{"id":48776,"date":"2025-04-28T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48776"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:17:50","slug":"qbittorrent-510-web-seeds-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-510-web-seeds-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"qBittorrent 5.1.0 Adds Web Seeds &#038; Cookies Managing for WebUI \/ WebAPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36697\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/qbittorrent-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>qBittorrent, the free open-source Qt-based BitTorrent client, announced new major 5.1.0 release on this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The new release added a feature that was requested almost 9 years ago. It&#8217;s the ability to drag&#8217;n&#8217;drop items from torrent content widget into another applications, e.g., VLC for video playback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-drag.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48777\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-drag-700x445.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-drag-700x445.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-drag-300x191.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-drag-768x488.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-drag.webp 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It also added a new option in <code>Preferences<\/code> -&gt; <code>Advanced<\/code>, allowing to change the time statistics save interval. While, zero value will prevent recurrent saving.<\/p>\n<p>And, it can now display the last detected IPv4 and\/or IPv6 address(es) in the GUI and WebUI&#8217;s status bar. Though, it does not yet handle systems with multiple addresses of the same type (e.g. multiple IPv6 addresses).<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Start\/stop torrent&#8221; and &#8220;no action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48778\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48778\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48778\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction-700x420.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction-700x420.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction-768x460.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction-1320x791.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbittorrent-doubleclickaction.webp 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WebUI double click action<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like Qt app interface, both Web UI and Web-API now supports managing cookies. And, by right-clicking under <code>HTTP Sources<\/code>, the web UI now has ability to add web seeds (one per line).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48779\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds-700x420.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds-700x420.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds-768x460.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds-1320x791.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/qbt-webseeds.webp 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other WebUI &amp; WebAPI improvements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to toggle alternating row colors in tables.<\/li>\n<li>Implement &#8216;Auto hide zero status filters&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Allow to filter torrent list by save path.<\/li>\n<li>Support updating RSS feed URL.<\/li>\n<li>Add <code>forced<\/code> parameter to <code>torrents\/add<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>And many more! See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qbittorrent.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\">NEWS page<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Windows, it added ability to choose color scheme and verify hash of Python installer. And, it fixed shift-click selection on macOS.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3>Install qBittorrent 5.1.0<\/h3>\n<p>qBittorrent offers Linux, Windows, macOS packages, as well as source tarball which are available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qbittorrent.org\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download qBittorrent<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Ubuntu, besides using the AppImage in the link above, there are also official <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~qbittorrent-team\/+archive\/ubuntu\/qbittorrent-stable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu PPA<\/a> so far supports Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 25.04, and <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a> that works in all current Ubuntu releases and most other Linux Distributions. If you don&#8217;t know how to install the package, see this <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/10\/install-qbittorrent-5-0-0-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\">step by step guide<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s the ability to drag&#8217;n&#8217;drop items from torrent content widget into another applications, e.g., VLC for video playback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[702],"class_list":["post-48776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-qbittorrent"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48776","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=48776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}