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Christian Grothoff | 21 Dec 2012 19:43

GNUnet 0.9.5 released

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.9.5. This release
focuses on fixing various bugs, but also includes for the first time
non-anonymous multi-hope file transfers using the stream and mesh
subsystems that were refined in the previous versions.  We also improved
some performance aspects and improved the graphical user interfaces (in
particular gnunet-setup and gnunet-fs-gtk).  As far as we know, this
release is fully protocol-compatible with GNUnet 0.9.4.

About GNUnet
============

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. GNUnet's
primary design goals are to protect the privacy of its users and to
guard itself against attacks or abuse. At this point, GNUnet offers two
primary applications on top of the framework:

The file-sharing service allows anonymous censorship-resistant
file-sharing. Files, searches and search results are encrypted to make
it hard to control, track or censor users. GNUnet's anonymity protocol
(gap) is designed to make it difficult to link users to their
file-sharing activities. Users can also individually trade-off between
performance and anonymity. Despite providing anonymity, GNUnet's
excess-based economy rewards contributing users with better performance.

The VPN service allows offering of hidden services within GNUnet (using
a .gnunet TLD) and can be used to tunnel IPv4 and IPv6 traffic over the
P2P network. The VPN can also be used for IP protocol translation
(6-to-4, 4-to-6) and it is possible to tunnel IP traffic over GNUnet
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Christian Grothoff | 28 Feb 2012 16:08

GNUnet 0.9.2 released

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.9.2. This release 
brings a major rewrite of the VPN subsystem, resulting in significant 
performance and stability improvements. The release also includes a new 
linear programming... based automatic transport selection mechanism. The 
release fixes various bugs and brings various API extensions and other 
minor improvements. Except for the VPN subsystem, this release is 
protocol-compatible with GNUnet 0.9.1.

About GNUnet
============

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. GNUnet's 
primary design goals are to protect the privacy of its users and to 
guard itself against attacks or abuse. At this point, GNUnet offers two 
primary applications on top of the framework:

The file-sharing service allows anonymous censorship-resistant 
file-sharing. Files, searches and search results are encrypted to make 
it hard to control, track or censor users. GNUnet's anonymity protocol 
(gap) is designed to make it difficult to link users to their 
file-sharing activities. Users can also individually trade-off between 
performance and anonymity. Despite providing anonymity, GNUnet's 
excess-based economy rewards contributing users with better performance.

The VPN service allows offering of hidden services within GNUnet (using 
a .gnunet TLD) and can be used to tunnel IPv4 and IPv6 traffic over the 
P2P network. The VPN can also be used for IP protocol translation 
(6-to-4, 4-to-6) and it is possible to tunnel IP traffic over GNUnet
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Christian Grothoff | 22 Oct 2010 13:37

GNUnet 0.8.x webpage to go offline

Dear all,

I just wanted to briefly announce that the GNUnet webpage for 0.8.x (currently 
available at old.gnunet.org and v8.gnunet.org) will go offline for good in a few 
weeks (if you want to mirror it, this would be the time...). 

This includes the GNUnet 0.8.x hostlist at "http://v8.gnunet.org/hostlist".  
There are still currently two other GNUnet 0.8.x hostlists in operation:

http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/gnunet-hostlist/hostlist 
http://de.gnunet.org/hostlist-080

The GNUnet website for the upcoming GNUnet 0.9.x will of course stay up at 
https://gnunet.org/.

Finally, I would like to thank the University of Denver for hosting the GNUnet 
0.8.x website for the last four years.

Happy hacking,

Christian
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Christian Grothoff | 29 Dec 2009 17:26

GNUnet 0.8.1 released

We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.8.1 has been released. This release 
focuses on improving routing performance, providing improvements particularly 
for non-anonymous searching and downloading but also improving the performance 
of anonymous downloads.  It also adds a few minor features and includes fixes 
for various minor bugs and cosmetic issues.

