Software Update: Transmission 1.72

The new versions of Transmission continue to follow each other in rapid succession: the third release of this month was already released on Wednesday. Transmission is a cross-platform lightweight open source Bittorrent client with a simple interface. The program was developed for use under Mac OS X, but the download page also includes versions for Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. Version 1.72 fixes several issues, including some that could cause the program to crash. The full list of improvements in this release can be found below:

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 weird 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