Open-source, free, and cross-platform BitTorrent client, Transmission 4.0.6, is out today. As a bugfix-only release in the 4.0.x series, it addresses various issues users reported from previous versions.
Transmission 4.0.6 comes about six months after Transmission 4.0.5. It’s here to enhance the parsing of the HTTP tracker announce response, update the Flatpak release metainfo, improve UTP peer connections by better adhering to user-defined speed limits, and resolve a few logging issues.
The Transmission GTK client has been improved to compile with GTKMM 4 and build correctly on BSD platforms. Additionally, the developer name and launchable desktop-id have been added to the metainfo files. Also, Transmission 4.0.6 fixes a bug where the GTK client’s “Use authentication” option was not remembered between sessions.
In contrast, the Transmission Qt client has received a fix for a bug that caused the torrent piece size description text and slider state in the torrent creation dialog to not always be current.
The Transmission Web client has been updated to correct a bug that caused inappropriate display of the infinite ratio symbol, resolve a layout challenge with the speed display, rectify the wrap information for download/upload speed, fix a bug where SVG and PNG icons weren’t displayed, and executing some general user interface improvements to the filter bar.
For all platforms, the release of Transmission 4.0.6 provides a solution for a bug that caused some user scripts to have an invalid TR_TORRENT_TRACKERS environment variable, a bug where the alt-speed-enabled option did not function when used in the settings.json file, and a bug where the file name for single-file torrents was not sanitized.
Moreover, it corrects compatibility with clang-format 18 issues, compiling challenges with Mbed TLS 3.x, issues with compiling of the libtransmission library with very old CMake versions, plus some issues where certain RPC methods stopped putting torrents in recently-active anymore.
Other than that, starting with this release Transmission now only uses a single concurrent queue for timeMachineExclude rather than one queue per torrent. Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details about the changes included in Transmission 4.0.6.
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