Software Update: µTorrent 2.0 Build 17539 Beta

A new development version of µTorrent version 2.0 was released on Wednesday. µTorrent is a very complete BitTorrent client that uses very little memory and processor, and the size of the program itself is minimal. The most important improvement in version 2.0 is the support for uTP: a way of data transport where high reliability and minimal latencies are the spearheads. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following changes and improvements have been made to µTorrent:

Changes in in version 2.0 beta (build 17539)

• Change: Added auto restart feature for use in minimized mode.
• Change: on Windows 7 default to not minimize to tray
• Change: silently add multiple torrents when more than 5 torrents are added using drag’n’drop
• Change: tell user about buggy 3rd party software that might degrade uTorrent performance
• Fix: Transfer Cap tab in preferences would display incorrectly Uploaded / Downloaded

Changes in version 2.0 beta (build 17427)

• Fix: fixed rare crash when using magnet links
• Fix: fixed crash when super seeding a torrent without metadata
• Fix: fixed handling of a uTP edge case
• Change: complete upload-only extension support

Changes in version 2.0 beta (build 17341)

• Fix: various GUI crash bugs
• Fix: accept magnet links through add-url webUI

Changes in version 2.0 beta (build 17273)

• Fix: More strict https connection state management for half-open accounting.
• Fix: Problem during install toolbar offer
• Change: relaxed the requirements on bencoded integers to parse some broken torrents

Changes in in version 2.0 beta (build 17188)

• Change: added checks for heap corruption that caused crash in uTP
• Change: improved stability by making all executable pages not writable
• Fix: fixed stack overflow when copying peer list
• Fix: fixed allocation regression in connection to peers

Changes in version 2.0 beta (build 17127)

• Change: enable multiple instances of the client to run on multi-user machines (eg fast user switching)
• Fix: fixed uTP crash in edge condition
• Fix: fixed crash when icmp.dll wouldn’t contain the expected functions
• Fix: fixed crash when closing add torrent dialog while dragging a column
• Change: The Speed ​​guide will now reject ports listed in bt.no_connect_to_services_list
• Change: add an upgrade message if a buggy version of nvLsp is detected
• Fix: don’t take the total number of connections into account when connecting to trackers
• Change: increase default transfer cap to 250 GB/month
• Fix: Accounting of half-open https connections would cause uT to stop making new connections
• Change: Made the DHT compatible with future extensions
• Fix: sometimes the &ip= parameter sent to trackers would be incorrect
• Fix: correctly order bencoded dict items in extension handshake message
• Fix: fixed holepunch error handling and support detection
• Fix: check invalid ports and IPs in the DNS resolver to avoid using them

Changes in in version 2.0 beta (build 16850)

• Change: Revert change where asserts are active in release builds