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Transmission v2.83 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-04-09 // about 8 years ago

  • 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)