Feb 14, 2007 1:36 PM

???Torrent 1.6.1 Update Released

The popular lightweight torrent program, ???Torrent, has been updated to version 1.6.1. This is an incremental update and doesn’t bring any spectacular new features, but it does fix a serious security vulnerability and it’s the first official release since BitTorrent acquired ???Torrent. I downloaded and tested the new version earlier today. As with past versions, […]

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