µTorrent Mac 0.9.2 alpha

[Firon]

New alpha for µTorrent Mac! We've added support for UDP trackers in this release.

Note on platform support: With this release we are excited to finally support machines with PPC architectures. At the same time we have made the decision not to invest in making µTorrent compatible with 10.4 (Tiger). We know that this will be disappointing to some users, but we feel this is the best balance to strike between legacy platform support and accelerating the development of a Mac client as advanced as our Windows version.

http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/mac

-- 2009-09-09: Version 0.9.2 (build 16415)

Fix: race crash in low level network read and write

Fix: Fix startup race condition between network and disk I/O thread

Fix: UDP Tracker retries three times instead of two

Fix: http seed fix for multifile torrents

Fix: Fixed negative allocation in RequestChunks() for web seeds

Fix: crash in UDP tracker support when tracker sends malformed responses

-- 2009-08-05: Version 0.9.2 (build 16049)

Feature: Support for PPC.

Feature: UDP tracker support

Feature: uTP supports window sizes smaller than the packet size

Change: Added upnp host cache to speed up upnp nat resolution on CERTAIN routers

Change: Reduced uTP overhead slightly by ramping up packet sizes at lower rates

Fix: Integrity check .dat files after saving. Do not overwrite file.dat.old with a bad file.dat

Fix: uTP selective ack bug (would cause connections to stall and time out)

Fix: uTP fast re-send bug (would sometimes re-send packets that shouldn't be re-sent)

Fix: uTP recovers faster after timeout

Fix: http seeds would not reconnect after stopping and starting torrent

Fix: http seed for multifile torrents

Fix: uTP issue on low-latency high-throughput networks

Fix: Copying long filenames to clipboard no longer results in garbage or crash

Fix: Fixed web seed support for multi-file torrents

Fix: Handle multi file torrents with web seed urls that incorrectly don't end with a slash

Fix: Make sure web seed urls end with a slash for multifile torrents

Fix: uTP packet size fix. Sometimes it would send packets exceeding MTU. Fixes long standing rate oscillations.

Fix: Fixed crash when receiving a malformed PEX message

Fix: Crash when parsing some magnet uri components without values

Fix: DHT bootstrap failures now have an exponential back-off

Fix: uTP would not ramp up its rate fast enough

Fix: Invalid encoding of non-ascii urls in web seeds

Fix: uTP fix when receiving acks for old packets

Fix: uTP variable packet size bug

[SomeHelp]

Let's try this out on my Mac OS X 10.6

[Firon]

Should work pretty well on 10.6, really.

[maldoror]

thanks a lot.

any guess as to how long it might be before a release with support for creating torrents?

[NoOneButMe]

This isn't the feature requests section, and uT has a policy of not giving ETA's.

[maldoror]

policies schmolicies. this is the announcements section in which i made no request, but only announced my desire to know the answer of a question.

[SomeHelp]

I was downloading a torrent on uT for mac 0.9.1.2. I stopped the torrent, installed the 0.9.2 alpha and started uTorrent. The torrent that was half-done was giving me a HTTP Error 404 in the tracker status, but another torrent from the same tracker that was completely done was scraping/seeding fine.

Also, I tried refetching that torrent and re-checking, but still the HTTP Error 404 showed up.

I am on a Macbook with Mac OS X 10.6 and 4GB RAM.

[ezmac1964]

when a new version, this is quite oldie

[Ultima]

Never thought 3 days could be "quite old."

[Xx-Ness-xX]

Hello Dear uTorrent developers,

In this alpha version I think the ETA of torrent is a little off. I was downloading a 1.2GB size file with 60kb/s and the ETA showed 5 days.

Well that's it for now!

Keep up the good work

[DreadWingKnight]

And how long were you watching the ETA?

How long after it got up to speed did you check the ETA?

[utorrentposter]

Before I upgrade, were categories or labeling among the features added? I can deal with creating torrents elsewhere, but it's nearly impossible to handle the lack of categories/labeling. I often want to look at torrents I'm seeding for just one tracker. That's pretty tough without categories.

[BN]

No labels yet. May not work for you, but you can sort by the tracker column.

[utorrentposter]

That's better than nothing. Thanks. But I still have to wait until 0.9.2 is whitelisted by the private trackers, which will take a while.

[NoOneButMe]

There's absolutely *nothing* we can do about that..

[utorrentposter]

Yeah there is. Release version 1.0. Private trackers don't whitelist alpha builds. The majority don't whitelist beta builds.

[NoOneButMe]

Why would it get released before its ready? This build is marked "alpha" for a reason. And that reason isn't to piss you off.

[SomeHelp]

Were you guys able to reproduce the two bugs stated above in this thread?

[antikorr]

I'm very glad to know that development of uTorrent Mac is in progress. Thank you for the update! Thumbs up!

[blusprite]

I'm getting an error "Corrupt torrent, please delete" with one certain torrent. I deleted and downloaded it again - same thing. With 0.9.1.2 there's no problem with the same torrent.

[anonymous]

Version 0.9.2 alpha, the current beta version and likely all previous versions of uTorrent Mac are unable to save most prefs properly. This includes, but is not limited to, the outbound port, UPNP/NAT-PMP and the download folder settings. See this thread for more details: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=59344

[NoOneButMe]

@blusprite: Can you upload the torrent somewhere so that the devs can download it to test?

@anonymous: If the thread exists, there's no point in making a post here to say so. Your post over there is enough to get attention. Try to keep the noise to a minimum please.

[blusprite]

Here it is:

http://bluesprite.my.contact.bg/files/sample.zip

[Eligos]

Version 0.9.2 alpha, the current beta version and likely all previous versions of uTorrent Mac are unable to save most prefs properly. This includes, but is not limited to, the outbound port, UPNP/NAT-PMP and the download folder settings. See this thread for more details: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=59344

Agreed!

[geekyone]

Why would it get released before its ready? This build is marked "alpha" for a reason. And that reason isn't to piss you off.

Why would it get released before it's ready? Because that's what most app's dev departments do. Despite being in beta uTorrent is already superior than many other clients for the mac, some not even in beta. It still has some bugs, but it is fully usable.

Only added bug I have noticed so far in this alpha is that now it's harder to get uTorrent to stick to the speed limit. Seems to actually be about 5k above what I set.