add uTP support

Bug #585503 reported by David Nielsen
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Transmission
Fix Released
Unknown
transmission (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Charles Kerr

Bug Description

Binary package hint: transmission

uTP is a new open source BitTorrent protocol which offers several significant improvement to the BitTorrent experience. Such as adaptively controlling the bandwidth usage to not interfere with other Internet usage and potentially giving us much more finely grained options for scheduled bandwidth use.

More information in layman terms:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/05/bittorrent-open-sources-new-protocol-implementation.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Announcement:
http://blog.bittorrent.com/2010/05/21/%C2%B5tp-open-source-implementation/

Source on GitHub
http://github.com/bittorrent/libutp

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: transmission (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 25 20:02:59 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: transmission

Charles Kerr (charlesk)
summary: - implemnt uTP support
+ implement uTP support
Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in transmission:
status: Unknown → New
Charles Kerr (charlesk)
Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → charles (charles-rebelbase)
Charles Kerr (charlesk)
summary: - implement uTP support
+ add uTP support
Revision history for this message
Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote :

This is in progress now, although it probably won't be ready in time for 11.04.

There's a lot of activity going on in the upstream ticket, so anyone interested in following the progress might want to check it out.

Charles Kerr (charlesk)
Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in transmission:
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
papukaija (papukaija) wrote :

Fixing bug 715046 will fix bug too.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue should be fixed in the current version

Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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