Freenet 0.7.5 build 1468 released

Steve Dougherty <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:08:16 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.support
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
The Freenet team is very happy to announce the stable release of
Freenet 0.7.5 build 1468.



*Important notes*: downgrading from build 1468 is not supported; if you
want to go back to build 1467 without losing the upload and download
queues, *before* upgrading, back-up the following files and
directories: master.keys, persistent-temp-*/, and node.db4o (see
https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Program_files ). Please note that
running transfers will be restarted from scratch too. A reminder to
those testing auto-update to 1468-pre4: please restore your auto-update
key to the default. One way to do this is to stop Freenet, remove the
"node.updater.URI" line from freenet.ini, and start Freenet again.



In this release, the way Freenet stores data locally has changed
drastically by no longer using the now-deprecated db4o object storage.
It is replaced with the product of toad's summer of work - a custom
on-disk format that is much more robust against corruption and more
efficient.



* Existing unfinished downloads and uploads will be imported to a new
  format, which requires restarting them from the beginning.

* Space for downloads is now all allocated at the start, so machines
  very low on disk space may run out, which causes downloads to
  temporarily fail until more space is available.

* CHKs will change due to metadata bugfixes.

* Some unofficial plugins will need to be updated because of API
  changes. Sone already works, as do all official plugins.

* The queue format changes should make it extremely rare to lose the
  entire queue: the impact of corruption will almost always be
  localized.

* Multi-container / site uploads can now be persistent, making it more
  practical to upload large sites.

* Passworded physical security is now much stronger. (Full-disk
  encryption is still preferable.)



* The Windows installer now defaults to starting Freenet on login.

* There is a new Windows tray app with some useful features that is
  included with new installations. [0] If you are using the existing
  Windows tray app you can download the new one here. [1] No need to put
  it in a specific directory - it will try the default installation
  location and prompt if it can't find it.



* The list of download keys moved from downloads/listFetchKeys.txt to
  downloads/listKeys.txt.

* A list of upload keys is now available at uploads/listKeys.txt



* Gantros' index is now in the default bookmarks. It uses the same
  software as Enzo's index, which is no longer updated.



* The obsolete and deprecated XMLLibrary and XMLSpider plugins are no
  longer officially supported. They will still load for those who have
  them added, but are no longer shown on the plugin page.

* In the interests of releasing this build more quickly, the new
  version of FlogHelper does not support exporting and importing backups
  from the web UI. The old backup code did not work with the new Freenet
  version after removing db4o. People can instead back up
  "plugins.floghelper.FlogHelper" files in the plugin-data directory.
  These can be dropped into the directory after unloading FlogHelper to
  restore a backup.

* ThawIndexBrowser works again. Thanks saces!



* Fred translations are updated.



* Add two seed nodes, one sponsored by meshnet.pl - the Polish
  radio/meshnet darknet users group, and another run by ArneBab. Thanks!

* Update existing seed node references.





Thank you for using Freenet!



[0] https://github.com/freenet/wintray

[1]
https://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/FreenetTray.exe.build01468

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