What's new in Free Download Manager 5.1.38 Build 7312
Feb 14, 2019
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.37.7274 (Oct 1, 2018)
- Fixed incompatibility with macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.36.7160 (May 13, 2018)
- User interface: Dark theme.
- Several YouTube video downloading bugs fixed.
- Firefox and Chrome extensions updated.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.35.7092 (Apr 29, 2018)
- YouTube functional is improved.
- General bug fixes.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.34.6924 (Mar 5, 2018)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.34.6885 (Dec 29, 2017)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.34.6874 (Dec 23, 2017)
- Qt updated to 5.10.
- WinDivert updated to 1.3.
- General bug fixes.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.33.6791 (Oct 28, 2017)
- Fixed random crashes when downloading torrents.
- Added Firefox 57+ support.
- General bug fixes and improvements.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.32.6573 (Jul 27, 2017)
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.32.6561 (Jul 25, 2017)
- Improved work with downloads on external drives.
- General bug fixes.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.30.6509 (Jul 1, 2017)
- Bug fixes: HTTP downloads (login info), UI, moving downloads, context menu, etc.
- Downgraded some third-party libraries
- Allow moving downloads even if they're running
- Added translations
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.29.6471 (Jun 17, 2017)
- Bug fixes: UI, torrents, notifications, crashes, etc.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.29.6411 Beta (May 28, 2017)
- [Torrents] Fixed an issue with filename conflicts
- [Downloads] When moving downloads, the progress is now reflected in the progress bar
- General bug fixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.28.6375 (May 19, 2017)
- Fixed issue with excessive backup
- Added buttons to control downloads priority (hover over "Speed") and files priority in the Files tab for torrents
- General bug fixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.27.6303 (May 6, 2017)
- Bug fixes (HTTP downloads, Paste URLs from Clipboard, macOS quitting, torrents, UI)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.27.6280 (Apr 30, 2017)
- Bug fixes (UI, downloads deletion, HTTP(S), macOS protocol associations, etc.)
- Added translations
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.27.6217 Beta (Apr 18, 2017)
- [Torrents] Revamped the whole module, got rid of unnecessary dependencies
- [UI] Major changes to modal dialogs and design in general
- [UI] Added Progress tab to the Info panel
- [Downloads] Added suggestion to finish a previously failed download instead of creating a new one
- General bug fixes and optimizations
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.26.5889 (Mar 18, 2017)
- [Youtube] Improved parser to work with new pages
- [macOS] Disabled network configuration monitoring module to improve performance on macOS for WiFi connections
- [Edge] Restart integration module on update (please see "Known issues" below)
- [Update on macOS] Fixes for update breaking audio/video streams merging and next update (please see "Known issues" below)
- [Scheduler] Fixed issues with specifying schedule before adding a download
- [Batch downloads] Minor fixes
- [IE] Bug fixes for context menus on extension install/uninstall
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
- Known issues:
- [macOS] Please restart FDM manually after update (Otherwise "Merging streams" hangs forever for Youtube 480p/1080p etc.)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.25.5816 (Feb 22, 2017)
- Fixed an issue with browser integration on initial installation
- HTTP: fixed an issue with idle threads that are no longer needed
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.24.5803 (Feb 18, 2017)
- Added multiple selection in the Files tab for torrents
- Update: FDM will relaunch without a prompt dialog when there are no active downloads
- HTTP(S): internal changes and bugfixes
- Youtube: added parsing for new types of pages
- Updated third party libs
- General bugfixes (UI, torrents, etc.)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.23.5672 (Jan 21, 2017)
- Creation/modification date file attributes are now set to server-provided date on download completion
- Allow changing URLs for downloads that failed to receive metadata
- Added markers for downloads with High/Low priority
- Added checkbox for starting download immediately after changing URL
- UI/UX changes (bottom panel behavior, style fixes etc.)
- General bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.22.5597 (Dec 31, 2016)
- Added option to import multiple URLs from clipboard
- General bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.22 Build 5561 Beta (Dec 27, 2016)
- Download Flash/HTML5 videos from browsers (make sure extensions are installed and enabled)
- UI improvements
- General bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.21.5461 (Dec 15, 2016)
- Bug fixes (automatic files removal option, some internal changes, etc.)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.21.5442 (Dec 11, 2016)
- Torrents: fixed "time remaining" field for magnets (UI)
- Allow updates from standard user on macOS (admin authorization required)
- Temporarily skip catching downloads from Gmail attachments (investigating an issue)
- Bug fixes (UI, browser integration, etc.)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.20.5362 (Nov 25, 2016)
- Added batch downloads
- Added option to automatically remove downloads from list when files are deleted from disk
- Added option to prevent sleep when uploading torrents
- Bug fixes (browser integration, thumbnails, UI, etc.)
- Updated Chrome extension to v2.1.14 (browser restart needed)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.19.5166 (Oct 22, 2016)
- Updated Scheduler
- Updated localizations sketch (Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Chinese)
- UI improvements (Settings, "Completed" tab, messages)
- Improved interaction with antiviruses (Windows)
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.19.5047 Beta (Oct 12, 2016)
- Added two options for downloading with/without FDM using Alt
- Schedule downloads to be run on certain days of the week in a specified time frame
- Localization sketch (Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Chinese)
- Various bugfixes (related to update, thumbnails, torrents, native Mac menu etc.)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.18.4671 (Sep 11, 2016)
- Fixed a memory consumption issue on Mac OS X
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.17.4597 (Aug 24, 2016)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.17.4585 Beta (Aug 23, 2016)
- Added "File Integrity" option to context menu (calculate MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256)
- Configure how you want to turn off computer when downloads are completed (hibernate/put to sleep/shut down)
- Edge browser integration module general improvements
- General bug fixes (including auto-update fixes)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.16.4477 Beta (Aug 14, 2016)
- Major improvements to the "Catch links without confirmation" mode
- Option to shut down computer when all downloads are completed
- Option to suggest download folder based on domain
- Edge browser integration module performance improvements
- General bugfixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.15.4279 Beta (Jul 19, 2016)
- Fixed the “File changed on remote server” error for some servers
- Added ability to restore settings to their original defaults
- Improved browser integration stability
- Minor UI fixes
- Other stability fixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.14.4229 Beta (Jul 1, 2016)
- Improved integration with Edge on Windows (previously, overall network speed was reduced)
- Increased speed and fixed support of resumed downloads
- Improved browser integration stability
- Improved Youtube download stability
- Optimized work with large download lists
- Fixed torrent-related crashes
- Fixed torrent file size limit for the Chrome browser
- Fixed the torrents adding issue
- Fixed the file name definition issue while adding a download
- Fixed Windows Launch at startup
- Fixed the drag & drop function on Mac
- Added proxy servers support for torrents
- Added the file hosting services whitelist where it is not possible to catch links from browsers (uploaded.net, rapidgator.net, nitroflare.com)
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.13.4039 Beta (Jun 8, 2016)
- Minor fix for catching links immediately after update
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.13.4036 Beta (Jun 1, 2016)
- Catch links without confirmation ("Silent monitoring")
- FDM will check if it's your default torrent client (you can easily disable that)
- Settings redesigned
- Improved filename detection for non-RFC servers
- BitTorrent: "Force reannouce" feature; more peer flags on "Peers" tab
- Windows: updater minor bugfixes
- Bugfix: installer was not deleted after update
- Mac OS X: fixed a crash when FDM is running under multiple users
- Other stability fixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.12.3865 Beta (May 11, 2016)
- Added a warning if your disk space is insufficient to finish all downloads (works even without preallocation).
- Firefox: apply monitoring settings without browser restart.
- Stability improvements (mostly concerning the update process).
- Manual update minor fix: two steps (Download & Install) are joined into one.
- Safari: a new context menu item "Download Image with FDM". Minor fixes. Safari extension should still be updated manually by clicking an "extension" link in Preferences > Browser Integration.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.11.3817 Beta (Apr 29, 2016)
- Some new features:
- "Download To..." menu item (e.g. if files are missing)
- A special "Queued" status if a download is added in Snail mode, or traffic limits are reached.
- IE extension: extract suggested file name from Content-Disposition.
- Bug fixes:
- Could not download from uploaded.net with a Premium account.
- Firefox extension: YouTube button appearance bug fix.
- Don't add redundant "txt" extension for "Content-Type: text/plain" if there is a known extension already.
- Minor fixes: bottom panel resize, error messages, sort order, file name validation.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.10.3744 Beta (Apr 20, 2016)
- Magnet links: speeded up finding peers in some cases.
- FDM couldn't update itself from server with some proxies.
- Fixed: MS Edge disappeared from monitoring settings.
- Torrent settings: Peer exchange & uTP turned on by default.
- Firefox extension: don't show "fatal error" after uninstalling FDM.
- Mac OS 10.11: dropping a magnet link directly to FDM Dock icon (without a delay) now works.
- A few stability improvements.
- Various UI changes:
- Download list: hovering the mouse over the upload speed now reveals "Stop seeding" button.
- Windows: FDM main window now doesn't lose focus when context menu is opened.
- "Torrent" & "YouTube" are now filters, not tags.
- More clear icons for "Start all" & "Pause all".
- Bugfix: YouTube video quality list could be disabled sometimes.
- Can now rename a download (file or folder) when adding it. Actually, you could rename it in previous builds, but it wasn't clear from UI.
- Multiple minor fixes (mouse cursor, modal window widths, error messages, drag & drop tags, etc).
