Mar 13 2006

uTorrent 1.5 Released

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uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.

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2006-03-07: Version 1.5 (build 436)

– Feature: Setting to determine the number of uTorrent users.

– Feature: Use icons instead of network ok/nat error

– Feature: Auto detect read cache size

– Feature: Language file can be auto updated

– Feature: Keys can be used in main listview to move to the right item

– Feature: New easter egg

– Feature: RSS Help button

– Feature: Reorder RSS favorites

– Feature: If user is running from temporary internet files, prompt to install it.

– Feature: Added popup menu to easily change if the scheduler/dht is enabled.

– Feature: Added log-to-file option in logger.

– Feature: Option to always prioritize the rarest pieces.

– Feature: Added active/inactive categories in category list

– Feature: DEL key works in RSS history, and the last item is selected

– Feature: RSS history remembers only 500-600 items

– Feature: XML parser supports # tags

– Feature: Determine the values to show in the speed popup list automatically.

– Feature: Category list to filter main torrent list.

– Feature: Propagate encryption support through PEX

– Feature: Choose what happens on double click in torrent list

– Feature: Show a special message if utorrent crashes while NOD32 is active.

– Feature: Added scheduler mode to seed only (hold Shift button)

– Feature: Support min_interval key

– Feature: Ctrl Up/Down to move up/down a torrent

– Feature: Show average up/down speed since start.

– Feature: Show encryption status in Flags field

– Feature: Copy hosts from peer list

– Feature: Peer Exchange (only with uT peers for now)

– Feature: Protocol Encryption (compatible with future azureus)

– Feature: Bypass Windows XP Firewall

– Feature: Make torrent prioritized from add torrent window

– Feature: RSS toolbar button

– Feature: Smart RSS episode filtering
– avoids downloading the same ep twice.

– Feature: ESC minimizes

– Change: Rearranged settings dialog

– Change: Default to priorizing rarest pieces

– Change: Switch default theme

– Change: Skip hidden/system files when creating torrent.

– Change: Right align some columns.

– Change: Remove spaces from urls in RSS feeds

– Change: DHT binds UDP socket to net.bind_ip

– Change: Smarter block hashing, tries to avoid re-reading from the file if possible.

– Change: Tracker connections obey max_halfopen/max_connections

– Change: Switching folder in the Add window tries to detect if you point at an already downloaded folder.

– Change: Added support for ” in XML parser

– Change: Optimized disk-io

– Change: coalesce_writes defaults to true

– Change: &Exit to E&xit

– Change: Show up/down arrows in listview headers

– Change: Rearranged some stuff in the settings dialog

– Change: Add FAQ to the help menu

– Change: Use UTF-8 instead of utf-8 in created torrents.

– Change: Min autodetected piecesize is now 64k.

– Change: Remember last active RSS page.

– Change: Don’t increase counters while paused.

– Change: Auto detect if RSS feed uses latin1 or utf8.

– Change: Sort by scrape peers instead of connected peers

– Change: Relevance rounds up instead of down.

– Change: Rename langpack to utorrent.lng.

– Change: If langpack is in the exedir, it gets installed to APPDATA.

– Change: Remember if torrents have errored when you restart

– Change: Optimizations to piecepicker algorithm

– Change: Fast/Slow pieces

– Change: Simplified encryption settings

– Change: Support langpack.zip with translations.

– Change: Don’t download first/last piece of a file first. Can be re-enabled.

– Change: Added a black down image to the spyglass icon

– Change: Protect webui with a password

– Change: Include beta build # in http requests.

– Change: Show in the search box.

– Change: Open partfile in read only mode if read/write fails.

– Change: Read cache uses less CPU

– Change: Support paths >260 chars.

– Change: Icons in RSS Releases (thanks TVTAD)

– Change: RSS Not filtering matches full release name

– Change: RSS Reader supports more date formats

– Change: Adjusted some lazy bitfield parameters

– Change: Renamed to RSS Downloader

– Change: Allow deleting multiple history lines at the same time

– Change: Improvements to RSS parser

– Change: Pause button toggles

– Change: net.low_cpu defaults to false.

– Change: Reworked network code for faster speeds.

– Change: Add torrent dialog defaults to whatever folder entered in settings

– Change: Added some qualities to rss reader

– Change: Changed date format

– Fix: Work better when large fonts are used.

– Fix: Prevent windows from going above pixel 0.

– Fix: Ratio on generals tab wasn’t computed exactly like the main list.

– Fix: Crash bug with columns

– Fix: Better support for adjusted computer clock.

– Fix: Don’t behave incorrectly if 0-byte files are deleted by the user.

– Fix: If the torrent storage path hasn’t been created, create it.

– Fix: Fix a crash related to language packs.

– Fix: Superseeding works better

– Fix: RSS feeds are utf8-decoded

– Fix: Deleting from RSS history forgot about sorting

– Fix: Disallow some more characters from filenames

– Fix: Crash when deleting multiple items from RSS history

– Fix: RSS parser parsed month bad for some timestamps.

– Fix: Fixed crash in torrent creator

– Fix: Ipfilter memory leak

– Fix: Support mixes of name and name.utf8

– Fix: Sorting reverse by name didn’t work

– Fix: Improved autoload so it waits a bit if the file hasn’t fully been written to disk yet.

– Fix: Stop ALL torrents when scheduler is active.

– Fix: When moving a complete download, use the name entered in the add dialog instead of the default.

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