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1<article>
2 <h3>
3 <a name="gnunet-0.11.7-release">2019-10-27: GNUnet 0.11.7 released</a>
4 </h3>
5 <p>
6 We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.7.
7 </p>
8 <p>
9 This is a bugfix release for 0.11.6, fixing a lot of
10 minor bugs, improving stability and code quality. Further, win32 support
11 was removed for reasons you may read below.
12 In this release, we again improved the webpage in general and updated our
13 documentation.
14
15 <i>As always:</i>
16 In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still <b>a large
17 number of known open issues</b> in particular with respect to ease of use,
18 but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users.
19 Also, the nascent network is tiny (about 200 peers) and thus unlikely to
20 provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting
21 information. As a result, the 0.11.7 release is still <b>only suitable
22 for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance</b>.
23 </p>
24 <h4>Download links</h4>
25 <ul>
26 <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz</a></li>
27 <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
28 <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz</a></li>
29 <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
30 <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz</a></li>
31 <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
32 </ul>
33 <p>
34 gnunet-fuse is not released again, as there were no
35 changes and the 0.11.0 versions are expected to continue to work fine
36 with gnunet-0.11.7.
37 The GPG key used to sign is: <tt>A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588</tt>
38 </p>
39 <p>
40 Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional
41 early after the release. For direct access try <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/</a>
42 </p>
43 <h4>Noteworthy changes in 0.11.7 (since 0.11.6)</h4>
44 <ul>
45 <li>
46 <tt>ARM</tt>: GNUnet CLI tools are now able to detect if gnunet(-arm) is
47 not running and will exit with a warning (before the command would just
48 hang and wait for GNUnet to be started). #5906
49 </li>
50 <li>
51 win32 and mingw support were dropped, which resulted in a significant number of lines of
52 code to be gone. The code has been unmaintained in our code base
53 for many years and there are no known users. For details and further reasons refer to the discussion
54 <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2019-09/msg00002.html">in our archives</a>.
55 </li>
56 <li>
57 Removal of plibc, win32 and mingw support means you can now compile gnunet without requiring a Cxx compiler
58 (you just need a C compiler). #5877
59 </li>
60 <li>
61 <tt>REST</tt>: The new config endpoints can now be used to read and write
62 the GNUnet config. #5808
63 </li>
64 <li>
65 <tt>REST</tt>: The service is not started per user in multiuser setups.
66 </li>
67 <li>
68 <tt>REST</tt>: Added tests for namestore and GNS. #5638
69 </li>
70 <li>
71 <tt>re:claimID / OIDC</tt>: Now supports <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7636">PKCE</a>. #5807
72 </li>
73 <li>
74 SUID binary detection mechanisms implemented to improve compatiblity with
75 some distributions.
76 </li>
77 <li>
78 <tt>CREDENTIAL</tt> subsystem reworked and renamed to <tt>ABD</tt>
79 (attribute-based delegation).
80 </li>
81 <li>
82 <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2019-10/msg00023.html">Minor TRANSPORT fixes</a> and <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2019-10/msg00022.html">NAT changes</a>.
83 </li>
84 <li>
85 <tt>GNS</tt> prepared code for <a href="https://git.gnunet.org/lsd0001.git/tree/draft-schanzen-gns.txt">LSD001 changes</a>. #5920
86 </li>
87 <li>
88 Documentation, comments and code quality was improved.
89 </li>
90 </ul>
91 <h4>Known Issues</h4>
92 <ul>
93 <li>
94 There are known major design issues in the TRANSPORT, ATS and CORE subsystems
95 which will need to be addressed in the future to achieve acceptable usability,
96 performance and security.
97 </li>
98 <li>
99 There are known moderate implementation limitations in CADET that
100 negatively impact performance.
101 </li>
102 <li>
103 There are known moderate design issues in FS that also impact
104 usability and performance.
105 </li>
106 <li>
107 There are minor implementation limitations in SET that create
108 unnecessary attack surface for availability.
109 </li>
110 <li>
111 The RPS subsystem remains experimental.
112 </li>
113 <li>
114 Some high-level tests in the test-suite fail non-deterministically due to
115 the low-level TRANSPORT issues.
116 </li>
117 </ul>
118 <p>
119 In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker
120 at <a href="https://bugs.gnunet.org/">bugs.gnunet.org</a> which lists
121 about 190 more specific issues.
122 </p>
123
124 <h4>Thanks</h4>
125 <p>
126 This release was the work of many people. The following people
127 contributed code and were thus easily identified:
128 Martin Schanzenbach, ng0, Christian Grothoff, Alexia Pagkopoulou, Andreas Ebner, Corvus Corax, xrs and t3sserakt.
129 </p>
130</article>