You don't /have/ to get each and every release.

I like the regular releases. It lets the users know that work is ongoing (the alternative might be that you sit there for a couple of months not knowing if there is going to be another release). For the developers it gets immediate feedback on the things they have just implemented rather than waiting a couple of months until they've forgotten what they did and being swamped by a whole heap of issues.

And while some of the features in a release may not be immediately apparent to the user, they can have a significant impact on the network.

In any case, a number of the releases have had improvements that I have appreciated even if not everything is apprpriate to the way I use LimeWire.

Mark