uTorrent 1.7 Stable Finally Released
Written by Ernesto on July 13, 2007After months of hard work and nearly half a year after the release of their previous stable release uTorrent 1.7 finally sees the light. uTorrent 1.7 comes with several new features and some essential changes and big fixes.
uTorrent 1.7 is fully Vista compatible and the 65,536 piece limit for torrents is removed which might improve the download speed of larger torrents.
Other noticeable changes are:
- Feature: option to auto update to betas
- Feature: automatic upload speed limiting
- Feature: Web seed support for single-file torrents
- Feature: Local Peer Discovery
- Change: Prioritize seed queue based off seed/peer ratio
- Change: Improved half-open connection management
- Fix: download rate limiting bug
- Fix: UPnP mapping when local IP changes
A complete list of changes, features and fixes can be found at the uTorrent forums. In the meantime the uTorrent team is working hard on their next milestone, the release of a Mac version.
Until those ported versions are ready Mac users might want to try running it under emulation to get uTorrent working on OSX.
Time to update! uTorrent 1.7 (Windows)can be downloaded over here.
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Finally! I been beta testing it for months now.
very nice, just switched from azureus to uTorrent 1.7
Usual question:
Is it (still) safe?
Anyone know of any tests done to see if it phones home or does anything suspicious?
I won’t be using it until there is some proof it’s safe.
and now this version is banned on some trackers because of inaccuarate data sent back
From this article:
“In the meantime the uTorrent team is working hard on their next milestone, the release of a Mac and a Linux version.”
From uTorrent FAQ:
“Is there a Linux or Mac version?
The OSX port is in progress. A Linux port is currently not planned for the future. ”
:(
You’re right Børge, my bad…
Jdizzle - with all the people testing, and all the people in the µtorrent irc channel that check this, if it happened, you’d soon find out. Especially as I am one of the regulars there, and had switched within 15 minutes of release. If it phoned home, I would know.
Hoz - there are always going to be some people running trackers, who are out of their depth. It is also not that strange for people to just follow what some other tracker admin tells them, regardless of how true it is. Just look back and see how many trackers banned all versions of bitcomet, for the bug that affected one release (yet don’t ban az, which can be made to do that easily enough, or every other windows client which can effectively be manipulated to do the same thing).
“I won’t be using it until there is some proof it’s safe.”
So you aren’t using Windows either? ;)
it phones home
“Every version > 1.6.1 is Bittorrent Inc., which is directly in partnership with the movie studios. Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures, News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Palm Pictures and Kadokawa Pictures USA etc etc .
In fact versions > 1.7 don’t even have the same developer doing it. It’s all handled now by Bittorrent Inc’s development. The original author (up to 1.6.1) is no longer even part of the project. ”
Saw that somewhere don’t know if its true.
It is true. So stay clear of 1.7+
i took a look at the newest version 1.7 and it looks the exact same as 1.6.1 and i left it up to watch it for a bit to see if it uploaded anything but it didn’t look like it was to me and as for ludde he is still part of the development team but only as a consultant so i don’t believe that it is totally safe but just stick with either 1.6.1 or Halite until they make it open source and use peergaurdian2 to be extra safe
Alot of private sites have banned 1.7 now and require 1.6.1 or lower. 1.7 is not to be trusted…trust me
My bitch and I won’t “upgrade” to version 1.7 as it got fucked up as spyware! You can think who is behind that gang! Version 1.6.1 is already very stable and clean coded so don’t use 1.7!
OK to all those people saying it phones home , Where are you getting your info from ? do you have prof, I mean not hear say shit but real concrete prof ? if not please stop talking shit !!
“OK to all those people saying it phones home , Where are you getting your info from ? do you have prof, I mean not hear say shit but real concrete prof ? if not please stop talking shit !!”
My firewall has caught it on severl occasions trying to “send e-mail”
No Idea what was in the message or where it was going but it was suspicious as hell. Thats why I’m going back to 1.6
Believe it or not it phones home … i will investigate deeper but this is from PG2 logs after starting up uTorrent 1.7+: BitTorrentInc 72.20.34.145:6881 UDP Blocked … gonna sniff it.
…And banned from most private trackers right along with BitComet, BitLord, etc. In addition, tack up 1.7.1 to the banned list as well.
It makes a one packet UDP request to 72.20.34.145 (IP providor is Staminus Communications and the IP is also the one utorrent.com is on) on port 6881 but only if you enable DHT. The data in the packet is “d1:ad2:id20:.
Woops, the stuff I was quoting broke my message. A screenshot of the data packet is at http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6940/78302557is7.gif. The data is similar to the stuff in other DHT packets (that follow immediately afterwards to a variety of other IP’s). I don’t think it’s anything dodgy - just DHT
That URL should be http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6940/78302557is7.gif
(no dot)
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