Publisher's Review:
µTorrent 1.8.3, the BitTorrent client that is..
Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled
Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent is currently undergoing alpha testing for protocol encryption (to be compatible with Azureus) and peer exchange.
Resource-Friendly
µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 150 KB in size.
Skinnable and Localized
Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent 1.8 also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!
Actively Developed and Improved
The developer puts in a lot of time
working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.
Changelog:
(Microtorrent 1.9 build 15380 beta)
- Change: rss.feed_as_default_label controls whether a torrent added from a feed is given the feed's name as a label
- Fix: uTP packet size fix. Sometimes it would send packets exceeding MTU. Fixes long standing rate oscillations.
- Fix: fixed crash when receiving a malformed PEX message
- Fix: evades potential crash when reporting crashdumps
- Fix: crash when parsing some magnet uri components without values
- Fix: crash when starting a torrent in super seed mode and connecting to peers before it's completely loaded
- Change: Installer UI checkbox whether to install or run standalone
- Change: Left align numeric fields in settings
- Fix: Remember category list selection after adding a torrent
- Change: Disabled feed icon has precedence over broken feed icon
- Fix: DHT bootstrap failures now have an exponential back-off
(Microtorrent 1.8.3 build 15728)
- Change: UAC must be completed to install in Vista or higher
- Fix: memory leaks in main window, protocol associations, settings dialog, general tab
