Transmission 4.1.0-beta.2

This is Transmission 4.1.0-beta.2. We're not in feature freeze yet, so this release includes some new features as well as bugfixes and performance improvements.

What's New in 4.1.0-beta.2

Highlights

• Support trackers that only support the old BEP-7 with &ipv4= and &ipv6=. (#7481)

All Platforms

• Added support for using a proxy server for web connections. (#5038)
• Added optional sequential downloading. (#6893, #7047)
• Disconnect blocklisted peers immediately upon blocklist update. (#7167)
• New files are assigned a file mode per the process umask defined in settings.json. (#7195)
• Harden the HTTP tracker response parser. (#7326)
• Fixed an issue where the speed limits are not effective below 16KiB/s. (#7339)
• Added workaround for crashes related to Curl bug 10936. (#7416)
• Added a workaround for users affected by Curl bug 6312. (#7447)
• Better utilize high Internet bandwidth. (#7029)
• Save upload/download queue order between sessions. (#7332)

macOS Client

• Fixed the context menu's appearance in compact mode. (#7350)
• Added Afrikaans and Greek translations. (#7477)

GTK Client

• Fixing a bug in adding torrent in GTK application. (#7247)

Web Client

• Added a new alert message of a problem when renaming torrent or file name. (#7394)
• Fixed a bug inflating per-torrent rows by long torrent names in compact view. (#7336)
• Fixed incorrect text entry sensitivity when sessions changed. (#7346)
• Added column mode for viewport unconstrained browsers. (#7051)
• Fixed an issue where Transmission web's custom context menu does not close when clicking on some outside element. (#7296)
• Implemented a new popup management system for web client to support multiple popups in a hierarchy-like system. (#7297)

Daemon

• Added optional sequential downloading. (#7048)

transmission-remote

• Improved error logging. (#7034)

Thank You!

Last but certainly not least, a big Thank You to these people who contributed to this release:

Contributions to All Platforms:

• @cdowen:
  • Disconnect blocklisted peers immediately upon blocklist update. (#7167)
• @ile6695 (Ilkka Kallioniemi):
  • Code review. (#7457)
• @jggimi (Josh Grosse):
  • New files are assigned a file mode per the process umask defined in settings.json. (#7195)
• @killemov:
  • Code review. (#7047)
• @nevack (Dzmitry Neviadomski):
  • Code review. (#5038, #7195, )

Contributions to macOS Client:

• @michalsrutek (Michal Šrůtek):
  • Fixed MacStadium opensource URL. (#7289)

Contributions to Qt Client:

• @H5117:
  • Qt: refactor Application. (#7092)
• @killemov:
  • Code review. (#7092)
• @tearfur (Yat Ho):
  • Code review. (#7479)

Contributions to GTK Client:

• @cloppingemu (cloppingemu):
  • Fixing a bug in adding torrent in GTK application. (#7247)

Contributions to Web Client:

• @Rukario:
  • Code review. (#7340, #7346)
  • Refactor: alternative x/y coords to account for zoomed in browser. (#6945)
  • Added column mode for viewport unconstrained browsers. (#7051)
  • Removed per-torrent start/pause button from web client. (#7292)
  • Fixed an issue where Transmission web's custom context menu does not close when clicking on some outside element. (#7296)
  • Implemented a new popup management system for web client to support multiple popups in a hierarchy-like system. (#7297)
  • Refactor: multiple popups code refinement. (#7310)

Contributions to Daemon:

• @tearfur (Yat Ho):
  • Added optional sequential downloading. (#7048)

Contributions to transmission-cli:

• @tearfur (Yat Ho):
  • Refactor: convert tr_net_init_mgr to singleton. (#6914)

Contributions to transmission-remote:

• @bheesham (Bheesham Persaud):
  • Improved error logging. (#7034)
• @tearfur (Yat Ho):
  • Code review. (#7034)

Contributions to Everything Else:

• @bitigchi (Emir SARI):
  • Use en and em dashes where appropriate. (#7402)
• @mhadam (Michael Hadam):
  • Updated rpc-spec.md. (#7387)
• @nevack (Dzmitry Neviadomski):
  • Fixed building transmission with C++23. (#6832)
• @reardonia (reardonia):
  • Code review. (#7408)
• @tearfur (Yat Ho):