Transmission 2.52 - Changelog

What's new in Transmission 2.52:

May 19th, 2012

All Platforms:

· Fix bug with zero termination of multiscrape strings
· Update the bundled libnatpmp and miniupnp port forwarding libraries

Mac:

· Add select all and deselect all buttons to the file inspector tab
· Minor interface tweaks and bug fixes
· Danish localization

GTK+:

· Fix minor bug in Ubuntu app indicator support

What's new in Transmission 2.51:

April 9th, 2012

All Platforms:
· Update the bundled libnatpmp and miniupnp port forwarding libraries
· Add environment variable options to have libcurl verify SSL certs
· Support user-specified CXX environment variables during compile time

GTK+:
· Fix crash when adding torrents on systems without G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD
· Honor the notification sound setting
· Add a tooltip to files in the torrents' file list
· Fix broken handling of the Cancel button in the "Open URL" dialog
· Improve support for Gnome Shell and Unity
· Catch SIGTERM instead of SIGKILL

Qt:
· Progress bar colors are now similar to the Mac and Web clients'
· Improve the "Open Folder" behavior

Web Client:
· Fix global seed ratio progress bars
· Fix sometimes-incorrect ratio being displayed in the inspector
· If multiple torrents are selected, show the aggregate info in the inspector
· Upgrade to jQuery 1.7.2

Daemon:
· Show magnet link information in transmission-remote -i

What's new in Transmission 2.50:

February 21st, 2012

All Platforms:

· Fix crash when adding some magnet links
· Improved support for downloading webseeds 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
· Sorting 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

What's new in Transmission 2.50 Beta 1:

February 16th, 2012

All Platforms:

· Fix crash when adding some magnet links
· Improved support for downloading webseeds 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
· Sorting 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

What's new in Transmission 2.42:

October 31st, 2011

All Platforms:

· Fix error connecting to UDP trackers from big-endian computers
· Fix RPC error when editing UDP trackers
· Fix build failure when a C++ compiler is not installed

GTK+:

· Support GTK+ 3.2
· Fix crasher on systems not running DBus

Qt:

· Updated Lithuanian translation

Web Client:

· Fix bug which broke Opera support

What's new in Transmission 2.40 Beta 1:

September 19th, 2011

All Platforms:

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

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

Utils:

· Fix transmission-edit bug when adding a tracker to a single-tracker torrent
· Fix transmission-create bug when specifying a directory with a leading "./"

What's new in Transmission 2.33:

July 21st, 2011

All Platforms:

· Improved webseed support
· Better support for moving and deleting files
· Fix "Too many open files" bug
· Apply blocklists towards DHT communication
· Fix displayed availability

GTK+:

· Remove deprecated GConf2 dependency

Qt:

· Fix high CPU issues
· Fix wrong torrent count on tracker filterbar
· Update Spanish translation

What's new in Transmission 2.32:

July 5th, 2011

All Platforms:
· Fix error caused by some "open-file-limit" configuration settings
· Fix 2.30 problem seeding to some peers
· Fix bug converting torrent file text contents to UTF-8
· Better µTP support on systems running uClibc
· Other small bug fixes

GTK+:
· Fix 2.30 error opening torrents from a web browser
· Remove GNOME desktop proxy support

Web Client:
· Fix bug when adding torrents
· Add torrents by info hash in the add dialog
· Sorting by ratio
· Allow drag-and-drop to add links

What's new in Transmission 2.30:

May 18th, 2011

All Platforms:

· µTP support
· UDP tracker support
· Multiscrape support
· Download scarcest pieces first
· The "lazy bitfield" feature has been superseded by the "Fast Extension" BEP6
· Scripts are passed the environment

GTK+:

· Added 256 x 256 icon by Andreas Nilsson
· Register as a magnet link handler in the .desktop file

Web Client:

· Peer and Network preferences

What's new in Transmission 2.30 Beta 3:

April 18th, 2011

· µTP support
· UDP tracker support
· Multiscrape support
· Download scarcest pieces first
· The "lazy bitfield" feature has been superseded by the "Fast Extension" BEP6
· Scripts are passed the environment
· Added 256 x 256 icon by Andreas Nilsson
· Register as a magnet link handler in the .desktop file
· Peer and Network preferences

What's new in Transmission 2.30 Beta 2:

April 11th, 2011

All Platforms:

· µTP support
· UDP tracker support
· Multiscrape support
· Download scarcest pieces first
· The "lazy bitfield" feature has been superseded by the "Fast Extension" BEP6
· Scripts are passed the environment

GTK+:

· Added 256 x 256 icon by Andreas Nilsson
· Register as a magnet link handler in the .desktop file

Web Client:

· Peer and Network preferences

What's new in Transmission 2.30 Beta 1:

April 4th, 2011

All Platforms:

· µTP support
· UDP tracker support
· Multiscrape support
· Download scarcest pieces first
· The "lazy bitfield" feature has been superseded by the "Fast Extension" BEP6
· Scripts are passed the environment

GTK+:

· Added 256 x 256 icon by Andreas Nilsson
· Register as a magnet link handler in the .desktop file

Web Client:

· Peer and Network preferences

What's new in Transmission 2.22:

March 7th, 2011

All Platforms:

· Faster endgame
· Fix bug where leechers might be disconnected while seeding in some situations
· Fix 2.20 bug that sometimes showed inaccurate upload/download speeds
· Support for unsorted blacklists
· Fix IPv6 DHT
· Re-add support to automatically close idle peers
· Fix bug where the resume file did not save the time checked for the last piece

GTK+:

· Fix setting individual idle seeding time

Qt:

· Fix loading localizations on Linux

CLI:

· Fix bandwidth display issue

What's new in Transmission 2.21:

February 9th, 2011

· Fix compile error in the the 2.20 tarball
· Several updated translations
· Updated Spanish translation

What's new in Transmission 2.20:

February 7th, 2011

All Platforms:

· Remember downloaded files when a drive is unplugged
· File re-verification is no longer needed in some situations
· Fix "Too many open files" error
· Show the total downloading and seeding time per torrent
· Fix webseeds
· Better support for IPv6-only trackers
· Add the ability to shutdown Transmission sessions via RPC
· NAT-PMP and UPnP now also map the UDP port
· Update the DHT code to dht-0.18
· Faster parsing of bencoded data
· Improve support for running scripts when a torrent finishes downloading
· Fix reannounce interval when trackers return a 404 error
· Fix checksum error on platforms running uClibc 0.9.27 or older
· Fix memmem() errors on Solaris

GTK+:

· Add "Add" and "Remove" buttons to the tracker list
· Add filesize column to the files list
· Several minor bugfixes and interface improvements

Qt:

· Accept info_hash values in the "Add url..." dialog

Daemon:

· Add "reannounce to tracker" option to transmission-remote
· transmission-remote can now read auth info from environment variables
· Fix configuration file bug with transmission-daemon running on Macs

Web Client:

· Right-clicking a torrent now works with Firefox / Firegestures / Ubuntu

Utils:

· Fix error when replacing substrings in tracker announce URLs
· Webseeds are now displayed in transmission-show

What's new in Transmission 2.13:

December 13th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Fix "No Announce Scheduled" tracker error
· Fix build error on Solaris 10
· Fix RPC documentation errors
· Fix minor packaging errors

GTK+:

· Unblur the statusbar icons
· Fix truncation error in the Torrent Properties dialog.

Qt:

· Fix crash when opening the Torrent Properties dialog on magnet links
· Fix "undo" error when making changes in the Torrent Properties dialog
· Add Brazilian Portuguese Translation
· Add Spanish (LAC) Translation

What's new in Transmission 2.12:

November 15th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Make the blocklist URL user-configurable
· Several minor bug fixes and CPU speed improvements
· Use slightly less bandwidth in DHT messages
· Fix 2.10 build issue on uClibc systems

Mac:

· Sort the file list alphabetically
· Ensure the proper extension is used when saving the torrent file
· Allow the Quick Look command when the inspector window has focus

GTK+:

