Download µTorrent 1.8 build 7398 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 7398)

• Change: better error when file exceeds filesystem size limit
• Fix: “” sometimes appearing in download limit in the transfer tab
• Fix: Logging options if “Log Traffic to Logger Tab” is chosen from the peers tab menu
• Fix: weird crash with hashfails
• Fix: season column showing episode for torrent items

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7364)

• Feature: Users can now be more precise in the log options they want to display
• Change: When moving .torrent files to the completed torrent folder, uTorrent now will replace existing torrent files with the same name in the folder and create folders up to the completed folder if necessary (same behavior as when moving to the original torrent storage folder)
• Change: When enabling teredo at installation, hide the background netsh process window
• Fix: Speed ​​graph dotted lines on Win9x
• Fix: Speed ​​graph left legend alignment on Win9x
• Fix: Handling of relative paths when moving torrent file to completed folder
• Fix: persist current initial seed piece in settings

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7237)

• Feature: setup Teredo automatically (requires IPv6)
• Feature: automatic unchoke intervals based on piece size
• Fix: Support relative paths in torrent storage location and other user entered paths
• Fix: Installation of shortcuts and various other issues

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7135)

• Feature: skip hashchecking sparse sections of sparse files (greatly improves check speed)
• Change: With custom main.ico files, uTorrent now explicitly loads the system menu-sized icon (fixing some alt-tab and other oversizing issues that have existed since at least 1.6)
• Change: Help menu option now downloads utorrent-help.zip directly from website and obtains the help file form the zip file
• Change: Display infinity for up/download limits in transfer tab if there is none set for them
• Fix: Enabling of shutdown privileges so that autoshutdown works

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7118)

• Change: “#” sorts by “completed on” for seeding torrents
• Change: “eta” sorts by “completed on” for seeding torrents (and “completed on” sorts by “eta” for download torrents)
• Change: Layout of “Save in:” column in RSS filter tab to match others with “…” buttons
• Fix: crash bug with relevance column and metadata mode
• Fix: directories left behind by Delete + Data to trash
• Fix: prio_first_last_piece would overlap adjacent files more than needed
• Fix: ETA miscalc with bottlenecked torrents
• Fix: Font scaling on vista with non-default DPI
• Fix: Tab order or advanced tab in torrent properties

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7041)

• Fix: Add Torrent dialogs on Win9x/NT

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