We've just released the LimeWire 3.3.3 beta. You may have noticed that we also released 3.3.1 and 3.3.2. LimeWire 3.3.1 included several minor bug fixes over 3.3.0, and 3.3.2 was a short-lived version that I posted to our web site for about an hour today but never linked to, as it included a minor but very aggravating bug.

Gettting back to 3.3.3, though, this is a significant release for only a minor version change. 3.3.3 completely overhauls the XML query processing code, improving its performance tremendously. With this version, you should see a significant performance improvement if you're sharing a lot of files. We've got several more nice changes coming along as well, such as important changes to the download mesh, but we're trying to keep churning out new code to everyone as quickly as possible so you can immediately see the benefits of new features.

In our profiling, XML query processing takes up about 95% less CPU, which becomes increasingly significant the more files you share.

As always, thanks for everyone's help with the beta.

-LimeWire Team