What's new in FrostWire 6.13.1 Build 320
Oct 18, 2023
- Java Runtime Environment 21 update
- org.xerial:sqlite-jdbc:3.43.0.0 update
- Telluride Video Downloader build 29 with Python 3.12.0
New in FrostWire 6.13.0 Build 319 (Oct 15, 2023)
- Java Runtime Environment 21 update
- org.xerial:sqlite-jdbc:3.43.0.0 update
- Telluride Video Downloader build 28 with Python 3.12.0
New in FrostWire 6.12.0 Build 318 (May 27, 2023)
- Telluride Video Search works in Spanish, German, Italian, French countries
- Faster app startup
- Java Runtime Environment 20.0.1
- Deprecation fix: URL(s) -> URI(s).toURL()
New in FrostWire 6.11.0 Build 317 (Mar 25, 2023)
New in FrostWire 6.10.0 Build 316 (Mar 4, 2023)
- FrostWire has just released its latest stable version, 6.10.0, and it comes with a range of new and improved features that are sure to excite its users.
- One of the key enhancements of this update is faster search results. The team has been working hard to optimize the search algorithm to deliver results more quickly, making it easier for users to find the files they're looking for.
- In addition, the new Telluride build 25 comes with Python 3.11, which provides faster web video searches. The team has also added a new search engine - BTDigg - to help users find even more content.
- The search results cache now works with an sqlite database, which will improve performance and stability. The default audio/video player setting for Linux is now MPlayer, which should provide a better overall experience for Linux users.
- Other changes include the removal of the defunct Zooqle search engine and the removal of audio player playlists along with H2 database dependency. The team has also reduced the number of threads used, which should help reduce memory usage and improve performance.
- xpress VPN detection has been fixed for Windows, and there are a range of bug fixes and improvements throughout the app.
- Overall, this is a significant release that demonstrates the team's commitment to continually improving the FrostWire experience for its users. The faster search results and improved search algorithms are particularly welcome, and the removal of defunct features and engines will help keep the app streamlined and focused on what users need.
- FrostWire has always been a popular choice for those who want a powerful and reliable file-sharing app, and this latest update is sure to cement its position as one of the best options out there.
- Faster search results
- Telluride build 25 with Python 3.11, faster web video searches
- New BTDigg search engine
- Search results cache now works with sqlite database
- MPlayer 1.5.0 with FFmpeg snapshot and OpenSSL 1.1.1s
- SoundCloud search fixed
- Torrentz2 search fixed
- New button on status line right corner to open settings screen
- Old buttons to access settings screen from search results and library gone
- SearchManager now has 2 executors, one for crawlers another for one off requests
- Default audio/video player setting for Linux is mplayer
- Misc screen bugfix for Linux
- Removed defunct Zooqle
- Removed audio player playlists along with H2 database dependency
- Less threads, less memory usage, more thread pool reusage for background UI related tasks
- Express VPN detection fixed for Windows
- DEV: New SearchPerformer.isDDOSProtectionActive() logic used in unit tests
- CI: jdk19 tests
- CI: telluride tests do not run in CI
- CI: all search performers have tests
New in FrostWire 6.9.10 Build 315 (Oct 27, 2022)
- Java Runtime Environment 19.0.1
- telluride build 23
- supports TikTok, IG Reels, YT Stories backups
- com.google.re2j:re2j:1.7
- com.google.code.gson:gson:2.9.0
- com.squareup.okhttp:4.10.0
- dev: org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.9.0
New in FrostWire 6.9.9 Build 313 (Sep 12, 2022)
- jlibtorrent 1.2.17.0 (boost 1.80, openssl 1.1.1q)
- dev: gradle 7.5.1 upgrade
- jlibtorrent: libtorrent update to RC_1_2 b5873f23b40ef9054b2bd6a4db2a2d327a56d4b1
- lt:fix wanted_done/done accounting when force-rechecking
- lt:expose userdata via torrent_handle (back-port from 2.0)
- lt:fix renaming of filenames that are too long for the filesystem
- lt:made UPnP and LSD code avoid using select_reactor
- lt:fixed tracker connections spinning when hostname lookups stall
- lt:fixed error in pkg-config file generation in Jamfile
- lt:improve backwards compatibility with loading magnet link resume files
- lt:fix bind-to-device for tracker announces and UPnP
- lt:rename peer_tos setting to peer_dscp
- lt:fix bdecode support for large strings (>= 100 MB)
New in FrostWire 6.9.8 Build 312 (Apr 28, 2022)
- Java Runtime Environment 18.0.1 update
- TorLock search fixed
- Removed torrent-paradise.ml, moved to IPFS, no longer works with JSON api
- Telluride Build 22
- com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.9.3
- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.8.2
- jlibtorrent 1.2.16.0 (boost 1.79, openssl 1.1.1n)
- lt:upgrade to boost 1.79
- lt:openssl 1.1.1n upgrade
- lt:fix bdecode support for large strings (>= 100 MB)
- lt:send User-Agent field in anonymous mode
- lt:fix python binding for settings_pack conversion
- lt:fix DHT announce timer issue
- lt:use DSCP_TRAFFIC_TYPE socket option on windows
- lt:update default ToS setting according to RFC 8622
- lt:keep trying to announce to trackers even when all fail
- lt:don't disable announcing from local endpoints because of temporary failures
- lt:fix issue in parsing UPnP XML response with multiple forwarding services
New in FrostWire 6.9.7 Build 311 (Jan 9, 2022)
- New mplayer 12.0.5/ffmpeg 4.2.1 build.
- macOS arm64 and x86_64 fwplayer builds
- Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 20
- jlibtorrent 1.2.15.1 (boost 1.78, openssl 1.1.1m)
- lt:don't disable announcing from local endpoints because of temporary failures
- lt:fix issue in parsing UPnP XML response with multiple forwarding services
- lt:cache DNS lookups for SOCKS5 proxy
- lt:fix stalled pieces on disk-full errors
- lt:fix build configuration issue on NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly
- lt:make UTF-8 sanitization a bit stricter. This will re-write invalid UTF-8 code points encoding surrogate pairs
- lt:fix restoring last_seen_complete from resume data
- lt:fix issue on MacOS where the DHT was not restarted on a network-up notification
- lt:make remove_torrent flags be treated as flags (instead of an enum)
- -- FrostWire Team [email protected] Thu, 6 Jan 2022 10:04:00 -0600
New in FrostWire 6.9.6 Build 310 (Nov 26, 2021)
- Option to turn off auto-pasting URLs and magnets in the clipboard to search textbox
- JDK 17 compatibility update
- Includes JDK 17 runtime
- Linux installers now include JDK runtime. No more Java not found issues for Linux users
- com.google.re2j:re2j:1.6
- com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.8
- com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.9.2
- org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.8.1
- Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 18
New in FrostWire 6.9.5 Build 308 (Sep 3, 2021)
- SC search fixed
- jlibtorrent-1.2.14.0 update
- dev: common java source code now has Java 11 support. cleanups.
