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Hi, I just read the qbittorrent news item about the gui freezing with boost 1.56 on the windows platform. I'm having a similar issue but using boost 1.56 on linux, and was wondering if this could be the same problem?

Maybe. However in that issue we identified a Windows specific commit as the cause.
You could try with boost 1.55 and see. (you'll probably need to recompile libtorrent too).