Our Download of the Day today is uTorrent 2.0.0 RC3.

Torrent is a small and incredibly popular BitTorrent client.

Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Resource-Friendly

µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 220 KB in size.

Skinnable and Localized

Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!

Actively Developed and Improved

The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they're ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.

The latest version includes the following changes:

Changes in Version 2.0.0 RC3

- Fix: Compelete pending Disk operations before automatically shutting down
- Fix: Don't exceed the upload limit with overhead when calc_overhead is on
- Fix: Point uT at correct help url.
- Change: Improve downloading/uploading performance with mixed-mode TCP and uTP
- Change: Improve torrent gray out by also graying out progress bar when stopped by scheduler
- Change: Disable net.calc_overhead by default
- Fix: Don't gray out force started torrents when scheduler has stopped other torrents
- Fix: Compatibility with old skins
- Change: Use different icon for disabled RSS feed
- Fix: Sharpen icon edges