News 2.50

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