uTorrent’s 2.0 Beta Finally a Good Citizen
Written by Ernesto on August 09, 2009Almost four years since uTorrent had its debut, the development team has now released a version 2.0 Beta of their BitTorrent client with significant improvements and updates. BitTorrent tracker owners in particular have been looking forward to this release as it finally implements support for UDP trackers, turning it into a ‘good citizen’.
uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application by far. Recent estimates show that uTorrent is the client of choice for more than half of all active BitTorrent users.
Needless to say, all significant changes to uTorrent affect millions of users and the entire BitTorrent infrastructure. With the release of its 2.0 Beta the client introduces breakthrough changes that offer a helping hand to its users, ISPs and most of all – tracker owners.
In comparison to HTTP trackers, UDP trackers use less resources and put less strain on their servers. Since almost all public trackers now have a UDP variant, it can save tracker owners a lot of hardware and thus money.
Using UDP is generally a good idea to bring down load on popular trackers,” said uTorrent developer Arvid Norberg when commenting on the implementation of the newly added feature. “We want uTorrent to be a good citizen and not hammer trackers.”
“Hopefully client support will be wide spread enough at some point, so that trackers that currently spend 99% of their capacity on misbehaving clients flooding it with HTTP requests can turn that off,” Norberg added.
Although Norberg’s comments suggest that uTorrent is one of the first to implement UDP tracker support, they are in fact quite late to the party. Vuze, BitComet, Deluge, KTorrent and rTorrent are just a few of the clients that have implemented this feature already.
However, with its massive market share uTorrent is the one that really makes a difference, and this new feature will be welcomed by all major BitTorrent tracker operators. The benefits of UDP trackers will not go unnoticed by users either since they do not interfere with HTTP traffic, meaning that associated web-browsing slowdowns will be a thing of the past.
Aside from smoother web-browsing, users will notice a few other changes in uTorrent 2.0. For starters the new speed guide is a welcome addition. By using Google’s measurement lab servers, uTorrent users can now test their connection speed and let the client automatically pick the best settings based on the results.
Unfortunately Google’s lab servers are all located in the US, which makes the results less accurate for uTorrent users in other parts of the world. The uTorrent team hopes that they can provide optimal results for these users at a later stage. “We anticipate that the server coverage will improve and cover other continents better in the future,” Norberg commented.
With the 2.0 Beta, uTorrent also enjoys several improvements to its uTP support, which makes the client more network aware hoping to decrease the load for ISPs as well. uTP support can be enabled or disabled at the user’s request.
The new Beta has something in store for everyone, and although users are free to play around with it, we should note that this is not a stable release and that bugs and unexpected crashes are possible. The latest release as well as a feedback thread can be found at the uTorrent forums.
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72 Responses
Too bad that most people configure torrents to first check the http tracker and the default to UDP is http is not available… see OBT’s announce url’s order.
And it gets even easier to get content via bit torrent… large files like movies or entire discographies are not a problem to download even if the tracker faces a sudden downtime.
Technology has left the anti-piracy morons eating the dust for so long, plus at the speed its going… its almost getting to a point its not funny anymore… almost :)
Why do i keep getting this image in my head of a train going at 100mph and a bunch of morons a few miles down the rail trying to stop it by putting a couple of kilos of paper flakes in its way?
the current version is too buggy for a beta. they should improve the 1.9 and make it a beta and release the 2 as alpha
nice job by the utorrent team
NICE JOB BY UTORRENT TEAM
What about privacy? Has privacy been improved?
BitComet = The worst client ever! I can’t understand why people use it?
As gnux stated uTorrent is compromised by having ties with the movie industry.
Use Deluge. Deluge is open source and a great client.
Yes, uTorrent is uNsafe
wheres the evidence that utorrent is in bed with the movie industry? some article on torrentfreak archives?
i like utorrent but am open minded to try better. ive used it for 3 years with no problems or court summons.
utorrent does slow my web surfing when its opened though…no biggie.
if they like their datas/statistics, to the movie mafia, they would only put their death knelll!
Whatever it is guys please g through the Utorrent Forum before jumping on to use this Beta..there are just too many bugs now.
Incorrect peer numbers, minor crashes,http tracker errors etc etc,,wait for the stable release !
Also as rightly pointed out by ‘ Redmarine ‘@7..what about privacy ??
