Innerhalb weniger Tage und wenigen Release Candidates ist die finale Version des speichersparenden BitTorrent-Clients nun zum Download verfügbar. uTorrent 1.7.1 bringt einige Verbesserungen mit, unter anderem die Unterstützung für Announcements von Downloads mit einer Größe von mehr als 4GB und das schnellere Löschen beendeter Torrents.

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µTorrent 1.7.1 Changelog

Auszug aus dem Changelog von µTorrent 1.7.1

— 2007-07-13: Version 1.7.1 (build 3360)
- Fix: Invalid download amounts being reported to trackers for >4GB torrents

— 2007-07-13: Version 1.7 (build 3351)
- Fix: Determination of which peers are local on Windows 98 (and possibly other 95 varieties)

— 2007-07-12: Version 1.7 (build 3341)
- Change: use cached scrape stats if scrapes fail (up to 24 hours)
- Change: “When µTorrent has reached the seeding goal” -> “When µTorrent Reaches Seeding Goal” in Queue preferences to make capitalization consistant
- Change: Implement auto-resizing when header a divider in the addtorrent dialog treeview is double-clicked
- Change: Rework accelerator keys of toplevel menus in the download list right-click menu so that there are no duplicate accelerator keys
- Change: Use 48×48 icon
- Fix: crashes with addtorrent dialog treeview with torrents with a very large number of files in the same folder (100+)

— 2007-07-10: Version 1.7 (build 3295)
- Change: Use 1.6 uTorrent icon
- Fix: remove unused BT strings

— 2007-07-07: Version 1.7 (build 3265)
- Change: Condense transfer speed text in status bar so it fits more easily
- Fix: In the add torrent dialog, don’t put files in a folder that only partially matches it’s parent (i.e. “TD 1″ should not go in “TD 10″)

— 2007-07-05: Version 1.7 (build 3170)
- Change: Tweaks to XML parser
- Change: HTTP client now tries to acquire more data per request
- Change: improved statusbar text for local bandwidth
- Change: speed up delete .torrent and/or data a bit (parallelize tracker and disk ops)