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FrostWire 4.20.1

zzillezz — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:25:23 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. The bittorrent engine in FrostWire has got a major overhaul in this release.

Changes in version 4.20.1 “Torrent Joint”
Major Upgrade: BitTorrent Engine replaced for a lightweight version of the Azureus BitTorrent core.
FrostWire has become a far superior BitTorrent client starting version 4.20.x now supporting:
Trackerless Torrents (via Azureus DHT)
Improved Magnet link support (BTIH Magnet Links)
SuperSeeding
+100% Faster Torrent Connection Bootstraping (No more “sources needed” for some .torrents)
+100% Faster Torrent Downloads in some ocassions than 4.18.x
Transport Encryption capabilities
Improved UPnP implementation
New Feature: The Download Manager now has a new column showing the amount of bytes downloaded per download.
Update: The “Refresh Connections” Tool is now available even if you are Turbo Charged.
Fixes a bug where Crash Reports would always show an old version number.

>> Frostwire website
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FrostWire 4.18.3

zzillezz — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:55:13 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

* Ads .wma and .au extension to the default excluded shared formats. Also they are filtered from search results by default to protect windows users from malicious installers invoked from Windows Media Player when fake .au and .wma are opened. This also gives preference to .mp3 content which has no DRM.
* Bug fix on Connection Doctor. It would continue to run even though FrostWire was already connected.
* Updated Adult Filter keywords.
* Fixes connectivity issues on Snow Leopard where FrostWire would not attempt to open any connections.
* Frostwire for Mac is now compiled with 64-bit JDK and it’s backwards compatible with Leopard (10.5)
* Fixes compatibility issues with Snow Leopard for Mac users. you can free download FrostWire 4.18.3 now.

>> FrostWire website
>> Download FrostWire 4.18.3

FrostWire 4.18.0

zzillezz — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:28:57 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

* Fixes Bittorrent Incompatibilities.
* Mac launcher fixes bug where FrostWire would not allow itself to run on a external disk.
* Fixes bug on Welcome Screen, now you don’t need to open FrostWire twice to get the latest welcome screen.
* FrostWire caches the last 2 images shown on the Welcome Screen to save bandwidth from static servers.
* Tools > Check for Updates. Now FrostWire can check for configuration updates, community messages, new FrostWire releases and welcome screen promotion updates during runtime.
* The welcome screen can be customized for every language, giving the chance to more content creators to be promoted every week to different audiences that speak their language.
* The Buttons of the Download Manager have been rearranged to avoid mistakes when trying to resume downloads. The Clear and Cancel Buttons are all the way to the right. Thanks to ’ssome’ for the suggestion.
* New Splash Screen.
* Anti spam filters updated to filter out new keywords used by spammers.
* New “Buy” icon.
* The community chat ‘Connect’ button now checks if a nickname has been set and helps the user set a default nickname using an input dialog.
* When users issue the “/nick” command on the chat, FrostWire will remember the new nickname as the default nickname.

>> FrostWire website
>> Download FrostWire 4.18.0

FrostWire 4.17.2

zzillezz — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:50:39 +0000

I didn’t notice this release since it was a Windows-only one. FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

# Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire(tm) take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user.
# Reduces DHT network load. The LimeWire team found out that the Mojito “store forwarding” feature would not provide extra data availability, so it’s been turned off from the DHT on all new FrostWires.
# FrostWire.ico has been updated. Now when FrostWire(tm) is associated to .bittorrent files, .bittorrent files will use the FrostWire(tm) icon.

>> FrostWire website
>> Download FrostWire 4.17.2

FrostWire 4.17.1

zzillezz — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:21:58 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. The last of the 4.17.x FrostWire series is finally out. The following is a list of the most important updates made for this release, which irons out most of the complaints received from the community in regards to 4.17.0.

# Half sized installers
# It will attempt to add the default Library folder of 4.13.5 so users won’t feel like they lost their old library
# FrostWire now can be auto-started when Windows starts. This setting is available from the ‘Option’ menu (’Windows boot’) and from the initial setup.
# File Association issues fixed. FrostWire will open automatically on Windows and MacOSX upon clicking on .torrents (files and links), and magnet links.
# Fixes compatibility issues with iTunes 8
# Heavy work on all translations. Translation files now work with launchpad.net for more open collaboration of worldwide translator volunteers
# Default Community Chat chatroom auto join update (in your own language) makes chatting friendlier to non-english speaking users. Users that speak the following languages will auto join to rooms of their own language: Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Filipino, Japanese, Finnish and Hungarian. No more unexplained kicks to international users!
# Updated “FrostWire” font logo on the Logo Pane
# Icons updated
# Volume toolbar graphic replaced
# Fixed playback Issue when continuous playback was selected
# Valid Chatroom links will now open on the user’s default browser

>> FrostWire website
>> Download FrostWire 4.17.1

FrostWire chat server

zzillezz — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:17:34 +0000

FrostWire, the filesharing application based on LimeWire, has a built in chat system. The built-in functions are very basic, and I’m not a big fan of the layout. So I asked wyrdjax in the #Support channel if it’s possible to connect to the FrostWire server using a normal IRC client like mIRC, Konversation or ViRC. Just point your client of choice to chat.peercommons.net and you’re good to go!

FrostWire 4.17.0

zzillezz — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:53:22 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Version 4.17.0 is a major update, but there’s no changelog yet.

>> FrostWire website
>> Download FrostWire 4.17.0

FrostWire 4.13.5

zzillezz — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:08:05 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Major updates improve network bootstraping and peer discovery. 4.13.5 includes improvements on the Chatroom tab, Audio Previews and more.

Changes in FrostWire version 4.13.5:

* Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping.
* Smiley Support to the chatroom
* Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.
* FrostWire Message Update System improved.
* Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
* Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
* Fixed i18n system error for systems which default language is not english
* Potential bugs related to deprecated code gone
* Users can find now by details without the auto-focusing problem.

>> FrostWire website
>> FrostWire downloads

FrostWire 4.13.4

zzillezz — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:21:02 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL. It was created in September 2005 after LimeWire LLC received a cease and desist letter from the RIAA, threatening to sue them for millions of dollars unless they stop their users from offering copyrighted songs. Unwilling to take the matter to court, LimeWire implemented a filter, preventing its users from sharing audio files that did not contain either a commercial Weed license or a Creative Commonse License. The LimeWire open-source community then decided to create FrostWire, – a free offspring using the publicly available sourcecode from LimeWire to create a Gnutella client that does not filter any content. This project is not affiliated with LimeWire LLC–the official maker of the LimeWire application.The FrostWire project will always remain strictly non-profit and free of any bundled software, including any ads or nags. FrostWire 4.13.1.6 includes Bittorrent support, better search results and faster downloads, along with many UI improvements.

>> FrostWire website & downloads for other OS
>> Download FrostWire 4.13.4 for Windows

FrostWire 4.13.3

zzillezz — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:01:08 +0000

FrostWire is a free Gnutella and bittorrent client based on LimeWire distributed under terms of the GPL.

* New Update Manager. Also allows delivery of special announcements to the community. And no, we won’t use this feature for spam, only for special announcements to the community, or special downloads.
* The Update Manager supports the delivery of torrent broadcasting to all the FrostWire community. This will allow us to lower bandwidth costs if we decide to distribute an upload using bittorrent trackers.
* FrostWire startup time back to normal, no more waiting for Chat window to load, the chat is now loaded on a background thread.

>> FrostWire website
>> Download FrostWire 4.13.3