AdamK

Hi Everyone, We are planning a surprise for those of you who would like to change the icons in their client! In the meantime, Firon will be contacting skin creators to update them on the changes we're making, and invite them to update their skins.

schnurlos: That button is now __wider__

Re: Wrong sort in main window (ok just after click on a label, ko after a few seconds). That will be fixed in the next release. Thanks for the feedback!

@rlmicrosa I support the "Firon enabled" extension - I think you should write up a BEP for that.

@420: If you don't need the features being tested in 2.1, stick with the 2.0 beta series. 2.1 is 2.0 plus other features.

Hi all - a word about the auto restart feature (Change: Added auto restart feature for use in minimized mode.): Here's how this works: Note: This feature is only available in stable releases. (It is not compiled into betas or alphas) If you have uTorrent minimized, and you haven't been active at the computer in the past minute, uT will automatically restart if it crashes. uT will not restart this way more than once an hour. If it crashes again within an hour, it will stay dead - another restart won't be rescheduled. No crashdumps are sent, but a notification of the crash is sent. The idea is that you may depend on having uT running, but if you are away from the computer, you can't do anything about it. However, if the user is present, we use the old behaviour and display the crash dialog. You can disable this feature by changing gui.auto_restart to false

@g-man: Which build number were you using?

@twipley: Fixed, thanks.

@rafi: Regarding the DNA features in 2.1: - The exact functionality and interaction with uT The user can now start "DNA" downloads by entering a url into their browser, or clicking on a link of the form: http://127.0.0.1:10000/proxy?url=http://borft.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/torrents/OOo_2.1.0_Win32Intel_install_ga.exe Sort of like the Coral CDN: http://www.coralcdn.org/ The idea is: uT will contact the Bittorrent offices, we will generate a torrent for you, send it to the client, and setup the seed correctly. - the possible user-control over it (enabled/disable) You have lots of options. In Preferences, you can turn it off, or limit the amount of DNA data transferred. Alternatively, you can just not click on DNA-type links. - the estimated overhead caused by it (CPU, bandwidth, RAM) None, really. It's just a regular torrent - oh, except those torrents only contain one file. The main advantage is that people who want to share a piece of content that is already on the web don't need to go to the trouble of creating a torrent and setting up a tracker. I think we also provide statistics reporting on your "DNA" torrents, too. Everyone in the office, from Bram and the CEO, down to the marketing dept. (OK, there's only one person in that dept.), to the programmers, agrees that we are not going to use any client bandwidth unless you the user decide to participate in that swarm. A use case for this type of thing is, movie trailers - It's a piece of commercial content, but only those interested in seeing the clip participate in the swarm, sharing a bit of their upload bandwidth in return for increased download speeds, just like regular torrents. - any known security/privacy issues Yes - when you load a DNA torrent into your client, your client connects to a tracker that we run here at BitTorrent. This is the same as any other torrent you download - if you activate the torrent, you connect to one of the trackers in the list. All DNA torrents are clearly marked, and in fact, we went to quite a bit of trouble to not even show the DNA category if you don't have any DNA torrents active, so it won't be annoying. Thanks for your question.

@Arash70 could you give some more details? Did you press "Save & Close" ?

UL/DL tests are 10 secs each

yusky03: The issue with hanging at "Connecting ..." is a known issue - I'm working with the maintainer of the NDT servers to resolve this issue. The NDT test and speedtest.net tests use different servers, so it's not uncommon to see some difference. Your difference is a bit larger than mine, though - I'd like to get more comparisons to speedtest.net once the NDT servers are happy again. Thank you.

Hi Jivan: What OS are you using? How many torrents do you have loaded? How do you stop the torrent when you try to recheck? Did you move the downloaded file? The "IO Error" lines don't have anything to do with the diagnostic thread - they're just right after in the log. The lines starting "IO Error:1168" mean that a file is missing from disk. The next line shows which file. This could point to a failing or full disk - you might want to run some disk checker software. Setup guide port forward test - Here's what this test does: 1. Test to see if your connect port in the preferences is reachable from the outside 2. If that fails, try to auto-configure your router using NAT-PMP / UPnP. Those options have to be selected in Preferences / Connection Also, it looks like your settings.dat file may be corrupt. Make a copy, then delete it.

Rafi: 1: I'll ask Firon to take a look at the presets. 2: "Incorrect Function": I'm looking into this. 3: Recommendation logic: Yes, it's still using the old algorithm. Expect the new algorithm in the next refresh 4: I'm going to change how this works. 5: Test results: I'm going to only add this menu item after a successful test result 6: I'll check that crash dump Virtual_ManPL: It's on the list. It has not been scheduled yet. lamsoft: I can't see your screenshot Honeyfrog: Is the situation the same with previous 2.0 betas? Can you try one or two versions back? andrebrait: It does - you can still select different settings after the test. Better dialog wording coming. Thanks All

emc: Fixed in 16665

rafi: I like putting something like "Your upload speed"; that would apply well in the autodetect case as well as if you set it yourself. I'll see about doing this. As for centering the results of the speed test - that's how I had it at first waaay back when. The visual guys want it left-aligned. The kB/s kbits/s is going in for sure. I want to cut down on user confusion. Also, if you're really concerned about what data utorrent is sending/receiving, just keep a wireshark log. You'll see that it is: - Very tiny - Very boring

Hi Everyone, A heads up regarding the setup guide: We are going to add the ability to manually choose your settings, and make other changes to improve the user-friendliness and power. However, the next 2.0 release will be focused on stability, so you won't see those changes in the very next version.

Hi All, A couple tips about attaching files: If there is only one file, please don't archive it - the web servers will handle the compression. Also, regarding Rapidshare: I need my eyes to be able to program. So please avoid that one if you can. Thanks.

Hi Everyone, Thanks for all the feedback. Switeck: Good eye. Yes, that is expected. The new feature that looks for hang problems uses an API (IsHungAppWindow) that only exists on win2k and later. (we are seeing some problems on Vista). I'll change that to be more informative. guijarrelson: Thanks; looking into this. unforgiven_sh: You should see consistent numbers on the same server; however, the numbers vary widely from server to server. We'll be working with Mlabs to get more servers online, and to make it easier to choose the server that will give you the most accurate results.

fatspirit: If that happens to you again in this version, please try the "Close" button.