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Betreff: Stable build 5085 - please upgrade
Datum: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:55:40 +0100
Von: Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Antwort an: Discussion of development issues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.network.freenet.devel,gmane.network.freenet.technical
Freenet stable build 5085 is now available. Please upgrade ASAP, if you are running a stable branch node (if you are running unstable, you'll know that you're running unstable). You can do this using the update.sh script on POSIX-like systems such as Linux and MacOS/X (or Darwin): ./stop-freenet.sh ./update.sh ./start-freenet.sh On Windows, you can use the update option on the start menu. On any platform, you can stop the node, download http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/freenet-latest.jar over your existing freenet.jar, and then start the node up again.
Note that this build makes 5084 mandatory, so if you are still running 5083, you should DEFINITELY upgrade.
This is the result of more than 2 months work, and has many changes:
Some major changes to a critical part of the routing algorithm, the KeyspaceEstimators. The new implementation is faster and much more accurate. There are also many other changes to the routing code. There may be a readjustment period on the network for a while as people upgrade and the network sorts itself out. Your routing table will be reset on upgrade: the nodes will still be there but because of the algorithm change, the node will need to discover what their specialities are all over again. Sorry, it was not possible to make this backwards compatible. Many other minor routing improvements, many of them as a result of simulation (by running several nodes simultaneously on one machine, and running tests).
Firewalled nodes will now automatically pick up their IP address from the nodes they are connected to (once enough nodes have upgraded). Thus you no longer need to specify an address in the config file or use dyndns. This should make Freenet significantly easier to use for new users on firewalled/NATted setups. You will still need to forward the listenPort for maximum performance as we have not yet implemented automatic port forwarding (it would require us to borrow some code for Universal Plug and Play from other GPL'd Java apps; we may do this later).
Several fairly significant rate limiting fixes and improvements. Nodes were comparing two averages over different time periods when calculating their current request capacity, and sending the wrong Minimum Request Interval to the requesting node. This caused significant problems in our simulations. Also we now send "keepalive" messages occasionally, including the MRI, so that nodes don't get out of date when the MRI changes quickly (for example on startup).
Fixed a number of long running bugs affecting inserts, mostly at the client end. Especially inserts of large files. If you gave up trying to insert something because of timeouts, try it again on 5085.
Use a limit of 80 connections by default on Windows 98/ME, not 40. This should make nodes on such operating systems work slightly better. If you have problems with running out of sockets you may need to reduce the limits.
New diagnostics, new scripts, updates to scripts, improvements to announcements (but still not working properly), fixes for NullPointerExceptions (if you don't know what these are you don't want to), improvements to the routing table status pages, always overwrite the old logfile unless told otherwise in the config file (logOverwrite) to prevent the disk filling up, two new stats, node_<number> renamed to node, and loads of internal refactoring (moving code around, deleting dead code). -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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