The LimeWire 3.9.6 beta is released, with the pro version available from a link on your Pro download page, and the free version available (with NO BUNDLED SOFTWARE) from the LimeWire download page.

Changes in 3.9.6 include:
- Search result status icons (saved, incomplete, downloading, etc...) now update to reflect the file's ongoing status. The 'saved' icon will also be shown if the file is found in the Saved folder even if the Saved folder isn't shared.
- Magnet details (from the library right-click menu) should now work under Linux with Firefox.
- ID3v2 parsing now works with non-English character sets, submitted by Roger Kapsi.
- Various focus management fixes, to put the focus in the search text boxes (or the What's New button) at appropriate times (such as when LimeWire starts).
- Fixed column size flickering.
- New default column sizes, better fitted for a brand new installation.
- Fixed search results to maintain the selection when new results come in and a filter was selected, and also when a new filter is chosen.
- Changed filters to not automatically select the result that matches a media-type search, but instead make it bold and keep it visible to inform the user a match is available.
- Reduced font size on statistics.
- Changed method for column resizing -- instead of resizing all subsequent columns when one changes, only the next column is resized. This should make it much easier to set the columns to your preferred size.
- Raised number of wanted results when LimeWire is acting as an Ultrapeer to make them behave as well as leaves.
- Fixed search progress bars & clearing filters on repeat searches.
- Randomized What's New queries a little more.
- Fixed to ignore some invalid ID3v2 headers.

This is mostly likely going to be the last beta, unless any showstopping bugs appear.

LimeWire 4.0 is going to be a fantastic release, thanks in large part to the comments on these forums and the contributions submitted to limewire.org. LimeWire is one of the few open-source programs that competes (and wins!) in the consumer market, and we're confident that the 4.0 release is going to be a rock-solid version. We've come a long way since the 3.x series, adding the revolutionary "What's New" search, an almost guarantee that every delivered result will connect and download, customizable filters for search results, ID3v2 parsing, complete international support, and many more behind-the-scenes firsts for a p2p program.

Thanks,
- The LimeWire Team

... any comments / suggestions / gripes?

Wow! I can't belive you managed to get all those changes included! Congrats to you and the team. Will you be celebrating so hard that we should save further comments till next fall?

Seriously, much appreciation from here. From opensourcer to intern to this . . . you've had a very productive year.

Cheers

looks great, guys!

>From opensourcer to intern to this . . . you've had a very productive year.

It's definitely not just me... I just happen to enjoy reading/writing on the forums and working on GUI things, so I have a more public face.

The 'team' does indeed deserve the credit, and any team is made up of individual contributions. However . . . you've also taken an unfair share of the heat when times were rough.

So, a quick check confirmed that all the fixes (yay! readable stats!) are working here as far as I can tell.
some minor points (feels cheap to be even mentioning them, considering all the fixes and improvements)

--if it's an easy fix--why not also reduce the size of the control-click contextual menu font and keep the look consistent?

--the CNet "Review LimeWire" link in the help menu returns <We can't seem to find the page you're requesting. If you know the name of the product you're looking for, please search for it here:> Might be nice to fix that for 4.0

--I see the arrows that show a breakdown of multiple search results are gone as you warned earlier. Is there a workaround to see the IP/vendors of those sources?

--Tooltip info isn't always showing when hovering over search results. It seems I can only get audio results with tooltips.

That I like at lot, thanks


I think the "what's new" should have porn filter enabled by default, even if adults keywords is unchecked in the filter options. I think many people will be disgusted to see all the porn and the pedophilia there may be on the Gnet when they only want to look at movies and video clips. (maybe add an option in filter -keywords- to disable the porn filter in "whats new" near the adult keywords filter)

Merci à l'équipe LW!

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This is a minor cosmetic bug. So it isn't a biggie.

Running LimeWire 3.9.6 beta, java 1.4.2_04, in SuSE Linux 9.0 (at 800x600). When you copy a magnet URI to the clipboard, then switch to LimeWire, LimeWire stretches the dialog box to the width of the full magnet URI. So what I see is a dialog box that is wider than my screen can fit.

One sample URI that causes this is this:
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:GZLEHA3FR46YNHEU5AEFUTAM5HYEEE MF &dn=LimeWireLinux.bin &xs=http://<my-ip>:6346/uri-res/N2R ?urn:sha1:GZLEHA3FR46YNHEU5AEFUTAM5HYEEEMF
(intentionally broken up with spaces to prevent it from stretching the forum's width)

In LimeWire 3.9.6 beta, although it keeps the selection longer than in 3.9.5 beta, I am still having a case where it randomly loses my selection of things in the search results. I can't 100% reproduce it but when I do a search for almost anything and select the initial results that come, and then a surge of more than 100 results comes in a few seconds later, random search results I had selected before the surge of incoming results get deselected after that surge of results came in.

Magnets can contain anything and everything (and sometimes the same item several times), so there is no standard way to extract a more human-readable representation of the file contained in the magnet.

Setting a fixed maximum length may be an option but it is unlikely it will be in 4.0. Feel free to look around the code - we're open for ideas/suggestions. (com/limegroup/gnutella/gui/search/MagnetClipboardListener.java is where most of the related stuff happens)