Transmission News

Transmission 1.74 Beta 1

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:40:28 +0200

Transmission 1.74 Beta 1 is now available for beta testing.

Please post any issues you have here.

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Mac
Source

All Platforms

Better data recovery in the case of an OS or Transmission crash
Upgrade DHT to version 0.8
If a data file is moved, stop the torrent instead of redownloading it
Fix bug that didn't list some peers in the resume file and in PEX
More helpful torrent error messages
DHT now honors the bind-address-ipv4 configuration option
Fix Debian build error with miniupnpc
Fix Cygwin build error with strtold
Update to a newer snapshot of miniupnpc

Mac

64-bit compatibility
Queuing system will not exclude transfers with tracker warnings
Connections to original torrent files are no longer maintained
Fix bug where changing the global per-torrent peer connection limit did not affect the current session
Fix bug where changing settings through RPC would result in wrong values being saved for three fields

GTK+

Fix crash that occurred when adding torrents on some desktops
Synchronize the statusbar's and torrent list's speeds
Fix the Properties dialog's "Origin" field for multiple torrents

New Russian Translation
If Transmission was minimized, clicking on it the icon tray didn't raise it

Daemon

Add a "session stats" readout to transmission-remote

Web Client

Progress bar shows seeding progress
Fix bug that displayed "%nan" when verifying a torrent
"Pause All" only appeared to pause torrents with peers until refresh

Transmission 1.73 Released!

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:26:45 +0200

Transmission 1.73 is now available for download.
A complete list of tickets closed can be seen here.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing bandwidth.

All Platforms

Fix bug where user-configured peer limits could be exceeded
Use less memory in some high-peer situations
Better estimation of time left to download
Support supportcrypto and requirecrypto flags in http tracker announces
Update to newer snapshots of libnatpmp and miniupnpc
Make DHT a compile-time option

GTK+

Use GDK-safe versions of g_idle_add() and g_timeout_add*()
Save some space in GTK+ >= 2.16.0 by not building SexyIconEntry

Fix bug that crashed Qt client when setting alternative up/down speeds

Daemon

Add umask support

Web Client

Inspector and Add Torrent buttons for iPhone/iPod Touch
Add location field to inspector

CLI

Some torrent files created with transmission-cli were invalid

Transmission 1.72 Released!

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:39:24 +0200

Transmission 1.72 is now available for download.
A complete list of tickets closed can be seen here.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing bandwidth.

All Platforms

Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tv->tv_usec >= 0"
Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tr_peerIoSupportsFEXT( msgs->peer->io )"
Better DHT announce management
Fix error in reporting webseed counts via RPC
Better file preallocation on embedded systems

Mac

Fix problem where a small set of users could not add torrents

GTK+

Fix 1.70 crash when setting options in the Properties dialog
Fix a rare crash in desktop notifications
Can now sort the file list by priority, download, and completeness
Adding a torrent from a browser sometimes didn't work.
Various usability improvements

Daemon

Remote didn't always send the right Encoding header in requests

Transmission 1.71 Released!

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:20:18 +0200

Transmission 1.71 is now available for download.
A complete list of tickets closed can be seen here.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing bandwidth.

All Platforms

Fix 1.70 bug that caused high CPU use in high-peer swarms
Fix 1.70 build problems with DHT and libevent

Daemon

Fix watchdir issue on OSes that don't have inotify

GTK+

Fix 1.70 intltool build problem
Fix crash when the OS's stock mime-type icons are misconfigured
Handle very long torrent file lists faster

Web Client

Fix 1.70 bug where some torrents appeared to be duplicates

Transmission 1.70 Released!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:26:56 +0200

Transmission 1.70 is now available for download.
A complete list of tickets closed can be seen here.
Thanks to CacheFly for providing bandwidth.

All Platforms

Distributed hash table (DHT) support for public torrents
Add option for moving and finding a torrent's data on the disk
JSON RPC messages can be ~85% shorter, saving bandwidth and CPU
When available, use the system's copy of libevent instead of building one
Automatically pause torrents when verifying
Fix small bugs and memory leaks

Mac

Holding down the option key on launch will pause all transfers

Web Client

Big speed improvements, especially with large torrents
Fix 1.61 bug that broke adding torrents via the web client
Add the ability to upload multiple torrents at once
Torrents added by URL were always paused, regardless of preferences
Comments and announce addresses were cut off in the inspector
The "data remaining" field wasn't updated when the number reached 0
Smaller design adjustments

GTK+

Fix intltool build problem
Make it clearer that the status bar's ratio mode button is a button
Torrent comment box did not scroll, so long comments were partially hidden

Initial torrent list was sometimes incorrect
Add-torrent-and-delete-source deleted the source even if there was an error
Prefs dialog didn't show or modify "Stop seeding torrents at ratio"