Just a heads-up to my friends who use Transmission – 0.95 is extremely buggy. You’ll notice it using all your HD space, memory, becoming unresponsive and crashing, and writing bad data into your torrents (check everything you’ve downloaded with it). A terrible release and very worrying that it was released at all with such major problems.
I recommend immediately moving back to 0.94 (or even 0.93, but i’ve had no problems with 94) for now. I would also recommend adopting a (perhaps temporary) posture of suspicion towards this software – disable daily update checks and rely on manual updates a few weeks after release. You can review whether other users have had difficulties on popular Mac software review sites such as VersionTracker and MacUpdate.
You might think this is an overreaction but these kind of bugs should never make it into a public release, even a “beta”, and their presence sets off alarm bells. It’s pretty easy to imagine how, if bugs allowing uncontrolled file writing are allowed into a tagged release, bugs allowing unchecked file deletion might also creep in. Macs don’t really have a virus problem like PCs – but bad software can still delete all your files. This isn’t likely to happen but still – I don’t like the cavalier turn development of Transmission seems to have taken and recommend caution until sanity returns (and is confirmed to have returned over a few weeks of other people’s testing!).
UPDATE: The problem of data corruption is supposedly fixed in 0.96, although the speed problems remain. I’m thinking I’ll hold off a bit before moving from the highly reliable (in my experience) 0.94.