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FrostWire 6.3.5 includes a lot of fixes in order to bring you a better user experience. Please read the changelog if you want to know what are the new changes!

Changelog

frostwire (6.3.5) stable; urgency=high
* New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.37
* Fixes download issues with BitSnoop search results.
* KAT search removed
* Updated Java Runtime Environment (1.8-b102)
* Codebase cleanup
* Search result table cells have more padding for readability
* Clicking on the status bar speed indicator shows active transfers
* Fixed internal magnet downloads showing up in transfers (windows only)

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire, a BitTorrent Client & YouTube Downloader that makes it easier to search, download, play and share content from the BitTorrent network & cloud sources, all in one place, announced today its new ‘preview’ and ‘play as you download’ capabilities for Android phones and tablets. The new preview feature not just enables users with a more convenient way to find and discover content, it makes downloading optional in some cases.

Get a VPN

If you want to protect your privacy while you’re browsing on the Internet, or using FrostWire, or any App, we strongly recommend you to get a VPN. VPN stands for a Virtual Private Network. It’s a service that provides you a secure encrypted connection to other computers on the internet, some VPN services also provide anonymity when connecting to servers and other computers online. If you do not connect to the internet via VPN, all information coming out of your computer, including your IP address, is open to whoever wants to access them.

JLibtorrent is a Java interface for libtorrent by us, the makers of FrostWire, with it you can develop libtorrent based apps and services with the joy of coding in Java.

On this 1.1.1.37 release we’ve integrated significant updates from libtorrent’s RC_1_1 branch. If your app/service uses jlibtorrent you’ll be ahead of the curve by upgrading to 1.1.1.37 with respect to the majority of bittorrent clients out there that are built in C++, this is the beauty of using jlibtorrent, you’ll always have the safest and fastest bittorrent engine under the hood without compilation and linking nightmares.

- don't perform expensive hash of piece data for logging
- fixed popcnt asm for x86 and gcc/clang
- move storage "file-by-file"
- fix file_completed_alert, it would not be posted unless file_progress had been queries by the client
- fix filename escaping when repairing torrents with broken web seeds
- fix crash in session::get_ip_filter when not having set one
- fix mutable dht_get_item failure when salt is non-empty
- fix range of lsd::cookie
- don't send bitfield to peers whose handshake we haven't fully received yet
- update our id in the rpc manager when it changes
- make local service discovery cookie support not so random numbers
- fix value of current_tracker when all tracker failed
- hack to allow timeout utp sockets that are about to be closed
- fix re-prioritizing a piece while it is downloading
- handle short reads when exporting a file
- make pad-file and symlink support conform to BEP47

FrostWire Contributor deivid-rodriguez found issues on the .deb and .rpm installers of FrostWire 6.3.3 build 189 and sent us a fix.

We’ve bumped the build number (as no upcoming changes have been included in this build), and we’ve proceeded to re-release the linux installers on our official website frostwire.com, on sourceforce.net and on github.com

This new release has YouTube search issues fixed and we also fixed a crash problem. It’s important to update if you want to have more search results 🙂

Changelog

frostwire (6.3.2) stable; urgency=high
* Fixes YT search issues
* New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.35
* Crash fixes

— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Sat, 25 Jun 2016 04:21:39 -0500

FrostWire Plus

Do you have an Android phone? You can have FrostWire always with you. Install our Plus version and enjoy all FrostWire features!

As of FrostWire +6.3.0 for Desktop, and FrostWire +1.7.4 for Android, all FrostWire clients can now interpret the new peer= parameter

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:<info-hash>&dn=<name>&tr=<tracker-url>&peer=<peer-address>

Where <peer-address>…

<peer-address>A peer address expressed as hostname:port, ipv4-literal:port or [ipv6-literal]:port. This parameter can be included to initiate a direct metadata transfer between two clients while reducing the need for external peer sources. It should only be included if the client can discover its public IP address and determine its reachability. Note: Since no URI scheme identifier has been allocated for bittorrent xs= is not used for this purpose.

The immediate result of being able to pass and receive this parameter on magnet addresses is that FrostWire will try to include as many ip:port available it can find so that others can connect to your peer, try sharing files on your local Wi-Fi network now, vs doing the same on older networks.

We don’t know if other BitTorrent clients already support this parameter, therefore we suggest that when sharing Magnets from your computer, you tell the other party to use a new version of FrostWire and you’ll have a greater chance of connecting right away.