Transmission 3.10 (2020-mm-dd)

All Platforms

Mac Client

Updates for macOS 11 Big Sur (#1535
- Compressed toolbar
- Red accent color
- Updated toolbar icons (using SF Symbol)
A wonderful new icon designed for Big Sur by Rodger Werner (#1650

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Utils

Transmission 3.00 (2020-05-03)

All Platforms

Allow the RPC server to listen on an IPv6 address (#161)
Change TR_CURL_SSL_VERIFY to TR_CURL_SSL_NO_VERIFY and enable verification by default (#334)
Go back to using hash as base name for resume and torrent files (those stored in configuration directory) (#122)
Handle "fields" argument in "session-get" RPC request; if "fields" array is present in arguments, only return session fields specified; otherwise return all the fields as before
Limit the number of incorrect authentication attempts in embedded web server to 100 to prevent brute-force attacks (#371)
Set idle seed limit range to 1..40320 (4 weeks tops) in all clients (#212)
Add Peer ID for Xfplay, PicoTorrent, Free Download Manager, Folx, Baidu Netdisk torrent clients (#256, #285, #355, #363, #386)
Announce INT64_MAX as size left if the value is unknown (helps with e.g. Amazon S3 trackers) (#250)
Add TCP_FASTOPEN support (should result in slight speedup) (#184)
Improve ToS handling on IPv6 connections (#128, #341, #360, #692, #737)
Abort handshake if establishing DH shared secret fails (leads to crash) (#27)
Don't switch trackers while announcing (leads to crash) (#297)
Improve completion scripts execution and error handling; add support for .cmd and .bat files on Windows (#405)
Maintain a "session ID" file (in temporary directory) to better detect whether session is local or remote; return the ID as part of "session-get" response (TRAC-5348, #861)
Change torrent location even if no data move is needed (#35)
Support CIDR-notated blocklists (#230, #741)
Update the resume file before running scripts (#825)
Make multiscrape limits adaptive (#837)
Add labels support to libtransmission and transmission-remote (#822)
Parse session-id header case-insensitively (#765)
Sanitize suspicious path components instead of rejecting them (#62, #294)
Load CA certs from system store on Windows / OpenSSL (#446)
Add support for mbedtls (formely polarssl) and wolfssl (formely cyassl), LibreSSL (#115, #116, #284, #486, #524, #570)
Fix building against OpenSSL 1.1.0+ (#24)
Fix quota support for uClibc-ng 1.0.18+ and DragonFly BSD (#42, #58, #312)
Fix a number of memory leaks (magnet loading, session shutdown, bencoded data parsing) (#56)
Bump miniupnpc version to 2.0.20170509 (#347)
CMake-related improvements (Ninja generator, libappindicator, systemd, Solaris and macOS) (#72, #96, #117, #118, #133, #191)
Switch to submodules to manage (most of) third-party dependencies
Fail installation on Windows if UCRT is not installed

Mac Client

Bump minimum macOS version to 10.10
Dark Mode support (#644, #722, #757, #779, #788)
Remove Growl support, notification center is always used (#387)
Fix autoupdate on High Sierra and up by bumping the Sparkle version (#121, #600)
Transition to ARC (#336)
Use proper UTF-8 encoding (with macOS-specific normalization) when setting download/incomplete directory and completion script paths (#11)
Fix uncaught exception when dragging multiple items between groups (#51)
Add flat variants of status icons for message log (#134)
Optimize image resources size (#304, #429)
Update file icon when file name changes (#37)
Update translations

GTK+ Client

Add queue up/down hotkeys (#158)
Modernize the .desktop file (#162)
Add AppData file (#224)
Add symbolic icon variant for the Gnome top bar and when the high contrast theme is in use (#414, #449)
Update file icon when its name changes (#37)
Switch from intltool to gettext for translations (#584, #647)
Update translations, add new translations for Portuguese (Portugal)

Qt Client

Bump minimum Qt version to 5.2
Fix dropping .torrent files into main window on Windows (#269)
Fix prepending of drive letter to various user-selected paths on Windows (#236, #307, #404, #437, #699, #723, #877)
Fix sorting by progress in presence of magnet transfers (#234)
Fix .torrent file trashing upon addition (#262)
Add queue up/down hotkeys (#158)
Reduce torrent properties (file tree) memory usage
Display tooltips in torrent properties (file tree) in case the names don't fit (#411)
Improve UI look on hi-dpi displays (YMMV)
Use session ID (if available) to check if session is local or not (#861)
Use default (instead of system) locale to be more flexible (#130)
Modernize the .desktop file (#162)
Update translations, add new translations for Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Slovenian

Daemon

Use libsystemd instead of libsystemd-daemon (TRAC-5921)
Harden transmission-daemon.service by disallowing privileges elevation (#795)
Fix exit code to be zero when dumping settings (#487)

Web Client

Fix tracker error XSS in inspector (CVE-?)
Fix performance issues due to improper use of setInterval() for UI refresh (TRAC-6031)
Fix recognition of https:// links in comments field (#41, #180)
Fix torrent list style in Google Chrome 59+ (#384)
Show ETA in compact view on non-mobile devices (#146)
Show upload file button on mobile devices (#320, #431, #956)
Add keyboard hotkeys for web interface (#351)
Disable autocompletion in torrent URL field (#367)

Utils

Prevent crash in transmission-show displaying torrents with invalid creation date (#609)
Handle IPv6 RPC addresses in transmission-remote (#247)
Add --unsorted option to transmission-show (#767)
Widen the torrent-id column in transmission-remote for cleaner formatting (#840)

Transmission 2.94 (2018-05-01)

All Platforms

Fix building against LibreSSL (#284, #486, #570)
Fix building against mbedTLS (#115, #528)
Fix torrents ETA calculation (#522)
Fix cross-compilation issues caused by miniupnpc configuration test (#475)

Qt Client

Fix bad downloaded percentage in DetailsDialog (#547)

Web Client

Fix tracker error XSS in inspector (CVE pending)
Fix torrent name HTML-escaping in trackers inspector tab

Transmission 2.93 (2018-01-23)

All Platforms

Fix CVE-2018-5702 (#468)
Fix crash on handshake if establishing DH shared secret fails (#27)
Fix crash when switching to next tracker during announcement (#297)
Fix potential issue during password salt extraction in OOM situation (#141)
Workaround glib_DEFUN- and glib_REQUIRE-related configuration issue (#215)
Fix building against OpenSSL 1.1.0+ (#24)

Mac Client

Fix uncaught exception when dragging multiple items between groups (#51)
Don't hard-code libcrypto version to 0.9.8 in Xcode project (#71)

Transmission 2.92 (2016-03-06)

Mac Client

Build OSX.KeRanger.A ransomware removal into the app

Transmission 2.91 (2016-03-06)

All Platforms

Fix Makefile.am to include Windows patches into source archive
Fix miniupnpc script to handle spaces and other special chars in paths

Mac Client

Prevent crash during group rules removal in some cases
Fix failure to remove seeding completion notifications from notification center
Show main window and scroll to torrent on notification click
Fix issue on Yosemite where peers view didn't occupy all the available space when web seed view was hidden

Qt Client

Fix existing running instance detection and torrents delegation when using DBus

Daemon

Fix building on Windows x86
Add --blocklist-update argument description to transmission-remote man page
Use -rad as short form of --remove-and-delete option in transmission-remote

Transmission 2.90 (2016-02-28)

All Platforms

Fix renaming torrent files with common prefix
Fix some more thread safety bugs in the tr_list datatype
Fix infinite loop when removing torrent data
Add support for CyaSSL/WolfSSL and PolarSSL cryptographic backends; bump OpenSSL minimum to v0.9.7
Initial CMake build system support
Many improvements to support Windows builds with MSVS and MinGW; drop XP/2003 support, only Vista and up now
Allow building against system UTP and DHT libraries
Fix several memory leaks and buffer overflows
Support miniupnpc API v14
Fix "prefetch-enabled" value type in settings.json (boolean instead of integer)
Fix some issues discovered by static analysis (cppcheck, coverity)
Fix invalid JSON encoding for non-printable characters
Fix multi-threaded locale use when encoding/decoding JSON data
Fix encrypted communication with libevent 2.1+
Prevent completed pieces modification by webseeds
Require absolute paths in RPC requests
Fix and unify torrent origin display in GTK+, Qt and web clients
Fix crash on session shutdown (evdns_getaddrinfo_cancel)
Retry if RPC server fails to bind to specified address
Improve error checking on metadata retrieval
Improve UTF-8 validity checking (merge changes from LLVM)
Don't build transmission-cli by default (it's long deprecated)

Mac Client

UI fixes for OS X 10.9+
Trim potential URIs from clipboard
Allow downloading files from http servers (not https) on OS X 10.11+
Change Sparkle Update URL to use HTTPS instead of HTTP (addresses Sparkle vulnerability)
Fix global options popover layout
Fix building with Xcode 7+
Drop OS X 10.6 support

GTK+ Client

Fix overshoot and undershoot indicators display with GTK+ 3.16+ in main window
Don't require DISPLAY if started with --version argument

Qt Client

Improve performance in Torrent Properties dialog for torrents with lots of files
Prevent entering file renaming mode with mouse double-click
Add context menu on files tab of Torrent Properties dialog resembling that of Mac client
Remove torrent file from watch directory even if "show options dialog" is not set
Use theme-provided icons in system tray and About dialog
Fix initial watch directory scan
Improve filter bar look and feel; lots of other small visual fixes; RTL layout fixes
Show message to the user when duplicate torrent is being added
Improve magnets handling in main window
Display notifications via tray icon if D-Bus is not available
Show notice on top of filtered torrents list; clear whole filter on notice double-click
Add proper compiler flags to indicate C++11 use
Fix translation files loading
Add Chinese (China), German, Indonesian, Italian (Italy), Korean, Polish (Poland), Ukrainian translations; update existing translations

Daemon

Run as service on Windows when in background mode
Rework directory watching, add support for native mechanisms on BSD/Darwin (kqueue) and Windows (ReadDirectoryChanges)
Don't make assumptions of remote path validity in transmission-remote

Web Client

Content Security Policy enhancements
Enable "resume now" for queued torrents
Mark appropriate fields in preferences dialog as HTML5 number fields
Update to jQuery 1.11.2, jQueryUI 1.11.4; use jQueryUI menus instead of custom ones

Transmission 2.84 (2014-07-01)

All Platforms

Fix peer communication vulnerability (no known exploits) reported by Ben Hawkes

Transmission 2.83 (2014-05-18)

All Platforms

Licensing change: the GNU GPLv2 code can now be used under GNU GPL v2 or v3
Fix network hanging issues that could occur when both UTP and DHT were enabled
Fix 2.82 file descriptor leak when importing a blocklist
Disallow torrents that contain "/../" in the path
Fix 2.82 bug that didn't retain peers between sessions
Fix potential dangling memory error in UDP tracker DNS lookups
Remember a torrent's "queued" state between Transmission sessions
Updated third party libraries: DHT updated to v0.22; miniupnpc updated to v1.9
Autoconf script fixes: better detection of ccache, minupnpc
Fix the X-Transmission-Session-Id header to be valid with the SPDY protocol
Fix thread safety bugs in the tr_list datatype
When determining free disk space on NetBSD>=6, support its Quota feature
Windows portability improvements

Mac Client

Share option in File menu and context menu
Show all torrents when the filter bar is hidden
Show zero-byte files correctly
Coalesce multiple Speed Limit Auto Enabled/Disabled notifications
Turkish localization
Removed Brazilian Portuguese localization because of lack of localizer (European Portuguese localization remains)

GTK+ Client

Fix threading issue on shutdown

Qt Client

Fix toggle-downloading-by-pressing-spacebar in the file list
Fix "Open URL" crash from dangling pointer
Support launching downloaded files from inside Transmission
On Windows, use native Windows icons
Improved network status info and tooltip in the status bar
Fix "Open Torrent" dialog crash in Qt 5.2

