Freenet stable build 5077

[Ken]

Build 5077

Stable build 5077 is now available. The snapshots have been updated. All users of the stable branch should upgrade ASAP. This build has far too many changes to list exhaustively (but I tried, you can see the results in the commit comments). Some highlights:

* Fixed a HUGE bug which was preventing inserts from working at all well. This may well be responsible for much of Freenet's woes. It has been around at least since the native datastore rewrite..

* Major changes to how and to where we route - "bidirectional routing". Basically this means that the routing table is a superset of the set of connected nodes, and if a node is connected, we will try to route to it. Even if it is a transient. This should significantly improve performance and reduce the number of Route Not Found errors.

* Improved announcements

* Fixed a major rate limiting bug.

* Fixed many less significant bugs.

* New diagnostics and config options

* Substantial reduction in memory usage. Many leaks eliminated.

* Fixed two major bugs that would cause splitfile downloads in fproxy to hang, and made some related improvements.

* Improvements to the HTTP interface to the node (diagnostics etc are themed, better routing table status page, etc)

* Fixed bug with ZIP files in manifests.

* New linux-specific option doCPULoad, to attempt to throttle requests based on actual measured overall system CPU usage. I found this useful, others might; a Windows implementation is not likely. It is not possible to do this in a cross platform manner.

* Workaround for a major NIO bug on Windows (which caused 100% CPU usage).

* Major bug fix relating to cancelling messages (messages that were supposed to be cancelled weren't getting cancelled).

* Tons of refactoring - much code tidied up, split into more manageable pieces, or outright deleted due to not being needed.

* Lots of optimizations.

* Linked to the new FIND is Not Dolphin index instead of Dolphin, it is more appropriate for the stable branch as it indexes stable sites only.

* And much more!

Source

[jipper]

another upgrade with noticable difference?

ive only just started using freenet agian and ive found it even more increasingly differcult to use, but ill still give it a go aevery now and then.

i found a site called www.invisiblog.com

which is similar to freenet except its an actual website..worth a looksee

[Ken]

I've never found Freenet hard to use per-say.

It's just

A. Get freenet up and running

B. Try to access a freesite.

C. Become disappointed when the site either takes 10 minutes to load, or doesn't load at all.

D. Give up, like the loser that I am.

E. Remind myself NOT to uninstall, because it may "get better".

F. Go back to leeching off of newsgroups

[Ken]

I think that site has something to do with WASTE, mr.jip. I could be wrong though....

[jipper]

really..?

have you had a gander at the articles...?

pretty disapointing considering people have the advantage of being anonymous..i thought there would be more controversial posts..

[Ken]

I guess I was confused about that site.

I'm unfamiliar with it's methods and content.

Though, I fail to see how this can be used for sharing files.

Perhaps someone can explain it to me?

[jipper]

what i mean is conidering users are anonymous i would have thought the posts would have been a bit different than.."who i hate at work" or "everyday things that piss me off"