qBittorrent is a cross platform free and open source bittorrent client designed as an alternative the popular µtorrent client written in C++ / Qt4, using the libtorrent-rasterbar library. qBittorrent is developed by volunteers. The latest version, qBittorrent 3.1.0 released on October 12th 2013.Bittorrent client. qBittorrent is fast, stable, light, it supports unicode and it provides a good integrated search engine. It also comes with UPnP port forwarding / NAT-PMP, encryption (Vuze compatible), FAST extension (mainline) and PeX support (utorrent compatible).
Features of qBittorrent v3.1.0
– Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
– Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
– Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
– Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
– All Bittorrent extensions
– DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, …
– Remote control through a Web user interface
– Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
– Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
– Torrents queueing and prioritizing
– Torrent content selection and prioritizing
– UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
– Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
– Torrent creation tool
– Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
– Bandwidth scheduler
– IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
– IPv6 compliant
– Sequential downloading (aka “Download in order”)
– Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD
Installing qBittorrent
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hydr0g3n/qbittorrent-stable $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent
You can also download the qbittorrent source code and compile from source.
