Freenet 0.7 build 1021 is now available. Please upgrade. The auto-update system should pick this build up in coming hours, if not, please tell me.
1021 has rather more changes than most recent freenet builds, so there may be some rough edges. Nevertheless it will be mandatory in 1 month's time, and many of the changes are really interesting. Highlights: - New (long overdue) link encryption setup mechanism which is immune to Man-in-the-Middle and impersonation attacks. - Significant work on pre-emptive request rejection and timeouts: No hard limit on # requests, but limit # threads, memory, ensure that if all running requests succeed we won't be forced into timeouts, and increase the bwlimitDelay thresholds (they were too restrictive given the above). - Use significantly fewer threads, and don't leak the memory used by old queued requests. - Add FUQID-like code to try requesting more blocks from queued requests which we have recently had successes on. - Some work on local security: The node is now immune to symlink attacks on downloads to disk, there are optional settings for where downloads are allowed to and uploads are allowed from, and it is possible to set a list of IPs which are allowed full access to the node (full access includes e.g. reconfiguring the above limits, restarting the node; limited access at the moment still includes downloading within those dirs). - Lots of refactoring, new node.load config subsection, will eventually include everything to do with stats and limiting. - Fix a wierd bug with hash verification. - Do the hard part of starting a splitfile request on a separate thread. Speeds up startup significantly when you have lots of queued requests. - Lots of other improvements.
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