Available for download for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

Aug 3, 2015 00:55 GMT  ·  By

The qBittorrent project announced on the first day of August 2015 that the second maintenance release of their cross-platform and open-source BitTorrent client, qBittorrent 3.2, was available for download with major improvements.

According to the release notes, which we have attached at the end of the article for reference, qBittorrent 3.2.2 brings with it new features like support for forcing the reannouncement of the DHT (Distributed Hash Table) function, an option that lets users disable the confirmation of rechecking torrents, as well as support for allowing the app to copy all the BitTorrent trackers using a keyboard shortcut.

The web-based user interface (WebUI) received numerous improvements as well, such as support for ports between 1 and 65535, new Web UI port UPNP option, API Content Types fixes, empty trackers addition fixes, better support for sorting torrents by queue number, torrent download from hash support, Content tab support for torrents that don't have metadata, and support for opening external links in a new tab or window.

Various cosmetic changes were applied to the application, such as an update to the color scheme of the "torrent completed" icon, the addition of a Force Resume icon, a few modifications to the Preview File dialog, support for counting unread items in the RSS tab label, as well as better support for printing of the copyright symbol in the application's About dialog.

There's now Python 3 support in the Search function

qBittorrent's built-in Search function received a lot of attention in the 3.2.2 release, as the developers added search status per tab support, added brought Python detection and checks, come up with support for Python 3 on both GNU/Linux and Mac OS X systems, added a notification when Python is not detected, removed the 'torrent' word from the ExtraTorrent results, and updated the link to the Windows Python installer.

Many issues reported by users since qBittorrent 3.2.1 were fixed as well, including problems with torrent renaming, localhost address, the '&' character in the label name, HTTP header parsing, as well as installing search plugins from a local file or by dragging and dropping files. The build system was improved, a Slovenian language translation was added, and the app not requires libtorrent 1.0.6/0.16.19 or higher.

On August 2, qBittorrent 3.2.3 was released to fix a crash that occurred when attempting to close a search tab during search, as well as to improve the built-in search functionality. Download qBittorrent 3.2.3 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows right now from Softpedia or directly from the application's website, whichever suits you best.

QBittorrent 3.2.2 Changelog