For people who need good bt client

Version 1.7 (build 1703)

---- 2007-05-06: Version 1.7 (build 1703)
- Change: Prioritize seed queue based off seed/peer ratio (use_seed_peer_ratio)
- Change: Sort advanced settings by name
- Fix: Some ancient modal dialog bugs where nonmodal dialogs could get activated
- Fix: Bug where one addtorrent dialog could get activated when another was already active
- Fix: Don't repeatedly retry to start if another uTorrent window is discovered but hung
- Fix: uTorrent continues normal startup if another uTorrent instance is detected and exits; previously it would inform the user uTorrent was already running and exit
- Fix: incorrect DHT announce interval

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Version 1.7 (build 1875)

--- 2007-05-17: Version 1.7 (build 1875)
- Fix: Re-enabled automatic upload rate

--- 2007-05-17: Version 1.7 (build 1861)
- Fix: Fixed small port range bug
- Fix: Fixed hasherr counter bug

--- 2007-05-17: Version 1.7 (build 1825)
- Feature: option to auto update to betas
- Feature: reselect categories on start that were selected on the previous run of the program
- Change: Feed information is included in RSS history
- Change: rss.start_matches controls start behavior for RSS filter matches
- Change: Ability to show piece priority in pieces tab
- Change: Disconnect immediately from connected peers that are added to block lists
- Change: RSS filter queries will not match entries already in history
- Change: Feed column in RSS history
- Change: Formatting for torrent status strings
- Change: RSS title parsing
- Change: RSS filter by episode with just starting point
- Change: more even distribution of random listening port on startup
- Fix: Size of horizontal scrollbar in addtorrent dialog treeview
- Fix: Some rare scrollbar bugs in the addtorrent dialog treeview
- Fix: Header updating in the addtorrent dialog treeview
- Fix: Size of horizontal scrollbar in addtorrent dialog treeview when expanding items
- Fix: Display of bullets in bandwidth setting right-click menus on wine
- Fix: Handle HTTP errors without attached messages

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Version 1.7 (build 1952)

--- 2007-05-22: Version 1.7 (build 1952)
- Feature: Client ID parsing for Blizzard Downloader
- Feature: Now remembers which log settings you had on each run when changed from the logger context menu
- Change: display text strings instead of numbers for piece priority
- Change: reply with "invalid request" if the webui is queried on the wrong port
- Change: RSS filter by episode can specify ending season in addition to episode
- Change: bt.graceful_shutdown waits for all cleanup before exiting
- Fix: Font size of progress bars in the main listview is the same as the rest of the listview
- Fix: fix piece priority display bug (incorrect index)
- Fix: Copy Selected Hosts now copies multiple hosts with a carriage return and a newline rather then just a newline
- Fix: Crash when clicking in window with torrent and then moving mousewheel outside application
- Fix: Log when the UPNP fails on the timeout (20 minutes), and on each timeout retry 3 times as it does at application launch

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Version 1.7 (build 2132)

--- 2007-05-27: Version 1.7 (build 2132)
- Change: RSS title parsing
- Change: Detect external IP

--- 2007-05-22: Version 1.7 (build 1977)
- Change: use radio marks for Bandwidth Allocation menu items instead of check marks
- Fix: When installing to user profile directory uTorrent now tries to be smarter in choosing a localized program files directory name
- Fix: Work around a Wine bug where getsockname() returns success but keeps passed in port at 0 if socket already bound; thus uTorrent would itself reset back to port 0 if it was already in use
- Fix: Don't scroll general tab horizontally since it has no horizontal scrollbar

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Version 1.7 (build 2145)

--- 2007-05-27: Version 1.7 (build 2145)
- Change: Swap tvRSS in to the search engine list, because it's awesome
- Change: Minor gui tweak and text removal
- Fix: crash introduced in 2132

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Version 1.7 (build 2151)

