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LimeWire X - 3.8.3

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

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Version 3.8.3:	(3.9)
Selected Version:	3.8.3
Release Date:	2004-02-09
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 3.8.3):	12,323
Downloads (all versions):	2,312,414
Price:	$18.88

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LimeWire is a software tool that enables peer-to-peer file sharing on the Gnutella network. LimeWire enables the sharing, searching, and downloading of MP3 music files. LimeWire also lets users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, push proxy support for connecting through firewalls, the ability to preview files while downloading, and advanced techniques for locating rare files.

What's new in this version:

New button linking to the LimeWire MagnetMix site for promoting the use of the MAGNET protocol for efficient distribution of content on the Gnutella network.
Fixed Browse Host function for local network results.
Faster Connections on start up
Support for international searches. Users can now search for and share files for all languages!
Expect and ignore more errors while reading files (hashes, downloads) from disk.
More media types supported by default, such as "iso", "nrg", "cue", "bin", etc..
Fixed: clashing incomplete filenames on OSX.
Fixed: saving properties files.
More robustness in handling some errors related to internationalization support.
Fixed: Errors related to some OSX installation having faulty Cocoa-Java wrappers.
Rewrote the way the number of open files limit is raised on OSX in order to remove some points of failure.
- Fixed: the displayed text of schemas (audio, video, etc..) for internationalized users.
Fixed: Starting LimeWire with certain corrupt download.dat files no longer causes LimeWire to fail. Instead, the user is notified that there was a problem reading the download.dat file.
Fixed: An OSX problem where launching LimeWire would fail with the message, "The application LimeWire has unexpectedly quit." has been fixed.
Fixed The ability to detect whether or not incoming connections are allowed.
Blocked buggy servents from harming the network.
Disallowed uploading partial files if the download has been marked as corrupt.
Added more information to the "QRP %" column in the Connections tab.
Correctly block spam when received via UDP.
Ignore many common problems with sending UDP messages.
Fixed problems with the Windows LimeWire.exe that prevented some magnet links from working.
Added more information to discover why some user-initiated requerying fails.
Updated QRP handling to allow more interpretations of the specification.
Raised the default number of concurrent downloads.
Added the 'Date' header to uploaders, per the HTTP specification.
Fixed: sending of the Content-Range header in uploaders.
Added lots of debug information to a common failure regarding Alternate Locations to discover what is causing it.
Revamped iTunes integration. The user is now informed when aspects of iTunes integration fail and is told how to turn integration back on.
Updated the way bugs are sent to LimeWire's servlet.
Re-added the ability to double-click on searches in the monitor window to launch a search.
Fixed: problems caused by changing the value of the "use internal LimeWire player" setting.
Fixed: handling of invalid GWebCaches.
Fixed: handling invalid magnet links.
Improved downloading logic. LimeWire can now handle more responses. This fixes some problems with downloading from other gnutella servents and some potential problems when downloading from HTTP servers.
Fixed some handling of alternate locations.
Further improved ability to detect invalid Save Directories.
Added more debug information to a common error in downloading and sharing partial files.
Fixed problems with detecting invalid Save Directories.
Added better verification of integral LimeWire files to detect invalid installations.
Added messages to failures in the LimeWire internal player so the user knows what's happening when a song fails to play.
Added the ability for the LimeWire preferences to notify a user when a restart of the program is required for the change to take effect.
Added messaging to when a search cannot be performed because the user isn't connected to the network.
Fixed: problems related to fonts & startup on OSX.
Allowed more OOB queries to be performed, resulting in better search results more of the time.
Added message to when magnet links are invalid instead of silently ignoring them.
Fixed problems with Mac Classics and the new use of HttpClient.
Fixed: invalid handling of magnet links that was introduced in 3.7.2
Fixed some problems in the way user-initiated requeries were handled.
Fixed: a typo that resulted in some radio buttons, buttons, and checkboxes to incorrectly layout their text.
Better connections. This version will monitor your connections and make sure that you stay connected, addressing the connection problems affecting so many users.
Fixed: new search results would deselect the selected result.
The use of the Apache Jakarta Project's HttpClient open source program for making HTTP requests.
The mp3 player can now play all bitrates and performs better.
More fault-tolerant downloading.
Improved efficiency of indexing between LimeWires and other clients.
More efficient distribution of host information throughout the network.
More robust firewall detection.
Better statistics for connections.
New Linux-style release cycle. All odd release numbers are now in the beta series (all 3.7.x versions will be betas), with full releases coming as even ".0" versions. So the next official LimeWire release will be LimeWire 4.2.0.
Enhanced detection of whether or not you can accept incoming connections.
Detect more unhandled errors.
Fixed bug related to the internal MP3 player.
Even faster connection to the network.
Windows international installer fixed.
Windows installer fixed to not mess up the "upload slots" setting.