The long-awaited beta release of LimeWire 3.7.1 is finallly available! This version includes a number of new features and updates, including:

- Support for international searches. Users can now search for and share files for all languages!
- Better connections. This version will monitor your connections and make sure that you stay connected, addressing the connection problems affecting so many users.
- A new search progress bar in each search tab that indicates the progress of your search.
- 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.
- Fix for problem where 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 3.8.0.

That's about it. If any beta testers have been experiencing connection problems, can you specify which ISP you're on? Thanks to everyone as always for their tremendous help testing the betas.

As always, the betas are available at:

http://www.limewire.com/english/cont...loadfree.shtml

For pro users, you can access the beta from your pro download page.

Thanks again.

-LimeWire Team