Re-built jlibtorrent to solve compatibility issues with Linux distributions that don’t have the latest libc6 (Like Linux Mint, If you are a Linux Mint user you can now install the new .deb file)
Now when you paste a video URL, the search results found will show the video screen dimentions towards the left hand side of the title, this way you don’t have to resize the search result table columns to figure out which of the different formats available you need to download.
We’ve included Telluride build 10 with the freshest youtube_dl updates from this week.
Download the binaries and let us know if you have any issues
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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.
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
We went from jlibtorrent 1.2.3.0 onto 1.2.7.0 because we weren’t happy with how stable 1.2.4, 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 were, however the libtorrent 1.2.7 engine starts the downloads almost immediatly for decently seeded torrents and we’ve seen speeds above 7Mb/s on our testing environment.
Below the list of fixes, most coming from the libtorrent project.
FrostWire 2.2.1 build 641 – 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
We’re still working on FrostWire 2.0, but right now we invite you to download our latest build of FrostWire 1.9.9! This new release includes a lot of fixed bugs, and quality improvements!
Changelog
FrostWire 1.9.9 build 471 – NOV/29/2017
– App Startup is faster
– Multiple freezes fixed, memory leaks fixed, crashes fixed
– Android Jelly-Bean (<4.4) support dropped, minSdkVersion=19
– Library updates: jlibtorrent 1.2.0.15-RC3, gms 11.6.0, mopub 4.18.0, flexbox 0.3.1, applovin 7.5.0, presage 2.2.2
– 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
– Transfer screen on rotation would not keep last tab selected
– Java 8 usage, gradle 4.3.1
– compileSDKVersion 27, support libraries 27.0.1, kotlin plugin 1.1.51
– Material design dialog update
– TPB domain 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.
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.
It’s time to update! A new version of FrostWire Plus is available for #Android users. If you want to get more search results using FrostWire, you have to download this new version. We fixed EZTV, Torlock, and Zooqle. Moreover, we fixed some bugs related to the filtering tools. Also, the music player now has all horizontal layouts available.
Changelog
FrostWire 1.9.9 – AUG/14/2017
– Creative Commons Features removed for Google Play users, available on FrostWire Plus
– Search: EZTV, Torlock, Zooqle fixed
– Search: BTJunkie removed
– Download: Yify magnets can now be found in DHT
– New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.12-RC1
– Filtering bug fixes
– Audio Player ‘Clear Queue’ fix
– Crash fixes, performance upgrades
– ogury 2.1.13
– compileSDK 26, gms 11.0.4, gradle 4.0.2, android support 26.0.1
– Update in VPN offering
– Fixes freeze copying magnets to clipboard
– Less ads
– Music player has all horizontal layouts
– Warn user about Internet Connection dropped
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.
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.
We’re excited to announce a new release of FrostWire Plus for Android (1.9.4).
The user interface upgrades included are part of our roadmap to FrostWire for Android 2.0.
On FrostWire 1.9.4, we added thumb grid views for browsing the pictures and videos on your device.
On past versions of FrostWire, images and videos were displayed in a list view, this meant a lot of scrolling just to see a few pictures or video thumbnails, with the grid views you will have a more efficient way of viewing and managing your media files.
A new feature to accompany the new grid media browsing is a built-in Image Viewer.
You can open an image and on the toolbar menu you will find more actions:
Open, File Information, Set as Wallpaper, Rename, and Share.
The new “File Information” window, is available for all file types.
On the next updates the Image Viewer will continue to improve by including a few more basic features like browsing through the rest your pictures using swipe gestures once you’ve opened an image.
Subtle Design Upgrades
We’ve rewritten our file type selection user interface on FrostWire 1.9.4. using the latest Android APIs available for better performance, we’ve also made subtle changes on the way they look.
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.
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!
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.
Official FrostWire Blog 