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After almost a year of inactivity, the developers of Transmission, an open source, lightweight bittorrent client for Mac and Linux have [released a new version][1]. The new release features bug fixes for all the known issues with the previous version as well as some nice new features.
For Mac users the new version, Transmission .70 requires OS X 10.4 or greater, though previous versions of Transmission are still available for those not using the latest version of OS X.
I've never had any problems with the previous version of Transmission so I can't comment on the bug fixes, but some of the additional features are quite nice.
I especially like the ability to limit bandwidth by torrent and, while I don't know what I'd use it for, there's also the ability to schedule bandwidth limits -- could be handy for people whose bandwidth is being throttled by Comcast.
There's also a new minimized list view which shows just the progress bar for those that have dozens of torrent files running at once.
The torrent inspector window features a number of new stats and info including a list of connected IPs and percentage stats by peer.
The new icon is nice and when switching apps with Cmd+Tab Transmission will show your upload and download speeds in the icon (see screenshot below).
While the majority of the new features, particularly the interface changes and additions are limited to OS X version, Transmission can also be compiled on Linux, heck there's even a version for BeOS.
For a complete list of changes and to download the new version head over to the [Transmission site][1].
[1]: http://transmission.m0k.org/ "Transmission"
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