Software update: Transmission 2.75

By admin On Dec 24, 2012

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Version 2.75 of Transmission was recently released. This torrent client uses few resources, is cross-platform and open source, and has a simple and uncluttered 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. Since version 2.60, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Transmission 2.75

mac

Fix crash on non-English localizations

Transmission 2.74

All Platforms

Fix a bug that prevented IPv6 addresses from being saved in dht.dat
Better handling of magnet links that contain ‘tr.x=’ parameters
Add filtering of addresses used for uTP peer connections
Fix detection of whether or not a peer supports uTP connections

mac

Auto-grouping won’t apply until torrents are demagnetized
Tweak the inspector’s and add window’s file lists to avoid auto-hiding scrollbars overlapping the priority controls
Fix potential crash when downloading and seeding complete at the same time
Fix bug where stopped torrents might start when waking the computer from sleep

Web Client

Fix a multi-file selection bug
Fix bug where the upload and download arrows and rates would not appear for downloading torrents
Fix bug when displaying the tracker list

Transmission 2.73

mac

Fix crash on non-English localizations

Transmission 2.72

All Platforms

Fix crash when adding magnet links with malformed webseeds
Fix handling of magnet links’ webseed URLs that contain whitespace
Fix remaining time estimates of magnet links that have webseeds
Show the webseed count in the torrent list when downloading from webseeds

mac

When possible allow automatic switching to the integrated GPU on dual-GPU machines
Include seeding-complete transfers in the badged count on the Dock icon

GTK+

When adding torrents by URL from the clipboard, handle whitespace in the link

Fix dialog memory leaks

Web Client

Minor interface fixes

Transmission 2.71

mac

Fix crasher on 10.6 Snow Leopard

Transmission 2.70

All Platforms

Improved speed with the µTP protocol
Fix bug that caused some incoming encrypted peer connections to fail
Fix bugs with the speed limit scheduler
Fix crasher with magnet left

mac

Notification Center support on Mountain Lion
Torrent files can be previewed with Quick Look in the Finder
Add an option to remove transfers when seeding completes
Fix displaying the Web Client with Bonjour
Fix bugs with Time Machine exclusions
Other minor interface tweaks and bug fixes
Removed Simplified Chinese localization because of lack of localizer

GTK+

Require GTK+ 3.4

Control speed limit from the icon tray
Improved behavior when clicking on torrents in the torrent list
Fix bug where torrent files were not deleted
Fix bug with unicode characters in the default location

Web Client

The file inspector tab displays files nested under directories
Improved scrolling on iPad
Fix incorrectly rendered characters
Fix bug involving attempts to post notifications without permission

Transmission 2.61

mac

Fix crash when creating a torrent file on Lion or newer

GTK+

Support startup notification
Require GTK+ 3

Fix bug when opening the web client via the Preferences dialog
Better opening or magnet left
The Torrent File list now handles very long lists faster
Fix i18n problem introduced in 2.60

Web Client

Close potential cross-scripting vulnerability from malicious torrent files

Utilities

Add magnet link generation to the transmission-show command line tool

Version number	2.75
Release status	Final
Operating systems	Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris
Website	Transmission
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File size	4.89MB
License type	GPL