Software update: Transmission 1.75

The developers of Transmission have released version 1.75 of their program of the same name. Transmission is a lightweight cross-platform 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 1.75, among other things, reduces the delay for trackers that stop responding when there are other trackers in the list and fixes several problems that have arisen since the previous release. Below are all the changes made in this release:

All Platforms:

• Don’t wait so long on unresponsive trackers if there are other trackers to try
• Adding corrupt/invalid torrents could crash Transmission
• Fix 1.74 bug that caused a high CPU load on startup
• Fix 1.74 bug that stopped multitracker if a single tracker sent an error message
• Fix bug in converting other charsets to UTF-8
• Handle HTTP redirects more gracefully
• Faster verification of local data for torrents with small piece size
• Fix 1.74 build error when compiling without DHT

Mac:

• Fix libcurl build issue that caused tracker connectivity problems on Snow Leopard
• Fix error when creating a torrent file while still changing the announce address

GTK+:

• Fix “sort by time remaining”
• Fix the turtle toggle button on old versions of GTK+
• Fix startup error if another copy of the Transmission GTK client is running
• Fix clan build issue