Rtorrent 16 16.27-10U

Major​

• Files: Retro 2, a second retro look in DOS Navigator's grey with the cyan cursor bar. Ctrl+Alt+R switches between off, Retro and Retro 2; the ⋯ menu names both.

Minor​

• Files: Retro's labels are easier to read.

Major​

• Files in the Retro look: every part of Files follows it, in the light and the dark theme, the phone's bottom bar, menus and windows included.

Minor​

• Files lists the NAS's shares as folders, not as links.

Major​

• Play, NFO and Unpack also work for a torrent that seeds from a folder outside the download folders, anywhere in /share.
• Unpack checks first that it can write to the folder, and says so plainly when it cannot.

Minor​

• LinkDrop: when a browser cannot connect, the LinkDrop log says what the connection had to work with.
• The move window's note for a folder outside the download folders now names only the trash.

Major​

• The panel opens faster: each page loads on its own, and live numbers refresh only while you can see them.
• The Dashboard no longer grows in memory while it stays open.
• Nothing jumps while a page loads: the update banner and the cards keep their place.

Minor​

• Files on a phone scrolls more smoothly.
• The Dashboard's log keeps your place while new lines arrive.
• The README and NFO window looks right when the panel opens through the QNAP address (/rtorrent16/).
• A panel left open during an update reloads itself.
• A torrent outside the download folders shows no Play or NFO button. Play does not work there. A new category moves the torrent in.

Major​

• LinkDrop needs no port forwarded on the router and has no port setting. The share window says in one line how downloads connect.
• LinkDrop between two NASes also works when one of them is behind a VPN or a mobile network that gives every connection a port of its own.
• A LinkDrop download in a browser carries on after a dropped connection, and the screen stays on while it runs.
• Safari and Firefox write a large LinkDrop download to the browser's own storage instead of memory.
• LinkDrop profile: your name, a few words, the NAS's name and an avatar on the link's page.
• Files on a phone: no zoom while typing, and every window fits inside the screen, also with the keyboard open.

Minor​

• Convert in Files makes music as MP3 320 kbit/s or FLAC, and says why it skips a file.
• Media library's History shows the last five entries, the rest in a window with search.
• Movie Agent tells Radarr 4K and Sonarr 4K apart from Radarr and Sonarr, by the torrent's label or the 4K folder it was filed in.
• LinkDrop finds its public address through three servers at once, so one server down no longer stops it.

Major​

• LinkDrop: share a file or a folder from Files and send the link. The files go straight from one NAS to the other, never through a server.
• LinkDrop works between NASes behind routers that forward no ports, and behind a carrier's NAT.
• A LinkDrop link opens in any browser: the file comes straight from the sender's NAS, every piece checked.
• Files: Download from link…, with up to 16 connections, Stop and resume, even days later.
• Files: Copy to…, Move to… and Create link… share one window with a preview. Copy with hard links is new.
• Files on a phone: a selection mode, rename in place, folder sizes counted in the background.
• A tracker hears "completed" once and at once, also after a check, a stop and start or a Re-announce.
• Seed and upload download what is missing, then seed quietly.

Minor​

• A port forwarded by hand on the router is checked from outside and no longer warned about. A warning names the ports to forward.
• LinkDrop links for a download manager on your own network (aria2, JDownloader, IDM).
• Shared links: expiry, opens, Revoke link. A link can expire after 1, 7 or 30 days and can have a password.
• Files: Re-identify one title in Movie Agent's library.
• Files: dates as YYYY-MM-DD, Delete permanently, a menu with an icon row and groups.
• The tab order is Start, Quick access, Dashboard, Files. The phone's Files bar has Add torrents.
• Phone start pages show the Rtorrent 16 icon.
• The Dashboard lists the LinkDrop agent under Services.

Released 2026-10-31.

Major​

• Files: Compare folders (Shift+F2).
• Files: Synchronise folders, with a plan first. Nothing is deleted.
• Files: Multi-rename (Ctrl+M) with a preview.
• Files: Search in files (Alt+Shift+F7).
• Files: two files side by side with the changes marked (F3 with two files picked).
• Convert keeps 10-bit and HDR in H.265 and VP9.
• Convert: H.264 SDR from an HDR film, for a screen without HDR.

Minor​

• Files: Quick view (Alt+Q).
• Files: tabs (Alt+N, Alt+W), a hotlist (Ctrl+D) and a folder history (Alt+F12).
• Files: Split and Join, with a .crc or .sfv file.
• Files: Permissions sets the mode, owner and group.
• Files: type to filter the list. Num+, Num− and Num* select by pattern and invert.
• The text editor opens and saves ISO-8859-2, Windows-1251 and KOI8-R files.
• A 10-bit film without HDR converts to H.264 at 8 bits.
• Refusals that name a whole share or a system folder are in the panel's language.

Released 2026-10-31.

Major​

• Files opens text, NFO files, pictures, video and music in the panel.
• Text editor (F4) and hex editor.
• Archives open like folders: ZIP, 7z and RAR. Extract all or a part.
• Pack to ZIP, 7z or RAR (RAR needs your own licensed rar).
• Convert video and music: MP4 with H.264 or H.265, WebM, MKV to MP4 without re-encoding, audio only.
• Subtitles for a video, found by its hash or name and saved next to it.
• Files stays inside the shared folders, symbolic links included.

Minor​

• Make and check checksum files: SFV, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, BLAKE3.
• ISO and UDF images mount read-only.
• Create torrent from Files.
• Files are coloured by kind.
• Sorted by name, a release's main file stands above its .rar volumes.
• On a phone, a long press opens the menu and the back gesture goes to the previous folder.
• Row menus and submenus open in the right place.
• A file that can't be converted says what to use instead.

Released 2026-10-30.

Major​

• New Files page: a two-panel file manager for every shared folder of the NAS.
• Copy, move, rename, delete to the trash or for good, new folders and files, symbolic and hard links.
• Copies and moves run in the background with progress and a Stop button.
• The panels sit side by side, one over the other, or one at a time on a phone.

Minor​

• Function keys F2 to F10, Insert to select, Tab to switch panels, Alt+F7 to search.
• Retro look in Files (Ctrl+Alt+R).
• Sort by name, size or date. A release's files list in the order it was made.
• List or tiles, with pictures of photos and videos and folder covers.
• A moved folder keeps its torrents seeding. A folder sent to the trash takes its torrents along, and back.
• Search, properties, upload, and download of a file or a ZIP of a selection.
• Folder paths elsewhere in the panel open in Files. A torrent's details have Show in Files.
• Files never deletes or moves a whole shared folder, a volume or the package's own folders.
• Media library, Library card: Sort, Filter and View are buttons above the tiles.
• Filter: No cover, Needs a name, Ignored and the library folders.
• View: small, medium or large tiles, or one row that scrolls sideways.
• On a phone the three buttons show icons only.

Released 2026-10-30.

Major​

• Media library, Library card: sort by name, date added or year.
• New filters: No cover and Ignored.
• Ignore a title to keep it out of Needs a name, No cover and the nightly sweep. Undo ignore brings it back.
• Edit name: change a film's title, year and Plex edition (for example Director's Cut), with Undo.
• Versions: see every copy of a film the library knows and choose which one to keep, or keep both.

Minor​

• A Plex edition in a library folder's name is kept as written.