Software Update: FrostWire 4.18.0

On Monday, version 4.18.0 of FrostWire was released. FrostWire is a Java-written file sharing program for Gnutella and Bittorrent networks, available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It came about after Limewire, after which this program is modeled, in 2005 considered adding code that would allow copyrighted material to be banned. The installer comes with an Ask toolbar, so pay attention to what is checked when installing. Many changes have been made in version 4.18.0; the most important are listed for you below:

Among the most important changes are:

• Fixes Bittorrent Incompatibilities.
• Mac launcher fixes bug where FrostWire would not allow itself to run on an external disk.
• Fixes bug on Welcome Screen, now you don’t need to open FrostWire twice to get the latest welcome screen.
• FrostWire caches the last 2 images shown on the Welcome Screen to save bandwidth from static servers.
• Tools > Check for Updates. Now FrostWire can check for configuration updates, community messages, new FrostWire releases and welcome screen promotion updates during runtime.
• The welcome screen can be customized for every language, giving the chance to more content creators to be promoted every week to different audiences that speak their language.
• The Buttons of the Download Manager have been rearranged to avoid mistakes when trying to resume downloads. The Clear and Cancel Buttons are all the way to the right. Thanks to ‘ssome’ for the suggestion.
• New SplashScreen.
• Anti spam filters updated to filter out new keywords used by spammers.
• New “Buy” icon.
• The community chat ‘Connect’ button now checks if a nickname has been set and helps the user set a default nickname using an input dialog.
• When users issue the “/nick” command on the chat, FrostWire will remember the new nickname as the default nickname.