Transmission 0.7 Released
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.
Did they fix the bug where it contacts the tracker so much that it’s been banned from most reputable trackers?
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 :/
I wouldn’t call them competition. Xtorrent uses Transmission’s open source libraries. What’s good for Transmission is good for Xtorrent.
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.
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.