Freenet 0.7 build 955 is now available from the auto-updater (soon, recommended) and the update script. Please upgrade, and report any bugs you encounter. Major changes: - Cache all local requests. This fixes one vulnerability (peers may know for certain what you requested if they do a timing attack) but reintroduces another (your store can be probed remotely, or locally if it is seized, to identify what you've probably been browsing). We are working on ways to fix both problems at once, but full local request security will not be available until premix routing in 0.8. - Fix an infinite loop that was causing high CPU usage and spontaneous restarts. - Some improvements to IP address detection. - Rewritten ARK fetching code, much simpler and should fix the "ARKs aren't fetched except just after startup" bug. - Don't write (most) options which are still at the default values to freenet.ini. Thus, unmodified config values will be updated to the new default when the node is upgraded. - Turn off aggressive garbage collection, unless the user has overridden it to an unusual value (other than off or the old default). It creates unnecessary CPU usage and may contribute to deadlocks/spontaneous self-restarting. - Other bugfixes etc.
954's changelog: - Selective logging support (so you can log a single subsystem in detail without slowing down the rest of the node). - Save a lot of CPU and RAM by not generating low-level logging data if we're not going to use it. - Allow links to the real internet, subject to a click-through warning (with a button so it won't be prefetched). - Some other CPU optimizations (Node.maybeLogPeerNodeStatusSummary). - Allow setting a private comment when adding a peer. - Tidy up the darknet page a bit. - Fix a bug in the bookmark handler. - And more bugfixes. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060901/c5f89533/attachment.pgp>
