News 3.00

Transmission 3.00 (2020-05-03)

All Platforms

• Allow the RPC server to listen on an IPv6 address (#161)
• Change TR_CURL_SSL_VERIFY to TR_CURL_SSL_NO_VERIFY and enable verification by default (#334)
• Go back to using hash as base name for resume and torrent files (those stored in configuration directory) (#122)
• Handle "fields" argument in "session-get" RPC request; if "fields" array is present in arguments, only return session fields specified; otherwise return all the fields as before
• Limit the number of incorrect authentication attempts in embedded web server to 100 to prevent brute-force attacks (#371)
• Set idle seed limit range to 1..40320 (4 weeks tops) in all clients (#212)
• Add Peer ID for Xfplay, PicoTorrent, Free Download Manager, Folx, Baidu Netdisk torrent clients (#256, #285, #355, #363, #386)
• Announce INT64_MAX as size left if the value is unknown (helps with e.g. Amazon S3 trackers) (#250)
• Add TCP_FASTOPEN support (should result in slight speedup) (#184)
• Improve ToS handling on IPv6 connections (#128, #341, #360, #692, #737)
• Abort handshake if establishing DH shared secret fails (leads to crash) (#27)
• Don't switch trackers while announcing (leads to crash) (#297)
• Improve completion scripts execution and error handling; add support for .cmd and .bat files on Windows (#405)
• Maintain a "session ID" file (in temporary directory) to better detect whether session is local or remote; return the ID as part of "session-get" response (TRAC-5348, #861)
• Change torrent location even if no data move is needed (#35)
• Support CIDR-notated blocklists (#230, #741)
• Update the resume file before running scripts (#825)
• Make multiscrape limits adaptive (#837)
• Add labels support to libtransmission and transmission-remote (#822)
• Parse session-id header case-insensitively (#765)
• Sanitize suspicious path components instead of rejecting them (#62, #294)
• Load CA certs from system store on Windows / OpenSSL (#446)
• Add support for mbedtls (formerly polarssl) and wolfssl (formerly cyassl), LibreSSL (#115, #116, #284, #486, #524, #570)
• Fix building against OpenSSL 1.1.0+ (#24)
• Fix quota support for uClibc-ng 1.0.18+ and DragonFly BSD (#42, #58, #312)
• Fix a number of memory leaks (magnet loading, session shutdown, bencoded data parsing) (#56)
• Bump miniupnpc version to 2.0.20170509 (#347)
• CMake-related improvements (Ninja generator, libappindicator, systemd, Solaris and macOS) (#72, #96, #117, #118, #133, #191)
• Switch to submodules to manage (most of) third-party dependencies
• Fail installation on Windows if UCRT is not installed

Mac Client

• Bump minimum macOS version to 10.10
• Dark Mode support (#644, #722, #757, #779, #788)
• Remove Growl support, notification center is always used (#387)
• Fix autoupdate on High Sierra and up by bumping the Sparkle version (#121, #600)
• Transition to ARC (#336)
• Use proper UTF-8 encoding (with macOS-specific normalization) when setting download/incomplete directory and completion script paths (#11)
• Fix uncaught exception when dragging multiple items between groups (#51)
• Add flat variants of status icons for message log (#134)
• Optimize image resources size (#304, #429)
• Update file icon when file name changes (#37)
• Update translations

GTK+ Client

• Add queue up/down hotkeys (#158)
• Modernize the .desktop file (#162)
• Add AppData file (#224)
• Add symbolic icon variant for the Gnome top bar and when the high contrast theme is in use (#414, #449)
• Update file icon when its name changes (#37)
• Switch from intltool to gettext for translations (#584, #647)
• Update translations, add new translations for Portuguese (Portugal)

Qt Client

• Bump minimum Qt version to 5.2
• Fix dropping .torrent files into main window on Windows (#269)
• Fix prepending of drive letter to various user-selected paths on Windows (#236, #307, #404, #437, #699, #723, #877)
• Fix sorting by progress in presence of magnet transfers (#234)
• Fix .torrent file trashing upon addition (#262)
• Add queue up/down hotkeys (#158)
• Reduce torrent properties (file tree) memory usage
• Display tooltips in torrent properties (file tree) in case the names don't fit (#411)
• Improve UI look on hi-dpi displays (YMMV)
• Use session ID (if available) to check if session is local or not (#861)
• Use default (instead of system) locale to be more flexible (#130)
• Modernize the .desktop file (#162)
• Update translations, add new translations for Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Slovenian

Daemon

• Use libsystemd instead of libsystemd-daemon (TRAC-5921)
• Harden transmission-daemon.service by disallowing privileges elevation (#795)
• Fix exit code to be zero when dumping settings (#487)

Web Client

• Fix tracker error XSS in inspector (CVE-?)
• Fix performance issues due to improper use of setInterval() for UI refresh (TRAC-6031)
• Fix recognition of https:// links in comments field (#41, #180)
• Fix torrent list style in Google Chrome 59+ (#384)
• Show ETA in compact view on non-mobile devices (#146)
• Show upload file button on mobile devices (#320, #431, #956)
• Add keyboard hotkeys for web interface (#351)
• Disable autocompletion in torrent URL field (#367)

Utils

• Prevent crash in transmission-show displaying torrents with invalid creation date (#609)
• Handle IPv6 RPC addresses in transmission-remote (#247)
• Add --unsorted option to transmission-show (#767)
• Widen the torrent-id column in transmission-remote for cleaner formatting (#840)