Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
Support for private torrents
Greater control over your Shared files
Add Magnets to Open Dialog
Improvements in bootstrapping
Warn When Too Many Files Shared
Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
Recognize flv as a video extension.
Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
(Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
General Save folder improvements.
Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
Add partial search results.
Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
Incremental search on the Settings window
Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith
Changes from v4.13.4 to v4.13.5
FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for MS Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Major updates improve network bootstraping and peer discovery. 4.13.5 includes improvements on the Chatroom tab, Audio Previews and more.
Other improvements have taken place for the FrostWire build process (for developers this means true One-Step builds for all versions). Updates on translations have been made thanks to the feedback from users in Poland and throughout Latin America. .
In more detail users can expect the following:
Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping. No more “Starting Connection…” problems, first time users will connect faster without using the official FixConnecting.zip patch.
Smiley Support to the chatroom
Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.
Bug Fixes and other improvements for this release also include:
FrostWire Message Update System improved. Per community request, some announcements will not be shown more than once so the user is not annoyed upon every application launch
Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
Fixed i18n system error for systems which default language is not english
Potential bugs related to deprecated code gone
Users can find now by details without the auto-focusing problem.
