May 16th, 2012· Full support for .m4a audio files (thumbnails, seek)
· AAC downloads from YouTube.
· Fixes issue with search suggestions where the popup wouldn't hide correctly.
· Chinese, Korean character display fixed for Windows and Linux (Gnome only)
· Fixes issue where it was hard to select more than one search result for batch downloads.
· Fixes issue with search results from KAT.ph. Now downloads are started using magnet links instead of .torrents.
· Supports dragging files from transfer manager. Useful to send files to iTunes as soon as transfers are done.
· Adds links to Facebook and Google Plus pages on status bar.
· Single file search results now are launched on double click.
April 20th, 2012· Drag and drop files and folders to your Android device running FrostWire. You can upload files to 3 different devices at the same time.
· Fixes glitch where the file explorer would reset the split pane position.
· Removes flickering on album arts when resizing library explorer
· When the FrostWire window is resized to be very small the search filters no longer overlap the "Open" and "Send to" buttons.
· Search box on the Library is now on the upper left and offers contextual hint.
· Search boxes everywhere now have a clear button.
· Playlists are now sorted alphabetically.
· Option panes UI upgrades.
· Better suggestion for a playlist name when a folder is dropped on "New Playlist".
· German translation updated.
· French translation updated.
· Norwegian translation updated.
· Dutch translation updated.
· Japanese translation updated.
· Filipino translation updated.
· Chinese (Hong Kong) translation updated.
· Chinese (Taiwan) translation updated.
· Chinese (Mainland) translation updated.
· Turkish translation updated.
· Portuguese (Brazilian) updated.
· Korean translation updated.
· Italian translation updated.
· Hindi translation updated.
March 27th, 2012· New frostwire.exe launcher with extended Unicode support now able to handle .torrent file names with extended Unicode characters.
· Windows build is Windows 8 compatible.
· Windows build will prefer Java 7 if not JRE is found.
· Improvements when sending files on a local area network via magnet link or send file to friend.
· Bug fix when opening magnets from a website when FrostWire was already running.
· User experience improvements on the transfer manager.
· Spanish translation update (93% translated)
· YouTube video search and download support.
March 12th, 2012· Noticeable improvements in CPU performance.
· Noticeable improvements in search result quality.
· Updated TPB search to support magnet link search results.
· Added UT_METADATA extension to Vuze Core for improved magnet link support.
· Upgraded Lucene library to v3.5.0.
· Upgraded H2 to v1.3.164.
· When browsing FrostWire for Android devices (0.9.6+), date added and date modified fields are available on all file types.
February 12th, 2012· Updated default album cover image with an anti-aliased frostwire sphere.
· Fixes bug where clicking on the current song would switch to the library but the button on the top would not be selected.
· Adds missing icon for "copy magnet" on Send file dialog.
· Library explorer and Playlist explorer are now divided by a split pane for a better experience.
· Hides hints popup when search is triggered with a mouse click.
· Updated search icon (magnifier).
· Fonts are reset when the setup wizard is shown so the wizard can work properly.
· New View > Reset Font Sizes action.
· The first time the Library button is used "Finished Downloads" is preselected to give the user a clue of what can be done.
· When a new playlist is created, a graphic is shown to hint the user about dragging audio files there.
· Updated H2 library to v1.3.164
December 1st, 2011· Fixes bugs where some BitTorrent configuration settings were reset on startup.
November 23rd, 2011· Upload ratios will not be enforced to 30% of downloads anymore.
· Users will have free will to set the upload ratio of their preference.
· Update autodownload now supported for mac.
· Updates can now be distributed via both BitTorrent and HTTP.
· HttpFetcher improvements for less resource consumption.
· HttpFetcher now supports large HTTP file downlods (progressive download).
· Improvements to Send File to a friend.
· Fixes bug where some finished Downloads wouldn't "Show in Library"
· Bug report system revised.
October 31st, 2011· Change the order of an audio file on playlist with drag and drop.
· Change the order of multiple audio files on a playlist with drag and drop.
· Drop audio files and folders at a specific position inside a playlist.
· Remembers the column and order you last set on the transfer manager after restart.
· Remembers the last file type you searched for after restart.
· New FrostWire icon compatible with Ubuntu 11.10
· Bug fix, now if you're playing a song and you resort the playlist by any of the columns, the next song to be played will be the one below the current song in the new order.
· Searching inside "Finished Downloads" now yields folder names as search results.
· Fixes lingering popup menu issue.
· Fixed DNS query issue affecting Linux.
September 19th, 2011· Bug fix on setup wizard for some window configurations where controls would not appear unless the user resized the window.