When will Utorrent work on to srenthen the privacy and anonimity of the users ? I don’t see this in the Beta release…looks like we have to wait for that one to happen.
Why bother upgrading. Don’t need anything past 1.7.7. UDP is a waste of time and only a wankfest. It’s unreliable and low priority traffic that can be dumped anytime there is congestion. This shit is bound to cause more problems with resends causing a storm as links get congested and you torrent traffic is the first to be dropped :lol:
Another point is if you move to a new client you have to keep upgrading to the latest on each release as trackers update what’s allowed. If you stay on the old version you never need to do these forced upgrades since 1.7.7 is always allowed.
I won’t ever move from 1.7.7 so don’t give a rats if V2 is released or not.
“Use Deluge. Deluge is open source and a great client.”
An open-source bittorrent client that can be modified to the needs of the user.
Did you ever stop to think that such a product can be used to do more harm than good ?
@6
BitTorrent Inc _was_ in bed with hollywood, but hollywood found BitTorrent Inc to be quite impotent (not making enough money). Now BitTorrent Inc masturbates alone at bittorrent.com searching other sites for torrents.
Never liked the newer clients so rolled back to 1.8.2 here. They were just slow, not even sure why… Worth trying again?
Wouldn’t someone of pulled apart Utorrent and found out if there was spyware in it by now?
uTorrent is the best. Most people are just stupid and configure it all wrong.
One of the main reasons uT didn’t provide UDP tracker support in previous versions is that the UDP tracker protocol was/is flawed in a few ways, but hopefully they’ve made some improvements to it :D
Can’t wait for more
Can you people please get a life? Everytime something new comes along you people all cry out “ooo my privacy is compromised, dont upgrade” or “unstable!! unstable!!” or even “Im a stubborn 12yo who thinks i know lots about bittorrent and this is clearly a waste of time” They upgraded this for a reason, to make it better and faster, and of course it will be unstable, its a BETA you shitheads. Grow up.
also, @18
there have been many people who tested uT for any type of spying or such from bittorrent inc., but none have found any evidence supporting such claims. You can easily do tests on your own (tcpview, wireshark, etc)
Many of the original people from before the BitTorrent inc. merger are still working on uT.
i’m quite willing to try it. when will your linux version be out?
Oh dear the ‘utorrent is working for the MPAA’ morons are out in force.
Hey guys, your tinfoil hats are slipping off. Ask your mommies to take your mittens off so you can readjust it.
Alternatively, why not actually do some reading, or better yet, some FACTS to back your claims. Oh wait, you can’t, because there are none.
And Mr 1.7.7, isn’t that one of the versions with the exploit that can take over your system? REALLY good suggestion….
@ money – Try reading the source
@2 :
We managed to close dozens of torrent trackers and force ISPs to block others in several countries. Sure, that’s got left in the dust written all over it.
@16 :
What an immature way of putting it. Bittorrent was a promising new technology, so of course they were going to create business deals to increase their profits and expand. You pirates forget that your beloved bittorrent was started by what is now an “evil” corporation.
Pirates went and took advantage of bittorrent for criminal purposes then. Don’t assume that just because it’s done on the internet means that it can’t be a crime.
@16
Wow you’re really drinking that “it’s closed source for your benefit” uTorrent kool-aid, aren’t you? You really trust uTorrent to know what’s best for you? You’d rather not have the choice?
Can you show me *one* open source project that’s been abused? I’m not talking about badly maintained or badly written — which nobody uses anyways. I mean exactly what the uTorrent designer has maintained. That someone will take the code and make an “evil” version, and that this could have been prevented by keeping it closed source.
uTorrent is closed source because Ludde wants to profit off of it. Pure and simple. If it were open source then all trackers and clients could use the same quality codebase in library form.
Oh please, who reads the source of all the software they use? If more people bothered reading the Firefox source, for instance, maybe it wouldn’t be so bloated and system-hungry (but then, most of those that beat the open-source bandwagon couldn’t manage to code ‘hello world’.
Hey neostyles, or Mr Big, or whatever you’re calling yourself, you say ‘Don’t assume that just because it’s done on the internet means that it can’t be a crime.’ Sad fact is, it’s NOT a crime, except in certain very rare circumstances, even despite the number of false statements to the police made by anti-piracy groups. TorrentFreak even wondered if it SHOULD be made one (because it would cut down on the vast abuses of the law) a year or so ago – http://torrentfreak.com/is-it-time-to-make-file-sharing-a-criminal-offense-080912/
“uTorrent is closed source because Ludde wants to profit off of it. Pure and simple.”
