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Transmission Bittorrent client finally released new major 4.1.0 version yesterday! Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.10.<\/b><\/p>\n
The new version is made available after more than a year of development. It fixed the significantly degraded transfer performance<\/b> in 4.0.x series by changed the uTP ack scheduling algorithm. And, the developer claimed that the download speed in his case went up from 70 MB\/s to 90 MB\/s.<\/p>\n
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The new version also added IPv6<\/b> Local Peer Discovery support, as well as dual-stack UDP trackers for the simultaneous use of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. And, it added back support for old BEP-7 query parameters with The CLI client now has a new The feature however does not support the GUI and Web UI so far, and, it only works in command line for either Transmission 4.1.0 also added an option to verify a torrent immediately after it finishes downloading. Don’t know if I missed something, but I can’t find out this option in Ubuntu while the merge request provides only a screenshot for macOS.<\/p>\n The Transmission Config file<\/p><\/div>\n The GTK UI has been updated with native file chooser dialogs, and ability to set default behavior for GTK dialogs to add torrent from url and add tracker. The QT UI now features native icons for menus and toolbars depends on the operating system, ETA to compact view, and labels feature from web-UI.<\/p>\n And, Web UI now supports drag’n’drop adding torrents, high contrast theme, long press on touchscreen to open context menu, percent digits in process bar, UI improvements and many fixes.<\/p>\n Other changes in Transmission 4.1.0 include:<\/p>\n There are as well tons of other improvements and bug-fixes. See the Github release page<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n Transmission provides official installers for Windows and macOS, along with source tarball, they are available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n&ipv4=<\/code> and &ipv6=<\/code>.<\/p>\n-sel<\/code> \/ --sequential-download<\/code> command option<\/b>, allowing to download pieces sequentially. It’s useful for those who want to watch a video during the download process.<\/p>\ntransmission-cli<\/code> or transmission-remote<\/code> by running similar command below:<\/p>\ntransmission-cli -seq ~\/Downloads\/xxx.torrent<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nsettings.json<\/code> file (under .config\/transmission<\/code> for Linux) added new preferred_transport<\/code> allowing to choose between TCP and UDP when initializing outgoing connections. It as well added new sleep-per-seconds-during-verify<\/code> option, disable the disk write cache when settings \"cache-size-mb\": 0<\/code>, and fixed the bug that alt-speed-enabled<\/code> had no effect.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/transmission-config-700x447.webp\"){kind=spacer}
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How to Install Transmission 4.1.0 in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n