qBittorrent 5.3 BitTorrent Client Is Out as a Major Update, Here’s What’s New

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Marcus Nestor
Oct 30, 2026

Coming more than five months after qBittorrent 5.2, the qBittorrent 5.3 release introduces an option to match all share limits, support for widely used image types in the HTTP server, support for banning IP ranges, logging of IP ban alerts, support for the “so” magnet link parameter, and an option to toggle closing search tabs with middle-click.

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Marcus Nestor

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