Freenet 0.7.5 build 1349 is now available. This is another attempt to fix announcement/opennet bootstrapping and Update Over Mandatory on old nodes (which appear to be flooding the announcement mechanism). The main changes include: - Give nodes more time to connect since it seems announcement can take some time to return the announced noderefs. - Process the announcement noderef transfers in parallel so we can return the noderefs as soon as possible, one won't get stuck behind another (note this was theoretically exploitable, no evidence it has been though). IMHO this is a likely reason for the problems we've been having - when I look at my main node, announcements come in and are handled and work fine; when I look at a new node trying to announce, or an old node trying to announce, the picture is radically different. And on the node handling an announcement, I frequently see that a node (especially an old node) gets announced and then never connects - so we can't send it the update package. - Accept TOO OLD peers a bit more often, while still respecting the limits set out in 1347: don't worry about the overall limit, related changes.
Please upgrade ASAP! I have set a longish mandatory (the 17th), but IMHO this has a good chance of allowing old nodes to successfully announce and update, eliminating most of the load from old nodes announcing and failing to update, improve announcement generally, and hopefully get bootstrapping back to something like the fairly good performance we had for most of last year. Thanks! Please report any problems. Sorry for all the difficulties we've been having recently, there have been many reasons for these, but I hope we are getting a handle on them; certainly I have a better idea what's going on now...
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