14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of the popular Transmission application is available for download from Softpedia. The updated beta contains a large amount of fixes, including tweaks targeting Mac users in particular.
Transmission is a BitTorrent client and a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program is generally licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Transmission boasts a simple, intuitive interface designed to integrate tightly with any OS. Transmission feels right at home on Mac OS X and is a Universal Binary, suitable for both Intel and PowerPC systems.
Seamlessly configuring the user’s network, Transmission runs natively on Mac OS X and intelligently bans peers who send corrupted data. Additionally, it uses protocol encryption and sports built-in Peer Exchange.
The team at Transmission Project has now updated the program to version 2.20 Beta 4.
For Mac OS X users, it delivers interface tweaks, fixes issues in the German and Spanish localizations, and adds support for ZIP and other compression formats in the blocklist downloader.
The following changes are available for all platforms, according to the team behind the Transmission Project: remember downloaded files when a drive is unplugged; file re-verification is no longer needed in some situations; show the total downloading and seeding time per torrent; better support for IPv6-only trackers; added the ability to shutdown Transmission sessions via RPC; NAT-PMP and UPnP now also map the UDP port; improved support for running scripts when a torrent finishes downloading; and faster parsing of bencoded data.
Bugs fixed include "Too many open files" error; webseeds; reannounce interval when trackers return a 404 error; a checksum error on platforms running uClibc 0.9.27 or older; and a number of errors on Solaris builds.