· View a downloaded file's Pieces.
· Following the Mac standard, clicking the close x won't close LimeWire but removes the window.
· Add more user support messages when you aren't fully connected.
· Incorporate a way to distribute messages more efficiently to LimeWire clients on the network.
· Remove hyperlink in search results when the file is in your Library.
· Don't scroll text in the LimeWire Media Player when playing videos.
· Don't show 'Private Shared' list until the first time you sign into Friends.
· Remove Facebook code and libraries from the LimeWire source code.
Bug fixes:
· Cancelling a torrent upload does not remove the file from the upload tray.
· Provide feedback to the user for Windows 7 and Vista when no sound device is available when using the LimeWire Media Player.
· Save a password in the proxy authentication correctly.
· Remove the password text box from the Socks v4 Proxy option since Socks v4 does not support password authentication.
· Fix a race condition which allowed multiple listings of the same file in the upload tray.
· Check a file to see if it is dangerous when previewing.
· Correct right click (control click) menu options for a file in the download tray.
· Remember settings for downloads and uploads tray.
BitTorrent:
· Upgraded to libtorrent version 0.14.6.
· Add a fail-over to the mainline libtorrent DHT when the torrent can't find sources or seeders.
· libtorrent bug fix allows for properly handling spaces in the file names.
· Add proxy support.
· Add the ability to the change the Network Interface.
· Add blacklist support.
· Add support for indexing files inside of torrents.
· Send torrent meta data in search results.
General:
· 'View File info' includes additional information in Transfers for file downloads including whether the download is encrypted (the lock icon).
· Associate magnet links with LimeWire for Mac OS X.
Bug fixes:
· Various memory leak fixes when viewing a video in the LimeWire Media Player.
· Ability to view a video in full screen mode with Mac OS Snow Leopard.
· General bug fixes for exceptions when playing videos with the LimeWire Media Player.
· Bug fixes for uploads in the transfer tray (right-click popup menu, stabilized display when hovering over items, closing browse notifications, browsing hosts and only show one upload per download in the upload tray).
· Revised screen repaints when application is restored from system tray.
· Upon uninstallation on Windows Vista, remove the Start menu group.
· Fix a bug in which viewing a video initially played in an external window before embedding into the LimeWire Media Player.
· Fix a Windows crash when closing the LimeWire Media Player which was playing a video.
· Fix a bug in which LimeWire wouldn't launch for Mac OS X 10.5.
New features:
· Video support to watch a file in LimeWire for Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. If LimeWire is unable to play due to a missing codec, your default system video player loads.
· Inadvertent file sharing updates to ensure users understand what is shared.
· Uploads and downloads appear in the transfer tray.
· The transfer tray is automatically hidden by default when there aren't any transfers; you can change the setting in Options.
· Added a nubbin to the transfer tray (a nubbin is the little thing you select to drag).
· Check downloads to see whether it is dangerous before previewing.
· Hide some file types by default associated with spam.
· Search suggestions based on files from Friends are stored in database now, which reduces the memory footprint for large libraries of your friends.
· Improvements in search suggestions from Friends based on what files they share with you.
· Improvements in the way search results are sorted by relevance.
· Displaying the LimeWire Store button only in locations where you can use the LimeWire Store.
· File information/properties dialog box is redesigned.
· Select different language in the View drop down menu.
· Update to the Options.
Mac Specific:
· Add the LimeWire Home Screen and the LimeWire Store icon when using Snow Leopard and running in 32 bit mode.
· Allow you to add folders to the Library or lists.
· Title Options dialog box to 'Preferences'.
· Add an option in the Preferences to associate LimeWire as the default application for all torrent files.
· Add an OS X style dialog so you can select multiple files and folders at once.
· Fix a problem which prevented you from deleting multiple files from your Library or Shared lists.
Bug fixes:
· Fix 'why' hyperlink in Advanced Tools.
· Allow LimeWire to locate a file on disk with a comma in the file name.
· Check the file name length in the file rename.
· Add option to remove all property files during uninstallation.
· Fix uninstaller bug when still running LimeWire.
· Prevent ability to start a torrent download if you unselected all files in the Torrent Prioritization dialog.
· Prevent 'Private Shared' list from reappearing after a restart if you previously deleted the list.
· Prevent pop up menus from intermittently appearing as all gray.
· Fix sorting search results by the 'From column' in Classic view.
· Work around a Windows bug which caused LimeWire to crash when playing or opening a file.
· Update translations.
· Fix a bug in which an out of date English name for the Galician language was displayed in the drop down menu.
· Fix splash screens (off by a pixel).
· Better handle errors when unable to get Windows startup menu location for launching LimeWire on system startup.
· Fix a bug in which links from "Lists I'm Sharing" do not select the correct list when selected before the Library is opened the first time.
