µTorrent 1.5 released... :-)

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HUGE changelog, but well worth it. :D
Changelog said:
--- 2006-03-07: Version 1.5 (build 436)
- Feature: Setting to determine the number of µTorrent 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 µT 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 <Search Here> 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
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http://www.utorrent.com/download/1.5/utorrent-1.5.txt
 
Sure. Press T in the About box... ;)

And if you click on the icon in the same About window, you'll get the THX sound (it's called Deep Note). But that was there for a long time. :)
 
Questions from an Azuereus user

How is this app on memory? I've seen Azureus use as much as 350MB of memory (split between page file and system)

Does this support encryption? Since I've enabled both plain and RC4 encryption in Azureus, my speeds have increased dramatically (mostly upload speeds, but hey, that'll get me to 1:1 faster)

How stable is it? I've seen Azureus do some funky things before, but thankfully it's always turned out alright.

I'm thinking about using a different app, as I'm tired of Azureus stealing my hard-earned memory - so should I switch to uTorrent??
 
I got 4 torrents going right now with download of 150+ and upload of 40. 5mb memory usage...and your not counting the java crap running for azureus. uTorrent is very stable, it has never crashed on me like all the other apps I've tried.
 
Vette5885 said:
Questions from an Azuereus user
How is this app on memory? I've seen Azureus use as much as 350MB of memory (split between page file and system)
Does this support encryption? Since I've enabled both plain and RC4 encryption in Azureus, my speeds have increased dramatically (mostly upload speeds, but hey, that'll get me to 1:1 faster)
How stable is it? I've seen Azureus do some funky things before, but thankfully it's always turned out alright.
I'm thinking about using a different app, as I'm tired of Azureus stealing my hard-earned memory - so should I switch to uTorrent??
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It's not called micro-torrent for nothing. You'll be lucky to see it use more than a couple of MB. The old version has been rock stable for me, but I'm not a super-heavy user. I believe it does end-to-end encryption also, as the develop is quite vocal for it.

"Feature: Setting to determine the number of µTorrent users."
Sounds like it's going to be phoning home though, which isn't hot imo.
 
Vette5885 said:
Questions from an Azuereus user

How is this app on memory? I've seen Azureus use as much as 350MB of memory (split between page file and system)
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Very, very light on resources. It isn't called microtorrent for nothing. ;)

Vette5885 said:
Does this support encryption? Since I've enabled both plain and RC4 encryption in Azureus, my speeds have increased dramatically (mostly upload speeds, but hey, that'll get me to 1:1 faster)
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Sure. The Encryption scheme was jointly-developed with Azureus developers, so they're compatible with each other. In addition, BitVomit decided to use this superior Encryption scheme as well (FWIW). So all 3 of the biggest clients can share encrypted data with each other.

Vette5885 said:
How stable is it? I've seen Azureus do some funky things before, but thankfully it's always turned out alright.

I'm thinking about using a different app, as I'm tired of Azureus stealing my hard-earned memory - so should I switch to uTorrent??
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Don't worry, µTorrent is very stable, you'll love it, trust me. :)

IanG: no, that's just for statistical purposes for Ludde (like how many times it was downloaded and with which version it was downloaded with). You can turn it off in "Other" (within Preferences) if you're not comfortable with it anyway. ;)
 
Hopefully the check for update function works in this release. 1.4 constantly told me I had the latest version... even after I read this thread...lol.
 
TheGamerZ: the update has been temporarily turned off until Ludde can fix what's wrong with it. If everything goes according to plan, it should be back up tomorrow. And the update doesn't check for Beta releases, which could explain why yours didn't work. ;)
 
Switched back to Azuereus today after using Utorrent for about a month and my download speeds doubled with files that had the same amount of seeds and everything. Don't know if it's that much better then Utorrent but for my setup it's faster. Both of them share the same type of encryption to aviod packetshaping. Utorrent is very lightweight and stable.
 
Vette5885 said:
Questions from an Azuereus user

How is this app on memory? I've seen Azureus use as much as 350MB of memory (split between page file and system)

Does this support encryption? Since I've enabled both plain and RC4 encryption in Azureus, my speeds have increased dramatically (mostly upload speeds, but hey, that'll get me to 1:1 faster)

How stable is it? I've seen Azureus do some funky things before, but thankfully it's always turned out alright.

I'm thinking about using a different app, as I'm tired of Azureus stealing my hard-earned memory - so should I switch to uTorrent??
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32 seeds, 1 download - 4.9 MB of RAM

Its never gone above 8 MB, even with 100+ seeds. Best torrent program ever.
 
Small update guys. ;) Build 437 has been released, but still retains the 1.5 name.

Changelog said:
--- 2006-03-08: Version 1.5 (build 437)
- Change: Lower # of pieces started at the same time
- Fix: Fix issue when compact allocation getting enabled even though it's off
- Fix: Tab icons now transparent
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http://www.utorrent.com/
 
I used to use Azureus... like what in the fuck Azureus, taking up more ram than needed (I know it uses Java).

uTorrent will eventually take over Azureus unless they can tweak it out for RAM and CPU usage (or CONSUMPTION).

Ever since I switched to uTorrent, I can now actually seed 40-50 torrents at a time without having like 200+ fucking megs of ram being taken up :rolleyes:

uTorrent is da shit!
 
It is a nice proggie - much faster than Azureus. I do wish there a few small options built into it (like show Mbps instead of MBps).

I can now play video games with this in the background. Nice!
 
Wow what an awesome program. I am downloading 3 large files at the moment, with good speeds, and it's using 3mb of RAM and rarely uses more than 2% cpu time. You don't even have to install it - just run the file.
 
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