qBittorrent
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 qBittorrent v4.0.1 |
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| Maintainer | sledgehammer999 |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| Current version |
4.2.5 ( April 24, 2020 ) |
| operating system | Windows , Linux , Solaris , Mac OS , Unix |
| programming language | C ++ / Qt v5 |
| category | File sharing |
| License | GNU GPL v2 ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.qbittorrent.org | |
qBittorrent is a free file-sharing program written in C ++ for the BitTorrent protocol. It stands u. A. available for the operating systems Windows , Linux , Mac OS . The project was driven forward until 2013 by a computer science student (Christophe Dumez) from the Technical University of Belfort-Montbeliard in France, until he passed the maintainer position on to sledgehammer999 in 2013. The free libraries Libtorrent and Qt serve as the basis . qBittorrent was released in March 2006 and has been in active development ever since. Especially after µTorrent introduced advertising in 2012 and installed a Litecoin miner in 2015, qBittorrent became very popular.
features
The qBittorrent client is small, very powerful, resource-saving, intuitive to use and has an attractive graphical user interface. These are all points with which qBittorrent wants to put itself in direct competition with the proprietary μTorrent .
The main features in particular:
- Web interface based on Ajax
- Integrated, eMule- like and expandable search engine that searches websites in the background
- Automatic, filter-based torrent downloads from web feeds
- UPnP / NAT-PMP
- Distributed hash table
- Peer exchange
- Vuze compatible protocol encryption
- Optional use of proxy servers (HTTP & Socks5)
- eMule or PeerGuardian / Peerblock compatible IP filtering
- Queues and prioritization of torrents
- Support for IPv6 and IPv4
- Support of magnet links
- Built-in tracker
- Availability in over 70 languages
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release 4.2.5 . April 24, 2020 (accessed April 25, 2020).
- ↑ qBittorrent is under a new maintainer. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .