transmission/NEWS

NEWS file for Transmission <http://transmission.m0k.org/>

0.80 ()
 - Ability to selectively download and prioritize files
 - Torrent file creation
 - Partial licensing change -- see the LICENSE file for details
 - Fix to UPnP
 - Rechecking torrents is now done one torrent at a time
   to avoid hammering the disk
 - Many miscellaneous improvements and bugfixes
 - OS X:
   + Overlay when dragging torrent files, URLs, and data files onto window
   + Ability to set an amount of time to consider a transfer stalled
   + More progress bar colors
   + Various smaller interface improvements
   + Italian, Korean, and Russian translations
 - GTK:
   + Interface significantly reworked to closer match the Mac version
   + Torrent inspector
   + Other minor improvements

0.72 (2007/04/30)
 - Reset download/upload amounts when sending "started"
 - Fix rare XML parsing bug

0.71 (2007/04/23)
 - Send port info when sending requests
 - Calculate ratio differently when seeding without ever downloading
 - Add additional error messages and debug info
 - Improved UPnP support
 - OS X:
   + Fix error when using default incomplete folder
   + Disable the stop ratio once it is reached (while seeding)
   + Small interface adjustments

0.70 (2007/04/18)
 - New icon
 - Automatic port mapping (NAT-PMP and UPnP IGD)
 - Peer exchange (PEX) compatible with Azureus and uTorrent
 - Multitracker support
 - Better handling of tracker announce interval
 - Fixes bug where absurdly huge upload/download totals could be sent
 - Automatic tracker scraping
 - Cache connected peers
 - Many miscellaneous bugfixes and small improvements
 - OS X:
   + Requires 10.4 Tiger or newer
   + Download and seeding queues that can be user-ordered
   + Speed Limit: Second set of bandwidth limits that can be toggled or 
     scheduled
   + Individual torrent bandwidth limits
   + Separate complete and incomplete download folders
   + Filter and search bar
   + Expanded Inspector with many additional views and stats
   + Fragment status view in Inspector shows downloaded or availability
   + Watch folder to auto add torrent files
   + Auto resizing of the main window
   + Minimal view to take up less space
   + Seeding bar shows progress in finishing seeding
   + Sounds when downloading and seeding complete
   + Warnings for directory unavailable and not enough space
   + Message log window
   + New toolbar icons
   + Built-in help files
   + French, Spanish, German, and Greek translations
 - GTK+:
   + Adds Spanish, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Swedish, and
     Finnish translations
   + Message window
   + Better window manager integration
   + Add file view to properties dialog

0.6.1 (2006/06/25)
 - OS X:
   + Fixes a bug in the updater that could cause repeated hits to the
     appcast
 - GTK+:
   + Fixes drag-and-drop
   + Adds Italian and French translations

0.6 (2006/06/21)
 - Ability to limit download rate
 - Automatic banning of peers who send bad data
 - Can keep a copy of the torrent file so the original can be deleted
 - Many bugfixes
 - OS X:
   + Reworked interface
   + Rate limits can be changed directly from the main window
   + Ability to automatically stop seeding at a given ratio
   + Allows sorting of the tranfers list
   + Extended Info Inspector
   + Automatic updating with Sparkle
 - GTK+:
   + Add torrents via command line. If Transmission is already running,
       add them to running copy
   + Improved long filename handling

0.5 (2006/02/11)
 - Only uses one port for all torrents
 - Rewritten choking algorithm
 - Remembers download and upload sizes from one launch to another
 - New GTK+ interface
 - New BeOS interface
 - OS X: Dock badging
 - OS X: Shows the file icon in the list
 - OS X: Shows ratio once download is completed
 - OS X: Automatic check for update
 - OS X: Fixes a display bug on Intel Macs

0.4 (2005/11/18)
 - Uses less CPU downloading torrents with many pieces
 - The UI could freeze when the hard drive was having a hard time - fixed
 - Fixes for difficult trackers, which require a 'key' parameter or a
     User Agent field
 - OS X: Cleaner look, unified toolbar
 - OS X: Added a document icon for torrent files
 - OS X: Added a Pause/Resume button for each torrent, and a
    "Reveal in Finder" button
 - OS X: Added a contextual menu
 - OS X: Sometimes torrents kept "Stopping..." forever - fixed
 - OS X: Several minor improvements or fixes: allows column reordering,
    fixed resizing on Panther, remember the position of the window,
    fixed display of Unicode filenames, added menubar items and
    keyboard shortcuts, made the simple progress bar switch to green
    when seeding

0.3 (2005/10/19)
 - Fixed "Sometimes sends incorrect messages and looses peers"
 - Fixed "Crashes with many torrents or torrents with many files"
 - Enhancements in the "End game" mode
 - Is nicer to the trackers
 - Asks for the rarest pieces first
 - OS X: Universal binary for PPC and x86
 - OS X: Fixed "Progress increases every time I pause then resume"
 - OS X: Fixed "Sometimes crashes at exit"
 - OS X: Cleaner icon
 - OS X: Show all sizes in human readable form
 - OS X: Keep downloading in the background when the window is closed
 - Miscellaneus bugfixes and internal enhancements

0.2 (2005/09/22)
 - Bugfixes
 - OS X: Users can now choose where the downloads are sent

0.1 (2005/09/15)
 - First version