Software update: Transmission 1.33

Transmission is a bittorrent client that can do its job on Mac OS X, Linux, Freebsd, and Solaris. The program written in C has a clear graphical interface that makes downloading files a breeze. The developer has already released a new version that fixes some bugs from the previous release. The list of changes since the previous entry in the junk tracker shows us the following:

Version 1.33:

All Platforms:

• Fix crash from malicious torrent files with a piece size of zero
• When creating new torrent files, change behavior that caused “Multi tracker torrents are not allowed” warning on one tracker
• Fix Unicode handling in the JSON parser/generator
• Fix memory error when reading KTorrent’s PEX messages
• Fix small memory leaks

Mac:

• Rephrase “data not fully available” to “remaining time unknown”
• Fix bug where torrent file creation would fail because an extra blank tracker address was inserted

daemon:

• Fix crash when adding nonexistent torrents via transmission-remote

GTK+:

• Fix crash from malicious torrent files with large creator fields
• Fix error where some torrents opened via a web browser didn’t appear

Version 1.32:

All Platforms:

• Fix a bug introduced in 1.30 that caused problems establishing tracker communication
• Creating torrent files for files >= 2 GB will result in 2 MB pieces

Mac:

• Fix bug where the proxy type was changed from SOCKS5 to SOCKS4 on launch