Popular lightweight BitTorrent client for Mac and Linux users leaves Beta.

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.

These days, bandwidth is a precious commodity. Transmission allows you to ration this commodity efficiently. You might want to queue your torrents for maximum performance. Or throttle their speed during peak periods. Transmission easily lets you do both, and thus only works its hardest when you want it to. Support for Growl notifications and dock badging keep you updated with what's going on so you can get back to doing more important things.

Version 1.00 (2008/1/4):

All Platforms:

+ Port forwarding now performed by MiniUPnP and libnatpmp

+ Ability to set global and per-torrent number of connections

+ Option to prefer not using encryption

+ PEX is now configured globally

+ Updated icon

OS X:

+ Redesigned Leopard-like look

+ Group labeling, filtering, and sorting

+ Statistics window

+ Pieces Bar (return of Advanced Bar)

+ Display 'not available' overlay on the regular bar

+ Display remaining time for seeding transfers

+ Sort by total activity

+ Connectable from the Clutch web interface

+ Leopard: Time Machine will ignore incomplete downloads

+ Leopard: Fix bug where text fields would reject localized decimal values

+ Leopard: Fix bug where bandwidth rates chosen from the action menu would not apply the first time

GTK+:

+ Redesigned main window interface

+ Minimal Mode for showing more torrents in less desktop space

+ Torrent filtering

+ Port forwarding tester in Preferences

+ Statistics window

+ Sort by total activity, progress, state, and tracker

+ Various other interface additions and improvements

CLI:

+ Restore 'scrape' feature

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