Software Update: µTorrent 3.0 Build 20680 Beta

A new development version of µTorrent 3.0 was released on Thursday. Version 3.0 is the merging of the 2.1 development branch with project Falcon, the web interface of µTorrent and has since been raised to beta level after a number of alphas. New in version 3.0 is support for trackers and web seeds via magnet links and for RSS feeds in the WebUI. The same WebUI now also uses encryption and would no longer require port forwarding. However, the intention is to add even more new functionality. Below you can find everything that has changed since version 3.0 build 20228 alpha:

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20680)

• Fix: Crash during btapp install.
• Fix: Crash when privileged btapp is loaded and torrent status changed.
• Fix: Crash in speed guide when exiting dialog early.
• Feature: “Security Question” can be used to migrate uTorrent Web username between computers
• Change: disable IPv6 on Win7 by default. Could be turned on using net.disable_ipv6 property.
• Change: Add Find Content Pane
• Change: sidebar separators and layout
• Change: context sensitive toolbars
• Change: new flat, green artwork
• Fix: save selected item in sidebar
• Change: added more default search engines
• Fix: fixed string truncation of &ip= parameter to trackers when on IPv6
• Change: add openbittorrent and publicbt as default trackers when creating torrents
• Fix: fixed progress bar when downloading over HTTP directly to a file
• Fix: crash in network thread

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20533)

• Fix: Show correct app state if apps hidden then displayed in prefs.
• Change: clear dont fragment bit for UDP traffic
• Change: lower the estimated path MTU 1393 bytes

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20507)

• Fix: apps pane not showing in the sidebar if no apps installed

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20504)

• Fix: attempt another crash fix in the new choker
• Fix: don’t set fragment bit for UDP traffic

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20402)

• Fix: super verbose logging was always enabled
• Fix: fixed uTP crash in rate limiter

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20385)

• Fix: fixed common crash in new choker
• Change: raise half-open connection limit on post XP systems back to 100

Changes in version 3.0 (build 20355)

• Change: lowered half-open connection limit on post XP systems to 25
• Fix: connect overhead graph was broken
• Change: lowered default connect speed from 10 to 7
• Change: increase timeouts and have fewer re-sends when connecting to uTP peers. This reduces some overhead
• Change: only rate limit local uTP sockets if both uTP sockets are limited and ‘limit local peers’ is set
• Fix: added support for utf8 in btapp files. Javascript files can now contain Japanese and it will be correctly displayed
• Fix: graph TCP rates when uTP is not rate limited, even when tcp_rate_control is off
• Fix: fixed bug where “apply rate limit to uTP” would get unchecked by itself