qBittorrent is a bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4 using the good libtorrent library (By Arvid Nordberg).
qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients. The Author is Christophe Dumez, French Student in computer science (IT).
Here are some key features of “qBittorrent”:
· Fast resume of unfinished downloads on startup (no need to recheck files)
· Unicode Support
· Connection through proxy server support
· Download only some files within a torrent
· Scan regularily a folder and add automatically torrent files within to download list
· Drag ‘n drop of torrent files to GUI
· Limit Upload / Download Speed
· Limit number of simultaneous connections
· User can set share ratio
· UDP Tracker support
· IP Filter support
· Display number of peers, complete / partial sources for each download
· Languages supported: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Korean, German, Catalan, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Swedish
Requirements:
· libtorrent (tested with v0.9.1) -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtorrent/ (These are TWO different libraries and qBittorrent will only work with the one provided on sourceforge.)
· libboost, libboost-filesystem, libboost-date-time
Installation:
./configure
make && make install
qbittorrent
will install and execute qBittorrent hopefully without any problems.
What’s New in This Release:
· FEATURE: Greatly improved ETA calculation algorithm (use GASA)
· BUGFIX: Fixed proxy host max length in preferences
· BUGFIX: Added a 3 minutes search engine timeout
· BUGFIX: Limit search engine plugins to 10 result pages
· BUGFIX: Fixed nbResults != 0 when clearing results while a search is running
· BUGFIX: Fixed possible problem when closing to systray and cancelling app exit
· BUGFIX: Fixed preview when path contains spaces
· COSMETIC: Use more skin colors instead of hard coded ones
Sources mirror 1 (tar.gz) (1.0.0 RC4 Development)