os x Transmission 2.50

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

What's new in Transmission 2.50:

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
  

Link: Transmission website

Download: Transmission 2.50

[CPressland]

They really need to fix the following issue with Case Sensitive FileSystems.

Download a torrent with a folder called 'hello'

Download a torrent with a folder called 'Hello'

All hell breaks lose!

[.Neo]

I thought I was going insane: Transmission kept giving out Growl-like notifications yet I removed Growl the second after Adobe CS5 finished installing. Kept searching in Activity Monitor and Library but couldn't find anything. Turns out Transmission has its own build-in notifications now. :pinch:

[CPressland]

I thought I was going insane: Transmission kept giving out Growl-like notifications yet I removed Growl the second after Adobe CS5 finished installing. Kept searching in Activity Monitor and Library but couldn't find anything. Turns out Transmission has its own build-in notifications now. :pinch:

And hopefully it'll begin using the OS X API on ML

[PyX]

I thought I was going insane: Transmission kept giving out Growl-like notifications yet I removed Growl the second after Adobe CS5 finished installing. Kept searching in Activity Monitor and Library but couldn't find anything. Turns out Transmission has its own build-in notifications now. :pinch:

I don?t see it listed in the changelog.

Is it because Growl now costs something ? At least I know Transmission will make good use of the new Notifications Center in Mountain Lion the second it?s released. I wouldn?t be able to stand 3rd-party notifications when Growl is already perfect to me. At least go the native way if Growl is not a solution anymore !

[.Neo]

I don?t see it listed in the changelog.

Mist notifications: basic notification support for users without Growl

At least I know Transmission will make good use of the new Notifications Center in Mountain Lion the second it?s released.

Except it won't. Notifications can only be used by App Store apps, which I think is an ******* move of Apple. So unless Transmission is added to the App Store, no notifications for it.

[CPressland]

Can Transmission even go on the Mac App Store? Are the rules relaxed enough?

[.Neo]

My point is it's insane that Apple limits notifications support to App Store apps.

[PyX]

Except it won't. Notifications can only be used by App Store apps, which I think is an ******* move of Apple. So unless Transmission is added to the App Store, no notifications for it.

Wow I missed it. Mist notifications, huh?

Yeah, I?m also scared about Transmission being rejected in the App Store. I?m crossing my fingers, because there?s a LOT of legal stuff to download out there with it. I forgot about the part where Notifications could only be used by apps coming from there. Bad move, Apple. They?re only trying to push developers to use the App Store, because there is no technical reason why a non-App Store app won?t be able to use this API.

They should try putting Transmission on the App Store right away to see how the story ends on Apple?s side?

[Quillz]

There are so many legit things that are distributed over BitTorrent. There really is no reason why Transmission should be rejected from the App Store, but I have a feeling Apple will never allow it. It would be great to have native Notification Center support in ML.

[PyX]

After digging up a little bit, I have found something that will make .Neo joyous :)

NOT.

More like the opposite in fact.

What Mist notifications are all about : http://growl.info/do...-growl.php#mist

At least they?re not a completely different implementation from Growl. I only can?t believe how intrusive they can be!

[.Neo]

As long as there's a checkbox to disable them I don't care.