You sure the 0.7 alpha notice should no longer be on the main page? On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:01:46PM +0000, ian at freenetproject.org wrote: > Author: ian > Date: 2006-04-25 19:01:45 +0000 (Tue, 25 Apr 2006) > New Revision: 8577 > > Modified: > trunk/website/pages/news.php > Log: > clean up news a bit > > Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php > =================================================================== > --- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-04-25 18:52:23 UTC (rev 8576) > +++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-04-25 19:01:45 UTC (rev 8577) > @@ -15,12 +15,9 @@ > <b>25th April, 2006: Video of Freenet 0.7 talk at 22C3 now > available</b><br> > The video of Ian and Oskar's talk at 22C3 is now available for download. > -Grab it via <a > -href="http://media.ccc.de/filez/congress/2005/lectures/video/mp4/22C3-videos-incomplete-20050423-torrents/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4.torrent";>torrent</a>, > > -<a > -href="http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/!final/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4";>http</a>, > > -or <a > -href="http://dijjer.org/get/http://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/!final/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4";>Dijjer</a>. > > +Grab the <a > +href="http://media.ccc.de/filez/congress/2005/lectures/video/mp4/22C3-videos-incomplete-20050423-torrents/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4.torrent";>torrent > > +here</a>. > You can also download their <A > > href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a>, > > and the source for the Java <a href="<a > @@ -34,55 +31,3 @@ > running before it will work. Try it out by installing <a > href="/index.php?page=download-new">Freenet 0.7</a>, and then <a > href="http://jtcfrost.sourceforge.net/";>Frost</a>. > -<p> > -<b>3rd April, 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 > -approach, along with the experimental and theoretical basis for this > approach. This also provides an insight into why > -small world networks might form naturally among human relationships. > -<p> > -<b>3rd January, 2006: Slides and Demo from Chaos Congress talk now > online</b><br> > -On Friday 30th Oskar Sandberg and I <a > href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/492.en.html";>spoke</a> > -at the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany. We were > speaking about > -the upcoming 0.7 redesign of Freenet. Now that I have thawed out > -(it was -6°C!), I have had a chance to upload our <a > href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a> > (pdf.bz2 format), and a Java <a > href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-freenet-demo.tar.bz2";>demo</a> > -(requires Java 1.5). > > _______________________________________________ > cvs mailing list > cvs at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvs >
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