- lt:fix issue on MacOS where the DHT was not restarted on a network-up notification
- lt:make remove_torrent flags be treated as flags (instead of an enum)
- lt:improve handling of seed flag in PEX messages
- lt:fix issue of accruing unlimited DHT node candidates when DHT is disabled
- lt:fix bug in parsing chunked encoding
- lt:fix incorrect reporting of active_duration when entering graceful-pause
New in FrostWire 6.9.4 Build 307 (Jun 11, 2021)
- frostwire (6.9.4) stable; urgency=high:
- Torrent search results when double clicked or downloaded in bulk by default show partial download dialog
- Torrentz2 search fixed
- SoundCloud search fixed
- Files in the transfer detail panel can be dragged out of FrostWire into OS file explorer for copying
- Telluride build 16
- Recompiled mplayer on macos 11.2.3
New in FrostWire 6.9.4 Build 306 (Jun 8, 2021)
- Torrentz2 search fixed
- SoundCloud search fixed
- Files in the transfer detail panel can be dragged out of FrostWire into OS file explorer for copying
- Telluride build 16
New in FrostWire 6.9.3 Build 305 (Apr 8, 2021)
- Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 15
- jlibtorrent-1.2.13.0 update
- Telluride searches are much faster, telluride runs as an RPC server in background
- openssl 1.1.1j upgrade
- lt:fix incoming TCP connections when using tracker-only proxy
- lt:fix issue with paths starting with ./
- lt:fix integer overflow when setting a high DHT upload rate limit
- lt:improve Path MTU discovery logic in uTP
- lt:fix overflow issue when rlimit_nofile is set to infinity
- lt:Fix cxxflags and linkflags injection via environment variables
New in FrostWire 6.9.2 Build 304 (Feb 13, 2021)
- Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 10
- jlibtorrent-1.2.12.0 rebuild to fix linux compatibility issues
New in FrostWire 6.9.1 Build 302 (Jan 18, 2021)
- jlibtorrent-1.2.12.0 update
- Detects MozillaVPN
- Soundcloud search fixed
- lt:fix loading of DHT node ID from previous session on startup
- lt:use getrandom(), when available, and fall back to /dev/urandom
- lt:fix uTP issue acking FIN packets
- lt:validate HTTPS certificates by default (trackers and web seeds)
- lt:load SSL certificates from windows system certificate store, to authenticate trackers
- lt:introduce mitigation for Server Side Request Forgery in tracker and web seed URLs
- lt:fix error handling for pool allocation failure
- Windows build reverts to jdk-14
New in FrostWire 6.8.10 Build 301 (Dec 30, 2020)
- Fixes file naming issues that would cause errors in cloud video downloads
- jlibtorrent-1.2.11.0 update
- jaudiotagger 2.2.5 to 2.2.6 update
- Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 8
- lt: upgraded to openssl 1.1.1l
- Fixes issue with Telluride results and emojis in filenames
- Fixes bug where transfer file detail actions would go blank when left clicked. (74291c0)
- New File Transfer details popup menus: FIles > Explore, Play
- lt: fix issue with moving the session object
- lt: deprecate torrent_status::allocating. This state is no longer used
- lt: fix bug creating torrents with symbolic links
- lt: remove special case to save metadata in resume data unconditionally when added throught magnet link
- lt: fix bugs in mutable-torrent support (reusing identical files from different torrents)
- lt: fix incorrectly inlined move-assignment of file_storage
- lt: add session::paused flag, and the ability to construct a session in paused mode
- lt: fix session-pause causing tracker announces to fail
- lt: fix peer-exchange flags bug
- lt: allow saving resume data before metadata has been downloaded (for magnet links)
- lt: record blocks in the disk queue as downloaded in the resume data
- lt: fix bug in set_piece_deadline() when set in a zero-priority piece
- lt: fix issue in URL parser, causing issues with certain tracker URLs
- lt: use a different error code than host-unreachable, when skipping tracker announces
New in FrostWire 6.8.9 Build 300 (Dec 8, 2020)
- Soundcloud search fixed
- GloTorrents search fixed
- Telluride Cloud Video Downloader build 7
- Better video format parsing from Telluride extracted metadata
New in FrostWire 6.8.8 Build 299 (Nov 19, 2020)
- New Telluride build 6 cloud downloader technology
- Refreshed welcome screen with search textbox
- OpenJDK 15 runtime (Windows, MacOS)
- New TorrentParadise search source
- New GloTorrents search source
- Yify search fixed
- Torrentz2 search fixed
- MagnetDL search fixed
- Soundcloud search fixed
- EZTV search fixed
- Fixed archive.org broken downloads
- Fixes false negative NordLynx/NordVPN detection
- All deprecation warnings fixed along with some optimizations
- New source renderer icons for 1337x and MagnetDL search sources by Aholicknight
- dev: built with openjdk 15
- dev: gradle-6.7
New in FrostWire 6.8.8 Build 298 (Nov 12, 2020)
- New Telluride cloud downloader technology
- Refreshed welcome screen with search textbox
- OpenJDK 15 runtime (Windows, MacOS)
- New TorrentParadise search source
- New GloTorrents search source
- Yify search fixed
- Torrentz2 search fixed
- MagnetDL search fixed
- Soundcloud search fixed
- EZTV search fixed
- Fixed archive.org broken downloads
- Fixes false negative NordLynx/NordVPN detection
- All deprecation warnings fixed along with some optimizations
- dev: built with openjdk 15
- dev: gradle-6.7
New in FrostWire 6.8.8 Build 297 (Nov 12, 2020)
- frostwire (6.8.8) stable:
- urgency=high
- New Telluride cloud downloader technology
- OpenJDK 15 runtime (Windows, MacOS)
- New TorrentParadise search source
- New GloTorrents search source
- Yify search fixed
- Torrentz2 search fixed
- MagnetDL search fixed
- Soundcloud search fixed
- EZTV search fixed
- Fixed archive.org broken downloads
- Fixes false negative NordLynx/NordVPN detection
- All deprecation warnings fixed along with some optimizations
- dev: built with openjdk 15
- dev: gradle-6.7
New in FrostWire 6.8.7 Build 296 (Sep 16, 2020)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.10.0 update
- OpenJDK 14.0.2 update for Windows and macOS
- lt: improve stat_file() performance on Windows
- lt: fix issue with loading invalid torrents with only 0-sized files
- lt: fix to avoid large stack allocations
- lt: removed deprecated wstring overloads on non-windows systems
- lt: drop dependency on Unicode's ConvertUTF code (which had a license incompatible with Debian)
- lt: fix bugs exposed on big-endian systems
- lt: fix detection of hard-links not being supported by filesystem
- lt: fixed resume data regression for seeds with prio 0 files
- binaries: compiler upgraded from g++-5 to g++-7
New in FrostWire 6.8.6 Build 295 (Aug 25, 2020)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.8.0 update
- New 1337x search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
- New iDope search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
- Fixed Torrentz2 search dates (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
- Fixed SC search
- Discontinues mplayer video playback, uses os default video player for videos
- com.google.re2j:re2j:1.3 -> 1.4
- com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.4.1 -> 4.8.1
- com.h2database:h2:1.4.199 -> 200
- lt: validate UTF-8 encoding of client version strings from peers
- lt: don't time out tracker announces as eagerly while resolving hostnames
- lt: fix NAT-PMP shutdown issue
- lt: improve hostname lookup by merging identical lookups
- lt: fix network route enumeration for large routing tables
- lt: fixed issue where pop_alerts() could return old, invalid alerts
- lt: fix issue when receiving have-all message before the metadata
- lt: don't leave lingering part files handles open
- lt: disallow calling add_piece() during checking
- lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
- lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
New in FrostWire 6.8.6 Build 294 (Aug 7, 2020)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.8.0 update
- New 1337x search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
- New iDope search (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
- Fixed Torrentz2 search dates (thanks to @HimanshuSharma789)
- com.google.re2j:re2j:1.3 -> 1.4
- com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.4.1 -> 4.8.1
- com.h2database:h2:1.4.199 -> 200
- lt: validate UTF-8 encoding of client version strings from peers
- lt: don't time out tracker announces as eagerly while resolving hostnames
- lt: fix NAT-PMP shutdown issue
- lt: improve hostname lookup by merging identical lookups
- lt: fix network route enumeration for large routing tables
- lt: fixed issue where pop_alerts() could return old, invalid alerts
- lt: fix issue when receiving have-all message before the metadata
- lt: don't leave lingering part files handles open
- lt: disallow calling add_piece() during checking
- lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
- lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
New in FrostWire 6.8.5 Build 293 (Jun 19, 2020)
- New MagnetDL search provider
- Fixed Torrentz2 search
- Search improvements
- New 'Retry' transfer for failed magnet/torrent downloads with not enough peers
- Fixes bug getting source URL from TPB search result
- Fixes broken Library local file search
- updated: rej2:1.3, gson:2.8.6, okhttp:4.4.1
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.7.0 update
- jlibtorrent upgraded to build with boost 1.73.0
- jlibtorrent upgraded to openssl 1.1.1g
- OpenJDK 14 runtime (Windows, Linux), macOS still on OpenJDK 13
- lt: fix incorrect filename truncation at multi-byte character
- lt: always announce listen port 1 when using a proxy
- lt: add set_alert_fd in python binding, to supersede set_alert_notify
- lt: fix bug in part files > 2 GiB
- lt: add function to clear the peer list for a torrent
- lt: fix resume data functions to save/restore more torrent flags
- lt: limit number of concurrent HTTP announces
- lt: fix queue position for force_rechecking a torrent that is not auto-managed
- lt: improve rate-based choker documentation, and minor tweak
- lt: undeprecate upnp_ignore_nonrouters (but refering to devices on our subnet)
- lt: increase default tracker timeout
- lt: retry failed socks5 server connections
- lt: allow UPnP lease duration to be changed after device discovery
- lt: fix IPv6 address change detection on Windows
- lt: fix peer timeout logic
- lt: simplify proxy handling. A proxy now overrides listen_interfaces
- lt: fix issues when configured to use a non-default choking algorithm
- lt: fix issue in reading resume data
- lt: revert NXDOMAIN change from 1.2.4
- lt: don't open any listen sockets if listen_interfaces is empty or misconfigured
- lt: fix bug in auto disk cache size logic
- lt: fix issue with outgoing_interfaces setting, where bind() would be called twice
- lt: add build option to disable share-mode
- lt: support validation of HTTPS trackers
- lt: deprecate strict super seeding mode
- lt: make UPnP port-mapping lease duration configurable
- lt: deprecate the bittyrant choking algorithm
- lt: add build option to disable streaming
New in FrostWire 6.8.4 Build 292 (Feb 1, 2020)
- OpenJDK 13 runtime (windows,mac)
- Soundcloud search and downloads fixed
- LimeTorrents search and downloads fixed
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.3.0 update
- jlibtorrent updated to boost 1.72.0
- jlibtorrent upgraded openssl to 1.1.1d
- lt:fix erroneous event=completed tracker announce when checking files
- lt:promote errors in parsing listen_interfaces to post listen_failed_alert
- lt:fix bug in protocol encryption/obfuscation
- lt:fix buffer overflow in SOCKS5 UDP logic
- lt:fix issue of rapid calls to file_priority() clobbering each other
- lt:clear tracker errors on success
- lt:optimize setting with unlimited unchoke slots
- lt:fixed restoring of trackers, comment, creation date and created-by in resume data
- lt:fix handling of torrents with too large pieces
- lt:fixed division by zero in anti-leech choker
- lt:fixed bug in torrent_info::swap
New in FrostWire 6.8.2 Build 288 (Sep 2, 2019)
- Partial downloads now show only the files selected on Transfer details
- Archive.org .torrent download errors fixed
- TorLock and Torrentz2 search results are magnet based to reduce fetching errors
- Mac: All C/C++ source code has been recompiled with MacSDK 10.14
- Mac: MacOS Mojave compatibility updates, build revised for Apple's notarization
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.2.0 update
- jlibtorrent updated to boost 1.71.0
- jlibtorrent upgraded openssl to 1.1.1c
- jlibtorrent compiled with std=c++14 (up from c++11)
- libtorrent:pick contiguous pieces from peers with high download rate
- libtorrent:fix error handling of moving storage to a drive letter that isn't mounted
- libtorrent:fix integer overflow in http parser
- libtorrent:fix integer overflow in chunked http parser
- libtorrent:factor out and unit test parts of the DHT routing table logic
- libtorrent:improve sanitation of symlinks, to support more complex link targets (file_storage::sanitize_symlinks)
- libtorrent:avoid empty dht routing table buckets
- libtorrent:fix dht_stats_alert routing table stats for multi-homed clients
- libtorrent:fix entry assignment from bdecode_node and lazy_entry
- libtorrent:fix use-after-free issue in socket_type
- libtorrent:fix error code messages when building without deprecated functions
- libtorrent:feature to disable DHT, PEX and LSD per torrent
- libtorrent:fix seeding of random number generator on mingw
- libtorrent:fix issue where trackers from magnet links were not included in create_torrent()
- libtorrent:extend the whole_pieces_threshold setting to also request contiguous pieces from fast peers
- libtorrent:fix error handling of moving storage to a drive letter that isn't mounted
- libtorrent:don't leak exceptions out of handler callbacks in resolver
- libtorrent:ensure headers build independently
- libtorrent:fix unit template's mutating operators to give them proper ref qualifiers
New in FrostWire 6.8.1 Build 286 (Aug 7, 2019)
- We've fixed an issue on which the installer was not able to detect the new 64-bit "FrostWire.exe" during installation and this would end up in errors that some users may not have understood had to do with the fact that FrostWire was still running in the background and files could not be written in the installation folder.
