New Huge FrostWire + Telluride Release. What we did in 2020, What we’ll do in 2021 and Beyond

  • Our New Huge first FrostWire+Telluride Release
  • What we hope to achieve in 2021
  • What’s been done in 2020
Video Demo: How to backup Instagram Livestreams or videos from hundreds of video sites

Hello friends, if you’re reading this it means you’ve survived 2020 so far. It hasn’t been easy for anybody, but we’re here to keep delivering great free open source software for the world.

Excited for FrostWire 6.8.8 and following releases

We’ve just finished a big desktop release, we’ve fixed every search source, added new ones, brought forth bleeding edge java technology and squashed several pending bugs.

We no longer bundle offers in our installers but more importantly we’ve brought back a feature many of you kept asking for, only now it’s a 100 times better than ever before.

We like to call it “Telluride Cloud Video Downloader“.

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Telluride logo, courtesy of @nicole_draw

The Telluride Cloud Video downloader is in an easy to use, stand-alone, command line tool that makes use of youtube-dl library to let a user backup, archive or time-shift their cloud hosted videos.

Usually these video hosting services do not provide a convenient way for content creators to download the content they uploaded (perhaps to make it inconvenient to export user’s libraries to competitors), or there might be content of public interest that could be politically censored by a tyrannical government and it should be archived for journalistic reasons, or the user have to be away from a wireless signal for hours or days and needs to time-shift.

Also, there are hundreds of millions of public domain, creative commons and legally free videos available in these platforms.


Starting with FrostWire 6.8.8 for desktop the installation folder also comes with a telluride executable (in geek-speak: it’s a self-contained python runtime executable and python script that simplifies the use of youtube-dl for FrostWire users)

But don’t worry, you don’t need a command line to use it, all you need to do is open FrostWire and paste the URL of your video. FrostWire tells telluride the URL and reads the response to show you the download options for your video shown the same way as FrostWire search results.

It works with hundreds of sites. It’s very useful for those of us that upload original content to social media websites such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, OpenTube, BitChute, DailyMotion, Vimeo and hundreds more.

Backups, Timeshifting, Archival


If you do live broadcasts on Instagram or Twitter, now you can finally download your broadcasts to your computer and easily edit a shorter version of your broadcast, or you can extract clips with the best parts so that you can post to your feed or video channel.


Just copy the link to your live IG broadcast into the FrostWire search box and you will see the available download options.

Twitter/Periscope broadcast backups will be available in future releases.

What’s Next for 2021

Now that this big Telluride ticket for desktop is finally done, we’ll be improving it and enhancing it progressively with further releases, we’ll be adding support for more advanced users that need an easy and powerful internet archiving tool (journalists, librarians, historians), and we’ll be adding a “daemon mode” for the telluride tool so it doesn’t spawn a new process every time you paste a cloud URL on FrostWire.

man wearing Sony PlayStation VR



We want to bring Telluride to Android. We tried several different approaches to put our youtube-dl python wrapper on the Android app and for now we know what not to do, but we have some clever solutions planned.

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JLibtorrent: A swig Java interface for libtorrent by the makers of FrostWire.
Develop libtorrent based apps with the joy of coding in Java.

jlibtorrent 2.0. There’s significant work to be done with our JLibtorrent project, the libtorrent engine Java wrapper that empowers all the bittorrent downloads on FrostWire across all platforms as well as many other bittorrent clients in the network.

The libtorrent project has now released its 2.0 branch and it seems to be very stable, it features new merkelized Bittorrent 2.0 torrents and lots of other new technology that we don’t want FrostWire users to miss-on and which will enable us to build next-gen torrenting features.

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person performing heart hand gesture

We are also working on growing our community, we’re hoping to be able to start modernizing the user interface of our desktop client to be web-based, this will be done with a pilot parallel project, we don’t want to make anybody angry who’s already happy and doesn’t want the battle tested FrostWire user interface to change.

This is a project we had already embarked on around 2018 but things went sideways with Google Play and we had to layoff the entire team back then.

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people walking on street during daytime



Another big and impactful goal is to simplify .torrent publishing and decentralizing .torrent indexes to circumvent all censoring efforts of torrent indices, this is a missing piece of the bittorrent ecosystem we’ve dreamed of building for years and 2021 should be the year to make it happen with your help.

