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Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-a-thing dept.

wintermute1974 writes "After sitting at a stable release of 3.4.2 since last spring, Bram Cohen's official BitTorrent client has been upgraded to version 4. In addition to its existing, rock-steady functionality, BitTorrent now sports a new queue-based UI. The revision details are on the BitTorrent site. Packets are now marked as bulk data too, which is significant considering that about a third of all Internet traffic is currently torrent data."

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  1. ABC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    has had a far better interface and featureset for years.

  2. Bulk data? by IntellectualCritic · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Packets are now marked as bulk data too

    Can somebody explain what that means?

    I'm assuming that's not like bulk mail over the internet. I'd hate to accidently download viagra when I just when a torrent file.

  3. Initial impressions... by Rexz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Installer doesn't give any indication it's installing until you get a "Finished!" box. No choosing paths, no status indicator, nuffin.

    Two donation nag screens.

    Steals .torrent file associations.

    No scraping the server for total seeder/peer numbers.

    No moving completed downloads. No advanced seeding rules. No selecting of individual within a torrent. No download speed capping.

    25mb memory usage running just one torrent.

    Nothing excites me about this client. I look forward to its apparent efficiency increases being incorporated into Azureus et al, though.