Since 2003, BiglyBT's team has worked hard to bring you the best open source torrent product in the market. Unlike our competitors, our client is ad-free and our installer contains no third party offers. We provide migration tools for several popular bittorent clients. Switching to BiglyBT from projects using the same source is simple and requires no interactions beyond the initial migration approval. Your settings, downloads, and plugins will all be there and ready to use.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | v4.1.0.0 | 20 Sept 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
v4.1.0.020 May 2026
- Improved upload performance
- Allow complex argument to Tag constraint xToS functions
- Added “renameDownload” method to the simple-api plugin
- Added option to not set sparse files logical size to required size
- Partition insufficient space/missing file restarts by file store
- Allow magnets to be added stopped; save run state and position
- Added an option to ignore non-global IPv6 addresses when global present
- Added option to ignore IPv6 temporary/privacy addresses (default true)
- Added an option to switch files to high priority based on %age done
- Added column filtering to all-trackers view
- Independent, minimizable torrent options when multi-torrent enabled
- Add current IP info as status bar option
- Added torrent hash+hash v2 to torrents view
- Added option to hide pad files
- Added column header menu to set colours
- Added column header menu to set alignment
- Added remaining (bytes) column to files view
- Added “show t e” to CLI to show error downloads
- Added “apply tag sort” menu item to Tag context menu under Properties
v4.0.0.019 Dec 2025
- Added restart, shutdown and update methods to simple-api plugin [Parg]
- Added minimum seeding time when actively uploading [Parg]
- Enable multiple read/write processors [Parg]
- Support IPv6 for alternative lookups [Parg]
- Ignore tag execute-on-assign for magnet downloads [Parg]
- Double UDP timeouts for non-public networks [Parg]
- Prevent selection of superceded UDP tracker V1 protocol [Parg]
- Reduce wait time when peeking public IP address [Parg]
- Add queue reason to download state debug [Parg]
- Increase UDP send/recv socket buffers [Parg]
- Increase default concurrent outbound connections [Parg]
- Switch to transport based processor partitioning [Parg]
- Switch global up/limits+rates from int to long [Parg]
- Switch some ints to longs for byte bucket management [Parg]
- Increase max requests per peer [Parg]
- Switch to non-blocking IO for multicast [Parg]
- Trying out virtual threads when available [Parg]
- Free up timer thread when inactive [Parg]
- Don't save file priorities when none are set [Parg]
- Tweak colour of links in Windows dark mode [Parg]
- Improve the speed selector menu + status bar for large values [Parg]
- Added IPv6 inbound testing for netstatus [Parg]
- pt_BR: Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan]
- ru_RU: Russian translation update [adem4ik]
- sl_SI: Slovenian translation update [upwinxp]
- tr_TR: Turkish translation update [BouRock]
- Fix deadlock in tag listener handling [Parg]
- Fix inability to set networks on a magnet download from a Tag assignment [Parg]
- Fix synchronization in tracker server [Parg]
- Ignore invalid peer addresses [Parg]
- Improve catching of timeout exceptions [Parg]
- Ignore case of Authorization header [Parg]
- Fixup probe control [Parg]
- Reduce blocking in UPnP controller [Parg]
- Handle lack of configured ip filters better [Parg]
- Use filestore names as file roots in open-torrent-options when not Windows [Parg]
- Fix slide-shell button text in dark mode [Parg]
v3.9.0.03 Sept 2025
- Added timer option to shutdown BiglyBT
- Support the disabling of Tor/I2P web plugin addresses
- Show existing detected "file systems" in file performance options
- Added expansion indicator when supported by font
- Right-click drag in tables to multi-select
- Show move-on-complete dir in expand bar text
- Few additional command line options
- Add support for .alt TLD
v3.8.0.213 Mar 2025
- Fix bug preventing multiple downloads being moved at once
- Added Peer Set execute-on-assign option to ban peers
- Added filter box to chat overview
- Add explicit banning option to IP filter window