LimeWire 4.1.1 Beta

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The LimeWire 4.1.1 Beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta Page.

There is no Mac Classic release for LimeWire 4.1.

LimeWire 4.1.1 is the first of a series of betas that will build up to the release of LimeWire 4.2. LimeWire 4.1.1 includes only the first batch of many changes that will be included in LimeWire 4.2.

LimeWire 4.1.1 includes:

- A new 'Direct Connect' search that allows you to browse a host directly.
- A brand new "file view" that allows you to easily share files with friends, by giving them a simple URL. Friends can choose to download either via the web or within LimeWire itself. You can access this by selecting a bunch of files in the library, right-clicking and choosing 'Web Page for Files". The option will only be available if LimeWire detects that friends will be able to make a connection to your computer. All access is controlled by a password that is generated each time LimeWire is started.
- Support for 'brushed metal' on OSX 10.3+. Just choose the 'Brushed Metal' skin!
- New sort arrow icons for OSX that look more like the native icons used by other OSX programs, contributed by Roger Kapsi.
- A completely brand new (and much prettier!) 'Annotate' interface for audio files, contributed by Roger Kapsi.
- Support for reading metadata from M4A & OGG files, and writing metadata for OGG files.
- The ability to have typing on a table automatically select and move to a row that matches what you typed for. For example, if you have search results for, "LimeWire, BearShare, or BitTorrent", typing 'L' will move to & select the row with LimeWire', typing 'B' will move to BearShare's row, and typing 'B' again will move to BitTorrent's row. (Alternatively, typing 'Bi' would also move to BitTorrent's row.)
- Support for using command C, V, X and A in tables for copying, pasting, cutting & selecting all rows when using OSX.
- The ability to hit 'enter' to initiate the default action for a table (such as downloading in the search results, launching in the downloads, browse-hosting in connections, etc..) instead of requiring a button is clicked or double-clicked.
- A new progress bar when starting LimeWire, to show that LimeWire really is doing things!
- Much faster download connections to hosts that require a push. This is done by using UDP to send the initial push request to either push proxies or the host itself.
- Extremely optimized hashing calculations (both SHA1 & Tiger), contributed by Philippe Verdy. In some cases, files can be hashed over twice as fast!
- The server side of a new addition to downloads that will allow partial file sharing to scale to a greater number of users.
- Notification to Ultrapeers to stop sending queries while LimeWire is already completely full handling upload requests, contributed by Gregorio Roper.
- A new (turned off by default) search result column that displays the time the file was added to the network. Note that this will only work if the replies were returned from newer LimeWire clients.
- An additional option for throttling bandwidth of downloads, contributed by Eugene Romanenko.
- Faster loading of the Tips of the Day.
- Removed the 'compression' options, since compression should be used by everyone.

LimeWire 4.2 is going to contain a whole slew of features that will make LimeWire easier to use and perform even better than it used to. This release has a lot of new code, so we'd appreciate everyone's help in ironing out any bugs, and of course more suggestions for features.

Thanks to all the open-source contributors and the beta testers!

Thanks.
The LimeWire Team