uTorrent 1.6.1 Released

Written by Ernesto on February 14, 2007 

A long awaited new version of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has been released today. The new release includes a fix for the remote exploit vulnerability that was discovered recently.

utorrent 1.6.1The stable 1.6.1 release is not yet on the download page, but is already available for download over here. The uTorrent team unintentionally resolved the exploit vulnerability in a beta version months ago according to former uTorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus.

Ludvig says that the issue was fixed in the latest beta that was released in July 2006. However, most people probably don’t dig that deep in the forums to find this beta, and still use the latest stable version. It is unclear why it took more than six months to make this “non exploitable” version public, but I guess they had other things on their mind.

Time to update!

Update: uTorrent 1.6.1 is now listed on the uTorrent download page.

Changelog - Download

— 2007-02-13: Version 1.6.1 (build 488)
- Feature: Select upload/download speed for a torrent through the rightclick menu
- Feature: Added encryption box to speed guide

- Change: Don’t check as many pieces at the same time.
- Change: Misc WebUI changes.
- Change: Switch to JSON for webinterface

- Fix: Problem with category list in the gui when updated from the webui
- Fix: WebUI not clearing state between requests.
- Fix: Redirect also index.html to guest.html
- Fix: Added On Now shows the time it’s added, not loaded.
- Fix: JSON uses ” instead of ‘
- Fix: (a) Upnp fix
- Fix: Show pause icon when checking is paused.
- Fix: Fixed problems with XML parser
- Fix: Don’t allow two message boxes to be shown in the RSS window
- Fix: Changed some window titles
- Fix: Fix malformed .torrent exploit
- Fix: Boss key field is now larger

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39 Responses

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1 Feb 14, 2007 at 21:14 by Bilal

I thought Firon wasn’t allowed to release any more versions since bittorrent bought it?

Also lots of people gonna be wary of installing this…

2 Feb 14, 2007 at 21:50 by Reb

[quote comment="49593"]
Also lots of people gonna be wary of installing this…[/quote]Yeah, PeerGuardian using retards.

3 Feb 14, 2007 at 22:11 by Blue72

uTorrent 1.6.1 keeps crashing whenever changing torrents labels. I advise people wait for the stable release and continue using 1.6 till the problem is fixed.

4 Feb 14, 2007 at 22:31 by Yatti

Thanks for the update.

5 Feb 14, 2007 at 22:56 by paperslug

So is this gonna be on the download page or what? Also when I downloaded it from here I clicked on the file and it just kept opening utorrent.

6 Feb 14, 2007 at 23:18 by Ernesto

[quote comment="49637"]So is this gonna be on the download page or what? Also when I downloaded it from here I clicked on the file and it just kept opening utorrent.[/quote]

Firon, one of the admins, said it will be on the download page soon.

And it opens uTorrent because this is a standalone version, not the installer. If you click on “help > about” you will see that it is the latest version.

The latest version (built 489) is supposed to be stable (no BETA tag).

[quote comment="49610"]uTorrent 1.6.1 keeps crashing whenever changing torrents labels. I advise people wait for the stable release and continue using 1.6 till the problem is fixed.[/quote]

This should be fixed in the latest release.

7 Feb 14, 2007 at 23:24 by Nendoke

Thanks Len ;)

8 Feb 15, 2007 at 03:10 by paperslug

Thanks Ernesto
;D

9 Feb 15, 2007 at 03:58 by 0010010110

[quote comment="49642"][quote comment="49637"]So is this gonna be on the download page or what? Also when I downloaded it from here I clicked on the file and it just kept opening utorrent.[/quote]

Firon, one of the admins, said it will be on the download page soon.

And it opens uTorrent because this is a standalone version, not the installer. If you click on “help > about” you will see that it is the latest version.

The latest version (built 489) is supposed to be stable (no BETA tag).

[quote comment="49610"]uTorrent 1.6.1 keeps crashing whenever changing torrents labels. I advise people wait for the stable release and continue using 1.6 till the problem is fixed.[/quote]

This should be fixed in the latest release.[/quote]

I hate when people link to straight to the download. As a programmer can not stand it. Please ONLY link to the download page.

10 Feb 15, 2007 at 04:50 by Leeisl

[quote comment="49593"]
Yeah, PeerGuardian using retards.[/quote]
Nice to see that human beings still need to insult the other party in order to make a point.

11 Feb 15, 2007 at 06:44 by jreks

Sure the jerkoffs at the RIAA will not be too happy.
http://www.jerkbossesihaveknown.com

12 Feb 15, 2007 at 09:46 by tranceash

When will we have a version for linux

13 Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13 by vlad

utorrent (at least the 1.6) works on linux under wine…

14 Feb 16, 2007 at 00:16 by heavybags

build 488,489,490 all released over the last 24 hours. it’s pretty obvious that the bittorrent development team is already off to a bad start with handling the source code.

15 Feb 16, 2007 at 09:37 by bltz

I noticed the latest is 490 - heavybags is right. :(

Wait a few days to see if any more fixes are posted.

Been running 161 Beta for a while without any glitches.

16 Feb 21, 2007 at 06:48 by Dark Shroud

builds 488 & 489 both had a minor errors that caused crashes. Build 490 works perfectly well.

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