The LimeWire 4.1.3 Beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta Page.

Changes in 4.1.3 include:
- Drag support! You can now drag items directly from the library, playlist or downloads onto the desktop or your favorite program!
- Brand new icons for almost all buttons! You can choose whether or not you want 'small icons' and with or without the text via the 'View' menu item.
- Three-state sorting on tables. Clicking once will sort ascending, again will sort descending, and a third time will stop sorting.
- Fancier table column headers using the Windows XP look.
- Better drawing of the main tabs, using anti-aliased lines. (Contributed by Roger Kapsi.)
- Changed default theme on Windows XP using Java 1.4+ to be the Windows Theme.
- Use of the more common Finder dialog on OSX when looking for files or folders. (Contributed by Roger Kapsi, using code by Steve Roy.)
- A much improved 'playlist' table that now supports sorting and striped rows!
- Support for PNG images when creating themes!
- Support for secure parameter passing. This will allow us to fine-tune the network without requiring you to upgrade to new versions.
- Support for 'idle' activity on leaves. When a LimeWire in leaf mode recognizes that the computer has been idle for greater than 30 minutes, it will drop to only 1 Ultrapeer connection, reducing the strain on the network.
- Support for getting the computer's idle time on Linux.
- Reduced aggressiveness when connecting. This will ease up the bandwidth requirements on all computers.
- More intelligent meta-query handling. LimeWire will no longer respond to a meta query whose keywords match, but meta-fields do not. This should reduce the amount of invalid results people see when doing specific media-type searches.
- Fixed reading of extensions in query replies. This will correct some bogus creation times, reported by the 'Creation Time' column in search results.
- Increased UDP receive buffer on Windows. This should increase the effectiveness of OOB replies.
- Fixed some cases where downloaders could get out of sync and cause repeated errors to be displayed just after becoming inactive.
- Fixed duplicate filter query to not consider queries requesting different meta-types to be duplicate.
- Fixed outgoing leaf connections to not allow more Ultrapeers than necessary.
- Fixed mutating messages to not have data loss if we didn't understand some of the extensions in the message.

The next version of LimeWire will contain more improvements, such as 'drop' support (so you can drop a folder and have it shared, or drag a search result to downloads in order to download it, or drag an item from the library to the playlist to add it). It will also add iTunes integration on Windows, and firewall-to-firewall transfer support, which will open up a vast amount of content on the network.

LimeWire 4.2 is just around the corner, and with the help of all the open source contributors and beta-testers, it will maintain the title of "best file-sharing program on the planet!"

Thanks!
- The LimeWire Team

Don't be shy about posting your comments! Even if you utterly hate it, we want to hear it.

hi the new beta is very good but can u make the big icons default???

I'm running it right now and I love it. It can finally compete on look and feel with the other gnutella apps!

I've only been using it for about half an hour, but I don't see any new bugs yet. There is one that has existed forever, but I've never gotten around to posting it. I have my folders arranged by letter, and for some reason some of them are out of order. I've attached a picture.

This is really great work!

-Charles

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Running XP SP2 I get an error installing when it goes to "rolling back action"

Error 1603 - Fatal error during installation

Note: That's only with the english only installer. The international one works fine.

In the Pro version, have the ultrapeers been reduced? I can only connect to 3... English installer is the one I use

The number of ultrapeers for free was reduced to 3 from 4, and Pro was reduced to 5 from 6 (however that was broken in 4.1.3, but will be fixed in the next release). The changes should have absolutely no effect on the amount of results you recieve, and might actually improve your results because the traffic on the network will reduce, allowing more room for your query to travel.

Hello!
I was using KazzaLite. Kept getting incomplete files, virus's, wrong files...been using Limewire Pro for about a week and I like it. Great so far. I host KJ and DJ shows and I need a program I can depend on. So Far so good! Thanks.

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I agree with the others. The icons add a lot to the look and feel.

The reduction to 3 ultrapeers bothered me a little at first, but it was nice to see Limewire's connection progress bar going to its fullest faster than normal.