· Fix running LimeWire on start up for Windows 7, Vista and Internationalized versions.
· Fix a torrent St9exception and unsatisfied link exception.
· Fix an unsatisfied link exception with the OS X Dock.
· Get magnet links to work properly.
· Fix an UnsatisfiedLink error for the Dock icon in Snow Leopard.
· Blocking IPs in the UI caused duplicate entries in the IP black list.
· General bug fixes.
· Add a a setting for the maximum number of seeding torrents so that the torrent upload list will not grow forever.
· Rotate various 'Upgrade to Pro' notifications for Basic users.
· General bug fixes.
· Uses a different 'Upgrade to Pro' notification box.
· Add prioritize files ability within a torrent. You can set the priority of which files to download first and can set which files not to download at all.
· Friend notification when using the Facebook service with Friends.
· Update to the file information dialog box.
· Fix the Media Player.
· Fix a bug when the splash screen would cause an exception on system startup.
· Fix a bug when restoring LimeWire from the Mac tray with the splash screen visible.
BitTorrent updates:
· Retain seeding torrents on LimeWire restart
· Fix more BitTorrent library loading issues
· Upgraded to libtorrent version 0.14.5
· Torrent downloads are checked for dangerous files.
· Increase speed on a cold startup.
· Remove some unnecessary Singleton usage in UI.
· Change Guice environment from Production to Development to prevent @Singletons from being eagerly loaded.
· Obscene content filter.
· Don't allow spam results to be downloaded until they've been unmarked as spam.
· Keyword filters are applied to browses and XML metadata.
· Add the ability to rename a file.
· Fix OS X launcher.
· Re-write chat so it isn't initialized on LimeWire startup.
· Fix receiving duplicate chat messages.
· Fix a bug that allowed friends to download more than 3 files at a time.
· Update non-support text regarding chatting through Facebook accounts.
· Remove chatting through Facebook accounts support.
· Fix a bug with the installation wizard for first time installations.
· Fix a bug in which LimeWire Store downloads weren't added to iTunes for Mac OS X.
· Make sensitive folders unmanageable.
· Updated the splash screen.
· Various bug fixes.
· Fixed painting problems in options dialog for Mac OS X and Linux.
· Fixed Facebook friend support to stay logged in longer.
· More memory optimizations for search results.
· Download state cleanups.
· Fixed leaked listeners for friend login code.
· Added a forum link to the bug dialog to ease dialogue.
· Chat fixes for XMPP.
· Reintroduced friends button dropdown.
· Fixed browsing of Ultrapeers from Advanced Tools.
· Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes.
· Major memory optimizations for search results.
· Improved preventing of multiple LimeWire instances running at the same time.
· Enabled off the record chat for GChat.
· Lots of painting improvements.
· Fixed reconnecting to XMPP.
· Streamlining of Friends login and friends browse.
· Fix Options buttons not being visible in non-English locales.
· Support changing the download location for a started torrent download.
· Lots of bug fixes.
· FaceBook integration with Friends for Windows and Linux.
· Media player includes Shuffle.
· Reintroduced the keyword filter for files in the Library.
· Limit the number of parallel browse hosts to avoid locking up LimeWire.
· Status tray displays progress of files being processed when adding files.
· General bug fixes.
· No more sidebar and the Library is 'flatter'; files of different types are shown, but you can filter to see a specific type (for example, if you filter on Images, you see a thumbnail of images) .
· Introduced default Lists (Public Shared and Private Shared) along with the ability to create more lists.
· The Options dialog box was updated and includes additional 'Learn more' links.
· Seeing what you are sharing by clicking "Sharing # files" to see 'What I'm Sharing'.
· Improved start up time.
· Added first sign on to Friends overlay messages.
· Downloads improvements.
· Numerous bug fixes for BitTorrent and the download tray.
· Browsing the files from multiple computers at once.
· Multi-select ability for search results.
· Fix a bug in which LimeWire wouldn't run with Java Update 4 and Mac OS (10.5.7).
· Fix launching a video from the download tray.
· Fix a bug in which a completed torrent download vanishes.
· Show the download torrent in the Library.
· Enable 'Clear Finished' link in the download tray when a torrent completes a download.
· Add a resume state for torrents so users see the proper status.
· Rebuild libtorrent library and update binaries.
· Fix wide character support (UTF-8) for torrents.
· Fix exceptions when using an Advanced Filter prior to any search results appearing.
· Fix column order problem when Advanced Filters were added and removed.
· Improve UI loading time.
· Detect the google:nosave feature and use it to turn off server side message logging when exchanging LimeWire custom messages.
· Properly store uptime values even upon unexpected closing of LimeWire.
· Fix Ivy settings.
· Fix a bug with the notification dialog.
