1.6 final is finally out, after the longest beta period in µTorrent’s history. It has MANY improvements, among those being improved download/upload speeds, better handling of BitComets in the swarm, and a totally revamped disk caching system to protect your hard drives.

µTorrent, the BitTorrent client that is..

Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled
Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly
µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources – typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren’t there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 170 KB in size.

Skinnable and Localized
Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn’t available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!

Actively Developed and Improved
The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they’re ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.

List of changes for µTorrent 1.6:
— 2006-07-01: Version 1.6 (build 473)
- Feature: Ability to filter files in torrent creator
- Feature: Add a move to top/down button or key
- Feature: Add a way to make µt startup in bosskey mode
- Feature: Add a way to set the upload/download cap through system tray
- Feature: Add an option to reset bans
- Feature: Add remaining HD space in the BC-style dialog
- Feature: Added “Completed On” column
- Feature: Added a way to delete the internal peerlist
- Feature: Added bandwidth priority and tracker status column
- Feature: Added graphical progress bar in main list
- Feature: Added option to allow multiple connections from same IP.
- Feature: Added option to bypass the Nanotorrent search redirect.
- Feature: Added option to open download bar when doubleclicking a torrent
- Feature: Allow torrents in list to be renamed
- Feature: Change label from the torrent properties dialog
- Feature: Delete torrents to trash
- Feature: Disk statistics
- Feature: Draggable download bars separate from the main window
- Feature: Enable scheduler from tray
- Feature: Make shift + delete key remove torrent + data
- Feature: New disk cache settings
- Feature: Open containing folder selects the item
- Feature: Open the folder if you click on the tray popup when a download is finished
- Feature: Pause in tetris
- Feature: Proxy for peer connections
- Feature: RSS update interval
- Feature: Remember waste/hashfails across sessions
- Feature: Removing torrent will remove partfile
- Feature: Set default action for delete button (right click on it and hold shift)
- Feature: Setup outgoing port to bind to
- Feature: Show a warning if no disk space when moving a complete torrent
- Feature: Show a warning in the add dialog if the torrent doesn’t fit on the drive
- Feature: Show speed in title bar
- Feature: Show speed limits in status bar
- Feature: Shutdown/hibernate when downloads complete
- Feature: Standby when torrents complete
- Feature: Torrent create dialog remembers the previous settings

- Change: ‘min interval’ was misspelled.
- Change: Added buttons to select all / deselect in the add dialog
- Change: Added option not to connect to port 25 or 110
- Change: Auto Shutdown Windows available from a menu
- Change: Change so it always shows 3 digits in sizes.
- Change: Changed connections for the 384k speed
- Change: Delay firewall opening a little to help problem where utorrent starts faster than the firewall.
- Change: Don’t delete torrents from list if the torrentfile wasn’t found
- Change: Don’t resolve peer ips by default
- Change: Don’t switch between green/yellow icon too often
- Change: Don’t use router.bittorrent.com
- Change: Edit button in RSS feeds window
- Change: Fixed various language strings to be more consistent
- Change: If the file cannot be opened, delay a little while and try again.
- Change: Increased length of editbox for new labels
- Change: Modified algorihtm for giving extra upload slots
- Change: More dialogs are non-modal
- Change: Never request more than 50 chunks from a bitcomet peer
- Change: New UPnP code (works on all OSes)
- Change: Redesigned settings dialog (I still need icons for the categories)
- Change: Remember the last speed tab view mode
- Change: Resolve IPs is on by default, but only if the Peers tab is active.
- Change: Separate the tracker from the webui + webui settings
- Change: Show a message in the logger if the autoload is set to the same as the storage folder.
- Change: Show a warning dialog when auto shutting down
- Change: Show better error message when adding a torrent through URL and it can’t be loaded
- Change: Show decimal in download bar
- Change: Speed in title bar is shown a little differently
- Change: Swapped UL/DL in download bar
- Change: Trim spaces from tracker url in create torrent dialog
- Change: Tweaked piece selection algorithm a little
- Change: num_wsa_events to control how many WSA EVENTS to allocate
- Change: peer.lazy_bitfield enabled by default.
- Change: Changed the network status icons
- change: Moved the network status icon a bit

- Fix: Couldn’t use Unicode characters with search box
- Fix: Don’t allow blank filenames for single-file torrents (uses default name instead)
- Fix: Don’t crash if popup menu is active while the active torrent is deselected
- Fix: Fixed Win95 problems.
- Fix: Fixed a bunch of crash bugs.
- Fix: Generals tab should flicker less
- Fix: Make the after crash re-check not re-check torrents that already finished in that session
- Fix: Never create torrents with more than 64k pieces.
- Fix: RSS Favorites list bug
- Fix: Resize some labels to make more space
- Fix: Setting upload/download limit uses the currently active limit
- Fix: Superseeding should work better
- Fix: The label entry box in the BC-style dialog is too short
- Fix: Wrap comments field

[ Download µTorrent 1.6 Standalone (170 kB) ]
[ Download µTorrent 1.6 Installation Program (564 kB) ]
[ Download µTorrent 1.6 Language Pack ]
To install langpack, simply copy the file into directory with µTorrent executable. The program will install it automatically.
Supported languages (38 and counting):
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Frisian, German, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmal, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamase.

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