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Hmm just saw this on the main page of Revtt .
NEWS FLASH - Over 4,000 Banned in 10 days Beware!!
Due to a remotely exploitable crash bug found in previous versions of µtorrent (including early 1.8 alpha), we're asking all members using this client to update to version 1.7.6.
Get 1.7.6 stable here
The alpha 1.8 build 7928 can be found here
Previous versions will no longer work with the tracker. This goes into effect immediately.
Thank you for understanding.
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Peat moss: I love ur siggy :p
The best part over 1.6.1 with 1.7.x is the fact you can edit the individual upload and download limits for each torrent with right click, so you can select a whole lot of them and put them to a lower limit when you want a certain torrent to seed heavier.
They banned all those people beacause they had open signups a few days ago. Those were dupe or foney accounts. It has nothing to do with these (much talked about) versions of utorrent.Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss
Yep, it proves my favourite one liner, people are stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forumas
When you have a large group of people, they cease to function as individuals capable of independant thought. Accepting that 1.6.1 is bad because some other sheeple said so just makes you another sheep.
All those sites that banned it should put up or stop bleating.
1.76 is not as good as the older versions, it takes really long to connect to the peers and it seems that there is a max num of peers you can connect to - that I think is hard coded internally. The options in utorrent dont seems to rectify that
I was away for a few days and missed the whole exploit brouhaha...just checked my 1.6.1 and the revtt torrents are seeding fine. Did they unban it or do they still expect users to upgrade?
great , now what.cd and waffles.fm has unbanned ut 1.6.1 :)
We've seen this before versions get banned and as time goes by staff test them and so on and different versions become allowed again.
FatBob: you might want to add this to the original post for those sites who wont unban unless uT says it's ok.
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic....300606#p300606
50% of people reading the changelog will be getting a copy of the old one. The new one is there though, and has removed mention of 1.6.x
done rvt !
really appreciate all your hard work :)
thread updated
for those looking for a link to the uttorent 1.6 i have uploaded it to rapidshare i had it in a registry cd that i had put away so here is the link you all.
http://rapidshare.com/files/85656043...stall.rar.html
Had to dash out this morning, but here's the link for the new changelog.
http://72.20.34.146/1.7.6/utorrent-1.7.6.txt
You can verify that the IP is utorrents by typing this in a console window:
One of the two addresses sent back will be the IP above.Code:nslookup download.utorrent.com
revttQuote:
utorrent 1.6.1 will no longer be banned. It is official.
:)
I have to ask. How can people say 1.6.1 is so great, when in that change log there is heaps of changes in subsequent 1.7.xx versions, meaning those bugs were present in 1.6.1. Unless i am wrong to assume 1.7 was just a carry on from 1.6, with some BT inc coding.
A lot of the fixes in 1.7.0 1065 were for minor issues, such as logging and display issues.
If we eliminate all logging and UI fixes, we're left with:
1) auto shutdown may be held up, it's not a show stopper.Quote:
1) - Fix: Stopped/paused torrents no longer hold up auto shutdown
2) - Fix: Various minor issues with HTTP client implementation (error handling, parsing)
3) - Fix: Incoming HTTP connections could sometimes go dead (event dispatch problem)
4) - Fix: Some internal size calculations weren't 64-bit clean
5) - Fix: Correct WinSock version detection - it should fail now if it detects the wrong version
6) - Fix: Correct acquisition of special operating system paths (such as the windows directory) on Windows 95 family
7) - Fix: Fix shortcut creation for Windows 95 family
8) - Fix: Fix diskspace information on Windows 95 family
9) - Fix: Shutdown on finish option will now shutdown the machine, even if it is locked
10) - Fix: Fix file association if uTorrent is installed after BitTorrent mainline client
11) - Fix: 307 redirection HTTP code is now handled, instead of an error (i.e. jamendo.com)
12) - Fix: Association check for limited users
2) possibly affects announce/scrape, but could be just related to searches. Either way, it's listed as minor.
3) Incoming HTTP connections should only happen on the web ui. Presumably a refresh would work.
4) Would cause the calculated size to be wrong. Not sure where this would have an effect.
5) If winsock version is important, it should fail when you try to do something anyway. This can just warn you ahead of time.
6) Who still uses 95?
7) see 6
8) see 6
9) Not sure what would cause a machine to be "locked" but is it a good idea to shut down if it is?
10) Easy enough to fix as a user anyway.
11) Quick testing shows a 307 redirect is not in place on either their scrape or announce URLs. There may be certain torrents affected by this, but there is not really any place for 307 in a tracker. 307 tells the client to switch to POST instead of GET, yet the BT spec shows all passed variables in GET format. Possible affects RSS or searches from there though.
12) Again, it's easy to fix associations as a user. This is more of a UI bug.
Everything fixed in subsequent versions cannot be automatically attributed to 1.6.1. In build 1088, the fix for bandwidth allocation selection may be to repair something broken in build 1065.
because of paranoia,they think that after 161 all version of utorrent have some *spy program* in new utorrent that send your ip to MPAA or RIAA lol..:shutup::shutup:Quote:
Originally Posted by pandabear
but after so many testing from many and i mean many privates trackers there wasnt found any proof of that..
so that is why some members bitching all the time to be allowed 161 on some trackers,but they should know no matter what cliend they(we all use) u are not safe..
:dabs:
It's not just paranoia about spyware. Witness how every single build in the 1.7.x branch is remotely crashable. Because the crash is caused by an overflow, it may even be exploitable to run code.
This was discovered after 10 months, despite all the testing. How long till other stuff is discovered?
1.7.6 has also not been tested as much as claimed. 1.7.6 was released 8 days ago, so it has at most 8 days of testing behind it.
1.6.1 was released nearly a year ago, so it has a years worth of testing behind it.
Anyway, there are not a lot of sites that actually conduct their own testing. Every single one of the sites that had to post a correction about 1.6.1 followed someone elses testing. There are a few people on a few sites who actually conduct any of their own testing. Would you trust any of the sites who could not even confirm that 1.6.x was not affected to tell you what is safe and what isn't? If you do, I know a nigerian banker who can get you some free money.
There are also a whole range of problems that affect various people when they try to run any 1.7.x version. Problems that do not exist in 1.6.1. It is simply not possible for everyone to run the latest version.
any news about downgrading 1.7.6 to 1.6.1 on SCT ?
Yes uTorrent 1.7.6 continues to do crash dump errors on me and barely connect to trackers now unlike uTorrent 1.6.1.Quote:
Originally Posted by rvt
Have noticed lately my download speed has decreased while the upload has doubled ? Have had trouble this week with my ISP modem too so mabye thats the problem not Utorrent 1.7 upgrade .
It sure makes me curious tho as I seem to have everything set up right from firewall to torrent settings . I'd like to go back and reinstall 1.6 to test after my movies finish d/l ,IPT still allows it .
Your problems sound alot like mines peat. I'm having all types of listening port errors, crash dumps, and downloading problems. My upload has seemed to increase as well when ut 1.7.6 is working.:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss