Hi,

We’re getting ever closer to release. I merged the already reviewed
pull-requests, but some important PRs remain so we can release. Please
help getting these reviewed!


Small or simple reviews:

- only include the inline m3u player if the page contains media-tags
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/802

- bookmarks: add infocalypse and pyFreenet sharesite
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/801

- add sky-dark-static theme by CometZ@6DtYG~
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/796

- m3u-player: skip tracks that fail.
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/795

- Client getter honor max size argument
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/794


More complex review:

- Redesign firsttime wizard (updating the PR from redwerk)
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/790
  (this needs review of the changes I added to ship the needed dependencies)


Once the pull-requests above are reviewed, we can finally release 1495
with pretty cool improvements:

- new firsttime wizard (single-step joining with clearer defaults)
- Add web+freenet and ext+freenet as supported schemas to support
  extensions. Thanks to TheSeeker
- healing size increased (better lifetime for popular files)
- CSS: enable sticky — thanks to Spider Admin
- CSS: enable transition and word-wrap — thanks to naejadu, thanks to
  vwoodzell for the review!
- Eleriseth pending keys merged (performance)
- re-organize default bookmarks: first section has "starting points",
  thanks to vwoodzell for the review!
- new theme: sky-dark-static
- m3u-player: only inline the m3u player if the page contains media tags
- m3u-player: skip broken files
- Client getter honor max size argument
- finally merged the HashingAPI by unixninja92, a GSoC project that had
  gotten lost in the pull requests. This provides an easy and
  well-tested way to create and verify different types of Hashes from
  byte arrays, including Sha256 and TigerTree.
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/258
- upgrade unit tests to junit4, thanks to vwoodzell!
- old announcement fixes by toad finally merged



The following PR does not block the release, because it needs conceptual
review to ensure that we won’t get problems when deploying in a large
network, and that we don’t make it easier to observe behavior. The
existing logic seems to be problematic, but it does not break down
completely, and this is a pretty sensitive area:

- Trivuele batch 2: RequestStarter simplification and fixes
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/777
  (it would be good to have more comments in this which explain the
  logic. There is somewhat detailed documentation in the commit message:
  
https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/777/commits/984ad3f81a4374a8fe2d55cdec21ba92ab990082
  )


Finally, this is one of the two remaining release blockers:

- Create initial Github CI flow
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/775
  (this needs review to ensure that it cannot spill deployment or
   account information)


And if you want to help DC* finish the Debian package (to get to the
point where people can just apt install freenet), please have a look at

- Debian Package Continuation
  https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/774


Best wishes,
Arne


We need people to check the pull-requests. I’m not merging anything into
fred (=autoupdate) not seen by at least 2 people (author + reviewer) to
ensure that if I merged something without review this would raise red
flags and get many people to check that.

That protects Freenet against being corrupted by putting pressure on me
(or any other release-manager).

So if you can make some time, please have a look at one of the pull
requests that is not yet marked as readyToBeMerged:
https://github.com/freenet/fred/pulls


Thank you for your interest in Freenet!


Best wishes,
Arne
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