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Subject: [Announce] Freenet 0.7.5 release candidate 1 is now available!
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:41:33 +0100
From: Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>
To: Discussion of development issues <devl at freenetproject.org>,
support at freenetproject.org, announce at freenetproject.org

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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again please unsubscribe here:
http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce/

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