· Replace the LimeWire torrent code with libtorrent. Wrote java/C++ wrapper code to interact with libtorrent libraries.
· Fixed Advanced Filters bugs.
· Rewrite File Info dialog box to fix bugs and clean up code.
· Add viewing Browse Host and number of sources in the Downloads tray for a download.
· Update to Miglayout 3.7 and fix bugs resulting from update.
· Update to latest httpclient, httpcore and guice snapshots.
· General bug fixes.
· Update the download tray.
· Introduce Advanced filters.
· Reintroduce Browse Host in Uploads.
· Don't limit the number of downloads for a Friend.
· Support moving completed torrents to the Completed Files directory.
· Fix a mouse movement bug which caused search results to move.
· Fix a bug found through the forums in which "Block Address" placed obfuscated IP addresses in the Block Hosts list instead of the IP addresses they represent.
· Add additional file extensions to Documents.
· Update translations.
· Add hyperlink to translation page from Options page.
· Add file size to View File Info box.
· General code clean up (remove unused imports, add @Override annotation and better exceptions).
· Add a DOS run script.
· A ton more unit tests.
· Fix failing test cases.
· Use Ivy for builds.
· Fix a bug with the single file sharing widget.
· Remove the check box for the multi file sharing widget.
· Fix a rendering bug with the share widget.
· Minor UI updates, for example, right aligning the Length column header.
· Fix a bug where the Mojito tab wouldn't show you joined the Mojito DHT unless you had the Advanced Tools window open.
· Performance improvements for sorting files.
· Fix an uploads bug.
· Add Location as a column which lists the file's path.
· Improve loading time for files in My Library.
· Add Advanced Search where you can limit results using specific fields in searches.
· Fix a bug when viewing Options froze LimeWire.
· Add Quicklist to organize playing audio files.
· Fix a memory leak after downloading files from a search result.
· Updates to make it easier to see what you are sharing.
· Connection improvements in which we delete gnutella.net if the file is more than two weeks old and fall back to bootstrap hosts..
· Numerous bug fixes.
· Fix a problem that was causing out-of-band querying to be shut off, which should result in more search results, and as a side-effect should reduce the number of spam results.
· Fix a memory leak by removing a listener for a friend's library.
· Fix an exception when holding down the Shift key while left clicking on a column header.
· General auto complete fixes.
· Fixed a bug found by kipodi in which MagnetDownloaderImpl discards a known file size when creating URLRemotFileDescs which causes unnecessary HEAD lookups.
· Fixed a bug in which all meta data for non audio files wasn't being written to disk for downloads.
· Fixed a bug routing messages over UDP.
· Fixed a bug where you could be banned from downloads from a friend.
· Fixed a bug in which you could be infinitely connecting to a host which would spike your CPU usage.
· Limit the number of browse requests for a friend's library.
· BitTorrent exception fixes.
· Add option to change the default media player when launching a file.
· Updated heap size on Mac.
· Improve performance when sharing/unsharing a large collection of files with a friend.
· Various event dispatch thread fixes.
Known issues:
· The framework for using LimeWire in different languages is in place (Tools > Options, Misc), however full translations aren't completed.
· When loading 'My Library' with a lot of files (over a 1000), LimeWire takes several seconds to process and may freeze.
· Adding a new folder for LimeWire to watch unshares files with friends who are currently on LimeWire Friends.
· When you sign out of Friends, LimeWire doesn't automatically refresh the number of shared files.
· You can share a file with a friend through LimeWire Chat. Drag a file from your computer's file system and then drop it into your friend's LimeWire Chat message window. However, you can't drag from LimeWire's 'My Library' view and then drop to his Chat message window.
· Occasionally for Windows OS, Delete through LimeWire fails to move the file to the Recycle Bin. The file remains in its existing location.
· LimeWire is always the media player for audio files when launched through LimeWire.
· The setting to automatically launch LimeWire upon system startup isn't working.
· In Windows OS, the lower portion of the Options dialog box isn't visible when you view Tools > Options > Advanced, System. If you click Library, then exit the Options dialog box, you will see the entire Options dialog box the next time you restart LimeWire.
· The Intent dialog title says 'Alpha'.
· Fix a memory leak related to browsing hosts.
· Maintain share list for friends who are on LimeWire when adding a managed folder.
· Allow LimeWire to start on system startup.
· Added ability to share a file with multiple friends.
· Automatically update number of shared files when you sign out of Friends.
· Rewrote the entire interface from scratch.
· Included support for Jabber (XMPP). This means that LimeWire can sign-on to your favorite Jabber service and it will detect other friends of yours that are also signed on.
· You can share files directly with your friends. When you search, you'll see results from friends listed above other search results.
· Fix a bug in which changing any value in Options caused a Library refresh.