[GNUnet-SVN] r6511 - GNUnet-docs/WWW/news

[gnunet]

Author: grothoff
Date: 2008-03-02 01:25:47 -0700 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008)
New Revision: 6511

Added:
   GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20080302.inc
Log:
newss

Added: GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20080302.inc
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--- GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20080302.inc                              (rev 0)
+++ GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20080302.inc      2008-03-02 08:25:47 UTC (rev 
6511)
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+<?php
+W("Download %s here.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.8.0pre0.tar.bz2";,
+          "GNUnet 0.8.0pre0"));
+W("gnunet-gtk is a separate download and can be found %s.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.8.0pre0.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 (also alpha) which allows you to mount directories shared 
over GNUnet as Linux file-systems (read-only).",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-fuse-0.7.2.tar.bz2";,
+          "gnunet-fuse"));
+*/
+BR();
+W("GNUnet 0.8.0pre0 is a pre-release.");
+W("We are making this release a pre-release because this version breaks 
backwards-compatibility on many levels.");
+W("In particular, 0.8.0pre0 peers will not connect to the 0.7.3-network.");
+W("Moreover, 0.8.0pre0 is unable to access content inserted into the local 
0.7.3-style database.");
+W("There is no code for data migration, so all data will have to be indexed 
again.");
+W("Finally, various features planned for 0.8.0 are still missing.");
+W("The main goal for this release is to bootstrap the 0.8.0-network.");
+W("You should only update to GNUnet 0.8.0pre0 if you are willing to help 
bootstrap and don't mind not finding too much content initially.");
+P();
+W("Updating should be easy, simply delete all your old GNUnet data and run 
<tt>gnunet-update</tt>.");
+W("Read the UPDATING file for details (on what to delete).");
+P();
+W("Finally, here are the reasons for why (given all of the bad news) you might 
want to update.");
+W("Noteworthy improvements since GNUnet %s:",
+  "0.7.3");
+echo "<ul>";
+LI("Integrated IPv6 transports with existing IPv4 transports (making full use 
of dual-stacks where available)");
+LI("Added IPv6 support to the HTTP transport");
+LI("Added new &quot;hostlist&quot; application which is an integrated HTTP 
hostlist server using libmicrohttpd");
+LI("Added new tool <tt>gnunet-auto-share</tt> for automatic sharing of files 
in a directory");
+LI("Added asynchronous search and download methods to ECRS (saves one thread 
per search/download for most GNUnet-tools)");
+LI("Added self-evaluation (amount of trust earned, spent, awarded)");
+LI("Added directory name as metadata for files in directories");
+LI("Added options for <tt>gnunet-insert</tt> to just compute the URI or just 
add keywords to already shared file");
+LI("Added support for pausing of a search (to FSUI and <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt>)");
+LI("Improved GAP search requests to gather more search results (using bloom 
filter to exclude known responses)");
+LI("Improved file-sharing datastores to return more diverse search results 
(randomized starting point in iteration)");
+LI("Improved scalability of datastores to handle many results for the same 
keyword (from O(n) to O(1) by adding extra index)");
+LI("Improved performance of <tt>make check</tt> by using a weak PRNG (for 
testing only)");
+LI("Improved bandwidth consumption for file-sharing (reduced overheads by 64 
bytes per 32k block)");
+LI("Improved performance of the <tt>dstore</tt>s (used for DHTs)");
+LI("Fixed bug in DHT routing table construction (increases number of DHT 
connections, resulting in faster routing)");
+LI("Fixed deadlock in <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt>");
+LI("Fixed issue with GNUnet clients and GNUnet daemon running on different 
architectures (Mantis #1312)");
+LI("Fixed deadlock in MySQL <tt>sqstore</tt> module");
+echo "</ul>";
+BR();
+?>