FurthurNet 1.7.5b

Second, The Furthur Network is a purely a volunteer project which utilizes open source code freely available at sourceforge.com. As long as "kind folks" continue to jump on the bus, the Furthur Network will never go away, because there are no significant costs involved with continuing.

Third, the Furthur Network and the application, "FurthurNet" is not FTP or an FTP replacement. FTP speeds are just not possible with FurthurNet due to its inherent design and resource usage. The speed in which you download at depends on a couple of different factors.

Enhancements:

• Added an installation wizard to help first time users
• Added font and color selection and other enhancements to chat, and fixed several display bugs
• Fixed several bugs that prevented filesets from completing/sharing when the user upgrades to JRE 1.5
• Changed the way that Furthur reports band-name only search results -- it will now report all active shares that match the search, even if the user hosting the files has no open slots (i.e., the download will not start immediately)
• Improved the connection/disconnection code so that users wont appear as "ghosts," or be added incorrectly to the "peak uploaders" column as often
• Fixed a bug that prevented Furthur from automatically reconnecting to the network if the users Internet connection went dead
• Revamped the help dialogs and error messages, added tooltips, and generally make the user interface more helpful
• Re-arranged the preferences panel and added code to automatically find flac and metaflac, or to prompt the user to download the flac binaries, and added a check to prevent selecting FlacFrontend by mistake
• Added column headings and other labels for using the clients features
• Moved OS X menus to the client instead of on the system menu bar due to bugs with Apples JRE that will hopefully be corrected by the next release

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2 or later, Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2 or later, FLAC.