Download µTorrent 1.8 build 8205 alpha

Version 1.8 of the popular Bittorrent client µTorrent is in full development and new versions are released regularly. For example, version 1.8 build 8205 was released on Monday. The program can also update itself to new beta releases, but what you miss are of course the changelogs, so a visit to the Meuktracker is still necessary. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker we are already fourteen alpha builds further and below you can find all the changes that have been made to the program in the meantime:

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 8205)

• Change: Return to old font size for listview progress bars
• Fix: Do not select a listview column if an option is not chosen from the column context menu
• Fix: update timeouts with trackers
• Fix: a few crash bugs

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 8188)

• Change: Removed the two pixel gap on both sides of the main toolbar
• Change: Add properties to torrent category menu
• Change: Give delete torrent confirmation dialog “always show this dialog”-style functionality
• Change: Give search button a style more conformant to the Vista UI guidelines if available
• Change: Make delete torrent button look pressed while its menu is up
• Change: make Search and Remove buttons consistent with IE7 search button behavior
• Change: removed 10 pixel gap on the right side of the searchbox
• Change: Alternate listview background color to be roughly the same color as the selected column, rather than a constant gray
• Change: Increase maximum waiting time from five seconds to one minute for UAC subprocess when installing on Vista
• Change: Add confirm deletion of trackers option to UI Settings
• Change: Show graphical progress bar option is now in advanced settings
• Change: Delete key now deletes trackers in the trackers tab
• Change: Remove label setting from torrent properties dialog
• Change: Note that port 0 in the speed guide is a signal for uTorrent itself to choose the port
• Change: Make about dialog non-modal
• Change: Change text of a few updater-related checkboxes in preferences to be more specific about what they effect
• Change: Always show the selection in the tracker and file listviews, even if they don’t have focus
• Change: Move items in add torrent dialog listview left a bit if there are no directories in the torrent
• Change: Max Up and Max Down have been renamed to Up Limit and Down Limit
• Fix: Some cases of controls, such as listviews, not properly updating on Windows theme change
• Fix: potential remote crash exploit
• Fix: Opening dialog on Windows 95
• Fix: Modal dialogs now correctly disable and return focus to the window they were launched from, not the main window
• Fix: Various tiny memory leaks
• Fix: Leaking of memory when closing non-modal dialogs (existed in both 1.6 and 1.7)
• Fix: corrupted URL/message in Add Torrent by URL dialog
• Fix: incorrect column highlighting after hiding/showing columns
• Fix: disable webui relative path parsing

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7928)

• Change: If the torrent’s label was changed in torrent properties form the add torrent dialog, reflect it in the add torrent dialog
• Change: Advanced setting to disable WINE hacks if need be (program restart required)
• Change: A boatload of GUI hacks for WINE, including disabling listview flicker workarounds, a multitude of ugly hacks to make the addtorrent dialog usable on it, and disabling the messagebox subclassing (which means no checkbox or controls in them)
• Change: use “client” instead of “enterpriseclient” for Teredo setup
• Fix: “Wierdly colored selection border” in add torrent dialog
• Fix: WINE DNS problems (WINE bug in GetBestInterface)
• Fix: possible negative “downloaded=” numbers
• Fix: port not saving in Installation dialog

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7895)

• Change: Added link to forums on system tray icon
• Change: Add context menu for bandwidth allocation column in torrents listview
• Change: Close firewall entry or installing exe
• Change: Continue installing settings if installing to same path of exe
• Change: Add another hidden column to the files tab, “Name”, that contains the original name of the individual file
• Fix: Saving of retargetted files relative to the torrent’s download directory
• Fix: remote crash bug (affects all 1.6.x, 1.7.x, and 1.8 builds released to date)

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7834)

• Change: do not display remaining bytes if 0
• Fix: Pressing the associate buttons in the preferences window would get .torrent and .btsearch extensions mixed up in web browsers
• Fix: UPnP would unmap after 20 minutes instead of re-mapping
• Fix: Wrong path put in run in startup entry when installing

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7795)

• Change: disable RSS query information button when no feed is selected
• Fix: Crash in some cases with HTTP seeds
• Fix: Speed ​​guide always using default port in the installation dialog
• Fix: Installation dialog showing up in some cases where it should not
• Fix: “None” string in Vista firewall entry

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7785)

• Fix: crash on Win98 when making a temp file
• Fix: Crash when showing speed guide by itself

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7777)

