| Summary: | Version bump: net-p2p/gnunet-0.8.0 | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Per Wigren <tuxie> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo net-p2p team <net-p2p> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://gnunet.org/ | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Per Wigren
2008-07-01 14:01:44 UTC
Nothing security related, it seems...
Noteworthy improvements since GNUnet 0.7.3 are:
Major new features:
Added support for google-style searches
Added support for ranking search results by availability
User-friendly naming of namespaces and pseudonyms
Added new "hostlist" application which is an integrated HTTP hostlist server using libmicrohttpd
Added new tool gnunet-auto-share for automatic sharing of files in a directory
Improved GAP search requests to gather more search results (using bloom filter to exclude known responses)
Improved file-sharing datastores to return more diverse search results (randomized starting point in iteration)
Made GNUnet finally work (again) on OpenBSD
Minor improvements:
Integrated IPv6 transports with existing IPv4 transports (making full use of dual-stacks where available)
Added IPv6 support to the HTTP transport
Improved FSUI suspend/resume IO performance
Added options to gnunet-peer-info to determine identity of local peer
Added sanity check for module configuration
Added self-evaluation (amount of trust earned, spent, awarded)
Added directory name as metadata for files in directories
Added options for gnunet-insert to just compute the URI or just add keywords to already shared file
Added support for pausing of a search (to FSUI and gnunet-gtk)
Improved latency of some operations in gnunet-gtk
Various cosmetic improvements in gnunet-gtk
Improved scalability of datastores to handle many results for the same keyword (from O(n) to O(1) by adding extra index)
Improved bandwidth consumption for file-sharing (reduced overheads by 64 bytes per 32k block)
Improved performance of the dstores (used for DHTs)
Writable files (like the content of /etc and /var) are now stored to CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA ("C:\ProgramData\" on Vista, "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\" on XP) on Windows.
Bugfixes:
Fixed bug in HTTP transport causing certain messages not to be delivered
Fixed rare crash in GAP routing
Fixed reporting of errors during insertion if datastore got full
Fixed various bugs with recursive downloads
Fixed bug causing problems when downloading very large files already in the local datastore
Fixed bug causing certain search results from the local datastore not showing up properly
Fixed bug revealing that user sharing files is using W32
Fixed various issues with the build process for various platforms
Fixed bug in DHT routing table construction (increases number of DHT connections, resulting in faster routing)
Fixed deadlock in gnunet-gtk
Fixed issue with GNUnet clients and GNUnet daemon running on different architectures (Mantis #1312)
Fixed deadlock in MySQL sqstore module
Changes relevant for developers:
Improved and simplified various APIs
Added support for chat (client-server and UI only, no P2P support yet)
Added asynchronous search and download methods to ECRS (saves one thread per search/download for most GNUnet-tools)
Improved performance of make check by using a weak PRNG (for testing only)
In CVS I just wanted to put it on a server - but this version seems to need gtk - even if the useflag gtk is off! 0.8.1 released. |
