI: Fix paused, active and inactive filters
- WEBUI: Fixed bug when uploading several files and only the last one was considered.
- WEBUI: Implemented WebUI interface for the new Watched Folders feature
- WEBUI: Fix possible showing “qBittorrent client is not reachable” message on deleting torrents.
- WEBUI: Don’t show “Limit download speed” menu item for downloaded torrents.
- WEBUI: Update webui run program parameters
- WEBUI: Allow to remove the label assigned to a torrent
- WEBUI: Repair translation
- WEBUI: Remember last opened tab
- WEBUI: Bump WebUI API_VERSION and API_VERSION_MIN.
- COSMETIC: Update native names for Chinese locales.
- COSMETIC: Rename column header in Content view.
- COSMETIC: Edit speed limits and upload ratio icons
- SEARCH: Code refactoring.
- SEARCH: Fix PirateBay plugin implementation for Python 3
- SEARCH: Update PirateBay URL.
- RSS: Code refactoring.
- LINUX: Fix build.
- OTHER: Fix lrelease version due to the default Qt5 build
- OTHER: Indicate to the user that he’s going to download the new version. Indicate from the installer that the old version was detected and no settings will be deleted.
- OTHER: Don’t require GUI libs for qt4 nox build.
- OTHER: Fix cross-compilation
- OTHER: Allow GeoIP in nox builds
For more information, see the full changelog.
Installation instructions:
There isn’t any official qBittorrent PPA or repository, but the community maintains one, so that the users can keep their qBittorrent up to date easily.
The below instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qbittorrent
If you want to remove qbittorrent, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove qbittorrent