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"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Get Freenet

Click here to download the latest 0.4 release for Windows, Linux, and the Apple Macintosh.

News

9th February 2002, New build available: 459 - download now!

As can be seen, things are progressing rapidly. A new build is available containing more bugfixes, including a major datastore fix. As per usual, users should do their best to keep up to date with the latest builds. Linux users can do this by stopping their node, running the ./update.sh, and restarting their nodes. Windows users should use the new Update program to be found in Start->Program Files->Freenet.

19th January 2002, New Windows installer

Sebastian Spaeth has released a Windows installer which will automatically download the latest version of Freenet, meaning that Windows users can now keep up to date with daily snapshots more conveniently. You can find it here. Please send feedback directly to Sebastian.

19th January 2002, Progress report

Time for another progress report. Highlights are that a data corruption bug which was causing serious problems has been fixed, everyone should upgrade.

Background

Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.

Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to providing security without reliance on a central authority. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.


Media enquiries

Any press enquiries about Freenet should be directed to Ian Clarke.