FS#76200 - [qbittorrent/libtorrent] Revert to libtorrent 1.2.x

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Juan Simón (j1simon) - Friday, 14 October 2022, 08:01 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 14 October 2022, 09:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

There are many reports of qBittorrent malfunctioning with the new libtorrent 2.x version:
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6952
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/17216
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/17545

The first 2 I have reported myself but there are more. The truth is that the qBittorrent development team has decided to go back to version 1.2.x due to the many problems caused by version 2.x: https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php
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Tuesday Aug 30th 2022 - qBittorrent v4.4.5 release
qBittorrent v4.4.5 was released.
NOTE: The default builds for all OSs switched to libtorrent 1.2.x (RC_1_2) from 2.0.x (RC_2_0). Builds for libtorrent 2.0.x are also offered and are tagged with RC_2_0. The switch happened due to user demand and perceived performance issues. If until now you didn't experience any performance issue then go ahead and use the RC_2_0 builds.
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 14 October 2022, 09:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#75751 

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