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 18518 beta)
- Fix: crashes introduced in 18429
- Change: Set Download Location no longer require manual stopping and restarting of torrents
- Change: Minimized command line option starts minimized in taskbar for Windows 7
- Change: Minified interface layout tweaks
- Change: Send streaming progress to web UI with getfiles and list requests
- Fix: fixed issue where the web UI would respond on the peer port when an alternate port was set
- Fix: respond with reasonable mime types for /proxy requests
- Change: disable transparent graph legend by default
(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 18488)
- 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