- Speeded up UI response to some actions.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.9.3627 Beta (Apr 8, 2016)
- Toggle bottom panel by clicking the selected item
- Simplified toggle seeding for multiple torrents at once
- Relative paths now based on the default Download folder
- Fixed double-clicking on incomplete downloads
- Fixed detecting file extension for some servers
- Fixed resuming YouTube downloads when the file is removed
- Fixed catching links from Internet Explorer in some cases
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.8.3568 Beta (Apr 1, 2016)
- Correctly handle POST downloads.
- Move files to Trash instead of deleting from disk.
- YouTube: improved download speed for DASH links.
- An option to restart download from context menu.
- Mac OS X: Finder's Quick Look functionality (press space).
- Automatically detect UTF-8 file names for the servers which don't respect RFC-6266 recommendations on Content-Disposition.
- Torrents: apply traffic limits to local peers.
- DHT enabled by default.
- Fixed an incorrect error message while adding certain magnet links.
- Pre-allocation queue bug fix.
- Mac OS X: drag & drop fixes: can now drop a link directly to Dock; fixed a problem with dropping URLs with Unicode chars.
- Few UI improvements:
- Added seeding indicator for all torrents, even with zero speed;
- Simplified bottom panel.
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.7.3456 Beta (Mar 25, 2016)
- Ability to drag & drop tags to downloads
- Log context menu: you can copy or save it to file
- Minor UI bug fixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.6.3387 Beta (Mar 23, 2016)
- File space preallocation for big files (see Settings > Advanced). Please tell us how it works for you.
- Experimental support for Microsoft Edge (see Settings > Monitoring). We can only handle http links, not https.
- Fixed: Chrome/Firefox integration could stop working in some cases.
- Minor UI features:
- Log auto-scrolling;
- Context menu to remove tag from the current download (bottom panel > General).
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.5.3224 Beta (Mar 23, 2016)
- Proxy support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP
- HTTP authentication (Basic Auth)
- Some fixes for restarting YouTube downloads
- Preview generator fixes: transparency, etc.
- Drag & drop links from Internet Explorer
- Check if the file has changed on server before continuing to download it
- Problem with encoding: excessive percent signs in file names
- UI minor fixes
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.4.2996 Beta (Feb 21, 2016)
- Stability improvements: fixed a couple of crashes
- Various UI fixes: long logs couldn't be selected entirely; poor performance with torrents containing hundreds of files, etc.
- Correctly handle the fact that you can't drag&drop an URL from Internet Explorer to another app
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.3.2938 Beta (Feb 17, 2016)
- Prioritize downloads (via context menu)
- Snail mode: download at a low speed (2.5 KBytes/sec per connection) without closing any connections
- Significantly improved interaction between core and UI, which should result in lower CPU and memory consumption
- Tutorial about monitoring settings: show it when the first download is caught from browser
- Splash screen and many other minor UI fixes like simplified errors displaying
- Fixed very slow moving to external drive
- Ability to rename a download when adding
- Ability to skip files with certain extensions
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.1.2657 Beta (Jan 29, 2016)
- "Force recheck" context menu option for torrents
- Fixed high CPU consumption in some cases
- Stability improvements (crash handler, etc.)
- Built with correct debug info
- Minor improvements in the downloads list: left click resets the selection; some messages made more informative
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.1.2583 Beta (Jan 25, 2016)
- Multiple UI bug fixes and improvements: tags, selection, statuses and error messages
- Preview generation bug fixes (MKV, GIF, some YouTube cases)
- Solved a few problems after restart/reconnect (error messages etc.)
- Fixed incorrect behavior on quit while merging video+audio streams
- Internet Explorer: "Allow browser to download if you press Cancel" now works
- Traffic usage optimizations
- Speed up retrieving info on YouTube downloads
- Clickable URLs in torrent comments
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.0.2401 Beta (Jan 14, 2016)
- Mac OS X: Firefox integration bugfix
- Mac OS X: drag & drop didn't work for some kind of links
- Fixed a problem with some HTTP return codes for sections
- Minor UI fixes
- Fixed a crash
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.0.2343 Beta (Jan 13, 2016)
- Many further UI bug fixes, concerning error texts, icons, file names, etc.
- Fixed another crash
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.0.2300 Beta (Jan 8, 2016)
- Fixed a couple of crashes
- Fixed freezing when downloading torrents to external drive
- Some UI changes, including:
- Start all / Stop all buttons
- Minor changes to details pane (General & Files tab)
- A special status for torrents which are completed, but not all files are selected to download
- New context menu items: "Choose files" for torrents, "Pause all except selected"
New in Free Download Manager 5.1.0.2123 Beta (Dec 28, 2015)
- Revamped software engine
- Better performance and responsiveness
- Mac OS X support