The LimeWire 4.1.7 beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta Page.

LimeWire 4.1.7 adds many new features and fixes many older issues. A quick overview of changes includes...

- A brand new bootstrapping system that makes use of "UDP Host Caches" (UHCs). This lets LimeWires connect to the network faster and will reduce the load on all GWebCaches. The theory behind UHCs is that LimeWire now "shouts" into a crowd and waits to hear a response. With GWebCaches, LimeWire needed to maintain eye contact, shake hands, and have a conversation. Needless to say, a full conversation is much more intensive than a few shout outs. This new system should significantly improve initially connecting to the network.
- Massively improved firewall to firewall transfers support. LimeWire now maintains a seperate download mesh for firewalled hosts, opening up the majority of the network for easily sharing content.
- A new "Pause" button that lets you pause downloads. You can pause active downloads in favor of waiting ones, and can order the priority of waiting downloads via the new "Priority" column. To use this, just right click (or control click, on Macs) on the download column headers and choose the 'Priority' column.
- A completely new internal MP3 player (that is a tremendous improvement to the old one) and support for playing OGGs!
- You'll no longer see 'block characters' if you chose a language that LimeWire was unable to display. LimeWire will detect the invalid language and revert back to English.
- You can now choose 'Disconnect' from the File menu when LimeWire is attempting to connect to the network.
- Searching while LimeWire is disconnected or connecting will still allow the search, but also display a message warning that many results may not appear.
- All references to 'Shopping' have been removed.
- Many many smaller bugfixes, optimizations and improvements!

Thanks to all open source contributors and beta testers for your continued help in making LimeWire the best file sharing program ever!

Thanks,
The LimeWire Team