FrostWire “Arctic Shield” Released

Download FrostWire “Arctic Shield”

The newest FrostWire release “Arctic Shield” (version 4.18.4) has arrived.

By the request of our users the latest version adds some serious connection and anti-spam improvements.

FrostWire “Arctic Shield” is by far the most significant update of 2009 and we strongly recommend this update.

How to put your FrostWire music into your iPod

Scheduled Maintenance this week

If you experience some issues with any of the FrostWire mirrors, or websites starting tomorrow 9/16/2009 at 02:00am EST it’s due to a planned maintenance.

We’ll try our best to minimize the impact of these important updates.

If by 9/18/2009 you still find any errors or missing services online please report them here.

Services that will be affected by the maintenance:

dl.frostwire.com
static.frostwire.com
forum.frostwire.com
doctor.frostwire.com
Gnutella UDP caches – uhc1.frostwire.com
update.frostwire.com
static.frostwire.com
peercommons chat service

Update: The current peercommons chat server will be going down for several weeks (starting sometime next week when the old server dies) until we find a new exclusive machine with enough bandwidth for it. The sysop has been working on a new configuration from scratch so please be patient, the service won’t die for good, we know how important peercommons is for all of you who have been here since the beginning. It’ll just be down until the time is right, but it’ll be back for sure according to our sysop.

The migration of all other services should be complete, we’re monitoring for any hicups. if you find any issues with any of the services mentioned above (or other frostwire related services) please let us know. Thanks for your patience.

Stay tuned for our next FrostWire release, geared towards spam related issues.

Configuring your Eclipse Build Path to build FrostWire

Everytime I setup eclipse in Windows I end up wasting about 30 minutes configuring the build path to get rid of all errors, here’s a self-reference post that you can also use to configure your Eclipse and get it ready to hack and patch FrostWire.

Source Tab
Add frostwire/core folder
Exclude: examples/**
Native library location: frostwire/lib/native/windows

Add frostwire/gui folder
Exclude: com/limegroup/gnutella/gui/Mac*.java; macosx; plugins; windows;
Native library location: frostwire/lib/native/windows

Add frostwire/gui/windows folder (nested, yes)

Libraries Tab
Add all jars in lib/jars, frostwire/dist, frostwire/components/all/dist

Order and Export Tab
Elements should be ordered as follows:

1. frostwire/core folder
2. frostwire/gui folder
3. frostwire/gui/windows folder
4. JRE System
5. lw-all.jar
6. FrostWire.jar
… Rest of jars.

Snow Leopard users should download FrostWire 4.18.3

A bug on 4.18.2 was causing FrostWire on Snow leopard to not go past the “Starting Connection” state.

Please upgrade to FrostWire 4.18.3 and get Turbocharged in a matter of a few seconds.

Version 4.18.3 (August 2009)
- Fixes connectivity issues on Snow Leopard where FrostWire
would not attempt to open any connections.
- Bug fix on Connection Doctor. It would continue to run even
though FrostWire was already connected.

Mac OS X version 10.6 “Snow Leopard” is the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system

FrostWire 4.18.1 Released

A new version of FrostWire 4.18.1 is finally out for Windows, Mac and Linux.

This release focuses in fixing many of the complains received by the community, mostly related to the connectivity and the media player.

FrostWire 4.18.1 updates the “Connection Doctor” strategy and connects to a new network of UHC servers.

It addresses a severe bug on the media player, it will now work around an “Invalid Frame Header” bug on ome mp3 files, all mp3 files should play now.

Mac users will be happy to find a bug related to opening BitTorrent files completly fixed.

Changelog:

Version 4.18.1 (August 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
- Fixes a bug on for Mac OSX where FrostWire would only download torrents opened via Finder if it was already running. Torrents now launch FrostWire and start downloading at once.
- Updates video help link to point to YouTube video of how to install FrostWire on Mac. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakWq8q8CHQ
- Fixes Windows Uninstaller issue where it would leave behind a Start Menu entry

FrostWire 4.18.2 is scheduled to be released sometime during August 2009, it will be an update geared towards minimizing the amount of spam and fake search results, so stay tuned.

