Author: toad Date: 2006-04-03 20:03:48 +0000 (Mon, 03 Apr 2006) New Revision: 8443
Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php Log: 0.7 alpha 1 Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-04-03 19:01:39 UTC (rev 8442) +++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-04-03 20:03:48 UTC (rev 8443) @@ -12,6 +12,45 @@ our <a href="/index.php?page=donate">donations page</a>. <h3>News</h3> +<b>3rd March, 2006: Freenet 0.7 Alpha 1</b><br> +<p>Freenet is a decentralised "peer-to-peer" system designed to allow the +anonymous sharing of information on the Internet. After many months of work, +the first alpha version of Freenet 0.7 is ready for testing.</p> +<p>Freenet 0.7 represents a major new approach to peer-to-peer network design. +To protect the network, and the user's anonymity, Freenet users will now have +the ability to connect directly to other people that they know and trust, +together forming a "global darknet" making it extremely difficult for any +third party, whether a government or another powerful organisation, to +determine that a user is participating in Freenet, let alone what they are +doing with it. This new version is a complete rewrite of the Freenet +software, representing numerous other improvements, including:</p><ul> +<li>Freenet now operates over UDP rather than TCP</li> +<li>Freenet can transparently operate through firewalls</li> +<li>Freenet's core architecture and algorithm has been redesigned for simplicity and efficiency</li> +<li>A new and even simpler API allowing the rapid development of third party software that interacts with Freenet</li> +</ul> +<p>The new Freenet employs a simpler and more flexible routing model than +previous versions, which in the future may allow diverse applications ranging +from efficient search, to near-real time instant messaging and chat between +anonymous participants. Initially Freenet 0.7 will be a "pure darknet" +model, in that all connections must be trusted, however future versions will +permit a mixed opennet/darknet approach where the user can opt to allow +untrusted connections to their node, which will improve connectivity and +convenience at the expense of security.</p> +<p>Note that this release is still a very early alpha; users should neither +expect it to be secure, nor user friendly. Rather, the purpose of this release +is to facilitate wider testing, to inform people of the progress we have made, +and to attract fresh development talent, both to Freenet itself, and to third +party applications that use Freenet as a platform.</p> +<p>This release would not have been possible without the work of numerous +volunteers, and Matthew Toseland, Freenet's full time developer. Matthew's work +is funded through donations via our website, we ask that anyone who can help us +to ensure Matthew's continued employment by visiting our donations page and +making a contribution at:</p> +<p><a href="http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donate";>http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donate</a></p> +<p>The new version of Freenet may be downloaded from:</p> +<p><a href="http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download-new";>http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=download-new</a></p> +<br> <b>18th February, 2006: Searching in a Small World</b><br> Oskar Sandberg has made available his thesis <a href="http://www.math.chalmers.se/~ossa/lic.pdf";>Searching in a Small World</a>. This describes a simple decentralized algorithm for creating small world networks that is inspired by Freenet's original