- Using the WMI API we were able to find the 64-bit process from our 32-bit installer and shut it down so the installation can re-write the files it needs.
New in FrostWire 6.8.0 Build 284 (Jul 21, 2019)
- Nyaa search fixed
- Soundcloud search and downloads fixed
- New Torrentz2 search
- OpenJDK 12 runtime (windows)
- G+ cleanup
- Hundreds of cleanups and fixes to modernize the codebase for Java 12
- Jlibtorrent 1.2.1.0
- Updated to boost 1.70.0
- TPB fallback mirrors support
- Libtorrent: make sure session cleanup releases all its references to torrents
- Libtorrent: track the mapped port for each NAT mapping transport
- Libtorrent: optimize resolve_duplicate_filenames_slow()
- Libtorrent: use a more restrictive limit on number of pieces allowed in a torrent
- Libtorrent: improve disk I/O logging
- Libtorrent: always flush disk I/O job queue before shutdown
- Libtorrent: fix typo in validation of reject messages. Make on_choke a bit more defensive
- Libtorrent: tighten up validation of dont-have messages
- Libtorrent: tighten up validation of reject messages, to ensure consistency of stats counters
- Libtorrent: tighten up message size checks
- Libtorrent: update symlinks to conform to BEP 47
- Libtorrent: source code cleanup, performance and stability
- Pixabay search removed
- Macos: Rebuilt libSystemUtilities.jnilib shared library for x86_64 arch only
New in FrostWire 6.8.0 Build 281 (Jul 9, 2019)
- Nyaa search fixed
- Soundcloud search and downloads fixed
- New Torrentz2 search
- OpenJDK 12 runtime (windows)
- G+ cleanup
- Hundreds of cleanups and fixes to modernize the codebase for Java 12
- Jlibtorrent 1.2.1.0
- Updated to boost 1.70.0
- Libtorrent: make sure session cleanup releases all its references to torrents
- Libtorrent: track the mapped port for each NAT mapping transport
- Libtorrent: optimize resolve_duplicate_filenames_slow()
- Libtorrent: use a more restrictive limit on number of pieces allowed in a torrent
- Libtorrent: improve disk I/O logging
- Libtorrent: always flush disk I/O job queue before shutdown
- Libtorrent: fix typo in validation of reject messages. Make on_choke a bit more defensive
- Libtorrent: tighten up validation of dont-have messages
- Libtorrent: tighten up validation of reject messages, to ensure consistency of stats counters
- Libtorrent: tighten up message size checks
- Libtorrent: update symlinks to conform to BEP 47
- Libtorrent: source code cleanup, performance and stability
- Pixabay search removed
New in FrostWire 6.8.0 (May 15, 2019)
- Soundcloud search and downloads fixed
- OpenJDK 12 runtime (windows)
- G+ cleanup
- Hundreds of cleanups and fixes to modernize the codebase for Java 12
- jlibtorrent 1.2.1.0
- updated to boost 1.70.0
- libtorrent: make sure session cleanup releases all its references to torrents
- libtorrent: track the mapped port for each NAT mapping transport
- libtorrent: optimize resolve_duplicate_filenames_slow()
- libtorrent: use a more restrictive limit on number of pieces allowed in a torrent
- libtorrent: improve disk I/O logging
- libtorrent: always flush disk I/O job queue before shutdown
- libtorrent: fix typo in validation of reject messages. Make on_choke a bit more defensive
- libtorrent: tighten up validation of dont-have messages
- libtorrent: tighten up validation of reject messages, to ensure consistency of stats counters
- libtorrent: tighten up message size checks
- libtorrent: update symlinks to conform to BEP 47
- libtorrent: source code cleanup, performance and stability
New in FrostWire 6.8.0 Build 280 Beta (May 1, 2019)
- Soundcloud search and downloads fixed
- OpenJDK 12 runtime (windows)
- G+ cleanup
- Hundreds of cleanups and fixes to modernize the codebase for Java 12
New in FrostWire 6.7.8 Build 276 (Mar 23, 2019)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.20 with latest libtorrent release
- Updated okhttp3 3.12.0 -> 3.14.0
- Updated com.h2database 1.4.197 -> 1.4.199
- Removed lucene-core dependency
- Library code cleanup
- Library playlist search update
- Fixes issue detecting the new version of PIA VPN in Windows
New in FrostWire 6.7.7 Build 274 (Jan 16, 2019)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.19 with latest libtorrent release
- Updated okhttp3 3.11.0 -> 3.12.0
- Updated com.h2database 1.4.193 -> 1.4.197
New in FrostWire 6.7.6 Build 274 (Dec 13, 2018)
- Search: New Nyaa search
- Performance upgrades and fixes
New in FrostWire 6.7.5 Build 273 (Dec 7, 2018)
- Hide unfinished IPFilter option pane
New in FrostWire 6.7.4 Build 272 (Sep 26, 2018)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18
- Translation updates: Croatian
- YT search removed
New in FrostWire 6.7.3 Build 271 (Sep 10, 2018)
- Search: YT fixes
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18-RC12
- Fixes bug in library playlist rendering when a song had no track number
New in FrostWire 6.7.2 Build 270 (Aug 24, 2018)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18-RC11
- Library updates: openssl-1.1.1-pre9
- New user agent and peer finger print for tracker announcement
- Search: YT, Archive.org fixes
- UX: Torrent Transfer Detail General > Save Location can be clicked to open the OS's default file explorer to show the file/folder pertinent to the transfer
- Fixes bug in macOS handling opened files
- Translations updated (Ukranian, Norwegian, Turkish)
New in FrostWire 6.7.2 Build 269 (Aug 16, 2018)
- Search: YT, Archive.org fixes
- UX: Torrent Transfer Detail General > Save Location can be clicked to open the OS's default file explorer to show the file/folder pertinent to the transfer
- Fixes bug in macOS handling opened files
- Translations updated (Ukranian, Norwegian, Turkish)
New in FrostWire 6.7.1 Build 268 (Jul 24, 2018)
- UX: Torrent Transfer Tracker viewer now tracks DHT, LSD and PEX information
- UX: Added border at the top of the global status bar at the bottom of the screen
- UX: Transfer tab title, search filter box and filter buttons in the same row
- saving precious vertical screen space for smaller screens
- UX: better resizing of transfer detail components
- UX: transfer detail component rendering optimizations
- UX: fixes bug in search result rendering
- UX: window resizing fixes for Transfers tab, Library explorer
- Windscribe VPN false-negative detection in Windows fixed
- Translations updated
- Search fixes
- Crash fixed when translating tooltips
- Crashes and optimizations
New in FrostWire 6.7.1 Build 267 (Jul 20, 2018)
- UX: Torrent Transfer Tracker viewer now tracks DHT, LSD and PEX information
- UX: Added border at the top of the global status bar at the bottom of the screen
- UX: Transfer tab title, search filter box and filter buttons in the same row saving precious vertical screen space for smaller screens
- UX: better resizing of transfer detail components
- UX: transfer detail component rendering optimizations
- UX: fixes bug in search result rendering
- Translations updated
- Search fixes
- Crash fixed when translating tooltips
- Crashes and optimizations
New in FrostWire 6.7.0 Build 265 (Jul 16, 2018)
- Hotfix build useful for Windows users with small resolution screens, it includes an ongoing fix that allows hiding entirely the transfer details components by dragging the splitter manually all the way down.
