Some dude has posted over at VersionTracker that info is available here about what's new in these constant LimeWire updates. I'll bite. Where's this info? The boys are getting a little riled about this.

LimeWire version numbers seem to work like this:

X.Y.Z

X == A huge major change.
Y == Updates to functionality that may introduce some bugs.
Z == Fixes for bugs that were introduced in the new Y version.

So, 2.7.2 doesn't add any new features from 2.7.1, it just fixes some resource problems and bugs that people reported. When all the bugs are fixed, LimeWire changes it from 'beta' status to official and updates their main download page, reporting the new download as X.Y, leaving off the Z.

So there's no actual comprehensive list of what's been changed and/or fixed for each release so that a person can tell if it's worth bothering to download, especially since updates are released every few days. The old "someone knows but he/she/it isn't telling." Useful.

The website is generally updated to display the features when the new version goes out of beta. While it's in beta, the developers will post (in the sticky thread at the top of this forum) what the new features are. Changes in the 'Z' portion (the bug-fixes) are sometimes accompanied by posts here detailing what exactly was fixed.

For instance, Chris posted these as the new features of 2.7:

-Remote queueing: if an uploader is too busy to handle a download request, it will queue you. The uploader then serves downloads in a first-come, first-serve basis. This feature is compatible with the queueing schemes used by other vendors.

-Resume from library: you can resume incomplete files in the library with a single button press.

-Safer resumes: LimeWire keeps track of the hashes for all incomplete files. This reduces the chance of a corruption when resuming.

-No updates in 2.7.2 or 2.7.3 or beyond will add any features, they'll just fix problems that were accidentally introduced when the code changed to include these.

I don't disagree that it's useful to have the actual bugfixes listed, but it often can take much more time to describe, detail, and update a list than it can to fix the problem.

2.7.3 fixes the shared mpg problem and the issue where the Mac OS 9.x and below installer records an error.

Norm