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Transmission 1.71 for MIIPSEL Debian is ready for test.

Wed, 06/17/2009 - 00:55 — wugi

For the detail change log with transmission 1.7x, you can refer offical website.

The major change is DHT function , memory and CPU usage improvement.

== Transmission 1.71 ==

All Platforms

  • Fix 1.70 bug that caused high CPU use in high-peer swarms
  • Fix 1.70 build problems with DHT and libevent

Daemon

  • Fix watchdir issue on OSes that don't have inotify

Web Client

  • Fix 1.70 bug where some torrents appeared to be duplicates

== Transmission 1.70 ==

All Platforms
  • Distributed hash table (DHT) support for public torrents
  • Add option for moving and finding a torrent's data on the disk
  • JSON RPC messages can be ~85% shorter, saving bandwidth and CPU
  • When available, use the system's copy of libevent instead of building one
  • Automatically pause torrents when verifying
  • Fix small bugs and memory leaks
Web Client
  • Big speed improvements, especially with large torrents
  • Fix 1.61 bug that broke adding torrents via the web client
  • Add the ability to upload multiple torrents at once
  • Torrents added by URL were always paused, regardless of preferences
  • Comments and announce addresses were cut off in the inspector
  • The "data remaining" field wasn't updated when the number reached 0
  • Smaller design adjustments

Here is the upgraded method.

/etc/init.d/transmission stop
apt-get update
apt-get install transmission