Beta update: uTorrent 2.2 Griffin
Saturday, August 7th, 2010uTorrent’s beta branch (codenamed “Griffin”) introduces a very interesting and powerful feature called “Apps for uTorrent“. According to the developers, it is a web-based extensions framework designed in such a way that it will not affect uTorrent’s performance and lightweightness (is this a word?).
uTorrent “apps” ar basically HTML and Javascript code pieces, packaged in a “.btapp” container, similar to Apple Dashboard widgets. The apps can access uTorrent’s features via an API, but this is not mandatory; they can do completely unrelated tasks or access external programs.
Applications to try out are listed in the integrated “Apps” panel. Right now there aren’t too many available but, while some of them are a cleverly disguised way of generating revenue for uTorrent’s parent company (free MMO games? gimme gimme gimme!!!!1 not), others look pretty interesting:
- uMap (shows you a map pinpointing the peers you’re currently connected to)
- VirusGuard (integrated AV scanner powered by BitDefender)
- Torrent Twitter (a twiter-based commenting system for individual torrents, using hashtag for aggregation)
LE: There is a nice contest for app developers.
exe installer, 372KB, MD5 sum: B5E2F8F65D4A945E826A896F5023C3BB
Other stuff: Language pack
- Change: Move partner app uninstall to the installer thread
- Change: add support for label counts
- Fix: find pane is only default for fresh installs, not for upgrades
- Change: Promoted show-apps, show-find-pane, narrow-toolbar, category-spaces settings to options menu
- Fix: Fixed peer exchange exploit
- Change: Advanced option to disable display of Antivirus icon
- Fix: Install Node left behind when installing Virus Guard
- Fix: Shift-selecting user-defined labels would sometimes choose the wrong items
- Change: labels now sort when added
- Fix: separators could be selected on rclick, causing problems
- Fix: Fixed peer exchange exploit
- Fix: remembering last side bar selection across application restarts. if the selection is a dynamic node, select the parent.
- Change: remember which side bar items are expanded across application restarts
- Change: Advanced option to disable display of Antivirus icon




