John W. Lindh
June 24th, 2005, 09:58 AM
The best just became better. Try it, now!
The LimeWire 4.9.0 beta has been released. You can download the free version from the LimeWire download page. PRO users can download the beta from their personal download page.
There are so many changes in this release; it's hard to know where to begin. I'll try listing them by the major components...
Searching:
LimeWire now recognizes more types of licenses in the search results. In addition to Creative Commons licenses, which LimeWire 4.3 added, "Weedshare" licenses and arbitrary licenses in WMA & WMV files are recognized. If you enable the 'License' column you can see if any search result had a license. You can then right-click on the item and choose to 'View License' to verify the information. As if that wasn't enough, you can now right-click on any search result and choose to 'Download As', saving the file to any arbitrary location. You can also choose to search for similiar kinds of results from a new 'Search More' submenu.
Downloading:
In a nutshell, downloads just work better. They're faster, they're smarter, and they use fewer resources. LimeWire now has vastly improved support for large files due to a highly optimized swarming algorithm. These features will continue to speed up downloads even further in the future, as more users upgrade.
Sharing:
We've gone to great lengths to make sure that you don't accidentally share files you didn't mean to. LimeWire will now detect directories that are "sensitive", prompting the user to confirm that they really do want to share them. You can also now choose to stop sharing a single file from a shared folder, or stop sharing a subdirectory of a shared folder. For users who want to share files from arbitrary locations, you can also choose to share any individual file. These files will show in a special 'Individually Shared Files' item in the library. The Library tab has also been revamped to give you more control over what you're sharing while maintaining LimeWire's famous ease-of-use .
Network Messaging:
The entire messaging architecture has been redesigned and rearchitected to use less resources and less memory. Ultrapeers should notice a significant speed and memory improvement when connected to many hosts. In the future this will allow your searches to return results faster and reach more hosts.
We've spent much of the past few months redesiging some key features in LimeWire that will allow us to add more features faster. We owe a huge thanks to the incredible LimeWire open source community. Patches have been sent in by Arne Bab, "heavy_baby", Christopher Johnson, Roger Kapsi, Ryan Keppel, Jens-Uwe Mager, Erik Meade, Chuck McNulty, Marcin Okraszewski, Eugene Romanenko, Gregorio Roper, Philippe Verdy, and Harla Yun. Countless others have recommended features or submitted bug reports.
Thanks,
The LimeWire Team
Beta Download Page (http://www.limewire.com/english/content/beta.shtml)
Complete Changelog (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39790)
The LimeWire 4.9.0 beta has been released. You can download the free version from the LimeWire download page. PRO users can download the beta from their personal download page.
There are so many changes in this release; it's hard to know where to begin. I'll try listing them by the major components...
Searching:
LimeWire now recognizes more types of licenses in the search results. In addition to Creative Commons licenses, which LimeWire 4.3 added, "Weedshare" licenses and arbitrary licenses in WMA & WMV files are recognized. If you enable the 'License' column you can see if any search result had a license. You can then right-click on the item and choose to 'View License' to verify the information. As if that wasn't enough, you can now right-click on any search result and choose to 'Download As', saving the file to any arbitrary location. You can also choose to search for similiar kinds of results from a new 'Search More' submenu.
Downloading:
In a nutshell, downloads just work better. They're faster, they're smarter, and they use fewer resources. LimeWire now has vastly improved support for large files due to a highly optimized swarming algorithm. These features will continue to speed up downloads even further in the future, as more users upgrade.
Sharing:
We've gone to great lengths to make sure that you don't accidentally share files you didn't mean to. LimeWire will now detect directories that are "sensitive", prompting the user to confirm that they really do want to share them. You can also now choose to stop sharing a single file from a shared folder, or stop sharing a subdirectory of a shared folder. For users who want to share files from arbitrary locations, you can also choose to share any individual file. These files will show in a special 'Individually Shared Files' item in the library. The Library tab has also been revamped to give you more control over what you're sharing while maintaining LimeWire's famous ease-of-use .
Network Messaging:
The entire messaging architecture has been redesigned and rearchitected to use less resources and less memory. Ultrapeers should notice a significant speed and memory improvement when connected to many hosts. In the future this will allow your searches to return results faster and reach more hosts.
We've spent much of the past few months redesiging some key features in LimeWire that will allow us to add more features faster. We owe a huge thanks to the incredible LimeWire open source community. Patches have been sent in by Arne Bab, "heavy_baby", Christopher Johnson, Roger Kapsi, Ryan Keppel, Jens-Uwe Mager, Erik Meade, Chuck McNulty, Marcin Okraszewski, Eugene Romanenko, Gregorio Roper, Philippe Verdy, and Harla Yun. Countless others have recommended features or submitted bug reports.
Thanks,
The LimeWire Team
Beta Download Page (http://www.limewire.com/english/content/beta.shtml)
Complete Changelog (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39790)