Transmission 1.8 BitTorrent Client Released

Transmission 1.8 is an update to the popular BitTorrent client which incorporates over a hundred ideas from users.

This is a huge listen-to-the-users release -- it uses 103 ideas from users, including 44 enhancements, 26 bugfixes and 33 more bugfixes during the beta tests. Thanks to everyone involved for helping to improve Transmission.

Improvements for 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

Improvements for 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


You can download Transmission using the link below...

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