No, I am afraid it is not. I use uPnP in any event. I restarted the new version and it very very slowly found the first connection and over the next 10 or more minutes got as high as 9 peers. I closed it, uninstalled and went back to the previous version. Started. A few seconds after it started one then two connections and then they flooded in well above 115 connections [I often have more than 150 connections]. After a time, the client usually drops to 45-60 peers typically. There is DEFINITELY a difference with the way the new client is working as far as P2P goes. Maybe uPnP was broken?
Same behavious here, except I don't use UPnP (and I'm not behind NAT).
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