transmission/NEWS

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

1.10 (2008/xx/yy)
- Mac:
   + Window when adding torrents to select files and other settings

1.01 (2008/01/11)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix 1.00 freezing issue
   + Fix 1.00 assertion failure
   + Improve initial connection speed
   + Added connection throttle to avoid router overload
   + Improve reconnection to peers with imperfect network connections
   + Fix crashes on architectures that require strict alignment
- OS X:
   + Leopard: Double-click icon to reveal in Finder, progress string to toggle selected and total, and anywhere else to toggle the inspector
   + Leopard: Better behavior with Time Machine
   + Fix bugs with Clutch support
- GTK+:
   + New Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, and Turkish translations
   + Fix 1.00 desktop internationalization error

1.00 (2008/01/04)
- All Platforms:
   + Port forwarding now performed by MiniUPnP and libnatpmp
   + Ability to set global and per-torrent number of connections
   + Option to prefer not using encryption
   + Fix tracker connection error
   + PEX is now configured globally
   + Updated icon
- OS X:
   + Redesigned Leopard-like look
   + Group labeling, filtering, and sorting
   + Statistics window
   + Pieces Bar (return of Advanced Bar)
   + Display "not available" overlay on the regular bar
   + Display remaining time for seeding transfers
   + Sort by total activity
   + Connectable from the Clutch web interface
   + Leopard: Time Machine will ignore incomplete downloads
   + Leopard: Fix bug where text fields would reject localized decimal values
   + Leopard: Fix bug where bandwidth rates chosen from the action menu would not apply the first time
- GTK+:
   + Redesigned main window interface
   + Minimal Mode for showing more torrents in less desktop space
   + Torrent filtering
   + Port forwarding tester in Preferences
   + Statistics window
   + Sort by total activity, progress, state, and tracker
   + Various other interface additions and improvements
- CLI:
   + Restore `scrape' feature

0.96 (2007/12/10)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix 0.95 data corruption error
   + Fix 0.95 bug that broke UPnP
- OS X:
   + Fix bug where dragging non-torrent files over the main window could result in excessive memory usage

0.95 (2007/12/04)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix router errors caused by sending too many tracker requests at once
   + Fix bug that let speed-limited torrents upload too quickly
   + Faster average upload speeds
   + Faster connection to peers after starting a torrent
   + Fix memory corruption error
   + Disable SWIFT for ratio-based trackers
- OS X:
   + Leopard: Fix for NAT-PMP port mapping
- GTK:
   + Fix Nokia 770 crash

0.94 (2007/11/25)
- All Platforms:
   + Faster average download speeds
   + Automatically ban peers that send us too many corrupt pieces
   + Fix a crash that occurred if a peer sent us an incomplete message
   + Fix portmapping crash
   + Fix bug that left files open after their torrents were stopped
   + Fix 0.93 file permissions bug
   + Fix tracker redirect error
   + Fix LTEP PEX bug

0.93 (2007/11/12)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix "router death" bug that impaired internet connectivity
   + Fix bug that could cause good peer connections to be lost
   + Tweak request queue code to improve download speeds
   + Better handling of very large files on 32bit systems
   + Consume less battery power on laptops
   + Fix minor IPC parsing error

0.92 (2007/11/05)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix 0.90 data corruption bugs
   + Fix 0.90 possible delay when quitting
   + Fix 0.90 small memory leaks
- OS X:
   + Leopard: Fix bug with typing values in Inspector->Options
   + Leopard: Fix bug with toggling Minimal View
- GTK:
   + Better support for large files on some Linux systems
   + Fix localization error in torrent inspector's dates

0.91 (2007/10/28)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix 0.90 speed limits
   + Fix 0.90 problems announcing to some trackers
   + Fix 0.90 socket connection leak
   + Fix 0.90 IPC crash
   + Fix 0.90 cache bug that could cause "verify local files" to fail
   + Fix 0.90 build errors on OpenBSD and on older C compilers
- OS X:
   + Fix a crash caused by custom sound files
   + Add Dutch localization, re-add Russian localization, fix Korean localization
- GTK:
   + Fix 0.90 packaging errors
   + Fix 0.90 crash-on-start with assertion failure: "destination != (void*)0"

0.90 (2007/10/23)
- All Platforms:
   + Encryption support, with option to ignore unencrypted peers
   + Only report downloaded, verified good pieces in tracker `download' field
   + Improved compliance with BitTorrent spec
   + MSE Tracker Extension support
   + Significant rewrite of the libtransmission back-end
- OS X:
   + Per-torrent action menu
   + Redesigned inspector with additional statistics and ability to be resized vertically in Peers and Files tabs
   + Redesigned message log
   + Optimizations to decrease memory usage
   + Sort and filter by tracker
   + Icon enhanced to support size of 512 x 512
   + Various smaller interface additions and improvements
- GTK:
   + Various interface improvements
   + Better compliance with the Gnome interface guidelines

0.82 (2007/09/09)
- All Platforms:
   + Fixed bug that could limit transfer speeds
   + Fixed bug that corrupted torrents > 4 GB
   + Fixed bug that could allow bad peers to send too many pieces
   + For peers supporting both Azureus' and LibTorrent's extensions, allow negotiation to decide which to use
   +  Other minor fixes

0.81 (2007/08/22)
- All Platforms:
   + Fix 0.80 assertion crashes
   + Fix a bug that miscounted how many peers Transmission wants connected
   + Clarify misleading error messages
   + Fix memory leaks
- OS X:
   + Multiple fixes to creating torrents and adding new torrents
   + Updated Russian and Spanish translations
- GTK:
   + Updated Dutch, Portuguese, French, and Slovakian translations
- CLI:
   + Better support for cli-driven torrent creation
   + Fix a bug that misparsed command-line arguments

0.80 (2007/08/07)
 - Ability to selectively download and prioritize files
 - Torrent file creation
 - Speed and CPU load improvements
 - Fix to UPnP
 - Rechecking torrents is now done one-at-a-time to avoid heavy disk load
 - Better rechecking of torrents that have many files
 - Many miscellaneous improvements and bugfixes
 - Partial licensing change -- see the LICENSE file for details
 - 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:
   + Added Torrent Inspector dialog
   + Added Update Tracker button
   + Various smaller interface 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
 - Miscellaneous 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