- (the switcher buttons are still visible though).
New in FrostWire 6.7.0 Build 264 (Jul 16, 2018)
- New Torrent Transfer Details components
- New Torrent Transfer General viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Piece viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Files progress viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Tracker viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Peers viewer
- TorrentDownloads search fixed
- LimeTorrents search fixed
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18-RC9
- Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish translations updated
- Crashes and optimizations
New in FrostWire 6.7.0 Build 262 (Jul 7, 2018)
- New Torrent Transfer Details components
- New Torrent Transfer General viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Piece viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Files progress viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Tracker viewer
- New Torrent Transfer Peers viewer
- TorrentDownloads search fixed
- LimeTorrents search fixed
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18-RC8
- Crashes and optimizations
New in FrostWire 6.6.8 Build 260 (Jun 26, 2018)
- Yify search fixed
- EZTV search fixed
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18-RC7
New in FrostWire 6.6.6 Build 258 (Apr 27, 2018)
- re2j update to 1.2, search results parsing optimizations
- search filter fixes
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.18-RC4
- jlibtorrent: updated to boost 1.67.0
- jlibtorrent: updated to OpenSSL 1.1.0h
- jlibtorrent: fix storage initialization
- jlibtorrent: don't perform DNS lookups for the DHT bootstrap unless DHT is enabled
- jlibtorrent: stat files in the disk thread
- jlibtorrent: source code cleanup, performance and stability
- jlibtorrent: issue query block size from torrent before metadata has been received
- jlibtorrent: source code cleanup, performance and stability
- jlibtorrent: honor torrent abort even on file check error
New in FrostWire 6.6.5 Build 257 (Apr 12, 2018)
- Search: Yify fixed
- Japanese, Korean translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.6.4 Build 256 (Mar 25, 2018)
- * Fixes Out of memory error trying to clear the search cache database
- * Avast, IPVanish, CyberGhost, PureVPN, Windscribe VPN detection for Windows
- * Fixes crash checking VPN status
- * Fixes possible crash on shutdown
New in FrostWire 6.6.3 Build 255 (Feb 28, 2018)
- Fixes false positive VPN connection detection issue in Windows for PIA and Express VPN
- jlibtorrent 1.0.2.17
- native updates in preparation for Java 9 compatible release
- Some VPN detection now being done at the jlibtorrent layer
- Cactus VPN, Nord VPN, Avg VPN detection fixed on Windows
New in FrostWire 6.6.3 Build 253 (Feb 17, 2018)
- Fixes false positive VPN connection detection issue in Windows for PIA and Express VPN
- jlibtorrent 1.0.2.17 RC-1
New in FrostWire 6.6.3 Build 252 (Feb 13, 2018)
- Zooqle search fixes
- TorrentDownloads search fixes
- LimeTorrents search fixes
New in FrostWire 6.6.2 Build 251 (Jan 25, 2018)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.16
- Fixes SoundCloud search issues
- Fixes TPB search issues
- Fixes bug that could cause app startup slowdowns
- Windows, Mac: JRE update (1.8.0_121 to 1.8.0_162)
New in FrostWire 6.6.2 Build 250 (Jan 18, 2018)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.15
- Fixes bug that could cause app startup slowdowns
- Windows, Mac: JRE update (1.8.0_121 to 1.8.0_162)
New in FrostWire 6.6.1 Build 249 (Dec 5, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.15-RC3
- TPB domain update
New in FrostWire 6.6.0 Build 248 (Nov 1, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC14, storage and upnp related crashes fixed
- Portuguese translation updated
New in FrostWire 6.5.9 Build 246 (Oct 25, 2017)
- New VPN Drop Guard feature available in BitTorrent settings
- UX: Edit tracker dialog supports basic keyword shortcuts
- Networking: fixed issue listening on IPv6 and random port from settings
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC10
- Fixes 'Send to friend' broken feature, now points to maglnk.xyz domain
- Malay translation updated
New in FrostWire 6.5.8 Build 244 (Sep 22, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.13-RC4 with improved IPv6 connectivity
- Search: New Pixabay image search
- Search: YT, SC, EZTV, Torlock, Yify, Zooqle fixed
- Networking: Improved SSL compatibility
New in FrostWire 6.5.6 Build 243 (Aug 11, 2017)
- frostwire (6.5.6) stable; urgency=high
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.11-RC5
- Search: EZTV, Torlock, Zooqle engines fixed
- Search: BTJunkie removed
- Download: Yify magnets can now be found in DHT
- Fixes OTA update system bug
New in FrostWire 6.5.5 Build 242 (Aug 10, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.11-RC5
- Search: EZTV, Torlock, Zooqle engines fixed
- Search: BTJunkie removed
- Download: Yify magnets can now be found in DHT
New in FrostWire 6.5.4 Build 241 (Jul 26, 2017)
- YT search fixed
- Playlist Select-All songs keyboard shortcut bug fixed
- Slovenian translation update
New in FrostWire 6.5.3 Build 240 (Jun 26, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.11-RC1
- Fixed Thread pool max size issue
- Serbian, Albanian, Japanese, Korean translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.5.2 Build 239 (Jun 8, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.9-RC5
- BTJunkie search resurrected
- Monova, Torlock search engines fixed
- ExtraTorrent search discontinued, RIP
- Swedish, Nepalese translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.5.1 Build 238 (May 19, 2017)
- YT search fixed
- Javascript parser updates
- Romanian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Danish, Greek translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.5.0 Build 236 (May 10, 2017)
- Issue where transfers would dissapear until new transfer was added fixed
- Cleanup, optimizations in transfer managment
- Swedish translation (thanks Josef Andersson)
- Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Tagalog, Thai translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.4.9 Build 235 (Apr 30, 2017)
- YT search fixes
- Turkish, Dutch, Russian translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.4.8 Build 234 Pre (Apr 21, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.9-RC1
- New Zooqle search
- Monova, TorLock, YT search fixed
- Mininova search discontinued
- Freeze/Slowdown on shutdown fixed
New in FrostWire 6.4.8 Build 232 Pre (Apr 13, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.8
- Freeze/Slowdown on shutdown fixed
New in FrostWire 6.4.7 Build 229 (Apr 6, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.7-RC3
- Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch translations updated
- Windows, Mac: JRE update (1.8.0_102 -> 1.8.0_121)
- BitSnoop search removed
New in FrostWire 6.4.6 Build 227 (Mar 8, 2017)
- New Options > Advanced > Experimental. Users can now try ALPHA and BETA features at their own risk.
- New revision of jlibtorrent 1.2.0.6 fixes BitTorrent bugs
- New piece size selection on torrent creation dialog
- Library > Playlists UI improvements. Support to display lyrics when available
- BTJunkie.eu search discontinued
- Fixes issues with SoundCloud search
- FrostWire wizard is now displayed when a new build number is detected
- jlibtorrent version number available in about window
- ALPHA: New VPN-Drop protection setting. Automatically stop all BitTorrent traffic if no VPN connection is available
New in FrostWire 6.4.5 Build 222 (Feb 22, 2017)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.6 fixes BitTorrent connectivity issues
New in FrostWire 6.4.4 Build 215 (Feb 14, 2017)
- New "All Free Downloads" button on welcome screen lets users explore all previous
- FrostWire free and legal promoted downloads.
- Fixes issue with YouTube search
- Fixes issue with VPN detection for Mac/Linux after PIA/Express VPN updates.
- Fixes issue with PIA VPN detection in Windows when advanced connection kill-switch enabled.
- Fixes issue where the FrostWire update message wouldn't be shown until the next session.