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“Quiet, Private zone”



Starting with 6.8.8 we have stopped monetizing our desktop installers completely. For months we’ve already been offering a bundle free mac installer and windows installer on github and sourceforge, we believe a nag free experience is one of the best incentives for community growth, a clean open-source free software experience supported by you.


What’s been done in 2020

Lastly we wanted to let you know all of what we’ve done this year for Android, Desktop and for our JLibtorrent project.

If you find FrostWire useful, if it’s made your life any better and if it’s within your means, please consider donating to the project for its continued existence and growth in 2021.
If you can’t afford to donate, please share FrostWire with all your friends and continue to share, the more the merrier.


We hope you find value in our work and we’ll try our hardest to earn your contributions, we strongly believe that if we deliver a world class software you find useful, there should be enough users and open source projects out there that care enough to help us keep going with a small donation every month, perhaps the same as buying us, your friends, one cup of coffee every month, ideally without ever needing to tap into the nasty advertising-industry.

FrostWire for Android in 2020

frostwire (6.8.8) stable; urgency=high

  • New Telluride build 6 cloud downloader technology
  • Refreshed welcome screen with search textbox
  • OpenJDK 15 runtime (Windows, MacOS)
  • New TorrentParadise search source
  • New GloTorrents search source
  • Yify search fixed
  • Torrentz2 search fixed
  • MagnetDL search fixed
  • Soundcloud search fixed
  • EZTV search fixed
  • Fixed archive.org broken downloads
  • Fixes false negative NordLynx/NordVPN detection
  • All deprecation warnings fixed along with some optimizations
  • New source renderer icons for 1337x and MagnetDL search sources by Aholicknight
  • dev: built with openjdk 15
  • dev: gradle-6.7 — FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Thu, 18 Nov 2020 09:56:00 -0600

frostwire (6.8.7) stable; urgency=high

  • New jlibtorrent 1.2.10.0 update
  • OpenJDK 14.0.2 update for Windows and macOS
  • lt: improve stat_file() performance on Windows
  • lt: fix issue with loading invalid torrents with only 0-sized files
  • lt: fix to avoid large stack allocations
  • lt: removed deprecated wstring overloads on non-windows systems
  • lt: drop dependency on Unicode’s ConvertUTF code (which had a license incompatible with Debian)
  • lt: fix bugs exposed on big-endian systems
  • lt: fix detection of hard-links not being supported by filesystem
  • lt: fixed resume data regression for seeds with prio 0 files
  • binaries: compiler upgraded from g++-5 to g++-7 — FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:35:00 -0600

frostwire (6.8.6) stable; urgency=high

  • New jlibtorrent 1.2.8.0 update
  • New 1337x search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
  • New iDope search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
  • Fixed Torrentz2 search dates (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
  • Fixed SC search
  • Discontinues mplayer video playback, uses os default video player for videos
  • com.google.re2j:re2j:1.3 -> 1.4
  • com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.4.1 -> 4.8.1
  • com.h2database:h2:1.4.199 -> 200
  • lt: validate UTF-8 encoding of client version strings from peers
  • lt: don’t time out tracker announces as eagerly while resolving hostnames
  • lt: fix NAT-PMP shutdown issue
  • lt: improve hostname lookup by merging identical lookups
  • lt: fix network route enumeration for large routing tables
  • lt: fixed issue where pop_alerts() could return old, invalid alerts
  • lt: fix issue when receiving have-all message before the metadata
  • lt: don’t leave lingering part files handles open
  • lt: disallow calling add_piece() during checking
  • lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
  • lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy — FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:45:00 -0600

