[GNUnet-SVN] r4010 - GNUnet-docs/WWW/news

[grothoff]

Author: grothoff
Date: 2006-12-21 18:58:17 -0800 (Thu, 21 Dec 2006)
New Revision: 4010

Added:
   GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20061223.inc
Log:
news

Added: GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20061223.inc
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--- GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20061223.inc      2006-12-22 02:32:32 UTC (rev 
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+++ GNUnet-docs/WWW/news/news_20061223.inc      2006-12-22 02:58:17 UTC (rev 
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+<?php
+W("Yes, we also cannot believe it took this long (GNUnet 0.7.0 was released 
about 16 months ago!).");
+W("Nevertheless, we hope it was worth the wait.");
+W("Download %s here.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/GNUnet-0.7.1.tar.bz2";,
+          "GNUnet 0.7.1"));
+W("gnunet-gtk is a separate download and can be found %s.",
+  extlink_("http://gnunet.org/download/gnunet-gtk-0.7.1.tar.bz2";,
+          "here"));
+BR();
+
+W("GNUnet 0.7.1 is largely compatible with GNUnet 0.7.0.");
+W("Except for changes to the configuration file updating should be relatively 
unproblematic, read the UPDATING file for details.");
+// W("GNUnet 0.7.1 peers should be able to communciate with 0.7.0-peers using 
a compatibility transport, <tt>tcp_old</tt>.");
+W("Please note that this is still a <em>beta</em> release; the first actually 
stable version will be called 1.0.0 and is likely to still be at least a year 
away.");
+BR();
+W("Most of the changes made for 0.7.1 have focused on improving the internal 
APIs introduced with 0.7.0.");
+W("Users should expect to see noticable improvements in stability and 
performance as well as minor visual and functional improvements.");
+W("Developers should note that various APIs have changed quite a bit, in 
particular the file-sharing APIs and <tt>gnunetutil</tt>.");
+BR();
+W("Noteworthy improvements since GNUnet 0.7.0e:");
+echo "<ul>";
+LI("Improved logging capabilities, error messages can now be communicated from 
gnunetd to clients");
+LI("Guile-based <tt>gnunet-setup</tt> allows scripting of interdependencies 
between options");
+LI("<tt>gnunet-setup</tt> GTK interface is now based on glade");
+LI("Improved database performance (and added benchmarking code)");
+LI("FSUI upload and unindex operations are now persistent");
+LI("FSUI operations can be aborted (state preserved) and stopped (state 
deleted)");
+LI("FSUI API allows clients to associate handle with all persistent 
operations");
+LI("Cleaner network abstractions and the refactoring of <tt>libgnunetutil</tt> 
should make porting GNUnet easier");
+LI("Improved OS X, BSD and Solaris portability (not necessarily perfect)");
+LI("<tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> now disables buttons that cannot be used");
+LI("<tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> highlights active and completed downloads in the 
search result list");
+LI("<tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> visualizes additional statistics");
+LI("<tt>gnunet-gtk</tt> allows the specification of the configuration file to 
use when starting <tt>gnunetd</tt>");
+echo "</ul>";
+W("The release also fixes a huge number of minor bugs.");
+BR();
+W("The following features from 0.7.0 are not part of 0.7.1:");
+echo "<ul>";
+LI("no support for namespaces or collections in <tt>gnunet-gtk</tt>");
+LI("no http or smtp transports");
+echo "</ul>";
+W("We plan to support those features again in the near future.");
+?>