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Submission + - Freenet 0.7.5 Announced

Submitted by evanbd on Friday June 12, 2009 @04:51PM

evanbd writes: After a year of development, the Freenet Project has announced version 0.7.5 of the Freenet anti-censorship software. Compared to 0.7, the new version offers significantly improved network performance, faster startup and reduced memory usage when uploading or downloading large files, enhancements to the user interface, and a new Windows installer. A new search function is also available, though it's still fairly limited. Downloads are available for Linux, OSX, and Windows. If you encounter any difficulties or bugs, help is available on IRC in #freenet at irc.freenode.net.

Comment Re:Are we just now getting this dupe (Score 2, Interesting) 365

by amphibian on Thursday May 08, 2008 @08:15PM (#23344986) Attached to: After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released

Statistical analysis is probably easier with a larger number of nodes, if you're talking about your direct peers monitoring you. Also, Freenet 0.7 supports opennet. And "same darknet"? What's the same darknet? There is only one 0.7 network as far as I know, although there maybe secret ones. If there are secret networks of 15 nodes, the NSA would probably not be on them. The long-term objective is to have a globally scalable darknet, which means that it might have a million nodes in it, but it's all going friend to friend to friend to friend. Read up on small world networks. Frost works better on 0.5 because the spammer has been attacking 0.7's Frost with constant denial of service attacks, not 0.5's Frost. They are both just as vulnerable. FMS is the solution. Darknet came up well before the collaborative censorship ideas you refer to, and that wouldn't be Freenet, it would be a different network. There is absolutely no intention for Freenet to provide any sort of censorship mechanism, and it doesn't provide any.

Submission + - After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released!

Submitted by evanbd on Thursday May 08, 2008 @03:44PM

evanbd writes: After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. "Freenet is 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 journey towards Freenet 0.7 began in 2005 with the realization that some of Freenet's most vulnerable users needed to hide the fact that they were using Freenet, not just what they were doing with it. The result of this realization was a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Freenet, adding a "darknet" capability, allowing users to limit who their Freenet software would communicate with to trusted friends.

Submission + - Freenet releases 0.7.0rc2

Submitted by evanbd on Thursday April 24, 2008 @04:01PM

evanbd writes: The Freenet Project has announced Freenet 0.7.0rc2. From the announcement: "Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish and consume information without fear of censorship. Freenet 0.7 is a ground-up rewrite of Freenet. The key user-facing feature in Freenet 0.7 is the ability to operate Freenet in a "darknet" mode, where your Freenet node will only talk to other Freenet users that you trust. This makes it much more difficult for an adversary to discover that you are using Freenet, let alone what you are doing with it. 0.7 also includes significant improvements to both security and performance." Of course, for those of us who don't know anyone else running Freenet, or simply prefer it, there's also a non-darknet mode available.

Submission + - [Announce] Freenet 0.7 alpha 2 is available! (freenetproject.org)

Submitted by

FuriousRage

on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @05:57PM

FuriousRage writes: "Freenet version 0.7a2 is now available for public testing.

Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish
and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must
download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other
operating systems. Your computer will then form part of a global,
decentralized P2P network, and you will be able to publish and consume
information anonymously, either through your web browser, or through a
variety of third party applications, such as Frost (see
http://jtcfrost.sf.net/).

Since the first alpha there have been vast numbers of changes, in particular
significant improvements in user friendliness. For example, it is no-longer
necessary to find other people to connect to, Freenet can find other people
for you. However, you can still connect to your friends for maximum security.
It is also a good deal faster, and many bugs have been fixed.

There have been many many other changes, and we will release a feature
complete beta followed by 0.7.0 itself in the coming months (we hope to have
regular point releases after that). But we thought it would be best to get
some wider testing at this point. There is more to do before 0.7.0, and one
or two features which need to be completed before that.

Freenet 0.7a2 can be downloaded from:

http://freenetproject.org/download.html

This release would not have been possible without the release of numerous
volunteers, and Matthew Toseland, Freenet's full time developer. Matthew's
work is funded through donations via our website (as well as a few larger
sponsors from time to time), we ask that anyone who can help us to ensure
Matthew's continued employment by visiting our donations page and making a
contribution at:

http://freenetproject.org/donate.html

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