News 2.90

Transmission 2.90 (2016-02-28)

All Platforms

• Fix renaming torrent files with common prefix
• Fix some more thread safety bugs in the tr_list datatype
• Fix infinite loop when removing torrent data
• Add support for CyaSSL/WolfSSL and PolarSSL cryptographic backends; bump OpenSSL minimum to v0.9.7
• Initial CMake build system support
• Many improvements to support Windows builds with MSVS and MinGW; drop XP/2003 support, only Vista and up now
• Allow building against system UTP and DHT libraries
• Fix several memory leaks and buffer overflows
• Support miniupnpc API v14
• Fix "prefetch-enabled" value type in settings.json (boolean instead of integer)
• Fix some issues discovered by static analysis (cppcheck, coverity)
• Fix invalid JSON encoding for non-printable characters
• Fix multi-threaded locale use when encoding/decoding JSON data
• Fix encrypted communication with libevent 2.1+
• Prevent completed pieces modification by webseeds
• Require absolute paths in RPC requests
• Fix and unify torrent origin display in GTK+, Qt and web clients
• Fix crash on session shutdown (evdns_getaddrinfo_cancel)
• Retry if RPC server fails to bind to specified address
• Improve error checking on metadata retrieval
• Improve UTF-8 validity checking (merge changes from LLVM)
• Don't build transmission-cli by default (it's long deprecated)

Mac Client

• UI fixes for OS X 10.9+
• Trim potential URIs from clipboard
• Allow downloading files from http servers (not https) on OS X 10.11+
• Change Sparkle Update URL to use HTTPS instead of HTTP (addresses Sparkle vulnerability)
• Fix global options popover layout
• Fix building with Xcode 7+
• Drop OS X 10.6 support

GTK+ Client

• Fix overshoot and undershoot indicators display with GTK+ 3.16+ in main window
• Don't require DISPLAY if started with --version argument

Qt Client

• Improve performance in Torrent Properties dialog for torrents with lots of files
• Prevent entering file renaming mode with mouse double-click
• Add context menu on files tab of Torrent Properties dialog resembling that of Mac client
• Remove torrent file from watch directory even if "show options dialog" is not set
• Use theme-provided icons in system tray and About dialog
• Fix initial watch directory scan
• Improve filter bar look and feel; lots of other small visual fixes; RTL layout fixes
• Show message to the user when duplicate torrent is being added
• Improve magnets handling in main window
• Display notifications via tray icon if D-Bus is not available
• Show notice on top of filtered torrents list; clear whole filter on notice double-click
• Add proper compiler flags to indicate C++11 use
• Fix translation files loading
• Add Chinese (China), German, Indonesian, Italian (Italy), Korean, Polish (Poland), Ukrainian translations; update existing translations

Daemon

• Run as service on Windows when in background mode
• Rework directory watching, add support for native mechanisms on BSD/Darwin (kqueue) and Windows (ReadDirectoryChanges)
• Don't make assumptions of remote path validity in transmission-remote

Web Client

• Content Security Policy enhancements
• Enable "resume now" for queued torrents
• Mark appropriate fields in preferences dialog as HTML5 number fields
• Update to jQuery 1.11.2, jQueryUI 1.11.4; use jQueryUI menus instead of custom ones