Software update: Transmission 0.4

Transmission is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language. The program runs on Mac OS X, BeOS, Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, but currently only the Mac OS X version has a graphical interface. The developer is busy developing and has released version 0.4 with the following changes:

Version 0.4:

• Uses less CPU downloading torrents with many pieces
• The UI could freeze when the hard drive was having a hard time – fixed
• Fixes for difficult trackers, which require a ‘key’ parameter or a User Agent field
• OS X: Cleaner look, unified toolbar
• OS X: Added a document icon for torrent files
• OS X: Added a Pause/Resume button for each torrent, and a “Reveal in Finder” button
• OS X: Added a contextual menu
• OS X: Sometimes torrents kept “Stopping…” forever – fixed
• OS X: Several minor improvements or fixes:
  • allows column reordering
  • fixed resizing on Panther
  • remember the position of the window
  • fixed display or Unicode filenames
  • added menu bar items and keyboard shortcuts
  • made the simple progress bar switch to green when seeding

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Transmission 0.4 is available in the following flavours:
Mac OS X (10.3.9 or later)
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