A few important new releases are using Metalinks.
OpenOffice.org 2.1 is out and can be downloaded with Metalinks:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html
openSUSE 10.2 was released last week. 20,000 openSUSE ISO .metalinks
were downloaded the first day, and about 60,000 total so far.
http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Metalink
http://en.opensuse.org/Metalink
A great overview on Metalink is available here:
"Downloading bliss with Metalink" by Mayank Sharma
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/1641247
http://opentechpress.jp/developer/06/11/09/0153243.shtml (Japanese)
--- New Releases
Clients
-- aria2 0.9.0 (Mac/Unix/Win)
http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
-- FlashGot 0.5.97.02 (Firefox extension)
http://www.flashgot.net/
-- GetRight 6.1 (Win)
http://www.getright.com/
-- Speed Download 4.1.7 (Mac)
http://www.yazsoft.com/
-- wxDownload Fast 0.5.3 (Mac/Unix/Win)
http://dfast.sourceforge.net/
Tools
-- Metalink tools 0.3.2, for generating Metalinks with checksums and
mirrors from the command line.
http://prog.infosnel.nl/metalinks/
-- RoPkg::Metalink 0.2.5 (Perl)
http://download.packages.ro/perl-foundry/
-- Simba, the mirroring tool
http://simba.packages.ro/
-- Metalink @ Packages Resources continues to offer updated Metalinks
for the new versions of Ubuntu, Fedora Core, openSUSE, Arch Linux,
CentOS, OpenOffice.org, and others.
http://metalink.packages.ro/
Finally, on an unrelated-to-Metalink note, Sun Download Manager 2.0 is
out. It doesn't support Metalink, but has other important features to
make downloading easier and more reliable. If you're going to download
anything large from Sun you probably want to give it a try.
http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/
Happy Holidays...