Download µTorrent 1.8.4 build 16667

A new release from the stable 1.8.4 series of µTorrent has been released on Friday. µTorrent is a very complete bittorrent client that uses very little memory and processor, and the size of the program itself is minimal. The main improvement in version 1.8.4 is the support for so-called magnet bundles. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, there have been several new releases in the 1.8.4 series and their changelogs mainly show bug fixes:

Changes in version 1.8.4 (build 16667)

• Change: Balance CDNs to download updates
• Fix: Fixes bug where magnet links wouldn’t work if PEX was disabled
• Fix: potential crash in network code
• Fix: More crashes when using magnet links

Changes in version 1.8.4 (build 16442)

• Fix: Potential crashes with magnet links

Changes in version 1.8.4 (build 16381)

• Change: Disable Ask for unsupported 64-bit Windows
• Fix: Buffer overrun vulnerability
• Change: Conservative network locking in installer

Changes in version 1.8.4 (build 16301)

• Fix: Installer crash after download
• Fix: Crash when peers disconnect from a magnet-link torrent right as we received the metadata