Software Update: µTorrent 1.6.1 build 489

After Ludvig Strigeus, developer of the BitTorrent client µTorrent, announced in December that he had sold his creation to Bram Cohen, the developer of the BitTorrent protocol, many people feared that this would mean the end of one of the most popular BT clients so far. Yesterday, however, a new version appeared for the first time since the acquisition, and among the visitors of the µTorrent forum, this one received with some skepticism. Bram Cohen works with the MPAA to at least keep illegal content from his website and because no source code is available, not everyone has the same confidence in it. The extent to which these suspicions are based on truth remains to be seen. The changelog of version 1.6.1 build 489 shows at least the following changes:

Feature:

• Select upload/download speed for a torrent through the rightclick menu
• Added encryption box to speed guide

change:

• Don’t check as many pieces at the same time.
• Misc WebUI changes.
• Switch to JSON for web interface

Fix:

• Problem with category list in the gui when updated from the webui
• WebUI not clearing state between requests.
• Also redirect index.html to guest.html
• Added On Now shows the time it’s added, not loaded.
• JSON uses ” instead of ‘
• (a) Upnp fix
• Show pause icon when checking is paused.
• Fixed problems with XML parser
• Don’t allow two message boxes to be shown in the RSS window
• Changed some window titles
• Fix malformed .torrent exploit
• Boss key field is now larger

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