GNUnet 0.6.2 released

Christian Grothoff <[email protected]> Sat, 1 May 2004 11:29:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnunet.announce,gmane.network.gnunet.devel,gmane.network.gnunet.general
Organization Purdue University, Department of Computer Science
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This release changes various APIs, which may result in incompatibilities wi=
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related tools like freeway. The peer-to-peer protocol is unchanged (and thu=
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compatible), but the client-server protocol changed slightly. The new relea=
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features:=20

* support for libextractor =E2=89=A5 0.3.0=20
* plotting of statistics with gnunet-gtk (rudimentary)=20
* reduced memory consumption for gnunet-download and gnunet-insert=20
* gnunet-transport-check can now test external connectivity=20
* gnunet-download now supports recursive parallel download of directories=20
* gnunet-gtk supports recursive insertion of directories=20
* indexing files is now fully network-transparent (see new option -l for=20
gnunet-insert)=20
* gnunet-download now bounds the request priorities within a range of the=20
priorities currently used in requests from other peers=20
* config.h is no longer included by the installed GNUnet header files=20
* gnunet-insert allows pre-viewing keywords extracted with libextractor=20
* a guile script to keep track of and resume gnunet-downloads was added=20
* gnunet-testbed now passes basic functionality tests=20
* cosmetic improvements (most visible change is probably that the gnunet-gt=
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search notebook now scrolls if there are many searches ongoing)=20
* the usual minor bug fixes (memcpy instead of memmove, blocking pipe=20
deadlocks select, segmentation faults)=20

0.6.2 uses a slightly different scheme for file indexing (to achieve networ=
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transparency). You should run gnunet-check -u after recompilation and befor=
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starting gnunetd. Updating from versions before 0.6.1b is not supported=20
(update first to 0.6.1d and then to 0.6.2 if you must).

The sources can be obtained from
http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download/GNUnet-0.6.2.tar.bz2
and all GNU mirrors (once they synchronize).

RPMs will eventually appear at http://www.ovmj.org/~rpm/.
Available DEBs are listed at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/gnunet.

Christian