14 DAY TRIAL // Transmission, the popular torrent client for Mac and Linux platforms, has officially moved past OS X 10.5 aka Leopard. The P2P file sharing app now requires version 10.6 of the Mac operating system (dubbed Snow Leopard) as a minimum requirement on the OS side.
Not only that, but Transmission 2.50 also delivers some specific enhancements that only work on the newest version of Apple’s desktop OS - Lion.
One of those is the animated rows in the main window. Another is the newly-added support for pasting a torrent file URL into the main window.
Changes affecting both Snow Leopard and Lion users include the ability to quarantine all downloaded files to protect against malware, and an improved inspector that no longer floats above other windows (something many users had requested).
The developers have also included basic notification support for users who don’t have Growl installed, as well as a bunch of interface tweaks and bug fixes.
For all supported platforms (i.e. Mac OS X and Linux), the people behind the Transmission project tout the following tweaks and enhancements:
All Platforms
· Fix crash when adding some magnet links · Improved support for downloading webseeds with large files · Gracefully handle incorrectly-compressed data from webseed downloads · Fairer bandwidth distribution across connected peers · Use less CPU when calculating undownloaded portions of large torrents · Use the Selection Algorithm, rather than sorting, to select peer candidates · Use base-10 units when displaying bandwidth speed and disk space · If the OS has its own copy of natpmp, prefer it over our bundled version · Fix Fails-To-Build error on Solaris 10 from use of mkdtemp() · Fix Fails-To-Build error on FreeBSD from use of alloca() · Fix Fails-To-Build error when building without a C++ compiler for libuTP.
For the full array of changes (GTK+; Qt; Web client; Daemon) see the official changelog here.