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Progress Report 19th January 2002

As of today Tavin thinks he has fixed the data corruption bug which was causing serious problems for Freenet since the introduction of the new datastore code. Basically the bug caused data to be corrupted the first time it was requested, but subsequent requests would be fine. It is likely that this was causing many nodes to be dereferenced (if a node returns bogus data it is assumed to be broken and a node will not communicate with it any more). This bug was perhaps most obvious to Frost users.

Sebastian continues to work on the updated Windows installer. The plan is to make it download the latest version of Freenet, so that Windows users can also ensure that they are using the latest snapshot of the code just like Linux users.

We are planning to revive the custom bug tracking system, FBS, which was originally written by Adam Langley as a response to criticism of Sourceforge's bug tracker.

To conclude, bugs are being squashed in the new datastore and surrounding code at a reassuring rate, users should try to keep up-to-date with the latest Freenet snapshots.