- 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 (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