[Five]

looking over here:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_utorrent/

I notice that they're listing plain old "1.8" as being a higher version than 1.8 RC7

I downloaded "1.8" from filehippo and "1.8 (stable)" from the utorrent site and the checksums match, so seems like that is the most recent version at the moment

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thanks for the headsup