Download µTorrent 1.8 build 7022 alpha

The developers behind µTorrent released a new alpha release of version 1.8 of their popular file sharing program yesterday. µTorrent is a small and feature-rich BitTorrent client with a low processor and memory load. This release comes with a long list of changes and improvements. Since this is an early alpha, the developers recommend against using this version on private trackers in any case without permission. Below you can find everything that has changed since the previous entry in the Meuktracker:

Changes in version 1.8 alpha build 7022:

• Feature: better Windows Firewall registration on Vista
• Change: move IpFilter and RangeBlock blocked messages to Peer Traffic
• Change: webui now looks for webui.zip on each request
• Fix: crash when deleting multiple RSS feeds
• Fix: crash with very large numbers of outstanding disk IO jobs
• Fix: minor titlebar and torrent list transfer rate mismatch

Changes in version 1.8 alpha build 6838:

• Change: friendly name logging in UPnP verbose log
• Change: prevent delete to trash from locking up transfers
• Fix: Showing of add feed dialog on Vista
• Fix: more GDI leaks

Changes in version 1.8 alpha build 6806:

• Change: default to “All” category on startup if none selected
• Fix: Some blank dialogs on Windows 9x
• Fix: Some dialogs on Vista that didn’t use the native font
• Fix: some GDI leaks
• Fix: upnp never stopped updating if it was disabled (prevented tracker updates)

Changes in version 1.8 alpha build 6799:

• Change: Add support for more 4095 characters in edit controls and other windows
• Change: Make category selections a union
• Change: persist current initial-seed piece in settings
• Fix: It will run on Windows 9x again
• Fix: Canceling an in-place edit in the main listview no longer accepts that value on Windows 9x
• Fix: Some blocks appearing in some scheduler day/time strings in the preferences dialog
• Fix: incorrectly selected_cats length in settings
• Fix: adding blank url-list to .torrent on generation
• Fix: “&corrupt=” instead of “&corrupted=”
• Fix: UPnP unmap issue, existant mapping with XP API
• Fix: seed-only mode in scheduler (https seeds were not stopping)

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