Publisher's Review:
µTorrent 2.0, 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 2.1 build 18581 beta)
- Change: Open files in exclusive mode when writing (don't let anyone else write to them)
- Fix: streaming bugs
- Change: only close files that haven't been used for a while periodically (closing all files could interact badly with indexers)
- Fix: dismissing pairing dialog is now interpreted as no. "no" is also the default button
- Fix: Fixed bug where Bandwidth Management checkbox sometimes didn't work
(Microtorrent 2.0.1 build 18408 beta)
- Fix: Fixed half-open limit on Windows 7
- Fix: Fixed bug where uTorrent could freeze on broken web UI requests
- Fix: Fixed bug in uTP header field layout
- Feature: added advanced option to turn off uTP variable packet size
- Feature: added advanced option to turn off discoverability (web integration)
- Fix: uTP base delay bug fix and update interval tweaking
- Fix: uTP timer stability fixes
- Fix: calc_overhead bug
- Change: Support hyperlinks in autoupdate dialog
- Fix: Schedule map would show times that were "off" as grey in disabled view
- Fix: "Not downloading" disconnects when remote peer had previously been a seed
(Microtorrent 2.0 build 18620)
- Fix: dismissing pairing dialog is now interpreted as no. "no" is also the default button
