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The Frost development team is pleased to announce the new stable release of version 07-Jan-2011.

This release is compatible with the old database files and configurations, but we recommend creating a backup before updating. Please see included readme files for future information.

We consider this release the best available version of Frost end encounter all users to update.

Various people have helped during the development and release process in contributing code, updating translation files and identifying bugs. We would like to thank all the contributors!... read more

I am pleased to announce the release of the next beta version of Frost.
Next to some smaller fixes it contains tow important updates:

- A fix for the search dialog bug. Created by bback

- A much updated translation file for DE thanks to Frank Nagel

Another change is, that from now on Frost requires Java 1.6 or higher.

I am pleased to announce the release of a new beta version of the Frost project.
This release integrates several changes which have been made by various authors over the last couple of month. Most changes focused on improving the interface for file downloads. But there were other contributions like bug fixes as well.

This is the first release, which will be made under my control. Due to lack of time, bback has retired his active development of frost. I would like to use this post to thank him for all the work he has done and the time he has invested to develop Frost further. It has been nearly one decade now, since the development of Frost has been started, and bback has been one of the most active developers.... read more

Frost version 14-Mar-2009 released!

A new Frost version has been released. Most important content is a fix
for a bug that prevented the file sharing from working correctly.
The file sharing always used old CHK keys, even when new uploads created
another CHK key.

Another fix addresses a problem in the file list cleanup, expired files
were not deleted.

During first startup after the update Frost will run a cleanup,
and during the very next startup Frost will compact the storages
automatically.... read more

A bug in Frosts file sharing was discovered. The Freenet node created new CHK keys but Frost tries to use the old CHK keys. For the user it looks as if the file sharing doesn't work at all for some files. This will be fixed in next release.

When using the Nimbus look&feel contained in Java 1.6, several problems can occur in the Frost user interface. The next release will address this issue. Circumvention is to not to use the Nimbus look&feel right now.... read more

This release contains a critical security fix for version 29-Feb-2008! Update!

This release introduces new features and many fixes. And Frost now uses new icons! You really should update.
Check the change log for latest and greatest news!

Frost now provides a DoS detection and visualization.

This release introduces alot of new features and many fixes. You really should update.
Check the changelog for latest and greatest news! The highlight is a new storage
system which makes the Frost experience much faster.

This release fixes an ugly bug in message downloading and brings a few new features.
You really should update. Check the changelog for latest and greatest news! Or you may miss them!

Frost version 28-Jun-2007 released!

Various McKoi database tables are migrated into perst database storages. This hopefully
avoids database corruptions in McKoi that happened due to heavy concurrent use.
Perst is a very fast object database and its also open source.
Also two critical bugs in message downloading were fixed, this update is a must-have!

http://jtcfrost.sf.net/

This update version fixes a problem with the file sharing.
The update is only for Frost version 13-Apr-2007 or later.
Older Frost versions must be upgraded to version 13-Apr-2007 first.
All users should update to this latest version.

This update version fixes two problems. The update is only for Frost version 13-Apr-2007.
Older Frost versions must be upgraded to version 13-Apr-2007 first.
All users should update to this latest version.