jimmy90
August 12th, 2009, 08:50 AM
Freenet now uses a database to store longer-term data that must survive a restart. This increases Freenet's speed and reduces its memory usage. In particular, you can now have almost any number of downloads and uploads in progress without worrying about memory usage.
Improvements to the web interface make it clearer what you can do with Freenet, show progress when loading a page or file will take more than a few seconds, integrate search into the browse page, and generally improve usability in many areas.
Significantly improved performance for inserting and retrieving files and especially pages, and also for Freenet's initial connection to the network.
Google's Open Source team has donated US$18,000 to the Freenet Project to support the ongoing development of the Freenet software (thanks again Google!).
Finally fixing The Register's attack!
In 2005, The Register discovered what many of us had known for some time - that Freenet caches everything you visit in your datastore, and therefore that if your computer is seized or stolen, the bad guys may be able to determine what you have been browsing. Or they could even do it remotely by probing your datastore. This is now fixed. Freenet does not store anything that you download, visit, or upload, in your datastore. However, to maximise performance, we do have a private cache of freesites you have visited, called the "client cache", and we have a "slashdot cache" which caches everything else but only for 30 minutes, to help with propagating Frost/FMS posts and flash floods.
http://freenetproject.org/news.html
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Improvements to the web interface make it clearer what you can do with Freenet, show progress when loading a page or file will take more than a few seconds, integrate search into the browse page, and generally improve usability in many areas.
Significantly improved performance for inserting and retrieving files and especially pages, and also for Freenet's initial connection to the network.
Google's Open Source team has donated US$18,000 to the Freenet Project to support the ongoing development of the Freenet software (thanks again Google!).
Finally fixing The Register's attack!
In 2005, The Register discovered what many of us had known for some time - that Freenet caches everything you visit in your datastore, and therefore that if your computer is seized or stolen, the bad guys may be able to determine what you have been browsing. Or they could even do it remotely by probing your datastore. This is now fixed. Freenet does not store anything that you download, visit, or upload, in your datastore. However, to maximise performance, we do have a private cache of freesites you have visited, called the "client cache", and we have a "slashdot cache" which caches everything else but only for 30 minutes, to help with propagating Frost/FMS posts and flash floods.
http://freenetproject.org/news.html
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