Download Transmission 2.40 Beta 1

The first beta release of version 2.40 of the torrent client Transmission has been released. Transmission uses few resources, is platform independent 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. However, only the Mac OS X version and source code of this beta version are available for download. In version 2.40 the following changes and improvements have been made:

All Platforms

• Torrent queuing
• Improved web seed support
• Fix crash when removing a magnetized transfer
• Fix adding transfers over RPC when a subfolder does not exist
• Other minor fixes

mac

• Lion: Use popovers for the global and per-torrent action menus
• Lion: Animations in the inspector’s file list and the message window
• Sort transfers by size
• No longer keep track of recently opened torrent files
• Minor interface tweaks and behavior adjustments

GTK+

• Add GTK+ 3 support
• Make popup notification and system sounds system-configurable
• Add a settings option to hard-delete files instead of using the recycle bin
• Raise the minimum library requirements for GTK+ to 2.22 and glib to 2.28

Qt

• Add popup notification for finished torrents
• Fix non-UTF-8 display issue in the “New Torrent” dialog

daemon

• SSL support in transmission remote

Web Client

• speed improvements
• Add filtering by tracker
• Allow preference changes on mobile devices
• Allow compact view on mobile devices
• Stop ratio functionality
• Compact view interface improvements

Utilities

• Fix transmission-edit bug when adding a tracker to a single-tracker torrent
• Fix transmission-create bug when specifying a directory with a leading “./”