- Major Upgrade: BitTorrent Engine replaced for a lightweight version of the Azureus BitTorrent core.

FrostWire has become a far superior BitTorrent client starting version 4.20.x now supporting:
- Trackerless Torrents (via Azureus DHT)
- Improved Magnet link support (BTIH Magnet Links)
- SuperSeeding
- +100% Faster Torrent Connection Bootstraping (No more "sources needed" for some .torrents)
- +100% Faster Torrent Downloads in some ocassions than 4.18.x
- Transport Encryption capabilities
- Improved UPnP implementation
- New Feature: The Download Manager now has a new column showing the amount of bytes downloaded per download.
- Update: The "Refresh Connections" Tool is now available even if you are Turbo Charged.
- Fixes a bug where Crash Reports would always show an old version number.

Version 4.20.7 "Torrent Joint" (July 2010)
- Improves torrent search dramatically.
- Upgrades to protect search results from spam.
- Source packaged (.dsc) for Debian/Ubuntu.

Version 4.20.6 "Torrent Joint" (April 2010)
- Upgrades Azureus Core to version 4.4.0.0 - Thanks to the Vuze/Azureus team for their hard work.

frostwire (4.20.8) stable; urgency=low

* Upgrades search, now powered with ClearBits.net results a service
that indexes thousands of legal torrent files. (formerly known as
LegalTorrents.com)
* New BitTorrent Connection Settings Available.
* New ability to configure the max. number of active torrent downloads.
* New ability to configure the max. number of peers per torrent.
* New ability to configure the max. number of torrent connections.
* New ability to configure the max. number of torrent uploads.
* Fixes torrent auto resume bug.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:16:17 -0500

Version 4.20.8 "Torrent Joint" (August 2010)

- Upgrades search, now powered with ClearBits.net results a service
that indexes thousands of legal torrent files. (formerly known as
LegalTorrents.com)
- New BitTorrent Connection Settings Available.
- New ability to configure the max. number of active torrent downloads.
- New ability to configure the max. number of peers per torrent.
- New ability to configure the max. number of torrent connections.
- New ability to configure the max. number of torrent uploads.
- Fixes torrent auto resume bug.

- Fixes bug where FrostWire would not try to open exclusively UDP tracked torrents.
- New option -Dultrapeer=1 forces FrostWire to run as Ultrapeer. Only for hackers that build FrostWire.

Welcome to the new 4.21 series. This new family of releases starts off with two big upgrades: Automatic Updates (via BitTorrent) and the new Vuze Core 4.5.0.4 for even faster BitTorrent downloads.

We also added a new feature for those users that complained about the FrostClick Promotions, If you’re not into supporting independent content creators we understand, and now you can go to the FrostWire Settings and turn the promotions off altogether. You will only see the FrostWire or FrostClick logo which is the default welcome screen of the application.

Among other very delayed ideas, 4.21 might introduce the long promised plugin platform so that you can extend FrostWire in ways we can’t possibly imagine. We know that the p2p network can be used for far more than file sharing [democratic distributed computing, social networking, gaming, and more] and we want to give you the tools to help us deliver new services on top of it. Stay tuned.

Changelog
* New auto-update support for Windows and Ubuntu.
* Upgrades Azureus Core (bittorrent engine) to version 4.5.0.4. Thanks to the Azureus Team for their hard work and support through the integration.
* New setting pane to allow user to turn off FrostClick promotions.
* Fixes issue with Application Icon. New high resolution icon now in place.

– UI-Fix: Search results you started downloading appear in blue without having to scroll.
– UI-Upgrade: Peers appear sorted by Geo-Distance if available, otherwise alphabetically by nickname.
– UI-Upgrade: Core message handling optimizations for faster UI response.
– Bug-Fix: 4 commonly reported crashes fixed.

After this update you will have a more robust, safer, faster and leaner FrostWire.

Better BitTorrent Support
The biggest upgrades done to this release address proper integration with the Azureus core. FrostWire is no longer a leech of the bittorrent network, when you restart FrostWire it will try to seed previous torrents you have downloaded and not removed, this will make the bittorrent network a lot healthier and we won’t risk having FrostWire banned from torrent trackers.

DHT Support
With the last Mac release we upgraded the Mojito DHT codebase and all FrostWire’s will now connect to it. The Mojito DHT will help FrostWire yield better results, protect itself from spam, and provide more nodes to this open DHT which can be used for many other purposes.

Cleaner Search Results with improved Spam Filters
We also went in the code base and removed a lot of never to be used code from the LimeWire codebase that will make loading time faster and memory use slightly lower. Also a lot of work went into the FrostWire spam filter, make sure you mark spam results as junk so FrostWire will learn what’s spam and what’s not.