frostwire (6.8.5) stable; urgency=high

  • New MagnetDL search provider
  • Fixed Torrentz2 search
  • Search improvements
  • New ‘Retry’ transfer for failed magnet/torrent downloads with not enough peers
  • Fixes bug getting source URL from TPB search result
  • Fixes broken Library local file search
  • updated: rej2:1.3, gson:2.8.6, okhttp:4.4.1
  • New jlibtorrent 1.2.7.0 update
  • jlibtorrent upgraded to build with boost 1.73.0
  • jlibtorrent upgraded to openssl 1.1.1g
  • OpenJDK 14 runtime (Windows, Linux), macOS still on OpenJDK 13
  • lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
  • lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
  • lt: add set_alert_fd in python binding, to supersede set_alert_notify
  • lt: fix bug in part files > 2 GiB
  • lt: add function to clear the peer list for a torrent
  • lt: fix resume data functions to save/restore more torrent flags
  • lt: limit number of concurrent HTTP announces
  • lt: fix queue position for force_rechecking a torrent that is not auto-managed
  • lt: improve rate-based choker documentation, and minor tweak
  • lt: undeprecate upnp_ignore_nonrouters (but refering to devices on our subnet)
  • lt: increase default tracker timeout
  • lt: retry failed socks5 server connections
  • lt: allow UPnP lease duration to be changed after device discovery
  • lt: fix IPv6 address change detection on Windows
  • lt: fix peer timeout logic
  • lt: simplify proxy handling. A proxy now overrides listen_interfaces
  • lt: fix issues when configured to use a non-default choking algorithm
  • lt: fix issue in reading resume data
  • lt: revert NXDOMAIN change from 1.2.4
  • lt: don’t open any listen sockets if listen_interfaces is empty or misconfigured
  • lt: fix bug in auto disk cache size logic
  • lt: fix issue with outgoing_interfaces setting, where bind() would be called twice
  • lt: add build option to disable share-mode
  • lt: support validation of HTTPS trackers
  • lt: deprecate strict super seeding mode
  • lt: make UPnP port-mapping lease duration configurable
  • lt: deprecate the bittyrant choking algorithm
  • lt: add build option to disable streaming — FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:06:00 -0600

frostwire (6.8.4) stable; urgency=high

  • OpenJDK 13 runtime (windows,mac)
  • Soundcloud search and downloads fixed
  • LimeTorrents search and downloads fixed
  • New jlibtorrent 1.2.3.0 update
  • jlibtorrent updated to boost 1.72.0
  • jlibtorrent upgraded openssl to 1.1.1d
  • 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 — FrostWire Team contact@frostwire.com Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:30:45 -0600

Telluride in 2020

build 6 – nov/18/2020

  • python: youtube-dl 2020.11.18
  • python: pyinstaller 4.0
  • Smaller build, down 2.4MB

build 5 – nov/13/2020

  • python: youtube-dl 2020.11.12
  • lint cleanups

build 4 – nov/03/2020

  • python: youtube-dl 2020.11.1
  • python: pycryptodome 3.9.9

build 3 – oct/20/2020

  • configure.sh to setup and upgrade all build dependencies for windows, macos, linux
  • build.sh builds telluride binaries for windows, macos, linux
  • -a, –audio-only option flag to convert to mp3 if ffmpeg avaiable. strips video data from .webm if not
  • -m, –meta-only option flag to print JSON with meta data about video found in URL
  • Added Apache License 2.0
  • python: pip 20.2.4
  • python: youtube-dl 2020.9.20
  • python: pycryptodome 3.9.8
  • python: pyinstaller 4.0
  • python: pylint 2.6.0

FrostWire for Android in 2020

FrostWire 2.2.5 build 665 – NOV/18/2020

  • New: TorrentParadise search source
  • New: GloTorrents search source
  • New: Firebase Crash Analytics support
  • Yify search fixed
  • Torrentz2 search fixed
  • MagnetDL search fixed
  • Soundcloud search fixed
  • EZTV search fixed
  • Fixed archive.org connection dropped/timeout error
  • Privacy updates
  • com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads 19.4.0 -> 19.5.0
  • com.mopub:mopub-sdk-banner:5.12.0 -> 5.14.0
  • com.applovin:applovin-sdk:9.13.1 -> 9.14.5
  • com.mopub.mediation:applovin:9.13.1.0 -> 9.14.3.0
  • material 1.3.0-alpha02 -> 1.3.0-alpha03
  • browser 1.3.0-alpha05 -> 1.3.0->alpha06
  • exifinterface 1.2.0 -> 1.3.1
  • play-services 19.3.0 -> 19.4.0
  • core-ktx 1.3.1 -> 1.3.2
  • com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1 -> 4.1.0
  • gradle wrapper update 6.1.1->6.6.1

