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µTorrent is an efficient and feature-rich BitTorrent client for Windows with a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible, while offering all the functionality expected by advanced clients.

With BitTorrent you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth.

Characteristics

• Multiple simultaneous downloads
• Configurable bandwidth scheduler
• Global and per-torrent rate limiting
• Quick pick up interrupted transmission
• RSS Downloader
• Trackless support (Mainline DHT)

Overview:

uTP is an alternative communication method for BitTorrent traffic that allows the client to automatically regulate bandwidth usage to avoid negatively impacting your internet connection. This will allow you or other users on the network to download their torrents, but still allow others on the network to function with little difference. This requires no additional setup.

In addition, in this version uTP has added its own form of STUN, a method of getting incoming connections without a direct connection to the Internet. This allows µTorrent to break through routers and firewalls to increase connectivity and improve speeds. It is even possible to connect two firewalled peers through uTP’s NAT traversal feature.

UDP trackers are another protocol for trace communication that use significantly less processing power on the trace end. It’s important for us to support this because trackers have limited resources, so this should allow them to support many more users with their current hardware and not crash under the load.

The transfer cap settings were added in response to various users having ISP-mandated caps on how much data they can download/upload in a month. Now you can track your usage in MB (with a handy graph to visualize it) and even configure µTorrent to stop torrenting when the limits are exceeded. Currently you can configure the time interval, data limit and whether to stop based on download only, upload or both.

What is new

• Released chromium edge embedded webview support
• Includes improvements to improve torrent swarm health
• Make more peers and seeds available to more BitTorrent users
• Android version updated to 7.4.2

Previous release notes:

3.5 is the first version to include a major change in the way uTorrent selects peers in a swarm. Designed by our own Arvid Norberg, Canonical Peer Priority is a way to help peers connect to the swarm faster, as well as reduce the average hop length from you to any other peer in the swarm.

When a bittorrent client joins a swarm, it needs a way to choose which peers it connects to. If it chooses poorly, or if there are malicious actors in the swarm, the connections between the clients are not well distributed throughout the swarm, leading to a large number of hops from node to node. It slows down the ability of each client to pass data on to the next.

You can read a more detailed technical discussion of the issues here, along with graphs and figures that drive home how bad the worst case can be. You can read more about graph connectivity here.

One of the biggest changes may be one you can’t see. Our engineering team has grown rapidly, and we’ve been busy changing our development and release processes. uTorrent 3.4 will mark the first release using improved processes that should allow us to release much more frequently, while maintaining the levels of stability you’ve come to expect from the world’s fastest and lightest torrent client.

Our previous release cycle was slow. We followed the traditional alpha -> beta -> stable model that a lot of software development follows, such as major video games or operating systems. One of the problems with this style of development is that stabilization work continues on the features you just developed, new features are requested, or requirements change, and now you have to balance two lines of development in the same tree.

Also, with multiple developers, multiple changes can be made simultaneously…in theory. In reality, changes to unrelated modules (eg the installer) will affect when we can ship new code in other areas (eg the disk code), and of course vice versa. This creates a vicious circle, where each small problem creates an effect that affects other functions.

In a situation like this, instead of asking the business to “pick one thing and stick with it,” the right response is for the engineering team to change how they operate.

• On a small scale, pick one thing and stick to it.
• On a larger scale Multiplex the work in separate branches. We needed a way to release changes quickly and reliably. This meant a number of things:
• Do not mix changes
• Release fast, review results fast This required us to build a few systems. Some of the bigger ones:
• Our release system (codenamed “Cherry”)
• Or Automatic Update System (codenamed “The Automatic Update System”) It also required programming policies in the smaller parts of the system that already existed
• The build server
• The version control system
• New test servers

These systems, working together, can now answer the question: Is this feature ready for release? Is implementing this feature likely to increase or decrease the crash rate?

We now build individual features in separate branches, which are automatically tested for stability before being integrated into the mainline. It gives us confidence that we won’t slow down other engineers, and that we won’t release a low-quality build to customers.

This effort would not have been possible without the support of the excellent engineering team at Bittorrent.

Download notes: Alternatively, you can download the latest beta version of this software.