Sorry for the inconvenience to Lollypop users, not sure how music playback was broken, a last minute bug must have slipped in our last release. In any case, here’s a new installer that resolves music playback issues for all Lollypop releases.
Some of our friends not running FrostWire on Ubuntu have had LOTS of issues getting the old OpenJDK 11 JRE to install with their package managers, won’t name on what Linux distribution.
When your package managers fail, you can either compile the source, or if you can get a binary distribution from a reputable signed source you can add it to your PATH and FrostWire will use the `java` binary that’s on the linux PATH.
Here’s an email we wrote to one of our most patient Linux users, Cheers Donald!
$ cd
$ mkdir src
~/src$ wget -4 https://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk13/ri/openjdk-13+33_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
Saving to: ‘openjdk-13+33_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz’ openjdk-13+33_linux-x64_bin.ta 100%[====================================================>] 187.27M 3.90MB/s in 50s 2020-04-15 22:20:30 (3.72 MB/s) - ‘openjdk-13+33_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz’ saved [196363513/196363513]
~/src$ tar xvfz openjdk-13+33_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz ... jdk-13/lib/server/classes.jsa jdk-13/lib/server/libjsig.so jdk-13/lib/server/libjvm.so jdk-13/lib/src.zip jdk-13/lib/tzdb.dat jdk-13/release
~/src$ ./jdk-13/bin/java --version openjdk 13 2019-09-17 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 13+33) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 13+33, mixed mode, sharing)
export JAVA_HOME=${HOME}/src/jdk-13
export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ echo ${PATH}
/home/gubatron/src/jdk-13/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/gubatron/src/cmake-3.16.2-Linux-x86_64:/home/gubatron/src/gradle-6.1/bin::/bin::/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin:/home/gubatron/src/android-studio/bin
$ java --version
openjdk version "13" 2019-09-17
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 13+33)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 13+33, mixed mode, sharing)
$ sudo dpkg -i frostwire-6.8.4.amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package frostwire. (Reading database ... 381934 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack frostwire-6.8.4.amd64.deb ... Unpacking frostwire (6.8.4) ... Setting up frostwire (6.8.4) ... Unpacking libraries... Unpacking frostwire.pack Warning: The unpack200 tool is deprecated, and is planned for removal in a future JDK release. Unpacking gettext-ant-tasks-0.9.7.pack Warning: The unpack200 tool is deprecated, and is planned for removal in a future JDK release. Unpacking jlibtorrent-1.2.3.0.pack Warning: The unpack200 tool is deprecated, and is planned for removal in a future JDK release. Done unpacking Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
$ frostwire HOSTNAME IS gubatron-VirtualBox Starting FrostWire... Java exec found in PATH. Verifying... Suitable java version found [java = 13] Configuring environment... Loading FrostWire: os.name="Linux" WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.frostwire.gui.theme.ThemeMediator (file:/usr/lib/frostwire/frostwire.jar) to method java.awt.Toolkit.setDesktopProperty(java.lang.String,java.lang.Object) WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.frostwire.gui.theme.ThemeMediator WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release FrostWire version 6.8.4 build 292 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Oracle Corporation 13 Oracle Corporation Peer Fingerprint: -FW6842- User Agent: FrostWire/6.8.4 libtorrent/1.2.3.0 Apr 16, 2020 1:38:49 PM BTEngine INFO: Listen succeeded on endpoint: 0.0.0.0:51302 type:TCP ...
Develop libtorrent based apps with the joy of coding in Java, Kotlin or your favorite JRE based language. jlibtorrent is a full featured java wrapper for the most powerful and performant open source bittorrent library, libtorrent.
Download JLibtorrent 1.2.5.0 Binaries on our Github Release Page
jlibtorrent-windows-1.2.5.0.jar 4.72 MB
changelog:
1.2.5.0
Windows: frostwire-6.8.4.windows.github.exe 29.7 MB Mac: frostwire-6.8.4.dmg 37.2 MB Ubuntu/Debian: frostwire-6.8.4.amd64.deb 4.83 MB Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora: frostwire-6.8.4.amd64.rpm 5.83 MB Other OS with Java 12+: frostwire-6.8.4.amd64.tar.gz 12.2 MB
A new big update is finally out to begin 2020, bittorrent engine updated with important fixes and optimizations, our whole runtime starts the year with bleeding edge java technology from the OpenJDK 13, our encrypted communications now run with the updated openssl 1.1.1d, and portions of our search got rewritten from scratch to yield nearly instant search results from some sources.
frostwire (6.8.4) stable; urgency=high
— FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Thu, 30 Jan 2019 19:30:45 -0600
Windows 7,8, and Vista support officially dropped
From now on, the minimum required Microsoft OS recommended by FrostWire will be Windows 10.
