De ontwikkeling van versie 3.1 van de bittorrent-client µTorrent is voltooid en de status is van bèta naar stabiel verheven. Het was nog even rommelig op het eind, met maar liefst negen versies in één week. Nieuw in versie 3.1 is onder andere de mogelijkheid om apparaten aan µTorrent te koppelen om er zo content naartoe te streamen en er zijn diverse verbeteringen aan het benaderen van de harde schijf. Sinds de vijfde release candidate zijn nog de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New in version 3.1:Changes in version 3.1 stable (build 26593)
- 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
Changes in version 3.1 RC11 (build 26591)
- Fix: crash
Changes in version 3.1 RC10 (build 26586)
- Fix: bug where piece with hash failure would keep failing
Changes in version 3.1 RC9 (build 26583)
- Fix: More accurate iTunes detection
- Fix: If android device is disconnected show text 'connect via usb'
- Change: Default sparse files to off on all platforms
- Fix: make sure we switch over to selected category tree node if no nodes were selected
- Change: Double click to pop out Plus player
- Fix: Remember media files (e.g. mp3) copied to devices (not transcoded) after ut restarts.
- Fix: Fix sorting by percent column in device pane and conversion pane
Changes in version 3.1 RC8 (build 26573)
- Change: revert cache size change from RC8
- Fix: more crashes
Changes in version 3.1 RC7 (build 26563)
- Fix: fix issue where no-torrents pane would linger even when there are torrents
- Fix: VLC would crash on win 7 after you stop playback
- Fix: Crash when initially detecting, or plugging in, a phone.
- Change: for now, apply cache size once per run until we track down a problem.
Changes in version 3.1 RC6 (build 26554)
- Fix: VLC player would crash the second time you used it
- Fix: various edge cases where we wouldn't re-associate with files
- Fix: a couple of sources of erroneous hash failures, mainly multihash
- Fix: fix potential shutdown hang when deleting torrents
- Fix: issues with embedded free player
- Fix: correctly transfer to android and game devices
- Fix: make sure there's enough space before transferring to device
- Fix: couldn't hide app column
- Fix: don't load invalid media
- Fix: refreshing of status bar and tabs
- Fix: report errors when failing to add files to iTunes
- Fix: fix iTunes detection
µTorrent 3.0 alpha screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.