We've released LimeWire 3.6.2 in beta, available from your pro download page as well as from the free page at:

http://www.limewire.com/english/content/beta.shtml

The new version includes several important fixes, including:

- The "A new version was found.." flashing message is now correctly only displayed when a new version is really found.
- "AppleEvent timed out" errors are now ignored on OS X since they are harmless.
- There's a new option to disable out of band searching in case the user needs to turn it off because it doesn't work on their machine.
- Fixed various problems with our implementation of the MAGNET protocol, which allows LimeWire to handle MAGNET links from web pages, particularly with multiple attempts to download the same file.
- Fixed problem with downloaders downloading twice from the same host.
- Fixed problem where a servent could incorrectly use out of band searches, leading to no results.
- A super-cool new native OSX installer.

Thanks for everyone's help testing this beta, and for all the betas of the past!

-LimeWire Team

Adam,

I have a question. Would you be able to make a new installer for Mac OS 9x also like you did with OSX?

Installed and checked for the race fix with jum218--looks good: the search tabs closed properly. However, at first LW started up as a leaf--with 31 outgoing connections, even though I'd run as UP for 46 hrs on the previous session ????

Number of Ultrapeer -> Ultrapeer Connections: 0
Number of Ultrapeer -> Leaf Connections: 0
Number of Leaf -> Ultrapeer Connections: 31

After about 5 minutes I used File->Disconnect; File->Connect and LW reconnected properly as an Ultrapeer. I think I've seen this once before, (thought it because connected through a different IP) but I can't remember the version. I haven't been able to reliably repeat this.

3.6.2 looks to be quite stable: I'd reorganized some files from the main folder to a new folder and added another 100 files to share). The hash went well, even though I was downloading the new versions via the browser, checking and refusing mail, uploading, searching and downloading a few files and a magnet link.
Very impressive--a few months ago this would have triggered a crash, or slowed the machine to a beachball!

"About LW" display is still awkward--slow opening, and inconsistent spacing or display of opensource credits in the versions of 3.6.2 I've tried so far (three tries--LimeWire 3.6.2jum218, LimeWire PRO 3.6.2 BETA, jum 219).

The new LW 3.6.2 installer looks good and worked well (Does it also use Roger's improved Lime graphic?). When I first started on OSX last year, this is just how I would have expected a legitimate OSX app to install. What did surprise me though, was that it installed and replaced the version which was running! No error message, nor a dialogue asking for overwrite permission, and the copy source files were added to the LimeWire folder in the Apps folder--the jum readme was left untouched. That can't be good!

The pref to uncheck "Use LimeWire MP3 Player" is not being saved between machine restarts--but is saved between sessions. Written to memory but not to disk?

So--next is NIO? LW just keeps getting better and better. Too bad people's connections are still being hampered. Thanks from here at least for all the work that keeps this project going.

In LimeWire 3.5.8 and 3.6.2 beta, when acting as an ultrapeer, leaf bandwidth always shows 0.000KB/s (both in and out) even when some leaves have a pretty high QRP % (more than 10%) and are getting as much messages as some ultrapeers (from a quick glance of how fast the message count is increasing between a high QRP % leaf and some ultrapeers).

Sorry for not getting back to everyone here. LimeDude -- we're almost certainly not going to do anything like we did for the OS X installer on OS 9. First, OS 9 doesn't have the same kinds of tools available to make installers like this. Second, and probably more importantly, the OS 9 market is just shrinking so quickly in comparison to OS X that we're reluctant to devote our limited resources to OS 9-specific features. I hate to say that, but we just don't have the extra people to devote to it given how few people are still using OS 9 and below (I believe less than 10% of LimeWire users last time I checked).

I'll answer other questions separately.

Thanks.

Hi Stief-

We have seen the issue with leaves getting 30 or so Ultrapeer connections a couple of times, and we haven't quite figured out what's happening. It's almost cerrtainly some sort of race condition, but we just haven't nailed down exactly where it's happening. We should be able to figure it out and fix the problem, though.

We'll also look at the issue of overwriting an already-running LimeWire as well as the issue of the option to use the native audio player -- thanks very much for pointing these out! I'm about to announce the release of LimeWire 3.6.3 beta with pro-only features, so you'll see that shortly. If any beta testers don't have free pro links and would like them, just send me a quick e-mail (afiskatlimewiredotcom), and I'll send one to you. The new pros are performing very, very well.

Thanks again for all of your help!

Thanks Adam. quick note:
the installer says "Click on Install Limewire to begin Installation"
rather than "Double-click . . ."

[will the NIO stuff be coming out as Alpha first?]

Thanks for your reply Adam. I will be buying a new Mac this year or next year and it will come with Apple's new version of Mac OS X (Panther) Mac OS 10.3.