µTorrent 1.5

Posted on Wednesday, March 08 2006 @ 17:23 CET by LSDsmurf

Features:

Setting to determine the number of µTorrent users.
Use icons instead of network ok/nat error
Auto detect read cache size
Language file can be auto updated
Keys can be used in main listview to move to the right item
New easter egg
RSS Help button
Reorder RSS favorites
If user is running from temporary internet files, prompt to install it.
Added popup menu to easily change if the scheduler/dht is enabled.
Added log-to-file option in logger.
Option to always prioritize the rarest pieces.
Added active/inactive categories in category list
DEL key works in RSS history, and the last item is selected
RSS history remembers only 500-600 items
XML parser supports # tags
Determine the values to show in the speed popup list automatically.
Category list to filter main torrent list.
Propagate encryption support through PEX
Choose what happens on double click in torrent list
Show a special message if utorrent crashes while NOD32 is active.
Added scheduler mode to seed only (hold Shift button)
Support min_interval key
Ctrl Up/Down to move up/down a torrent
Show average up/down speed since start.
Show encryption status in Flags field
Copy hosts from peer list
Peer Exchange (only with µT peers for now)
Protocol Encryption
Bypass Windows XP Firewall
Make torrent prioritized from add torrent window
RSS toolbar button
Smart RSS episode filtering - avoids downloading the same ep twice.
ESC minimizes

Changes:

Rearranged settings dialog
Default to priorizing rarest pieces
Switch default theme
Skip hidden/system files when creating torrent.
Right align some columns.
Remove spaces from urls in RSS feeds
DHT binds UDP socket to net.bind_ip
Smarter block hashing, tries to avoid re-reading from the file if possible.
Tracker connections obey max_halfopen/max_connections
Switching folder in the Add window tries to detect if you point at an already downloaded folder.
Added support for " in XML parser
Optimized disk-io
coalesce_writes defaults to true
&Exit to E&xit
Show up/down arrows in listview headers
Rearranged some stuff in the settings dialog
Add FAQ to the help menu
Use UTF-8 instead of utf-8 in created torrents.
Min autodetected piecesize is now 64k.
Remember last active RSS page.
Don't increase counters while paused.
Auto detect if RSS feed uses latin1 or utf8.
Sort by scrape peers instead of connected peers
Relevance rounds up instead of down.
Rename langpack to utorrent.lng.
If langpack is in the exedir, it gets installed to APPDATA.
Remember if torrents have errored when you restart
Optimizations to piecepicker algorithm
Fast/Slow pieces
Simplified encryption settings
Support langpack.zip with translations.
Don't download first/last piece of a file first. Can be re-enabled.
Added a black down image to the spyglass icon
Protect webui with a password
Include beta build # in http requests.
Show in the search box.
Open partfile in read only mode if read/write fails.
Read cache uses less CPU
Support paths >260 chars.
Icons in RSS Releases (thanks TVTAD)
RSS Not filtering matches full release name
RSS Reader supports more date formats
Adjusted some lazy bitfield parameters
Renamed to RSS Downloader
Allow deleting multiple history lines at the same time
Improvements to RSS parser
Pause button toggles
net.low_cpu defaults to false.
Reworked network code for faster speeds.
Add torrent dialog defaults to whatever folder entered in settings
Added some qualities to rss reader
Changed date format

Fixes:

Work better when large fonts are used.
Prevent windows from going above pixel 0.
Ratio on generals tab wasn't computed exactly like the main list.
Crash bug with columns
Better support for adjusted computer clock.
Don't behave incorrectly if 0-byte files are deleted by the user.
If the torrent storage path hasn't been created, create it.
Fix a crash related to language packs.
Superseeding works better
RSS feeds are utf8-decoded
Deleting from RSS history forgot about sorting
Disallow some more characters from filenames
Crash when deleting multiple items from RSS history
RSS parser parsed month bad for some timestamps.
Fixed crash in torrent creator
Ipfilter memory leak
Support mixes of name and name.utf8
Sorting reverse by name didn't work
Improved autoload so it waits a bit if the file hasn't fully been written to disk yet.
Stop ALL torrents when scheduler is active.
When moving a complete download, use the name entered in the add dialog instead of the default.