4.9.21 Beta
 

Greetings All!

The 4.9.21 Beta has been released. As always, any and all feedback is welcome!

Justin

original post here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...120#post152120

as far as my tests show, it only appears to be doing it to the audio title. sorry for not being too clear about it.

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i think its only saving the column position if im not already in a search and i move the columns to a prefered position when there is no search active.

another thing i noticed in this version and in previous versions: the "tip of the day" appears behind limewire upon startup instead of being in the foreground.

recommendations:

tools > options > system tray: change all references of "shutdown" to "close", since this makes more practical sense.

(i also think that the options area is getting alittle crowded and should and could be better orginised.)

a small request of mine (also of many others): add the "Christian" and "Christian Rock" genres.

btw, any news on that tooltip for the filter results?

He guys you might want to give this one a try so far everything seems to work but only been running it for about 20 min. Ultrapper mode seemed a little week started with only 21 connections then a couple minutes latter it got to 27. But as soon as I started DL it drooped to 23 good DL speeds with 17 simultaneous searches 600+ all but 7 finished only one reported corrupt. The reaming 7 could not find sources. Disabled Ultrapper all but 1 of the remaining 7 finished within 5 min. From reading the post I am sure glad I wasn't home to test 4.9.20

Installed 4.9.21 PRO on my shop computer, WINXP,P4, 1.6 Ghz, 512 mb RAM,, and I only have a 56K connection here. Shame on me. But the LimeWire program is always disconnecting. Why anyone would use 56K modem is beyond me but I gave it a shot. I was using 4.8.1 and it ran fine. I barely start downloading and it deteriorates from Turbo to zilch to disconnected.

Yes, the TOTD has been a bit of a problem for quite some time. It's finally fixed for 4.9.22 (available in a few hours).

Hey guys I noticed a Major improvement in memory usage with4.9.21 haven't seen it get above 60mb in leaf mode and that is about 20 less than with previous versions.
I have been running about 5 hrs with LW open not minimized DL 10 to 18 files at a time noticed as DL complete and drop off Memory usage drops this didn't happen with other versions if you had a memory leak before you must have gotten it fixed. Or it could be the way I currently have LW configured running in leaf UP disabled UPnP enabled listening on port 6348. Haven't run it much any other mode currently trying to figure out some issues I have with file availability for UL to others.

How to be a beta tester?
 

Is there a signup or do I just download somewhere?

When I got back from town Error message lost connection behind firewall you know the one anyway there was a stack trace in the dos window. Probably not doing this right but here it is. 4.9.21

java.io.IOException: unresolved: http://www.att.com:80
at com.limegroup.gnutella.io.NIOSocket.connect(NIOSoc ket.java:292)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectAndRele ase(Sockets.java:17
7)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHard(So ckets.java:159)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHardTim eout(Sockets.java:1
10)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.connectToHost(Con
nectionChecker.java:293)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.run(ConnectionChe
cker.java:167)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.managedR un(ManagedThread.ja
va:64)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.run(Mana gedThread.java:53)
java.io.IOException: unresolved: http://www.passport.com:80
at com.limegroup.gnutella.io.NIOSocket.connect(NIOSoc ket.java:292)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectAndRele ase(Sockets.java:17
7)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHard(So ckets.java:159)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHardTim eout(Sockets.java:1
10)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.connectToHost(Con
nectionChecker.java:293)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.run(ConnectionChe
cker.java:167)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.managedR un(ManagedThread.ja
va:64)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.run(Mana gedThread.java:53)
java.io.IOException: unresolved: http://www.aol.com:80
at com.limegroup.gnutella.io.NIOSocket.connect(NIOSoc ket.java:292)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectAndRele ase(Sockets.java:17
7)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHard(So ckets.java:159)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHardTim eout(Sockets.java:1
10)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.connectToHost(Con
nectionChecker.java:293)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.run(ConnectionChe
cker.java:167)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.managedR un(ManagedThread.ja
va:64)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.run(Mana gedThread.java:53)
java.io.IOException: unresolved: http://www.gateway.com:80
at com.limegroup.gnutella.io.NIOSocket.connect(NIOSoc ket.java:292)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectAndRele ase(Sockets.java:17
7)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHard(So ckets.java:159)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHardTim eout(Sockets.java:1
10)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.connectToHost(Con
nectionChecker.java:293)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.run(ConnectionChe
cker.java:167)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.managedR un(ManagedThread.ja
va:64)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.run(Mana gedThread.java:53)
java.io.IOException: unresolved: http://www.ntt.com:80
at com.limegroup.gnutella.io.NIOSocket.connect(NIOSoc ket.java:292)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectAndRele ase(Sockets.java:17
7)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHard(So ckets.java:159)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHardTim eout(Sockets.java:1
10)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.connectToHost(Con
nectionChecker.java:293)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.run(ConnectionChe
cker.java:167)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.managedR un(ManagedThread.ja
va:64)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.run(Mana gedThread.java:53)
java.io.IOException: unresolved: http://www.level3.com:80
at com.limegroup.gnutella.io.NIOSocket.connect(NIOSoc ket.java:292)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectAndRele ase(Sockets.java:17
7)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHard(So ckets.java:159)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.Sockets.connectHardTim eout(Sockets.java:1
10)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.connectToHost(Con
nectionChecker.java:293)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.connection.ConnectionChecke r.run(ConnectionChe
cker.java:167)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.managedR un(ManagedThread.ja
va:64)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.ManagedThread.run(Mana gedThread.java:53)

Is this a spyware issue

This is getting to be more frustrating than marrying your Mother-in-Law. Speed deteriorates to nothing before disconnect on my home machine, a P-4, 1800, 1 ghz. RAM, broadband. Minor freezes. Fails to exit on prompt. Task Manager kilt it. Try again. Shows Firewall. No firewall in the way. Showed it anyways. Yea, I configured the router, EZ by CA, and Windows. Kilt EZ. Disabled Windows. Disabled Route Firewall. Hey, hackers come get me wide open..........LimeWitch says I have a firewall.......worse than the IRS. Says I owe taxes on money I never made...... damn porn all over on my searches........put up the filter......well if that is all LimeWitch is going to let me have I might as well download it.....PORN anyone.......Can you recommend a good drug??

ACID Works

i recieved the same alike error in console, post is here: http://gnutellaforums.com/showthread...502#post151502

Yeah, that's what those websites are for - LW believes those would be up all the time, so if you can't connect to them you don't have an internet connection.

So, was your internet connection working just fine when you saw those error messages? Did you have any warnings in the windows event log?

No warnings in the event log. I do not know about the internet I was not at home when it happened. The stack trace was in the dos window must have been self generated. I do know that at the point that I returned limewire was not connected but internet was working.

Ok.. do you remember if you had to restart LW to get it to connect, or was just selecting "connect" from the menu enough?

Selected connect it worked.

I had the same happen also. Left LW running overnight in the morning I had the message you do not appear to have an internet connection.

I closed the warning box, and checked LW. It was still d/l and u/l.
It was as though LW had just come out of idle mode. Only had 1 connection in the connection tab window, and showed it being connected for about 9+ hours. It was connecting to other as I was checking it.

I did not have to restart or reconnect LW.

So limewire was showing that it did not have an internet connection when in fact it had a stable ultrapeer connection? Interesting.

But keep in mind that such a warning dialog may appear at some stage, yet LW is happily going about its business. I noticed that happen many times. I turn the monitor on in the morning with LW 4.8.1 even. As you suggested, it may be a bug with the idle/sleep function.

Ah this is probably a small bug in the GUI; the "You don't have an Internet connection" window may not disappear if a connection is restored.

I'll put this on my todo list. =)

Question for everyone that had connection issues: did you see the

or the

message?

no internet connection after trying 100000 ultrapeers
 

I also get the 'no internet connection', but I'm still on 4.9.17. Sometimes even when downloading, but most of the time it's while starintg/connecting to the first ultrapeer.
(while downloading means: it's downloading, but is connected to 0 ultrapeers)

What seems to happen is that limewire tries to contact ultrapeers from whatever list it has/keeps/gets/whatever and goes through all of them, connecting to none. Then it reports no the 'internet connection' dialog. I can't tell which one of the above it is, I hope you can find out from this info.