FrostWire 2.2.4 build 654 – SEP/24/2020

  • New jlibtorrent 1.2.10.0 update
  • Fixes bug where frostclick promo slide would render twice
  • dev: buildToolsVersion ‘29.0.2’ -> ‘29.0.3’ (@TacoTheDank)
  • Archive search Json parsing deprecation fix (@TacoTheDank)
  • com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.8.1 -> 4.9.0
  • lt: improve stat_file() performance on Windows
  • lt: fix issue with loading invalid torrents with only 0-sized files
  • lt: fix to avoid large stack allocations
  • lt: add macro TORRENT_CXX11_ABI for clients building with C++14 against
    libtorrent build with C++11
  • lt: removed deprecated wstring overloads on non-windows systems
  • lt: drop dependency on Unicode’s ConvertUTF code (which had a license
    incompatible with Debian)
  • lt: fix bugs exposed on big-endian systems`
  • lt: fix detection of hard-links not being supported by filesystem
  • lt: fixed resume data regression for seeds with prio 0 files
  • binaries: compiler upgraded from g++-5 to g++-7
  • reverted to com.mopub:mopub-sdk-banner:5.12.0 (mopub 5.13.1 very unstable)

FrostWire 2.2.3 build 649 – AUG/23/2020

  • jlibtorrent 1.2.7.0 -> 1.2.8.0 update
  • com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.4.1 -> 4.8.1
  • com.mopub:mopub-sdk-banner:5.12.0 -> 5.13.1
  • androidx.browser:browser:1.3.0-alpha04 -> 1.3.0-alpha05
  • com.google.re2j:re2j:1.3 -> 1.4
  • com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0-alpha01 -> 1.3.0-alpha02
  • com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:19.2.0 -> 19.3.0
  • com.applovin:applovin-sdk:9.12.6 -> 9.13.1
  • com.unity3d.ads:unity-ads:3.4.2 -> 3.4.6
  • 1337 search fixed
  • SC search fixed

FrostWire 2.2.2 build 646 – AUG/01/2020

  • Considerably faster app startup
  • .apk size reduced 2.1MB
  • New 1337x (LeetX) search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789 for his contribution)
  • New iDope search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789 for his contribution)
  • Fixed Torrentz2 search dates (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789 for his contribution)
  • Multiple crash fixes on My Music (Player)
  • Settings screen now includes links to official reddit, twitter, facebook, discord chat, blog, rate us
  • jlibtorrent 1.2.7.0 recompiled with Android NDK r21d
  • com.google.android.material:material:1.2.0-alpha06 -> 1.3.0-alpha01
  • com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.3 -> 4.0.1
  • gradle-5.6.4 -> gradle-6.1.1
  • androidx.browser:browser:1.3.0-alpha01 -> 1.3.0-alpha04
  • com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:19.1.0 -> 19.2.0
  • com.android.billingclient:billing:2.2.0 -> 3.0.0

FrostWire 2.2.1 build 642 – JUN/17/2020

  • jlibtorrent/libtorrent 1.2.7.0 update
  • OpenSSL 1.1.1g update
  • dev: jlibtorrent build with boost 1.73.0
  • Fixes bug getting source URL from TPB search result
  • lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
  • lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
  • lt: add set_alert_fd in python binding, to supersede set_alert_notify
  • lt: fix bug in part files > 2 GiB
  • lt: add function to clear the peer list for a torrent
  • lt: fix resume data functions to save/restore more torrent flags
  • lt: limit number of concurrent HTTP announces
  • lt: fix queue position for force_rechecking a torrent that is not auto-managed
  • lt: improve rate-based choker documentation, and minor tweak
  • lt: undeprecate upnp_ignore_nonrouters (but refering to devices on our subnet)
  • lt: increase default tracker timeout
  • lt: retry failed socks5 server connections
  • lt: allow UPnP lease duration to be changed after device discovery
  • lt: fix IPv6 address change detection on Windows
  • lt: fix peer timeout logic
  • lt: simplify proxy handling. A proxy now overrides listen_interfaces
  • lt: fix issues when configured to use a non-default choking algorithm
  • lt: fix issue in reading resume data
  • lt: revert NXDOMAIN change from 1.2.4
  • lt: don’t open any listen sockets if listen_interfaces is empty or misconfigured
  • lt: fix bug in auto disk cache size logic
  • lt: fix issue with outgoing_interfaces setting, where bind() would be called twice
  • lt: add build option to disable share-mode
  • lt: support validation of HTTPS trackers
  • lt: deprecate strict super seeding mode
  • lt: make UPnP port-mapping lease duration configurable
  • lt: deprecate the bittyrant choking algorithm
  • lt: add build option to disable streaming

