News 2.80

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