From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Subject: Re: [update] net/transmission beta.4 -> beta.5
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 09:06:37 +0100

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 11:43:35PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote:
> Attached is a diff for the most recent beta, released today.
> Tested on amd64.

Thanks, committed.


> Highlights
> 
>     Fixed 4.1.0-beta.1 bug where some downloads could get stuck for a long 
>       time. (#7899)
>     Fixed 4.1.0-beta.4 bug that broke icons on Windows. (#7931)
>     Fixed 4.1.0-beta.4 issue that included backwards-incompatible keys in the 
>       settings file. (#7917, #7918, #7932, #7995, #8002)
>     Return X-Transmission-Rpc-Version header in RPC HTTP 409 response to 
>       indicate JSON-RPC support. (#7958)
> 
> All Platforms
> 
>     Fixed 4.1.0-beta.1 bug where torrents with unaligned piece and block 
>       boundaries could get stuck at 99%. (#7944)
>     Fixed intermittent crashes on macOS and GTK app. (#7948)
>     Reject incoming BT data if they are not selected for download. (#7866)
>     Fixed minor 4.1.0 beta regression to honor the 
>       sleep_per_seconds_during_verify setting when verifying local data. (#7870)
>     Fixed remote RPC bug where querying recently_active torrents missed some 
>       torrents. (#8029)
>     torrent_get.wanted is now an array of booleans in the JSON-RPC API. (#7997)
>     Encryption mode in settings.json and RPC are now serialized to the same set 
>       of strings. (#8032)
>     Renamed setting to cache_size_mib to reflect the correct size units. (#7971)
>     Renamed peer_socket_tos to peer_socket_diffserv. (#8004)
>     Deprecated session_get.rpc_version and session_get.rpc_version_minimum in 
>       favour of session_get.rpc_version_semver in RPC. (#8022)
> 
> Qt Client
> 
>     Fixed build script bug that could cause extra instances of Transmission to 
>       launch on Windows. (#7841)
>     Fixed "sequence not ordered" assertion error in debug builds. (#8000)
>     Fixed a Qt API deprecation warning when building with Qt >= 6.13. (#7940)
>     Raised the minimum Qt5 version to 5.15. (#7943)
> 
> Daemon
> 
>     Deprecated tcp-enabled and udp-enabled in favour of preferred_transports. 
>       (#7988)
> 
> transmission-remote
> 
>     transmission-remote --blocklist-update now prints blocklist size after 
>       update. (#8021)
>     Fixed layout bug that caused columns to be misaligned when transfer speed 
>       was >= 10MB. (#8019)
>     Deprecated --(no-)utp in transmission-remote. (#7990)

> diff --git net/transmission/Makefile net/transmission/Makefile
> index fd73424b58f..eb712030285 100644
> --- net/transmission/Makefile
> +++ net/transmission/Makefile
> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ COMMENT-main=	BitTorrent command line and daemon client
>  COMMENT-gtk=	BitTorrent client with GTK+ interface
>  COMMENT-qt=	BitTorrent client with Qt interface
>  
> -VER=		4.1.0beta4
> -DISTNAME=	transmission-4.1.0-beta.4+rc92b42de9c
> +VER=		4.1.0beta5
> +DISTNAME=	transmission-4.1.0-beta.5+r11d3fc6f5a
>  PKGNAME-main=	transmission-${VER}
>  PKGNAME-gtk=	transmission-gtk-${VER}
>  PKGNAME-qt=	transmission-qt-${VER}
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ DEBUG_PACKAGES=${BUILD_PACKAGES}
>  # GPLv2+
>  PERMIT_PACKAGE=	Yes
>  
> -SITES=	https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/download/4.1.0-beta.4/
> +SITES=	https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/download/4.1.0-beta.5/
>  EXTRACT_SUFX=	.tar.xz
>  
>  MULTI_PACKAGES=	-main -gtk -qt
> diff --git net/transmission/distinfo net/transmission/distinfo
> index 993de4102c1..399b3c180fc 100644
> --- net/transmission/distinfo
> +++ net/transmission/distinfo
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -SHA256 (transmission-4.1.0-beta.4+rc92b42de9c.tar.xz) = 7u1TDWaLMnDZ32oxigcU7sG26DSBAuJC/I1pekz8Dew=
> -SIZE (transmission-4.1.0-beta.4+rc92b42de9c.tar.xz) = 12167328
> +SHA256 (transmission-4.1.0-beta.5+r11d3fc6f5a.tar.xz) = LtHB8jnUF0OSFQQHdJmWzPQFA71dsUojFLxEe3zjuRY=
> +SIZE (transmission-4.1.0-beta.5+r11d3fc6f5a.tar.xz) = 12183220
> diff --git net/transmission/pkg/PLIST-main net/transmission/pkg/PLIST-main
> index 2f5df7d9b12..c0dc2d977fc 100644
> --- net/transmission/pkg/PLIST-main
> +++ net/transmission/pkg/PLIST-main
> @@ -66,9 +66,11 @@ share/doc/transmission/news/news-4.1.0-beta.1.md
>  share/doc/transmission/news/news-4.1.0-beta.2.md
>  share/doc/transmission/news/news-4.1.0-beta.3.md
>  share/doc/transmission/news/news-4.1.0-beta.4.md
> +share/doc/transmission/news/news-4.1.0-beta.5.md
>  share/doc/transmission/news/news-5.0.0-draft.md
>  share/doc/transmission/rpc-spec.md
>  share/doc/transmission/send-email-when-torrent-done.sh
> +share/icons/
>  share/transmission/
>  share/transmission/public_html/
>  share/transmission/public_html/images/


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Antoine