New in FrostWire 6.4.3 Build 214 (Jan 24, 2017)
- Fixes issue with YouTube search
- Fixes issue with ExtraTorrent search
- Fixes issue where trackers would not be saved correctly when creating a torrent
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.5
New in FrostWire 6.4.2 Build 212 (Dec 9, 2016)
- Fixes Archive.org, SoundCloud search
- Starred playlist moved down to playlist explorer
- Playlist explorer right click popups show as least actions as possible
- Playlist management bug fixes
- H2 database update (1.4.193)
- gson upgraded to 2.8.0
- Cleanup, and performance upgrades
New in FrostWire 6.4.0 Build 207 (Nov 10, 2016)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.0
- Fixes media player for macOS Sierra (10.12)
- Improved transfer progress calculation
- Fixes issue showing active transfers on launch
- Crash fixes
New in FrostWire 6.3.7 Build 204 (Oct 17, 2016)
- New jlibtorrent 1.2.0.0
- Crash fixes
New in FrostWire 6.3.5 Build 198 (Aug 18, 2016)
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.37
- Fixes download issues with BitSnoop search results
- Search result table cells have more padding for readability
- Clicking on the status bar speed indicator shows active transfers
- Fixed internal magnet downloads showing up in transfers (windows only)
New in FrostWire 6.3.5 Build 195 Pre (Aug 3, 2016)
- KAT search removed
- Updated Java Runtime Environment (1.8-b102)
- Codebase cleanup
New in FrostWire 6.3.4 Build 193 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Fixes YT search issues
- New media player based on mplayer 1.3.0 and ffmpeg 3.0 fixes
- YT audio preview issues, video playback issues. VP8, VP9, HEVC support.
New in FrostWire 6.3.3 Build 189 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Fixes YT search issues.
- Fixes freeze issues.
New in FrostWire 6.3.2 Build 187 (Jun 27, 2016)
- Fixes YT search issues
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.35
- Crash fixes
New in FrostWire 6.3.1 Build 186 (Jun 17, 2016)
- New: "View > Search/Transfers split screen" option.
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.34
- jlibtorrent: fixed crash on invalid input in http_parser
- jlibtorrent: early resume data reset when fatal_disk_error
- jlibtorrent: optimize allow-fast logic
- jlibtorrent: fixed inverted priority of incoming piece suggestions
- jlibtorrent: fixed bug related to flag_merge_resume_http_seeds flag
- jlibtorrent: don't add peers from url if add_torrent_impl returns invalid handle
- HTTP client improvements
- EZTV fixes
- New icon for TorrentDownloads search results
New in FrostWire 6.3.0 Build 184 (Jun 5, 2016)
- Greatly improved seeding connectivity. Seed and share magnets!
- New transfers tab, allows you to filter transfers by state and keywords.
- Finished cloud transfers are seedeable.
- If seeding setting is active, finished cloud transfers are seeded.
- Improved 'Search for Keywords' suggestions for episodic queries.
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.31
- Spanish, Portuguese translations updated.
- Fixes Torlock search.
- EZTV no longer returns irrelevant results.
- New Search Engine: TorrentDownloads.me
New in FrostWire 6.3.0 Build 181 Beta (May 23, 2016)
- Spanish, Portuguese translations updated
New in FrostWire 6.3.0 Build 180 Beta (May 20, 2016)
- New transfers tab, allows you to filter transfers by state and keywords
- Finished cloud transfers are seedeable
- If seeding setting is active, finished cloud transfers are seeded
- Improved ‘Search for Keywords’ suggestions for episodic queries
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.30
New in FrostWire 6.2.4 Build 179 (Apr 18, 2016)
- Fixes Monova search
- Fixes EZTV search
- Fixes YouTube search
- Fixes bug opening certain YT preview URLs
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.24 with SSL security updates
- and libtorrent 1.1 release
- jlibtorrent: multithreaded disk i/o and hashing
- jlibtorrent: more efficient alert allocation
- jlibtorrent: experimental support for mutable torrents (BEP 38)
- jlibtorrent: 5x faster torrent bcoder/bdecoder
- jlibtorrent: improved shutdown
- jlibtorrent: SSL over uTP supported
- jlibtorrent: countless scalability updates, seed tens of thousands of torrents, if not hundreds of thousands of torrents in a single jlibtorrent instance
New in FrostWire 6.2.3 Build 178 (Apr 1, 2016)
- New share action in Library. Create, seed and share DHT-based torrent in a single click.
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.22.
- Fix preparing YT m4a's author field.
- jlibtorrent: fix issue in checking outgoing interfaces
- jlibtorrent: optimize enumeration of network interfaces on windows
- jlibtorrent: improve reliability of binding listen sockets
- jlibtorrent: support SNI in https web seeds and trackers
- jlibtorrent: fix unhandled exception in DHT when receiving a DHT packet over IPv6
- Dropped rxjava library. KISS.
New in FrostWire 6.2.3 Build 177 Pre (Mar 31, 2016)
- New share action in Library. Create, seed and share DHT-based torrent in a single click.
- New jlibtorrent:
- jlibtorrent: fix issue in checking outgoing interfaces
- jlibtorrent: optimize enumeration of network interfaces on windows
- jlibtorrent: improve reliability of binding listen sockets
- jlibtorrent: support SNI in https web seeds and trackers
- jlibtorrent: fix unhandled exception in DHT when receiving a DHT packet over IPv6
- Dropped rxjava library. KISS.
New in FrostWire 6.2.2 Build 176 (Feb 13, 2016)
- YT search fixes
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.20
- Player playback loop modes working as expected again
- Portuguese translation update
New in FrostWire 6.2.1 Build 174 (Feb 13, 2016)
- Fixes issue where a corrupted .torrent inside the libtorrent folder would make FrostWire crash on startup.
- Fixes issue where partial downloads from search results would download the rest of the .torrent files.
- Fixes bug on search results display where action cell would dissapear when clicking on the play preview button.
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.19.
- New playlists now sort songs by track number if track number available.
New in FrostWire 6.2.0 Build 173 (Jan 13, 2016)
- Fixes issue where partial downloads from search results would download. the rest of the .torrent files
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.16
- Updated okhttp to 2.7.1
- TPB fixed
- YT fixed
New in FrostWire 6.1.9 Build 172 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Fixes Youtube search issues.
- New jlibtorrent 1.1.0.15
- Shared maglnk url shortening not done with Bit.ly anymore.
- Library now remembers your last media type selection for the next session.
- New FrostWireInputDialog.
New in FrostWire 6.1.8 Build 170 (Dec 22, 2015)
- If you made a fresh install of FrostWire 6.1.8 build 169 you must have experienced a nasty crash on start. Users upgrading from previous versions were not affected by the bug. The crash has been fixed.
New in FrostWire 6.1.7 Build 168 (Nov 12, 2015)
- Youtube audio search fixed.
- New 'Close Tab' action for search result tabs.
- New 'Close Other Tabs' action for search result tabs.
- New 'Close Tabs to the Right' action for search result tabs.
New in FrostWire 6.1.6 Build 166 RC 1 (Nov 5, 2015)
- Fixes drag and drop freezes introduced by new Java Runtime Environment 1.8.0_60.
- Fixes SoundCloud search.
- Fixes TPB search.
- Fixes BTJunkie search.
- Fixes TorLock search.
- Updates to Spanish and Romanian translations.
- Chat button on header moved to Tools menu. More space for search bar.
New in FrostWire 6.1.5 Build 1 (Sep 28, 2015)
- New http engine based on okhttp, uses pooled connections, less threads, less memory. Faster and more reliable search & cloud downloads.
- libtorrent/jlibtorrent core update (v 1.1.0.9).
- Fixes KAT search.
- Fixes Bitsnoop search.
- Fixes EZTV search.
- Removes Radio functionality from Library.
- When the search options are opened, the keyword textfield is autofocused.
- Java Runtime upgrade to v1.8.0_60.
- Codebase cleanup and refactors.
New in FrostWire 6.1.4 Build 2 (Aug 15, 2015)
- libtorrent/jlibtorrent core update (v 1.1.0.5).
- Torrent settings issues fixed.
- Fixes TorLock search.
- Considerably faster search source processing (new regex engine).
- Fixes YouTube search.
New in FrostWire 6.1.3 Build 2 (Aug 4, 2015)
- ibtorrent/jlibtorrent core update.
- Archive.org downloads are pausable/resumable.
- Soundcloud search & download API update.
- Hungarian translation update.
- Simplified seeding settings. No more need to treat handpicked/partial downloads differently with jlibtorrent updates.
- Fixes crash when setting default save folder to the root of a drive.
New in FrostWire 6.1.2 Build 2 (Aug 3, 2015)
- Search performance improvements. New RxJava-based implementation.
- Search box suggestions improved.
- New Check/uncheck all search engines checkbox.
- TorLock search fixed.
- Added SSL (https) support for torrent web seeds.
- Options window remembers last pane opened.
- Fixes painting issues when searching Starred audio files on the library.
- frostwire-jlibtorrent library updates.
- Library user experience bug fixes.
New in FrostWire 6.1.1 Build 1 (May 19, 2015)
- TPB search fixed
- KAT search fixed
- Monova search fixed
- Bitsnoop downloads fixed
- BTJunkie downloads fixed
- EZTV search engine removed after scammers took over
- YouTube search fixes for non-english users
- Russian translation update
New in FrostWire 6.1.0 Build 1 (May 8, 2015)
New in FrostWire 6.0.8 Build 1 (May 5, 2015)
- Significant improvements in search result availability.
- Faster Bitsnoop, Extratorrent and KAT individual file search results.
