Software Update: Transmission 1.92

Transmission developers released version 1.92 of their eponymous BitTorrent client on Sunday. 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 1.92 shows the following changes and improvements:

All Platforms

• Fix possible data corruption issue caused by data sent by bad peers during endgame
• Fix potential buffer overflow when adding maliciously-crafted magnet links
• Fix announces to IPv6 trackers
• Fix DNS problems on some platforms, including Debian
• Fix issues with the incomplete directory functionality
• Fix port forwarding error on some routers by updating libnatpmp and miniupnp

mac

• Fix bug where setting low priority in the add window resulted in high priority

GTK+

• Fix directory selection error in GTK+ 2.19
• Small GUI improvements: HIG correctness, remove deprecated GTK+ calls, etc.

daemon

• Fix 1.91 build error on Mac and FreeBSD
• Standardize the daemon’s watchdir feature to behave like the other clients’

Web Client

• Statistics dialog
• Fix error in “trash data & remove from list” that didn’t trash all data
• Fix display of ratios and time
• Update to jQuery 1.4.2