{"id":3323,"date":"2014-05-22T04:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2014-05-22T04:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:28:21","slug":"the-pre-installed-bittorrent-client-transmission-gets-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/the-pre-installed-bittorrent-client-transmission-gets-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-installed BitTorrent Client &#8216;Transmission&#8217; Gets An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Transmission_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1290\" alt=\"install transmission ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Transmission_logo.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Transmission_logo.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Transmission_logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transmission, the default bittorrent client comes with Ubuntu installation, gets a new release with various bug fixes, libraries updates and some new features.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/trac.transmissionbt.com\/wiki\/Changes\" target=\"_blank\">Transmission 2.83<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>All Platforms<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Licensing change: the GNU GPLv2 code can now be used under GNU GPL v2 or v3<\/li>\n<li>Fix network hanging issues that could occur when both UTP and DHT were enabled<\/li>\n<li>Fix 2.82 file descriptor leak when importing a blocklist<\/li>\n<li>Disallow torrents that contain &#8220;\/..\/&#8221; in the path<\/li>\n<li>Fix 2.82 bug that didn&#8217;t retain peers between sessions<\/li>\n<li>Fix potential dangling memory error in UDP tracker DNS lookups<\/li>\n<li>Remember a torrent&#8217;s &#8220;queued&#8221; state between Transmission sessions<\/li>\n<li>Updated third party libraries: DHT updated to v0.22; miniupnpc updated to v1.9<\/li>\n<li>Autoconf script fixes: better detection of ccache, minupnpc<\/li>\n<li>Fix the X-Transmission-Session-Id header to be valid with the SPDY protocol<\/li>\n<li>Fix thread safety bugs in the tr_list datatype<\/li>\n<li>When determining free disk space on NetBSD&gt;=6, support its Quota feature<\/li>\n<li>Windows portability improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>GTK+ Client<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix threading issue on shutdown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Qt Client<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix toggle-downloading-by-pressing-spacebar in the file list<\/li>\n<li>Fix &#8220;Open URL&#8221; crash from dangling pointer<\/li>\n<li>Support launching downloaded files from inside Transmission<\/li>\n<li>On Windows, use native Windows icons<\/li>\n<li>Improved network status info and tooltip in the status bar<\/li>\n<li>Fix &#8220;Open Torrent&#8221; dialog crash in Qt 5.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Daemon<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On systemd systems, fix config reloading via &#8216;systemctl reload&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Use libevent&#8217;s event loop<\/li>\n<li>Fix discrepancy in curl SSL setup between tr-daemon and tr-remote<\/li>\n<li>Fix broken OS X build<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install \/ Upgrade<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The update is not available in Ubuntu&#8217;s default repositories at the moment. Can&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz\/unstable\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install transmission transmission-qt<\/pre>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to keep the PPA, remove it after the app installed:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:ricotz\/unstable<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[573,1081,855],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-bittorrent-client","tag-transmission","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}