Download µTorrent Linux 3.0 build 22789 alpha

Visitors to the Meuktracker are undoubtedly familiar with the BitTorrent client µTorrent. It is often also known that there is also a client for Mac OS X, but less people know that there is also a client for Linux. Last Monday, version 3.0 build 22789 alpha, the third edition in its existence, was released. The program has been tested with Ubuntu 9.10+, Debian 5+, and Fedora 12+, but will likely work on other distributions as well. Kernel 2.6.13 or higher is needed and there is only a 32bit version for now. More information is on this page to find. Below is the list of all the changes so far.

Version 3.0 alpha (build 22789)

• Added fields to the About box in the web UI to present the external IP address and UDP/TCP ports assigned by a UPnP router to the server
• Added speculative fix for crash on POSIX platforms occurring when any configurable directories (eg, active, completed, temporary, autoload, request) contain Unicode characters
• Fixed documentation by changing feed_id to feed-id in two places

Version 3.0 alpha (build 22708)

• Added daemon argument which directs the server to run in its own process group
• Added usage argument which directs the server to display the set of valid command-line arguments before exiting – server also prints error and usage messages before exiting if it detects at least one unrecognized command-line argument
• Added settings finish_cmd and state_cmd to provide a way to invoke asynchronous processes for torrent lifecycle events
• The add torrent dialog in the web UI now allows the user to choose which download directory to use for the torrent being added
• Correct JSON output is now generated for the list-dirs action request
• The name of the directory created by extracting the product archive now includes utorrent instead of bittorrent
• Removed ul_slots_per_torrent setting since it no longer has a function
• Added ut_webui_dir setting in the configuration file, which specifies the directory containing the webui.zip archive or the unarchived files to be served for the web UI
• Added pidfile argument which permits the specification of a file to be created by the utserver process which will contain the ID of the utserver process
• Added logmask setting in the configuration file which permits logging to be configured (and subsequently modified as part of handling a hangup signal), and removed support for LOGMASK environment variable
• The server rereads the configuration file upon receipt of a hangup signal or when creating or moving a file named rcf.utmr in the dir_request directory – see the cautions in the user manual about sending a hangup signal when attempting to change the value of dir_request
• Added settings admin_name and admin_password to allow administrators to define initial non-default credentials for authenticating to the server via the HTTP interface
• Fixed documentation by changing filter_id to filter-id in one place

Version 3.0 alpha (build 21886)

• Ensure alternative listening port setting persists when changed via web UI
• Include changes list in docs directory or product archive
• Add mention of configfile and settingspath command-line arguments, rearrange content of Getting Started section of user manual
• Support configfile argument to specify configuration file location
• Disable BEP22 DNS support on POSIX platforms
• Include plain text version of the user manual in docs directory of product archive
• Include a EULA file in the docs directory of the archive
• Change default log file for logfile argument to utserver.log
• Fix documentation error saying to use forward slash (/) to precede a command-line argument keyword – should use a dash (-) on POSIX systems

µTorrent Linux screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.