Daemon

On systemd systems, fix config reloading via 'systemctl reload'
Use libevent's event loop
Fix discrepancy in curl SSL setup between tr-daemon and tr-remote
Fix broken OS X build

Web Client

Support file renaming in the web client
Fix incorrect torrent state being displayed for magnet links
Make URLs in the torrent's comment field clickable (and sanitize them to prevent cross-scripting)

Transmission 2.82 (2013-08-08)

All Platforms

Fix webseed crash
Fix crash when adding UDP trackers whose host's canonical name couldn't be found
Fix crash when sending handshakes to some peers immediately after adding a magnet link
Fix crash when parsing incoming encrypted handshakes when the user is removing the related torrent
Add safeguard to prevent zombie processes after running a script when a torrent finishes downloading
Fix "bad file descriptor" error
Queued torrents no longer show up as paused after exiting & restarting
Fix 2.81 compilation error on OpenBSD
Don't misidentify Tixati as BitTornado

Mac Client

Fix bug that had slow download speeds until editing preferences

GTK+ Client

Fix crash that occurred in some cases after using Torrent > Set Location
Fix crash where on_app_exit() got called twice in a row
Fix 2.81 compilation error on older versions of glib
Can now open folders that have a '#' in their names
Silence gobject warning when updating a blocklist from URL

Qt Client

Qt 5 support

Web Client

Fix syntax error in index.html's meta name="viewport"
Fix file uploading issue in Internet Explorer 11

Transmission 2.81 (2013-07-17)

All Platforms

Fix 2.80 bug that showed the incorrect status for some peers
Better handling of announce errors returned by some trackers
Fix compilation error on Solaris

Mac Client

Fix 2.80 crash when removing a torrent when its seed ratio or idle limit is reached
Fix crash when pausing some torrents
Fix 2.80 icon display on Mavericks

GTK+ Client

Fix minor memory leaks
Remove OnlyShowIn= from the .desktop file

Qt Client

Remove OnlyShowIn= from the .desktop file

Daemon

Change the systemd script to start Transmission after the network's initialized

Web Client

Slightly better compression of png files

Transmission 2.80 (2013-06-25)

All Platforms

Support renaming a transfer's files and folders
Remove the most frequent thread locks in libtransmission (ie, fewer beachballs)
Show the free disk space available when adding torrent
Faster reading and parsing of local data files
Better use of the OS's filesystem cache
Lengthen the prefetch cache for data sent to peers
Other small speedups
Replace the previous JSON parser with jsonsl to resolve DFSG licensing issue
Fix fails-to-build when compiling with -Werror=format-security
Improved unit tests in libtransmission
Tarballs are now released only in .xz format

Mac Client

Use VDKQueue for watching for torrent files

GTK+ Client

Simplify the tracker filter pulldown's interface (now matches the Qt client)
Synced preferences text & shortcuts
Remove deprecated calls to gdk_threads_enter()
Silence a handful of console warnings

Qt Client

More efficient updates when receiving information from the server
Add an option to play a sound when a torrent finishes downloading
Add an option to start up iconified into the notification area
Fix an issue with the tray icon preventing hibernation/logout
Other CPU speedups
Open the correct folder when clicking on single-file torrents
Synced preferences text & shortcuts
Fix non Latin-1 unit strings

Daemon

Add support for specifying recently-active torrents in transmission-remote

Web Client

Extend the cookie lifespan so that settings like sort order don't get lost

Utils

Support user-defined piece sizes in transmission-create

Transmission 2.77 (2013-02-18)

All Platforms

Fix 2.75 regression that broke JSON parsing of real numbers in locales that don't use '.' as a decimal separator
Don't invalidate the OS's file cache when closing files
Fix overflow error when setting speed limits above ~8589 kB/s
Generated magnet links didn't include webseeds
Fix minor memory leaks when using webseeds

GTK+ Client

Minor pluralization fixes in the UI
Fix folder mis-selection issue in the Preferences dialog
Fix GTK+ console warnings on shutdown

Qt Client

Fix non Latin-1 symbol issue when showing file transfer speeds
Fix issue when creating new torrents with multiple trackers
Fix lost text selection in the properties dialog's 'comment' field

Daemon

Fix documentation errors in the spec and manpages

Web Client

Fix minor DOM leak

CLI

Fix transmission-cli failure when the download directory doesn't exist

Transmission 2.76 (2013-01-08)

All Platforms

Better error logging when user-provided scripts can't be executed
The "Time Remaining" property wasn't set for torrents with webseeds but no peers
Fix rare error that created a directory name "$HOME"

GTK+ Client

Fix sort-by-age regression introduced in 2.74
The "Edit Trackers" window didn't resize properly due to a 2.70 regression
Raise the main window when presenting it from an App Indicator

Qt Client

Add magnet link support to transmission-qt.desktop
Fix notification area bug that inhibited logouts & desktop hibernation
Use the "video" icon when the torrent is an mkv or mp4 file
Toggling the "Append '.part' to incomplete files' names" had no effect
Fix display of the torrent name in the Torrent Options dialog
Fix cursor point bug in the filterbar's entry field
Fix crash when adding a magnet link when Transmission was only visible in the system tray
Fix free-memory-read error on shutdown

Daemon

Better watchdir support
Documentation fixes in transmission-remote's manpage

Web Client

Fix indentation of the torrent list and toolbar buttons on mobile devices

CLI

If the Download directory doesn't exist, try to create it instead of exiting

Transmission 2.75 (2012-12-13)

Mac

Fix crash on non-English localizations

Transmission 2.74 (2012-12-10)

All Platforms

Fix a bug that prevented IPv6 addresses from being saved in dht.dat
Better handling of magnet links that contain 'tr.x=' parameters
Add filtering of addresses used for uTP peer connections
Fix detection of whether or not a peer supports uTP connections

