FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for MS Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Major updates improve network bootstraping and peer discovery. 4.13.5 includes improvements on the Chatroom tab, Audio Previews and more.

Other improvements have taken place for the FrostWire build process (for developers this means true One-Step builds for all versions). Updates on translations have been made thanks to the feedback from users in Poland and throughout Latin America. .

In more detail users can expect the following:

• Faster peer discovery on connection bootstraping. No more “Starting Connection…” problems, first time users will connect faster without using the official FixConnecting.zip patch.

• Smiley Support to the chatroom

Users can see the available smileys by entering the command
/smileys

Now its possible to see and use Smileys from the Community Chat tab, Smiley display can be enabled or disabled from the view menu:

Users can also toggle Smiley display directly from the chat window by typing the command
/tsmileys

• Fixed wording on Spanish and Polish translations.

Bug Fixes and other improvements for this release also include:

• FrostWire Message Update System improved. Per community request, some announcements will not be shown more than once so the user is not annoyed upon every application launch
• Fixed bugs on the media player and playlists on Preview.
• Fixed bug on search box auto-focusing while a search was running.
• Fixed i18n system error for systems which default language is not english
• Potential bugs related to deprecated code gone

Users can find now by details without the auto-focusing problem.

FrostWire 4.13.5 is expected to be the last of the 4.13.x series.

About FrostWire

FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

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Entre las descargas mas populares de este 2007 en download.com, nos colocan en el numero 4!!!

Tambien nos mencionan en un post muy gracioso en el reconocido blog Mashable

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Acabamos de enterarnos que la semana pasada entramos al top 10 de la semana en Download.com con 261,246 descargas

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Gracias a Huguito, nos enteramos que tambien escribieron en Download Squad. Haciendo mucha bulla ultimamente, no se si eso me gusta mucho, no quiero que los mafiosos disqueros miren mucho a frostwire.

Simply thanks, we have no words to describe how cool this is.

On November 20th, FrostWire gets a very positive review by CNET’s download.com, and makes it to the home page of download.com as the Killer Download of the Day

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Their review makes us very happy, at the same time, it pushes us to include new killer features that LimeWire may not be able to have in the near future, however if you follow LimeWire’s code base, it seems they’re working hard to release a web based Music Store that will be included on an embedded browser inside their client, probably in the fashion of the online iTunes store, but probably powered by P2P (we hope, if they stick to their p2p philosophy and hopefully without DRM so that files can be shared or bought, at least this worked beautifully for Radiohead).

It’d probably be a smart move by the LimeWire store to include the possibility to buy their music from outside their site (with commissions on sales of course), that way, other music sites could trigger purchases based on search, as well as other p2p clients such as FrostWire.

This feels like graduating or something similar. I can’t believe our grassroot effort after about a year of work has gone so far, far enough to make it to the Top 20 most popular software on download.com

I guess I can only thank all the users and all the people that have helped spread the word, since this is probably like 95% the work of word of mouth. Thanks, we can only feel like releasing more and more FrostWire versions for you in the near future to see if we can get on the top 10 now.

En AlexSEO escriben sobre nuestro ultimo release:

Pues llegó una nueva actualización de Frostwire y veo que durante la instalación, me preguntaban si quería instalar la barra de Ask.com.

¿Frostwire se asoció con Ask.com? Me parece un gran avance para ese proyecto opensource, ya que Frostwire es totalmente gratis y no tiene ninguna publicidad molesta como la tienen otros programas p2p. La barra de Ask.com es muy parecida a la de Google, Google está asociado con muchos otros programas en el cual durante la instalación, te preguntan si quieres instalar la barra google.

La barra ask no tiene pagerank ni corrector ortográfico como la de Google, pero tiene opciones para buscar tanto en Ask.com (general) como en la blogósfera, también tiene buscador de noticias, imágenes, productos (comparación de precios), tienes opciones para salvar las imágenes de la página que visitas o incluso la página completa, tiene diccionario, traductor, etc.

De todas formas, si descargas Frostwire, no es obligatorio instalar la barra Ask, aunque la barra Ask tiene varias opciones útiles (que nombre anteriormente) las cuales me llamaron la atención y por ello instalé la barra. De todas formas, si la instalas, la pruebas y decides que no te llama la atención, simplemente la desinstalas :)

Si estás buscando un programa p2p gratis y seguro, te recomiendo usar Frostwire ;) Yo antes usaba emule, kazaa (lo peor), pero encontré Frostwire y me parece perfecto :)

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Thanks to our community and especially to Micheal K. aka “Only A Hobo” for his continued help on the forums, supporting the community, and also for reporting the early problems with the LimeWire Update messages appearing on FrostWire.

We took a while for this fix because we decided to implement our own FrostWire Update System and not just silence the LimeWire messages. This way after 4.13.3, everytime we release a new version, everybody on the network will know about new updates.

Changes for 4.13.3 include:

* New Update Manager. Also allows delivery of special announcements to the community. And no, we won’t use this feature for spam, only for special announcements to the community, or special downloads.
* The Update Manager supports the delivery of torrent broadcasting to all the FrostWire community. This will allow us to lower bandwidth costs if we decide to distribute an upload using bittorrent trackers.
* FrostWire startup time back to normal, no more waiting for Chat window to load, the chat is now loaded on a background thread

As of 4.13.3, we are proud to announce that we’re now partners with IAC Search & Media (Ask.com/AskJeeves) on the distribution of the free Ask Toolbar. The success of this relationship will ensure the perpetual continuity of FrostWire’s absolutely free Peer-2-Peer tool and also improve the evolutionary technology behind it.

Thank you!
The FrostWire Team

On the Periodic Table of the internet that is. Great honor for FrostWire.com