Software update: Transmission 1.90

Transmission developers released version 1.90 of their eponymous BitTorrent client earlier this week. Transmission uses few resources, is platform independent, open source and has a simple and clear interface. The program was developed for use under Mac OS X, but on the download page versions for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and some NAS systems are also available. The changelog for version 1.90 shows the following changes and improvements:

All Platforms:

• Add an option to disable the .part suffix for incomplete files
• Add priority selector to GUI clients’ add torrent windows
• Fix 1.81 bug that broke HTTP requests to sites that gave HTTP 301 redirects
• Fix 1.8x bug in announcing “finished downloading” and “stopping” at the same time
• Fix 1.8x bug in announcing partial seeds
• Try harder to make announces finish, even if the tracker responds slowly
• Fix bug that didn’t honor download speed limits of 0
• Use fallocate64() for fast file preallocation on systems that support it
• Magnet link improvements
• Don’t let “Disk is full” errors cause loss of configuration files
• Faster parsing of bencoded data, such as torrent files

Mac:

• Display information for all selected transfers in the inspector’s tracker and peer tabs
• Add a filter to the message log
• Fix potential crash when updating the blocklist
• Fix bug that caused the speed limit scheduler to not be applied after sleep
• Remove excessive file selection for the per-torrent action menu
• Narrower interface tweaks

GTK+:

• Give more helpful error messages if “Set Location” or “Add Magnet Link” fail
• Add optional support for libappindicator
• Minor build fixes

daemon:

• Add transmission-remote support for port testing and blocklist updating
• Add transmission-daemon support for incomplete-dir, dht, and seedratio
• If settings.json is corrupt, give an error count where the problem is
• Add option to specify where log messages should be written

Web Client:

• Add a tracker tab to the inspector
• Fix 1.8x display error when showing magnet link information

Qt:

• Fix bug that prevented torrents from being added via web browsers