Panic’s Transmit FTP Program Updates To Version 4.0

John Brownlee ()

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Transmit, the popular OS X FTP client by Panic Support, has finally broken its half decade run of version 3.x executables and finally released version 4.0, a significant and shiny upgrade that boasts faster performance, a new user interface and several fantastic new features.

The new user interface is very attractive: jettisoning the old Aqua-style drop downs, Panic now looks more like native Finder, including a path bar, custom icons for your favorite locations, Coverflow, thumbnail view, options to disclose folders or color code them and a new sync button.

Another new noteworthy feature is “Transmit Disks,” which allows you to mount any favorite FTP site in the finder and interact with it like a normal folder on your Mac. It works even if Transmit isn’t running.

Everything’s also much faster: Panic claims that Transmit has been greased up and now runs 25% faster than version 3.

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It’s a significant upgrade, but it’s not free: a new license costs $34, while users of the previous version must pay a $19 upgrade cost, unless they purchased it after March 1st, in which case the upgrade is free.

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  • Alain

    so far I could not really find a feature which push me to spend $34 as long there are such great applications like http://www.cyberduck.ch. Most of the features which are the “great new thing” in transmit are available in Cyberduck already for some time.