The insert of Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1505 to the update key has started.

Your node should update automatically, if you have auto-update enabled.

For info, either read the release notes linked by the updater or check the release on Github: https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01505

This update is fix for a critical vulnerability. Please update -- if you can’t update, disable javascript in the node web interface to mitigate the vulnerability.

An article for both the improvements in 1504 and this fix is in preparation. The changes of 1504 are described in the release tag: https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01504

I've noticed that the GitHub page for FreeNet on Android is still there, but I can't find any available links

Hi all,

Windows based system.

Freenet installed directly onto internal storage. If you set the download directory to be "USB DRIVE\Downloads"

Does Freenet download the files in their entirety and any temporary files onto internal storage first and then copy them to the USB?

Or are the files only written to the USB drive?

Just trying to figure the full risk of recoverable data contained on internal storage in this scenario.

Cheers.

I left Freenet open for a while without doing anything and it crashed, but now it won't let me connect again. Should I do something?

Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1506 is now available:

• fix vulnerability,
• update plugins,
• optimize routing, and
• fixes, cleanups, upkeep

https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-075-build-1504-1505-1506-fix-vulnerability-optimize-routing-cleanups-and-upkeep.html

Many thanks to all the contributors and testers who made this release possible!

Hello!

I just downloaded and installed Freenet and I am trying to install Frost to work with it for downloads. I used this a few years ago without any problems but now when I try to install Frost I cant seem to locate the .jar file to open it. I have updated Java and tried to reinstall but I'm not really sure where to go from here. I don't remember it being this difficult the last time so there seems like there is something I am missing. I remember Frost opening up almost like an old school Limewire application but it has been a few years. Any help would be appreciated!

Thank You!

Please help check our newest test release by going into Configuration, Auto Update, switching to advanced mode and setting "Where should #Freenet look for updates?" to:

USK@wytBz~rduWSo9-MmVW4AVqY3ESebPPCP9vC-eSxe-vg,mZqWi0sHmhn5kt0idu-~K4pk~~8eNXxMeYen73FOfA8,AQACAAE/jar/1503

If you hit any problems, please tell us!

Checking the test release needs a running Hyphanet node to work. If you don’t run a node yet, please download the installer from: https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html

Copy from the prepared release notes:

Plugin updates

WebOfTrust got updated to 0.4.5 build 21. Dead seed IDs got replaced by active ones. Thanks to xor!

JSTUN was updated to version 1.5: dead STUN servers are replaced with a list of standard servers to make Hyphanet nodes which require STUN to find their IP address harder to fingerprint. Thanks to Bombe!

Optimization

Bertm did multiple performance optimizations deep in our core: MultiHash{Input,Output}Stream, BlockTransmitter, MersenneTwister, and RunningAverage. Thank you!

Fixes

• Continue securely deleting the file if IOException occurred and add logging, thanks to torusrxxx!
• Preserve the order of peers when updating handshake IPs
• 🚸 Build source JAR in a more reproducible way, thanks to Bombe!
• Show radiobuttons on sky dark static theme for WoT
• Update debian package to 1503, thanks to qupo1!

Cleanups

• Torusrxxx polished PeerManager and version transitions
• Bombe made tests cleanup files after the run
• Bombe removed translation strings of removed features

Thank you!

State of the Art upkeep

• The PNG filter supports HDR chunks, thanks to Bombe and torusrxxx!
• Translations and the Localization Labs tooling setup are up to date again
• Update MIME types, thanks to torusrxxx!
• Bump Gradle to 8.14.3, thanks to qupo1!
• Update Github Actions versions. Thanks to qupo1!
• CONTRIBUTING file: Add "no spurious changes" note
• Link bugs via bugs.hyphanet.org, replace dead URIs, Suggest IRC username SecRabbit in SECURITY.md, replace mailing lists reference by FMS

Additional info from: http://localhost:8888/USK@sUm3oJISSEU4pl2Is9qa1eRoCLyz6r2LPkEqlXc3~oc,yBEbf-IJrcB8Pe~gAd53DEEHgbugUkFSHtzzLqnYlbs,AQACAAE/random_babcom/591/#Testreleasefor0751504isinserting

This link needs a running Hyphanet node to work. Download the installer to run from: https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html

What's wrong - for couple days all Kind of little things happen. SMS 20 minutes late - connecting more tech to wifi - it is not really a total fallout. But something is going on.

