LimeWire 4.9.7 Beta
 

The LimeWire 4.9.7 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.

Important: LimeWire 4.9.6 Beta was D.O.A. If you happened to download it, please download 4.9.7 now.


Changes in this version include:

* Magnet link fixes for OSX, thanks to Roger Kapsi - LimeWire should now correctly start a magnet download with a single click
* If you hold Ctrl, Shift or Alt while resizing a column it will resize in new ways - give it a try :) Thanks to Miguel Munoz.
* Resuming downloads was accidentally broken in previous betas. This beta fixes it.
* Various fixes to the update functionality.
* Some changes that should address the problem of LimeWire dropping all connections and refusing to connect without restart
* Updated translations

Thank you for helping us with the beta test cycle, and don't forget to turn on Notifications for new betas! :)

-The LimeWire team

Both Fabion & I have the identical complaints about this version. Difficult to connect to hosts. At startup it quickly rushes thru the incompletes & all are either 'Need More Sources' or 'Waiting for busy hosts' (a large no!!!) So then we are forced to manually search the topics or resume/find sources. Of this both have had limited success. In one day i've had a max of one downld/time, & fabion a max of 4. What's more, the speeds have been very limited for both of us. And for fabion he is used to very hi speeds!

With LW 4.8.1 I am conditioned to downlds starting within LW unassisted 2/3 of times. The betas have not done this (with the exception of the 1st beta on only the very 1st occasion.) And if things are not so good, then a browse finds those sources, but browses are not only harder to find but less effectual.

LW 4.9.7 seems less effective than LW 4.9.5 which is less effective than LW 4.8.1 for my normal use of LW.

I'm not sure about the logic that we need to use the Resume/Find more sources function to get out incompletes started again & even that with less effectiveness than LW 4.8.1

I realise the NIB or whatever it's called has allowed some changes but, I think something's been unnecessarily sacrificed here.

I confirm the bug of LODR.

LODR: minutes ago I told the devs on IRC about that issue :)

The logic of downloading was changed so that LimeWire would remember fewer sources between sessions, but those sources would be of higher quality.

This is a necessary step because now LimeWire quickly discovers pretty much all the hosts on the network that have had at least a part of the file at one time or another, and that number is usually very large. It would take too much room for LimeWire to remember every single download source it ever heard of between restarts, so it only remembers those it successfully downloaded something from.

It is not so much a sacrifice as a different tuning - LimeWire may seem to perform a little worse for downloads which are resumed after a restart, but will perform better for newly started downloads.

LimeWire 4.9.7 Beta
 

Hi

In skin, Metal, backgrounds Show/Hide, Apply Skins & Change Language is transparent... When I choose skin Black Theme and next Metal, Windows Classic or Windows Theme backgrounds Quality, #, Filename etc. is black! In skins: Metal, Windows Classic or Theme, when I click on Search LimeWire's logo is some strange... :)

Sorry too all errors, but I poorly speak English. ;)

Pretty much any theme problem can be fixed by restarting in that theme.

I don't think this bodes well. I've found that a cannot let Limewire run 24/7 (it uses too much in resources). Which mean periodically I need to shut it down before a download is completed. What you are telling me is that the likelyhood of me successfully completing the download will now go down. I've also found that serving as an ultrapeer gives me poorer search results and than when I am a leaf. Limewire also uses up so much bandwith and resources as an ultrapeer that I can hardly search the net. (Im using a 1.8GHZ P4M with 1GB of memory) So even though I have been willing to be a ultrapeer to benefit the network in the past I wont now because I see no advantage to it. Also I am a Pro-Beta user.

The memory used while running as an ultrapeer should be reduced greatly from the 4.8 series. Are you noticing such change?

With respect to downloads, if you start a manual search or click on "Find more sources", LimeWire will perform as if it were a new download - i.e. better than 4.8.

It seems to me about the same. Regarding downloads thank for the update. Have noticed any difference between searching for files as a leaf or an ultrapeer.

Shawn

Double-check your changes to make sure they're for the better
 

I suspect the programmers don't realise exactly how much this has affected the normal users of LW. You should test your changes before making them permanent! I certainly wouldn't buy pro if i was getting results like i'm getting now. I don't believe i need to put it any more clearly. LW was fine before, if you need to reduce certain things to make it more gnutella client community compliant then please say.

As it stands, LW is quite a different program than it was before & requires a totally different approach than any previous version. On top of that, it means that users need to know & understand the most advanced skills of using LW in order to make it work let alone continue incomplete files which now have a "lesser" chance of completing & more & more incompletes will basically become obsolete b/c LW won't recognise or remember the previous hosts.