Software-update: Transmission 1.80

De ontwikkelaars van Transmission hebben woensdag versie 1.80 van hun gelijknamige programma uitgebracht. Transmission is een lichtgewicht platform-onafhankelijke opensource bittorrent-client met een eenvoudige interface. Het programma is ontwikkeld voor gebruik onder Mac OS X, maar op de downloadpagina zijn ook versies voor Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD en enkele nas-systemen te vinden. Versie 1.80 bevat een groot aantal door gebruikers aangedragen veranderingen, waaronder ondersteuning voor magnet-bestanden en trackerless torrents. Het volledige changelog van deze release en dat van versie 1.77, die we in de Meuktracker gemist hebben, is hieronder te vinden:

Transmission 1.80

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

Mac

• Redesigned trackers inspector tab with favicons and copy-paste functionality (paste lists of multiple trackers)
• Message log stores all messages and does real filtering
• Quick Look restored on Snow Leopard
• Moving data and incomplete folder are now handled by libtransmission
• Improved reveal in Finder functionality on Snow Leopard
• Various smaller behavior and interface tweaks
• German and Simplified Chinese localizations
• Removed Turkish localization because of lack of localizer

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

Transmission 1.77

All Platforms

• Protect against potential data loss by maliciously-crafted torrent files
• Fix minor build issues and packaging issues on various platforms
• Fix 1.7x error that could unpause or repause a torrent on startup
• Minor CPU speedups

GTK+

• Fix crash on shutdown
• Fix GIcon memory leak