Problem with transmission-4.0.6 in CU190

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

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Hi everyone.

Frohes neues, Beste wensen, Happy new year.

Someone on the forum has flagged up that version 4.0.6 of transmission 
is banned by a lot of torrent sites due to a bug in it.

It checks if you are using ipv4 and or ipv6. If you are not using ipv6 
then the code goes through the whole check again and this was apparently 
causing significant load on torrent sites.

This issue was found and fixed with a patch on 2nd Sept 2024 but version 
4.0.7 has not been released. It looks like they don't intend to do that 
but to focus on the 4.1.0 release candidate work.

Unfortunately no message was put on the 4.0.6 release notes that it 
should not be used if ipv6 was not being used. So I found version 4.0.6 
and provided an update patch for it on 24th Sept 2024.

The forum user would like to revert to version 4.0.5

What would be the best option - revert transmission to 4.0.5 or add the 
transmission patch that fixes the issue.

The transmission patch fix could only apply to CU191.

Could a reversion of transmission to 4.0.5 be made to work with CU190. 
How would that work with the cached versions of the addons in the 
install. Would users have to clear their caches or are there alternative 
ways to install the older version once it is in the addons download server.

What feedback do you all have on the best approach from the two above or 
is there another approach that I haven't thought of.

Regards,

Adolf.

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