The Wait is Over: Transmission 4.0 Finally Released Today!
After a long wait, Transmission 4.0 was finally released today! It is the latest version of the popular torrent client and promises to be a major leap forward in terms of usability, security, and performance.
Update by Rianne Schestowitz
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Transmission 4.0 Upgrade is Here After Two Years
BitTorrent is a popular alternative to HTTP to share or download files over the internet. You may know that numerous BitTorrent clients are available with different features and configurations.
Transmission is one such BitTorrent client that is open-source and lightweight.
The app's latest release arrives nearly two years after its last stable release. While no new releases were seen during this time, the project was in active development.
Update by Rianne Schestowitz
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Transmission FOSS BitTorrent client hits version 4.0
Version 4 of the most widely used FOSS BitTorrent client is here, and it's worth a look if you have any difficulties with streaming media services.
Transmission is the default BitTorrent client for quite a few Linux distros. As a general rule we advise against running anything-point-zero releases of, well, pretty much anything if you have any choice in the matter. Saying that, though, Transmission 3.0 came out nearly three years ago, in May 2020, and there was never so much as a zero-point-one version. It just worked from the day it appeared. That is pretty much unheard of these days, and as such, we are guardedly hopeful that although it's apparently a total rewrite in C++ – famously a bad idea – 4.0 should be pretty good.
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Transmission 4.0.0 Released with BitTorrent v2 Support
Transmission, the default torrent downloading app for Ubuntu, announced the new major 4.0.0 release today! The new release migrated the codebase from C to C++ programming language. And now it uses the gtkmm toolkit instead of GTK for its user interface.
Borisov:
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Transmission 4.0 Is Here with BitTorrent v2 Protocol Support
Transmission 4.0, the just-released version of this popular open-source BitTorrent client, has many improvements. Here's what's new.
Late coverage:
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Transmission 4 Released with Better Performance, New Features
Transmission 4.0, in development for over a year, features a “huge list of changes” compared to the Transmission 3.0 release issued back in 2020.
New features include IPv6 blocking (which VPN users will like), support for BitTorrent v2 (and Hybrid torrents to retain backwards compatibility with older torrent files). The client was also rebuilt in C++, enabling code refinement that reduces memory usage and CPU cycles.