Greetings Antlers!

It seems there has been much chatter about QBit 4.4.x specifically in the forums as well as shoutbox, so I felt it time to create a news post discussing our thoughts on it. Staff has been discussing the release almost since it went live, and we realize that other trackers are already allowing it. However, adding it to our whitelist will cause some other issues we need to make everyone aware of.

QBitorrent 4.4.0 introduced a new feature to create .torrents in a new torrent V2 mode, as well as a hybrid mode which is supposed to add additional security to the swarm. This is great and all, but not every user uses QBitorrent as their client, and not every client supports connecting to a v2 .torrent. This means if you were to upload one here, and another user downloaded it, there is a chance that they could not connect to you to actually transfer any data. It would be a mess for the peers. For this reason we have already blocked uploading v2 .torrents to our trackers.

The next issue is Hybrid .torrents, these were supposed to act the same as v1 with some added security, to allow backwards compatibility with older clients. The problem is not all clients can load these either... Specifically Transmission, and possibly some others. Until all of the torrent clients can support hybrid torrents, we feel it safest to not allow QBit 4.4.0 at this time. We are currently evaluating a way to block hybrid torrents from being uploaded to the tracker, if we can successfully block the upload of hybrid torrents, at least until more clients add support, then we will re-evaluate adding QBit 4.4.0 to our whitelist.

Staff apologizes for any inconveniences, but this is for the good of the tracker as a whole at this time.
More details to come...
//Kitty