{"id":44859,"date":"2023-12-08T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=44859"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:50:08","slug":"transmission-4-0-5-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/transmission-4-0-5-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission 4.0.5 Released with Another Batch of Bug Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43680\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transmission, Ubuntu&#8217;s default BitTorrent client, announced a new bug-fix 4.0.5 release a day ago.<\/p>\n<p>The release fixed the following bugs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the IP address field in UDP announces were not encoded in network byte order.<\/li>\n<li>json string serializer improperly escaping characters<\/li>\n<li>decreased download speeds for people who set a low upload bandwidth limit.<\/li>\n<li>magnet data invalidates tracker IDs<\/li>\n<li>HTTP tracker announces and scrapes sometimes failing after adding a torrent file by HTTPS URL.<\/li>\n<li>In RPC, change the default sort order of torrents to match Transmission 3.00.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed tr_sys_path_copy() behavior on some Synology Devices<\/li>\n<li>larger group display name in macOS client.<\/li>\n<li>Crash when opening torrent file from &#8220;Recently used&#8221; in GTK 4 client.<\/li>\n<li>only append .added suffix to watchdir files for Qt client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/transmission-405.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44860\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/transmission-405-600x382.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/transmission-405-600x382.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/transmission-405-300x191.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/transmission-405-768x489.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/transmission-405.webp 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Transmission 4.0.5 in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p>Transmission has an unofficial Snap package, available to install through Ubuntu Software (or App Center).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s NOT updated to v4.0.5 at the moment of writing, but after installation, it will update automatically once new version published.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/transmission-snap404.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44274\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/transmission-snap404-600x375.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/transmission-snap404-600x375.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/transmission-snap404-300x187.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/transmission-snap404-768x479.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/transmission-snap404.webp 1195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For choice, I&#8217;ve made this release into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/transmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial PPA<\/a> for all current Ubuntu releases, meaning Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 23.04 and 23.10.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> First, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/transmission<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-ppa.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43694\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-ppa-600x407.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-ppa-600x407.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-ppa-300x203.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-ppa-768x521.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/transmission-ppa.webp 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> After adding the PPA, you can then launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> (<b>Update Manager<\/b>) and upgrade the system pre-installed transmission package to the new release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/upgrade-transmission.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43695\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/upgrade-transmission-600x489.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/upgrade-transmission-600x489.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/upgrade-transmission-300x244.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/upgrade-transmission.webp 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu based system without the BitTorrent client pre-installed, you may run command below to install it:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt install transmission-gtk<\/pre>\n<p>You may replace <code>transmission-gtk<\/code> with (or add) following package:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>transmission-qt<\/code> &#8211; Qt user interface for KDE, LXQt, etc.<\/li>\n<li><code>transmission-cli<\/code> &#8211; command line interface.<\/li>\n<li><code>transmission-daemon<\/code> &#8211; the daemon for running in background, and access via webUI, remote client, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Uninstall Transmission 4.0.5<\/h3>\n<p>You can choose to downgrade the BitTorrent client to system pre-installed version, by running command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install ppa-purge &amp;&amp; sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/transmission<\/pre>\n<p>Or, remove the software packages instead by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove transmission-gtk transmission-qt transmission-cli transmission-daemon<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA repository either via &#8220;Software &amp; Updates&#8221; tool by removing the source line under &#8220;Other Software&#8221; tab, or by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/transmission<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s all. 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The release fixed the following bugs: the IP address field in UDP announces were not encoded in network byte order. json string serializer improperly escaping characters decreased download speeds for people who set a low upload bandwidth limit. magnet data invalidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-44859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-bittorrent"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859","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=44859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}