Download Frostwire 4.17.2

Today a hotfix for the version 4.17.1 of Frostwire released earlier this week has been released. Normally there are also downloads for Linux and Mac OS X, but upgrading to version 4.17.2 is only necessary for Windows users. Frostwire is an open source and cross-platform p2p program that came about after Limewire, after which it is modeled, considered adding code in 2005 that would allow copyrighted material to be banned. The issues that this hotfix fixes are all related to the bittorrent portion of the program:

Changes in version 4.17.2:

• Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire(tm) take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user.
• Reduces DHT network load. The LimeWire team found out that the Mojito “store forwarding” feature would not provide extra data availability, so it’s been turned off from the DHT on all new FrostWires.
• FrostWire.ico has been updated. Now when FrostWire(tm) is associated to .bittorrent files, .bittorrent files will use the FrostWire(tm) icon.

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