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Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by nalaz »

diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

I haven’t noticed any difference. If anything high definition releases are now easier to find because they are ripped right off streaming services practically immediately.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by KennyBlanken »

This release is really important if only because it supports BitTorrent V2 spec.

Transmission has a huge market share, particularly in open source circles. Lack of support for the V2 spec has stopped many open source projects from migrating their torrents to the V2 spec, because transmission clients won't work.

Please support and use other open-source torrent clients, because Transmission's long-standing history of going years between updates and their significant market share simply is not healthy.

The first client to support v2 spec was two years ago; same year the libtorrent library that some clients use supported v2: https://torrentfreak.com/biglybt-is-the-first-torrent-client...

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by tecleandor »

ElCheapo wrote: post #2

Still no support for webtorrents, making it impossible to use it for helping to lighten the load of my favorite peertube VODs :(

Seems like that libtorrent support for webtorrent would be helpful for that.

That was done recently in https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123, merged to master, but hasn't been released yet.

Per the master changelog, that should be soon, I guess... https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/master/ChangeLog

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