Software-update: µTorrent 1.1.4

De ontwikkelaars van µTorrent hebben een nieuwe versie de deur uitgedaan en hier 1.1.4 als het versienummer aan meegegeven. Het programma is, zoals de naam al doet vermoeden, een client voor BitTorrent. Het bevat een aantal belangrijke features zoals meerdere simultane downloads, instellen van bandbreedte gebruik, ondersteuning voor protocol extensies en UPnP. Maar vooral de belasting van het programma op het geheugen en de processor vallen positief op. De meegeleverde lijst met veranderingen ziet er als volgt uit:

Version 1.1.4:

• Fix: Switch to vurlix's icon
• Fix: Changed default port to 32459
• Fix: Decrease about box sound volume to 50%
• Fix: Center several dialogs on the screen.
• Fix: Set the connect-to-tracker-on-exit timeout to 10 seconds instead of 60
• Fix: Show 100% for zero byte files.
• Fix: Missing OleInitialize from directory browser.
• Fix: Some missing translations.
• Feature: Superseed.
• Feature: Send no_peer_id=1 to tracker.
• Fix: Rename button in create torrent dialog to Cancel/Close depending on state.
• Fix: Replaced 'Create and start sharing' with a checkbox and fixed so it actually works.
• Feature: Don't play the sound unless you click on the uTorrent icon in the about box.
• Feature: Store peers in resume file.
• Fix: Resolve Peer Ips option is now instant.
• Feature: Don't include forced jobs in seed queue computations.
• Fix: Flags field in the UI sometimes said U incorrectly.
• Feature: Ban clients that result in too many hashfails.
• Feature: If you are adding a new torrent, check if the data has already been downloaded to the completed folder.
• Fix: Crash when adding torrent for some languages.
• Feature: Added logger window.
• Fix: Use system's default character set when creating font objects. Fixes some strings not displaying correctly in translations
• Fix: Use the system's window text color in the general detail tab
• Fix: any/all in seed priority were reversed.
• Change: Use WsaEventSelect() instead of select(). (Should get rid of Select() error)
• Fix: Fix crash bug for some tracker replies
• Change: Show scrape info only on the generals tab. Show internal list info in the list.
• Feature: Load announce-list.
• Feature: Added relevance column in peer view, shows how interesting the peer is.
• Feature: Don't allow connect to self.
• Fix: Be somewhat smarter when detecting if a torrent has already been downloaded to a location.
• Fix: Move completed torrents didn't work right, torrents would get lost on restart.
• Change: Unchoker will behave as if it's seeding when nothing is being downloaded.
• Feature: Submit utorrent version number in crashdumps.
• Feature: The %-done counter now doesn't include skipped pieces.
• Feature: Include version number in HTTP requests.
• Fix: File associate function didn't cleanup properly from BitComet.
• Feature: Show blocks that have been downloaded but not yet written to disk in a different color.
• Feature: Include incomplete pieces in the resume state.
• Fix: Produce better error dumps.
• Fix: Window wasn't maximized on startup.
• Feature: Auto load torrents from a specified directory.
• Change: Redesigned generals tab.
• Feature: Added option to limit # of connections for computers with unpatched SP2.
• Feature: Connect to tracker again if we don't have enough peers in the internal list.
• Fix: Seeder priority now works right if you've skipped some pieces.
• Feature: If there is no default download folder, remember the last chosen folder when asking where to save torrents.
• Feature: Added option to log peer traffic.
• Change: Switch to Determination's status icons.