• Feature: Add Tracker and Use DHT menu items in tracker tab context menu
• Feature: Setup Windows Firewall option in installer (prompts for elevation on Vista, assumes admin access on XP)
• Change: Swap seeds with peers in transfer tab
• Change: When retargeted files in torrents, make the paths relative after retarget if possible
• Change: Combine path and name columns in files tab
• Change: Make scheduler descriptions more descriptive and really clear left-behind text
• Change: skip udp:// urls in tracker rotation
• Change: gray out IPv6/Teredo option if installed or on platforms that do not support it
• Change: do not try (and fail) to open firewall on platforms that do not support it
• Change: parse https:// urls in Tracker column
• Change: auto WebUI installation on enable. Installation option on /gui/index.html when not installed
• Fix: More font size issues on Vista
• Fix: HTTP 400s from trackers / RSS feeds when running NOD32 IMON
• Fix: weird crash with DNS
• Fix: weird GetExternalIP failure
• Fix: more firewall entry removal, entry for previously installed version
• Fix: progress bar size and placement when it was the first enabled column
• Fix: DHT Update Tracker menu item
• Fix: crash with partitions of different sector alignments
• Fix: do not allow IPv6 installation on networks with DNS that do not support AAAA lookups
• Fix: Teredo installation timeout bug: “result was: []”
• Fix: false Teredo installation failure on non-english platforms
• Fix: shortcut and file association problems when not moving or copying exe during install

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7676)

• Feature: tracker tab context menu now operates on all selected items
• Fix: remove leftover firewall entry on install

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7671)

• Feature: Remove Tracker confirmation dialog
• Fix: Hanging when pressing some buttons in preferences
• Fix: broken Logger tab context menu

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7660)

• Feature: add logger option for WebUI messages
• Change: return Category Status items to Filter behavior. “All”, Labels, and RSS Feeds are still Containers
• Change: make opening dialog wider to remove whitespace
• Fix: recheck UPnP port mappings every 20 minutes even with the XP API
• Fix: weird deadlock with some systems
• Fix: prevent “No Disk” message boxes with missing media
• Fix: elusive “The parameter is incorrect” and “The data is invalid” errors on Win98 (old partfiles with this error are corrupt, sorry)
• Fix: tray icon removal on Vista
• Fix: Font size on Vista with all DPIs
• Fix: Bug where RSS items were being downloaded to settings directory if no filter path is set

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7593)

• Feature: Interval and Min Interval (non-default) columns for Trackers tab
• Feature: context menu for Trackers tab
• Feature: “Selected Size” column for main listctrl
• displays total size
• skipped size
• Change: Reworked preferences dialog
• Change: New opening dialog/wizard with speed guide/setup combination
• Change: peer id parsing for (lol) LimeWire
• Change: Remove a previous fix for custom taskbar/title icons, as it make some existing ones choose the wrong format
• Change: If a default download directory is chosen, torrents automatically added from the autoload directory will never pop up the add torrent dialog
• Change: An error is now shown if there is a autoload directory, a custom torrent storage directory is not chosen, and the autoload directory matches the settings directory
• Change: use CONNECT for peer connections through HTTP style proxies
• Change: “Seeding only”/pink scheduler mode, available before when shift was held down, is now part of the normal scheduler click rotation
• Change: In places where the infinity symbol was printed, nothing is printed
• Fix: reverse DNS resolution with old-style tracker responses
• Fix: search string corruption on Win98
• Fix: resolve host to report to tracker before any tracker requests
• Fix: CONNECT requests to “HTTPS” style proxies (peer connections now work)
• Fix: communication with trackers that only parse the first TCP packet (fix your trackers please!)
• Fix: trackers stuck in “updating…” if UPnP was enabled but not functioning
• Fix: negative “Remaining” value if files are skipped after they are completed
• Fix: When a second instance is started while uTorrent is shutting down, it will now wait for the first instance to finish then continue, rather then silently quitting

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7491)

• Feature: add Copy to the Logger tab context menu
• Change: only use “B” for sizes, not rates
• Fix: IPv6 resolution for DNS names
• Fix: intermittent DNS failures
• Fix: stall in (un)choker at startup
• Fix: crash with large numbers of sockets
• Fix: string corruption on Win98

Changes in version 1.8 alpha (build 7435)

• Feature: options to bypass Windows disk cache
• Change: flush write jobs if downloading is complete
• Change: remove bundled sorts in “#”, “eta” and “completed on”. use second-sort instead
• Change: Add some elipses to a couple context menu options in the main window (Add Torrent, Add RSS Feed) for consistency
• Fix: delete files normally if delete to trash fails
• Fix: stalls and invalid requests with HTTP seeds
• Fix: load torrents with incorrect relative paths from previous alphas
• Fix: do not look for torrent on the network if .torrent file dissappears
• Fix: crash bug loading torrent state when .torrent is missing and file target was set previously
• Fix: wrong .torrent file name was saved if .torrent was loaded from torrent storage directory

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