· Bug fix on keyword search filter, wrong keyboard event was being used.
· UX adjustement in the way transfers are sorted when the application is launched.
· UX upgrade where Search Field on the Library now reacts to the DELETE key.
· UX upgrade where the FrostWire left hand side components are laid out correctly after the user resizes the window from much smaller dimensions.
August 22nd, 2011· Search results now arrive under 200ms, aka, Instant Search.
· New FrostWire "Smart Torrent" search. FrostWire will search inside top matching torrents for individual files matching the current query.
· Core upgrade, if a .torrent fails to download from its HTTP location FrostWire will download it from the DHT if it can find it there.
· Functionality to see the size of the Search DB and to reset it.
· UX upgrade, ability to hide/show seeding torrents on transfer manager.
· UX upgrade, Phone & Tablets desktop explorer asks before deleting files.
· UX upgrade, New file "Extension" column on search results.
· UX upgrade, Search tabs now have animated indicator to let user know a search is still going on.
· UX upgrade, New filter by file type. Filter controls re-arranged.
· UX fix, search results can now be sorted by file type.
· TPB has been added to the list of search engines.
· Mininova is back.
January 3rd, 2011· UX-Upgrade: Internationalization: Spanish Support (i18n).
· Bug-Fix: Issue where apps were not being shared.
· Core-Upgrade: Support for file transfers to FrostWire for Desktop > 4.21.2
· UI-Fix: Search results you started downloading appear in blue without having to scroll.
· UI-Upgrade: Peers appear sorted by Geo-Distance if available, otherwise alphabetically by nickname.
· UI-Upgrade: Core message handling optimizations for faster UI response.
· Bug-Fix: 4 commonly reported crashes fixed.
December 20th, 2010· UI-Fix: Search results you started downloading appear in blue without having to scroll.
· UI-Upgrade: Peers appear sorted by Geo-Distance if available, otherwise alphabetically by nickname.
· UI-Upgrade: Core message handling optimizations for faster UI response.
· Bug-Fix: 4 commonly reported crashes fixed.
July 5th, 2010· Improves torrent search dramatically.
· Upgrades to protect search results from spam.
· Source packaged (.dsc) for Debian/Ubuntu.
March 8th, 2010· Fixes a bug where files couldn't be dragged out of the Library.
· Fixes a bug where opening a magnet link would freeze the UI while it was being fetched in the DHT.
· Fixes a bug where magnet links that were dropped on FrostWire wouldn't start downloading.
February 28th, 2010· Fixes a bug on torrent resume
· Installer sizes reduced over 58%
February 21st, 2010Major Upgrade: BitTorrent Engine replaced for a lightweight version of the Azureus BitTorrent core. FrostWire has become a far superior BitTorrent client starting version 4.20.x now supporting:
· Trackerless Torrents (via Azureus DHT)
· Improved Magnet link support (BTIH Magnet Links)
· SuperSeeding
· +100% Faster Torrent Connection Bootstraping (No more "sources needed" for some .torrents)
· +100% Faster Torrent Downloads in some ocassions than 4.18.x
· Transport Encryption capabilities
· Improved UPnP implementation
· New Feature: The Download Manager now has a new column showing the amount of bytes downloaded per download.
· Update: The "Refresh Connections" Tool is now available even if you are Turbo Charged.
· Fixes a bug where Crash Reports would always show an old version number.
January 15th, 2010New Features include:
· Easier Tab Navigation (Toggling)
· Right click on a tab and you’ll have the option to hide or show any of the FrostWire tabs right there.
· Improved .torrent metadata file sharing
· Automatic .torrent sharing has been reimplemented to correctly share .torrent files you use, thus enabling more torrent metadata file content on the gnutella network as FrostWire 4.18.6 and further versions is adopted by the community.
· .torrent files have now been included as a search type
· Being a BitTorrent client it was unnatural not having a .torrent file search.
· The more the community uses FrostWire for BitTorrent, the more search results will be available under this search type.
· Other important updates for this first release of 2010 include bugfixes on Theme Handling, the Console Tab dissapearing, a lot of code cleanup, 2 reported crashes fixed and a slightly smaller installer compared to the previous version.
· Next releases will improve BitTorrent support and antivirus integration for windows users.
December 9th, 2009· Fixes two NPEs that was causing FrostWire to kill uploads. (related to httpcomponent/nio)
· Updates: License is upgraded from GPLv2 to GPLv3 to allow proper license compatibility with Apache Licensed components.
