qBittorrent, the free open-source Qt-based BitTorrent client, announced new major 5.1.0 release on this Sunday.

The new release added a feature that was requested almost 9 years ago. It’s the ability to drag’n’drop items from torrent content widget into another applications, e.g., VLC for video playback.

It also added a new option in Preferences -> Advanced, allowing to change the time statistics save interval. While, zero value will prevent recurrent saving.

And, it can now display the last detected IPv4 and/or IPv6 address(es) in the GUI and WebUI’s status bar. Though, it does not yet handle systems with multiple addresses of the same type (e.g. multiple IPv6 addresses).

qBittorrent 5.1.0 introduced numerous enhancements to its WebUI and WebAPI. The WebUI now has the option to control double-click behavior, though it so far supports only “Start/stop torrent” and “no action”.

It implemented auto-completion feature for the Web UI. For example, when setting file save location, it shows a drop-down box with choices to one click input a sub-directory.

WebUI double click action

Like Qt app interface, both Web UI and Web-API now supports managing cookies. And, by right-clicking under HTTP Sources, the web UI now has ability to add web seeds (one per line).

Other WebUI & WebAPI improvements include:

• Ability to toggle alternating row colors in tables.
• Implement ‘Auto hide zero status filters’.
• Allow to filter torrent list by save path.
• Support updating RSS feed URL.
• Add forced parameter to torrents/add.
• And many more! See NEWS page for details.

For Windows, it added ability to choose color scheme and verify hash of Python installer. And, it fixed shift-click selection on macOS.

For Linux, qBittorrent 5.1.0 added support for Thunar file manager. As the old versions are working good in XFCE with file manager integration, I think this feature is for non-XFCE desktop that installed Thunar as default file manager.

Install qBittorrent 5.1.0

qBittorrent offers Linux, Windows, macOS packages, as well as source tarball which are available to download at the link below:

For Ubuntu, besides using the AppImage in the link above, there are also official Ubuntu PPA so far supports Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 25.04, and Flatpak package that works in all current Ubuntu releases and most other Linux Distributions. If you don’t know how to install the package, see this step by step guide.