--- 2007-05-27: Version 1.7 (build 2151)
- Change: Remove a hack that was put in for Wine's getsockname() in build 2132; it didn't work correctly
- Fix: multifile torrents and url-list (still unsupported, but log instead of crash)

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Version 1.7 (build 2228)

-- 2007-05-30: Version 1.7 (build 2228)
- Feature: allow > 65k pieces in the torrent creator (if piece size is >= 1mB)

--- 2007-05-30: Version 1.7 (build 2224)
- Feature: support > 65535 pieces (now 4294967295 is max)
- Change: don't turn off "check association on startup" if the user says no to the dialog (use the settings to turn it off)
- Change: Display an error dialog if the user types in an invalid path on a single file torrent for the "..." button
- Change: case insensitive hosts in flags.conf
- Change: RSS title parsing
- Change: Implement home, end, pageup, and pagedown selection with shift or control keys in the addtorrent dialog treeview
- Change: Some changes to make up, down, home, end, pageup, and pagedown keys in the addtorrent dialog treeview behave more like the old listview
- Fix: fix duplication connection race condition
- Fix: in filenames, replace trailing spaces with underscores (since Windows does not allow it)
- Fix: repair settings files with duplicate entries (and log about it)
- Fix: rss.start_matches broken with certain settings
- Fix: Dump memory info crash on Vista
- Fix: Would end up not rate limiting local peers if already connected before discovery and they were not on the local subnet

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Version 1.7 (build 2248)

--- 2007-05-31: Version 1.7 (build 2248)
- Change: uTorrent now no longer forks on uninstallation so it should correctly be removed from add/remove programs on windows 95 varieties
- Change: include all adapters in subnet search for local peers
- Change: consider peers in reserved local ranges as local peers
- Change: don't limit local peers by default
- Change: sort RSS release qualities
- Fix: download rate limiting bug
- Fix: fix a bug with force recheck from 2224

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Version 1.7 (build 2448)

--- 2007-06-05: Version 1.7 (build 2448)
- Change: Move UPnP logging to "error" and "verbose", depending
- Fix: DHT bootstrapping in many cases
- Fix: UPnP mapping when local IP changes
- Fix: spurious settings file integrity failure messages

--- 2007-06-05: Version 1.7 (build 2407)
- Fix: update local peer limiting when settings change
- Fix: settings.dat could erroneously to be found corrupted when switching from 1.7 to 1.6.1 and back
- Fix: restore missing upload rate for local peers
- Fix: Make crash dialog and dumping work again in Windows 95 varieties
- Fix: Reset completed on date if new files are unskipped and completed

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Version 1.7 (build 2517)

--- 2007-06-07: Version 1.7 (build 2517)
- Change: Default to delete files to trash
- Change: Language file errors go to log instead of popup
- Change: Make autoupdater a bit smarter with its failure messages

--- 2007-06-07: Version 1.7 (build 2481)
- Fix: fix a case where local peers would be rate limited regardless of the option

--- 2007-06-07: Version 1.7 (build 2475)
- Change: Move NAT-PMP logging to "error" and "verbose", depending
- Fix: fix a rare crash bug on settings change (like popup speed menus)

--- 2007-06-06: Version 1.7 (build 2465)
- Change: There is a new command line option, "/NOINSTALL", which will bypass the installation dialog in most instances. Installer authors should always pass this argument on the first run of the program.

