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uTorrent 2 New Features

uTorrent 2.0 Beta (build 16081): New Features, Fix and Changes :

  • uTorrent 2 has added UDP tracker support!
  • uTP has been improved significantly over the previous alpha, with many bugs fixed and performance improvements. It's no longer hidden in Advanced settings.
  • The setup dialog has been overhauled to make it much easier to use and with a built-in speed test. It's still not quite complete yet, but this will give you a good taste of what we're up to with it!
  • Transfer caps are now configurable, with usage tracking and graphs.
  • Change: disable toolbar offers for Wine installs
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: New Setup guide & Speedtest.
  • Change: uninstaller is added to all user profiles
  • Fix: crash when assigning new label to torrents from RSS
  • Change: Incomplete downloads sort after completed downloads if sorting by "Completed On"
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: Add Moldova to peer flags
  • Change: Added upnp host cache to speed up upnp nat resolution on misbehaving routers
  • Fix: maintain category list selection on update for some edge cases
  • Change: if selected, install start menu and desktop shortcuts to all users instead of only current user
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: Grayscale disabled toolbar buttons
  • Fix: fixed uTP selective ack bug (would cause connections to stall and time out)
  • Fix: fixed uTP fast re-send bug (would sometimes re-send packets that shouldn't be re-sent)
  • Change: prompt to take associations in installer only if any others exist
  • Fix: buffer overrun vulnerability in create torrent dialog
  • Fix: uTP recovers faster after timeout
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: uTP supports window sizes smaller than the packet size
  • Change: reduced uTP overhead slightly by ramping up packet sizes at lower rates
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: enable and disable toolbar buttons according to selected torrents
  • Change: UAC must be completed to install in Vista or higher
  • Fix: memory leaks in main window, protocol associations, settings dialog, general tab
  • Change: Tweaks to Ask toolbar offer
  • Fix: only change run on startup if installer is shown
  • Change: added support for 3:rd party applications to more easily be configured to access the uTorrent web UI, i.e. to pair the applications
  • Fix: make "alternate upload rate when seeding" apply when the seeding is set by the scheduler
  • Fix: align "Web Seeds" in torrent creation dialog
  • Fix: translated strings in uninstaller
  • Fix: http seeds would not reconnect after stopping and starting torrent
  • Fix: http seed for multifile torrents
  • Fix: regression in 15562 that caused frequent crashes
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: New installer with EULA, file association
  • Fix: uTP issue on low-latency high-throughput networks
  • Fix: copying long filenames to clipboard no longer results in garbage or crash
  • Fix: fixed web seed support for multi-file torrents
  • Change: torrent whose "Force Recheck" is greyed out will not recheck when asked through multi-torrent selections
  • Fix: when adding torrents through URLs via commandline, we would always open the add torrent dialog
  • Fix: handle multi file torrents with web seed urls that incorrectly don't end with a slash
  • Fix: make sure web seed urls end with a slash for multifile torrents
  • Fix: setup Vista firewall
  • Fix: remove settings on Vista during un-installation
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: New "Transfer Cap" pane in Preferences
  • uTorrent 2 Feature: uTP can be enabled or disabled using "Enable bandwidth management" checkbox in Preferences
  • Fix: Check at startup for incompatible versions of NVIDIA nForce firewall

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