A few weeks ago Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7. The last years we’ve been building FrostWire for Windows on a Windows 7 instance. Starting with 6.8.4 we’ve started building FrostWire on Windows 10.
We’ve tested the app on Windows 7 and it still works and we’ll try out best to make it work in Windows 7 for as long as possible but once it becomes too hard to do this there won’t be much we’ll be able to do if we want to keep up with newer technologies and updates of third party libraries that we use to build FrostWire. We highly recommend you switch from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as soon as you can, internally we love the Windows 10 experience as software developers.
Download FrostWire Plus 2.1.9 now
We’re really proud of this one, we’ve spent the last months hunkered down in the winter cold and snow to deliver a FrostWire release (after 24 iterations) that makes the app work the way it was intended to work across all Android versions.
We’ve made deep architectural changes in the way the app runs it’s backend services so that it no longer needs keeps services and resources in use, this means, longer battery life and no more annoying notifications telling you that FrostWire is running idle in the background.
Now you will only get notifications under 3 possible situations:
1. You’re playing music. A Mini-Player control will appear in the notification bar so you can quickly pause, skip, stop music playback or get back to the Audio Player screen.
2. When you’re actively downloading or seeding files from the network, you’ll be able to see how many transfers are active and how much upstream or downstream bytes per second it’s sending or receiving.
3. When a download is finished, touching it will open the app and take you straight to the Transfers screen.
Great care and attention was put into optimizing memory and CPU usage, FrostWire’s impact on your battery life will be as small as ever. FrostWire will throttle repeated background thread requests that were needlessly done in the past, and dozens of crashes were fixed prior to this moment.
A new powerful jlibtorrent 1.2.3 build, along with new OpenSSL and boost libraries has been included with bleeding edge innovation in BitTorrent and encryption technology.
We’ve rebuilt the app with the latest Android libraries from Google and repairs to search engines, including our LimeTorrent’s search has been rewritten from scratch for nearly instant torrent search results.
We’ve also heard your complaints regarding the ads on the app, we no longer cover album art with an annoying ad, also we’ve made interstitial ad display less aggressive and now even if you don’t have money to pay to remove ads there’s a new option to play a rewarded video that will in return turn off all ads from the app for 30 minutes. You can keep playing the rewarded video every half hour to have an ad-free experience all day if you please. If you have a dollar to spare, you can remove ads for 30 days altogether.
In case you want to read all of the code changes here’s the full patch file depicting all of the changes.
If you enjoy this release, please consider making a donation with what you can to continue to make our work possible and keep FrostWire free.