Other noteworthy improvements
===================

* Command line tools can now be used in ways that do not leak activity 
   to local users (#1467)
* gnunet-gtk can now be started minimized (#1395)
* gnunet-pseudonym now uses a more sane default priority for namespace
   advertisements (#1472)
* Fixed various HTTP transport-related crashes (#1487)

Updating
======

After installing the new version, simply run gnunet-update.  

Availability
=======

GNUnet 0.8.1 is available from http://gnunet.org/download.php and all GNU
mirrors.  Direct links:

* http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.8.1.tar.gz
* http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.8.1.tar.gz
* http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-qt-0.8.1.tar.gz
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Christian Grothoff | 28 Feb 2009 07:14

GNUnet 0.8.0c released

We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.8.0c has been released. This is 
primarily a bugfix release fixing major bugs as well as cosmetic issues.

Noteworthy improvements
=======================

* Migrated HTTP transport to libmicrohttpd 0.4.0a API
* Fixed problem with MySQL disconnects causing crashes
* Fixed problem in DHT client protocol that could cause requests to be lost
* Fixed problem with struct sizes on 64-bit platforms
* Fixed Qt detection in configure script
* Fixed off-by-one error in file-sharing code
* Fixed handling of spaces in gnunet-auto-share
* Fixed parsing of IPv6 network specifications
* Fixed various other minor bugs

Updating
========

After installing the new version, simply run gnunet-update.

Availability
============

GNUnet 0.8.0c is available from http://gnunet.org/download.php and all GNU 
mirrors. Direct links:

 * http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.8.0c.tar.gz
 * http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.8.0c.tar.gz
 * http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-qt-0.8.0b.tar.gz
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Nils Durner | 16 Aug 2008 19:19
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GNUnet 0.8.0b released

We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.8.0b has been released. This is 
primarily a bugfix release fixing major bugs as well as cosmetic issues.

Noteworthy improvements
=======================

  * Fixed keyword extraction for files in subdirectories
  * Fixed keyword expiry
  * Fixed gnunet-gtk and gnunet-chat segfaults
  * Added URI support to gnunet-qt

Updating
========

After installing the new version, simply run gnunet-update.
While it is not strictly required, we also encourage all users to 
republish their content.
Availability
============

GNUnet 0.8.0b is available from http://gnunet.org/download.php and all 
GNU mirrors.  Direct links:

  * http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.8.0b.tar.gz
  * http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.8.0b.tar.gz
  * http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-qt-0.8.0b.tar.gz
  * http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz
  * http://gnunet.org/download/win32/Setup-0.8.0b.exe

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Christian Grothoff | 23 Jul 2008 05:39

GNUnet 0.8.0a released

We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.8.0a has been released. This is a 
bugfix release fixing various minor bugs and cosmetic issues.

Noteworthy improvements
===================

* Fixed processing of namespace advertisements 
   (you should now be able to discover namespaces)
* Fixed bugs with content expiration 
   (do not be surprised if your datastore usage drops for a while after
    starting the new version)

Updating
======

After installing the new version, simply run gnunet-update.  

Availability
=======

GNUnet 0.8.0a is available from http://gnunet.org/download.php and all GNU 
mirrors.  Direct links:

* http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.8.0a.tar.gz
* http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.8.0a.tar.gz
* http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-qt-0.8.0a.tar.gz
* http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-fuse-0.8.0.tar.gz
* http://gnunet.org/download/win32/Setup-0.8.0a.exe

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Christian Grothoff | 15 Jun 2008 05:16

GNUnet 0.8.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.8.0.  This release adds 
various major new features at the price of breaking compatibility on various 
levels.  If you are updating from a previous version, please read the section 
on updating below.

About
====
GNUnet is a secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework. A first
service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous
censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet's primary design goals are
to protect the privacy of its users and to guard itself against
attacks or abuse. GNUnet does not have any mechanisms to control,
track or censor users. Instead, the GNUnet protocols aim to make it as
hard as possible to find out what is happening on the network or to
disrupt operations.

