

"Transmission on macOS is a truly native and polished experience," reads the client's website. When creating new torrents, users can also now specify the piece size, and IPv6 blocklists are now supported. User-Agent and date created) when creating new torrents has been added.Įlsewhere, newly added seeds can now start immediately and verify pieces on demand, instead of needing a full verify before seeding can begin, and the web client has been rewritten to support mobile use. New feature highlights include support for using BitTorrent v2 torrents and hybrid torrents, users can now set "default" trackers that can be used to announce all public torrents, and an option to omit potentially-identifying information (e.g. Resource efficiency has also been improved, so the app now uses less memory and fewer CPU cycles. There are some UI design changes to match the latest version of macOS, and the developers have modernized the code by migrating from C90 to modern C++. It's now a universal binary, so it now runs natively on all Macs. With Transmission 4, the client is no longer an Intel app that runs on Macs with M1 or M2 chips via Rosetta. Popular old-school BitTorrent client Transmission is today celebrating its fourth major release, with a huge list of changes accompanying the update, including native Apple silicon support.
