Download µTorrent 1.8 build 9137 beta

After an impressive series of alpha releases, the first beta release of version 1.8 of the popular Bittorrent client µTorrent was released yesterday. µTorrent is a very complete Bittorrent client, has a low memory and processor load and the size of the program itself is also minimal. Below are all the changes that have been made to the program since the previous entry in the muck tracker:

Changes in version 1.8 beta (build 9137)

• Feature: Different download listview settings for RSS categories and regular Torrents
• Feature: (advanced) option to use tall or short Category list
• Feature: improve distribution of new connections across torrents
• Change: open Category list on upgrade to 1.8, if there are any RSS feeds
• Change: increase tracker interval on failure (“failure message” and HTTP 50X status codes)
• Change: reduce number of digits on many list and bar speeds and sizes
• Change: information error on bind failure
• Change: slow_ul/dl_threshold affects inactive/active status as well
• Change: default sort order for RSS categories to ‘Added On’
• Fix: use different UPnP mapping names to prevent UDP mapping overwriting TCP mapping on some routers
• Fix: peer.resolve_country
• Fix: higher scrape count for peers was not displayed in the torrent list Peers column
• Fix: HTTPS User-Agent for betas
• Fix: “Invalid Parameter” errors with long path names

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 8912)

• Fix: crash when stopping an in-progress hash check

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 8907)

• Change: more strict fast resume for compact allocation
• Fix: pieces in some files would be ignored on fast resume if any file needed rechecking

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 8891)

• Feature: seed to peer ratio column
• Change: remove one hour cap on interval and min_interval
• Fix: re-hash after hash failure would sometimes be incorrect

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 8872)

• Fix: more connection parse errors

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