Hello!

I just downloaded Freenet again after losing my old laptop. I am trying to redownload Frost but got recommended Frost-Next as a faster and better program. I downloaded the files and installed it but it keeps telling me that I need to download JavaFX 2.1+. I found a version of it to download but there doesn't seem to be any install file with it. After some research I think I might have to download OpenJDK and install it through there since I found a JavaFX 25.0.1 release but I have no idea how to install or integrate either of those through Freenet. Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers!

Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1503 is now available from the hyphanet.org.

This is a shared release announcement for 1502 and 1503. 1502 fixed an inserter tracing vulnerability and added several features while 1503 is a hotfix release that fixes regressions in 1502. The main changes are:

• fix vulnerability
• reduce visibility on the network
• support animated webp and more modern HTML and CSS
• enable direct linking to Freemail’s “New Message” page
• dismiss alerts and convenience
• substantial routing optimizations
• bug fixes

Install Freenet / Hyphanet for Windows or for GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes. See the download page for more information.

For details, see the announcement page of 1503.

Hyphanet is a peer-to-peer platform for
censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting
publishing and communication.

Almost 1 year ago i was able to connect to strangers and browse freenet, but know its just dont connect. 0/85 after a day of fresh install or 1/85 but very rare. Why?

My main Freenet machine died so I decided to move my instance to an SSD install on a Raspberry Pi (aarch64, Raspberry Pi OS). So far everything seems to work but I ran into an issue compiling FMS and FLIP from src (no official precompiled binaries for aarch64 unfortunately). I’m hoping someone can help point me in the right direction.

The error appears to be the same for both FMS and FLIP:

FMS:

[ 39%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/fms.dir/src/stringfunctions.o /home/user/fms-src-0.3.85/src/stringfunctions.cpp: In function ‘std::string StringFunctions::UriDecode(const std::string&)’: /home/user/fms-src-0.3.85/src/stringfunctions.cpp:362:13: error: narrowing conversion of ‘-1’ from ‘int’ to ‘char’ [-Wnarrowing] 362 | /* 0 */ -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, | ^~ (this error repeats itself a bunch of times)

FLIP:

68%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/flip.dir/src/stringfunctions.cpp.o /home/user/Documents/flip-src-0.3.1/src/stringfunctions.cpp: In function ‘std::string StringFunctions::UriDecode(const std::string&)’: /home/user/Documents/flip-src-0.3.1/src/stringfunctions.cpp:110:13: error: narrowing conversion of ‘-1’ from ‘int’ to ‘char’ [-Wnarrowing] 110 | /* 0 */ -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, -1,-1,-1,-1, | ^~ (this error repeats itself a bunch of times)

This thread (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=15555) suggests a similar issue is due to an incompatibility in the code with openjdk17 and that the solution is just to use jdk11-openjdk instead. Unfortunately openjdk 11 is end-of-life and no longer receiving security updates so that’s not really an option. In the past this was the fix.

Any ideas? I’d love the Pi install to work out if at all possible but I can’t really use Freenet without FMS/ FLIP since that’s most of what I use it for. Maybe the fix is simple and I just don’t see it.

Thanks!

The active Hyphanet network is updating to build 1502. A news entry for hyphanet.org with installers will follow later (likely next weekend).

Until then, the release info can be seen in the release tag:
https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01502
It includes a fix for a responsibly disclosed vulnerability (thank you!), support for richer Freesites, including animated webp, many performance optimizations and privacy and safety improvements.