Ludde? The same Ludde that hasn’t been involved with it for a number of years now? That Ludde? Boy, he must have one hell of a good hypnotist, to impose his will still. And, having sold it, still expects it to be paid and control it’s use, he must have been using one of the music industry lawyers to draw up the contract.
Posts like this bring out all the moron commenters (mostly regurgitating the crap from idiots at private trackers, spouting shit to keep their income stream high)
@28
Couldn’t agree with you more!
@23 A linux version for uTorrent is on the back burner atm, mainly because uTorrent is fully tested and working in wine.
the torrent disappear with the new system developed by this company
http://www.uyoue.com
Seems pretty reasonable to me dude!
RT
http://www.anon-web-tools.net.tc
get graboid
honest bob: maybe you should realize that writing software is not as simple as you think… Furthermore, there are more than a thousand Firefox contributors listed in about:credits… And that’s only people who made serious contributions…
Anyway, simple fact: deluge is open. you or anyone can look up its source code to see if there is anything hidden if you want to. I fail to see how this can be anything else than a bonus…
Stickin’ to 1.6 version.
The only good version.
Get it from http://www.oldversion.com/
Don’t bother with newer versions, worthless stuff.
I am also sticking to 1.6, after looking at 2.0 and seeing what other people had to say about it, it’s still to buggy.
Ah, the 1.6 tin-foilers.
What most of them forget, is that the version they use, ‘to be safe’ was brought out AFTER bittorrent inc. was invovled. 1.5 and earlier don’t have the exploits of 1.6x and 1.7x, that’s why so many private tracker sites say use htem. Isn’t it amazing, that NO one can ever provide evidence for these claims about MPAA involvement, or the program spying on you, or anything.
‘dishonest bob’, how original. and 1000 people, perhaps that’s why the code is so bad. If anyone can write, then there’s no quality standard. 10 people that can code well and are in constant communication with each other beats 1000 people that have varying skills, never talk to one another, and add things in hodge-podge. Quantity, and quality are two different things. Besides, 1000 people from what they claim is a ‘billion downloads’, thats one in a million, “whoopie”.
I would think about this, but I use a seedbox now… so my actual pc’s traffic is all http://FTP... and they don’t seem to have updated the webgui versino of utorrent…
Good Citizen? Really? Where is the source code? How do i know uTorrent is not sending info to third parties on my back? This client is owned by a corporation in good terms with the MPAA… Have you learned the importance of using Free Open Source Software yet?
“How do i know uTorrent is not sending info to third parties on my back?”
You wireshark to see if it is or it isn’t. So far no one who has done this has found ANY proof of your claims.
If tracker admins think UDP tracker magically solves their bandwidth issues, you might as well abandon all hope.. When clients begin to switch between HTTP and UDP on traffic problems, you get double bombed with both HTTP and UDP. This is due to the connection retry timeouts starting low. Twice the fun for one price.
“Have you learned the importance of using Free Open Source Software yet?”
Thou must use bloated, buggy software, with lots of exploits?
The poster child of FOSS, Firefox, has had more exploits over the same time period, as IE and any one other browser combined. There’s one exploit for firefox 2 that’s been open since the start of last year, and let’s not go into system usage with more than a handful of tabs open.
FOSS is a nice idea, but never been properly implemented in a way that makes it BETTER than the non-FOSS alternative (unless you consider the fact that you could see some code written by anonymous people with no come-back if they DID do something mallicious or stupid, if you had the time to do so to be worth the system performance hit, the lack of features, and the general insecurity. Those of us who don’t live in our parents basement, and whose time is actually worth something, generally do not.)
hopefully it doesn’t go the way of azureus and become full of advertising special features that no one uses.
at least it is not made with java.
Sweden always makes good shit,, first this, and then Spotify.. What will they make next?
If uTorrent was a country, I would live it and have a family and pay taxes.
halite ;)
@26 Neostyles:
Yeah, you guys managed to close dozens of trackers. Good job, only a few thousand more to go, eh?