FrostWire 5 coming this year
If there are no major issues with this release, we’ll probably release one or two more maintenance updates while we keep working on the next generation of FrostWire. We don’t plan on making any radical changes to the user experience since we don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, however we know it needs a make over. For this we have already gotten rid of the current skinning system and integrated the substance skinning project to a branch of FrostWire which you can already try if you like running FrostWire from source.

Here’s the full changelog in geek speak:
* New setting to turn off automatic installer downloads.
* New setting to limit the speed of BitTorrent downloads.
* New Galician flag added.
* UX improvements when creating new folders on the Phones and Tablets UI.
* Fixes bug when dropping files on an Android device that hasn’t been
selected.
* UX change. FrostWire will now seed torrents that have not been removed
from it’s download manager. Completed torrents now will appear as
“Completed/Seeding”
* UX change. Default save location folder in Windows Vista and Windows7 is
now the user’s default “~Downloads/FrostWire” folder.
* UX improvements when showing FrostClick overlays. No more flickering.
Overlays are now shown in an animated slideshow. More than 2 artists
can now be promoted.
* Fixes bug when copying .apk files from Android device to desktop computer.
* Fixes bug when saving torrents to it’s default Save location if that
folder has been deleted.
* Fixes bug on which removed Torrent downloads would reappear.
* Updated Mojito DHT integration. Mojito DHT is now active.
* Upgraded anti-spam mechanisms.
* Removed all remnant code related to LimeWire Store.
* Cleanup to use a single logging library.

http://frostwire.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/new-frostwire-4-21-6/

frostwire (4.21.6) stable; urgency=high

* Fixes a bug where some Debian systems that didn’t support the Icon Tray would crash on startup.
* Fixes a bug where running FrostWire for the very first time (and later) display Uploads number -1 in the bottom status bar.
* UX improvement Junk & Block. When marking Junk Results UI offers to block malicious hosts that haven’t blocked already.
* Policy update, Incomplete files are not shared by default to avoid sharing files you started downloading and didn’t want.
* Policy update, Finished downloads are not shared by default to avoid confusion between files on Shared folder versus files on Save folder.
* UX improvement, better explanation and option to turn on/off individual sharing of finished downloads (that end up in Saved Folder) during FrostWire setup wizard.
* UX improvement, when user turns off Finished Download sharing those files that were shared as individual files inside the ‘Saved Folder’ will not be shared anymore.
* UX improvement, File menu now has option to Exit FrostWire completely.
* UX improvement, File menu now says “Open Torrent/Magnet” instead of “Download Torrent/Magnet” for clarity.
* Bug Fix: The Torrent Save folder is now considered correctly, now users can set a Torrent Save folder on external drives.
* Bug Fix: Slideshow component had an issue where it would not update correctly the URL of the currently displayed slice if it had issues fetching the image file, this could in turn sometimes cause 100% CPU utilization.

frostwire (4.21.8) stable;
* Fixes a possible freeze reported by some users when the configuration
wizard is shown.
* Fixes issue when a user changes default Gnutella Save Folder
and unchecks Sharing finished downloads. Individually shared
files from the old Save Folder would still be shared.
Now all individually shared files will be unshared if you uncheck
this setting.
* Now users don't have to re-start to stop seeding after they've changed
their torrent Seeding Configuration. All torrents old and new will stop
seeding as soon as the setting is applied.
* Better wording to explain on which networks files are being shared on,
Gnutella or BitTorrent.
* Changed color of "Sharing Options" gear icon to blue, gray
icon may have seemed as if the button was disabled.
* Added "Sharing Options" gear button on Search Tab. It's only visible
once a search has been started.
* Added Help Menu options to learn about how to share/unshare files,
torrent seeding, and how to avoid being scammed into paying for
FrostWire. DO NOT PAY FOR FROSTWIRE.

Insanely faster cloud search results.
Significant memory optimizations on search result parsing and display.
Removed jDownloader libraries, less complexity, lighter app.