September 24th, 2009· Ads .wma and .au extension to the default excluded shared formats. Also they are filtered from search results by default to protect windows users from malicious installers invoked from Windows Media Player when fake .au and .wma are opened. This also gives preference to .mp3 content which has no DRM.
· Bug fix on Connection Doctor. It would continue to run even though FrostWire was already connected.
· Updated Adult Filter keywords.
· Fixes connectivity issues on Snow Leopard where FrostWire would not attempt to open any connections.
· Frostwire for Mac is now compiled with 64-bit JDK and it's backwards compatible with Leopard (10.5)
· Fixes compatibility issues with Snow Leopard for Mac users. you can free download FrostWire 4.18.3 now.
August 9th, 2009· Updates on the "Connection Doctor" component, to address connection issues. Connects to new network of UHC servers.
· Updates on secondary (after-search) loading logic. Loads secondary overlay on the spot, more room for FrostClick artist promotions.
· Fixes a bug where some mp3 would not play. Volume, Pause and skip are disabled intentionally during workaround.
· Fixes a bug where the media player would loop non-stop without playing all the songs on a playlist once it found an mp3 it could not play
· Updates video help link to point to YouTube video of how to install FrostWire on Mac. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakWq8q8CHQ
May 12th, 2009· Fixes Bittorrent Incompatibilities.
· Mac launcher fixes bug where FrostWire would not allow itself to run on a external disk.
· Fixes bug on Welcome Screen, now you don’t need to open FrostWire twice to get the latest welcome screen.
· FrostWire caches the last 2 images shown on the Welcome Screen to save bandwidth from static servers.
· Tools > Check for Updates. Now FrostWire can check for configuration updates, community messages, new FrostWire releases and welcome screen promotion updates during runtime.
· The welcome screen can be customized for every language, giving the chance to more content creators to be promoted every week to different audiences that speak their language.
· The Buttons of the Download Manager have been rearranged to avoid mistakes when trying to resume downloads. The Clear and Cancel Buttons are all the way to the right. Thanks to ’ssome’ for the suggestion.
· New Splash Screen.
· Anti spam filters updated to filter out new keywords used by spammers.
· New “Buy” icon.
· The community chat ‘Connect’ button now checks if a nickname has been set and helps the user set a default nickname using an input dialog.
· When users issue the “/nick” command on the chat, FrostWire will remember the new nickname as the default nickname.
November 24th, 2008· Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user.
· Reduces DHT network load. The LimeWire team found out that the Mojito “store forwarding” feature would not provide extra data availability, so it’s been turned off from the DHT on all new FrostWires.
· FrostWire.ico has been updated. Now when FrostWire is associated to .bittorrent files, .bittorrent files will use the FrostWire icon.
November 19th, 2008· Half-sized installers were added.
· It will attempt to add the default Library folder of 4.13.5.
· FrostWire now can be automatically started when Windows starts.
· File association problems were fixed.
· Compatibility problems with iTunes 8 were fixes.
· Heavy work was done on all translations.
· The "FrostWire" font logo was updated on the Logo Pane.
· The icons were updated.
· The volume toolbar graphic was replaced.
· A playback problem when continuous playback was selected was fixed.
· Valid chatroom links will now open in the user's default browser.
November 11th, 2008· Half sized installers
· It will attempt to add the default Library folder of 4.13.5 so users won’t feel like they lost their old library
· FrostWire now can be auto-started when Windows starts. This setting is available from the ‘Option’ menu (’Windows boot’) and from the initial setup.
· File Association issues fixed. FrostWire will open automatically on Windows and MacOSX upon clicking on .torrents (files and links), and magnet links.
· Fixes compatibility issues with iTunes 8
· Heavy work on all translations. Translation files now work with launchpad.net for more open collaboration of worldwide translator volunteers
· Default Community Chat chatroom auto join update (in your own language) makes chatting friendlier to non-english speaking users. Users that speak the following languages will auto join to rooms of their own language: Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Filipino, Japanese, Finnish and Hungarian. No more unexplained kicks to international users!
· Updated “FrostWire” font logo on the Logo Pane
· Icons updated
· Volume toolbar graphic replaced
· Fixed playback Issue when continuous playback was selected
· Valid Chatroom links will now open on the user’s default browser
October 17th, 2008· Improved interface
· A year's worth of LimeWire core upgrades for better search, connectivity and speed
· New media player, with volume and seek functionality
· More translations now available in translate.launchpad.net
· DHT Capable
· Improved Bittorrent and Magnet links support
· More connections per download for T1,T3 users
· Icon Tray Notifications
· Search through settings
· Save folder improvements
· Better bug reporting *.flv recognized as video extension
· Many more internal improvements and bug fixes
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