qBittorrent 3.1.0 has been released with a lot of new features and bugfixes. This tutorial shows you how to install or upgrade it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint 16/15.
What’s New in qBittorrent 3.1.0:
- Add command line option to daemonize qbittorrent-nox (ngaro)
- Add “Shutdown qBittorrent” button to Web UI (ngaro)
- Add setting to copy .torrent files for finished downloads (Driim)
- Add option to start qBittorrent on Windows startup (sledgehammer999)
- Add context menu to Web seed list (Gelmir)
- Add support for tracker tiers / groups to creator (Gelmir)
- Allow clearing execution and ban logs (Gelmir)
- Add option to use random port on each startup (ireallylikeher)
- Expose the cache expiry to the user (Gelmir)
- Support Atom feeds (Gelmir)
- Add “save path” column (John Peterson)
- Add μTorrent-compatible “Flags” column in the peer tab(sledgehammer999)
- Load magnet metadata in the background while the “Add New Torrent” Dialog is showing (Gelmir)
- Allow to enter only an info-hash for download(sledgehammer999)
- Bring the “Add New Torrent” Dialog to the front(glassez)
- Add confirmation dialog for “Force recheck” action (closes #131)
- Greatly improve RSS manager performance (closes #34)
- Ensure that all columns in the tranferlist have a size > 0.
- Don’t mark RSS item as read when it failed to download (Gelmir)
- Fix ETA calculation when some files are downloaded and marked afterwards as ‘do not download'(sledgehammer999)
- Make the UI show that PEX/DHT/LSD are actually disabled on private torrents(sledgehammer999)
- Scheduler should be much more robust and correct now(sledgehammer999)
- Now qBt won’t forget torrent settings after an unclean shutdown(sledgehammer999)
- Text boxes in edit dialogs will fit to text width(Gelmir)
- Enable edit/rename via F2 or double click in various places(Gelmir)
- Allow to edit trackers and copy their urls(Gelmir and Driim)
- Add Uploaded column to main view(Gelmir)
- Calculate ETA for seeding torrents(Gelmir)
- Add option to ignore global share ratio limits for created torrents(Gelmir)
- Many RSS bugfixes and improvements all over the place(Gelmir)
- Generate translations at configure time to reduce tarball size
- Make peer tab sortable by ip too (Gelmir)
- Translations moved to Transifex(https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/qbittorrent/)
- New Translation – Vietnamese (Anh Phan)
- Impove drawing speed of tranferlist when there are many torrents(>100)
- Impove drawing speed of peers list when there are many peers
Install / Upgrade qBittorrent:
The qBittorrent PPA has updated packages for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and their derivatives.
To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hydr0g3n/qbittorrent-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install qbittorrent
hydr0g3n ppa repositories (stable or trunk) are broken for ubuntu 13.10 saucy… They DONT contain any valid deb files… Just a remind to anyone out there wondering why they cannot install newer releases of qbittorrent… :)