Transmission, the default bittorrent client comes with Ubuntu installation, gets a new release with various bug fixes, libraries updates and some new features.

Changes in Transmission 2.83:

All Platforms

• Licensing change: the GNU GPLv2 code can now be used under GNU GPL v2 or v3
• Fix network hanging issues that could occur when both UTP and DHT were enabled
• Fix 2.82 file descriptor leak when importing a blocklist
• Disallow torrents that contain “/../” in the path
• Fix 2.82 bug that didn’t retain peers between sessions
• Fix potential dangling memory error in UDP tracker DNS lookups
• Remember a torrent’s “queued” state between Transmission sessions
• Updated third party libraries: DHT updated to v0.22; miniupnpc updated to v1.9
• Autoconf script fixes: better detection of ccache, minupnpc
• Fix the X-Transmission-Session-Id header to be valid with the SPDY protocol
• Fix thread safety bugs in the tr_list datatype
• When determining free disk space on NetBSD>=6, support its Quota feature
• Windows portability improvements

GTK+ Client

• Fix threading issue on shutdown

Qt Client

• Fix toggle-downloading-by-pressing-spacebar in the file list
• Fix “Open URL” crash from dangling pointer
• Support launching downloaded files from inside Transmission
• On Windows, use native Windows icons
• Improved network status info and tooltip in the status bar
• Fix “Open Torrent” dialog crash in Qt 5.2

Daemon

• On systemd systems, fix config reloading via ‘systemctl reload’
• Use libevent’s event loop
• Fix discrepancy in curl SSL setup between tr-daemon and tr-remote
• Fix broken OS X build

Install / Upgrade

The update is not available in Ubuntu’s default repositories at the moment. Can’t wait? you can install it from a third-party PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install transmission transmission-qt

If you don’t want to keep the PPA, remove it after the app installed:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ricotz/unstable