Mac

Auto-grouping won't apply until torrents are demagnetized
Tweak the inspector's and add window's file lists to avoid auto-hiding scrollbars overlapping the priority controls
Fix potential crash when downloading and seeding complete at the same time
Fix bug where stopped torrents might start when waking the computer from sleep

Web Client

Fix a multi-file selection bug
Fix bug where the upload and download arrows and rates would not appear for downloading torrents
Fix bug when displaying the tracker list

Transmission 2.73 (2012-10-08)

Mac

Fix crash on non-English localizations

Transmission 2.72 (2012-10-16)

All Platforms

Fix crash when adding magnet links with malformed webseeds
Fix handling of magnet links' webseed URLs that contain whitespace
Fix remaining time estimates of magnet links that have webseeds
Show the webseed count in the torrent list when downloading from webseeds

Mac

When possible allow automatic switching to the integrated GPU on dual-GPU machines
Include seeding-complete transfers in the badged count on the Dock icon

GTK+

When adding torrents by URL from the clipboard, handle whitespace in the link

Qt

Fix dialog memory leaks

Web Client

Minor interface fixes

Transmission 2.71 (2012-09-26)

Mac

Fix 2.70 crasher on 10.6 Snow Leopard

Transmission 2.70 (2012-09-25)

All Platforms

Improved speed with the µTP protocol
Fix bug that caused some incoming encrypted peer connections to fail
Fix bugs with the speed limit scheduler
Fix crasher with magnet links

Mac

Notification Center support on Mountain Lion
Torrent files can be previewed with Quick Look in the Finder
Add an option to remove transfers when seeding completes
Fix displaying the Web Client with Bonjour
Fix bugs with Time Machine exclusions
Other minor interface tweaks and bug fixes
Removed Simplified Chinese localization because of lack of localizer

GTK+

Require GTK+ 3.4

Qt

Control speed limit from the icon tray
Improved behavior when clicking on torrents in the torrent list
Fix bug where torrent files were not deleted
Fix bug with unicode characters in the default location

Web Client

The file inspector tab displays files nested under directories
Improved scrolling on iPad
Fix incorrectly rendered characters
Fix bug involving attempts to post notifications without permission

Transmission 2.61 (2012-07-23)

Mac

Fix crash when creating a torrent file on Lion or newer

GTK+

Support startup notification
Require GTK+ 3

Qt

Fix bug when opening the web client via the Preferences dialog
Better opening of magnet links
The Torrent File list now handles very long lists faster
Fix i18n problem introduced in 2.60

Web Client

Close potential cross-scripting vulnerability from malicious torrent files

Utils

Add magnet link generation to the transmission-show command line tool

Transmission 2.60 (2012-07-05)

All Platforms

Fix issues when adding magnet links
Improved scraping behavior for certain trackers
Fix bug where cleared statistics might not save
Updated versions of miniupnpc and libuTP
Fixed compilation issues with Solaris and FreeBSD
Other minor fixes

Mac

Ready for Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion
Retina graphics
Add a filter and select all/deselect all buttons to the add window
Support Lion's window restoration for several windows

Qt

Add Basque translation

Web Client

Notification of downloading and seeding completion (requires browser support of notifications)
Re-add select all and deselect all buttons to the file inspector tab

Transmission 2.52 (2012-05-19)

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

Transmission 2.51 (2012-04-08)

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

Mac

Raise the allowed limits for many configuration options
Fix regression that ignored user-specified TRANSMISSION_HOME environment

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

Transmission 2.50 (2012-02-14)

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

Transmission 2.42 (2011-10-19)

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

Mac

Fix a potential crash on 10.5 Leopard
Fix bugs with the tracker and file inspector tables

GTK+

Support GTK+ 3.2
Fix crasher on systems not running DBus

Qt

Updated Lithuanian translation

Web Client

Fix bug which broke Opera support

Transmission 2.41 (2011-10-08)

Mac

Fix crasher on 10.5 Leopard

Transmission 2.40 (2011-10-08)

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

Mac

Lion: Use popovers for the global and per-torrent action menus
Lion: Animations in the inspector's file list and the message window
Support sorting transfers by size
No longer keep track of recently opened torrent files
Apply group locations when adding transfers through the web client/RPC
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

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 "./"

Transmission 2.33 (2011-07-20)

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

Mac

Minor Lion interface tweaks

GTK+

Remove deprecated GConf2 dependency

Qt

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

Transmission 2.32 (2011-06-28)

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

Mac

Improved tabbing behavior
Lion compatibility
Minor interface tweaks and stability 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

Transmission 2.31 (2011-05-17)

All Platforms

This release fixes a 2.30 packaging error

Transmission 2.30 (2011-05-16)

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

Mac

An Intel Mac is now required
Ability to remove all completed (finished seeding) transfers
The Web Interface is published over Wide-Area Bonjour
Enhanced grouping rules
Interface tweaks

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

Transmission 2.22 (2011-03-04)

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 blocklists
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

Mac

Fixes for Dutch, German, and Russian localizations

GTK+

Fix setting individual idle seeding time

Qt

Fix loading localizations on Linux

CLI

Fix bandwidth display issue

Transmission 2.21 (2011-02-08)

All Platforms

Fix compile error in the 2.20 tarball

GTK+

Several updated translations

Qt

Updated Spanish translation

Transmission 2.20 (2011-02-06)

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

Mac

Fix issues in the German and Spanish localizations
Interface tweaks
Support ZIP and other compression formats in the blocklist downloader

GTK+

Add "Add" and "Remove" buttons to the tracker list
Add filesize column to the files list
Several minor bug fixes 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

Transmission 2.13 (2010-12-09)

All Platforms

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

Mac

Add option to run a script when torrents finish downloading
Simplify editing the blocklist URL in the preferences window

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

Transmission 2.12 (2010-11-14)

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

Transmission 2.11 (2010-10-16)

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

Mac

Swipe to change inspector tab

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

Transmission 2.10 (2010-10-07)

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

Mac

Display file sizes and speeds in base 10 on Snow Leopard

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

Transmission 2.04 (2010-08-06)

