uTorrent 1.7 released

utorrent 1.7 is now out of beta and in final release (build 3341)

among other things it's had a fair few tweaks to the rss parsing etc.

see changelog here : h__p://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=26330

if only every piece of software was this easy to update

utorrent has been purchased by bittorrent, inc., who are connected with some
copyright-mobsters. maybe it's better to wait a while and watch. at least it
wouldn't be this unwise to keep the older version.

can't utorrent users find out on their own if there's an update? don't they
have some sort of auto update?

sorry, i'm not being sarcastic or anything.. just wanna double check if that
option is valid.

i have been using 1.7 for about a month now and yes it does auto update. it has
updated from the beta edition to the full edition with no prompts needed

they appear to represent the total transferred.

it's `news` that's 8 months old, and the paranoiacs still haven't come to
terms with it.

i wouldn't worry too much about

i've been using utorrent 1.7 since the beta phase began and there's nothing
suspicious or sinister going on with it.

oh yeah... kind of forgot..

someone asked for a utorrent search thingy.


eztv|http://www.eztvefnet.org/search.php?search=


it's fairly basic, but does the job.

i have noticed that these counters reset each time the program is started.

as for there removal, no joy as yet.

i got this message from one of the private trackers i'm a member of:

"it has been determined that utorrent 1.7 and upwards has a bug that reports
your stats incorrectly.

it has also been determined that it reports private info outside of the tracker.

we advise anyone using these versions to downgrade back to utorrent 1.6.1. you
can download it by clicking here . anybody using 1.7 or above does so at their
own risk and we will not be given any user support.

cheers"

doubt i'll be upgrading, but didn't really plan to anyway - if somethings broke,
why fix it, and all that

*sigh*

make sure you don't bother checking facts or anything before posting, ok ?
i'd hate to see people making informed decisions - that would be *terrible*.


so - snarking at gossip-monger's sloppiness aside ...

a) the incorrect stats reporting only occured on torrents larger than 4gb, and
was fixed with a point release within a few hours of the 1.7.0 version being
posted.

b) "it has also been determined that it reports private info outside of the
tracker."
it was "determined" by a retard that didn't realise that the ip address he
imagined was the fbi/mpaa/riaa/his_mom was, in fact, a local lan peer
discovery broadcast address.

c) err ... i assume you *meant* "if somethings not broke, why fix it".
in which case i point you to the changelog link in my first post in this
very thread.
all those pages and pages of bugfixes the poor guys went to the effort of
documenting - what a waste of time, because obviously nothing was
broken !

*sigh some more*