Software:qBittorrent
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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 | 4.4.5 (August 30, 2022[±][4] | )
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 | {{{1}}} |
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
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
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
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), 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), 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
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
- Comparison of BitTorrent clients
- List of free and open-source software packages
- Usage share of BitTorrent clients
References
- ↑ "Contributors to qbittorrent/QBittorrent". https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/graphs/contributors.
- ↑ "Oldest available changelog". https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/969a02b93e704a7cc7157780194b4ad267362bec/Changelog.
- ↑ qBittorrent Release News, SourceForge.net, https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php
- ↑ "qBittorrent", Analysis Summary (Ohloh), http://www.ohloh.net/p/qbittorrent, retrieved 2012-08-23
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Localization of qBittorrent". http://www.qbittorrent.org/localization.php.
- ↑ Copying file, https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/COPYING, retrieved 2012-08-26
- ↑ qbittorrent/qBittorrent, qBittorrent project, 2022-05-22, https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/7e0cd223fd7fa6f1b374c1863bb21c600f93e506/INSTALL#L21-L23, retrieved 2022-05-22
- ↑ "qBittorrent/CONTRIBUTING.md". 13 August 2022. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. "Make sure you have python installed correctly (remember the search functionality requires a working python installation)."
- ↑ Team members, http://www.qbittorrent.org/team.php, retrieved 2012-09-25
- ↑ "qBittorrent is under a new maintainer". http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php?topic=2009.msg6939#msg6939.
- ↑ "Change qbittorrent logo. Issue #6467. by sledgehammer999 · Pull Request #6484 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent" (in en). https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/6484.
- ↑ "New Icon/Logo Proposal · Issue #6467 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent" (in en). https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/6467.
- ↑ "Web UI - apparent path traversal vulnerability · Issue #18618 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent" (in en). https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18618.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "News Releases". https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php.
- ↑ "Network / Networking / Internet applications". http://trac.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4%20Networking.
- ↑ "Download Statistics: All Files". http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/stats/timeline?dates=+2006-03-22+to+2014-03-01.
- ↑ "FossHub Download Statistics: All Files". https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent.html.
- ↑ Brinkmann, Martin (21 February 2012). "Looking For A uTorrent Alternative? Try qBittorrent". Ghacks. https://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/21/looking-for-a-utorrent-alternative-try-qbittorrent/.
External links
- on GitHub
- qBittorrent on FossHub
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