- Reduced use of DHT network for search.
- Faster torrent download start time.
- Fixes download error on some Archive.org search results.
- Fixes Yify search.
- Misc fixes in Library functionality.
- Crash fixes.
New in FrostWire 6.0.7 Build 4 (Apr 9, 2015)
- New feature: Preview while you download.
- Memory and CPU savings when parsing search results on some search engines.
- BTJunkie fixed.
- TPB search fixed.
- KAT search fixed.
- Monova search fixed.
- Fixes bug where soundcloud, archive.org audio downloads would not be automatically be scanned by iTunes.
- Croatian translation updates.
- Torrent creation and parsing now done using frostwire-jlibtorrent api. More Azureus cleanups.
- Fixes run on startup issue on Windows.
- Upgraded java virtual machine to 1.8.0_40 with hundreds of fixes and upgrades.
- Upgraded H2 database engine.
- Upgraded frostwire-jlibtorrent to the latest code from libtorrent.
- UX-improvement: A repeated search will honor active search engines.
New in FrostWire 6.0.6 Build 1 (Feb 18, 2015)
- Fixes bug where default save location for torrents would not be accounted for
- New: When changing default save location, any ongoing torrent transfers are moved to the new location
- Romanian and Finnish translation updates
- New: Option to turn off Bittorrent DHT
- YT search upgrades
- New: Supports shortened y2u.be url searches
New in FrostWire 6.0.5 Build 1 (Jan 30, 2015)
- Fixes out of memory crash and freeze when importing lots of songs from the FrostWire library to iTunes.
- Removed Litecoin and Dogecoin from torrent creation dialog, Bitcoin and payment urls only. Litecoin and Dogecoin are pretty much dead compared to Bitcoin.
- Remove Download and Data now enabled for http downloads too.
- Fixes possible errors for SoundCloud downloads.
- Updates on Hungarian and Romanian translations.
- Fixes YT search issues.
- New mplayer binaries with HTTPS support.
New in FrostWire 6.0.4 Build 2 (Jan 17, 2015)
- When transfers are finished they no longer show as 'Paused', they show as 'Finished'.
- Fixes issues with incomplete files.
- Fixes issues importing too many songs to iTunes playlist.
- Fixes issue on which adding a whole torrent after starting a partial download would not merge the two and continue to download the rest of the torrent.
New in FrostWire 6.0.3 Build 1 (Dec 4, 2014)
- Solves issue getting correct single file location from transfer manager.
- Improved MD5 verification. Thanks @abderraouf-adjal
- Important UI transfer related actions restored for Linux users.
- Updated frostwire-jlibtorrent libraries,
- now built with older Boost 1.55, fixes Windows UI Freeze issue.
- CPU usage reduced managing transfer items.
- Croatian, Bulgarian, Polish, translation updates.
- More cleanups and refactors.
New in FrostWire 6.0.2 Build 1 (Nov 20, 2014)
- Maximum concurrent torrent download settings defaults raised to 10.
- KAT search fix.
- Prevents possible out of memory error.
- Croatian translation update.
- Minor refactors
New in FrostWire 6.0.1 Build 2 (Nov 18, 2014)
- Fixes YouTube download Error
- Updated splash screen
- Misc. bugs
- TRANSLATIONS:
- Croatian translation updates.
- Polish translation updates
- Spanish translation updates
New in FrostWire 6.0.0 Build 7 (Nov 11, 2014)
- PERFORMANCE:
- Fixes EzTV search, now with https support.
- Multiple bug fixes.
- Extensive cleanup.
- Fixes issues opening .torrents and magnets outside of FrostWire.
- USER INTERFACE:
- Icons, buttons and other user interface details refreshed.
- TRANSLATIONS:
- Croatian translation updates.
- Polish translation updates.
- Simplified Chinese translation updates.
- German translation updates.
- Includes changes from the previous Alpha version.
New in FrostWire 6.0.0 Build 1 Alpha (Oct 9, 2014)
- New BitTorrent engine based on frostwire-jlibtorrent a libtorrent wrapper api created by FrostWire.
- Russian translation updates.
- Multiple bug fixes.
New in FrostWire 5.7.7 Build 1 (Oct 2, 2014)
- New: VPN connection status indicator.
- New: Stop media playback by long pressing play/pause button.
- Fix: Bug where files couldn't be played with the main player button.
- Fix: Bug where the speaker icon on the library would still show after the media player had stopped.
- Fix: Bug after 5.7.5 in which the buttons of the Create Torrent dialog were not visible unless the window was resized.
- Fixes issue on Linux when player window pixel translucency could not be set.
- Fixes Null Pointer Exception when trying to shutdown and hide an MPlayerWindow that may have not been instantiated.
- Fixes issue where user could not create new playlist by dropping songs from existing playlist into 'New Playlist' list item in the library.
- Updated MigLayout source code to version 4.0
New in FrostWire 5.7.6 Build 1 (Aug 26, 2014)
- Improves the Search Tools filters, now you can filter search results by the file type, or by the name of the download source, for instance, if you just want to browse through .mp3 search results, open Search Tools and type “mp3″ and you will see only mp3 search results. If you just want to see search results from “Archive.org”, now you don’t need to uncheck all the sources, you just type “archive” and it will filter out everything that doesn’t come from Archive.org.
New in FrostWire 5.7.5 Build 1 (Aug 12, 2014)
- Improved mp4 parser.
- Improved cloud search results.
- Now FrostWire runs with Java8 technology.
- Fixes player control layout issues when resizing the main window.
- Fixes soundcloud url track/set downloads.
- Fixes possible cloud download errors.
New in FrostWire 5.7.4 Build 1 (Jun 27, 2014)
- Fixes issues with youtube downloads.
- Recovered ability to download soundcloud urls.
- Can download entire soundcloud playlists from playlist url.
- Fixed broken Torrents.fm search.
- Updated Gson library, included the sources into our repo.
New in FrostWire 5.7.3 Build 1 (May 24, 2014)
- New Yifi search
- Added Canonical Peer Priority support. (BEP40)
- Fixed broken EZTV search
- Removed apache httpclient and httpcore libraries
New in FrostWire 5.7.2 (Apr 12, 2014)
- uTP support enabled
- Multiple crash fixes
- UX: playable single file torrents now can be played from transfer list
- UX: Fixes UI Thread freeze when opening Options > Search
- UX: Better error reporting when a torrent can't be fetched from a
- magnet connection
- Spanish translation update
New in FrostWire 5.7.1 Beta (Feb 28, 2014)
- FrostWire has introduced the possibility for of adding Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin wallet address into metadata of the torrent file format in order to enable optional donations. By eliminating middlemen and transaction costs, microtipping is now fully possible and the recipients can collect 100% of their contributions.
New in FrostWire 5.7.0 (Jan 25, 2014)
- Updated BitTorrent Engine to the latest code from the Azureus project along with FrostWire’s Team’s tunning and hacks for energy efficiency (as we reuse this same on code on Android)
- Updated Java Runtime to fix compatibility launch issues Windows XP users were experiencing.
- IRC Chat replaced for an HTML5 Chat App (Kiwi IRC), bye bye pjirc client.
- New Torrents.com search engine integration.
- Several UI bugs, freezes and crashes fixed.
New in FrostWire 5.7.0 RC (Jan 18, 2014)
- FrostWire developers have replaced the BitTorrent engine with the latest from the Vuze/Azureus project, they’ve also replace the java runtime with the latest one from Oracle and this should eliminate binary incompatibility issues some Windows XP users had with the 5.6.x series.
- The old chat tab is gone and it’s been now replacd by an IRC Web Client so now FrostWire boots up a bit faster.
- Upgrades to search include integration with Torrents.fm a new torrent index with over 3 million torrents and tens of millions of files to search from, as well as bugs and crash fixes.
New in FrostWire 5.6.9 (Dec 10, 2013)
- Insanely faster cloud search results.
- Significant memory optimizations on search result parsing and display.
- Removed jDownloader libraries, less complexity, lighter app.
New in FrostWire 5.6.9 RC (Dec 6, 2013)
- Cloud audio downloads are much smaller, no audio demuxing necessary from video services.
- Cloud video DASH download support.
- Smarter playlist name suggestion algorithm takes into account ID3 tags.
- Fixes bug where new playlists wouldn't be saved if default name was used.
New in FrostWire 5.6.8 (Nov 12, 2013)
- This release fixes issues related to YouTube search and greatly improves the translation to spanish
New in FrostWire 5.6.7 (Nov 5, 2013)
- New Advanced Feature: Edit Trackers.
- New Advanced Feature: Scrape Trackers.
- New Advanced Feature: Update Trackers.
- New BitSnoop meta search.
- New TorLock meta search.
- New EZTV meta search.
- Fixes Monova meta search.
- Removes ISOHunt meta search.
- Tips of the day updated.
- Updated Catalonian flag.
New in FrostWire 5.6.6 (Oct 12, 2013)
- Fixes ExtraTorrent meta search.
- Polish translation 100% updated.
- New support for anonymous user experience statistics.
