Download Transmission 1.42

The developers of Transmission released version 1.41 of their program of the same name on Wednesday and have it immediately followed by 1.42 due to a nasty bug. 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 Netbsd, Freebsd and Openbsd. For the sake of completeness, we give you all the changes that have been made to the program since version 1.34, which was the previous version covered in the Meuktracker:

1.42 Core Changes

• Fix 1.41 lockup issue

Changes in version 1.41:

All Platforms

• Better peer management
• Support BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal (BEP) #21 “Extension for Partial Seeds”
• Partial support for BEP #6 “Fast Extension” (reject, have all/none)
• Honor the peer’s BEP #10 reqq key, when available
• Fix 1.40 “Got HTTP Status Code: 0” error message
• Fix 1.40 “lazy bitfield” error
• Fix 1.40 “jumpy upload speed” bug
• More accurate bandwidth measurement and allocation
• Fix handshake peer_id error
• Correctly handle Windows-style newlines in Bluetack blocklists
• File selection & priority was reset when editing a torrent’s tracker list
• Fix autoconf/automake build warnings

GTK+

• In the Details dialog’s peer tabs, rows were sometimes duplicated
• Minor bug fixes, usability changes, and local improvements
• Three new translations: African, Asturian, Bosnian
• Sixteen updated translations

daemon

• Fix 1.40 bug in handling IP whitelist
• Minor bug fixes and output cleanup
• Windows portability

CLIA

• Fix small free-memory-read bug

Changes in version 1.40:

All Platforms

• Tracker communication uses fewer resources
• More accurate bandwidth limits
• Reduce disk fragmentation by preallocating files
• Better stability, security, and performance in the Web UI and RPC server
• Support compression when serving Web UI and RPC responses
• Simplify the RPC whitelist
• Fix bug that prevented handshakes with encrypted BitComet peers
• Fix 1.3x bug that could re-download some data unnecessarily
• lazy bitfields

mac

• Option to automatically update the blocklist weekly
• In the file inspector tab, show progress and size for folders
• Scrollbars correctly appear when the main window auto-resizes
• Sparkle updated to 1.5b6

GTK+

• Option to automatically update the blocklist weekly
• Added off-hour bandwidth scheduling
• Simplify file/priority selection in the details dialog
• Fix a couple of crashes
• 5 new translations: Australian, Basque, Kurdish, Kurdish (Sorani), Malay
• 43 updated translations

Web Client

• The Web Client is now out of beta
• Minor display fixes
• On iPhone/iPod touch, launching from the home screen hides the address bar

daemon

• Added the ability to get detailed peer information on torrents
• Fix bug that didn’t handle –config-dir and TRANSMISSION_HOME correctly
• Windows portability

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