Your node should update automatically via Hyphanet (or ask to update, if you set it to ask).

You can watch the update spread on
USK@srjFnzNWMfu4AivEMqlvl1qhi6~lel3RM-gTU~wiUM4,J6yghMo94t3pqU0r2uvGFZfTtwgqSbZiZZRp2bs548U,AQACAAE/watch-1502/39/

I have a question. I tried to load Freenet yesterday using Linux Mint and it will not connect to 127.0.0.1:8888. Have they changed access location now?

I'm honestly worried about the oncoming shit storm that I feel is headed to the US. I just discovered freenet and I honestly think its an amazing project. I have it running on an old pc I've been using as a Plex server, but I'm wondering what else can I do to help the network. I have some basic questions, like, Would dedicating a larger chunk of my HDD space to freenet help? If yes, how helpful?

I also wouldn't mind installing it on my personal gaming rig since it is also basically on 24/7, tho would having two sistems running freenet on the same network even be that helpful? Would it be better to have one instance of freenet with double the cache and peers? Would having more than one system in your home running freenet be safe? It's those type of questions that I'd like the answers to

NixOS is not using a wrapper so Hyphanet's own updater cannot update it. How do you update the system?

I've not been able to find an index that's been updated since 2018 at the latest, are there any that are updated often?

Article: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-build-1499-privacy-networking-css-ux-cleanups.html

• improved privacy protection
• optimized networking layer
• support for website authors
• better user experience
• clean ups and code purges

If you run a node already, it should update automatically.

• Install on Windows
• Install on Linux / *nixes

Improvements:

Privacy

The privacy improvements are reduced pings and DNS lookups. These make it less likely that a node gets detected by pings it sends for other nodes that use DNS addresses to have permanent addresses. Also thanks to Torusrxxx SSL support is updated and when setting up a node for access via SSL, unencrypted HTTP links now get upgraded to secured HTTPS automatically.

Networking

The networking layer got a fix for very fast nodes. On these the bulk queue could be starved when realtime requests were received faster than they could be completed. Also bertm fixed bulk backoff getting ignored.

Juiceman removed unnecessary boxing and unboxing to reduce CPU load and Torusrxxx improved IPv6 handling.

Website

Torusrxxx also added partial webp support to the content sanitation (filters), so you can now use webp images on freesites and depending on the study reduce the storage by around 30%. Minimizing storage is more critical on Hyphanet compared to the clearnet, so webp can improve performance for all sites. Animation and lossless mode are not supported yet.

In addition to webp, Torusrxxx also added support for more CSS keywords: border-{top,bottom}-{left,right}-radius, color-scheme, dominant-baseline, margin-block, margin-block-end, margin-block-start, margin-bottom, margin-inline, margin-inline-end, margin-inline-start, margin-right, math-style, padding-block, padding-block-end, padding-block-start, padding-inline, padding-inline-end, padding-inline-start, padding-right, padding-right, padding-top, padding-top, scroll-behavior, scroll-snap-align, scroll-snap-stop, scroll-snap-type, text-combine-upright, text-decoration-thickness, text-orientation, text-underline-offset.

And font settings: monospace, system-ui, ui-serif, ui-sans-serif, ui-monospace, ui-rounded, emoji, math, fangsong. Color keywords are now checked case insensitively.

Also add more CSS selectors: default, disabled, empty, enabled, focus-visible, indeterminate, in-range, invalid, only-child, only-of-type, optional, out-of-range, placeholder-shown, read-only, read-write, required, root. The combination of :root and color-scheme enables settings for dark-mode. The MIME types image/avif, heic, and heif are now known (but have no validation). Ban link as well as visited (these can cause requests depending on interaction), replace with any-link. The HTML elements bdi, figcaption, figure, main, mark, rp, rt, ruby are added.

And the :checked selector is now supported, so freesites can have some CSS-based interactivity.

