News 2.83

Transmission 2.83 (2014-05-18)

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)