FrostWire 2.1.10 build 640 – JUN/04/2020

  • Less interstitial ads
  • Fixes Torrentz2 search
  • Fixes music playback bug on Android 5.x (Lollypop)
  • Fixes bug where playing a Unity Video Reward didn’t pause ads
  • Fixes bug getting source URL from TPB search result
  • com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.14.0 -> 4.4.1
  • com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:18.3.0 -> 19.1.0
  • com.android.billingclient:billing:2.1.0 -> 2.2.0
  • dev: com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.1->3.6.3
  • androidx.preference:preference:1.1.1
  • com.google.android.material:material:1.2.0-alpha06
  • androidx.exifinterface:exifinterface:1.2.0
  • com.applovin:applovin-sdk:9.12.6
  • com.mopub.mediation:applovin:9.12.5.0
  • com.mopub:mopub-sdk-*:5.12.0

FrostWire 2.1.9 build 637 – MAR/05/2020

  • Album art display bug fixed
  • No more annoying 300×250 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

JLibtorrent in 2020

1.2.11.0 (In Progress…)

1.2.10.0

  • libtorrent 1.2.10 update (70f1de3f7ec4012aaea420ff150ef0135d397706)
  • lt: improve stat_file() performance on Windows
  • lt: fix issue with loading invalid torrents with only 0-sized files
  • lt: fix to avoid large stack allocations
  • lt: add macro TORRENT_CXX11_ABI for clients building with C++14 against
    libtorrent build with C++11
  • lt: removed deprecated wstring overloads on non-windows systems
  • lt: drop dependency on Unicode’s ConvertUTF code (which had a license
    incompatible with Debian)
  • lt: fix bugs exposed on big-endian systems
  • lt: fix detection of hard-links not being supported by filesystem
  • lt: fixed resume data regression for seeds with prio 0 files
  • binaries: compiler upgraded from g++-5 to g++-7

1.2.8.0

  • add router.utorrent.com to list of DHT bootstrap nodes
  • Android builds with new NDK r21d
  • lt: validate UTF-8 encoding of client version strings from peers
  • lt: don’t time out tracker announces as eagerly while resolving hostnames
  • lt: fix NAT-PMP shutdown issue
  • lt: improve hostname lookup by merging identical lookups
  • lt: fix network route enumeration for large routing tables
  • lt: fixed issue where pop_alerts() could return old, invalid alerts
  • lt: fix issue when receiving have-all message before the metadata
  • lt: don’t leave lingering part files handles open
  • lt: disallow calling add_piece() during checking
  • lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
  • lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy

1.2.7.0

  • libtorrent 1.2.7 update (ce0a85f783bec37484776a37fe3662279091ecc5)
  • upgraded to boost 1.73.0
  • upgraded to openssl 1.1.1g
  • lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
  • lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
  • lt: add set_alert_fd in python binding, to supersede set_alert_notify
  • lt: fix bug in part files > 2 GiB
  • lt: add function to clear the peer list for a torrent
  • lt: fix resume data functions to save/restore more torrent flags
  • lt: limit number of concurrent HTTP announces
  • lt: fix queue position for force_rechecking a torrent that is not auto-managed
  • lt: improve rate-based choker documentation, and minor tweak
  • lt: undeprecate upnp_ignore_nonrouters (but refering to devices on our subnet)
  • lt: increase default tracker timeout
  • lt: retry failed socks5 server connections
  • lt: allow UPnP lease duration to be changed after device discovery
  • lt: fix IPv6 address change detection on Windows
  • lt: fix peer timeout logic
  • lt: simplify proxy handling. A proxy now overrides listen_interfaces
  • lt: fix issues when configured to use a non-default choking algorithm
  • lt: fix issue in reading resume data
  • lt: revert NXDOMAIN change from 1.2.4
  • lt: don’t open any listen sockets if listen_interfaces is empty or misconfigured
  • lt: fix bug in auto disk cache size logic
  • lt: fix issue with outgoing_interfaces setting, where bind() would be called twice
  • lt: add build option to disable share-mode
  • lt: support validation of HTTPS trackers
  • lt: deprecate strict super seeding mode
  • lt: make UPnP port-mapping lease duration configurable
  • lt: deprecate the bittyrant choking algorithm
  • lt: add build option to disable streaming

1.2.6.0

  • There was no 1.2.6 release, we waited and jumped all the way to 1.2.7.0

1.2.5.0

  • libtorrent 1.2.5 update (0f337b9ce7a1b0fc87f48843933b1c5c4dd5a9ec)
  • New SettingsPack::dhtUploadRate(), SettingsPack::dhtUploadRate(int)
  • lt:announce port=1 instead of port=0, when there is no listen port
  • lt:fix LSD over IPv6
  • lt:support TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT on Linux
  • lt:fix correct interface binding of local service discovery multicast
  • lt:fix issue with knowing which interfaces to announce to trackers and DHT
  • lt:undeprecate settings_pack::dht_upload_rate_limit

