Author: toad Date: 2009-04-07 00:09:10 +0000 (Tue, 07 Apr 2009) New Revision: 26582
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/news.php Log: db4o merge Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/news.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/news.php 2009-04-06 23:38:32 UTC (rev 26581) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/news.php 2009-04-07 00:09:10 UTC (rev 26582) @@ -26,6 +26,31 @@ <h3>News</h3> +<p><b>1st April, 2009 - Freenet now uses db4o, lower memory use and better +large-file downloads!</b></p> +<p>Since Freenet 0.7, Freenet has had built-in code for downloading and +uploading large files. This has improved performance and usability, +but it has also meant that when lots of downloads are going at the same time, +Freenet could use a lot of memory. Also, it could make Freenet slow to start +up, and use a lot of system resources.</p> +<p>DB4O is an open source database technology, that we hoped might help us address +these problems. By storing the current progress of uploads and +downloads in <a href="http://www.db4o.com/";>this database</a> rather +than in memory, Freenet's memory usage can be greatly reduced.</p> +<p>We are currently testing these significant changes, meaning that it +will be included in the official Freenet in the very near future.</p> +<p>If you want to help with testing this new functionality, run +"update.cmd testing" (or "update.sh testing" if on mac/linux), in the +directory you installed Freenet to. Please report any bugs you find <a +href="https://bugs.freenetproject.org/";>here</a>, or to the mailing lists.</p> +<p>You may also want to join #freenet-testers on irc.freenode.net. If you don't +want to help testing, we will release a stable build based on this code soon, +and an alpha of 0.8 hopefully within the next month.</p> +<p>Also please note that this work has been almost entirely the work of +our one paid developer, and currently we can only have enough funds to +pay him for another month, so <a href="/donate.php">please consider donating</a> +if you'd like to see these improvements continue.</p> + <p><b>26th March, 2009 - Summer of Code 2009</b></p> <p>Freenet has been accepted into <a href="http://socghop.appspot.com/";>Google Summer of Code 2009</a>! That means Google will be paying for a bunch of students to work for us over the summer. _______________________________________________ cvs mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvs
