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Good BitTorrent clients are always welcome in the file-sharing community, and Transmission has always been welcomed as a worth addition in the P2P lineage. Transmission has slowly integrated itself into the more mainstream file-sharing avenues, as it has several key ingredients working in its favor: its free, open source, and works on all major platforms. Additionally, it's in continuous development, another attribute that's always welcome. Today brings the arrival of Transmission 2.0.
Considering that Transmission isn't backed by a large company, it's not surprising that some features are a bit behind the times. Case in point, version 2.0 brings "local peer discovery", a feature used to help the end user find additional sources for their ever important downloads. This feature has been in Vuze and uTorrent for quite some time, but is now just finally coming to Transmission. But it's all good, as a strong, competitive client is always welcomed. Let's check out the release notes:
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
Date: 2010-06-16 |