1.2.4.0

  • libtorrent 1.2.4 update (ad83b1c0eb293b63c69f7879ca6ba2381369f77f)
  • Java source compatibility upgraded from 1.7 to 1.8
  • lt:fix binding TCP and UDP sockets to the same port, when specifying port 0
  • lt:fix announce_to_all_trackers and announce_to_all_tiers behavior
  • lt:fix suggest_read_cache setting
  • lt:back-off tracker hostname looksups resulting in NXDOMAIN
  • lt:lower SOCKS5 UDP keepalive timeout
  • lt:fix external IP voting for multi-homed DHT nodes
  • lt:deprecate broadcast_lsd setting. Just use multicast
  • lt:deprecate upnp_ignore_nonrouters setting
  • lt:don’t attempt sending event=stopped if event=start never succeeded
  • lt:make sure &key= stays consistent between different source IPs (as mandated by BEP7)
  • lt:fix binding sockets to outgoing interface
  • lt:add new socks5_alert to trouble shoot SOCKS5 proxies

MAJOR RELEASE: FrostWire Plus 2.0. for Android

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The year is almost over but we are still working! To end 2017 we have decided to release FrostWire 2.0. FrostWire 2.0. for Android is a major release of our app. We created a new details screens for BitTorrent transfers. You will love it! You will notice that it’s so relaxing to see how a Bittorrent swarm downloads the file pieces into our new Piece Hive view.

The new transfer detail screen for BitTorrent transfers has several tabs! The first tab is Files. On Files, you can see what files are included in the torrent.

You can play each file.

On the tab Pieces you can see how each piece of the torrent is downloaded. Also you can see the download and upload speed of the file, the number of pieces, and the piece size. You will be fascinated to see the download process of each torrent! No other app does this!

On the tab Status you can see what is the condition of the torrent at that moment. You can see the download percentage, the time it takes for it to download, how much has been downloaded and how much has been uploaded, what is the number of peers and seeds, the time of activity. It is a very detailed and complete information like no other torrent client!

On the Details tab you can see where the torrent is being downloaded, the total size, the number of  files, you can see the speed limit the hash number (unique for each torrent! greater security), the magnet link, and when the torrent was created.

On the Trackers tab you can see the list of trackers of the torrent file, and you can also add other trackers. Very simple, very useful, very powerful!

Finally, on the Peers tab you can see the number of peers of the torrent and details about from each of them.

On the other hand, now when you share a track that you are enjoying on social media, Frostwire will automatically attach a screenshot of thw music player. You can always delete the attachment from your social media post if you don’t want to include it. This is very useful if you want people to know what you are listening. For example, you can share it on Instagram, Facebook, etc!

Even more, FrostWire 2.0. is faster than the previous version of the app.

Changelog

FrostWire 2.0.0 build 485 – DEC/25/2017
– New Transfer Detail screens for BitTorrent transfers.
– New Share current track with FrostWire Player screenshot attachment
– Faster startup
– Library updates: jlibtorrent 1.2.0.15, gms 11.6.2, mopub 4.19.0, flexbox 0.3.1, applovin 7.6.2, presage 2.2.7
– Translations update

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

New FrostWire 6.6.0 build 248 for Desktops

Just give me the installer!

Windows: https://github.com/frostwire/frostwire/releases/download/frostwire-desktop-6.6.0-build-248/frostwire-6.6.0.windows.github.exe

Mac: https://github.com/frostwire/frostwire/releases/download/frostwire-desktop-6.6.0-build-248/frostwire-6.6.0.dmg

Ubuntu/Debian: https://github.com/frostwire/frostwire/releases/download/frostwire-desktop-6.6.0-build-248/frostwire-6.6.0.all.deb

Any Java compatible OS: https://github.com/frostwire/frostwire/releases/download/frostwire-desktop-6.6.0-build-248/frostwire-6.6.0.noarch.tar.gz

About this release:

This is an urgent must-install release! We fixed an important bug that makes the app crash. Please update today!

Changelog:

frostwire (6.6.0) stable; urgency=high
  * New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC14, storage and upnp related crashes fixed
  * Portuguese translation updated
        
 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Wed, 1 Nov 2017 15:09:57 -0600

Get FrostWire Plus 1.9.9 build 456 for Android!

