The file loading (hashing) is intentionally throttled to avoid using all the CPU. Hashes are cached, however, so the second load should be really fast--much faster than previous versions of LimeWire.

The LimeWire 2.5.3 beta is now available at http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/download_beta. PRO users can download it from their personal download page. We now have French and German versions available online, so any feedback on translations is welcome.

2.5.3 is virtually identical to 2.5.2 except for a few minor bugfixes:

• Fixed installer to avoid PUBLIC_SEARCH_BITZI_LOOKUP problems if installing over previous versions.
• Fixed tgz and zip installers to include RunLime.jar
• Fixed NullPointerException and IndexOutOfBoundsException problems
• More robust behavior if can't write incomplete download files.
• Replaced "hartes Laufwerk" with "Festplatte" in German translation. :-)

As always, thanks for helping!

-Christopher Rohrs

I would suggest to translate the license agreement. I couldn´t check the prog itself because I got a bug report and it switched to English...

I mailed the report to your mentioned address...

Morgwen

Is there any law that says that German people shouldn't be made to laugh?


Oops! I'm making off-topic posts in an already long thread. I deserve to be flamed! Any trolls out there who'd care to take a shot?

Hey I know this is not a top priority thing but ever since you limited the number of connections i want to the network it will not remember how many each time I start up. I have a T1 line set up and I use 10 connections everytime but I have to type it in because the default is always 2 or 3. Even though it sais 10, I have to retype the 10 to get it to actually connect to 10.

Agian this is not big deal but can you guys maybe have it remember my prefrences as far as how many connections I want. Since your on a Beta run it would not be that much to add it in the next beta.

Thanks.

LW version 2.5.3 Beta Pro

I have to agree with Zerics, the number of connections should stay the same throughout every shutdown, otherwise its just annoying. ( Crosses fingers for having this in 2.5.4 (Final???))

Been running Limewire 2.5.3 on Mac OS 9.2.2 for the last few days. It looks pretty stable and resumes well. No resumed downloads have started over from 0 like they used to. I tried repeatedly killing and re-requesting files (sometimes with different names or from alternative hosts) with no problems. So it looks like the HUGE implementation has kicked in nicely.

People are downloading from me like mad, even though I'm on 56k, so my files are obviously visible on the net - perhaps more so than before.

Like others, I still haven't found any other 2.5ers to try Browse Host. But I'm sure they'll appear.

A minor bug: I've noticed up to four occurences of the same file being uploaded by the same IP (ie. four identical readings occupying four upload slots). I don't know whether this would be due to LW or the downloading client. I had never seen this before. I have since reduced the max-upload-slots-per-IP to one, so this no longer occurs.

Another small issue is that some downloads keep stopping:
They stop (requery), instantly restart when I re-request them (kill and double click on the search result) then stop again a few seconds later. You would expect downloads to stop because the host is no longer available or because it has used up all of its bandwidth - in which case it wouldn't restart immediately. Odd. If it's a small file then I might sit there re-requesting it each time this happens until the d/l is complete. I suppose the owners of the host could be killing the upload manually, which would be logical if I were hammering them for 10 files simultaneously. But usually, since I'm on a 56k modem, I only d/l one file at a time and rarely more than 5mb so I can't see why they would take such exception to me (other than for uploading so slowly). I don't know.... maybe the colour-scheme of some clients makes people bad-tempered.

Again, I have no idea whether this issue is LW related or not, but it's another new one.

The beta versions include new features and protocol enhancements that are not currently in the release version.
Both Basic and Pro versions have their 2.5.x Beta version (the current release is 2.4.4).

About the 2.5.x beta versions:
The German translation was produced by a native German speaker. But there may still be some quirks in the beta translation. The French translation is tested since several months.
There will be also a Spanish translation from a native Spanish speaker. And may be a Dutch version if some Dutch translator helps us to revise the current translation.
Support for other non European languages is in progress.
Translations can be added and tested on 2.4.x versions of LimeWire, by extracting files from the 2.5.x message bundles in the LimeWire lib subdirectory, and editing your limewire.props file to set an alternate language such as "fr", "de", "es", "nl".
Portuguese (po) and Italian (it) translators are welcome to contribute a translated MessagesBundle from either the English or French messages which both are up to date !
Submit your translations by writing to this forum.

I've been running 2.5.3 for a few days on W2k, sharing about 215 files, cable modem through Linksys router.

1) When LimeWire is open, I notice that there are frequent, almost constant hard drive accesses (about one every 3 to 5 seconds). Looking at the process monitor, javaw.exe is eating up 20 to 35 megs of memory most times, and i can watch CPU usage jump from 0% to around 10% each time the drive is accessed. I'm not downloading, and no one is uploading, so I can't figure out why it's reading and writing so much. This has been a problem before, but it went away after I left the program running for a few hours. I left it overnight last night, and it's still making noise today.

2) Maybe it has something to do with all the shoddy Morpheus UPs, but I'd estimate that 95% of my downloads attempted from 2-4 star results immediately end up in Requery mode. The only reliable success I have is with one-star hosts that happen to be busy at the time. Perhaps 2.5 final could have a vendor filter...

Haven't had much trouble other than that (but I also haven't had any incredible 8 host downloads either )

Brandan L.

Oops.

3) "Exit after Transfers" doesn't seem to work either, but I don't think it's worked in previous versions. Very minor detail.

Brandan L.