Version history for LimeWire Basic for Linux
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Changes for v5.6.0 Beta - v5.5.16
- Updated interface for smoother navigation
- Faster BitTorrent downloads
- Improved performance
Changes for v5.5.14 - v5.5.15 Beta
- Anti-Virus Scanning
- Bug Fixes
- Anti-Scam Features
Changes for v5.5.13 - v5.5.14
- Updated translations
- Bug fix
Changes for v5.5.10 - v5.5.13
- Performance Enhancements
- Updater optimizations
- Update the installer for the LimeWire Toolbar (Powered by Ask) for Windows systems.
- Bug fixes.
Changes for v5.5.9 - v5.5.10
- Updated interface for smoother navigation
- Faster BitTorrent downloads
- Improved performance
Changes for v5.5.9 - v5.5.10 Beta
- Anti-Virus Scanning
- Bug Fixes
- Anti-Scam Features
Changes for v5.5.8 - v5.5.9
- Fix a bug in which a Browse Host of a host sharing a lot of files would lock up LimeWire.
- Change default settings in the setup wizard.
Changes for v5.5.7 - v5.5.8
- Fix a bug in which an incomplete download sometimes wouldn't restart.
Changes for v5.5.6 - v5.5.7
- Updated interface for smoother navigation Faster BitTorrent downloads Improved performance
Changes for v5.5.5 - v5.5.6
- Updated interface for smoother navigation
- Faster BitTorrent downloads
- Improved performance
Changes for v5.5.5 Beta - v5.5.5
- Updated interface for smoother navigation
- Faster BitTorrent downloads
- Improved performance
- Update LimeMan splash screen.
- General bug fixes.
Changes for v5.5.4 Beta - v5.5.5 Beta
- Anti-Virus Scanning
- Bug Fixes
- Anti-Scam Features
Changes for v5.5.3 Beta - v5.5.4 Beta
- Anti-Virus Scanning
- Bug Fixes
- Anti-Scam Features
Changes for v5.5.2 Beta - v5.5.3 Beta
- General bug fixes for activating LimeWire PRO.
- General bug fixes for Anti-Virus protection powered by AVG for Windows.
Changes for v5.5.1 Beta - v5.5.2 Beta
- Add the ability to upgrade Basic to PRO without re-installing.
- Fix a bug in which many quickly launched searches creates an exception.
- Fix an animation exception when adding or removing search result tabs.
- Allow the spacebar to pause audio.
- Fix a bug in which launching a file stops audio playback.
Changes for v5.5.0 Beta - v5.5.1 Beta
- Add a keyboard mapping to allow you to delete a file when in the Library, Image, and refresh the in client browser with F5 (thanks Misagh Moayyed).
- Fix a bug in which sorting the download items was broken.
- Fix a bug in which similar search results would lose their group.
Changes for v5.4.6 - v5.5.0 Beta
- Update the download tray thanks to user feedback. Introduce Advanced filters. Rewrote BitTorrent support to use libtorrent.
Changes for v5.4.7 - v5.4.8
- Update the installer for the LimeWire Toolbar (Powered by Ask) for Windows systems.
Changes for v5.4.6 - v5.4.7
- Added the option to install the LimeWire Toolbar (Powered by Ask) for Windows systems.
Changes for v5.4.5 Beta - v5.4.6
- Updated interface for smoother navigation
- Faster BitTorrent downloads
- Improved performance
Changes for v5.4.3 Beta - v5.4.4 Beta
- Update the LimeMan splash screen.
- Save the sort order for the Download and Upload tray between LimeWire sessions.
- Video Support:
- Fix numerous exceptions with video support in the LimeWire Media Player.
- Let the space bar pause playing a video in normal screen mode.
- Prevent a video from repeating when playing.
- Allow you to view 'Lists I'm Sharing' when viewing a video.
- Seek within a video when viewing in Mac OS X.
Changes for v5.4.2 Beta - v5.4.3 Beta
- Implement open source contributor Gregorio Roper's Matching TigerTrees to SHA-1 patch to improve downloads.
- Increase the number of videos the LimeWire Media Player can play with Windows 7. The Windows 7 integration is in the early stages; please let us know through the LimeWire Forum when you find bugs.
- Added keyboard short cut keys for the Media Player when viewing videos in full screen mode (Space bar to pause/resume and ESC button to exit).
- Fix exceptions when viewing videos in the Media Player for Mac OS X.
- Fix an exception when browsing to a file in Windows.
Changes for v5.4.1 Beta - v5.4.2 Beta
- Update the download tray thanks to user feedback. Introduce Advanced filters. Rewrote BitTorrent support to use libtorrent.
Changes for v5.3.6 - v5.4.0 Beta
- Update the download tray thanks to user feedback.
- Introduce Advanced filters.
- Rewrote BitTorrent support to use libtorrent.
Changes for v5.3.5 Beta - v5.3.6
- Update translations.
- Fix a bug in which an out of date English name for the Galician language was displayed in the drop down menu.
- Fix splash screens (off by a pixel).
- Better handle errors when unable to get Windows startup menu location for launching LimeWire on system startup.
Changes for v5.3.2 Beta - v5.3.3 Beta
- Add a a setting for the maximum number of seeding torrents so that the torrent upload list will not grow forever.
- Rotate various 'Upgrade to Pro' notifications for Basic users.
- General bug fixes.
Changes for v5.3.0 Beta - v5.3.2 Beta
- Add prioritize files ability within a torrent. You can set the priority of which files to download first and can set which files not to download at all.
- Friend notification when using the Facebook service with Friends.
- Update to the file information dialog box.
- Fix the Media Player.
- Fix a bug when the splash screen would cause an exception on system startup.
- Fix a bug when restoring LimeWire from the Mac tray with the splash screen visible.
Changes for v5.2.13 - v5.3.0 Beta
- BitTorrent updates:
- Retain seeding torrents on LimeWire restart
- Fix more BitTorrent library loading issues
- Upgraded to libtorrent version 0.14.5
- Torrent downloads are checked for dangerous files.
- Increase speed on a cold startup.
- Remove some unnecessary Singleton usage in UI.
- Change Guice environment from Production to Development to prevent @Singletons from being eagerly loaded.
- Obscene content filter.
- Don't allow spam results to be downloaded until they've been unmarked as spam.
- Keyword filters are applied to browses and XML metadata.
- Add the ability to rename a file.
- Fix OS X launcher.
- Re-write chat so it isn't initialized on LimeWire startup.
- Fix receiving duplicate chat messages.
- Fix a bug that allowed friends to download more than 3 files at a time.
Changes for v5.2.10 - v5.2.13
- Remove chatting through Facebook accounts support.
Changes for v5.2.8 - v5.2.10
- Remove chatting through Facebook accounts support; Facebook prefers you to use the Facebook website for chatting.
Changes for v5.2.8 Beta - v5.2.8
- Fix a bug in which LimeWire Store downloads weren't added to iTunes for Mac OS X.
- Make sensitive folders unmanageable.
- Updated the splash screen.
- Various bug fixes.
Changes for v5.2.4 Beta - v5.2.5 Beta
- Update the download tray thanks to user feedback.
- Introduce Advanced filters.
- Rewrote BitTorrent support to use libtorrent.
Changes for v5.2.3 Beta - v5.2.4 Beta
- FaceBook integration with Friends for Windows and Linux.
- Media player includes Shuffle.
- Reintroduced the keyword filter for files in the Library.
- Limit the number of parallel browse hosts to avoid locking up LimeWire.
- Status tray displays progress of files being processed when adding files.
- General bug fixes.
Changes for v5.2.2 Beta - v5.2.3 Beta
- No more sidebar and the Library is 'flatter'; files of different types are shown, but you can filter to see a specific type (for example, if you filter on Images, you see a thumbnail of images) .
- Introduced default Lists (Public Shared and Private Shared) along with the ability to create more lists.
- The Options dialog box was updated and includes additional 'Learn more' links.
- Seeing what you are sharing by clicking "Sharing # files" to see 'What I'm Sharing'.
- Improved start up time.
- Added first sign on to Friends overlay messages.
- Downloads improvements.
- Numerous bug fixes for BitTorrent and the download tray.
- Browsing the files from multiple computers at once.
- Multi-select ability for search results.
- Known Issues
- The media player is not working in this release.
- Browses files from multiple hosts with many files locks up LimeWire.
Changes for v5.2.1 Beta - v5.2.2 Beta
- Faster startup time. (It will be improved even more in future betas.)
- Improved libtorrent bittorrent integration.
- Fixes to work better on Windows 7.
- Updated Windows & OS X installer.
- Detect more spam.
- Remove chance of false positives when scanning for malware.
- Various other features & bug fixes.
Changes for v5.2.0 Beta - v5.2.1 Beta
- Replace the LimeWire torrent code with libtorrent. Wrote java/C++ wrapper code to interact with libtorrent libraries.
- Fixed Advanced Filters bugs.
- Rewrite File Info dialog box to fix bugs and clean up code.
- Add viewing Browse Host and number of sources in the Downloads tray for a download.
- Update to Miglayout 3.7 and fix bugs resulting from update.
- Update to latest httpclient, httpcore and guice snapshots.
- General bug fixes.
Changes for v5.1.2 - v5.2.0 Beta
- Update the download tray.
- Introduce Advanced filters.
- Reintroduce Browse Host in Uploads.
- Don't limit the number of downloads for a Friend.
- Support moving completed torrents to the Completed Files directory.
- Fix a mouse movement bug which caused search results to move.