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Happy Sunday! As you probably know, we are working so hard on FrostWire Plus 1.9.9. Now, we released a new build of this version with more updates and changes. We’re still improving FrostWire 1.9.9 before entering the FrostWire 2.0 era. On the other hand, it’s important to know that support for Android 4.1, 4.2, 4.2, 4.3 has been dropped on this release.

Changelog

FrostWire 1.9.9 build 456 – OCT/14/2017
– App Startup is faster
– Multiple freezes fixed, memory leaks fixed, crashes fixed
– Android Jelly-Bean (<4.4) support dropped, minSdkVersion=19
– Library updates: jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC7, gms 11.4.2, mopub 4.17.0, flexbox 0.3.1, applovin 7.3.2
– Image viewer can now go to next and previous pictures with fling gesture
– Update system refactor, cleanup, updates shown on nav menu
– New Afrikaans translation

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Donation!

Support the continuous development of FrostWire with a donation today.

Get FrostWire 6.5.8. for Windows, Mac, and Linux!

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Release Day! In the morning we announced the new release of FrostWire Plus for Android. Now, we are so happy to share the newest version of FrostWire for Windows, Mac, and Linux! This new version includes several fixes (now you will get more search results) and includes a new search engine: Pixabay.

Changelog

frostwire (6.5.8) stable; urgency=high
  * New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC4 with improved IPv6 connectivity
  * Search: New Pixabay image search
  * Search: YT, SC, EZTV, Torlock, Yify, Zooqle fixed
  * Networking: Improved SSL compatibility
        
 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:02:12 -0600

frostwire (6.5.7) stable; urgency=high
  * New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.12-RC1
  * Fixes issue with SoundCloud audio preview
        
 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Tue, 10 Aug 2017 11:53:00 -0600

frostwire (6.5.6) stable; urgency=high
  * New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.11-RC5
  * Search: EZTV, Torlock, Zooqle engines fixed
  * Search: BTJunkie removed
  * Download: Yify magnets can now be found in DHT
  * Fixes OTA update system bug
        
 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Tue, 10 Aug 2017 11:53:00 -0600

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Donation!

Support the continuous development of FrostWire with a donation today.

Get FrostWire Plus 1.9.8 for Android! New Feature: Search Filtering Tools!

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Happy Thursday! Today we’re glad to announce FrostWire 1.9.8. for Android. This is one of our major releases of this year being that includes new features that will make your experience a lot better. If you want to download torrents or files in a more precise way you need to download this release!

First of all, FrostWire for Android now have search filtering tools. What is that? Search Filtering Tools allows you to get better search results. After you do a search you can filter it (by keyword, source, file extension,etc) in order to get more accurate results.

How to use Search Filtering Tools?

It’s easy!

  • Open FrostWire 1.9.8+ and do a search.

  • Then, click on the menu bottom on the right. You will see different options for filter results. For example, you can filter by a manually entered keyword, or an automatically detected prominent search source.

  • You can also filter by sources / channels, file extensions, or/and file names.

As you apply filters, the results in the background will be reduce to match all of the filters you’ve specified and less suggestions are automatically calculated.

By default the filters you apply are inclusive (+), if you touch an applied filter it will switch from inclusive (-), to exclusive (-), meaning it will check for results that do not have such keyword in its metadata.

More updates

On the other hand, we improved VPN detection and services. FrostWire will block bittorrent connection if you have a VPN and you are not using it. In this manner, your privacy will be protected! If you don’t have a VPN, we strongly recoomend you to install it!

If you love to have an app with a fresh and cool design you will be happy to see that we updated the user interface.

Finally, now you will have the option to see “Last Added” for each song on the music player.

Changelog

FrostWire 1.9.8 – JUL/25/2017
– More robust app startup
– New search filtering tools
– New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.11-RC2
– Improved VPN detection
– BitTorrent connection recovers when VPN service goes off and VPN protection off
– Library updates: kotlin 1.1.3, gms 11.0.2, MoPub 4.15
– UI-refresh: Transfer list items, drawable cleanup, My Music list items,
removed double divider in search result list item, added missing new line
to grid base
– Fixed memory leaks and runnaway threadpools causing out of memory errors
– Translations updated (Finnish, Greek, Danish, Czech, Italian, Arabic, French,
Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Croatian, Indonesian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese,
Russian, Slovak, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian)
– ogury 2.1.11
– Music player ‘Last Added’ now shows album cover art for each song
– Fixes possible music player freezes
– YT search fixed
– Less ads

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Get FrostWire Plus 1.9.6. for Android!

