Free Download Manager Changelog
What's new in Free Download Manager 6.20.0.5510
Dec 21, 2023- We made it to ensure FDM works smoothly on every MODERN device it can be run on. FDM, a free download manager, continues to evolve. The new release, 6.20, runs on a completely new core, with UI designed from scratch. We made it to ensure FDM works smoothly on every device it can be run on. Also, there are 20+ new features and a dozen bug fixes.
- Free Download Manager 6.20 comes in two versions. They are designed for the newest operating systems based on QT-6 and earlier but still widely used OS relying on QT-5. The former are
- You’ll see a special section with versions for the “latter” list above on the FDM’s downloads page. If your system is in the “former” list, we’ll automatically suggest the build for you.
- Some of the new features in Free Download Manager 6.20:
- Battery settings in desktop version of FDM.
- Improved downloading of live streams and from websites, and generally better experience for Linux-based systems.
- No sleeping while downloading: we’ve added a setting that lets you disable switching to sleep mode if there’s a download scheduled.
- Web browser user agent as a default option.
- Support for Android 13.
- Finnish localization. Tervetuloa!
New in Free Download Manager 6.19.0.5156 (Mar 19, 2023)
- "Launch external application on download completion" setting.
- Remember last used scheduler's settings as default ones.
- BitTorrent: a few options added.
- BitTorrent: "Force reannounce" context menu added.
- Revamped mechanism of managing downloads traffic limits.
- Revamped sort-by-status algorithm.
- Drag&Drop downloads outside of the app.
- "Automatically remove finished downloads in N days" option.
- Detect unwanted behavior errors.
- Improved support of RTL languages.
- Windows: performance improvements.
- Fixed: torrent download could not resume downloading after a write error.
- Fixed: various UI and core bugs.