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
frostwire-6.8.3.windows.github.exe 29.5 MB
frostwire-6.8.3.dmg 37 MB
frostwire-6.8.3.amd64.deb 5.63 MB
frostwire-6.8.3.amd64.rpm 7.17 MB
frostwire-6.8.3.amd64.tar.gz 12.2 MB
This release prepares FrostWire for the next generation of desktop of operating systems. We spent all summer re-building all of our native (C/C++) components for 64-bit architectures and newer libraries for FrostWire to keep running as efficiently as possible for years to come in Windows and Mac.
On this last iteration we worked for several weeks to rebuild one of our most important components, the media player. FrostWire now has a custom build of MPlayer 1.4.0 which recently got a most expected major update, along with a new ffmpeg 4.2 build and updated openssl encryption which is used every time you play media via https streams. In addition we’ve included other streaming protocols that allow our MPlayer build to do streaming of live content (this feature is not yet available through our user interface, but it might be)
We’ve also fixed a bug that was hunting us for years, we’ve rebuilt and simplified our Mac launcher program, in the past a bug would not let the application be launched unless you had installed Java 6 on your mac, an old legacy version of Java that wasn’t really necessary to run FrostWire since FrostWire comes with its own Java runtime (Currently Java 12, another big update we did this summer)(
Changelog:
frostwire (6.8.3) stable; urgency=high
* Mac, Windows: new mplayer 1.4.0 build with ffmpeg 4.2 and openssl-1.1.c
* Mac: launcher fixes bug that required legacy Java to be present in the system
— FrostWire Team Thu, 4 Oct 2019 10:24:50 -0600
Photo by Matheus Queiroz
FrostWire is a Free and open-source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol. In version 5, support for the Gnutella network was dropped entirely, and FrostWire became a BitTorrent-only client.
Help us keep it healthy and upgrade to keep using it on Android 10. In the meantime we’ll keep working on more updates that will make it for the final release.
Thank you for your patience, thank you for using FrostWire, the more people on the network the better it performs. We’re lucky to have a community that cares.
Here’s the changelog so far, more coming for the final release once all the rough edges are smooth.
— FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:54:22 -0600
Photo by Erica Nilsson
TL;DR: Do not zip your app bundles using the zip command, instead use the “ditto -c -k –sequesterRsrc –keepParent MyApp.app MyApp.app.zip” command, or you can manually right click on your MyApp.app bundle on Finder and click on the “Compress MyApp.app” option, the zip command alters the UTF binary encoding of the files and makes the signature invalid.
We just went through hell to get FrostWire for Mac notarized by Apple’s automated service.
Since FrostWire is not a regular Objective-C/Swift app, but a Java app, our (one-step) build process is done entirely using bash scripts on the terminal.
The Notarization process helped us realize we had some old binaries that we hadn’t compiled since Mac SDK 10.6, and it made us sign them with hardened runtime support, it also made us make sure that there were no hidden .DS_ files as these can also cause the app bundle to be considered invalid by Apple.
In the end we were able to sign our squeaky clean FrostWire.app bundle and however we checked it, it appeared to have no errors with it whatsoever.
“The signature of the binary is invalid”
It was the damn .zip file
Thinking there was something wrong with our installer’s executable, we even re-built it using a custom Makefile and directly on the terminal, and not through an XCode project like we used to. As a plus, we think it’s much simpler now.
Between our signature checking on the local machine and the notarization submission there was one more step, compressing the FrostWire.app into a FrostWire.app.zip file.
To zip our bundle before submitting it to the notarization service (altool –notarize-app), we were using the zip command available at /usr/bin/zip
And this was the problem. This “zip” command is not the same compression software used by the Finder when you right click on a file and hit “Compress”
it’s called Info-ZIP and it’s not made by Apple.
As soon as we zipped the FrostWire.app with the Finder and then submitted that zip file, we were successful.
It appears that the /usr/bin/zip tool “is converting UTF-8 NFD charset to UTF-8 NFC. The new APFS filesystem supports both encodings unlike HFS+ where UTF-8 was always converted to UTF-8 NFD.”
This is why the code signature checks passed just fine on our end, but not on Apple’s side.
You can zip your bundle on your script with the “ditto” tool as if you were using the Finder, this way:
This issue is not mentioned on the Apple Developer Documentation “Resolving Common Notarization Issues” article, hopefully it’ll make it to their ears and they’ll add this possible solution to their “Ensure a Valid Signature” section list of possible solutions and caveats.
FrostWire is still under active (but slower) development as we cannot afford full time developers on the team as we used to. It’s a volunteer based Open Source project on which you can participate.
Make sure to download the latest version completely free
For your desktop computer
🐱 frostwire-6.8.2.windows.github.exe 27.5 MB
🐱 frostwire-6.8.2.dmg 34.2 MB
Or for your android device
🐱 frostwire-android-release-2.1.6-b598-plus.apk 17.9 MB
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