It is our intention to release 0.7.0-final late next week. We (myself and ian) would really appreciate any testing you can do. Please test, test, test, let us know of any serious issues, ideally report them in the bug tracker (https://bugs.freenetproject.org), or via FMS if you must remain anonymous. If they have already been reported, find the old bug and comment on it and I will see it.
If you can do some usability testing, that's really valuable. All you do is find somebody who hasn't used Freenet before, and get them to install a node. Don't give them any help unless they get *really* stuck. Report their complaints, and anywhere where they got stuck: these are bugs, but it's probably best to report them here. The last lot of usability testing I did threw up a couple of biggish bugs: the user couldn't see the bookmarks because of all the useralerts, so didn't know what to do with Freenet; and plugin downloads were taking ages during install. Both are fixed now. After 0.7.0, we will move towards 0.7.1. Thanks to Google, we have a breathing space for 6 months, and we intend to use this to get more users by making Freenet faster, easier to use, and more secure. In roughly that order: most of the ease-of-use low-hanging-fruit has been dealt with for 0.7.0, which means performance is the main thing. Security is important but some of the big changes we need to do will take considerable time so should be postponed for 0.8.0.
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