www.freedownloadmanager.org

HI!

This version of FDM has a lot of changes. First of all it was built using the updated version of developing environment. There were made many changes in codes for this. Also it has some other additions and changes. We would like our users to test it before we could make the release version.


Download 3.8 RC4
(the link is permanent for all the further updates of 3.8 version).

3.8 RC4 build 1172. (Dec 16, 2011)
Changes:
[*] Windows 2000 is not supported.
[-] Problem downloading videos from youtube.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 RC3 build 1170. (Dec 6, 2011)
Changes:
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 RC3 build 1165. (Nov 28, 2011)
Changes:
[+] Ability to specify network speed in bits per second (bps).
[*] Corrected bandwidth allocation algorithm.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 RC2 build 1160. (Nov 9, 2011)
Changes:
[-] Torrents may not seed.
[-] FDM could crash at shutdown.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 6 build 1151. (Nov 2, 2011)
Changes:
[*] Corrected network speed measure algorithm.
[-] FDM could crash a browser with monitor for flash video option enabled
[-] Bugs using macros for Bittorrent downloads
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 5 build 1142. (Oct 28, 2011)
Changes:
[*] Options | Downloads | Network settings were changed. Now traffic limits are specified in percentages of connection speed.
[*] Better allocation of traffic between active downloads.
[-] List of downloads could be lost when Windows shutting down.
[-] General bug fixes.

P.S. We apologize for this one yet beta stage and ask our user to be a bit more patient and wait until we will be able to release the final version. We plan to release it in December.

3.8 RC1 build 1106. (Aug 24, 2011)
Changes:
[-] Several bug fixes.

3.8 RC1 build 1101. (Aug 21, 2011)
Changes:
[-] Several bug fixes.

3.8 RC1 build 1096. (Aug 20, 2011)
Changes:
[*] Behavior of "Not completed + Recent" downloads filter was corrected.
[-] In some cases files could be damaged while downloading.
[-] Downloads could remain in the list after deletion.
[-] Other bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 4 build 1090. (Aug 15, 2011)
Changes:
[-] Bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 4 build 1086. (Aug 05, 2011)
Changes:
[*] Decreased memory usage by FLV monitoring module.
[-] Mirror URLs search fixed.
[-] Several bugs when using Bittorrent downloads.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 3 build 1067. (July 22, 2011)
Changes:
[-] Crash when deleting flash video download.
[-] Minor interface bug.

3.8 BETA 3 build 1065. (July 20, 2011)
Changes:
[+] Flash video monitoring for Google Chrome.
[*] Improved behavior of FDM's passwords manager.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 3 build 1058. (July 13, 2011)
Changes:
[+] Firefox 6, Firefox 7, Firefox 8 support.
[-] Bug in positioning Download with FDM button in some cases in IE8 and IE9 browsers.
[-] FDM could crashed sometimes when using Site Explorer.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 2 build 1053. (July 8, 2011)
Changes:
[*] Windows 2000 support.
[-] FDM did not send login information to FileSonic servers sometimes.

3.8 BETA 2 build 1051. (July 5, 2011)
Changes:
[-] A few bugs when creating a new torrent.
[-] Possible crash when adding a new download.
[-] UI bug in download's details window.
[-] General bug fixes.

3.8 BETA 2 build 1046. (July 2, 2011)
Changes:
[+] FileSonic support (for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers).
[-] Crash when creating a new torrent.

3.8 BETA 1 build 1041. (June 24, 2011)
Changes:
[+] Per tracker logging.
[-] Bug when running (downloading or seeding) many torrents at the same time.
[-] Bittorrent | General tab could show invalid information about a tracker.

3.8 BETA 1 build 1039. (June 23, 2011)
Changes:
[+] Firefox 5 support.
[+] Import uTorrent and Orbit Downloader downloads.
[+] "%userprofile%" macros.
[+] Minor interface changes.
[*] Updated Bittorrent downloader module.
[-] "Shutdown computer when done" did not work if computer locked.
[-] General bug fixes.

Thank you very much Alex

Warning! This version (3.8.1039.0) is compiled with VS2010 and can be run only with Windows XP SP1 and newer.
Firefox and Opera are still compatible with Windows 2000.

Thank you so much... I <3 this download manager so much cause it handles everything I need in a simple and compact application.. More power!

Many thks for this wonderful update ;D

Bug:
When you check "Start Minimized" and "Load on Startup" and uncheck "Minimize to tray" FDM doesn't start minimized during startup. It does starts minimized if you close it and open it again, but doesn't start minimized on startup.

