Download Transmission 2.50

After last week’s beta, the final version of Transmission 2.50 has now been 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. In version 2.50 the following changes and improvements have been made:

All Platforms

• Fix crash when adding some magnet links
• Improved support for downloading web seeds with large files
• Gracefully handle incorrectly-compressed data from webseed downloads
• Fairer bandwidth distribution across connected peers
• Use less CPU when calculating undownloaded portions of large torrents
• Use the Selection Algorithm, rather than sorting, to select peer candidates
• Use base-10 units when displaying bandwidth speed and disk space
• If the OS has its own copy of natpmp, prefer it over our bundled version
• Fix Fails-To-Build error on Solaris 10 from use of mkdtemp()
• Fix Fails-To-Build error on FreeBSD from use of alloca()
• Fix Fails-To-Build error when building without a C++ compiler for libuTP

mac

• Requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or newer
• Animated rows in the main window (Lion only)
• Quarantine downloaded files (to protect against malware)
• The inspector no longer floats above other windows (by popular demand)
• Mist notifications: basic notification support for users without Growl
• Support pasting a torrent file URL into the main window (Lion only)
• Minor interface tweaks and bug fixes

GTK+

• Fix regression that broke the “–minimized” command-line argument
• Instead of notify-send, use the org.freedesktop.Notifications DBus API
• Fix a handful of small memory leaks

Qt

• Fix FTB when building without libuTP support on Debian

Web Client

• Filtering by state and tracker
• Sort by size
• Larger, easier-to-press toolbar buttons
• Fix the torrent size and time remaining in the inspector’s details tab
• Bundle jQuery and the stylesheets to avoid third-party CDNs
• Upgrade to jQuery 1.7.1
• Fix runtime errors in IE 8, IE 9, and Opera
• Revise CSS stylesheets to use SASS
• Minor interface tweaks

daemon

• Fix corrupted status string in transmission-remote