[GNUnet-SVN] r5011 - GNUnet-docs/WWW/news

[gnunet]

Author: grothoff
Date: 2007-06-11 12:24:46 -0600 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007)
New Revision: 5011

Added:
   GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20070617.inc
Log:
drafting news

Added: GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20070617.inc
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--- GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20070617.inc                              (rev 0)
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+<?php
+W("Download %s here.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.7.2.tar.bz2";,
+          "GNUnet 0.7.2"));
+W("gnunet-gtk is a separate download and can be found %s.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.7.2.tar.bz2";,
+          "here"));
+W("%s is still an alpha version with fewer features.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-qt-0.7.2.tar.bz2";,
+          "gnunet-qt"));
+W("A new tool is %s which allows you to mount directories shared over GNUnet 
as Linux file-systems.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-fuse-0.7.2.tar.bz2";,
+          "gnunet-fuse"));
+BR();
+
+W("GNUnet 0.7.2 is largely compatible with GNUnet 0.7.1.");
+W("Except for changes to the configuration file updating should be relatively 
unproblematic, read the UPDATING file for details.");
+W("GNUnet 0.7.2 peers should be able to communciate with 0.7.1-peers (but not 
with 0.7.0 peers).");
+W("The compatibility transport, <tt>tcp_old</tt>, is no longer supported (you 
must update your configuration file to remove it).");
+W("Please note that this is still a <em>beta</em> release; the first actually 
stable version will be called 1.0.0 and is likely to still be at least a year 
away.");
+BR();
+W("The main change for 0.7.2 is the addition of support for non-anonymous 
downloads using direct connections and a distributed hash table (DHT).");
+W("When you upload a file with anonymity-level zero this new method will be 
used if the user on the other side also specifies anonymity-level zero for 
search and download.");
+W("Non-anonymous operations are also always used concurrently; shaing a file 
with anonymity-level zero will also make it available for anonymous download.");
+W("Similarly, a file shared with non-zero anonymity-level will be found during 
a search with anonymity-level zero.");
+W("In general, for any file the smallest anonymity-level used by both sender 
and receiver will be used for the transfer.");
+BR();
+W("Most of the smaller changes made for 0.7.2 have focused on adding automatic 
testcases and improving stability and correctness.");
+W("Furthermore, all features that were removed from <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> as 
part of the major changes for the 0.7.0 release have been added back.");
+W("Developers should note that there were some minor API changes and 
extensions (for example, to support <tt>gnunet-fuse</tt>).");
+BR();
+W("Noteworthy improvements since GNUnet 0.7.1:");
+echo "<ul>";
+LI("Implemented non-anonymous file-sharing (anonymity-level zero) using DHT");
+LI("Implemented tracking of history of our interaction with a particular URI 
(this is used to highlight which files have been successfully downloaded in the 
past, or which downloads were aborted previously)");
+LI("Implemented heuristic for better packing of gnunet-directories");
+LI("Added new API to make it easier to start a dozen <tt>gnunetd</d> processes 
when writing testcases");
+LI("Added support for namespaces to <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> ");
+LI("Added peer tab showing <tt>gnunet-peer-info</tt>-like information in 
<tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> ");
+LI("Fixed many bugs in testcases");
+LI("Fixed issues with the handling of certain command-line options (-L, -H)");
+LI("Fixed various bugs causing problems with peers not connecting properly");
+LI("Fixed bug in routing algorithm that reduced its effectiveness");
+LI("Fixed (rare) deadlock in <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt>");
+echo "</ul>";
+BR();
+?>