Front Page

Explorers
- What is Freenet
- Donate!
- People
- Publicity
- Philosophy
- Translations

Users
- Download
- ScreenShots
- Documentation
- FAQ
- Third Party Tools
- Report Bug
- Mailing Lists

Authors
- Publishing

Developers
- Papers
- Architecture
- Browse CVS
- Public Area
- About This Site

Login & Edit

Hosted by
SourceForge


State of Freenet 23rd February 2002

The last few months of Freenet development have largely been consumed by refining the current code-base, tracking down and fixing bugs, and making sure that the existing functionality works.

Tavin has continued to find and fix bugs in the datastore, and its behavior is now quite stable.

Oskar, Tavin, and Freenet-newcomer, Niklas Mehner have recently checked in some fixes to some problems which were causing "thread leaks", these significantly increased the Freenet node's resource usage, and were eventually leading to nodes locking up. Niklas has also been working to improve the efficiency of the crypto code in Freenet.

Jay Oliveri has taken over work on FCPTools, the set of command-line utilities which make is rather easy to insert websites into Freenet.

Frost continues to progress and seems to have established a significant user-base already.

FreeWeb has not seen many changes in a while, but that may be an indication that it finally has the functionality people need to publish Freesites easily from Windows.

Bottom line: Freenet has never been as stable as it is now. We are definitely on the home-straight to a 0.5 release.