FrostWire developers have replaced the BitTorrent engine with the latest from the Vuze/Azureus project, they’ve also replace the java runtime with the latest one from Oracle and this should eliminate binary incompatibility issues some Windows XP users had with the 5.6.x series.
The old chat tab is gone and it’s been now replacd by an IRC Web Client so now FrostWire boots up a bit faster.
Upgrades to search include integration with Torrents.fm a new torrent index with over 3 million torrents and tens of millions of files to search from, as well as bugs and crash fixes.

frostwire (5.7.0) stable; urgency=high
* Updated BitTorrent engine from Azureus/Vuze project.
* New Torrents.fm meta search integration.
* Brings back cloud downloads by entering url on search box or open dialog.
* Chat Tab gone. Chat button now points to http://frostwire.com/chat.
Faster startup time.
-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 17 Jan 2013 00:21:30 -0500


What’s new?
Updated BitTorrent Engine to the latest code from the Azureus project along with FrostWire’s Team’s tunning and hacks for energy efficiency (as we reuse this same on code on Android)
Updated Java Runtime to fix compatibility launch issues Windows XP users were experiencing.
IRC Chat replaced for an HTML5 Chat App (Kiwi IRC), bye bye pjirc client.
New Torrents.com search engine integration.
Several UI bugs, freezes and crashes fixed.

frostwire (5.7.1) stable; urgency=high
* Wi-Fi sharing discovery improved considerably with JmDNS.
Removed cling library.
* Improvements in .torrent creation window:
1. Web seed url(s) (GetRight style) support.
2. Associate a Creative Commons license.
3. Associate a Bitcoin address for Name-your-price/tips support.
4. Associate a Litecoin address for Name-your-price/tips support.
5. Associate a Dogecoin address for Name-your-price/tips support.
6. Associate a Paypal url for Name-your-price/tips support.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:21:08 -0500

frostwire (5.7.1) stable; urgency=high
* Wi-Fi sharing discovery improved considerably with JmDNS.
Removed cling library.
* Improvements in .torrent creation window:
1. Web seed url(s) (GetRight style) support.
2. Associate a Creative Commons, Open Source, or Public Domain license.
3. Associate a Bitcoin address for Name-your-price/tips support.
4. Associate a Litecoin address for Name-your-price/tips support.
5. Associate a Dogecoin address for Name-your-price/tips support.
6. Associate a Paypal url for Name-your-price/tips support.
* Transfers and Library tables now able display Tips/Payment options column.
* Transfers and Library tables now able display License column.
* Updated Torrents.fm search engine.
* Removed Clearbits search engine, service offline for ~2 months now.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:25:42 -0500

frostwire (5.7.2) stable; urgency=high
* uTP support enabled.
* Multiple crash fixes.
* UX: playable single file torrents now can be played from transfer list.
* UX: Fixes UI Thread freeze when opening Options > Search.
* UX: Better error reporting when a torrent can't be fetched from a
magnet connection.
* Spanish translation update by @dennistobar.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:22:10 -0500

FrostWire 1.3.0 - APR/30/2014
- Upgraded BitTorrent engine with latest code from Azureus project.
- Added uTP packet congestion support.
- Added Canonical Peer Priority support. (BEP40)
- Upgraded Android SDK target to Ice Cream Sandwich's API (15 - Android 4.0.3).
Users on Android devices running older versions will have to use FrostWire 1.2.3
or upgrade their operating system to +4.0.3 to receive further updates.
- Removed cling library for Local peer discovery, switched to JmDNS compatible with
frostwire for desktop 5.7.1.
- Considerable memory handling improvements, lots of leaks fixed which should lead
to very little out of memory errors from crashing the app.
- Added optional sponsored search results by Appia.
- Minor upgrades to audio player and Frostclick.com's free promotional downloads.
- Added TPB, Torrents.fm, Monova and Yify search. Search results available only when on a Wi-Fi connection.
- Magnet URI support when touching a magnet link on a web site.
- Paste a magnet or .torrent URI on the Transfers screen to start a download.
- Some search results now have image thumbnails. More coming.
- When internet connection is dropped, ongoing transfers are automatically paused and
restored when internet connection comes back.
- Corrected file sizes on SoundCloud search results.
- Multiple bug fixes.

frostwire (5.7.3) stable; urgency=high
* New Yifi search.
* Added Canonical Peer Priority support. (BEP40)
* Fixed broken EZTV search.
* Removed apache httpclient and httpcore libraries.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Fri, 23 May 2014 16:20:00 -0500

* Fixes issues with youtube downloads.
* Recovered ability to download soundcloud urls.
* Can download entire soundcloud playlists from playlist url.
* Fixed broken Torrents.fm search.
* Updated Gson library, included the sources into our repo.

frostwire (5.7.5) stable; urgency=high
* Improved mp4 parser.
* Improved cloud search results.
* Now FrostWire runs with Java8 technology.
* Fixes player control layout issues when resizing the main window.
* Fixes soundcloud url track/set downloads.
* Fixes possible cloud download errors.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Tue, 11 August 2014 17:46:15 -0500

frostwire (5.7.6) stable; urgency=high
* New: Filter search results by file extension, source name.
* UI: Now table rows have a subtle bevel effect.
* UI: Adds support for full screen mode on Mac OSX. Thanks to Tim Farris.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Thu, 21 August 2014 23:53:35 -0500

FrostWire 1.3.7 - AUGUST/23/2014
- Japanese translation update. Thank you @naofum!
- Fixes on cloud search/download.

