We have just released LimeWire 2.6.1 beta. This version fixes bugs found in 2.6.0, so thanks for everyone's feedback on those. We've reverted back to the old player for now, as we were unable to quickly resolve the issues with the newer one. LimeWire 2.6.1 beta is available at the same url as always:

http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download_beta

Otherwise, the new features are the same, including:

- now connects to the network using GWebCache, a distributed connection system
- includes more statistics, such as showing the number of replies sent for files, the number of uploads for files, the number of alternate locations for files, and the user agent for uploads
- on Windows, we wrote a LimeWire exe launcher that dynamically searches for the most recent JVM available on your system each time you run it -- you will no longer have to re-install LimeWire when you install a new version of Java
- many important bug fixes, particularly to uploads and the installers
- LimeWire is now available in many new languages, including Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, simplified Chinese, and Swedish

As I mentioned previously, we're also working on several really important projects for future releases, such as upload queuing and a new searching system that will improve overall search performance by several orders of magnitude.

Thanks very much.