· Fix 2.11 crash when opening the Properties dialog on a magnet link torrent
· Fix 2.00 regression which failed to inhibit hibernation on laptops

Qt:

· Fix 2.10 build issue on Ubuntu

CLI:

· Fix 2.10 crash

Web Client:

· Upgrade to jQuery 1.4.3
· Fix 2.11 regression when using the web client on IE7 or IE8

What's new in Transmission 2.11:

October 18th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Fix a 2.10 crash
· Fix minor build issues on various platforms, particularly embedded systems
· Fix issue when saving bencoded files on small hardware running uClibc
· Fix minor rounding issue when displaying percentages
· Fix the optimistic unchoke interval

GTK+:

· Fix drag-and-dropping a magnet link
· Fix hiding dialogs when hiding Transmission in the notification area

Qt:

· Fix crash in the file tree

Daemon:

· Fix missing status message when using "transmission-remote --add"

Web Client:

· Add Transmission website links to the action menu

What's new in Transmission 2.10:

October 11th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Support for automatically stopping idle seeding torrents
· Small memory cache to reduce disk IO
· gzip compression support added to the RPC server
· Add support for a cookies.txt file
· Minor CPU optimizations

GTK+:

· Files and folders can be opened by clicking on them in the files list
· Update the interface when session changes are made via RPC
· Fix the Details dialog to fit on a netbook screen

Qt:

· Tracker announce list editing
· New filterbar
· Improved display for showing a torrent's tracker announces
· Better DBUS integration
· Support adding torrents via drag-and-drop
· Add Desktop Notification for added/complete torrents
· Other minor improvements

Web Client:

· Peer list added to the inspector
· Compact view mode
· Support filtering by active and finished
· Support sorting by size

Daemon:

· Allow the .pidfile location to be set in settings.json

Utils:

· New command-line utility "transmission-edit" for editing torrent files
· New command-line utility "transmission-show" for viewing torrent files
· New command-line utility "transmission-create" for creating torrent files

What's new in Transmission 2.10:

October 11th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Support for automatically stopping idle seeding torrents
· Small memory cache to reduce disk IO
· gzip compression support added to the RPC server
· Add support for a cookies.txt file
· Minor CPU optimizations

GTK+:

· Files and folders can be opened by clicking on them in the files list
· Update the interface when session changes are made via RPC
· Fix the Details dialog to fit on a netbook screen

Qt:

· Tracker announce list editing
· New filterbar
· Improved display for showing a torrent's tracker announces
· Better DBUS integration
· Support adding torrents via drag-and-drop
· Add Desktop Notification for added/complete torrents
· Other minor improvements

Web Client:

· Peer list added to the inspector
· Compact view mode
· Support filtering by active and finished
· Support sorting by size

Daemon:

· Allow the .pidfile location to be set in settings.json

Utils:

· New command-line utility "transmission-edit" for editing torrent files
· New command-line utility "transmission-show" for viewing torrent files
· New command-line utility "transmission-create" for creating torrent files

What's new in Transmission 2.04:

August 8th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Fix display bug in tr_truncd()
· Fix long shutdown time in some situations

GTK+:

· Fix inaccurate "active torrent" counts in the filterbar
· Fix display bug with magnet link names

Qt:

· Fix crash when accessing a password-protected remote session

Web Client:

· Fix bad redirect

What's new in Transmission 2.01:

June 27th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Better tracker announce management when completed torrents are moved from the incomplete directory
· Speed up moving local data from one disk to another
· Better parsing of nonstandard magnet links

GTK+:

· Faster torrent file parsing
· Fix the magnet link options dialog does not respect setting
· Add an error popup if "Add URL" fails

Qt:

· Fix crash after getting magnet torrent metadata
· Fix torrent ratio goals
· Fix "add torrent" dialog bug on KDE desktops that popped up previous torrents
· Fix 2.00 bug that prevented multiple instances from being run
· Fix remote mode bug that kept the torrent list from being shown
· Support encryption settings in the preferences dialog
· Use flagStr in the status field of the peer list
· Request a full refresh when changing the session source
· Fix the torrent list jumping to the top when a torrent is removed