New in FrostWire 5.6.5 (Sep 25, 2013)
- Upgrades Soundcloud search, download, streaming.
- Fixes issue when starting downloads made of multiple single files that belong to the same .torrent.
- When opening finished transfers on the library with a double click
- FrostWire will no longer type the name of the file on the library search box.
New in FrostWire 5.6.4 (Sep 6, 2013)
- Fixes issues parsing some cloud urls.
- Fixes issues with soundcloud meta search.
- Spanish translation updated.
- French translation updated.
- Portuguese translation updated.
- Brazilian Portuguese translation updated.
- Arabic translation updated.
- Turkish translation updated.
New in FrostWire 5.6.3 Beta 1 (Aug 1, 2013)
- New Feature: Preview audio search results from Archive.org.
- New Feature: Decide wether or not to seed handpicked files of torrents (aka Partial Downloads).
- New Hacker Feature: Change the location of FrostWire's settings folder. Great if you want to install FrostWire on a removable disk and you want to maintain settings and download states.
- Fixes bug where the internet search box would be disabled after sending file to friend.
New in FrostWire 5.6.2 (Jul 5, 2013)
- Improved readability of stream sources in player title.
- Fixed bug where media source icon for internet streams wouldn’t be shown more than once on search result preview playback.
- UX Patch: New ‘Search’ tab acts also as a search button.
New in FrostWire 5.6.1 (Jun 21, 2013)
- New Feature: New simplified, more responsive, faster user interface.
- New Feature: Audio player can detect Facebook and Twitter urls
- inside .mp3 ID3 Tags to display Facebook and Twitter icons of the
- the corresponding artists.
- fwplayer.exe improved unicode and HLS (Http Live Streaming) support.
- New Feature: Change font size with Ctrl/Cmd + ‘+’, Ctrl/Cmd + ‘-’.
- New Feature: Close search tabs with Ctrl/Cmd + ‘w’.
- New Feature: Switch search tabs with Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab
- New Feature: Switch search tabs with Cmd+Shift+[, Cmd+Shift+]
- New Feature: Search engines can be disabled in global options.
- Improved and optimized table rendering for search results and library files.
- Refreshed presentation of search results.
- New splash screen format.
- Fixed issue related to smart search configuration.
- Fixed NPE that would cause library table rendering issues.
- Fixed NPE while searching in starred.
- Fixed popup menu in search result displayer.
- Fixed DnD between playlists (some inconsistencies with order index).
- All FrostWire libraries now come in a single FrostWire.jar file.
- Major cleanup of the FrostWire code base.
New in FrostWire 5.6.1 Build 1 Beta (Jun 20, 2013)
- New Feature: Close search tabs with Ctrl+ 'w'.
- New Feature: Switch search tabs with Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab
- New Feature: Search engines can be disabled in global options.
- Improved and optimized table rendering for search results and library files.
- Refreshed presentation of search results.
- Fixed issue related to smart search configuration.
New in FrostWire 5.6.0 Build 2 Beta (Jun 10, 2013)
- New Application Header.
- Search is the core feature of the app, now there’s a single search box in the application, depending on the context it will search the internet (soon locally WiFi shared files by FrostWire instances, desktop or android), or your local Library files.
- Improved unicode support
- Now we let you know something we always did, FrostWire always searches for all kinds of files, in the past this wasn’t obvious. See the number of search results per file type shown at the top of the search results, click on those buttons to show the found files for that type.
- Now the upper search box can be used to search within the library, something that wasn’t very obvious in the past.
New in FrostWire 5.5.6 (Apr 25, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.5.5 (Apr 24, 2013)
- Bug fix: Null pointer exceptions in Media Player.
- Bug fix: Multiple User Interface thread violations fixed.
New in FrostWire 5.5.4 (Feb 22, 2013)
- New Feature: extract audio (.m4a) from (.mp4) videos on right click.
- New Core Feature: HTTP resumeable large transfer support.
- Upgrade: Default save folder for cloud downloads is updated without
- restarting.
- Upgrade: 'Repeat song' playback mode now available.
- Upgrade: Enriched promotion display, now with audio and video previews and
- shortcuts to content creator's social media channels/streams.
- Upgrade: binary compatibility improved for Windows releases.
- Bug fix: if default save folder is changed it's now part of library scanned
- folders.
- Bug fix: smart search engine wasn't notifying when it was done if there
- were no results.
- Bug fix: several crashes and errors fixed.
- Bug fix: partial download dialog for cloud downloads would sometimes appear
- empty.
- Bug fix: out of memory error by UPnP-cling creating an infinite number
- of threads.
New in FrostWire 5.5.3 (Feb 6, 2013)
- A new hotfix 5.5.3 release is out to address slowdown/freezes reported by many XP users.
New in FrostWire 5.5.2 (Feb 6, 2013)
- Upgrade: Now 'Movies' or 'My Videos' folder is included by default on new
- installs since we now have a built-in video player.
- Upgrade: The Smart Search engine can now be disabled. No torrents will be
- indexed and no search against the local database will be performed if
- disabled.
- UI fix: Video Player Window Title now shows the file name being played.
- UI fix: Library > "Finished Downloads" renamed to "Default Save Folder"
- UI fix: When browsing another device on the Wi-Fi network newest shared files
- are shown at the top of the table.
- Bug fix: On first installation FrostWire wasn't able to add 'From Devices' folder
- to the Library.
- Bug fix: When restoring default settings FrostWire was not restoring default
- library folders.
- Bug fix: Player remembers volume level from last song played.
- Bug fix: Sends correct file sizes on HTTP headers for shared files that
- have changed in size after being shared.
- Bug fix: Repeat media play setting with only one item.
- Bug fix: New mime detector based on a bigger table.
- Bug fix: Video player doesn't skip frames when resuming from pause.
- Bug fix: Video player doesn't move frames when paused and volume slider
- is being moved.
- Bug fix: Dropping a .torrent starts a download and doesn't ask to send to
- a friend.
- Bug fix: (Windows) can delete files that are being played or seeded
- from the Library.
- Bug fix: (Mac) compatibility with Mac OSX 10.5.x restored.
- Bug fix: (Windows) media player can open files with long paths.
- Bug fix: prevents NPE when opening a .torrent and trying to show icons when
- the file system chooser wasn't available.
New in FrostWire 5.5.1 (Dec 11, 2012)
- New Clear Inactive button on transfers.
- New setting to use the default system media player instead of FrostWire's.
- New Download Cloud URLs, Torrents and Magnets by entering urls on the search field.
- New toggle full screen video playback with double click.
- Enhancement: Library file tables now show file modified date field and files are sorted by it in descending order so user can easily find newest files added to the library.
- Enhancement: Playlist tables now show the track number column and are by default sorted by it in ascending order to enjoy albums in the order they were meant to be heard by the content creators.
- Enhancement: mime type guessing is faster when sharing files on Wi-Fi
- Bug fix: Library was getting confused with file extensions as part of file names.
- Bug fix: sharing/unsharing popup menu behavior while sharing on Wi-Fi
- Bug fix: resizing issues on preview download dialogs.
- Bug fix: filtering on torrent detail dialog was broken.
- Bug fix: Library continuous playback working from play button.
- Bug fix: Cloud download error fixed.
- Bug fix: Media lib unicode issue.
New in FrostWire 5.5.0 (Nov 30, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.5.0 RC (Nov 25, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.3.9 (Aug 25, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.3.8 (Jul 6, 2012)
- Fixes incompatibilities with latest iTunes update
- Can export MP4 video to iTunes
- UX upgrades
New in FrostWire 5.3.7 (Jul 6, 2012)
- New Feature: Export playlist to iTunes.
- Core upgrade: Better support for UTF-8 torrent contents.
- Faster startup time. No more waiting around 31% on splash screen.
New in FrostWire 5.3.6 Beta (May 11, 2012)
- Now with YouTube audio downloads
New in FrostWire 5.3.5 (May 11, 2012)
- Drag and drop files and folders to your Android device running FrostWire.
- You can upload files to 3 different devices at the same time.
- Fixes glitch where the file explorer would reset the split pane position.
- Removes flickering on album arts when resizing library explorer
- When the FrostWire window is resized to be very small the search
- filters no longer overlap the "Open" and "Send to" buttons.
- Search box on the Library is now on the upper left and
- offers contextual hint.
- Search boxes everywhere now have a clear button.
- Playlists are now sorted alphabetically.
- Option panes UI upgrades.
- Better suggestion for a playlist name when a folder is dropped on
- "New Playlist".
- German translation updated.
- French translation updated.
- Norwegian translation updated.
- Dutch translation updated.
- Japanese translation updated.
- Filipino translation updated.
- Chinese (Hong Kong) translation updated.
- Chinese (Taiwan) translation updated.
- Chinese (Mainland) translation updated.
- Turkish translation updated.
- Portuguese (Brazilian) updated.
- Korean translation updated.
- Italian translation updated.
- Hindi translation updated.
New in FrostWire 5.3.4 (Mar 27, 2012)
- New frostwire.exe launcher with extended Unicode support now able to handle .torrent file names with extended Unicode characters.
