Download BitTorrent 4.9.7 beta

On the BitTorrent download page is a new beta version of the p2p program made available. This beta has been made available for Windows and Linux and comes with a new graphical interface and a number of improvements to the handling and processing of downloads and uploads. The unique thing about BitTorrent is the way in which files are shared: the technique used makes it possible to share files into small pieces that are then shared with other users. This means that, for example, a film does not have to be complete before it can be read by another of you. Beta version 4.9.7 ships with the following changelog:

Changes in this release:

• completely new UI
• smart download/queuing behavior
• smart seeding behavior
• torrent priority system
• detailed progress bar and “piece bar” progress bar
• better save location management (“incomplete” and “finished” locations)
• automatic bandwidth management
• download rate control
• transfer rate graph
• choose which files to download first from a torrent
• better error handling and reporting
• fast extensions (see bittorrent.org)
• torrent “title” support (see bittorrent.org)
• multiple tracker support
• encryption support
• Zeroconf (“Rendezvous”) local discovery
• sparse files
• threaded Disk IO
• translation update system
• now using wxWidgets instead of GTK on Windows, GUI is now native and should be a lot more stable
• removed support for Python 2.2
• lots of bug fixes