FDM 6
FDM 6
Dear FDM Users!
Our team has been actively developing a completely new version of FDM during the last few months.
This new version is a completely new FDM with new core and UI written from scratch.
It was created with a hope to bring the best possible experience to both users and developers.
Its main purpose is to work fast and smoothly on every device it can be run on.
Download from Microsoft Store
Download for Windows 64-bit (41MB)
Download for Mac OS X (43MB)
Download DEB for Linux 64-bit (39MB)
Download for Android 6 and higher (32-bit) (39MB)
Download for Android 6 and higher (64-bit) (42MB)
6.20.0.5524 [Jan 1, 2024] STABLE
- Fixed: Android: crash when using built-in web browser's context menu in case the main app is not launched.
6.20.0.5514 [Dec 21, 2023] STABLE
- Fixed: Android: bug detecting network state under Android 8.x and older.
6.20.0.5510 [Dec 18, 2023] STABLE
- "Submit a bug report" menu.
- Standalone window: Remember to always close by default / Remember to never close by default.
- Desktop version: battery settings added.
- Sort by name mode: letter case is ignored now.
- "Maximum number of additional querying info downloads" setting added.
- Download from web sites is slightly improved in some cases.
- FDM now uses web browser user agent by default.
- Qt is updated to 6.4.3.
- Libtorrent is updated to 1.2.19.
- Improved downloading of live streams.
- Improved download reliability under Linux OSes (including Android).
- Android 13 support.
- "Finish downloading" context menu for stream downloads.
- "Avoid sleep mode if there is a scheduled download" setting.
- Finnish localization is added.
- Minor interface improvements.
- Fixed: issues when downloading to disks with file systems with no sparse files support (e.g. exFAT).
- Fixed: add-ons: a few issues.
- Fixed: FDM could never ask for a new password in case there is a saved and wrong old one.
- Fixed: troubles downloading from some web sites.
- Fixed: bugs in downloads auto start/retry mechanism.
- Fixed: FDM could crash after updating an add-on.
- Fixed: Auto shutdown menu was greyed out in some cases.
- Fixed: torrents: unrecoverable "End of file" error.
- Fixed: torrents module could stop working after stopping all torrent downloads.
- Fixed: various UI bugs.
- Fixed: bug detecting online state under Windows 11.
- Fixed: macOS: bug detecting installed Python.
- Fixed: Android: bugs detecting online state.
- Fixed: Android: "Use server time for file creation" was not working in some cases.
- Fixed: Android: take into account Android system's UI zoom settings.
Our team has been actively developing a completely new version of FDM during the last few months.
This new version is a completely new FDM with new core and UI written from scratch.
It was created with a hope to bring the best possible experience to both users and developers.
Its main purpose is to work fast and smoothly on every device it can be run on.
Download from Microsoft Store Download for Windows 64-bit (41MB) Download for Mac OS X (43MB) Download DEB for Linux 64-bit (39MB) Download for Android 6 and higher (32-bit) (39MB) Download for Android 6 and higher (64-bit) (42MB) 6.20.0.5524 [Jan 1, 2024] STABLE
- Fixed: Android: crash when using built-in web browser's context menu in case the main app is not launched.
6.20.0.5514 [Dec 21, 2023] STABLE
- Fixed: Android: bug detecting network state under Android 8.x and older.
6.20.0.5510 [Dec 18, 2023] STABLE
- "Submit a bug report" menu.
- Standalone window: Remember to always close by default / Remember to never close by default.
- Desktop version: battery settings added.
- Sort by name mode: letter case is ignored now.
- "Maximum number of additional querying info downloads" setting added.
- Download from web sites is slightly improved in some cases.
- FDM now uses web browser user agent by default.
- Qt is updated to 6.4.3.
- Libtorrent is updated to 1.2.19.
- Improved downloading of live streams.
- Improved download reliability under Linux OSes (including Android).
- Android 13 support.
- "Finish downloading" context menu for stream downloads.
- "Avoid sleep mode if there is a scheduled download" setting.
- Finnish localization is added.
- Minor interface improvements.
- Fixed: issues when downloading to disks with file systems with no sparse files support (e.g. exFAT).
- Fixed: add-ons: a few issues.
- Fixed: FDM could never ask for a new password in case there is a saved and wrong old one.
- Fixed: troubles downloading from some web sites.
- Fixed: bugs in downloads auto start/retry mechanism.
- Fixed: FDM could crash after updating an add-on.
- Fixed: Auto shutdown menu was greyed out in some cases.
- Fixed: torrents: unrecoverable "End of file" error.
- Fixed: torrents module could stop working after stopping all torrent downloads.
- Fixed: various UI bugs.
- Fixed: bug detecting online state under Windows 11.
- Fixed: macOS: bug detecting installed Python.
- Fixed: Android: bugs detecting online state.
- Fixed: Android: "Use server time for file creation" was not working in some cases.
- Fixed: Android: take into account Android system's UI zoom settings.
Alex,
FDM development team
FDM development team
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Trance
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
Great for a first version.
Tried the OS X version. Works very well.
Only real essential issue that I could see in very brief testing:
1 - Automatically remove deleted files from download list is missing.
2 - The Delete action options don't work if you select only remove from list ...it always deletes the file ....so, regarding 1, if you clear the downloads list manually it will trash your downloads.
Tried the OS X version. Works very well.
Only real essential issue that I could see in very brief testing:
1 - Automatically remove deleted files from download list is missing.
