April 25th, 2013· New Feature: Includes search results from archive.org, which indexes millions of public domain and creative commons works from all over the internet.
· New Feature: playlist songs can be re-ordered with drag and drop.
· New Feature: all songs in a playlist can now be exported to a folder.
· Upgrade: Improved Unicode support for Chinese characters.
· Upgrade: mplayer update for unicode character file playback support.
· Upgrade: Search architecture upgrade for much faster search results.
· Upgrade: Considerably faster mp3,mp4 parsing in the library, creating playlists is now faster than ever.
· Upgrade: New more explicit Wi-Fi sharing icons.
· Upgrade: Updated radio station database.
· Upgrade: up to 20% faster listing of files in the Library.
· Upgrade: Video player upgrades for better experience.
· Bug fix: screen-saver no longer kicks in during video playback.
· Bug fix: UPnP Wi-Fi sharing discovery consumes 84% less CPU on
· congested local networks. Fixing reported slowdowns and reducing
· considerable power consumption for laptop users.
· Bug fix: X11 related error fix.
· Bug fix: Number of files being shared includes the number of torrents
· being seeded.
· Bug fix: Library search issues related to unicode characters.
· Bug fix: Multiple null pointer exceptions and crashes fixed.
· Bug fix: Fixed rendering issue related to wrong parsing of bitrate
· string data.
· Upgrade: (Developers) ant compilation scripts cleanup.
· Upgrade: (Developers) use of ‘frostwire-commons’ repository to share
· common code between FrostWire for Android and Desktop projects.
February 22nd, 2013· Java is no longer necessary for Windows and Mac OS X users.
· Includes a ton of performance updates.
November 30th, 2012· New FrostWire video player.
· New audio preview on cloud based audio search results.
· New video preview on cloud based video search results.
· New Wi-Fi sharing between FrostWire for Desktop and Android.
· New Wi-Fi sharing/announcement/discovery protocol via UPnP standards.
· New Stream Video/Audio stored shared on Android devices.
· UX Improvement: Add folders to library with drag and drop on library tree.
· UX Improvement: cloud audio downloads now have album art.
· Core Search Performance lowers CPU usage dramatically while indexing.
· Core Improvement: broader compatibility on cloud demuxed downloads.
· UI Improvement: partial download/torrent content window now includes file extension, file type icon.
· UI Improvement: when opening youtube url, the file selection dialog has type/quality hints to guide user on the options available for download.
· UI Improvement: audio player simplified, no stop button.
· UI Improvement: Transfer manager now has ‘Clear Inactive’ button.
· Bug fix: Run on startup for Mac finally works. The BitTorrent network will get a boost of upstream bandwidth.
November 24th, 2012· Share files locally via Wi-FI/LAN. You will now be able to make files publicly available on your local network, if you have more than one computer running FrostWire, or Android devices running FrostWire 1.0, you will be able to share files between devices. This is a very powerful feature for teams in offices, schools and for media sharing at home. It's never been easier to share the pictures and videos on phones with all the other devices running FrostWire.
· We've done this using a clean HTTP protocol and UPnP discovery/announcement mechanisms.
· New Video Player, you should now be able to play most popular video formats right from FrostWire, including YouTube video search results can be streamed before downloading them.
· Audio preview before download, all results coming from Cloud services (currently only YouTube and SoundCloud) can be played before you download them. We'll be adding more cloud services in future releases.
August 25th, 2012· BEP 34 compliant. FrostWire now checks DNS TXT records for tracker config.
· Soundcloud integration (Search, Streaming and Downloads).
· Fixes issue with partial download title window not showing the name of the torrent correctly.
· UI Improvement: Action hints on top of search results to stream or download or see the contents of the torrent.
· UI Improvement: Action hint on top of playable contents in the library.
· UI Improvement: Search result Source now includes the name of the author if available.
· UI Improvement: Search keywords are bolded in the titles of search results.
· UI Improvement: Creation date for non-torrent search results available.
· UI Improvement: File size of non-torrent search results available.
· UI Improvement: Opening 'Configure Options' on the Library takes user to the Library Settings pane.
· UI Improvement: Right clicking on the title of a search tab now shows the only action available (Repeat Search) directly.
· UI Improvement: A FrostWire update can now be invoked from the 'Tools' menu.
· UI Improvement: New Notification update button will be available on the Window header to let the user know visually that there's a FrostWire update available.
· UI Improvement: Added 'Cleanup Playlist' right click menu item in playlists.
· UX Improvement: When saving a newly created .torrent, FrostWire will make sure the file is saved with the .torrent extension.
· Fixes issue with file names downloaded from FrostWire for Android.
· Fixes issue adding new radio stations to the library.
· Fix of MP3 ID3 tags unicode parsing.
May 11th, 2012· Now with YouTube audio downloads
March 24th, 2012· 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.
February 13th, 2012· New looks, better search results, sends files & folders no size limits. +35 fixes
November 29th, 2011· Best Search Performance ever and new Internet Radio support on the Library
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.
November 10th, 2011· Enhancement: Lucene full text indexing for Smart Search database to allow for fuzzy searches.