Noteworthy improvements
===================

Major new features:
- google-style searches
- ranking of search results by availability
- user-friendly naming of namespaces / pseudonyms
- added new "hostlist" application which is an integrated HTTP hostlist 
  server (requires GNU libmicrohttpd)
- added new tool "gnunet-auto-share" for automatic sharing of files in 
  directories
- improved GAP search requests to gather more search results 
   (using bloom filter to exclude known responses; possibly the most
   significant individual improvement)
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Christian Grothoff | 23 Dec 2007 05:29

GNUnet 0.7.3 released

We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.7.3 has been released. This is a 
bugfix and feature release, please read the updating instructions below.

About
====
GNUnet is a secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework. A first
service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous
censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet's primary design goals are
to protect the privacy of its users and to guard itself against
attacks or abuse. GNUnet does not have any mechanisms to control,
track or censor users. Instead, the GNUnet protocols aim to make it as
hard as possible to find out what is happening on the network or to
disrupt operations.

Noteworthy improvements
===================

- Implemented MySQL version of the dstore
- Implemented SMTP transport based on libesmtp
- Added support for MS Vista
   (Vista users should read http://gnunet.org/drupal/node/298)
- Added  AUTO mode for NAT
- Added missing man pages
- Made all exported symbols by GNUnet libraries start with GNUNET_ prefix
- Improved integration of gnunet-setup with gnunet-gtk using gdsu
- Improved support for mixed friend-to-friend and general topology
- Improved performance for MySQL datastore
- Improved performance for SQLite datastore
- Improved DHT implementation
- Cosmetic improvements to gnunet-gtk
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Christian Grothoff | 30 Sep 2007 07:17

GNUnet 0.7.2c released

You can download the code from all GNU mirrors or from the URLs given below.  

http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.7.2c.tar.bz2
http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.7.2c.tar.bz2
http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-fuse-0.7.2b.tar.bz2 (unchanged)
http://gnunet.org/libextractor/download/libextractor-0.5.18a.tar.gz 
http://gnunet.org/download/win32/Setup-0.7.2c.exe (to be published soon)

This release adds a few minor features, fixes some bugs and improves 
performance.  Noteworthy changes include:

* Added HTTP-based transport (needs http://gnunet.org/libmicrohttpd/)
* Improved user interface for gnunet-setup (GTK)
* Improved performance for the MySQL-based datastore
* Improved handling of high CPU load
* Fixed various crashes in gnunetd

Updating should be trivial.  You need to run gnunet-update.

More information about GNUnet including how to use it, installation, other 
dependencies, mailinglists, a bug database and a forum can be found at

http://gnunet.org/

Thanks for your attention

Christian Grothoff
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Christian Grothoff | 31 Jul 2007 06:57

GNUnet 0.7.2b released

You can download the code from all GNU mirrors or from the URLs given below.  

http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.7.2b.tar.bz2
http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.7.2b.tar.bz2
http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-fuse-0.7.2b.tar.bz2
http://gnunet.org/libextractor/download/libextractor-0.5.18a.tar.gz
http://gnunet.org/download/win32/Setup-0.7.2b.exe (to be published soon)

This release is largely a bugfix release.  

Noteworthy changes include:
* gnunet-fuse now has support for write operations
* Improved latency and performance of various database operations 
* Fixed error handling in UDP transport
* Fixed log rotation (old log files were not deleted properly)
* Fixed crash in gnunet-update (when run needlessly)
* Fixed crash in gnunetd (assertion failure)

Updating should be trivial.  You need to run gnunet-update which will take a 
while (depending on your database size, it could take a few hours, the mysql 
table schema will be altered).

More information about GNUnet including how to use it, installation, other 
dependencies, mailinglists, a bug database and a forum can be found at

http://gnunet.org/

Thanks for your attention

Christian Grothoff
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