All Platforms

Improved shutdown time in some situations
Fix display bug in tr_truncd()

Mac

Fix bug that caused Local Peer Discovery to always be disabled on startup

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

Transmission 2.03 (2010-07-21)

Mac

Fix 2.02 bug where new transfers could not be added and the inspector would not appear

Transmission 2.02 (2010-07-19)

All Platforms

Fix NAT-PMP port forwarding issue on some systems
Fix filename errors for torrents whose files are encoded in ISO-8859-1
Fix rare crash on shutdown
Fix the RPC server's redirect URL to allow HTTPS proxies like stunnel
Replace less-portable calls with posix nanosleep()

Mac

Use F_NOCACHE to keep "inactive memory" in check

GTK+

Fix crash when opening the Properties dialog on a magnet link without metainfo
Fix crash when removing multiple torrents at once
Allow individual torrents' download speed limits to be set to zero
Fix translation error with some error messages

Qt

Fix CPU spike when opening the Properties dialog
Fix compilation issue with Qt < 4.5

Transmission 2.01 (2010-06-26)

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

Mac

If the seed ratio is already met when download completes, still perform the Growl notification and download-complete sound
Fix the Help buttons in the preferences window

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

Transmission 2.00 (2010-06-15)

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

Mac

Compact View replaces Minimal View, taking up considerably less space
Show an Add Transfer window when adding magnet links
"Resume All" now ignores finished transfers
Allow trackers to be pasted into the Create Window
European Portuguese localization
Removed Traditional Chinese localization because of lack of localizer

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

Transmission 1.93 (2010-05-01)

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

Transmission 1.92 (2010-03-14)

All Platforms

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

Mac

Fix bug where setting low priority in the add window resulted in high priority

GTK+

Fix directory selection error in GTK+ 2.19
Small GUI improvements: HIG correctness, remove deprecated GTK+ calls, etc.

Daemon

Fix 1.91 build error on Mac and FreeBSD
Standardize the daemon's watchdir feature to behave like the other clients'

Web Client

Statistics dialog
Fix error in "trash data & remove from list" that didn't trash all data
Fix display of ratios and time
Update to jQuery 1.4.2

Transmission 1.91 (2010-02-21)

All Platforms

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

Mac

Fix 1.90 bug when removing trackers

Transmission 1.90 (2010-02-16)

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

Mac

Display information for all selected transfers in the inspector's tracker and peer tabs
Add a filter to the message log
Fix potential crash when updating the blocklist
Fix bug that caused the speed limit scheduler to not be applied after sleep
Remove excessive file selection for the per-torrent action menu
Smaller interface tweaks

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

Transmission 1.83 (2010-01-28)

All Platforms

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

Transmission 1.82 (2010-01-23)

All Platforms

The 1.81 announce's "Host" HTTP header didn't contain the host's port number

Transmission 1.81 (2010-01-22)

All Platforms

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

Mac

Fix dragging URLs onto the dock icon
Fix auto-grouping by file name

Transmission 1.80 (2010-01-20)

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 bug fixes 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 (2010-01-04)

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

Transmission 1.76 (2009-10-24)

All Platforms

Fix potential 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 minor manpage errors

Mac

Fix a potential crasher on Snow Leopard
When creating a multi-tracker torrent, give each tracker its own tier
Fix display glitch when changing sort to "Queue Order"

Daemon

Fix potential 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 tracker address display error in the torrent Properties dialog
Fix tray menu's main window status when Transmission is started minimized
Fix broken SIGINT (ctrl-c) handling
Fix 1.61 build failure on systems with new versions of glib but older versions of gtk

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

Transmission 1.75 (2009-09-13)

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

Mac

Fix libcurl build issue that caused tracker connectivity problems on Snow Leopard
Fix error when creating a torrent file while still changing the announce address

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

Transmission 1.74 (2009-08-24)

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

Mac

64-bit compatibility
Queuing system will not exclude transfers with tracker warnings
Links to original torrent files are no longer maintained
Fix bug where changing the global per-torrent peer connection limit did not affect the current session
Fix bug where changing settings through RPC would result in wrong values being saved for three fields

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

Transmission 1.73 (2009-07-18)

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

Transmission 1.72 (2009-06-16)

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

Mac

Fix problem where a small set of users could not add torrents

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

Transmission 1.71 (2009-06-07)

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

Transmission 1.70 (2009-06-04)

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

Mac

Holding down the option key on launch will pause all transfers

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+

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"

Transmission 1.54 (2009-06-04)

All Platforms

Fix small bugs and memory leaks

Web Client

Fix 1.53 bug that broke adding torrents via the web client
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 error
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

Transmission 1.61 (2009-05-11)

All Platforms

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

Qt

Various small bug fixes to the beta Qt client

Web Client

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

Daemon

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

Transmission 1.53 (2009-05-11)

All Platforms

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

Transmission 1.60 (2009-05-04)

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

Mac

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer
Groups (moved to preferences) can be auto-assigned to transfers when adding based on multiple criteria
Groups can have a default location when adding transfers
The speed limit scheduler can now be applied to only specific days
Bonjour support for the web interface
File filter field in the inspector
Option to include beta releases when auto-updating (using modified Sparkle 1.5)
Portuguese localization

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

Transmission 1.52 (2009-04-12)

Mac

Improve interface responsiveness when downloading

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 minor web client 301 redirect error
Better Internet Explorer support

Transmission 1.51 (2009-02-26)

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

Transmission 1.50 (2009-02-13)

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 bug fixes

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 Client

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

Transmission 1.42 (2008-12-24)

All Platforms

Fix 1.41 lockup issue

Transmission 1.41 (2008-12-23)

All Platforms

Better peer management in large swarms
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
Fix handshake peer_id error
Corrrectly handle Windows-style newlines in Bluetack blocklists
More accurate bandwidth measurement
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 bug fixes, usability changes, and locale improvements
Three new translations: Afrikaans, Asturian, Bosnian
Sixteen updated translations

