Website: http://www.utorrent.com/ Software Provider: Ludvig Strigeus and BitTorrent, Inc. Current Version:
uTorrent 1.8.4 Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista License: Freeware
Fix: disconnect inactive peers sometimes not taking effect
Fix: rare crash with very large peer lists
Feature: detect IPv4 external IP from Teredo address
Change: revert "remaining" bytes to seeding goal change
Fix: parsing of IPs with leading zeros, in ipfilter.dat
Feature: Remaining column displays bytes left to meet seed goal, when seeding (webui too)
Fix: crash when deleteing torrent data
Fix: do not log about moving torrent data if it is already in the correct place
Fix: do not leave webui password field blank if no change occurred
Fix: parsing of URLs with username:password@
Fix: avoid duplicate connections with the same ID
Fix: a few UPnP log messages
Fix: crashes on Vista when network was changed (VPN, enabled/disabled, hibernation)
Fix: diskio.no_zero also when not pre-allocating
Fix: magnet URI .torrent storage path still was not being set
Feature: diskio.no_zero, to avoid zeroing a file during allocation, where available (>= XP)
Fix: kB/s truncated off upload speed in speed guide
Fix: connection distribution system with large number of torrents and a low global limit
Feature: parse 'downloaded' if sent with announce response
Change: do not include IPv6 addresses in 'Copy Peer List' if IPv6 is not installed (fixes [<ERROR>]:12345)
Fix: store .torrents from magnet URIs in correct storage path
Fix: halfopen miscount with aborted https connections
Fix: duplicate connections to same IP
Fix: canceled connection counting (solves tracker stuck in "updating...")
Fix: IP detection on < Win2k
Change: write DefaultIcon for .torrent association
Fix: crash with udp:// URLs
Feature: resolve hostnames through SOCKS4a and HTTPS proxies
Feature: add option for hostname resolution through proxies
Feature: isp.bep22, default off, inactive for private torrents
Feature: report successful upgrade, with statistics
Change: make room for the 'Downloaded' column header
Change: save resume file when graceful_shutdown is off and the time runs out
Fix: handle timed out sockets that connect eventually
Fix: crash with guest login for the webui
Fix: remove Teredo-specific logic from IPv6 support
Fix: IPv6 with SOCKS5
Fix: literal IPv6 addresses in tracker and web seed URLs
Feature: Double clicking RSS feed in category view edits feed
Change: Filter RSS log messages
Fix: guest account for webui
Fix: move halfopen counting improvements
should fix "tracker stuck in offline state" errors
Fix: work around Kaspersky bug with DNS SRV records
Change: reduce coalesce_write_size back to 2MB
Fix: improved halfopen counting
Fix: slow load with slow drives that are present
Fix: Issue where dialogs would focus main window when closed instead of last focused dialog
Fix: Copying of corrupt data from certain fields in the general tab
Fix: Corruption and various other settings-related issues caused by previous 1.8.1 betas
Fix: webui hashed password field auto-blanks and only hashes on change
Change: Allow custom seeding time maximums
Fix: webui hashed password upgrade from <= 1.8
Fix: resolve conflicts between .torrents in move complete path with .1.torrent etc
Fix: crash with cancelling HTTPS requests
Feature: 2x faster hashing
Feature: Open Containing Folder for Files tab
Change: sort torrents without ETA after torrents with infinity
Change: remove "Download Limited" behaviour
Change: turn sparse files off by default, due to fragmentation issues
Change: relax min_interval restriction on manual updates to 60 seconds if the last tracker request failed
Change: store hash of the webui password instead of plaintext
Fix: force non-sparse with preallocate on
Fix: 'hostname not found' on NT4
Fix: slow load with lots of torrents that point to a dead/missing drive
Fix: Some checkboxes overlapping others in the connection section of preferences
Fix: work around NOD32 IMON bug (HTTP 400)
About:
µTorrent is the smallest torrent client out on the net.
µTorrent is a freeware BitTorrent client currently for Microsoft Windows only. The entire program is a single 576 KiB executable (as of January 2007). It was designed to use as little of a computer's resources as possible while offering equivalent functionality of heavily featured clients, such as Azureus or BitComet. Its title is frequently abbreviated as 'µT' or 'uT' (as it is difficult to type 'µ' using many keyboard layouts). µTorrent is written in C++.
uTorrent Features
Configurable bandwidth scheduler
Customizable search bar and icons
Unicode support. It utilizes embedded Unicode support for Windows 95/98/ME, avoiding the need for the Microsoft Layer for Unicode which is several times the size of µTorrent.
UPnP support for all versions of Windows, implemented without the use of Windows XP's UPnP framework.