Web Client:

· Fix display bug caused by removal of a torrent hidden by the current filter

What's new in Transmission 2.0:

June 17th, 2010

All Platforms:

· "Local Peer Discovery" for finding peers on the local network
· Optimize download requests for the bandwidth available
· Smarter heuristics when deciding the order to connect to peers
· Faster verification of local data
· Faster startup
· Support more blocklist file formats
· Use IEC standard units (KiB, MiB, GiB) instead of (KB, MB, GB)
· Better handling of 404 tracker errors

GTK+:

· New filterbar to filter by tracker, private/public, etc.
· Compact View replaces Minimal View, taking up considerably less space
· Show the Torrent Options dialog when adding magnet links
· "Set Location" now supports moving multiple torrents at once
· The Properties window now fits on low resolution screens
· Add favicon support to the Properties dialog's Tracker tab

Qt:

· Show the Torrent Options dialog when adding magnet links
· Show all active trackers in the tracker display list
· Show file sizes in the file tree
· Added a confirm dialog when removing torrents
· Properties and torrent options no longer jump around while editing
· Allow setting locations for remote sessions
· Miscellaneous UI fixes

Daemon:

· Let users specify a script to be invoked when a torrent finishes downloading
· Better support for adding per-torrent settings when adding a new torrent
· Optional pidfile support
· Option to start torrents paused
· Option to delete .torrent files from watch directory

Web Client:

· The context menu now works when multiple rows are selected
· Show ETA for seeding torrents that have a seed ratio set

What's new in Transmission 1.93:

May 10th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Fix rare crash when some peers disconnected unexpectedly
· Fix bug which didn't parse scheduled speed limit dates correctly
· Fix bug that broke magnet links whose names contained slashes
· Fix crash when updating the blocklist when the disk is full
· Fix slow file preallocation on Unix systems not using ext3/ext4
· Fix regression which broke the "bind-address-ipv4" configuration setting
· For better security, Web client connections are disabled by default
· Update to miniupnpc-1.4
· Transmission builds out-of-the-box with Curl 7.15.5. (Hello CentOS!)

GTK+:

· Use the size for the system tray icon

Qt:

· Fix bug that crashed when removing more than one torrent at once
· Fix bug when parsing the remote password from the command line
· Add support for the "incomplete directory" in the preferences dialog
· Don't show "time remaining" for paused torrents

Daemon:

· Fix bug parsing RPC requests when setting which files to not download
· Fix possible crash when using inotify for the daemon's watchdir
· Fix bugs in the configure script
· Fix bug updating the blocklist over RPC

Web Client:

· Fix bug that broke the "reverse sort order" menu checkbox

What's new in Transmission 1.92:

March 15th, 2010

· 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

What's new in Transmission 1.91:

February 22nd, 2010

· Fix 1.90 crash-on-startup bug that affected some users
· Fix 1.90 bug that caused the "turtle mode" state to be forgotten between sessions
· Fix 1.83 crash when adding a torrent by URL from an ftp source via the web client
· For the BitTorrent? spec's "downloaded=X" passage, use the de facto standard

What's new in Transmission 1.90:

February 18th, 2010

All Platforms:

· Add an option to disable the .part suffix for incomplete files
· Add priority selector to GUI clients' add torrent windows
· Fix 1.81 bug that broke HTTP requests to sites that gave HTTP 301 redirects
· Fix 1.8x bug in announcing "finished downloading" and "stopping" at the same time
· Fix 1.8x bug in announcing partial seeds
· Try harder to make announces finish, even if the tracker responds slowly
· Fix bug that didn't honor download speed limits of 0
· Use fallocate64() for fast file preallocation on systems that support it
· Magnet link improvements
· Don't let "Disk is full" errors cause loss of configuration files
· Faster parsing of bencoded data, such as torrent files

GTK+:

· Give more helpful error messages if "Set Location" or "Add Magnet Link" fail
· Add optional support for libappindicator
· Minor build fixes

Daemon:

· Add transmission-remote support for port testing and blocklist updating
· Add transmission-daemon support for incomplete-dir, dht, and seedratio
· If settings.json is corrupt, give an error telling where the problem is
· Add option to specify where log messages should be written

Web Client:

· Add a tracker tab to the inspector
· Fix 1.8x display error when showing magnet link information

Qt:

· Fix bug that prevented torrents from being added via web browsers

What's new in Transmission 1.83:

January 30th, 2010

· Fix 1.80 announce error that caused uploads and downloads to periodically freeze
· Fix 1.80 announce timeout error that caused "no response from tracker" message
· Fix 1.80 "file not found" error message that stopped some torrents
· Fix 1.82 crash when adding new torrents via their ftp URL
· Fix 1.80 crash when receiving invalid request messages from peers
· Fix 1.82 error when updating the blocklist

What's new in Transmission 1.82:

January 24th, 2010

· The 1.81 announce did not contain the port number

What's new in Transmission 1.81:

January 24th, 2010

· Fix 1.80 bug that misparsed some magnet links
· Fix 1.80 bug that caused startup to be very sluggish for some people

What's new in Transmission 1.80:

January 21st, 2010

All Platforms:
· Add support for magnet links
· Add support for trackerless torrents
· Add optional "incomplete directory" where partial downloads are stored
· Add .part to incomplete files' filenames
· Find more peers by announcing to each tier in a torrent's tracker list, rather than only one
· Fix vulnerability from maliciously-crafted torrent files that could overwrite other files
· Improved IPv6 support
· Improved PEX sharing with other peers
· Faster management of large peer lists
· DHT improvements to bootstrapping and IPv6
· Newly-added torrents without local data don't wait in the "Verify Local Data" queue anymore
· Add an OS hint to not cache local data during torrent verification
· Use less CPU when making encrypted handshakes to peers
· Better filtering of bad IP addresses
· Fix bug that gave "too many open files" error messages
· Fix bug that could crash Transmission on shutdown
· Fix bug that could unpause or repause a torrent on startup
· When uploading, improve disk IO performance by prefetching the data in batches
· Portability fixes for embedded systems
· Other small bugfixes and improvements

GTK+:
· Support org.gnome.SessionManager? interface for inhibiting hibernation
· Added support for adding torrents by URL or magnet link
· Add optional "download complete" sound using the XDG sound naming spec
· When creating a torrent, make it easier to auto-add that new torrent
· New statusbar "Ratio" icon submitted by jimmac
· Fix minor memory leaks
· GNOME HIG improvements

Daemon:
· When running as a daemon, send log messages to syslog
· Reload settings.json when receiving SIGHUP
· transmission-remote now allows per-torrent speed limits to be set

Web Client:
· Add speed limit "turtle mode" support
· Double-clicking a torrent opens/closes the torrent inspector
· Add "Start When Added" checkbox when adding torrents
· Add Select All / Deselect All buttons to the file inspector
· Add version information to the preferences dialog
· Ensure the context menu goes away when clicking on torrents
· Fix bug that obscured part of the context menu

What's new in Transmission 1.80 Beta 2:

December 11th, 2009

All Platforms:
· Fix 1.80 beta 1 tracker connection / announce bug
· Fix 1.80 beta 1 crash "Assertion failed: (a->byteCount == b->byteCount)"
· Fix 1.80 beta 1 crash when being controlled by transmission-remote-dotnet
· Fix 1.80 beta 1 crash when a malformed magnet link is given to Transmission
· Better prefetching of local data that's being uploaded to peers

GTK+:
· Fix 1.80 beta 1 bug in "Copy Magnet Link to Clipboard" on non-GNOME desktops
· Support org.gnome.SessionManager? interface for inhibiting hibernation
· Minor GNOME HIG improvements

Web Client:
· Fix the turtle drop-down in IE
· Add "Start When Added" checkbox when adding torrents
· Add Select All / Deselect All buttons

What's new in Transmission 1.76:

October 26th, 2009

· All Platforms:
· Fix possible data loss when moving torrents to where they already are
· Fix minor protocol error that didn't send a port message to some peers
· Fix manpage errors

Mac:
· Fix a potential crasher on Snow Leopard
· When creating a torrent with multiple trackers, place each tracker into its own tier
· Fix display glitch when changing sort to "Queue Order"

Daemon:
· Fix possible data loss when using "transmission-remote --find"
· Fix ratio-limit bug on some uClibc systems
· Fix invalid JSON "nan" error on optware

GTK+:
· Fix crash in the Preferences dialog when testing to see if the port is open
· Fix crash on exit when a torrent's Properties dialog is open
· Fix broken SIGINT (ctrl-c) handling
· Fix tray menu's main window status when Transmission is started minimized
· Fix 1.61 build failure on systems with new versions of glib but older versions of gtk
· Fix tracker address display error in the torrent Properties dialog

Qt:
· Fix crash when removing expired torrents from the display
· Fix client from closing, rather than closing to the system tray, when clicking X
· Cannot open a torrent in KDE4 with right-clicking

What's new in Transmission 1.75:

September 15th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Don't wait so long on unresponsive trackers if there are other trackers to try
· Adding corrupt/invalid torrents could crash Transmission
· Fix 1.74 bug that caused a high CPU load on startup
· Fix 1.74 bug that stopped multitracker if a single tracker sent an error message
· Fix bug in converting other charsets to UTF-8
· Handle HTTP redirects more gracefully
· Faster verification of local data for torrents with small piece size
· Fix 1.74 build error when compiling without DHT

GTK+:

· Fix "sort by time remaining"
· Fix the turtle toggle button on old versions of GTK+
· Fix startup error if another copy of the Transmission GTK client is running
· Fix clang build issue

What's new in Transmission 1.75 Beta 1:

September 8th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Adding corrupt/invalid torrents could crash Transmission
· Fix a couple of high CPU problems with UTF-8 and with embedded machines
· Fix 1.74 bug that stopped some torrents after getting a tracker error message
· Handle HTTP redirects more gracefully
· Faster verification of local data for torrents with small piece size
· Fix 1.74 build error when compiling without DHT

GTK+:

· Fix the turtle toggle button on old versions of GTK+

What's new in Transmission 1.74:

August 25th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Better data recovery in the case of an OS or Transmission crash
· If a data file is moved, stop the torrent instead of redownloading it
· Fix bug that didn't list some peers in the resume file and in PEX
· More helpful torrent error messages
· DHT now honors the bind-address-ipv4 configuration option
· Fix Debian build error with miniupnpc
· Fix Cygwin build error with strtold
· Update to a newer snapshot of miniupnpc

GTK+:

· Fix crash that occurred when adding torrents on some desktops
· Synchronize the statusbar's and torrent list's speeds
· Fix the Properties dialog's "Origin" field for multiple torrents

Qt:

· New Russian Translation
· If Transmission was minimized, clicking on it the icon tray didn't raise it

Daemon:

· Speed Limit mode support added to transmission-remote
· Add a "session stats" readout to transmission-remote

Web Client:

· Progress bar shows seeding progress
· Fix bug that displayed "%nan" when verifying a torrent
· "Pause All" only appeared to pause torrents with peers until refresh

What's new in Transmission 1.74 Beta 1:

August 20th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Better data recovery in the case of an OS or Transmission crash
· Upgrade DHT to version 0.8
· If a data file is moved, stop the torrent instead of redownloading it
· Fix bug that didn't list some peers in the resume file and in PEX
· More helpful torrent error messages
· DHT now honors the bind-address-ipv4 configuration option
· Fix Debian build error with miniupnpc
· Fix Cygwin build error with strtold
· Update to a newer snapshot of miniupnpc

GTK+:

· Fix crash that occurred when adding torrents on some desktops
· Synchronize the statusbar's and torrent list's speeds
· Fix the Properties dialog's "Origin" field for multiple torrents

Qt:

· New Russian Translation
· If Transmission was minimized, clicking on it the icon tray didn't raise it

Daemon:

· Add a "session stats" readout to transmission-remote

Web Client:

· Progress bar shows seeding progress
· Fix bug that displayed "%nan" when verifying a torrent
· "Pause All" only appeared to pause torrents with peers until refresh

What's new in Transmission 1.73:

July 20th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Fix bug where user-configured peer limits could be exceeded
· Use less memory in some high-peer situations
· Better estimation of time left to download
· Support supportcrypto and requirecrypto flags in http tracker announces
· Update to newer snapshots of libnatpmp and miniupnpc
· Make DHT a compile-time option

GTK+:

· Use GDK-safe versions of g_idle_add() and g_timeout_add*()
· Save some space in GTK+ >= 2.16.0 by not building SexyIconEntry

Qt:

· Fix bug that crashed Qt client when setting alternative up/down speeds

Daemon:

· Add umask support

Web Client:

· Inspector and Add Torrent buttons for iPhone/iPod Touch
· Add location field to inspector

CLI:

· Some torrent files created with transmission-cli were invalid

What's new in Transmission 1.72:

June 17th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tv->tv_usec >= 0"
· Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tr_peerIoSupportsFEXT( msgs->peer->io )"
· Better DHT announce management
· Fix error in reporting webseed counts via RPC
· Better file preallocation on embedded systems

GTK+:

· Fix 1.70 crash when setting options in the Properties dialog
· Fix a rare crash in desktop notifications
· Can now sort the file list by priority, download, and completeness
· Adding a torrent from a browser sometimes didn't work.
· Various usability improvements

Daemon:

· Remote didn't always send the right Encoding header in requests

What's new in Transmission 1.71:

June 9th, 2009

All Platforms:
· Fix 1.70 bug that caused high CPU use in high-peer swarms
· Fix 1.70 build problems with DHT and libevent

Daemon:
· Fix watchdir issue on OSes that don't have inotify

GTK+:
· Fix 1.70 intltool build problem
· Fix crash when the OS's stock mime-type icons are misconfigured
· Handle very long torrent file lists faster

Web Client:
· Fix 1.70 bug where some torrents appeared to be duplicates

What's new in Transmission 1.70:

June 5th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Distributed hash table (DHT) support for public torrents
· Add option for moving and finding a torrent's data on the disk
· JSON RPC messages can be ~85% shorter, saving bandwidth and CPU
· When available, use the system's copy of libevent instead of building one
· Automatically pause torrents when verifying
· Fix small bugs and memory leaks

Web Client:

· Big speed improvements, especially with large torrents
· Fix 1.61 bug that broke adding torrents via the web client
· Add the ability to upload multiple torrents at once
· Torrents added by URL were always paused, regardless of preferences
· Comments and announce addresses were cut off in the inspector
· The "data remaining" field wasn't updated when the number reached 0
· Smaller design adjustments

GTK+:

· Fix intltool build problem
· Make it clearer that the status bar's ratio mode button is a button
· Torrent comment box did not scroll, so long comments were partially hidden

Qt:

· Initial torrent list was sometimes incorrect
· Add-torrent-and-delete-source deleted the source even if there was an error
· Prefs dialog didn't show or modify "Stop seeding torrents at ratio"

What's new in Transmission 1.61:

May 12th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Close potential CSRF security hole for Web Client users
· Fix locale error in the JSON parser

Qt:

· Various small bugfixes to the beta Qt client

Daemon:

· transmission-remote was unable to select torrents by their SHA1 hash

Web Client:

· Fix 1.60 error when serving Web Client files on some embedded
· Add response header to allow clients to cache static files

What's new in Transmission 1.60:

May 5th, 2009

All Platforms:

· Seed ratio limiting
· Transfer prioritization
· Option to specify if transfers are included in the global bandwidth limits
· Random port, with optional randomization on startup
· Improvements to UPnP port forwarding
· Support for file preallocation on XFS filesystems

Qt:

· New beta Qt client!