Remember to download only from the official website frostwire.com. FrostWire is absolutely free don’t allow anybody to scam you into paying for it.

Download FrostWire 4.18.1

About FrostWire
FrostWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing program for the Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols. FrostWire is written in Java, and is a fork of LimeWire, another popular Gnutella client. Released under the GNU General Public License, FrostWire is free software.

Official website: www.frostwire.com
Free Legal Downloads for FrostWire: www.frostclick.com

FrostWire Keeps you Safe

FrostWire Protects you - Sensitive Files not shared by default

By default FrostWire will protect you from sharing sensitive files like important documents, tax forms and other documents identity thieves might be looking for. FrostWire will not share by default files with .doc, .rtf and .pdf extensions.

FrostWire 4.18.1 Coming Soon

We’ve heard your complaints about bugs and we’ve fixed some of them, we’re working on some more and soon we’ll release a new version, among some that have already been fixed:

- Updates on the “Connection Doctor” component, to address connectivity issues
- Updates on secondary (after-search) loading logic. Loads secondary overlay on the spot, more room for FrostClick artist promotions.
- 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
- Fixes a bug on for Mac OSX where FrostWire would only download torrents opened via Finder if it was already running. Torrents now launch FrostWire and start downloading at once.
- Updates video help link to point to YouTube video of how to install FrostWire on Mac. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakWq8q8CHQ

Basically we’ll be addressing issues with Connectivity, Some Mp3 files not playing, and other usability issues.
There’s some other work on the way to cut about 80% to 90% of the fake search results, but it could make it on FrostWire 4.18.2 if we can’t have it done in time for 4.18.1.

FrostWire 4.18.1 will also have access to a new network of Community Hosted UHC servers that will allow many more peers to get Turbo Charged right away.

Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it.

Compiling Ghost White Crab on Linux x86_64 Ubuntu Linux

Compiling this software is usually just a matter of running ‘make’, but if you try to do so in Ubuntu 64bit, you’ll encounter the following error on the config_test.log file

skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc

To solve this issue just do the following:

apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

This makes the make script work since lib6-dev-i386 installs the
l32bit development libraries for GNU C for AMD64 (64bit linux)

Now it works!

About Ghost White Crab
GhostWhiteCrab is a portable, stand-alone GWebCache implemented in C. It is open-source and distributed under a BSD-style license. It was developed as a light-weight replacement for CGI GWebCache implementations in PHP, Perl, ASP etc. Unlike those, GhostWhiteCrab can easily handle millions of transactions per hour while consuming little memory and CPU resources. Although GWebCaches are usually used as bootstrap system for Gnutella, you can use them for any other network as well. GhostWhiteCrab doesn’t handle multiple networks at a time, but you can configure it for any network you like.

GhostWhiteCrab is also an UDP Hostcache (UHC) for the Gnutella network. This is the recommended use now as most Gnutella clients support this or have completely switched to this bootstrap method. An UDP hostcache is much lighter weight, especially in terms of traffic. It’s possible to run GhostWhiteCrab as UHC instead of a GWebCache, or it can serve as both at the same time.

Download BZIP2 compressed sources

DownloadRoute.com also certifies FrostWire as 100% CLEAN

From George Zubor Senior Editor at DownloadRoute.com:

Hello!

We would like to inform you that FrostWire has successfully passed antivirus and antispyware tests and were so impressed that we decided to give you our 100% CLEAN award! We use for scanning now four of the best antivirus engines available on the market.

You must know that we’ve created the brand new and absolutely real reports. (Other sites usually offers only fake awards.) You may check your security reports on this URL: http://www.downloadroute.com/FrostWire-FrostWire-LLC/antivirus_report.html

We also remind you that FrostWire has been certified 100% clean by Softpedia

Pretty Cool, Keep those reports coming!