qBittorrent 4.4.2

Razvan Serea
news reporter
neowin
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March 25, 2022 00:40 EDT

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. qBittorrent is an advanced, cross-platform BitTorrent client with a nice user interface, as well as a web UI for remote control and a built-in search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users by using as little CPU and memory as possible. qBittorrent is a truly open source project and as such anyone can and should contribute to it.

Features of qBittorrent:

Slick user interface similar to µTorrent
Well integrated and extensible search engine
Simultaneous search on the most famous BitTorrent search sites
Specific search requests by category (for example, books, music, movies)
All Bittorrent Extensions
DHT, Peer Exchange, Full Encryption, Magnet/BitComet URI, ...
Remote control via a web user interface
Almost identical to the normal user interface, all in Ajax
Advanced control over trackers, peers, and torrents
Torrent queuing and prioritization
Selection and prioritization of torrent content
UPnP/NAT-PMP port forwarding support
Available in ~25 languages (Unicode compatible)
torrent creation tool
Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. Regex)
bandwidth scheduler
IP filtering (compatible with eMule and PeerGuardian)
IPv6 compliant
Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD

qBittorrent 4.4.2 Release Notes:

WINDOWS: Windows 10+ users can also use the Qt6 version of the installer. Qt6 offers better HiDPI support. The Qt6 version is not tested much. The v4.4.x series will likely be the last to support Qt5, and thus Windows 7 and 8. It will see releases through at least summer 2022.
LINUX: An AppImage is now provided. Use the latest versions of Qt6, libtorrent, boost, openssl. It is built on Ubuntu 20.04 and should work on any other distribution of similar age. It is not well tested. Also, Ubuntu 20.04 is removed from the PPAs because it doesn't have the minimum required Qt5 version (5.15.2). The AppImage should cover any users left on that version.
MAC OS: Universal DMGs are now offered. They should work natively on M1 and Intel devices. The minimum supported operating system version is macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Known issue (all platforms): The text in the progress bar may have the wrong color or not appear when using the Qt6 version. You can switch to Qt5 version (if available) until it is resolved. Qt6 fixed the problem upstream, but it hasn't been released yet.

v4.4.2 changelog:

FEATURE: Allow to limit the maximum size of the memory working set (glassez)
BUG FIX: Fix UI crash when torrent is in non-existent category (Kevin Cox)
BUG FIX: Correctly handle changing global save paths (glassez)
BUGFIX: Disable performance alert (Chocobo1)
BUG FIX: Avoid loading resume data with inconsistent ID (glassez)
BUG FIX: Correctly handle metadata download for an existing torrent (glassez)
BUG FIX: Avoid crash when opening torrent destination folder (glassez)
WINDOWS: NSIS: Spanish, International Spanish and French translations update (Juanjo Jiménez, RqndomHax)