FDM 3.8 // Windows 7 SP1 x64

hey,

i am a little bit confused about the few versions in the few last month/weeks/days.
very long time there was nothing new (in the SVN repository)...
and now first a 3.5 version came out - but not as official download, than 3.7RC1 and 3.8 BETA are all available at the same time.

witch version will be the next stable official version of FDM ? maybe 4.0 build 9999?


anyhow FDM i my favorit...
thank you - great job!


what is the current svn repository of FDM 3.8BETA?

the following is still the one of something between 3.0 and 3.4 - not really clear.


PS.: i think it is time to change the text of the checkBox from "Internet Explorer 7.x-8.x" to "IE 7.x-9.x" under "Settings | Downloads | Monitoring | Monitor"... because FDM is working with IE 9 (isn't it?)

hello, its me again...

i have a problem with one website and/or FDM (3.0...3.8BETA) and/or browser.
a few month the website http://www.graphicall.org/ (a very important one for me) changed the style compleatly and it seems the server sorftware as well.

but since that time, i can not use FDM anymore, because of the folowing reasons:
1. is is sometimes not possible to start downloads with FDM. it will pop up the download dialog, but nothing will be downloaded - the icon of that download will turn to red.

2. if the download will start properly, it is not possible to change the page of that website in the browser anymore
e.g. first download http://graphicall.org/56 with FDM, after that try to change to page http://graphicall.org/76, the browser will be busy and get an server error after a while

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster @ graphicall . org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/2.0.54 Server at graphicall . org Port 80

i have to close FDM and IE to be able to navigate to the second page...

3. if i use the internal download procedure of the browser, every thing is okay - but i like FDM.


i don't know, what the problem is
i reported that issue to the webadmin of "graphicall" but nothing changed.
maybe you know what's wrong


my env:
2x Windows 7 64bit + IE9
Windows XP SP3 + IE8
FDM 3.0 build 852 (on both systems) & FDM 3.8BETA build 1039 (on first system)

PS.: i tried it with Firefox5 and FDM3.8Beta just now, and currently this combination works well

For BT download module, is it on the latest libtorrent ver?

curious.cat wrote:For BT download module, is it on the latest libtorrent ver?

It uses 0.15.6.5487 version (the latest release version).

beta-tester wrote:hello, its me again...

Two different versions of FDM can't be used on the one computer. Uninstall both and install just 3.8 BETA. Then test it.

Alex wrote:Changes:
[+] Firefox 5 support.
[-] "Shutdown computer when done" did not work if computer locked.

These are my two favorite improvements/fixes right here. Definitely like the second one - I always had to remember not to lock my computer when having the shutdown scheduled because it would never work. Finally a long-standing bug fixed, thanks!

Usher wrote:Warning! This version (3.8.1039.0) is compiled with VS2010 and can be run only with Windows XP SP1 and newer.
Firefox and Opera are still compatible with Windows 2000.

Thanks for the heads up.

Win98

Jahn wrote:

Usher wrote:Warning! This version (3.8.1039.0) is compiled with VS2010 and can be run only with Windows XP SP1 and newer.
Firefox and Opera are still compatible with Windows 2000.

Thanks for the heads up.
Win98

You can try to use new dlls in Win98SE with KernelEx, but there may be more problems with exe files.
And a new torrent lib seems to be buggy - it uses about 30% of single core CPU and from time to time it stops random(?) torrent download without any special reason.
Libtorrent rasterbar developer does not mention about succesful compiling with VS2010 so maybe some tweaks are needed for this compiler.

Alex wrote:

curious.cat wrote:For BT download module, is it on the latest libtorrent ver?

It uses 0.15.6.5487 version (the latest release version).

Tyvm for that reply Alex!

OS:- Windows XP Pro SP3 x86
Web browser:- Opera "Next" 11.50 build 1067 (latest snapshot)

Torrent files opening integration with Opera works flawlessly.Much much less interface flickering now on FDM's window (what/however you guys have managed to achieve that it works!).I have Googole Chrome Dev, FF5 and (unfortunately ;p) IE8 to give those some more runs.Will report back in.

Usher wrote:And a new torrent lib seems to be buggy - it uses about 30% of single core CPU and from time to time it stops random(?) torrent download without any special reason.

Please give some examples of problem torrents if you can.
And how many active (downloading or seeding) torrents did you have?