qBittorrent is a

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BitTorrent client written in

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C++. It relies on

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, Qt 6 toolkit and the libtorrent-rasterbar library (for the torrent back-end), with an optional search engine written in

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History

qBittorrent was originally developed in March 2006 by Christophe Dumez, from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). It is currently developed by contributors worldwide and is funded through donations, led by Sledgehammer999 from Greece, who became project maintainer in June 2013. Along with the 4.0.0 release a new logo for the project was unveiled.

Features

Some of the features present in qBittorrent include: * Bandwidth scheduler * Bind all traffic to a specific interface * Control over torrents, trackers and

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(torrents queueing and prioritizing and torrent content selection and prioritizing) * DHT,

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, encrypted connections, LPD,

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, NAT-PMP port forwarding support,

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, magnet links, private torrents * IP filtering: file types ''

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'' *

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support * Integrated

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feed reader (with advanced download filters) and downloader * Integrated torrent

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(simultaneous search in many torrent search sites and category-specific search requests, such as books, music and software) * Remote control through a secure

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* Sequential downloading (download in order). Enables "streaming" media files *

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option * Torrent creation tool * Torrent queuing, filtering and prioritizing *

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support, available in ≈70 languages

Versions

qBittorrent is

, available on many

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s, including:

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, OS/2 (including

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and eComStation),

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statistics indicate that the most popular qBittorrent version of all supported platforms, 81% of downloads were for Windows computers. , FossHub statistics indicate qBittorrent as the second most downloaded software with over 75 million downloads. Packages for different

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s are available, though most are provided through official channels via various distributions. qBittorrent Enhanced is a fork of qBittorrent intended for blocking leeching clients such as Xunlei. It is hosted on

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Reception

In 2012, Ghacks suggested qBittorrent as a great alternative to

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, for those put off by its controversial

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and bundleware changes.

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