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Version 1.7 (build 2539)

--- 2007-06-07: Version 1.7 (build 2539)
- Fix: Switch focus to the tab control when the user changes a tab and focus was in a previous tab
- Change: display local peer bandwidth in the totals (like the statusbar)

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Version 1.7 (build 2740)

-- 2007-06-18: Version 1.7 (build 2740)
- Fix: Escape-style handling on the exit confirmation and a create torrent dialog

--- 2007-06-18: Version 1.7 (build 2733)
- Feature: Now requires or asks for elevation on Vista if needed. Currently this includes installation, uninstallation, autoupdate, and if settings files are in the same directory.
- Feature: Several of the messageboxes now can be turned off from the messagebox itself, and some have radio buttons instead of yes/no/cancel etc.
- Feature: Several of the messageboxes are now taskdialogs on Vista; a couple use commandlinks instead of yes/no/cancel etc.
- Feature: uTorrent now has a 256x256 compressed png icon for Vista
- Feature: The top toolbar in the main window is now a rebar and will collapse the left portion as the window size decreases
- Change: (technical) When launching uTorrent from another process, it should obey the showwindow flags passed through the STARTUPINFO
- Change: bt.auto_ul_min no longer specifies smallest speed sample, but the lowest auto rate
- Change: The search icon is now to the right of the searchbox
- Change: detect Wine only for TCP socket repair
- Fix: Refresh issues with listviews on pre-XP systems
- Fix: The rest of the webui preferences page is grayed out when it is disabled
- Fix: Off by one error in the speed tab graph

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Version 1.7 (build 2922)

--- 2007-06-25: Version 1.7 (build 2922)
- Fix: crash bug with allow_same_ip

--- 2007-06-25: Version 1.7 (build 2899)
- Change: Tracker list rotates in UI with rate defined by gui.update_rate
- Fix: Search button is now hidden again if there are no search engines set in the options
- Fix: Toolbar is now hides properly again if the option is unchecked
- Fix: Crashes when minimized to tray and trying to close
- Fix: Low color icon no longer displays when not running in 32-bit color, instead 256 color icon is used always
- Fix: uTorrent now always runs as the launching user, even after it does UAC work, so opening .torrent files from explorer will now work correctly
- Fix: Memory leak in files tab

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Version 1.7 (build 2951)

--- 2007-06-26: Version 1.7 (build 2951)
- Change: improvements to auto uplink management on very high bandwidth connections
- Change: bt.auto_ul_max has been removed
- Change: For messages boxes with checkboxes on pre-vista systems add the checkbox to the tab order and reduce the size between the checkbox and bottom buttons a bit

--- 2007-06-26: Version 1.7 (build 2936)
- Fix: Always consider drives formatted with the FAT and FAT32 file systems writable/accessible
- Fix: crash bug with Files tab

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Version 1.7 (build 2991) Release Candidate 1

--- 2007-06-28: Version 1.7 (build 2991)
- Change: Icon is tweaked to look better on black backgrounds and to be less grainy
- Change: Popup menu from toolbar when collapsed is now native with icons and text, and has a border

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Version 1.7 (build 2999) Release Candidate 2

--- 2007-06-29: Version 1.7 (build 2999)
- Change: I18N a couple more strings
- Change: Consider all filesystem which don't supports ACL writable (which "fixes" an access issue with Wine)
- Change: More aggressive wine detection
- Fix: Windows 95 compatability due to a missing export

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Version 1.7 (build 3170) Release Candidate 4

--- 2007-07-05: Version 1.7 (build 3170) RC4
- 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)

--- 2007-07-04: Version 1.7 (build 3148) RC3
- Change: Only report downloaded, verified good pieces in tracker announce
- Change: Fix seeding queue behaviour when prio_no_seeds was enabled
- Change: Show the local bandwidth in the status bar and in the speed graph (the latter in purple and blue)
- Change: Always show total bandwidth in status bar, even when option to show bandwidth limit in status bar is enabled
- Change: Add a limit local peers option to the bittorrent options in the preferences window
- Fix: Some rare case memory leaks
- FiX: Rebar chevron dropdown menu with some custom toolbar skins (previously it would sometimes have a black background on each icon)
- Fix: Correct disabling of other controls when automatic uplink throttling is checked
- Fix: Enable escape key to work right after the apply button is pressed in the preferences dialog

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Version 1.7 (build 3265) Release Candidate 5

--- 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")

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Version 1.7 (build 3295) Release Candidate 6

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

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