* New BitTorrent engine based on frostwire-jlibtorrent a

libtorrent wrapper api created by FrostWire.

* Russian translation updates.

* Multiple bug fixes.

Changes in FrostWire 6.0.1:
* Fixes YouTube download Error.
* Updated splash screen.
* Misc. bugs.
* Croatian translation updates
* Polish translation updates
* Spanish translation updates.

frostwire (6.0.2) stable; urgency=high
* Maximum concurrent torrent download settings defaults raised to 10.
* KAT search fix.
* Prevents possible out of memory error.
* Croatian translation update.
* Minor refactors

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 19 November 2014 16:26:00 -0500

FrostWire 1.4.0 - NOVEMBER/08/2014
- Replaced Vuze Bittorrent engine for frostwire-jlibtorrent,
a java wrapper to the native libtorrent BitTorrent library.
- Peak memory usage dropped 50% when searching.
- Peak memory usage dropped 16% when downloading torrents.
- Number of threads dropped 41% when searching.
- Number of threads dropped 60% when downloading torrents.
- Peak CPU usage dropped 66% when searching.
- Peak CPU usage dropped 44% when downloading torrents.
- Got rid of over 2,000 classes.
- New Shutdown feature, stops all services and activities,
FrostWire process ends gracefully.
- Upgraded Picasso library to 2.4.0.
- More responsive and stable torrent state handling experience.
- Torrent downloads start faster.
- Torrent downloads connect to more peers.
- Updated German translation.
- Updated Croatian translation.
- Updated Polish translation.
- Updated Spanish translation.
- Updated Russian translation.
- Gets rid of Transcommu.
- Project is now built using gradle script.
- Updated Preferences screen BitTorrent connection status button.
- Fixes severe startup crash on Samsung Galaxy Mini devices.
- Multiple bug fixes and crashes.

frostwire (6.0.3) stable; urgency=high
* Solves issue getting correct single file location from transfer manager.
* Improved MD5 verification. Thanks @abderraouf-adjal
* Important UI transfer related actions restored for Linux users.
* Updated frostwire-jlibtorrent libraries,
now built with older Boost 1.55, fixes Windows UI Freeze issue.
* CPU usage reduced managing transfer items.
* Croatian, Bulgarian, Polish, translation updates.
* More cleanups and refactors.

-- FrostWire Team <contact@frostwire.com> Wed, 3 December 2014 16:53:57 -0500

FrostWire 1.4.1
- Updated jlibtorrent binaries.
- Resilience to file disk permission errors causing the app to
not start in some environments.
- Improved disk I/O when persisting states of torrent transfers.
- Refactors, Cleanups and other misc. bug fixes.
- Improved user experience on transfer list actions.
- Preferences screen won't automatically kick user to search screen
when BitTorrent connectivity changes.

FrostWire 1.4.4 - JANUARY/14/2015
- Fixes Out of memory errors on MobileCore library.
- Fixes possible crash when exiting the app right after launching it.

* Fixes issues with incomplete files.
* Fixes issues importing too many songs to iTunes playlist.
+ * Fixes issue on which adding a whole torrent after starting a partial
+ download would not merge the two and continue to download the rest
+ of the torrent.

+FrostWire 1.4.4 - JANUARY/17/2015
+ - Finished transfers no longer should show as paused.
+ - Fixes issue adding a whole torrent after having added a single
+ file belonging to that same torrent to transfers. Now the whole
+ torrent will be downloaded as expected.
- Fixes Out of memory errors on MobileCore library.
- Fixes possible crash when exiting the app right after launching it.
- If storage location has ran out of space available FrostWire
will show a descriptive error message explaining why the download
has failed.
+ - Removes free apps ads from home page and sticky ads on transfer screens.

- JANUARY/22/2015
- Finished transfers no longer should show as paused.
- Fixes issue adding a whole torrent after having added a single
file belonging to that same torrent to transfers. Now the whole

FrostWire 1.4.4 - JANUARY/26/2015
- Finished transfers no longer should show as paused.
- Fixes issue adding a whole torrent after having added a single
file belonging to that same torrent to transfers. Now the whole
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ FrostWire 1.4.4 - JANUARY/22/2015
has failed.
- Removes free apps ads from home page and sticky ads on transfer screens.
- Fixes issue where toast about shared file would not go away.
+ - Fixes settings screen issue where some android devices would automatically
+ toggle the BitTorrent connection.