Despite the paranoid delusions of people who think that uTorrent is now a tool of the MPAA, it remains one of the most popular bittorrent clients for Windows (and soon Mac).

v1.7 was just released, boasting some new features and improvements, including a bug which limited downloads on large torrents. A full changelog is here, broken down by build.

Until RC6, the new uTorrent sported a Vista-compatible icon, but which was taken out because people are great big whiners, apparently, and didn’t like the extra 30Kb of extra executable size. Also, apparently, they couldn’t figure out how to make an icon which included versions for all operating systems.

Maybe next time.

Grab the new executable (218K) here. If history is any indication, an installer will be available once the initial rush for updates has died down.

μTorrent 1.7 had a severe bug that caused incorrect data to be reported to trackers. Please upgrade to 1.7.2