LimeWire 4.3.0 Beta
 

Hi Folks,

We've released the LimeWire 4.3.0 beta. We have rewritten the Windows installer from the ground up, and you may encounter some problems. We are not yet advertising the beta on the main download page.

You can find the free beta release at LimeWire's Beta Page. PRO users can append the word "beta/" to their personalized PRO page to find a PRO beta.

Please let us know (in this thread) if you encounter any problems with the new Windows installer.

The new Windows installer is less than half the size of the prior installer (it's now 2.7MB), is faster, and won't break if your Window's Installer service is out of date. You must have Java 1.4 in order to use LimeWire from now on, and the installer will enforce this by downloading and installing Java 1.4 if it detects you do not already have it.

Changes in LimeWire 4.3.0 include:
- Creative Commons License integration! LimeWire now understands creative commons metadata and will allow users to view and verify Creative Commons licenses. Check out The Wired Sample CD Page for some CC licensed files. When these are in your library, you'll see a CC icon under the new 'License' column. You can right-click on the files and choose 'View License' for more information.
- UPnP support! LimeWire can now detect UPnP-enabled routers and automatically configure the router for LimeWire's optimal performance.
- Faster XML parsing. LimeWire's storing and parsing of XML metadata is completely rewritten. You may notice a difference if you're sharing large amounts of files with metadata.
- The connections tab has been updated to look nicer.
- Clicking 'Command-W' (on OSX) or 'ESC' (on all other platforms) will now dismiss dialog boxes. (Future versions will enable Command-W on OSX for the main program.)
- Startup is slightly faster.
- Changing themes now displays the splash screen of the new theme while LimeWire updates to the new theme.
- The table header for the 'Icon' column now has a pretty icon itself (instead of being blank).
- Combo boxes such as 'Genre' when searching are now sorted alphabetically.

We're going to add a few more features to LimeWire 4.3 (such as re-adding rename support, allowing users to disable UPnP, etc..) and then hopefully quickly release LimeWire 4.4 so that everyone can take advantage of the new Windows installer.

Thanks for helping us to keep LimeWire the best file sharing program on the planet!

Thanks,
The LimeWire Team

Bien. I just tried on a Windows XP sp1 machine and it installed great. I also tried UPnP and it did work great on a Linksys wireless 54G router. I first thought LW would forget to force the IP, but it did without my help. Looks great!

(Is it just me or it is difficult finding leaves when running UP since 4.2 went mainstream? Is the high UP/Leaf ratio wanted?)

Ciao

y pay for premium limewire pro when you can download it for free of limewire normal

Is the BETA called 4.1.10 by any chance?, As I cannot find the Limewire 4.3.0 BETA

Just click on the link Limewire Beta Page & you'll find it. :)

The LimeWire 4.3.1 beta is released now. You can get it at the same links as above.

Changes in 4.3.1 include:
- Updates & fixes to the new Windows installer.
- Fixed generating keywords from metadata.
- Fixed building TigerTree hashes for large files.
- Fixed clicking search with no data enterred to not cause an error.
- Fixed writing temporary files for new SIMPP data.
- Fixed writing OGG files to include a license field if one exists.

Thanks,
The LimeWire Team

What does that mean for the average user? Such as those who downld large movies.

@ lotr: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...ree#post110103

and http://www.limewire.org/pipermail/co...ry/000576.html

looks like thanks to trap_jaw once again for his work on the handling of swarmed large files.

Gregorio's change isn't what the changelog is referring to. That change is much much bigger and more involved, and will likely not be part of the quick 4.3/4.4 release. We're rushing this release because we need to get a smaller Windows installer out there ASAP. We might even settle on a 4.3.X version number and make that public, continuing more beta work in the 4.3.X series and releasing as 4.4 later on.

The changelog for 4.3.1 refers to something we broke in 4.3.0 while fixing something else that was broken since TigerTrees were introduced. The original code caused trees made out of files of a certain size to continuously fail creation (a rounding problem while dividing). We fixed this in 4.3.0 by using multiplication instead, but that caused an integer overflow. 4.3.1 contains a fix for the integer overflow. With any of the bugs, the tree would have been unusable (but would not have caused corruption). It basically would have caused any downloads of files of that size to not be able to verify against a TigerTree.

As soon as all the windows users have upgraded LimeWire can start using Java2 1.4 features like NIO :cool:.