Daemon

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

CLI

Fix minor free-memory-read bug

Transmission 1.40 (2008-11-09)

All Platforms

Tracker communication uses fewer resources
More accurate bandwidth limits
Reduce disk fragmentation by preallocating files
Stability, security, and performance improvements to the RPC/Web UI 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

Mac

Option to automatically update the blocklist weekly
In the file inspector tab, show progress and size for folders
Scrollbars correctly appear when the main window auto-resizes
Sparkle updated to 1.5b6

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

Transmission 1.34 (2008-09-16)

All Platforms

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

Mac

Fix memory leak when updating blocklist
Connect to the web interface when the application's path contains a space

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

Transmission 1.33 (2008-08-30)

All Platforms

Fix crash from malicious torrent files with a piece size of zero
When creating new torrent files, change behavior that caused "Multi tracker torrents are not allowed" warning on one tracker
Fix Unicode handling in the JSON parser/generator
Fix memory error when reading KTorrent's PEX messages
Fix small memory leaks

Mac

Rephrase "data not fully available" to "remaining time unknown"
Fix bug where torrent file creation would fail because an extra blank tracker address was inserted

Daemon

Fix crash when adding nonexistent torrents via transmission-remote

GTK+

Fix crash from malicious torrent files with large creator fields
Fix error where some torrents opened via a web browser didn't appear

Transmission 1.32 (2008-08-08)

All Platforms

Fix bug introduced in 1.30 that caused poor tracker communication
Creating torrent files for files >= 2 GB will result in 2 MB pieces

Mac

Fix bug where the proxy type was changed from SOCKS5 to SOCKS4 on launch

Transmission 1.31 (2008-08-06)

All Platforms

Fix a crash caused by certain torrent files

Transmission 1.30 (2008-08-05)

All Platforms

The "Clutch" web interface is now bundled with Transmission (as a beta)
Ability to add and remove tracker addresses
Ability to create torrent files with multiple tracker addresses
Added support for HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style)
Added proxy support for communicating with trackers
Allow torrent creation with no tracker address (required by some trackers)
New JSON-RPC protocol for clients to interact with the backend

Daemon

transmission-daemon and transmission-remote were rewritten from scratch
remote and daemon now support per-file priority & download flag settings

Mac

Quick Look integration in the main window and inspector's file tab
Transfers can be dragged to different groups
Option to only show the add window when manually adding transfers
Status strings are toggled from the action button (they are no longer clickable)
Colors in pieces bar and pieces box more accurately reflect their corresponding values
The port checker now uses our own portcheck.transmissionbt.com
Turkish localization

GTK+

Add options to inhibit hibernation and to toggle the tray icon
Lots of small bug fixes and usability improvements
Dozens of updated translations

Transmission 1.22 (2008-06-13)

All Platforms

Fix two separate BitTorrent unchoke bugs that could affect performance
Transmission now builds correctly on Sun Studio
Minor man page fixes

Mac

Fix bug where "Program Started" in the Statistics window would sometimes display as 0

GTK+

Fix crash when quitting while the stats window is still up
Added Latvian, Malayalam, Serbian, and Telugu translations
Updated Czech, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Danish, German, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Finnish, and Chinese (simplified) translations

CLI

Fix scraping torrents with the -s command-line argument

Transmission 1.21 (2008-05-21)

All Platforms

Fix rare crash-on-startup bug
Handle corrupt announce URLs in torrent files more gracefully
Fix minor memory leak when closing torrents

Mac

Fix visual glitch with the pieces bar
Italian localization included

GTK+

Updated Catalan, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Thai, Turkish, and Traditional Chinese translations

Transmission 1.20 (2008-05-09)

All Platforms

Support https tracker connections
IP blocking using the Bluetack Level1 blocklist
Better support of multitracker torrents
Faster UPnP port mapping on startup
Ability to reset global statistics
Various bug fixes

Mac

Display of decimal numbers matches system international settings
Updated Dock badge images

GTK+

Inhibit hibernation when downloading
Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files
Various bug fixes and usability improvements
Vastly improved translations thanks to the Ubuntu translation team

Transmission 1.11 (2008-04-04)

Mac

Fix scrape address visual glitch with the tracker inspector tab
Only make the progress status string clickable on multi-file torrents
Traditional Chinese localization, updated Russian localization

GTK+

Fix a couple of minor display issues

Transmission 1.10 (2008-03-28)

All Platforms

Stop torrents when downloading and the disk becomes full
Removing a torrent also removes it from the cache
Smaller memory footprint per-torrent and per-peer
Various backend bug fixes & improvements

Mac

Window when adding torrents to select files and other settings
Leopard: Collapsable group dividers
Use the file icon as the per-torrent action button
Tracker tab in the inspector
Message log specifies the torrent/activity the message relates to
Updated images in the inspector
Optional display of remaining time while seeding in Minimal View
Improved accuracy for displaying the remaining disk space warning

GTK+

Window for selecting files & priorities when opening torrents
Display a system tray popup when a torrent finishes downloading
Watch folder for auto-adding torrents
Improved preferences dialog and message log window
Tracker tab in the Details window
Dozens of usability, Gnome HIG, and i18n improvements
Support KDE button ordering
Option to delete a torrent and its downloaded files

Daemon

Ability to force a "Verify Local Data" for a torrent

Transmission 1.06 (2008-02-26)

All Platforms

Improvements and bug fixes to "Verify Local Data"
Use less CPU
Fix support for multitracker torrents
Updated UPnP code to miniupnpc-1.0
Fix two shutdown memory errors

GTK+

Fix small memory leak
GUI error when verifying local data

CLI

Torrent creation error on non-absolute pathnames

Transmission 1.05 (2008-02-08)

All Platforms

Fix 1.04 crash when parsing bencoded data
Packaging improvements

Mac

Fix bug remembering reordered groups

GTK+

Fix glitch that occurred when specifying which files to download
Fix "Sort by Progress"
Various interface and HIG improvements
Updated Swedish, Italian translations

