Transmission 0.7 Released

Posted by Miles Evans on 04/20/07 in Internet, Music, Utilities, Video

Although we reported today on the new XTorrent release, I just noticed their main competition Transmission quietly launched a new site design along with a fresh 0.7 release. It has been nearly a year since the latest update and the app also gets a shiny new speed inducing icon for your dock. Nice eh?

You can check out the official release note but the features that stand out for me are: Automatic port mapping (NAT-PMP and UPnP IGD), Peer exchange (PEX) compatible with Azureus and uTorrent, Multitracker support, Automatic tracker scraping, Cache connected peers, Individual torrent bandwidth limits, and a Filter and Search bar. Still no encryption for guys like me who’s ISP throttles P2P packets? Coming soon I hope.

If you’re not familiar with Transmission, from their website: ‘Transmission has been designed to be a versatile and multi-platform BitTorrent client, focusing on being lightweight, yet feature-filled.‘ It does a really good job of this, and it’s free to boot.

Grab Transmission 0.7 and give it a test drive today.

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Tom said on

April 20th, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Did they fix the bug where it contacts the tracker so much that it’s been banned from most reputable trackers?

Miles Evans said on

April 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Yep: Better handling of tracker announce interval.

I’m pretty sure that’s it. I think this was tested quite thoroughly in SVN but can’t really comment as I just got it now :/

mdmunoz said on

April 20th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

I wouldn’t call them competition. Xtorrent uses Transmission’s open source libraries. What’s good for Transmission is good for Xtorrent.

Michael De Leon said on

April 20th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

I’m a big transmission fan. I like a light, fast client especially after trying xtorrent, tomato torrant, bitrocket, aquisition and azureus, to me transmission was the way to go.

TZ said on

April 21st, 2007 at 2:49 am

ISPs have now the ability to throttle encrypted P2P. I’ve seen a demo from Allot a few weeks ago. They can’t get into the crypted data though. Not yet.