FrostWire is the #1 mac download on download.com

FrostWire 4.17.0 was listed on download.com for the first time only 2 weeks ago, two weeks after, the mac user base has made it the most popular software for the week ending July 20th of 2008.

Thank you, keep spreading the voice

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Official FrostWire 4.17.0 Download link

After 6 months of work, a completely new fork from the LimeWire code base has come to fruition, FrostWire 4.17.0 features over a year’s worth of core and user interface upgrades made to the original LimeWire client, now included in FrostWire along all the previous work done over FrostWire 4.13.x.

Among the most important updates:

• Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
• Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
• New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
• Support for private torrents
• Greater control over your Shared files
• Add Magnets to Open Dialog
• Improvements in bootstrapping
• Warn When Too Many Files Shared
• Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
• Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
• More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
• Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
• Recognize flv as a video extension.
• Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
• (Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
• Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
• Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
• General Save folder improvements.
• Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
• FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
• Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
• Add partial search results.
• Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
• Incremental search on the Settings window
• Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith

Faster than ever

Here’s a full screenshot of the new speeds achieved with FrostWire 4.17.0 when downloading torrents.

FrostWire 4.17.0 is a major milestone on the project road map, many new innovations are to come after this release, stay tuned.

About FrostWire
FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

Download FrostWire 4.17.0 from the official website

By Ernesto at TorrentFreak.com

ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users, the FCC has now announced that it will order Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic.

What does that mean?
Better connectivity for all FrostWire users.

Read more

If you recently upgraded your Ubuntu to 8.04 (64bit version), the Sun JVM that comes with it may be giving you an error similar to this one:


Loading FrostWire:
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0×00007fa25489d755, pid=8123, tid=1082538320
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (10.0-b22 mixed mode linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libc.so.6+0x30755] catgets+0×15
#


Users from our FrostWire Forum came up with a solution:

by xbj9000 on Fri May 16, 2008 3:13 pm
I have a solution for those of us running 64 bit systems:

Code:

sudo apt-get install ia32-sun-java6-bin

Code:

sudo update-alternatives –config java

Then choose the ia32 version of Java 6.

Thanks a lot guys.

Greetings and thanks to Mac100% 2008.SPRING Magazine from Japan for writing about FrostWire.

Here’s the note, someone please translate for us, (let’s hope it was a good review)

Posted by Seth Rosenblatt originally at Download.com on May 9th, 2008

Let’s see what you can spot on this FrostWire 4.17 screenshot (available now via subversion at your own risk)

Thanks to the LifeHacker blog for mentioning as a “Superior Alternative” on this Post this past Monday, April 28th.

First FrostWire user from the moon.

Sent to us by artist Marcelina Knitter from New York

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If you received your FrostWire Stickers and you placed them somewhere cool, please post them to the Flickr Pool, if you don’t have FrostWire Stickers, you can order your 10 free stickers here.

As you’ve noticed, we have moved our blog outside our official domain and out here to wordpress.com.
This is because we’ve been victims of a security exploit on an old version of wordpress.
We decided it’s better to leave the blog here where the wordpress gurus will take care of it better.

All posts and comments have been exported without any problems whatsoever.