De ontwikkelaars achter de BitTorrent-client µTorrent zijn begonnen met de ontwikkeling van versie 3.1 en daarvan is nu een eerste alpharelease van verschenen. Nieuw in versie 3.1 is onder andere de mogelijkheid om apparaten aan µTorrent te koppelen om er zo content naar toe te streamen en zijn er diverse verbeteringen aangebracht met betrekking to het benaderen van de harde schijf. Hieronder is het volledige overzicht met veranderingen te vinden.
Release highlights:Changes in version 3.1 alpha (build 25664)
- New: Devices node allows you to add a target device such as an Apple device, and then drag in-format content to that device. The devices node is hideable.
- New: BEP33 (DHT scrape)
- Change: Disk I/O optimization
- Fix: Shutdown Hang when deleting torrents
- Change: Opening >10 torrent folders now asks you "are you sure?" to avoid opening hundreds of windows
- Fix: downloads now show up in the RSS feed view
- Change: Speed tab is now shown by default
- Fix: DHT responses would sometimes be invalid
- More efficient format for saving resume data will reduce CPU/disk contention
- UI optimizations make torrent pane update drastically faster for updating many torrents
- Fix: Memory leak in seperate resume files and bencoded entities.
- Fix: Speed up Torrent View Drawing
- Change: Automatic Detection of USB storage devices
- Change: Added a Device node
- used to add and keep track of USB storage devices added by the user
- Change: Can Add Apple, Android, PS3, XBOX360 devices
- Change: Can Hide main Device Node
- Change: Remove specific devices by right clicking in the Left Hand side Category tree
- Change: Ability to Drag Torrents from Torrents view to Devices
- Change: Ability to Drag Files from Files Tab to Devices
- Change: Opening multiple torrent folders with return/enter key
- asks user "are you sure?"
- Fix: Shutdown Hang when deleting torrents
- Fix: downloads would not show up in the RSS feed view
- Feature: support BEP 33 (DHT scrape)
- Fix: prompt the user when opening containing folders if more than 10 torrents are selected (PT story #15525561)
- Fix: do not send advanced hidden settings back to the WebUI (PT story #15573343)
- Fix: cattree spinner does not stop spinning when adding a invalid torrent URL from a btapp (PT story #15617649)
- Feature: Enable pairing from LAN IP ranges, to enable LAN streaming.
µTorrent 3.0 alpha screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.