· Enhancement: Lucene full text indexing for Library database allows better search results on Radio search and playlist search.
· Enhancement: Audio player will start playing currently selected audio source if it’s on a stopped state.
· Bug Fix: Finished Downloads shows only finished downloads.
November 7th, 2011· Smart search updates uses less DHT resources and fixes logic bugs that results into faster and better search results.
· New Internet Radio functionality on the Library. Play, Add, Remove and bookmark your favorite Internet Radio Stations.
· Book/Document search now crawls for .cbr, .cbz, .cb7, .cbt and .cba file formats.
· New “Show in Library” action for finished transfers. It is now the default action when a finished transfer has been double clicked.
· Clicking on the currently played audio control should always take the user to the currently played audio file.
· Top Library tree nodes re-arranged.
· When downloading a single partial file, the transfer manager shows the proper icon based on the file type of the file being downloaded.
· Add partial downloads, and multiple transfers that contain audio files to playlists right from the transfer manager.
· The library can now be configured to scan any folder the user desires.
· Files can be added to playlists right out of search results.
· New explore action button on the Library tab.
· New send to friend action button on the Library tab.
· A lot of bug fixes.
November 4th, 2011· Smart search updates uses less DHT resources and fixes logic bugs that results into faster and better search results.
· New Internet Radio functionality on the Library. Play, Add, Remove and bookmark your favorite Internet Radio Stations.
· Book/Document search now crawls for .cbr, .cbz, .cb7, .cbt and .cba file formats.
· New "Show in Library" action for finished transfers. It is now the default action when a finished transfer has been double clicked.
· Clicking on the currently played audio control should always take the user to the currently played audio file.
· Top Library tree nodes re-arranged.
· When downloading a single partial file, the transfer manager shows the proper icon based on the file type of the file being downloaded.
· Add partial downloads, and multiple transfers that contain audio files to playlists right from the transfer manager.
· The library can now be configured to scan any folder the user desires.
· A lot of bug fixes.
November 4th, 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.
· 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.
October 25th, 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.
October 6th, 2011· Play/Pause player buttons now share the same button depending on state.
· Mac OSX threading bug when importing .m3u playlist to new playlist fixed.
· Pressing space bar pauses/resumes currently played audio.
· Playlist files can be sorted correctly by track number when available.
· FLAC playback support.
· When a playlist has finished importing files, it’s shown to the user.
· Transfer manager remembers the position of its JSplitPane.
· Transfer manager sorts downloads by default based on their creation date.
· Transfer manager has new column “Started On” showing the date the transfer first started.
· Drag and drop issues on playlist component for Mac OSX fixed.
· Partial download dialog table can adjust column widths, a horizontal scrollbar will appear if the sum of the columns is wider than the dialog.
· When playing an audio file, if it gets deleted FROM DISK from inside FrostWire, the audio file will stop playing.
· Files can be dragged to the “Starred” playlist and they will be marked as starred. If files are dragged from Disk, creating a new playlist will be offered, and all the elements on the playlist will be starred.
· Files can be deleted from the “Starred” playlist. This will cause the files to be unstarred on every other playlist where they belong.
· The tables on the library remember the last position of their scrollbars during the session.
· Double clicking on a playlist name starts editing the playlist name.
· Fixes bug where downloading an individual file in a torrent wouldn’t be marked in the search results as downloading.
· Fixes a memory leak when importing ID3 tags into a playlist.
· Fixes bug where the duration of an MP3 file wasn’t calculated correctly by MPlayer, duration is now being calculated with Java library.
· Fixes bug where it would import torrent skipped files to iTunes.
September 30th, 2011· Added a brand new Library and media player
September 19th, 2011· No more Spam, and now with Smart Instant Search.
August 25th, 2011· Super duper search powers (and bug fixes)
August 20th, 2011· FrostWire now finds single files that match your searches.
· FrostWire learns as you use it to deliver instant single file search results (under 100ms on average, but you’ll see a lot of search results appearing under 5ms)
July 7th, 2011· UX bugfix, fixes possible UI freeze on startup.
· UX bugfix, sending songs to iTunes is now done in a single process.
July 5th, 2011· UX upgrade, send file or send folder support when a file or folder is dropped on FrostWire.
· UX upgrade, file choosing dialogs on Mac now also show mounted volumes.
July 4th, 2011· New feature, Send file. Available on File Menu and Transfer Manager.
· New feature, Send folder. Available on File Menu and Transfer Manager.
· UX upgrade, we now have a [+] icon next to search result file names to show partial download dialog.
· UX upgrade, when a partial download is cancelled, the entry is removed from transfers.
· UX update on partial download dialog. Includes new text filter.
· UX fix, Library search now also looks for .torrents on “Torrents” folder.
· UX fix, Mac OSX file menu does no longer show “Exit” action.
· Fixes bug, incomplete files are no longer exported to iTunes playlist.
· UX update, Help Menu now says “Sharing Help”. Items rearranged.
· UX update, rearranged View options into single panel.
· UX update, torrent seeding settings are now a control of its own with an explanation of what seeding is.