You have NO IDEA how far back file sharing goes and how far it has spread, you bloody fool. You can’t even begin to comprehend. If the internet went down tomorrow that wouldn’t stop us. Quit now while you’re ahead.
yes. great post
,There’s one exploit for firefox 2 that’s been open since the start of last year, and let’s not go into system usage with more than a handful of tabs open.
http://www.softwarefreedown.com
Whoever is asking if uTorrent will improve your privacy: it won’t. No bittorrent client well. There is nothing private about trackers that have IPs listed and their behavior in the swarm, the only private sites are sites that are invite only on the honor system that people aren’t letting bad guys in.
If you want private network, bittorrent is not really the way to go. If you lots of content and fast files then bittorrent is just right.
Lots of crashes here.. 2.0 beta is reallly hurting my speeds.. 1.8\1.9beta much better..
@14
You should come to Canada.. Youll be crying that 1.7.7 is so slow.. We need UDP here to bypass the sandvine throttling no matter what ISP you use..
@25
There have been more torrent sites opening up then you have taken down.. You close 1 and 10 open up..
Bit Torrent was created to improve upon crappy gnutella and other cruddy protocols etc.. Bit Torrent is by far one of the greatest creations to date for file sharing.. Legal or not.. This is why companies are now beginning to adopt it as a way to distribute their files etc.. It works better & faster..
@26
That someone will take the code and make an “evil” version, and that this could have been prevented by keeping it closed source.
This is exactly why utorrent is closed source.. BT will never allow this to go open source..
I use transmission. Always have always will… It’s like uTorrent without the extra crud. I’m on a relatively minimalistic system, and transmission works GREAT with what resources I have.
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
uTorrent is not free. Stick with Azureus, Deluge or Transmission or whatever. Plenty of choices.
@ honest bob :
you’re talking shit man.
@53
What’s not free about it?
@14
I feel sorry for you if you think UDP will be the solution to your trouble. Once it’ll start being used on mass it too will be filtered. Just at the moment hardly anyone uses it so not worth the effort. UDP is even more easily dropped than TCP even if your ISP isn’t filtering. I don’t think anyone understands that UDP is a non guaranteed delivery stream. It was developed for applications where you could lose some packets and no one would give a shit (eg voice). In data you cannot do that. Packet loss will invariably lead to much worse performance. The good citizen part is that your traffic can be dumped anytime anywhere :lol:
@honest bob
“you could see some code written by anonymous people with no come-back if they DID do something mallicious or stupid”
Can you think of a single example of this ever occurring? I certainly can’t
Open-source doesn’t mean that all patches are accepted without review.
“FOSS is a nice idea, but never been properly implemented in a way that makes it BETTER than the non-FOSS alternative”
Really? What about Apache, MySQL, Linux, GCC, OOo, Blender…
Maybe you don’t like any of those, but you couldn’t contend that they are all absolutely inferior to the proprietary alternative even if you placed zero value on their cost.
“The poster child of FOSS, Firefox, has had more exploits over the same time period, as IE and any one other browser combined.”
citation needed regarding exploits.
If you don’t like bloat, don’t use Firefox, theres plenty of less featured browsers around. That said, Do you seriously consider IE to be the superior alternative. IE is a slow, standards ignoring dog of a web-browser. Web developers need to litter their pages with hacks just to get things to display like they do in EVER OTHER BROWSER available.
http://www.electronista.com/reviews/browser-tests-chrome-firefox-ie-safari.html
Im excited!
But doesn’t putting all traffic over UDP allow the ISP to like block UDP protocol easy? Can you encrypt UDP like you can TCP?
Wont this make traffic more vulnerable?
F*ck, F*ck, F*ck!
There is a version 2.0 ALREADY? But we were just starting to understand version 1.8.3!! Holy shit you guys are fast!
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#20 Aug 09, 2009 at 19:04 by money
Can you people please get a life? Everytime something new comes along you people all cry out “ooo my privacy is compromised, dont upgrade” or “unstable!! unstable!!” or even “Im a stubborn 12yo who thinks i know lots about bittorrent and this is clearly a waste of time” They upgraded this for a reason, to make it better and faster, and of course it will be unstable, its a BETA you shitheads. Grow up.
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.neo.styles|nvDX said: “We managed to close dozens of torrent trackers and force ISPs to block others in several countries. Sure, that’s got left in the dust written all over it.”
