News about Freenet, internet freedom and privacy rights.

Freenet build 1486 released 2020-08-06 Freenet 0.7.5 build 1486 is now available.This is an emergency release which updates JNA to version 4.5.2 to prevent Windows nodes from breaking when Java is updated.Since we’re releasing from next, this release contains a number of further... Details

Freenet build 1485 released 2020-02-14 Freenet 0.7.5 build 1485 is now available.This release adds checking for Ogg Theora video files thanks to redwerk: Freenet can now display video safely.For files whose size does not shrink a lot by compression, compression is now skipped. This should... Details

Statistical results without false positives check are most likely wrong 2019-09-09 Like every other privacy network, Freenet is a target of statistical attacks to trace the activity of its users.Studies that investigated tracing Freenet users were built on unrealistic idealized setups or simplistic routing, so that their results... Details