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8th May, 2008 - Freenet 0.7.0 "Darknet" released!
The Freenet Project is very pleased to announce the release of Freenet 0.7.0.
Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet without
fear of censorship, or reprisal. To achieve this Freenet makes it very difficult for adversaries to
reveal the identity, either of the person publishing, or downloading content. The Freenet project
started in 1999, released Freenet 0.1 in March 2000, and has been under active development
ever since.
Freenet is unique in that it handles the storage of content, meaning that if necessary users can
upload content to Freenet and then disconnect. We've discovered that this is a key requirement
for many Freenet users. Once uploaded, content is mirrored and moved around the Freenet
network, making it very difficult to trace, or to destroy. Content will remain in Freenet for as long
as people are retrieving it, although Freenet makes no guarantee that content will be stored
indefinitely.
The journey towards Freenet 0.7 began in 2005 with the realization that some of Freenet's most
vulnerable users needed to hide the fact that they were using Freenet, not just what they were
doing with it. The result of this realization was a ground-up redesign and rewrite of Freenet,
adding a "darknet" capability, allowing users to limit who their Freenet software would
communicate with to trusted friends. This would make it far more difficult for a third-party to
determine who is using Freenet.
Freenet 0.7 also embodies significant improvements to almost every other aspect of Freenet,
including efficiency, security, and usability. Freenet is available for Windows, Linux, and OSX. It
can be downloaded from:
URLﾘﾝｸ(freenetproject.org)