It felt like aeons but the developers of uTorrent have finally published the first beta version of version 3 of the popular Bittorrent client. The beta is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit version for the Windows operating system. The developers state that the 64-bit version “may be considerably buggier than the 32-bit release”, most users should therefor stick with the 32-bit version for now.
Utorrent 3 adds several interesting features to the torrent client, some of which have already been available for some time in alpha versions. Among the changes is a new portable mode to run the Bittorrent client without installation and the option to stream media torrents while they are being downloaded.
You can click on the Stream button under Playback in the torrent listing to stream the media contents while downloading. The uTorrent client displays the time it will take before the stream becomes available on your computer.
The service opens the stream in the default media player that is installed on the system. This can be changed in the program’s settings. Here it is possible to select another media player for streaming.
Another interesting new option is the ability to send Torrents. You can right-click a torrent in the program and select Send Torrent to do that.
This creates a web link on the uTorrent website where recipients can download the torrent to their system and torrent client. Even better, users without a torrent client installed have the option to download a bundled version of uTorrent which reduces lots of the explaining that you may need to do if you send a torrent link to a first time user.
The drop files to send feature builds up on that. You can use it to create a torrent file by dragging and dropping files to the uTorrent interface. This opens the same Send Torrent wizard. This simplifies the creation and sharing of torrents noticeably.
Additional new features include torrent ratings, a new encrypted web user interface that requires almost no configuration.
You can download the 32-bit and 64-bit release of uTorrent 3.0 beta from the official forums (32-bit here, 64-bit here). The new web gui, called uTorrent Remote is accessible here. You need an account to use that feature. The beta is only offered for the Windows operating system. (via)
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A really good development is that there will be a 64 bit edition available soon.
Do you know or there going (like vuze) to hog up the memory, with other words is the memory usages (much) bigger that the µTorrent 2 series (both 32 bit version and 64 bit version and is there a difference between memory usage between the 32 bit and 64 bit version)?
I do not really have a comparison. The 32-bit version of uTorrent uses about 15 Megabytes of memory while running with one torrent.
It’s really memory hogging than version 2. My uTorrent 2.2.1 running with 105 torrent and consume about 12MB of memory. It may consume more depend on number of active torrents and download/upload speed.