Category: Announcements

FrostWire 4.17.2 for MacOSX

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Download FrostWire 4.17.2 for MacOSX

This release for MacOSX includes some of the fixes added to Windows 4.17.2 release but it’s aimed mostly to solve some incompatibilities found on the new Macbooks and Macbook PROs.

Some Mac users had reported that FrostWire 4.17.1 would not start , we revised the previous launcher and fixed possible errors and updated the Mac OSX native libraries for improved Leopard compatibility. Also FrostWire will now refuse to be executed from the Disk Image (DMG), teaching some newly mac-converted users how they should install the application.

FrostWire/FrostClick has distributed over 20 Terabytes of free content

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Since mid december 2008, FrostWire and FrostClick started promoting unsigned or indie artists willing to share their work for free or under Creative Commons license.

FrostWire promotion of Big Buck Bunny

As of today, FrostWire has shared over 20 Terabytes of data through over 230,000 downloads of music albums and a creative commons 3d animated film

With artists like Ray Sytes getting 48 thousand downloads (and going…) we hope in 2009 we can help undiscovered talent reach larger audiences, so far the reception by the FrostWire community has been great and we’re commited to bringing you professional quality content created by talented people who have a passion and love for what they do.

How to get promoted
If you are a professional content creator and you feel you have some amazing work the whole world needs to see, read this and then contact us if you think you got what it takes.

New FrostWire 4.17.2 for Windows

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Official FrostWire 4.17.2 Windows Download link

Earlier this week the FrostWire community reported an issue with our latest fixes dealing with .bittorrent file associations in FrostWire 4.17.1 for windows. Thanks to user “Trel” we have now resolved this issue and launched a hot fix release that resolves the problem, also pushing forward a fix that will enable FrostWire to save considerable bandwidth when communicating over the Mojito DHT network, thus making the P2P network healthier as more users upgrade to 4.17.2.

Hat tip to the LimeWire Team for sharing the Mojito DHT findings.

CHANGELOG:

Version 4.17.2 (November 2008)

  • 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.

    • Note: Version 4.17.2 exists only for Windows users. Mac and Linux users don’t need to worry about this hotfix release.

    About FrostWire

    FrostWire, a BitTorrent/Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source developers and contributors from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

    New FrostWire 4.17.1 Released

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    Official FrostWire 4.17.1 Download link

    FrostWire.com — 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 complains received from the community in regards to 4.17.0.

    The new FrostWire will allow us to distribute twice the number of installers using the same bandwidth employed by 4.17.0, The new FrostWire installer has been reduced in sized more than 50% by using the latest in compression technology.

  • 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

    • About FrostWire

    FrostWire, a BitTorrent/Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source developers and contributors from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

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    FrostWire 4.17.0 Released

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    Official FrostWire 4.17.0 Download link

    After 6 months of work, a completely new fork from the LimeWire code base has come to fruition, FrostWire 4.17.0 features over a year’s worth of core and user interface upgrades made to the original LimeWire client, now included in FrostWire along all the previous work done over FrostWire 4.13.x.

    Among the most important updates:

    • Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
    • Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
    • New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
    • Support for private torrents
    • Greater control over your Shared files
    • Add Magnets to Open Dialog
    • Improvements in bootstrapping
    • Warn When Too Many Files Shared
    • Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
    • Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
    • More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
    • Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
    • Recognize flv as a video extension.
    • Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
    • (Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
    • Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
    • Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
    • General Save folder improvements.
    • Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
    • FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
    • Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
    • Add partial search results.
    • Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
    • Incremental search on the Settings window
    • Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith

    Faster than ever

    Here’s a full screenshot of the new speeds achieved with FrostWire 4.17.0 when downloading torrents.

    FrostWire 4.17.0 is a major milestone on the project road map, many new innovations are to come after this release, stay tuned.

    About FrostWire
    FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

    Download FrostWire 4.17.0 from the official website

    FrostWire Blog moved to WordPress.com

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    As you’ve noticed, we have moved our blog outside our official domain and out here to wordpress.com.
    This is because we’ve been victims of a security exploit on an old version of wordpress.
    We decided it’s better to leave the blog here where the wordpress gurus will take care of it better.

    All posts and comments have been exported without any problems whatsoever.

    Forums under maintenance

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    The amount of spam we’ve been fighting with the last weeks is overwhelming, therefore we finally made the decision to upgrade to phpBB3.
    The DB migration has gone far so good.
    We’re currently indexing all the posts so you can have search working fast once the forums are back up.

    Up to this point we don’t know if the conversion script will help us bring the theme, we may come back with the default theme for a couple of days while we prepare phpBB3 to look the way we did on phpBB2.

    As soon as we’re post-able we’ll be back up.

    FrostWire now available on Gentoo Linux’s Portage package system

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    We want to give thanks to William L. Thomson Jr from Gentoo for making FrostWire available to people running Gentoo ~arch or unstable ~x86 or ~amd64.

    If you are a Gentoo Linux user you can now just do:

    emerge frostwire

    And as William says:

    it will bring in all deps, compile, install, make desktop menu entries, launcher, etc 🙂

    If you’re interested here’s the package

    About Gentoo

    The Gentoo Linux operating system (pronounced /ˈdÊ’É›ntuː/) is a Linux distribution based on the Portage package management system. The development project and its products are named after the Gentoo penguin. Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user’s machine. Packages are normally built from source code, continuing the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some large software packages are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures.

    Source: Wikipedia

    Cows also share

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    User luisdrk from Caracas,Venezuela has posted this picture on flickr. Pretty cool stuff. it’s actually a parody of this picture by Jesus Molina.

    It’s really funny because we had our inspiration from a similar source, we looked for the words “frost wire” in flickr, and we saw frozen barbed wires, this is the one that caught our eye and then we talked to a great graphic designer who did the logo for us.

    Reply with your creations on this post’s comments section.