Daemon

Fix "transmission-remote -x"
Fix PEX enable/disable bug

Transmission 1.04 (2008-01-31)

All Platforms

Fix (potential) remote crash bug with extension protocol
Fix bug when verifying a torrent and pressing `pause'

Transmission 1.03 (2008-01-29)

All Platforms

Fix bug setting maximum peer limits
Fix overflow issue with very large torrents
Fix LTEP handshake bug
Fix handshake bug with mainline BitTorrent
Fix bug when talking to lighttpd-based trackers

GTK+

Various packaging, HiG, and interface improvements

Transmission 1.02 (2008-01-22)

All Platforms

Fix 1.00 bug that choked some models of routers
Fix 1.00 crash in peer handshake
Fix 1.00 bug that sometimes froze the app for a long time
Minor improvements to the command-line client

GTK+

Fix crash when removing a torrent while its details window is open
Better compliance with the Gnome interface guidelines
I18N fixes
Updated Dutch translation
Various other interface additions and improvements

Transmission 1.01 (2008-01-11)

All Platforms

Fix 1.00 freezing issue
Fix 1.00 assertion failure
Improve initial connection speed
Added connection throttle to avoid router overload
Improve reconnection to peers with imperfect network connections
Fix crashes on architectures that require strict alignment

Mac

Leopard: Double-click icon to reveal in Finder, progress string to toggle selected and total, and anywhere else to toggle the inspector
Leopard: Better behavior with Time Machine
Fix bugs with Clutch support

GTK+

New Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, and Turkish translations
Fix 1.00 desktop internationalization error

Transmission 1.00 (2008-01-04)

All Platforms

Port forwarding now performed by MiniUPnP and libnatpmp
Ability to set global and per-torrent number of connections
Option to prefer not using encryption
Fix tracker connection error
PEX is now configured globally
Updated icon

Mac

Redesigned Leopard-like look
Group labeling, filtering, and sorting
Statistics window
Pieces Bar (return of Advanced Bar)
Display "not available" overlay on the regular bar
Display remaining time for seeding transfers
Sort by total activity
Connectable from the Clutch web interface
Leopard: Time Machine will ignore incomplete downloads
Leopard: Fix bug where text fields would reject localized decimal values
Leopard: Fix bug where bandwidth rates chosen from the action menu would not apply the first time

GTK+

Redesigned main window interface
Minimal Mode for showing more torrents in less desktop space
Torrent filtering
Port forwarding tester in Preferences
Statistics window
Sort by total activity, progress, state, and tracker
Various other interface additions and improvements

CLI

Restore `scrape' feature

Transmission 0.96 (2007-12-10)

All Platforms

Fix 0.95 data corruption error
Fix 0.95 bug that broke UPnP

Mac

Fix bug where dragging non-torrent files over the main window could result in excessive memory usage

Transmission 0.95 (2007-12-04)

All Platforms

Fix router errors caused by sending too many tracker requests at once
Fix bug that let speed-limited torrents upload too quickly
Faster average upload speeds
Faster connection to peers after starting a torrent
Fix memory corruption error
Disable SWIFT for ratio-based trackers

Mac

Leopard: Fix for NAT-PMP port mapping

GTK+

Fix Nokia 770 crash

Transmission 0.94 (2007-11-25)

All Platforms

Faster average download speeds
Automatically ban peers that send us too many corrupt pieces
Fix a crash that occurred if a peer sent us an incomplete message
Fix portmapping crash
Fix bug that left files open after their torrents were stopped
Fix 0.93 file permissions bug
Fix tracker redirect error
Fix LTEP PEX bug

Transmission 0.93 (2007-11-12)

All Platforms

Fix "router death" bug that impaired internet connectivity
Fix bug that could cause good peer connections to be lost
Tweak request queue code to improve download speeds
Better handling of very large files on 32bit systems
Consume less battery power on laptops
Fix minor IPC parsing error

Transmission 0.92 (2007-11-05)

All Platforms

Fix 0.90 data corruption bugs
Fix 0.90 possible delay when quitting
Fix 0.90 small memory leaks

Mac

Leopard: Fix bug with typing values in Inspector->Options
Leopard: Fix bug with toggling Minimal View

GTK+

Better support for large files on some Linux systems
Fix localization error in torrent inspector's dates

Transmission 0.91 (2007-10-28)

All Platforms

Fix 0.90 speed limits
Fix 0.90 problems announcing to some trackers
Fix 0.90 socket connection leak
Fix 0.90 IPC crash
Fix 0.90 cache bug that could cause "verify local files" to fail
Fix 0.90 build errors on OpenBSD and on older C compilers

Mac

Fix a crash caused by custom sound files
Add Dutch localization, re-add Russian localization, fix Korean localization

GTK+

Fix 0.90 packaging errors
Fix 0.90 crash-on-start with assertion failure: "destination != (void*)0"

Transmission 0.90 (2007-10-23)

All Platforms

Encryption support, with option to ignore unencrypted peers
Only report downloaded, verified good pieces in tracker `download' field
Improved compliance with BitTorrent spec
MSE Tracker Extension support
Significant rewrite of the libtransmission back-end

Mac

Per-torrent action menu
Redesigned inspector with additional statistics and ability to be resized vertically in Peers and Files tabs
Redesigned message log
Optimizations to decrease memory usage
Sort and filter by tracker
Icon enhanced to support size of 512 x 512
Various smaller interface additions and improvements

GTK+

Various interface improvements
Better compliance with the Gnome interface guidelines

Transmission 0.82 (2007-09-09)

All Platforms

Fixed bug that could limit transfer speeds
Fixed bug that corrupted torrents > 4 GB
Fixed bug that could allow bad peers to send too many pieces
For peers supporting both Azureus' and LibTorrent's extensions, allow negotiation to decide which to use
Other minor fixes

Transmission 0.81 (2007-08-22)

All Platforms

Fix 0.80 assertion crashes
Fix a bug that miscounted how many peers Transmission wants connected
Clarify misleading error messages
Fix memory leaks