This has been happening a lot, and seems version independant (it is why I updated from 4.8.x to 4.9.17 in the first place). It also feels like a bug more than network conditions, since it happens so much. But that isn't consistent with the fact that it started happening in 4.8.x out of the blue. A bug in other ultrapeers? (Or are some ultrapeers refusing Limewire, and are users accidentally hitting only those? Too much of a conspiracy theory I guess.)

But what then? I'm not sure... some more facts: it stops randomly as well. It happened on startup just now, I reselected file/connect, and saw it go through a million non-connectiong ones again, but it found some in the end apparently, as it's working fine now. 3 ultrapeers, 2 4.8.1 and 1 4.9.1 limewire.

hope this may help... (about to install the beta)

LimeWire 4.9.24 has been released. It contains a very minor change that we hope will make LimeWire try harder to reconnect in case it loses its internet connection.

Give it a spin - we'd like to see how long it can stay connected.

Thanks!
- The LimeWire dev team

I had the first one ZAB

@Grandpa:

Were you using the computer at the time?

sorry david, there is a no refund policy. you should have tried the free version before paying for the pro version.

just an FYI: i have been having some connection/disconnection problems every now-and-then.

1) freezing on connections when waking up the computer. (i do have a screen shot (see attachment) of this while i was acting as a leaf.) i wasnt lucky enough to be running it in debug mode to capture a stack trace :(

2) LW does not want to reconnect to the network if i remove all UPs.

3) LW seems to connect to other vendors in a rather fast connection to the network. which i thought it would only try other vendors if LW couldnt establish connections with its own subnet after a period of time.

----

other problems:

icons are still displaying the wrong icon for its condition. such as:

1) if i were to cancel a corrupt download, it will turn back into the quality stars in the search window.

2) if i download the file from one search result window, and find it in another, when the download finally completes, it will only give the window from which i downloaded it a green check which the other one still has a manilla folder.
--
sometimes limewire reverts to "need more sources" even though this file has many sources to choose from. if i press "find more sources" it will stay in the "connecting" state for ~20 secs or so, then it will immediatley start downloading this file. we have also been getting alot of complaints about resume support in LW within these forums.

an online contact of mine is showing that LW is using near 100% CPU with his configuration. i have seen this for myself using remote desktop access. i will post more about this when i get more information. (this happens everytime he launches LW and it stays like that during his whole session with it.)

***keep in mind that these bugs occur every now-and-then. i will also post more elusive bugs as i see them.

:D Maybe it's a configuration problem :D

killing an active upload will cause the current queues to back up even though there is open slots.

I can confirm that one I noticed it yesterday but forgot to put it in my post.

Limewire
 

Hey...I've been using Limewire for like a year or so now and after I was asked to upgrade (which I did) Limewire now opens by itself. When I turn the computer on it opens about 2 or 3 minutes later (not in start up folder) If I close it about 2 or 3 minutes later it opens itself up again...this was not happening with my older version of Limewire which i was very impressed with...anyone else having this problem? If anyone knows how to fix it please let me know THANKS!

Ryan

Re: Limewire
 

Sounds like you have one of the so-called p2p viruses. Known behavior includes launching p2p apps.

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...virus_k=133690

Re: Limewire
 

Sounds like you have one of the so-called p2p viruses. Known behavior includes launching p2p apps.

For instance: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...virus_k=133690

Thanks..I ran a scan and sure enough there it was :D thanks!

I was about to dload Limewire when an "Internet Explorer Security Warning" poped-up and said:


Name: LimeWireWin.exe
Publisher: Publisher Unknown

This file does not have a valid digital signature that verifies its publisher. You should only run software from publishers you trust.


What does this mean and is it common? Also what's the difference between the basic and beta versions?

The beta comes in both basic and PRO versions. You have to be a PRO customer to get the PRO beta.

Beta versions are versions that have the newest features, but aren't quite ready for "prime time" yet. They've been tested in the LW lab, but they haven't been tested on the millions of possible software configurations that are out there "in the wild".

If you run a beta version, you get the latest features, but the downside is that the latest features might not work properly with your setup. The LW developers use bug reports from the beta version and keep improving the features.

Once the problems with the beta are ironed out, it gets re-released as the official LW version.

If you want to get the latest features before everyone else (or if you just want to help the latest LW features make it into the official version faster), and are willing to deal with the possibility of the newest features not working (or the latest features causing problems with existing features), then you might like the beta version.

Thanks! :D