Re: Discussion: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingTransmission
To get things off to a good start I have updated the wiki page to cover Quantal Quetzal, libevent 2.0.21-stable and Transmission 2.75. Why upgrade from the repository 2.61? Well, the following is the changelog since 2.61:
Code:
Transmission 2.75 (2012/12/13)
Mac
Fix crash on non-English localizations
Transmission 2.74 (2012/12/10)
All tickets closed by this release
All Platforms
Fix a bug that prevented IPv6 addresses from being saved in dht.dat
Better handling of magnet links that contain 'tr.x=' parameters
Add filtering of addresses used for uTP peer connections
Fix detection of whether or not a peer supports uTP connections
Mac
Auto-grouping won't apply until torrents are demagnetized
Tweak the inspector's and add window's file lists to avoid auto-hiding scrollbars overlapping the priority controls
Fix potential crash when downloading and seeding complete at the same time
Fix bug where stopped torrents might start when waking the computer from sleep
Web Client
Fix a multi-file selection bug
Fix bug where the upload and download arrows and rates would not appear for downloading torrents
Fix bug when displaying the tracker list
Transmission 2.73 (2012/10/18)
All tickets closed by this release
Mac
Fix crash on non-English localizations
Transmission 2.72 (2012/10/16)
All tickets closed by this release
All Platforms
Fix crash when adding magnet links with malformed webseeds
Fix handling of magnet links' webseed URLs that contain whitespace
Fix remaining time estimates of magnet links that have webseeds
Show the webseed count in the torrent list when downloading from webseeds
Mac
When possible allow automatic switching to the integrated GPU on dual-GPU machines
Include seeding-complete transfers in the badged count on the Dock icon
GTK+
When adding torrents by URL from the clipboard, handle whitespace in the link
Qt
Fix dialog memory leaks
Web Client
Minor interface fixes
Transmission 2.71 (2012/09/26)
All tickets closed by this release
Mac
Fix crasher on 10.6 Snow Leopard
Transmission 2.70 (2012/09/25)
All tickets closed by this release
All Platforms
Improved speed with the µTP protocol
Fix bug that caused some incoming encrypted peer connections to fail
Fix bugs with the speed limit scheduler
Fix crasher with magnet links
Mac
Notification Center support on Mountain Lion
Torrent files can be previewed with Quick Look in the Finder
Add an option to remove transfers when seeding completes
Fix displaying the Web Client with Bonjour
Fix bugs with Time Machine exclusions
Other minor interface tweaks and bug fixes
Removed Simplified Chinese localization because of lack of localizer
GTK+
Require GTK+ 3.4
Qt
Control speed limit from the icon tray
Improved behavior when clicking on torrents in the torrent list
Fix bug where torrent files were not deleted
Fix bug with unicode characters in the default location
Web Client
The file inspector tab displays files nested under directories
Improved scrolling on iPad
Fix incorrectly rendered characters
Fix bug involving attempts to post notifications without permission
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