Mac

Multiple fixes to creating torrents and adding new torrents
Updated Russian and Spanish translations

GTK+

Updated Dutch, Portuguese, French, and Slovakian translations

CLI

Better support for cli-driven torrent creation
Fix a bug that misparsed command-line arguments

Transmission 0.80 (2007-08-07)

All Platforms

Ability to selectively download and prioritize files
Torrent file creation
Speed and CPU load improvements
Fix to UPnP
Rechecking torrents is now done one-at-a-time to avoid heavy disk load
Better rechecking of torrents that have many files
Many miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
Partial licensing change -- see the LICENSE file for details

Mac

Overlay when dragging torrent files, URLs, and data files onto window
Ability to set an amount of time to consider a transfer stalled
More progress bar colors
Various smaller interface improvements
Italian, Korean, and Russian translations

GTK+

Added Torrent Inspector dialog
Added Update Tracker button
Various smaller interface improvements

Transmission 0.72 (2007-04-30)

Reset download/upload amounts when sending "started"
Fix rare XML parsing bug

Transmission 0.71 (2007-04-23)

All Platforms

Send port info when sending requests
Calculate ratio differently when seeding without ever downloading
Add additional error messages and debug info
Improved UPnP support

Mac

Fix error when using default incomplete folder
Disable the stop ratio once it is reached (while seeding)
Small interface adjustments

Transmission 0.70 (2007-04-18)

All Platforms

New icon
Automatic port mapping (NAT-PMP and UPnP IGD)
Peer exchange (PEX) compatible with Azureus and uTorrent
Multitracker support
Better handling of tracker announce interval
Fixes bug where absurdly huge upload/download totals could be sent
Automatic tracker scraping
Cache connected peers
Many miscellaneous bug fixes and small improvements

Mac

Requires 10.4 Tiger or newer
Download and seeding queues that can be user-ordered
Speed Limit: Second set of bandwidth limits that can be toggled or scheduled
Individual torrent bandwidth limits
Separate complete and incomplete download folders
Filter and search bar
Expanded Inspector with many additional views and stats
Fragment status view in Inspector shows downloaded or availability
Watch folder to auto add torrent files
Auto resizing of the main window
Minimal view to take up less space
Seeding bar shows progress in finishing seeding
Sounds when downloading and seeding complete
Warnings for directory unavailable and not enough space
Message log window
New toolbar icons
Built-in help files
French, Spanish, German, and Greek translations

GTK+

New Spanish, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Swedish, and Finnish translations
Message window
Better window manager integration
Add file view to properties dialog

Transmission 0.6.1 (2006-06-25)

Mac

Fixes a bug in the updater that could cause repeated hits to the appcast

GTK+

Fixes drag-and-drop
Adds Italian and French translations

Transmission 0.6 (2006-06-21)

All Platforms

Ability to limit download rate
Automatic banning of peers who send bad data
Can keep a copy of the torrent file so the original can be deleted
Many bug fixes

Mac

Reworked interface
Rate limits can be changed directly from the main window
Ability to automatically stop seeding at a given ratio
Allows sorting of the transfers list
Extended Info Inspector
Automatic updating with Sparkle

GTK+

Add torrents via command line. If Transmission is already running, add them to running copy
Improved long filename handling

Transmission 0.5 (2006-02-11)

All Platforms

Only uses one port for all torrents
Rewritten choking algorithm
Remembers download and upload sizes from one launch to another

Mac

Dock badging
Shows the file icon in the list
Shows ratio once download is completed
Automatic check for update
Fixes a display bug on Intel Macs

GTK+

New GTK+ interface

BeOS

New BeOS interface

Transmission 0.4 (2005-11-18)

All Platforms

Uses less CPU downloading torrents with many pieces
The UI could freeze when the hard drive was having a hard time - fixed
Fixes for difficult trackers, which require a 'key' parameter or a User Agent field

Mac

Cleaner look, unified toolbar
Added a document icon for torrent files
Added a Pause/Resume button for each torrent, and a "Reveal in Finder" button
Added a contextual menu
Sometimes torrents kept "Stopping..." forever - fixed
Several minor improvements or fixes: allows column reordering, fixed resizing on Panther, remember the position of the window, fixed display of Unicode filenames, added menubar items and keyboard shortcuts, made the simple progress bar switch to green when seeding

Transmission 0.3 (2005-10-19)

All Platforms

Fixed "Sometimes sends incorrect messages and looses peers"
Fixed "Crashes with many torrents or torrents with many files"
Enhancements in the "End game" mode
Is nicer to the trackers
Asks for the rarest pieces first

Mac

Universal binary for PPC and x86
Fixed "Progress increases every time I pause then resume"
Fixed "Sometimes crashes at exit"
Cleaner icon
Show all sizes in human readable form
Keep downloading in the background when the window is closed
Miscellaneous bug fixes and internal enhancements

Transmission 0.2 (2005-09-22)

All Platforms

Bug fixes

Mac

Users can now choose where the downloads are sent

Transmission 0.1 (2005-09-15)

First version

Files

NEWS.md

Latest commit

History

NEWS.md

File metadata and controls

Transmission 3.10 (2020-mm-dd)

All Platforms

Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Utils

Transmission 3.00 (2020-05-03)

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Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Utils

Transmission 2.94 (2018-05-01)

All Platforms

Qt Client

Web Client

Transmission 2.93 (2018-01-23)

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Transmission 2.92 (2016-03-06)

Mac Client

Transmission 2.91 (2016-03-06)

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Mac Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Transmission 2.90 (2016-02-28)

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Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Transmission 2.84 (2014-07-01)

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Transmission 2.83 (2014-05-18)

All Platforms

Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Transmission 2.82 (2013-08-08)

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Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Web Client

Transmission 2.81 (2013-07-17)

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Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Transmission 2.80 (2013-06-25)

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Mac Client

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

Utils

Transmission 2.77 (2013-02-18)

All Platforms

GTK+ Client

Qt Client

Daemon

Web Client

CLI