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Good morning! Begin your day downloading the new release of FrostWire Plus for Android! This update has a lot of performance and stability improvements. In addition, we update our services to keep up with the best technology torrent and Android.

Changelog

FrostWire 1.9.6 - JUN/09/2017
 - Performance and stability improvements
 - New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.9
 - GSON 2.8.1
 - Google Play Libraries 11.0.0
 - Ogury 2.1.6
 - AppLovin 7.2.0
 - Fixes Seeding setting bug
 - Improves and fixes bugs in Transfer's action bar menu options
 - Fixes issue with documents query filter

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Donation!

Support the continuous development of FrostWire with a donation today.

Get FrostWire Plus 1.9.3. for Android, and FrostWire 6.4.9 for Desktop! YT search fixed!

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Happy Friday! It’s time to update FrostWire! On this release we fixed YouTube search results. If you had problems with search results on previous releases, it’s important to get FrostWire Plus 1.9.3 for Android or FrostWire 6.4.9. for Windows, Mac, and Linux!

Changelog

frostwire (6.4.9) stable; urgency=high
  * YT search fixes
  * Turkish, Dutch, Russian translations updated
        
 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:52:03 -0600
FrostWire 1.9.3 - APR/28/2017
 - Fixes YT search
 - Optimizations and crash fixes
 - Ogury 2.1.1

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Donation!

Support the continuous development of FrostWire with a donation today.

Get FrostWire Plus 1.9.2. for Android!

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Good morning! Begin your day downloading the new release of FrostWire Plus for Android! We’re glad to announce that we added a new torrent search engine (Zooqle), so now you’re going to get more results! Also, we fixed other search engines (Torlock and Monova). On the other hand, we fixed some bugs for a better user experience!

Changelog

FrostWire 1.9.2 - APR/19/2017
 - New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.8
 - New Zooqle search
 - Torlock, Monova search fixed
 - Mininova search discontinued
 - All menus now show icons to visually identify actions
 - Fixes issues preventing FrostWire to cleanly shutdown its services on Exit
 - Hides Android top status bar when previewing videos in full screen mode
 - Fixes video preview bug that would overlay ad and download button
   over video if user went to full screenmode too soon
 - Mopub/Ogury integration

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Donation!

Support the continuous development of FrostWire with a donation today.

Get FrostWire 6.4.6. for Windows, Mac, and, Linux

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Happy Friday! We’re so happy to announce the new release of FrostWire for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

New: Experimental Features

Starting FrostWire 6.4.6 you can try experimental features at your own risk.

You will have the chance to try the future features of our software! For example, you can try the new setting of VPN-Drop protection. If a VPN connection is not available, automatically FrostWire will stop all BitTorrent traffic for your protection.

New: VPN-Drop protection (Experimental Feature)

As our first experimental feature we’re introducing a Privacy Protection feature for VPN users out there. FrostWire will detect if your VPN connection drops and if you have this setting activated FrostWire will automatically stop all BitTorrent transfers to protect your privacy.

Read more.

New: Lyrics when available on Playlists

Also, now we added support to display lyrics when available. Now you can listen to music and enjoy the lyrics in the software without the need to open your web browser to search for it!

Read more

New/Advanced: Determine .torrent piece sizes

 

On the other hand, we fixed a bug related to SoundCloud search, and issues reported with BitTorrent transfers.

Changelog

frostwire (6.4.6) stable; urgency=high
  * New Options > Advanced > Experimental. Users can now try ALPHA and BETA features
    at their own risk.
  * New revision of jlibtorrent 1.2.0.6 fixes BitTorrent bugs
  * New piece size selection on torrent creation dialog
  * Library > Playlists UI improvements. Support to display lyrics when available
  * BTJunkie.eu search discontinued
  * Fixes issues with SoundCloud search
  * FrostWire wizard is now displayed when a new build number is detected
  * jlibtorrent version number available in about window
  * ALPHA: New VPN-Drop protection setting. Automatically stop all BitTorrent traffic
    if no VPN connection is available
        
 -- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com>  Tue, 7 Mar 2017 19:45:51 -0600

What is FrostWire?

FrostWire is a free, 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 and a full blown media player.

Donation!

Support the continuous development of FrostWire with a donation today.