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qBittorrent, the popular qt-based bittorrent client, released new major 5.3.0 version a few days ago.<\/p>\n
The new version of this free open-source application implemented several new libtorrent settings, introduced numerous improvements to its Qt and WebUI, and fixed various bugs.<\/p>\n
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First, the new version added I2P PeX<\/b> (I2P Peer Exchange) support. It allows peers to share torrents over the I2P anonymous network discovering other peers by exchanging peer information directly, rather than relying only on trackers.<\/p>\n
It implemented It also implemented And, it added qBittorrent 5.3.0 now allows banning IPs using ranges<\/b> instead of being limited to single IP. For example, you can ban IP or IP range in the following format:<\/p>\n The seeding limits<\/b> that determine when a torrent should stop seeding has been updated with AND\/OR<\/b> support. <\/p>\n Users can choose whether to stop seeding when any one of the three limits is reached (OR), or only when all three limits are reached (AND) through the new setting options.<\/p>\n For email notifications, it now displays Email examples as placeholder text (light-colored hint text) to prevent user accidentally really sending an email to the pre-filled server.<\/p>\n And, it now supports sending email notifications to multiple recipients instead of only single email address, by adding email addresses separated with either comma or semicolon.<\/b><\/p>\n For webUI, virtual list is now enabled by default<\/b>. So web browser renders only the visible rows on screen and updates them as you scroll, making the WebUI smoother and more responsive when managing large numbers of torrents.<\/p>\n It now supports downloading completed torrent files, pausing and resuming BitTorrent session, and exporting\/importing RSS rules. And, new controls are added to start BitTorrent session paused and set session shutdown timeout.<\/p>\n Other changes in qBittorrent 5.3.0 include:<\/p>\n There are as well numerous other improvements and bug-fixes. See the official release note<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n The source tarball, as well as the official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS are available to download in its website via the link below:<\/p>\nseeding_outgoing_connections<\/code> libtorrent setting, allowing to control whether seeding or finished torrents can initiate outgoing connections to other peers.<\/p>\nmax_allowed_in_request_queue<\/code> controls the maximum number of piece-block requests a peer is allowed to have queued at one time.<\/p>\nallow_multiple_connections_per_pid<\/code> advanced settings that controls whether your client can accept multiple connections from peers using the same Peer ID.<\/p>\n\n
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