Got any proof to back up your claims? Which trackers? Which ISP’s? Which countries? Some details would be nice. If you’re truly proud with nothing to hide, you’ll let the world know. Otherwise you’re just another lying corporate shill that everyone should probably just ignore.
http://WWW.SKYROCK.COM HAROURNA-RACHID MDIPASI6882196 APRI.JFTAVYAE?
“The benefits of UDP trackers will not go unnoticed by users either since they do not interfere with HTTP traffic, meaning that associated web-browsing slowdowns will be a thing of the past.”
Total bullshit statement!
Bandwidth spent updating TCP/HTTP trackers is *TRIVAL* compared to amount spent downloading/uploading torrents. So likewise, tracker updates were among the LEAST likely part of BitTorrent to cause “associated web-browsing slowdowns”. There were minor issues with half open connection limit if you had 100’s of torrents and/or multiple trackers on each torrent to update…when you first start uTorrent/BitTorrent your web browser may have trouble finding a spare moment where it’s allowed to make half open connections because the computer’s at max due to updating trackers. But after uTorrent is started, the tracker updates tend to be staggered/offset so many aren’t trying to update at once.
Most “broadband” lines (Cable/ADSL/Satellite/Cellular/WiFi) still have less than 2 megabits/sec upload speed…which are ill-suited to running >10 torrents actively uploading/downloading at once, let alone 100’s! So most of the slowdowns that causes are user self-inflicted rather than a BitTorrent client’s fault. Going to UDP trackers won’t solve it…though it might be a tiny bit easier on trackers.
A vast amount of consumer networking hardware and software (from Linksys routers with default firmware, to USB wireless network “dongles”, to Zone Alarm) is hopelessly bad…and will be even more likely to fail under a UDP packet stream than they were under an equal number of TCP packets. And this will happen as uTorrent v1.8.x and v2.x converts over to uTP and Teredo/IPv6 peer/seed connections!
The availability of HTTPS trackers is *FAR* more important than UDP trackers…at least as far as thwarting various Bittorrent-crippling methods many ISPs use. Even hostile “ISP”s would hardly dare interfere with HTTPS traffic, such as used for online banking and slightly-secure web-based email access. And you’ll need a uTorrent version much newer than 1.7.7 to do that without bugs. (HTTPS servers were implemented a long time ago in uTorrent, but the code was buggy because almost no trackers used HTTPS…so VERY little testing was done.)
Nice job indeed.
However, what IF there’s some sort of conspiracy between BitTorrent, the MPAA and uTorrent? After all, let us not forget that uT is a product of BitTorrent, Inc.
One sec while we grab our tin foil hats! LOL!
Current 2.0 Beta is too buggy.2 crashes in an hour while rechecking a large (really large-45 GB) torrent.Speed isn’t that stable (didn’t notice increase only decrease) either.
1.82.15357 > current stable 1.83.x >2.0 Beta
better yet get a 1.6x.This is WRT speed.
Better technology must mean better speed else this is what happens.
Although i will switch back to v2.0 when it becomes stable(somewhere around December ‘09).
What techloid says maybe true.But i live in South Asia so even after a successful conviction,which will take years,we will probably be only fined, somewhere around Re.2000~ US$40.
So i don’t even bother with a proxy.The train and paper scenario is already in effect.
“The benefits of UDP trackers will not go unnoticed by users either since they do not interfere with HTTP traffic, meaning that associated web-browsing slowdowns will be a thing of the past.”
is true to some extent but not due to UDP trackers but a feature called UTP which actively monitors all traffic and reduces the reserved bandwidth for uTorrent (similar to reactive ATM networks i think).But if you care about speed at all then you’ll turn that OFF.The speed takes nearly 10 mins to recover.After all who cares about the ISPs-screw them.
i agree with Switeck.But i think this(udp trackers) is much benifecial to the TRACKERS than USERS.Minimises their part in a typical torrent download scenario.Will reduce the resource requirements for a tracker-meaning many new private trackers.Good enough for me!.
the current version is too buggy for a beta. they should improve the 1.9 and make it a beta and release the 2 as alpha.
If you still need any plugins, check these sites: http://filesmixx.com (rapidshare search) and http://filesburner.com (using a torrent). Hope you’ll find necessary soft there!
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