The famous customer BitTorrent goes to version 4.0, with the main novelty being support for the latest processors designed by Apple.
Transmission is something of a piece of furniture for older Mac users. However, despite the weight of the years, the open source software continues to be supported and updated, as evidenced by this new major version put online in recent days.
Transmission is finally compatible with Apple Silicon processors
After a period of beta-testing, Transmission therefore tumbles into version 4.0. The main criticism that could be made of the BitTorrent client for some time was the lack of support for Apple Silicon processors. The old version required, on the most recent Macs, the Rosetta 2 emulator, software developed by Apple and allowing applications coded for Intel chips to run on Mac M1 or M2.
The emulation posed no compatibility problem, but caused some performance losses, especially when starting the application. Moreover, it is not forbidden to think that Apple, as it did when switching from Power PC processors to Intel, is abandoning Rosetta in favor of a new version of the macOS system.
No more problem to fear now for Rosetta, which benefits from a so-called universal version, running on both Intel and Apple Silicon chips.
An aesthetic update and several new features
Under the hood, the developers have also made big changes, swapping the C language to adopt C++. Performances are better for this new version, with reduced memory and CPU consumption.
Transmission 4.0 now supports the BitTorrent v2 protocol. Users can determine the size of different parts of a file to share, hide some information such as their identifier or the date the torrent was added, and the web interface has been rewritten to adapt to devices. mobiles. Users can finally set default trackers which will be used to advertise all public torrents.
The developers have also set about updating the client interface. Nothing fundamentally different and historical users will quickly find their little ones. The software interface has simply been adapted to the aesthetic codes introduced by Apple with the release of macOS Big Sur in 2020.
Source : MacRumors
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