LimeWire 4.1.1 Beta
 

The LimeWire 4.1.1 Beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta Page.

There is no Mac Classic release for LimeWire 4.1.

LimeWire 4.1.1 is the first of a series of betas that will build up to the release of LimeWire 4.2. LimeWire 4.1.1 includes only the first batch of many changes that will be included in LimeWire 4.2.

LimeWire 4.1.1 includes:

- A new 'Direct Connect' search that allows you to browse a host directly.
- A brand new "file view" that allows you to easily share files with friends, by giving them a simple URL. Friends can choose to download either via the web or within LimeWire itself. You can access this by selecting a bunch of files in the library, right-clicking and choosing 'Web Page for Files". The option will only be available if LimeWire detects that friends will be able to make a connection to your computer. All access is controlled by a password that is generated each time LimeWire is started.
- Support for 'brushed metal' on OSX 10.3+. Just choose the 'Brushed Metal' skin!
- New sort arrow icons for OSX that look more like the native icons used by other OSX programs, contributed by Roger Kapsi.
- A completely brand new (and much prettier!) 'Annotate' interface for audio files, contributed by Roger Kapsi.
- Support for reading metadata from M4A & OGG files, and writing metadata for OGG files.
- The ability to have typing on a table automatically select and move to a row that matches what you typed for. For example, if you have search results for, "LimeWire, BearShare, or BitTorrent", typing 'L' will move to & select the row with LimeWire', typing 'B' will move to BearShare's row, and typing 'B' again will move to BitTorrent's row. (Alternatively, typing 'Bi' would also move to BitTorrent's row.)
- Support for using command C, V, X and A in tables for copying, pasting, cutting & selecting all rows when using OSX.
- The ability to hit 'enter' to initiate the default action for a table (such as downloading in the search results, launching in the downloads, browse-hosting in connections, etc..) instead of requiring a button is clicked or double-clicked.
- A new progress bar when starting LimeWire, to show that LimeWire really is doing things!
- Much faster download connections to hosts that require a push. This is done by using UDP to send the initial push request to either push proxies or the host itself.
- Extremely optimized hashing calculations (both SHA1 & Tiger), contributed by Philippe Verdy. In some cases, files can be hashed over twice as fast!
- The server side of a new addition to downloads that will allow partial file sharing to scale to a greater number of users.
- Notification to Ultrapeers to stop sending queries while LimeWire is already completely full handling upload requests, contributed by Gregorio Roper.
- A new (turned off by default) search result column that displays the time the file was added to the network. Note that this will only work if the replies were returned from newer LimeWire clients.
- An additional option for throttling bandwidth of downloads, contributed by Eugene Romanenko.
- Faster loading of the Tips of the Day.
- Removed the 'compression' options, since compression should be used by everyone.

LimeWire 4.2 is going to contain a whole slew of features that will make LimeWire easier to use and perform even better than it used to. This release has a lot of new code, so we'd appreciate everyone's help in ironing out any bugs, and of course more suggestions for features.

Thanks to all the open-source contributors and the beta testers!

Thanks.
The LimeWire Team

Salut Sam, great!. I was waiting that you release the beta before telling you bugs I have with my compiled CVS version.

1)resizing down to a certain extent the LW window in os x loose the connection status bar as well as the bottom buttons.

2)the file view in browser doesn't support accentuated caracters as é, è, à and show interrogation marks.

3)when the ISP change the IP address while LW is running, LW retain the old IP address as a X-alt source. I got up to 22 sources for non uploaded files over a week and those 22 sources were all my old IP addresses. Pretty easy to fix I guess.

All for now. Merci beaucoup! :)

PS1: when will the console tab will appear? This could help a lot test the betas.
PS2: about mac classic, there should be an advisory in the Pro registration process so those users don't get rip off. I agree to drop 1.1.8 java support, but since you have paid customers, be vigilent if you want to avoid problems.

Great changelog once again, and I'm looking forward to trying out all these impressive developments, especially the copy/paste and browser developments.

Any pointers on which versions to test for hashing speeds? I'd been reading about Philippe's optimizations for a while, but wasn't sure when they were integrated.

Just a quick note: Tried to install, but no error message came up. Here's the console entry:

Quote:

Copying /Volumes/LimeWire/Install LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Install LimeWire.pkg to /tmp/LimeInstallation/5018 mkdir: /tmp/LimeInstallation/5018: Permission denied cp: /tmp/LimeInstallation/5018: Permission denied Checking Pro/Free 2004-07-01 12:43:42.488 open[5023] No such file: /tmp/LimeInstallation/5018/Install LimeWire.pkg

Deleting the /private/tmp/LimeInstallation/ allowed the install to proceed.

Metal OSX theme: dragging the upload bandwidth slider also drags the preference window (workaround--using the arrow keys on the keyboard).

stief, do you use fast user switching and have you rebooted your machine since your last LW installation?

Hi Roger

Nice icons and arrows (haven't tried the annotation much yet)

yes, fast user; and no, no reboot for a few days.

hehe, thanx - it's all a preparation for the next big thing(tm). :D

oh and is there a chance that you installed LW on a different account than this time?

The following steps are necessary to reproduce this:

Install LW on account A
do not reboot in the meantime
switch to account B and try to install LW

Hi Roger--lots of goodies to try :)

I wanted to try out the weblink by mailing you a picture link, but in the annotation window--couldn't select a portion of the filename (seemed to be the metal theme drag problem). I'll try again.

Anyway, the install problem reproduced as you instructed (I also logged out of the previous account).

Deleting the LimeInstallation folder allowed the install to proceed, but this time also the console noted a Finder crash as well

Quote:

Date/Time: 2004-07-01 14:57:59 -0600 OS Version: 10.3.4 (Build 7H63) Report Version: 2 Command: Finder Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder Version: 10.3.1 (10.3.1) PID: 335 Thread: 0 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Here's a picture of one of the kid's pets if anyone wants to try the link. Let me know how the bandwidth speeds go.

now-dead link edited

I'm not sure how the password works :confused:

Worked great Stief! On this exemple http://x.xxx.x.xxx:6346/get/235/546489/allo.txt, the password is a number, 546489 in that case. If you restart LW the "password" will change. 235 is the number assigned to the file allo.txt. If I type http://anip/gnutella/file-view/apassword/ I'll see all the shared files of that IP.

Ciao