Category: Announcements

Press Release – What’s new in FrostWire 4.13.5

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for MS 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.

Other improvements have taken place for the FrostWire build process (for developers this means true One-Step builds for all versions). Updates on translations have been made thanks to the feedback from users in Poland and throughout Latin America. .

In more detail users can expect the following:

  • Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping. No more “Starting Connection…” problems, first time users will connect faster without using the official FixConnecting.zip patch.
  • Smiley Support to the chatroom

Users can see the available smileys by entering the command
/smileys

Now its possible to see and use Smileys from the Community Chat tab, Smiley display can be enabled or disabled from the view menu:
Show SmileysUsers can also toggle Smiley display directly from the chat window by typing the command
/tsmileys

  • Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.

Bug Fixes and other improvements for this release also include:

  • FrostWire Message Update System improved. Per community request, some announcements will not be shown more than once so the user is not annoyed upon every application launch
  • 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 4.13.5 is expected to be the last of the 4.13.x series.

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.

Support FrostWire by Linking to it, About 4.13.5

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This is to all bloggers that use FrostWire.
We need your support to keep growing the network.

If you have some space left on your side bar, or on some pages of your blog, or myspace page, or whatever page you have, please link to us.

Here’s a code snippet you can use:

More snippets and banners here

About next release
With the adition of a new coder to the team, FTA, version 4.13.5 is well on its way.

  • Added Smiley support to the Chatroom. Developer note: irc.jar is now part of our build process.
  • Fixed wording on spanish translation.
  • Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
  • Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
  • Fixed typo in Polish. Thanks Radek.
  • Fixed i18n bug, where non english operating system could never keep english as the preferred language, it would always default to the OS language after restarting FW. Thanks to FTA our new dev team member.

FrostWire’s “Buy” button more effective each day

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A couple of week’s ago the music industry was a different place. If you did a search on FrostWire for “Metallica”, and you clicked on the “Buy” button, you’d only find versions by other bands of Metallica’s songs available for purchase.

If you try it now, you can legally purchase the entire rooster of Metallica’s songs via the FrostWire’s Buy button after you do a search for Metallica. Songs cost between $0.89 and $0.99 and they come in high quality MP3 format, no DRM!!!!

This is because finally the big record labels decided to drop DRM (you can now play the music you buy on any device, it’s not protected against copying/playing in anyway) and put their music for sale on the AmazonMp3 music store, which is the system FrostWire uses to help artists sell their music and you the user to find the best quality music 100% legally.

Finally the Music Industry started opening their eyes.

Sneak peak at 4.13.4 (Mac/Linux)

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Curious Mac and Linux users get to take 4.13.4 for a spin before everyone else.
Might be uploading the Linux installers during the next hours.

Mac OSX DMG (No more zips for Mac users)
MD5 -> 6690b1d08109059a508961fb057c9176

Ubuntu/Debian package
MD5 -> 276c319df17869a18f3e11fb3ecddc55

TGZ
MD5 -> e8bfaa395bcd8ab188166cc142c4dd83

RPM
MD5 -> fdd7ef316e05fb1c63f0914b5259dc76

Take it for a ride. Windows version coming soon, We expect to have it ready for tomorrow

CHANGELOG – Mowi po polsku ?

version 4.13.4 (November-December 2007)

  • Connection Bootstrapping problems should be gone. TurboCharged connection is achieved on average under 5 seconds after launch.
  • “Buy” button on the search result panel.
  • Polish Translation Included. Finally got around Encoding issues of the Java ResourceBundle class. More translations with their correct characters coming in the future. (thanks Paulinka for the translation)
  • New FrostWire Icon on the Icon Tray for Windows XP (thanks to sw1tch)
  • The Bugmanager window still said “LimeWire” (it was very well hidden in the code). Thanks to Marcelina Knitter for reporting.
  • Fixes on Update Notification Mechanism.
  • Fixes on Chat Banner Loading Mechanism, banner reloading interval from server is now configurable. Banners can now be delivered per FrostWire version. Faster startup and savings on bandwidth.
  • Cleaning of IRC Stack traces.

    • FrostWire 4.13.3 Changelog

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    Thanks to our community and especially to Micheal K. aka “Only A Hobo” for his continued help on the forums, supporting the community, and also for reporting the early problems with the LimeWire Update messages appearing on FrostWire.

    We took a while for this fix because we decided to implement our own FrostWire Update System and not just silence the LimeWire messages. This way after 4.13.3, everytime we release a new version, everybody on the network will know about new updates.

    Changes for 4.13.3 include:

    • 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

    As of 4.13.3, we are proud to announce that we’re now partners with IAC Search & Media (Ask.com/AskJeeves) on the distribution of the free Ask Toolbar. The success of this relationship will ensure the perpetual continuity of FrostWire’s absolutely free Peer-2-Peer tool and also improve the evolutionary technology behind it.

    Thank you!
    The FrostWire Team

    Changelog for FrostWire 4.13.1.8

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    Here are the changes for 4.13.1.8:

    – No more “BETA”, this is the final release of the 4.13.1.8 branch
    – Included translation to Portuguese (Since our Brazilian User Base is the second biggest one out there).
    – Cleaner debian installer (Thanks to the “Ubunteros” that kept complaining).
    – Compatibility fix for Beryl (Thanks to the “Ubunteros” again)
    – Frostwire will actually shutdown on Linux without you having to set up the Tray System settings.
    – Updates on Chat Banner system. Memory Leak fixed, Banners can be targetted by language, ip range and country. (Want to advertise on the FrostWire Chat?)
    – Misc Updates to the Chat.
    – When music files are launched they’re automatically added to the playlist (Finally).
    – Fixed bug on “Explore” button where it’d launch the file instead of the folder that contains the file.
    – Dev. tools to synchronize translation files, and quick build script.
    – Removed all Simpp messages.

    The Mac and Linux installers (deb, tgz, rpm) are ready. We’re waiting for the new Windows Installer to be ready to do the official launch sometime this week.

    FrostWire T-Shirt Prototype, “You Like?!?!?”

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    We’ve been asking for a while to the community about FrostWire T-shirts and FrostWire Merchandise.

    What do you guys think about this design?

    Would you support FrostWire by getting one of these?
    Your feedback is important, if enough people are willing to get them, we can make more for less money and you can also help us by wearing them on the street and making all your friends jealous so they have to get one too 🙂

    It’s too early to let you know about pricing, we need to hear your thoughts on them first.

    FrostWire speaks more than English

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    Version 4.13.1.6 is now available on Frostwire.com and it now contains translations for Spanish, German, Dutch and French.

    Thanks to aldmab00 from Austria for the help given on the Chat labels translation.

    Thanks to Dutchboy (Klaas Fokke Van Der Molen) for Giving us the Dutch Translation

    Thanks to Et Voila (Charles Marseille ) for the French bundle