2.71 has been released, improving performance and stability, request for version bump. Reproducible: Always
I didn't know there was this bug, or forgot about it. Anyways, 2.71 is in Portage. *transmission-2.71 (29 Sep 2012) 29 Sep 2012; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +transmission-2.71.ebuild: Version bump.