Transmission 4.1.4 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Various Fixes

> Transmission 4.1.4 has been released today as the fourth maintenance update to the latest Transmission 4.1 series for this popular open-source BitTorrent client, a bugfix release that fixes various issues. > > Coming almost four months after Transmission 4.1.3, which was a small update fixing a CORS bug that leaked the anti-CSRF nonce, a use-after-free bug in peer code, and a build error when compiling with fmt 12.2.0, the Transmission 4.1.4 release hardens the torrent-add RPC method against malformed requests. > > Transmission 4.1.4 also fixes a regression introduced in Transmission 4.1 that could cause torrents with zero-byte files to be handled incorrectly, which could sometimes cause downloaded progress to be lost, and fixes a rare bug that could leave Transmission hung but running on it is closed. > > This release also addresses a rare bug that could prevent downloading webseeds from finishing, a bug where setting TR_CURL_PROXY_SSL_NO_VERIFY broke origin server SSL verification, and a build failure that happened when building Transmission with -Wnull-dereference -Werror in GCC 12.15. > > On top of that, Transmission 4.1.4 unifies launch and delegation between the Qt and GTK clients. According to the devs, if either is already running and then you or a browser’s MIME-type handler tries to start the other to add a new torrent, that new torrent will get handed off to the pre-existing session. > > The GTK client has been updated to allow the torrent list to re-sort and re-apply its filter when the torrent’s top folder’s name changes, open the correct folder when a single-file torrent uses a directory structure when opening a torrent’s folder, and correctly show the app icon on some desktops. > > The Qt Client received improvements to the UI code to use less CPU, the Web client received a fix for a display bug that sometimes listed torrent names as ‘Unknown’, while the macOS client was patched against a potential RCE vulnerability that requires local write access to the user’s preferences. > > Last but not least, fixes a bug in transmission-remote that broke the --list-groups argument. Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details, where you can download Transmission 4.1.4 as a source tarball if you fancy compiling it from sources.