Download µTorrent 1.8.1 build 11903 beta

The µTorrent program is a lightweight Bittorrent client written in C++ that aims to burden the system as little as possible, so that it can also be run on a Windows 95 system with 14MB of RAM, according to the developers. Although µTorrent is a lightweight client, it offers a large number of features. For example, the appearance can be adjusted by means of skins, files can be downloaded via ‘trackerless’ torrents and the bandwidth can be set per torrent.

The developers have released a new 1.8.1 series build of µTorrent. The new version is available from this location for Windows to be downloaded and is still in beta stage. A number of new features and improvements have been introduced in the 1.8.1 series. For example, µTorrent can now hash twice as fast and minor errors have been removed from the interface. The full changelog since the first public release of the 1.8.1 version looks like this:

Version 1.8.1 beta (build 11903)

• Change: Allow custom seeding time maximums
• Fix: webui hashed password upgrade from <= 1.8
• Fix: resolve conflicts between .torrents in move complete path with .1.torrent etc
• Fix: crash with canceling HTTPS requests

Version 1.8.1 beta (build 11882)

• Feature: 2x faster hashing
• Feature: Open Containing Folder for Files tab
• Change: sort torrents without ETA after torrents with infinity
• Change: remove “Download Limited” behaviour
• Change: turn sparse files off by default, due to fragmentation issues
• Change: relax min_interval restriction on manual updates to 60 seconds if the last tracker request failed
• Change: store hash of the webui password instead of plaintext
• Fix: force non-sparse with preallocate on
• Fix: ‘hostname not found’ on NT4
• Fix: slow load with lots of torrents that point to a dead/missing drive
• Fix: Some checkboxes overlap others in the connection section of preferences
• Fix: work around NOD32 IMON bug (HTTP 400)

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