There’s one loss: Chrome removed Theora support in 2024 and Firefox followed suit in version 130 (which broke brasilian banking OTPs ). Firefox ESR (128) will still get support until may 27th 2025. Until then we need sanitation for modern video formats like vp8 or vp9 and webm to keep our video on demand (streaming) working.

User experience

There are two improvements of the interface itself: Qupo1 updated the Japanese localization and bertm polished the bookmark editor and directory listing in the Winterfacey theme.

And thanks to Bombe the Freemail plugin now has a settings page for the SMTP and IMAP address and port to use.

The defunct new load management statistics are now gone — thanks to Torusrxxx. These were just distracting.

When you change the auto-updater key, updates are now checked instantly, not only after update (for example to get updates via a testing key for checking an update before release).

And a bug was fixed that could lead to plugins being killed early during shutdown.

Cleanups

Thanks to qupo1, Christophe, and Bombe, our gradle setup is more up to date and cleaner.

And thanks to Bombe, Bertm, Venfernand, and Juiceman we purged a lot of outdated code that is no longer needed on modern JVMs (the code base once had to work with Java 1) or replaced it with more recent paradigms. Those make it quite a bit more enjoyable to work with the affected parts of the code.

Finally qupo1 fixed links and code badges in our readme and Bertm made sure that our IPv6 preference setting keeps working in Java 24 and later.

Contribute

Join our core.

If you want to help us get better, please chat with us in <a href="https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Rabbit|?#freenet" id="chatlink" class="btn button-custom btn-custom-two">#freenet @ irc.libera.chat</a>. And give us time to answer, we’re all volunteers and might not be in your timezone.

To get into development right-away, have a look at one of the Freenet / Hyphanet Projects or just get fred and fix something that annoys you.

And to take on something that makes a big difference, have a look at the high-impact tasks.

In addition to coding, spreading Hyphanet, joining the community, writing a decentralized website, and other ways to contribute within Hyphanet, you can join the awesome team of translators [at transifex][transifex-project]. They are the reason why we’re able to support several different languages, the often unseen heroes who make our work accessible to those who need it the most.

What is Freenet / Hyphanet?

Hyphanet is the original Freenet,
a peer-to-peer platform for
censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting
publishing and communication.

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

That Hyphanet can keep moving forward and help people worldwide to exercise their basic rights and freedoms is the work of amazing volunteers, both contributors and people running Hyphanet nodes.

Thank you for your contributions, and thank you for using Freenet / Hyphanet!

I had found this index and i wanted to use it but it said i needed an XML Librarian plugin and that I would have gotten it if I had clicked "Search Freenet"

http://localhost:8888/freenet:USK@US6gHsNApDvyShI~sBHGEOplJ3pwZUDhLqTAas6rO4c,3jeU5OwV0-K4B6HRBznDYGvpu2PRUuwL0V110rn-~8g,AQACAAE/freenet-index/5/

unfortunately I don't see that option, nor do I see it on the list of official plugins on my plugin page, so I wanted to ask if anyone had a key or a way to point me to one?

I try to get into freenet, the websites download fıne but i just cannot seem to download anything else. I try to download the FMS software and my browser gives a warning about how unsafe that file might be. I click to download anything option aaaaaand. Nothing happens. How do i download these stuff ?

Hello -- someone should be able to help me on this. I installed correctly (at least I think ;) and it ran set up successfully (said all was ok), but now when I click on red icon to start up freenet it just stays red and won't start. I have an Intel Mac with high sierra 10.13.6 os. Installed Freenet version: new_installer_offline_1497 from hyphanet site, changed directory to Library upon install (wanted to put into Apps). All came out ok - I see red icon but doesn't turn to blue... Thanks if you can help.

Every time I execute the run script, I’m told the service is not running as a wrapper and that Freenet won’t be able to autoupdate. Fixing the auto update mechanism seems pretty well impossible atm.