Utorrent includes most of the features present in other BitTorrent client, like bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT. uTorrent also supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification and peer exchange.
UTorrent has been programmed with efficiency in mind. utorrent does not hog valuable system resources unlike many torrent clients.
Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. uTorrent also has support for localization.
Changes in this version:
- 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 overlapping others in the connection section of preferences
- Fix: work around NOD32 IMON bug (HTTP 400)