qBittorrent
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![]() A screenshot of qBittorrent v4.3.9 running on Arch Linux | |
Original author(s) | Christophe Dumez[1] |
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Developer(s) | Sledgehammer999, Chocobo1, glassez, pmzqla and others[2] |
Initial release | May 16, 2006[3] |
Stable release | 4.6.6[4] ![]() |
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Written in | C++ (Qt),[5] Python |
Operating system | Cross-platform: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows |
Platform | ARM, 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 | |
Type | BitTorrent client |
License | GPLv3+[7] with OpenSSL linking exception |
Website | www |
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client written in native C++. It relies on Boost, OpenSSL, zlib, Qt 6 toolkit and the libtorrent-rasterbar library (for the torrent back-end), with an optional search engine written in Python.[8][9]
History
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qBittorrent was originally developed in March 2006 by Christophe Dumez,[1] from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM).
It is currently developed by contributors worldwide and is funded through donations,[10] led by Sledgehammer999 from Greece, who became project maintainer in June 2013.[11]
Along with the 4.0.0 release a new logo for the project was unveiled.[12][13]
In February 2023, a security vulnerability affecting versions 4.5.0 and 4.5.1 was discovered in the Web UI running on Windows systems. This vulnerability enabled unauthenticated access to all files on the host computer via a path traversal bug.[14] This issue has been patched in version 4.5.2, which was released to the public on February 23, 2023.[15]
Features
[edit]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)
- DHT, PEX, encrypted connections, LPD, UPnP, NAT-PMP port forwarding support, μTP, magnet links, private torrents, v4.6.0 added (experimental) I2P support[15]
- IP filtering: file types eMule dat or PeerGuardian
- IPv6 support
- 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, such as books, music and software)
- Remote control through a secure web user interface
- Sequential downloading (download in order). Enables "streaming" media files
- Super-seeding option
- Torrent creation tool
- Torrent queuing, filtering and prioritizing
- Unicode support, available in ≈70 languages[6]
Versions
[edit]qBittorrent is cross-platform, available on many operating systems, including: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2 (including ArcaOS and eComStation),[16] Windows.
As of July 2017[update], SourceForge statistics indicate that the most popular qBittorrent version of all supported platforms, 81% of downloads were for Windows computers.[17]
As of May 2020[update], FossHub statistics indicate qBittorrent as the second most downloaded software with over 75 million downloads.[18]
Packages for different Linux distributions are available, though most are provided through official channels via various distributions.[15]
qBittorrent Enhanced is a fork of qBittorrent intended for blocking leeching clients such as Xunlei. It is hosted on GitHub.[citation needed]
Reception
[edit]In 2012, Ghacks suggested qBittorrent as a great alternative to μTorrent, for those put off by its controversial adware and bundleware changes.[19]
See also
[edit]- Comparison of BitTorrent clients
- List of free and open-source software packages
- Usage share of BitTorrent clients
References
[edit]- ^ "Contributors to qbittorrent/QBittorrent". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2020-06-21. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
- ^ "Oldest available changelog". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
- ^ "release-4.6.6". 18 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "qBittorrent", Analysis Summary, Ohloh, archived from the original on 2014-02-25, retrieved 2012-08-23
- ^ a b "Localization of qBittorrent". qBittorrent.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
- ^ "Copying file", qBittorrent.org, archived from the original on 2019-02-17, retrieved 2012-08-26
- ^ qbittorrent/qBittorrent, qBittorrent project, 2022-05-22, archived from the original on 2022-05-22, retrieved 2022-05-22
- ^ "qBittorrent/CONTRIBUTING.md". GitHub. 13 August 2022. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
Make sure you have python installed correctly (remember the search functionality requires a working python installation).
- ^ "Team members", qBittorrent.org, archived from the original on 2013-08-19, retrieved 2012-09-25
- ^ "qBittorrent is under a new maintainer". qBittorrent official forums. Archived from the original on 2019-06-09. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ "Change qbittorrent logo. Issue #6467. by sledgehammer999 · Pull Request #6484 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent". GitHub. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ "New Icon/Logo Proposal · Issue #6467 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent". GitHub. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ "Web UI - apparent path traversal vulnerability · Issue #18618 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ^ a b c "News Releases". www.qbittorrent.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- ^ "Network / Networking / Internet applications". Archived from the original on 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ^ "Download Statistics: All Files". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ "FossHub Download Statistics: All Files". FossHub. Archived from the original on 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
- ^ 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.
External links
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- Official website
- qBittorrent on GitHub
- qBittorrent on FossHub