[spearson]

I was wondering what the latest is on the next version of LimeWire? Will LimeWire 5.0 be released?

I think it's a bit odd to have LimeWire version 4.12.4 and such. The LimeWire developers should have kept it simple and end LimeWire 4 at version 4.9.9 and then go to 5.0 but it looks like they have something else in mind?

Could someone from LimeWire shed some light on this?

Thanks.

[Sam]

4.13 is the beta series for 5.0 -- or atleast, that's the current plan. We wanted 5.0 to have some very good features / changes in it, rather than just your normal-next-release.

[spearson]

Thanks for the reply, Sam.

I'm looking forward to the release of LimeWire 5.

I had the idea that you should release the new design of the website when LimeWire 5 is released. What do you think of this?

I think the new design of limewire.com is cool. It's much more simplified now.

[Sam]

We're probably going to release the new design earlier than LimeWire 5 itself, since that's a ways off. Thanks for the compliments though -- I'm a fan of it too. The web folks did a really great job with it.

[spearson]

Sam,

This is just an idea.

Why can't you do LimeWire beta 4.13 in house (not release it to the public) and then the next version available to the public will be 5.0.

What do you think?

[Sam]

Any next version will need to have betas before it is stable. Those betas need to be released to the public to work out the kinks. Something released in-house is basically the same as CVS, on the level that next-to-no-one will run it, and the lack-of-bugs it generates won't be very helpful.