9th June, 2009 - Freenet 0.7.5 release candidate 1 is now available!
The Freenet Project is very pleased to announce the release of the first beta
of Freenet 0.7.5.
Freenet is free software designed to allow the free exchange of information
over the Internet without fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this
Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to reveal the identity, either
of the person publishing, or downloading content. The Freenet project started
in 1999, released Freenet 0.1 in March 2000, and has been under active
development ever since.
Freenet is somewhat unusual in that you can publish content to Freenet, and
then disconnect from the network. This content will remain available to other
Freenet users, although it may eventually be deleted if nobody is interested in
it. Freenet will copy and move the content around the network according to
demand, making it very difficult for an adversary to remove content. Freenet
will automatically create more copies of popular content to ensure that it will
always be available.
Freenet 0.7 introduced the "darknet" concept, allowing users to only connect to
their trusted friends (and thus to their friends' friends, and the entire
network), greatly reducing their vulnerability to attack. You can use Freenet
even if you don't know any other Freenet users, it just won't be as secure.
Freenet 0.7.5 beta 1 features major improvements to performance and usability,
as well as improvements to security and robustness. In particular:
* Freenet now uses a database (DB4O) to store longer-term data that must
survive a restart. This significantly increases Freenet's speed and reduces
its memory usage. In particular, you can now have almost any number of
downloads and uploads in progress without worrying about memory usage.
* Improvements to the web interface make it clearer what you can do with
Freenet, show progress when loading a page or file will take more than a few
seconds, integrate search into the browse page, and generally improve usability
in many areas.
* Significantly improved performance for inserting and retrieving data, and
also Freenet's initial connection to the network
* A new installer for Windows which works with Vista as well as Windows
XP/2000the (Freenet also works fine on Mac and Linux systems).
* Many other optimizations
* Lots and lots of bug fixes!
We need wider testing for 0.7.5 before we can declare it to be ready, so this
is only a release candidate. If you are an existing or past Freenet user, or
just want to get in before everyone else does, please test Freenet 0.7.5 rc1
(which is equal to build 1218). In particular we are concerned about possible
bugs in the installers (for Windows and Mac in particular), but please report
any bugs or problems you have downloading, installing, or using Freenet.
General feedback on how usable and fast Freenet is would also be welcome.
Hopefully 0.7.5 will be released within the next week. Please get your friends
to try it out, and tell us everything that they got stuck on, but please don't
slashdot us yet! :)
You can get Freenet from:
http://freenetproject.org/download.html
You can report bugs:
The bug tracker: https://bugs.freenetproject.org/
The support mailing list: support at freenetproject.org
Or talk to us on IRC: #freenet on irc.freenode.net
If you have Java programming or web design skills, and would like to help us
improve Freenet, please join our development mailing list and introduce
yourself. Also, if you can insert a full XMLSpider index anonymously, please do
so immediately and contact us with the new key. Translators are also always
welcome, if you can translate strings from English into some language that
Freenet does not properly support yet, please contact us.
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