"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
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24th Apr, 2008 - Freenet 0.7.0 release candidate 2 now available
Freenet version 0.7 Release Candidate 2 is now available for public testing. Release Candidate 2 features many bugfixes and a number of usability improvements.
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 RC2 can be downloaded from:
http://freenetproject.org/download.html
This release would not have been possible without the help 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
4th April, 2008 - Freenet Receives Donation Funding Ongoing Development Work
Google's Open Source Team has donated US$18,000 to the Freenet Project to support the ongoing development of the Freenet software.
Freenet is a 501c3 non-profit corporation whose goal is the development of free software that allows users to publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship.
Earlier this week Freenet launched the first release-candidate for Freenet 0.7, the 7th major iteration of Freenet since the project started in 1999. Freenet 0.7's most important new feature is its ability to run in a "darknet" mode, to further protect the identities of Freenet users in countries which do not respect freedom of speech on the Internet.
This donation will ensure the continued employment of Freenet's full-time software developer, Matthew Toseland, so that we can continue to improve Freenet's performance, usability and security, which has already advanced significantly in 0.7.