GTK+:

· Speed Limit: Second set of bandwidth limits that can be toggled or scheduled
· Properties dialog now lets you edit/view multiple torrents at once
· Allow sorting of the torrent list by size and by ETA
· Show the file icon in the list

Daemon:

· Watch folder for auto-adding torrents
· Many new features in the RPC/JSON interface
· Allow users to specify a specific address when listening for peers

Web Client:

· File selection and prioritization
· Add option to verify local data
· Fix "Remove Data" bug

What's new in Transmission 1.52:

April 13th, 2009

GTK+ and Daemon:

· Always honor the XDG setting for the download directory

GTK+:

· Fix formatting error when showing speeds measured in MB/s
· Fix bug that caused some scheduled speed limit time settings to be lost
· Use the new blocklist URL when updating the blocklist

Web Client:

· On the server, better filtering of bad URLs
· On the server, faster json serialization
· Fix "Remove Data" bug
· Fix minor web client 301 redirect error
· Better Internet Explorer support

What's new in Transmission 1.51:

February 27th, 2009

· All Platforms

· Fix configure script issues with non-gcc compilers and user-defined CFLAGS environment variables
· Decrease CPU usage in some situations
· Close a rare race condition on startup
· More efficient use of libcurl when curl 7.18.0 or newer is present

· GTK+

· Play nicely with Ubuntu's new notification server
· Add Pause All and Resume All buttons

· Web Client

· Support for Internet Explorer
· Layout fixes when viewed on an iPhone/iPod touch

What's new in Transmission 1.50:

February 14th, 2009

All Platforms:

· IPv6 support for peers, and for trackers with explicit IPv6 addresses
· Improved connectivity for encrypted peers
· Fix 1.42 error that made tracker announces slower over time
· Fix a Mac-centric peer connection bug from 1.41
· Use less CPU cycles when managing very fast peers
· Better handling of non-UTF-8 torrent files
· When removing local data, only remove data from the torrent
· Close potential DoS vulnerability in 1.41
· Many other bugfixes

GTK+:

· Various usability improvements
· Better Gnome HIG compliance in the statusbar, properties dialog, and more

Daemon:

· Lots of new options added to transmission-remote
· Fix 1.42 whitelist bug
· Make i18n support optional for cli and daemon clients

CLI:

· Support session.json settings, just as the Daemon and GTK+ clients do

Web Interface:

· Torrents can now be added by URL
· Add the ability to "remove local data" from the web client

What's new in Transmission 1.50 Beta 3:

January 27th, 2009

· About 1.50: 1.50 doesn't have many visual changes, but has lots of improvements under the hood, including IPv6 support, better management of peers, trackers, and local files, and lots of bug fixes.

· About 1.50 beta 3: this beta has three high-priority peer connectivity fixes: one affecting mac users, one affecting encrypted peer traffic, and one affecting swarms with low peer counts. Also, the "add torrent by URL" feature has been reintroduced into the Web UI.

What's new in Transmission 1.42:

December 27th, 2008

· Transmission 1.42 is now available for download, fixing a lockup issue in 1.41.

What's new in Transmission 1.41:

December 24th, 2008

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
· Corrrectly 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 bugfixes, usability changes, and locale improvements
· Three new translations: Afrikaans, Asturian, Bosnian
· Sixteen updated translations

Daemon:

· Fix 1.40 bug in handling IP whitelist
· Minor bugfixes and output cleanup
· Windows portability

CLI:

· Fix small free-memory-read bug

What's new in Transmission 1.40:

November 10th, 2008

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

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

What's new in Transmission 1.40 Beta 1:

November 4th, 2008

· This version contains a few new features, but mostly concentrates on bugfixes, stability, better network management, and slightly lighter memory and cpu footprints.

What's new in Transmission 1.34:

September 17th, 2008

All Clients:
· Don't reconnect too frequently to the same peer
· Webseed bugfix
· Fix bug that caused some transfers to not be scraped
· Fix BSD build issues
· Handle OpenTracker's `downloaded' key in announce responses

GTK+:
· Minor display fixes
· 15 updated translations + 1 new language

Daemon:
· Minor display fixes

Web Client:
· Minor display fixes

CLI:
· Fix crash when creating a torrent file