· UX update, the installation wizard now forces the user to decide if she wants to seed or not seed to continue. Links to what is seeding are in place.
· UX update, in Windows and Linux, when the user Xs the window the user is explained that the application will be hidden and is given the option to exit.
· UX bugfix, font size can now be increased.
June 10th, 2011· Fixes a possible freeze reported by some users when the configuration wizard is shown.
· Fixes issue when a user changes default Gnutella Save Folder and unchecks Sharing finished downloads. Individually shared files from the old Save Folder would still be shared. Now all individually shared files will be unshared if you uncheck this setting.
· Now users don’t have to re-start to stop seeding after they’ve changed their torrent Seeding Configuration. All torrents old and new will stop seeding as soon as the setting is applied.
· Better wording to explain on which networks files are being shared on, Gnutella or BitTorrent.
· Changed color of “Sharing Options” gear icon to blue, gray icon may have seemed as if the button was disabled.
· Added “Sharing Options” gear button on Search Tab. It’s only visible once a search has been started.
· Added Help Menu options to learn about how to share/unshare files, torrent seeding, and how to avoid being scammed into paying for FrostWire. DO NOT PAY FOR FROSTWIRE.
May 19th, 2011· Makes sure cancelling torrents that have finished are not deleted.
· Folders created by torrents that are cancelled during download are deleted to avoid any unwanted file sharing.
· Fixes a bug when migrating from an older version of FrostWire on which previously Saved and individually shared files would still be shared after not sharing finished downloads on the migration wizard.
· Fixes a bug on configuration screens that could make the application freeze for a few seconds before moving towards the next screen.
· Migration wizard will always be shown to make sure users are aware of what they’re sharing.
· Sharing completed files is always set to off by default on the configuration wizard.
May 6th, 2011· New Sharing Policies, Better Clearer UI controls for sharing, BitTorrent Improvements, many bugs fixed
March 23rd, 2011· Addresses folder sharing and torrent seeding issues
February 15th, 2011· New "Phones and Tablets" tab. Tools to share files with Android devices on a Wi-Fi network.
· New debian source packages available.
· Upgrades to HttpFetcher performance. Cleanups and refactors.
· Upgrades java compatibility to Java 6.
· Upgrades Mojito-DHT to the latest version found on the LimeWire repository. Tune ups.
· Removed dependencies on Linux native libraries. JDIC is no more for Linux releases.
· Fixes issues when rendering and scrolling torrent search results.
September 29th, 2010· New auto-update support for Windows and Ubuntu.
· Upgrades Azureus Core (bittorrent engine) to version 4.5.0.4. Thanks to the Azureus Team for their hard work and support through the integration.
· New setting pane to allow user to turn off FrostClick promotions.
· Fixes issue with Application Icon. New high resolution icon now in place.
August 30th, 2010· Fixes bug where FrostWire would not try to open exclusively UDP tracked torrents.
· New option -Dultrapeer=1 forces FrostWire to run as Ultrapeer. Only for hackers that build FrostWire.
August 30th, 2010· Upgrades search, now powered with ClearBits.net results a service that indexes thousands of legal torrent files. (formerly known as LegalTorrents.com)
· New BitTorrent Connection Settings Available.
· New ability to configure the max. number of active torrent downloads.
· New ability to configure the max. number of peers per torrent.
· New ability to configure the max. number of torrent connections.
· New ability to configure the max. number of torrent uploads.
· Fixes torrent auto resume bug.
July 5th, 2010· Improves torrent search dramatically.
· Upgrades to protect search results from spam.
· Source packaged (.dsc) for Debian/Ubuntu.
May 12th, 2010· Upgrades Azureus Core to version 4.4.0.0 - Thanks to the Vuze/Azureus team for their hard work.
April 15th, 2010· Fixes audio player issues. Now all MP3s should support skipping and gain control.
· Fixes bug on status bar speed meter. Now BitTorrent uploads speeds are added up and shown correctly in it.
· Fixes High CPU usage bug while loading hostiles ip list.
· Fixes a bug on MacOSX on which FrostWire would only start downloading a .torrent only if FrostWire was already running.
· The FrostWire windows installer will now clean FrostWire Desktop shortcuts if uninstalled.
April 6th, 2010· Fixes connectivity issues for Mac version.
March 6th, 2010· Drag and Drop Issues Fixed
March 1st, 2010· Fixes a bug on torrent resume
· Smaller Installer Size
January 21st, 2009· Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire(tm) take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user.
· Reduces network load. The LimeWire team found out that "store forwarding" would not provide extra data availability, so it's been turned off from the DHT
· FrostWire.ico has been updated. Now when FrostWire(tm) is associated to .bittorrent files, .bittorrent files will use the FrostWire(tm) icon.
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.
September 13th, 2007· New Update Manager. Also allows delivery of special announcements to the community. And no, we won’t use this feature for spam, only for special announcements to the community, or special downloads.
· The Update Manager supports the delivery of torrent broadcasting to all the FrostWire community. This will allow us to lower bandwidth costs if we decide to distribute an upload using bittorrent trackers.
· FrostWire startup time back to normal, no more waiting for Chat window to load, the chat is now loaded on a background thread
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