- Windows build is Windows 8 compatible.
- Windows build will prefer Java 7 if not JRE is found.
- 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
New in FrostWire 5.3.3 (Mar 12, 2012)
- Noticeable improvements in CPU performance.
- Noticeable improvements in search result quality.
- Updated TPB search to support magnet link search results.
- Added UT_METADATA extension to Vuze Core for improved magnet link support.
- Upgraded Lucene library to v3.5.0.
- Upgraded H2 to v1.3.164.
- When browsing FrostWire for Android devices (0.9.6+), date added and date modified fields are available on all file types.
New in FrostWire 5.3.2 (Feb 13, 2012)
- Reverted H2 library to v1.3.160
New in FrostWire 5.3.1 (Feb 13, 2012)
- Updated default album cover image with an anti-aliased frostwire sphere.
- Fixes bug where clicking on the current song would switch to the library but the button on the top would not be selected.
- Adds missing icon for "copy magnet" on Send file dialog.
- Library explorer and Playlist explorer are now divided by a split pane
- for a better experience.
- Hides hints popup when search is triggered with a mouse click.
- Updated search icon (magnifier).
- Fonts are reset when the setup wizard is shown so the wizard can work properly.
- New View > Reset Font Sizes action.
- The first time the Library button is used "Finished Downloads" is
- preselected to give the user a clue of what can be done.
- When a new playlist is created, a graphic is shown to hint the user about dragging audio files there.
- Updated H2 library to v1.3.164
New in FrostWire 5.3.0 (Feb 13, 2012)
- Search form looks similar to FrostWire 4 but now allows user to search for more than one file type at once.
- Improvements in search algorithm.
- Send file/folder feature more effective between just 2 peers.
- Simplification of search form interface, looks similar to FrostWire 4
- Phone & Tablets tab is gone, integration with Android devices is now
- part of the Library under a "Devices" tree item.
- Browses, Streams audio, and downloads files made public by Android devices
- in the same network.
- When entering a search hints are shown to type less (powered by Google).
- Sorts transfers by "Seeds" correctly.
- Improvements on Library action buttons, now a "Launch" action is available
- and buttons are shown/hidden depending on context.
- Fixes bugs where files on a audio playlist could not be dragged out.
- Fixes bugs where deleted files would still appear on the library.
- When right clicking on selected finished transfers and copying an infohash
- you won't end up with a trailing newline on the clipboard.
- Sharing ratio of a torrent that you stopped and started seeding again
- will not be infinite and will be based on the total sizes of the files
- being shared.
- Now when the transfer split pane is dragged up, the pane border is painted
- correctly on top of the image overlay.
- Fixes repainting glitch when moving split pane on top of promotional
- graphic.
- Lots of icons have been revamped for a more uniform look.
- Null Pointer Exception issues #100, #103, #104.
- Fixes issue #93 chat action causing frostwire crash.
- Flickering issue on song progress bar resolved.
- Simplified torrent creation. User now doesn't have to make up her mind
- about choosing a file or a folder, the file selection dialog now handles this for her.
- Brought back "Stop" search button.
- Removed lingering "Show/Hide player" menu entry on status bar context menu.
- If seeding transfers are meant to be finished, newly finished transfers are not hidden for that session.
- Audio files can be launched using the operating system's default player
- Right click on a file "Launc in "
- Removed BTJunkie search engine.
- Added KickAssTorrents (kat.ph) search engine.
- Fixes issue where downloading removing a partial transfer would delete previously completed downloads of that same torrent.
New in FrostWire 5.2.11 (Nov 29, 2011)
- Fixes bugs where some BitTorrent configuration settings were reset on startup.
New in FrostWire 5.2.10 (Nov 29, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.2.9 (Nov 10, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.2.7 (Nov 7, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.2.5 RC (Nov 3, 2011)
- Huge improvements in search performance:
- If there’s a file indexed by a torrent, no matter how rare it is, it should be able to find it for you.
- Not only that, search results for individual files (indexed inside torrent) arrive noticeably faster.
- New: Internet Radio
- Added new Internet Radio support on the Library tab.
- FrostWire is pre-loaded with nearly 600 radio stations out of the box, you can add new stations, bookmark them and sort them by name, url, bit rate, audio file format, and more.
- User Experience Improvements
- Now when you finish a transfer, you can just double click on it, and all the files downloaded will be shown on the Library tab.
- If a transfer contains audio files, you can select it (along with other transfer that also contain audio files) and with the context menu you can send all the included audio files straight to a new playlist or an existing playlist on the library.
New in FrostWire 5.2.3 (Oct 26, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.2.2 (Oct 26, 2011)
- Library tables are now cached in memory, searches are done in the cache
- speeding up the experience considerably for users with several thousand
- files.
- Create or add audio files to a playlist right from the Transfer manager.
- iTunes importing after audio transfers finish turned off by default.
- Completed transfers that contain at least one audio file can be sent
- to iTunes from the Transfer manager.
- Audio status component recognizes an Audio Stream, from an Audio file
- from an internet stream url. Clicking on it will take you to the
- Android Tab if it's an android stream or to the Library otherwise.
- Fixes issues with download mediator refresh.
- Fixes out of memory error.
- Real time UI feedback as audio files are being imported into playlist.
- F5, Cmd+R or Ctrl+R will refresh the current Library table
New in FrostWire 5.2.1 Beta (Oct 6, 2011)
- Play/Pause player buttons now share the same button depending on state.
- 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.
New in FrostWire 5.2.0 Beta (Sep 30, 2011)
- Added a brand new Library and media player
New in FrostWire 5.1.4 (Aug 25, 2011)
- Bug fix where it would not index torrents when the file type filter was in use.
- Bug fix when downloading a secondary file from the second torrent download would not start and would appear as seeding.
- Cleans all empty folders created by a partial download once the download is removed from the transfer manager.
- Fixes issue with transfer manager resetting the order of columns.
New in FrostWire 5.1.3 (Aug 20, 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)
New in FrostWire 5.1.2 (Aug 20, 2011)
- Search results now arrive under 200ms, aka, Instant Search.
- New FrostWire "Smart Torrent" search. FrostWire will search inside
- top matching torrents for individual files matching the current query.
- Core upgrade, if a .torrent fails to download from its HTTP location
- FrostWire will download it from the DHT if it can find it there.
- Functionality to see the size of the Search DB and to reset it.
- UX upgrade, ability to hide/show seeding torrents on transfer manager.
- UX upgrade, Phone & Tablets desktop explorer asks before deleting files.
- UX upgrade, New file "Extension" column on search results.
- UX upgrade, Search tabs now have animated indicator to let user know
- a search is still going on.
- UX upgrade, New filter by file type. Filter controls re-arranged.
- UX fix, search results can now be sorted by file type.
- TPB has been added to the list of search engines.
- Mininova is back.
New in FrostWire 5.0.7 (Jul 7, 2011)
- UX bugfix, fixes possible UI freeze on startup.
- UX bugfix, sending songs to iTunes is now done in a single process.
New in FrostWire 5.0.7 Beta (Jul 5, 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.
New in FrostWire 5.0.6 Beta (Jul 3, 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.
- 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.
New in FrostWire 4.21.8 (Jun 10, 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
New in FrostWire 4.21.7 (Jun 10, 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.
New in FrostWire 4.21.6 (Jun 10, 2011)
- Fixes a bug where some Debian systems that didn’t support the Icon Tray would crash on startup.
- Fixes a bug where running FrostWire for the very first time (and later) display Uploads number -1 in the bottom status bar.
- UX improvement Junk & Block. When marking Junk Results UI offers to block malicious hosts that haven’t blocked already.
- Policy update, Incomplete files are not shared by default to avoid sharing files you started downloading and didn’t want.
- Policy update, Finished downloads are not shared by default to avoid confusion between files on Shared folder versus files on Save folder.
- UX improvement, better explanation and option to turn on/off individual sharing of finished downloads (that end up in Saved Folder) during FrostWire setup wizard.
- UX improvement, when user turns off Finished Download sharing those files that were shared as individual files inside the ‘Saved Folder’ will not be shared anymore.
- UX improvement, File menu now has option to Exit FrostWire completely.
- UX improvement, File menu now says “Open Torrent/Magnet” instead of “Download Torrent/Magnet” for clarity.
- Bug Fix: The Torrent Save folder is now considered correctly, now users can set a Torrent Save folder on external drives.
- Bug Fix: Slideshow component had an issue where it would not update correctly the URL of the currently displayed slice if it had issues fetching the image file, this could in turn sometimes cause 100% CPU utilization.
New in FrostWire 4.21.5 (Mar 23, 2011)
- Addresses folder sharing and torrent seeding issues
New in FrostWire 4.17.2 (Dec 3, 2008)
- Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire(tm) take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user.
- Reduces DHT network load. The LimeWire team found out that the Mojito “store forwarding” feature would not provide extra data availability, so it’s been turned off from the DHT on all new FrostWires.
- FrostWire.ico has been updated. Now when FrostWire(tm) is associated to .bittorrent files, .bittorrent files will use the FrostWire(tm) icon.