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Freenet version 0.7 Release Candidate 1 is now available for public testing.
Freenet is a global peer-to-peer network designed to allow users to publish
and consume information without fear of censorship. To use it, you must
download the Freenet software, available for Windows, Mac, Linux and other
operating systems. Once you install and run Freenet, your computer will join
a global, decentralized P2P network. You will be able to publish and consume
information anonymously, either through your web browser, or through a
variety of third party applications.
Freenet 0.7 is a ground-up rewrite of Freenet. The key user-facing feature in
Freenet 0.7 is the ability to operate Freenet in a "darknet" mode, where your
Freenet node will only talk to other Freenet users that you trust. This
makes it much more difficult for an adversary to discover that you are using
Freenet, let alone what you are doing with it. 0.7 also includes significant
improvements to both security and performance.
Freenet 0.7 RC1 can be downloaded from:
http://freenetproject.org/download.html
This release would not have been possible without the release of numerous
volunteers, and Matthew Toseland, Freenet's full time developer. Matthew's
work is funded through donations via our website (as well as a few larger
sponsors from time to time). We ask that anyone who can help us to ensure
Matthew's continued employment visit our donations page and make a
contribution at:
http://freenetproject.org/donate.html
The Freenet Project is also participating in the Google Summer of Code project
this year, if you are interested in joining, please see the Summer of Code
site as soon as possible:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