- Fix a bug found through the forums in which "Block Address" placed obfuscated IP addresses in the Block Hosts list instead of the IP addresses they represent.
- Add additional file extensions to Documents.
- Update translations.
- Add hyperlink to translation page from Options page.
- Add file size to View File Info box.
- General code clean up (remove unused imports, add @Override annotation and better exceptions).
- Add a DOS run script.
- A ton more unit tests.
- Fix failing test cases.
- Use Ivy for builds.
Changes for v5.1.3 - v5.1.4
- Fix a bug with the single file sharing widget. Remove the check box for the multi file sharing widget. Fix a rendering bug with the share widget. Minor UI updates, for example, right aligning the Length column header. Fix a bug where the Mojito tab wouldn't show you joined the Mojito DHT unless you had the Advanced Tools window open.
Changes for v5.1.2 - v5.1.3
- Fix a bug with the notification dialog.
Changes for v5.0.11 - v5.1.1
- Performance improvements for sorting files.
- Fix an uploads bug.
- Add Location as a column which lists the file's path.
- Improve loading time for files in My Library.
- Add Advanced Search where you can limit results using specific fields in searches.
- Fix a bug when viewing Options froze LimeWire.
- Add Quicklist to organize playing audio files.
- Fix a memory leak after downloading files from a search result.
- Updates to make it easier to see what you are sharing.
- Connection improvements in which we delete gnutella.net if the file is more than two weeks old and fall back to bootstrap hosts..
- Numerous bug fixes.
- Fix a problem that was causing out-of-band querying to be shut off, which should result in more search results, and as a side-effect should reduce the number of spam results.
Changes for v5.0.9 RC 1 - v5.0.11
- Fix a memory leak by removing a listener for a friend's library.
- Fix an exception when holding down the Shift key while left clicking on a column header.
- General auto complete fixes.
- Fix illegal state exceptions when not connected to the Jabber service.
- Fix notifications when a friend is typing a chat message.
- Disable view and launching files which can't be launched.
- Hide the player when launching audio files if the LimeWire media player is disabled.
- Remember hidden and shown classic view columns for ensuing searches.
- Remember column order in the classic view search results for ensuing searches.
- Fix the 'From' column width for classic view.
- As reported on the forum, always push junk results to the bottom when sorting by a column in classic view.
Changes for v4.17.5 Beta - v4.17.6 Beta
- Ensure dialogs always have a visible frame so users know LimeWire is waiting for some kind of input.
- Add way to revert remote settings to default.
- Fix notification window to show regardless if Search tab is selected.
- Fix bug reports URISyntaxExceptions while trying to create URIs.
- Disable default java keywords for message extraction for translated text.
- Reduce size of compressed Mac OS X DMG to 5.2MB.
- Remove "Go PRO" for LimeWire PRO users.
- Enable removal from playlist via the 'Delete' or 'Backspace' key.
- Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
- Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
- Updated to latest HttpClient snapshot which adds fixes for aborting a connection while its waiting for an open slot from the manager and to properly release a connection back if there was an IOX connecting or reading/writing.
- Prevent unsharable folders from being listed in Options > Sharing.
- Improve wording for individual sharing, sharing extension, partial file sharing and .torrent file sharing.
- General Save folder improvements.
- Allow users to create the LimeWire folders somewhere other than in their home folder.
- Add sensitive folder warnings for the Save folder.
- Improve "New Update Available" Dialog / Messages.
- Create smoother search icon.
- For additional information, see Fisheye and JIRA
Changes for v4.17.4 Beta - v4.17.5 Beta
- Cut back logging on startup.
- Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
- Recognize flv as a video extension.
- Fix Shared File Types not being saved when chosen at startup.
- Use the DHT to locate alternate peers following tracker failure.
- Fix NPE when editing LWS songs' ID3 information. Read both ID3V1 and ID3v2 tags if they both exist; V2 tags are read first and any missing field is filled if it exists in V1 tag.
- Fix NPE when playing a corrupt file; unparsable audio files fail silently.
- Implement requerying for guid urns and use RequeryManager for urn lookups: search terms instead of search title.
- Automatically refresh the library tree when you changing the LWS directory.
- Fix continuous selection on playlist.
- Improve look of Upgrade to PRO dialog as well as making it remotely settable.
Changes for v4.13.3 Beta - v4.13.4 Beta
- Fixed storing Mojito DHT routing tables between session.
- Updated Mojito DHT to be more resilient in the face of hostile nodes in a subnet.
- Workaround freezing network activity in earlier versions of Java.
- Fixed BitTorrent to again work with HTTP/SOCKS proxies.
- Fixed FW-FW transfers to work with old BearShare clients.
- Updated hostile detection for connecting to hosts.
- Fixed potential problem with requesting invalid files from malicious query replies.
Changes for v4.12.6 - v4.12.11
- Fix an error where the "Application Data" directory was never used.
