LimeWire 3.6.6 Released

Here’s the lengthy list of new features for LimeWire 3.6.6 over the current 3.5.8 release.

- The major improvement in 3.6.6 is the use of “out-of-band” replies to your searches. Out-of-band replies means that you will get your search results more quickly and more efficiently, particularly on searches for rare content.

- Several pro-only improvements that significantly improve the searching and downloading experience for pro users. Pro users will receive more search results, and they’ll be able to download more quickly.

- A super-cool new native OSX installer.

- A new “tip of the day” feature that cycles through helpful tips on using LimeWire.

- OS X users will now have the option to automatically run LimeWire on system startup, just as Windows users currently do. This feature is limited, however, to 10.2 users who have installed the Java 1.4 update. If you haven’t installed the update, you should do so.

- LimeWire will now automatically sort search results by the size of the result group because you have a better chance of download success by downloading from larger groups.

- A fix for a bug when downloading a file with only differences in case from the name of an existing file on disk — this would cause failures on operating systems that are case-sensitive, such as OS X.

- Changes on OS X startup to ask the user to enter their language preference. This allows us to use the standard OS X installer for international versions in addition to the english version.

- We’ve added a number of new default extensions of file types to share, including bz2.

- Switches to the standard application closing behavior on OS X running Java 1.4 or above (we now send LimeWire to the dock when you hit the “X”).

- A new LimeWire Pro theme that is only available to pro users.

- Fixed the “too many open files” problem on OSX.

- Better, more efficient handling of upload slots and search results.

- Fixes issues with iTunes scripting, for which we owe yet another big thanks to Roger Kapsi for his excellent work.

- Adds the preliminary architecture to more robustly determine whether or not you’re firewalled.

- A fix for a hanging problem on OS X 10.1 related to our new iTunes integration

- We will now display a message at the bottom of the screen indicating that LimeWire has located a newer version on the network. LimeWire used to only notify you the next time you started the program.

- We now reserve 3 ultrapeer and 3 leaf slots for non-LimeWire clients.

- Stabilized download handling so that the “#” column in downloads does not fluctuate as much.

- “AppleEvent timed out” errors are now ignored on OS X since they are harmless.

- Fixed various problems with our implementation of the MAGNET protocol, which allows LimeWire to handle MAGNET links from web pages, particularly with multiple attempts to download the same file.

- Fixed problem with downloaders downloading twice from the same host.