And here’s the full changelog for this release
FrostWire 2.1.9 build 637 - MAR/05/2020
- Album art display bug fixed
- No more annoying 300x250 ad over album art on Music Player
- New MagnetDL search
- Issues with search results not being displayed fixed
- MusicPlaybackService rewritten
- Continuous playback issues fixed
- Repeat mode and shuffle mode issues fixed
- Save to Playlist issue fixed
- New Global Sequential Downloads Torrent Setting. Disabled by default
- Transfer details file list and peer list no longer flicker when updated
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.3
- libtorrent 1.2.3.0 update
- com.google.android.material:material:1.2.0-alpha04->1.2.0-alpha05 update
- com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.5 -> 2.8.6 update
- boost 1.72.0 build
- openssl 1.1.1d
- Android NDK 21
- R8 code minification enabled to build .apk
- UX: New 'Retry Download' action for failed magnet downloads
- UX: No more annoying ever-present Android notification, only during active transfers or music playback
- UX: Torrent search results now show how old they are
- EngineService and MusicPlaybackService are no longer ran as foreground services following newer android guidelines
- Considerable CPU usage reduction through thread invocation throttling frees resources for better search and download experience
- Removed experimental haptic feedback feature
- Multiple crashes fixed
- Music player and notifications framework update
- MusicPlaybackService lifecycle rewrite
- SoundCloud search/downloads fixed
- LimeTorrents search/downloads fixed
- Fixes crash searching for music in My Music screens
- Fixes issue media scanning finished download files
- androidx browser 1.3.0-alpha01
- applovin and mopub mediation 9.11.4
- mopub 5.11.0 update
- com.unity3d.ads:unity-ads:3.4.2 update
- lt:fix erroneous event=completed tracker announce when checking files
- lt:promote errors in parsing listen_interfaces to post listen_failed_alert
- lt:fix bug in protocol encryption/obfuscation
- lt:fix buffer overflow in SOCKS5 UDP logic
- lt:fix issue of rapid calls to file_priority() clobbering each other
- lt:clear tracker errors on success
- lt:optimize setting with unlimited unchoke slots
- lt:fixed restoring of trackers, comment, creation date and created-by in resume data
- lt:fix handling of torrents with too large pieces
- lt:fixed division by zero in anti-leech choker
- lt:fixed bug in torrent_info::swap
Snowy peaks photo credit:
By Asoggetti under Public Domain
https://unsplash.com/photos/zlPhxd5OydQ
Develop libtorrent based apps with the joy of coding in Java, Kotlin or your favorite JRE based language.
jlibtorrent is a full featured java wrapper for the most powerful and performant open source bittorrent library, libtorrent.
More information at jlibtorrent.org
Binaries:
native shared libraries for different operating systems and CPU architectures
jlibtorrent-linux-1.2.3.0.jar 5.64 MB (x86 and x86_64 .so files included in .jar)
Photo by /u/master1718
frostwire-android-release-2.1.8-b609-plus.apk 17.8 MB
FrostWire 2.1.8 build 609 - DEC/17/2019 🐈 - SoundCloud search/downloads fixed 🙌 - Ads can be temporarily removed by playing a rewarded video ad 🙌 - androidx.browser:browser:1.2.0-rc01 update - androidx.exifinterface:exifinterface:1.1.0 update - com.applovin:applovin-sdk:9.10.5 update - com.unity3d.ads:unity-ads:3.4.0 new - com.android.billingclient:billing:2.1.0 update - dev: com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3 - cleanups and optimizations
Ubuntu/Debian: frostwire-6.8.3.amd64.deb 5.63 MB
frostwire (6.8.3) stable; urgency=high
— FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:09:59 -0600
Photo: “Santa’s Snitch” by @gubatron , licensed under CC-BY
frostwire-android-release-2.1.8-b607-plus.apk 17.6 MB
For the longest time we heard complains about the ads and many of our FrostWire Plus users didn’t get the screen to purchase ad-removal because it wouldn’t have worked since that app is not the same app that’s available on Google Play and all the payment systems depend on Google Play.
That is until today.
Starting with FrostWire for Android 2.1.8, basic or plus, users in or out of the Google Play Store, don’t need money to experience FrostWire Ad Free.
We’ve integrated “Rewarded Ads”, and it works as follows.
If you play a Rewarded Ad completely, you will unlock Ad-Removal for up to 30 minutes.
If you want to spend a whole hour, then you’ll have to play a second ad to unlock the next 30 minutes.
Every user is allowed to play 2 ads per hour during the whole day. If you happen to use FrostWire non-stop for 24 hours… you can do so Ad-Free without paying now.
If you want to know how many minutes you have left until Ads start appearing again, you can always go to the Preferences screen and scroll down to the “Other Sections” settings, in there you will see a description of how many minutes you have left
frostwire-android-release-2.1.7-b605-plus.apk 17.6 MB
After over a month of testing, tweaking and fixing today we’re releasing FrostWire 2.1.7 build 604 for Android.
This is a stability, performance and compatibility update that makes sure FrostWire is compatible with the next generation of Android 10 powered devices.
We’ve made sure the most important components of the application have been updated to the newest and most stable version, affecting startup, https connectivity and file system access compatibility moving forward with lots of important changes and restrictions that were introduced with Android 10.
FrostWire 2.1.7 build 605 – NOV/20/2019
Official FrostWire Blog 