{"id":33694,"date":"2021-05-04T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33694"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:55:29","slug":"qbittorrent-4-3-5-released-to-drop-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent-4-3-5-released-to-drop-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"qBittorrent 4.3.5 Released! To Drop Support for Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/qbittorrent-icon245.png\" alt=\"qBittorrent\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>qBittorrent, free and open-source Qt5 based Bittorrent client, released version 4.3.5 a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>qBittorrent 4.3.5 is the last release in the 4.3.x series. And it&#8217;s going to drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 in the next release since it has an outdated Qt5 libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Users who prefer qBittorrent can still get updates for Ubuntu 20.04 through the <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak package<\/a>, since it&#8217;s a containerised package format bundle with most run-time libraries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent435-600x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent435-600x327.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent435-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent435-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qbittorrent435.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qbittorrent.org\/news.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">qBittorrent 4.3.5<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move cursor to the end when autofilling URL\/hash in &#8220;Download from URLs&#8221; dialog<\/li>\n<li>Sort invalid QDateTime values after valid values<\/li>\n<li>Fix tabChangesFocus attribute in &#8220;Edit trackers&#8221; dialog<\/li>\n<li>Update DynDNS register url<\/li>\n<li>Handle &#8220;not enough disk space&#8221; error more graciously<\/li>\n<li>Correctly draw progress background with stylesheet<\/li>\n<li>WEBUI: Fix magnet url from the search facility<\/li>\n<li>WEBUI: Revise folder monitoring functions<\/li>\n<li>WEBUI: Fix magnet url from the browser<\/li>\n<li>WEBUI: Allow to specify file indexes in torrents\/files API<\/li>\n<li>WINDOWS: NSIS: Allow more strings to translated<\/li>\n<li>WINDOWS: NSIS: Update Italian, German, Estonian, Russian, PortugueseBR translations.<\/li>\n<li>LINUX: Fix D-Bus Notification desktop-entry field<\/li>\n<li>MACOS: Don&#8217;t use executable name as CFBundleName value<\/li>\n<li>Lower Qt requirement to 5.11<\/li>\n<li>Clarify that the license is GPLv2+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install qBittorrent 4.3.5 via PPA:<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~qbittorrent-team\/+archive\/ubuntu\/qbittorrent-stable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official qBittorrent PPA<\/a> has built the new release packages for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04.<\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open <u>terminal<\/u> by either pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard or searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from application menu. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team\/qbittorrent-stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/qbittorrent-ppa-focal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"148\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. If an old version was installed on your system, upgrade it via <b>Software Updater<\/b>,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade qBittorrent\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-qbittorrent.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run following commands to install \/upgrade qBittorrent in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install qbittorrent<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove qBittorrent PPA, either go to <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b>, or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:qbittorrent-team\/qbittorrent-stable<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the bittorrent client, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove qbittorrent<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>qBittorrent, free and open-source Qt5 based Bittorrent client, released version 4.3.5 a few days ago. qBittorrent 4.3.5 is the last release in the 4.3.x series. And it&#8217;s going to drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 in the next release since it has an outdated Qt5 libraries. Users who prefer qBittorrent can still get updates for Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-33694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bittorrent"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}