Shareaza News

Shareaza 2.5.5.0 Released

raspopov — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:55:40 -0000

Shareaza 2.5.5.0 has been released! DC++ and Gnutella updates, enhanced anti-spam protection, multi-file download merging, and other fixes and improvements are included in this release. Shareaza was first released in mid-2002 with rapid development from its creator. In 2004, Shareaza became free and open source as its creator moved onto other pursuits. The project has faced internal and external battles at times, but it continues to survive and thrive in an increasingly hostile environment.

Shareaza 2.5.4.0

raspopov — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:19:06 -0000

Shareaza 2.5.4.0 has been released! New UPnP, experimental DC++ support, optimizations and bugfixes.

Shareaza 2.5.3.0

raspopov — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:06:19 -0000

Shareaza 2.5.3.0 has been released! SSE2 and non-SSE2 versions have been released alongside each other.

Shareaza 2.5.0.0 has been released!

raspopov — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:55:25 -0000

After many months of bug fixes, 2.5.0.0 has finally been released. While we were planning for an earlier release, time was not on our side. The chat tab should now be working at the level it should have been in 2.4.0.0, and we hope to have it fully bug free before too long.

Also, happy Halloween to those celebrating it this year. For those of you who do not want the Halloween skin after today, you can remove it by deselecting "Halloween" under the Skin tab of the Settings window.

Fight for Shareaza's survival

raspopov — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:02:30 -0000

On January 10th 2008, lawyers representing the 'Discordia Ltd.' shell company filed for "SHAREAZA" trademark registration at the United States Patent Office.

As of March 3rd 2008, the trademark has not yet been granted - and still must urgently be contested.

The core Shareaza Developoment Team has been aware of this from the beginning, but has not gone public with the information while seeking legal counsel. It is in this context that team members have been scurrilously threatened and the shareaza.com destination has flagrantly broken yet more laws. The followingt two posts were available early to developers and moderators, and are now being made widely available to the community. It is understood that opposing lawyers will be reading this material: 'I Am Not A Lawyer' -this does not constitute legal advice.

YOU CAN HELP by submitting factual "Letters of Protest." (Address below in third post.)

During the initial trademark process, any third party may submit a 'Letter of Protest' containing facts and evidence to be considered by the patent clerk. They must not entail opinions or actual protesting. Barring this, the trademark could be 'Published for Opposition' on any given Tuesday. At which time $900 plus legal fees would need to be raised to Oppose to trademark in the equivalent of court within 30 days.

YOU CAN HELP by donating to the Legal Defense Fund." (http://shareaza.chipin.com)

No Shareaza developer or enthusiast has ever recieved money as a result. However, several volunteers now out-of-pocket for hundreds of dollars are facing the prospect of thousands. Shareaza has always been and will always remain free, non-commercialized software -regardless of the high value of its use that must be protected. Donations will now begin to be accepted for the sole purpose of partially compensating these unfortunate expenses. (Including a possible $900 at very short notice.) A ChipIn account has been established for PayPal (account/credit card) payments large or small. Please consider sending at least the loose change in your account to show your appreciation for enthusiasts who could scarcely afford these costs themselves. Feel free to offer in other ways as well.

YOU CAN HELP by researching Discordia/iMesh/MusicLab/MeisterSeelig&Fein

The Discordia Ltd. under which the trademark was sought and the website is labelled is a Cypress shell company designed to shield MusicLab, iMesh, parent companies and business partners from the exceedingly high risk of liability in this case. Private information will not be disclosed, however there is significant circumstantial evidence regarding the source of their unethical and illigal behaviors that ought to be brought to light for the greater internet community.

YOU CAN HELP Most of All by Spreading the Word:

SHAREAZA™ IS THE PROPERTY OF THE SHAREAZA DEVELOPMENT TEAM.

Shareaza 2.3.1.0 Win32 and x64 builds are now available

raspopov — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:41:19 -0000

This is a bug fix release version. Some optimizations were
made, Win9x support was reviewed and serious bugs were fixed.
It's the last version of Shareaza with Win9x support.

All users are urged to upgrade to this version because of very
important security fixes.

The x64 build is a release build and it will expire after 6
months, since it wasn't tested completely.

shareaza.com is now a SCAM site

raspopov — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:52:04 -0000

The shareaza.com site was taken by scammers, always get Shareaza from http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/

Shareaza 2.3.0.0 is now available

raspopov — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:19:24 -0000

Shareaza is a multi-network peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.

This is a major release.

A short summary of changes:
* Much better connectivity to all networks, with the most problems solved for Gnutella and eD2K.
* More stability of the client, with less crashes, freezes and memory leaks.
* Easier to set-up routers with Universal Plug&Play (UPnP).
* Transparancy with ALT+UP/DOWN arrow to see what's happening behind the window (It is the easter egg).
* A vastly improved skinning engine for more impressive skins.
* Ability to search by BTIH over G2.

Shareaza 2.2.5.0 is now available

raspopov — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:36:43 -0000

Shareaza 2.2.5.0 has been in development for several months and is without doubt, the most feature rich and stable release ever.
There have been over 290 major improvements and fixes to the application since 2.2.3.0 in November.
This is just a brief mention of some of the numerous improvements:
Preview downloading images (G2 and ED2K)
Many bugfixes and improvements to all protocols
Choose the combination of networks you wish to search
Gnutella UDP Host cache support
New Ghost file management
Lots of Metadata improvements, support for Musepack and APE tags
Improved support for older operating systems (Windows 9X and NT4)
Better UPnP support

Of course there are many many more updates. A more complete changelog is at http://wiki.shareaza.com/static/ChangeLog2.3

Shareaza 2.2.4.0 is now available

raspopov — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:29:59 -0000

This release solves the connection to G1 problem, better
handling of host caches, adds more user friendly features to
manage ghost rated files, automatic seeding on restart,
drag-n-drop support to move files, improved spam filtering,
metadata extraction from MusePack files, APE tags reading
fixed for ape files and implemented reading of them for mp3
files.