BolehVPN News/Status/Fun

Our ordering site is back up. However the security certificate has expired and we’re in the process of renewing it. The slight delay is due to them requiring us to verify certain company details with the certification body which involves the provision of documents. However it is safe to still order through the site despite the certificate error until we renew it. Just confirm the security exception for now and ordering should be still processed as per normal.

Currently users are reporting that despite the apparent ‘fix’ on the Utorrent Beta for the freezing on the Socks proxy, the program still freezes after a while. We have reported this to uTorrent developers for their feedback on this. For now, the recommended version for uTorrent is 2.04.

UPDATE: SSL certificate has been renewed and a TrustLogo installed to ensure your security!

The issues that some people were facing with uTorrent and our PublicTracker/PrivateTracker configurations which caused uTorrent to freeze has been traced down to a bug in the uTorrent code which we believe to have been fixed in the latest Beta release.

We haven’t had the opportunity to test this out yet so appreciate customer feedback on this!

You can download the latest beta here.

Changelog:

– 2011-01-19: Version 2.2.1 beta (build 24217)
- Fix: fixed gui.graph_overhead
- Change: limit cache size to 2000 MB (for 32 bit builds)
- Fix: attempt at fixing disappearing systray icon
- Fix: Copy and paste in File list view fixed. (ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-V)
- Fix: don’t attempt to open a file if it doesn’t exist (caused association dialog to appear)
- Change: only apply the port > 1023 for outgoing connection restriction for peers only hear about through the DHT
- Fix: back-ported proper support for disabling udp trackers from 3.0
- Fix: fix bug in UDP socks5 support which would cause infinite loops
- Fix: Use system call to open containing folder instead of launching explorer.exe (when available)
- Fix: Don’t connect to ports < 1024 when no-connect-to-services is enabled (which it is by default)
- Fix: privacy checkbox in general settings would have multiline text
- Change: add port 80 and 443 to the default port block list

Several of our customers using the PrivateTracker/PublicTracker function have been experiencing issues with uTorrent 2.2 where the torrent client freezes and there’s high CPU usage when being used in conjunction with certain socks 5 servers.

The uTorrent developers have identified the problem and will be releasing a bug fix in their next build of uTorrent 2.2.1. This is NOT available yet so hang tight!

The usage of uTorrent 2.2 should also improve privacy and prevent traffic from leaking out of the VPN as well which was a bug in previous versions of uTorrent.