LimeWire 4.1.7 Beta

[sberlin]

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

[et voilà]

Finally users will test something new . Great. Sam, what is the ETA of 4.2?

Ciao

[Lord of the Rings]

The Beta page still lists it as 4.1.5

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hit refresh LODR

[Lord of the Rings]

A few more skins unless I'm mistaken.

I was unable to locate the installed file in my applications folder which is where I'd expect to find it, but there was an alias on the desktop. When open it is listed as 4.1.6. In my internet apps folder where I have other versions, the only file that might be it, is listed as 4.0.5 as the parent after I did a search. I don't believe I ever used 4.0.5 Would that be it? I can't actually locate the program anywhere (except the alias) Doh I am bamboozled here! ???

[stief]

LOTR--where does the alias point if you control-click the alias to find original?

Good to see another beta out. Thanks, and here are some quick notes.

--The Pro Beta page shows size as 3.8mb; downloaded .dmg is 5.5MB

--4.1.6 installed fine, but the Console showed quite a few "unable to touch" messages. Here's the last one and a couple of other messages.

2004-10-21 17:05:48.645 runner[2424] Unable to touch /./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj: No such file or directory
2004-10-21 17:19:13.780 Activity Monitor[2497] ERROR: unable to compute major/minor units
Oct 21 17:24:47 stiefs-iBook lookupd[2301]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
authorization failed (-60008)!

--dragging the sample bug report to the desktop (clipping) switched the mouse pointer to a green globe and arrow. I don't recall seeing that icon before. A second drag just showed the usual pointer.

--first two uploads (BearShare 4.5.0.53; Shareaza 2.0.0.0) showed as "Transfer Interrupted" at 21% and 55%. Rejected hash requeries? Usually the first uploads I see complete quickly, but not this time.

[stief]

Ooooh! A new column: Priority and adjustable queue for downloads. Looks like it works as I'd expect.

If I try to download, say 100, files from one host, will it only try a few at first to avoid swamping the host?

[Lord of the Rings]

where does the alias point if you control-click the alias to find original?

By gads, it was installed in my OS9 partition. I don't remember pointing the installer there. My 1st couple of dwnlds finished very quickly no probs. My Activity Monitor labels LW process name as (null). 1.1 GB VM & 53 MB ram after just under 2hrs.

[stief]

[LOTR--I'm watching the vm too--without using the "browse host", just to get a bit of a benchmark. The VM has been rising slowly]

Sam, re the Priority controls: a control-click on the buttons would be handy to shift a file to the top (bottom) of the queue.

Also--I did some more proofreading of the TOTD entries, but the notes are a bit long. . . .

Re the menus in 4.1.6:

Exposé's F10 is sure useful--that's the easiest way to get the focus on the necessary LW window when the "About' 'TOTD' 'Prefs' stc are open

Help->Review LimeWire http://www.limewire.com/english/content/review.shtml gives "This page is temporarily disabled"

Help->Tell A Friend http://www.limewire.com/english/cont...l_friend.shtml shows that it was last updated 05/18/04

Help->FAQ-"LimeWire PRO Specific Questions -- NEW!" Good idea. Hope that cuts down on the forum requests.

The About box scrolled quite slowly and jerkily. This is unusual.

[sberlin]

4.1.7 is released now. Let us know how it works, etc...

Thanks!

[Lord of the Rings]

Gee that was quick, less than 24 hrs after 4.1.6 lol Must be getting close to 4.2 The improvements sound good
The beta page still show 4.1.5 lol Who does that job?

[sberlin]

Hit refresh on your browser.

[stief]

Review LimeWire-- http://www.limewire.com/english/content/review.shtml gives "This page is temporarily disabled"

Tell A Friend-- http://www.limewire.com/english/cont...l_friend.shtml shows that it was last updated 05/18/04

FAQ--"LimeWire PRO Specific Questions -- NEW!" Good idea. Hope that cuts down on the forum requests.

minor TOTD notes--

Be a good network participant, don't close LimeWire if someone is uploading from you.

The comma should be a colon.

If you download skin using the "magnet" links,

Should be "skins"

Columns you can choose from include, 'Title', 'Genre', 'Track', 'Length', and many more.

The 'from' is unnecessary.

Passionate about digital rights?.

Hmm--maybe add "in the USA?"

The 'hits' column in the Library will count how many times LimeWire has returned a result from someone searching for that file..

Shouldn't this be "someone searching keywords for that file"?

Sometimes the 'search' button is disabled. This happens when LimeWire is not connected to any other hosts. Choose File -> Connect and wait for the bar in the bottom-left corner to fill up.

Sometimes the 'search' button is disabled. This happens when LimeWire is not connected to any other hosts. Choose File -> Connect and wait for the light in the bottom left to glow a steady green.

Are both necessary?

[stief]

The Priority column is turning out to not be very useful. After setting a single file to the top of a 40-file list three times, it jumped back down whenever its status changed. It would be more useful if it could
--remember queue position between sessions
--remember queue position between changes in status
--control-clicking the queue buttons could jump a file to the top of the queue (clicking a file to move it up 40 lines is a pain).

Is Priority only intended to work with the Pause Downloads?

[stief]

Hey! How come this thread's so dead????

To add insult to injury, now limewire.com is telling me to use a "real browser" Well--sniff--I never!

HTTP/1.1 404 use a real client
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:14:16 GMT
Server: GhostWhiteCrab/0.7

http://gwebcache2.limewire.com:9000/gwc?browse=statgraph
Fine! I'll just take my Safari somewhere else

Seriously though--limewire.org looks a mess from outside. No Jira, bug reports, and waaaay outdated opensource credits page. I hope all is well.

4.1.7 looks pretty good (though VM has more than doubled to 1.13GB over the past 18hrs). I haven't tried to "browse host" . . . so something else is stopping LW from being an app I can run for more than 24 hrs.

btw--accessing the sample bug report after 12 hrs is one way to get the HD to thrash and LW to hang (shown in Activity monitor).

Well, off to try jum 355 and browsing/ethernet connections.