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Wikipedia: BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.

There are a number of BitTorrent applications, but few if any equal Transmission in features, a Macworld Summer of Mac Gems selection. Small envelope and simple interface may lead you to think not much under the hood.

While the article is about Transmission 1.22, version 1.30 has been available since June.

Transmission 1.30 is available for download

what is new:

All Platforms:
+ The “Clutch” web interface is now bundled with Transmission (as a beta)
+ Ability to add and remove tracker addresses
+ Ability to create torrent files with multiple tracker addresses
+ Added support for HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style)
+ Added proxy support for communicating with trackers
+ Allow torrent creation with no tracker address (required by some trackers)
+ New JSON-RPC protocol for clients to interact with the backend

Mac
+ Quick Look integration in the main window and inspector’s file tab
+ Transfers can be dragged to different groups
+ Option to only show the add window when manually adding transfers
+ Status strings are toggled from the action button (they are no longer clickable)
+ Colors in pieces bar and pieces box more accurately reflect their corresponding values
+ The port checker now uses our own portcheck.transmissionbt.com
+ Turkish localization