2 - The Delete action options don't work if you select only remove from list ...it always deletes the file ....so, regarding 1, if you clear the downloads list manually it will trash your downloads.
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
Trance wrote:2 - The Delete action options don't work if you select only remove from list ...it always deletes the file
Thanks for the report! For now, you can use the context menu instead (right mouse button click on a download). It works as expected.
Alex,
FDM development team
FDM development team
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
do you plan on open sourcing it as FDM 5.x has been very buggy, it would be helpful if people could help you fix bugs.
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
So when you finish the core develop work of FDM 6, could you please extract the strings need to be localized as soon as possible? It will be a good thing for beta users to use localized beta versions.
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undermind
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
As a suggestion, I hope there will be a dark theme for Android.
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
undermind wrote:As a suggestion, I hope there will be a dark theme for Android.
Tru dat
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
You asked for suggestions in your announcement so I thought I'd post them here. I haven't installed the Android version yet so I don't know what features it has but I currently use FDM on Windows.
The most important feature for me is to be able to schedule downloads. I live in a rural area and have metered internet. I have a larger data allowance at night. Additionally, my internet is slow so it is nearly impossible to enjoy an online video real-time.
I currently use an Nvidia Shield TV box to view downloaded videos so it would be very useful to be able to schedule video downloads (including YouTube videos) directly from the Shield.
It would also be useful to have an option to automatically download new videos when they are posted to a YouTube channel.
And it would be great to have an Android TV version so it could be navigated with a remote control.
Thanks
The most important feature for me is to be able to schedule downloads. I live in a rural area and have metered internet. I have a larger data allowance at night. Additionally, my internet is slow so it is nearly impossible to enjoy an online video real-time.
I currently use an Nvidia Shield TV box to view downloaded videos so it would be very useful to be able to schedule video downloads (including YouTube videos) directly from the Shield.
It would also be useful to have an option to automatically download new videos when they are posted to a YouTube channel.
And it would be great to have an Android TV version so it could be navigated with a remote control.
Thanks
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
I don't understand the purpose of 6.0 version, if the same UI of 5.x but looks like an early development Branch of 5.1, it lacks most of the features of 3.x.x and also it lacks the features from 5.x.
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
Currently FDM 6 is about half of FDM 5.1 - it comes with QT Framework but without Chromium Embedded Framework.
Andrzej P. Wozniak, FDM user and forum moderator
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robertschv
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
hey, when will be release the linux version? I am so happy that it will be one 
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
Came back to the forum after more than a year. Was excited to see a version 6. Unfortunately, so far the 6.0 has not impressed me in any way. I do get you guys had to do a lot of things to create the new version. Furthermore, I do have to agree with MELERIX.
Other than the lower download size and overall file space size, it eats similar ram and power when active and idle and has similar UI, minus 50% features.
Other than the lower download size and overall file space size, it eats similar ram and power when active and idle and has similar UI, minus 50% features.
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
Alex,
Great news. I've been hanging on to FDM 5.1.34 build 6924 on my Windows computer because of the broken server time for downloaded files feature in subsequent builds (last I checked was in .. July? August?). It's good to see that the dev team is still working on streamlining the app and making it available on more platforms.
A couple of quick questions:
1) Is it able to be installed *and run* concurrently with FDM 5 / 3?
2) I noticed that you've already stated that it lacks many features, so I won't be a moron and complain about it not having Feature X or Y that I really like - but I would like to know, is there a working set of features that you're (currently) planning on incorporating?
3) Are you going to start a new 'Vote for FDM 6 Features" thread similar to the one for FDM 5, or are you simply going to refer to the same thread and expand it to include FDM 6?[/list]
I think that is all for now - If I think of anything, I'll post back.
(Argh - just noticed that the list tags don't seem to work when viewing in Firefox Nightly - manually added numbers and indent (which is still stripped out lol) to my questions)
Great news. I've been hanging on to FDM 5.1.34 build 6924 on my Windows computer because of the broken server time for downloaded files feature in subsequent builds (last I checked was in .. July? August?). It's good to see that the dev team is still working on streamlining the app and making it available on more platforms.
A couple of quick questions:
1) Is it able to be installed *and run* concurrently with FDM 5 / 3?
2) I noticed that you've already stated that it lacks many features, so I won't be a moron and complain about it not having Feature X or Y that I really like - but I would like to know, is there a working set of features that you're (currently) planning on incorporating?
3) Are you going to start a new 'Vote for FDM 6 Features" thread similar to the one for FDM 5, or are you simply going to refer to the same thread and expand it to include FDM 6?[/list]
I think that is all for now - If I think of anything, I'll post back.
(Argh - just noticed that the list tags don't seem to work when viewing in Firefox Nightly - manually added numbers and indent (which is still stripped out lol) to my questions)
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Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
johnlgalt wrote:1) Is it able to be installed *and run* concurrently with FDM 5 / 3?
Yes.
johnlgalt wrote:is there a working set of features that you're (currently) planning on incorporating?
All I can say for now, is that the next update should (at minimum) bring Torrents support, "Use server time for file creaion" setting.
johnlgalt wrote:3) Are you going to start a new 'Vote for FDM 6 Features" thread
We have no plans for this currently.
Alex,
FDM development team
FDM development team
Re: FDM 6.0 ALPHA
robertschv wrote:hey, when will be release the linux version?
Sorry, I can't say exactly, but we're working on it.
Alex,
FDM development team
FDM development team
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