Software Update: µTorrent 1.2

Version 1.2 of the BitTorrent client µTorrent has just been released. This program is particularly notable for its size of just under 100KB, and contains useful features such as multiple simultaneous downloads, setting bandwidth usage, support for protocol extensions and UPnP. In addition, the load on the memory and the processor is very low. The jump from version number 1.1.x to 1.2 suggests a host of changes, and so it is. The most important thing is that support for Distributed hash tables is added. The complete changelog looks like this:

Changes in version 1.2 (build 326):

• Feature: Mainline compatible DHT
• Feature: Show tracker url in list.
• Feature: Configurable flags (flags.conf / flags.bmp)
• Feature: Resolve countries using ip->country online database.
• Feature: Auto detect write queue size.
• Feature: Ability to relocate torrents.
• Feature: Show amount of waste bytes.
• Feature: Ability to specify directory where to save with the /directory command line option.
• Feature: Parse the ‘nodes’ attribute in a torrent.
• Feature: Added remaining column
• Feature: Added Ctrl-C/Ctrl-A in logger window
• Fix: Tracker ip not working.
• Fix: Search box size was limited.
• Fix: Done column wasn’t sortable.
• Change: Use less memory for torrents with lots of files.
• Fix: Support moving complete torrents across file systems.
• Fix: Use a little bit less memory in the network code.
• Fix: Use closesocket instead of close when closing ipblocked sockets.
• Fix: >4GB torrents were created incorrectly.
• Fix: Better recovery if resume.dat is missing/damaged.
• Change: Changed default value of flush_files to true.
• Change: New flags.
• Fix: Ignore directories in the autoload dir.
• Change: Show a message if the user is adding a duplicate torrent.
• Fix: Don’t rotate trackers in main list
• Change: *.cpl is an unsafe file
• Fix: fixed a status bar flicker issue when going into a menu
• Fix: Prevent listen error if you start up µTorrent immediately after closing it.

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