Transmission is an open source BitTorrent client developed by many volunteers. It's designed to be easy, powerful and "just work" application. Nothing less from great and easy-to-use application, Tranmission is included by default in Ubuntu distribution for BitTorrent client application. Transmission has gained a new version 2.50 that brings many improvements and bug fixes:
- 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
Install Transmission 2.50 on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users including Ubuntu Oneiric and upcoming Ubuntu version Precise can instal Transmission 2.50 by adding it's PPA repository:
Once installed, Transmission 2.50 can be accessed from Internet section from the menu.
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install transmission
Regards :)