The developers of the open-source and cross-platform qBittorrent torrent downloader software were extremely happy to announce the release of qBittorrent 3.3, the next major version of the project.

According to the changelog, which we've attached at the end of the article for reference, qBittorrent 3.3.0 is a massive release that finally switches to the next-generation Qt 5 GUI toolkit for the graphical user interface. However, Qt 4 is still supported for operating systems that don't have the Qt 5 packages.

"qBittorrent v3.3.0 was released. A lot has happened to it. And as you may have noticed from the v3.2.x series, we now have a healthy amount of devs contributing to it. This series have switched to Qt5 but Qt4 is still supported. Temporarily OS X builds will use Qt4," reads the announcement.

qBittorrent 3.3 brings lots of new features (see below for details), fixes many of the bugs reported by users since the previous version of the software from the 3.2 branch, adds multiple cosmetic changes to the graphical user interface, greatly improves the web-based user interface and the search engine, and adds many other minor improvements.

Highlights of qBittorrent 3.3.0

Prominent features of qBittorrent 3.3.0 include massive core code refactoring, which should result in a smoother graphical user interface, the addition of a speed graph, support for multiple peers in the Peers dialog, support for copying all peers using keyboard shortcuts, and support for country resolution of IPv6 peers via GeoIP2 database.

Additionally, more "Run External Program" parameters have been added, C++11 is now used by default, trackers are now being added automatically to new downloads, network interface state changes are now detected automatically, including resets of the VPN connection, it is now possible to select a download path for watched directories, and there's a new option for enabling proxies for torrents.

Download qBittorrent 3.3.0 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.