KTorrent

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KTorrent
Software Details:
Version: 5.1.0 updated
Upload Date: 2 Oct 17
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 72

Rating: 2.0/5 (Total Votes: 2)

KTorrent is a free and open source piece of software that provides users with a full featured and very complex torrent and magnet file downloader, specifically designed for the award winning KDE desktop environment under GNU/Linux platforms.

Features at a glance

Key features includes a familiar and modern graphical user interface, support for downloading both torrent and magnet files, support for UDP trackers, built-in torrent search engine using The BitTorrent website, complex plugin architecture, tabbed interface, and speed capping.

In addition, the program allows users to open torrent files that are located locally or remotely, import torrents from other BitTorrent clients or from the KDE3 desktop environment, filter IP addresses, as well as to sort torrents by name, downloaded, size, left, uploaded, download/upload speed, time left, seeders, leechers, share ratio, time downloaded/seeded, % complete, location, and added.

Active torrents can be started, stopped, paused, removed (with or without data files), verify data integrity, filter, suspend, or set speed limits for individual files. You can also quickly switch between tabs to view only downloading torrents, torrents that have finished and are now uploading, or both.

State-of-the-art user interface

The graphical user interface is written with the Qt GUI toolkit, providing KDE users with a native BitTorrent client that features a queue manager, statistics, magnet file information, webseeds management, peer viewer, file viewer, tracker manager, and chunks viewer.

The GUI is quite similar with the well known and widely used uTorrent application for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, comprised of the main view area and a sidebar where the torrents are automatically filtered by active torrents, downloads, uploads, passive torrents or ungrouped torrents.

Bottom line

Summing up, KTorrent is a really great BitTorrent client for the KDE desktop environment. If you use GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, LXDE or MATE desktops, we strongly suggests you to use the Transmission torrent downloader software.

What is new in this release:

  • Fix new custom groups not appearing in add to group submenu (307230)
  • Fix crash when right clicking on some locations in the GroupView due to 0 pointer (307160)
  • Force KDirWatch to use polling when watching NFS filesystems (301381)
  • Fix crash due to bus error in ip filter plugin (307854)
  • First check for missing files then for unmounted storage (308638)
  • Use extended selection mode in syndication plugin so ctrl key works as expected (308672)
  • Fix crash in GroupViewModel when dragging torrents over groups (308733)
  • Sort by total leechers and seeders, if connected seeders and leechers is equal (311470)

What is new in version 4.3.1:

  • Fix new custom groups not appearing in add to group submenu (307230)
  • Fix crash when right clicking on some locations in the GroupView due to 0 pointer (307160)
  • Force KDirWatch to use polling when watching NFS filesystems (301381)
  • Fix crash due to bus error in ip filter plugin (307854)
  • First check for missing files then for unmounted storage (308638)
  • Use extended selection mode in syndication plugin so ctrl key works as expected (308672)
  • Fix crash in GroupViewModel when dragging torrents over groups (308733)
  • Sort by total leechers and seeders, if connected seeders and leechers is equal (311470)

What is new in version 4.2.0:

  • Individual files of a torrent can now be checked
  • Improved video streaming
  • Multiple torrent tabs have been removed in favor of a single one, to simplify the interface
  • Possibility to hide uploads, downloads and not queued torrents in the queue manager
  • Search bar in the main torrent list

What is new in version 4.1 RC1:

  • Make sure that apply button of config dialog is enabled properly when the group changes in the scanfolder settings
  • Add kio-magnet
  • Improve performance of ktorrent in situations where there are many torrents (262571)
  • Fix memory leak on exit (263802)
  • Fix tab bar not matching TabBarWidget state in some circumstances (263068)
  • Fix libktorrent not gettting updated when the download of a magnet link finishes and the FileSelectDlg is shown
  • Update view tab when switching to it, fixes data scan widget showing in the wrong place (259483)
  • Update view captions every GUI update (264215)
  • Use user modified path for file column in chunks view (264814)
  • Fix QM bug causing torrents to get started when it is not needed (262570)

What is new in version 4.0.2:

  • Fixes some small things and a couple of crashes, most notably in the µTP code.

What is new in version 4.0.1:

  • The first bugfix release for the 4.0 series has arrived. Several crashes have been fixed, as well as a problem which caused a lot of disk activity when downloading at high speed on certain filesystems.
  • If you upgrade ktorrent, it is recommended to also upgrade libktorrent, seeing that several of the bugfixes are in libktorrent.

What is new in version 3.3.4:

  • A new bugfix release for KTorrent is available, this fixes a couple of crashes, a sorting bug in the choker (which should improve seeding a lot), and a problem where the global max share ratio and seed time could override group settings.

What is new in version 3.3.3:

  • A new bugfix release for ktorrent is out, this contains fixes for several crashes. It also fixes a problem with large files on BSD, and some other small problems.

What is new in version 3.2.3:

  • Third bugfix release for the 3.2 series is out. Several rare crashes were fixed, global shortcuts work again and the plasma applet can now handle sizes larger then 4GB properly.
  • Also the first beta for 3.3 has been released.
  • I would like to thank everybody who contributed to this release. And hope you all enjoy this release.
  • If you have problems or feature requests you can go to bugs.kde.org, or just ask around on our forums http://ktorrent.org/forum

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