New uTorrent Alpha Build Available for Download

 Fixes issue with establishing outgoing connections

The alpha version for uTorrent 3.3 received a new update recently, which does not introduce any new features, but instead it attends to some performance problems.

The list of changes is pretty short, as it contains only three entries, but among the bugs the development team had to deal with for this update, there was a serious one that prevented the application from making outgoing connections under certain circumstances.

Another fix included in this revision addresses a problem related to magnet links, which would not have a correct added-on date. Last on the modification list is changing the way connections with packet loss are dropped: uTP BitTorrent protocol now uses a retransmit counter rather than a timer.

The highlights for this alpha release boast a completely rewritten disk I/O system that is multi-threaded and, as such, should perform much better.

uTorrent is available for download from this page.