Op dit moment zijn er in P2P-land drie grote netwerken: Fasttrack (KaZaA), Emule, en Gnutella. Bearshare werkt met de laatste. De ontwikkelaars van het programma werken hard aan de nieuwe versie, 4.3.0 genummerd. In de tussentijd zijn er alweer 129 (!) beta's langsgekomen, en beginnen de bugs steeds schaarser te worden. Het complete changelog sinds beta 1 is hier te vinden. In nummer 129 wordt het volgende gefixed:
[MS] Removed the Advanced Setup tab. Relocated the "Reset remebered" option to the Options setup.
[MS] FIXED Reset remembered for the magnet handler dialog.
[MS] Added a separate bool for authenticating magnets.
[AM] Verify each Host, Upload, and Download is inactive before destroying
[VF] Config logic for leaves avoids sending updates to Ultrapeers unless a new configuration is being distributed from a local file
[VF] FIXED config is clipped before applying
[VF] Clipped config settings are reported to the console
[AM] Download decryption error closes the individual stream with Console reporting
[MS] Removed GIBlockLogic.
[VF] FIXED receipt of config delta saves the full config instead of the delta to the config.bin file
[VF] Compression savings percentage is displayed in console lines regarding valid config deltas
[VF] Changed config logic stub timeout to 30 seconds from 15 seconds.
[VF] Changed default setting for always notify on newer products to No
[DN] Various stats & heartbeat fixes - ordinal [break]Wie eens met de nieuwe versie van de software wil spelen kan hier terecht voor de beta.