[p2p-hackers] [i2p] 0.5 is available (fwd from jrandom@i2p.net)

[David Barrett]

Just curious, what are the "default limits" you ran into under Win 98?  
Indeed, if you could summarize the top five lessons learned from your 
real-world users, what would they be?  I'm sure we'd all like to learn 
them, too.

-david

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 5:01 am, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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> From: jrandom <jrandom at i2p.net>
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:39:24 -0800
> To: i2p at i2p.net
> Subject: [i2p] 0.5 is available
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> Hi y'all,
>
> After 6 months of work on the 0.4 series, we've implemented and
> deployed the new streaming library, integrated and tested bittorrent,
> mail, and naming apps, fixed a bunch of bugs, and learned as much as
> we could from real world users.  We now have a new 0.5 release which
> reworks the tunnel routing algorithms, improving security and
> anonymity while giving the user more control of their own
> performance related tradeoffs.  In addition, we've bundled susi23's
> susimail client, upgraded to the latest Jetty (allowing both symlinks
> and CGI), and a whole lot more.  This new release is not backwards
> compatible - you must upgrade to get anything useful done.
>
> There has been a lot of work going on since 0.4.2.6 a month and a
> half ago, with contributions by smeghead, duck, Jhor, cervantes,
> Ragnarok, Sugadude, and the rest of the rabid testers in #i2p and
> #i2p-chat.  I could write for pages describing whats up, but instead
> I'll just direct you to the change log at
> http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/history.txt?rev=HEAD
>
> For the impatient, please review the install and update instructions
> up at http://www.i2p.net/download
>
> Please note that since this new release updates the classpath, the
> update process will require you to start up the router again after
> it finishes.  Any local modifications to the wrapper.config will
> be lost when updating, so please be sure to back it up.  In
> addition, even though this new release includes the latest Jetty
> (5.1.2), if you want to enable CGI support, you will need to edit
> your ./eepsite/jetty.xml to include:
>
>   <Call name="addContext">
>     <Arg>/cgi-bin/*</Arg>
>     <Set name="ResourceBase">./eepsite/cgi-bin</Set>
>     <Call name="addServlet">
>       <Arg>Common Gateway Interface</Arg>
>       <Arg>/</Arg>
>       <Arg>org.mortbay.servlet.CGI</Arg>
>      <Put name="Path">/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin</Put>
>     </Call>
>   </Call>
>
> adjusting the Path as necessary for your OS/distro/tastes.  New
> users have it easy - all of this is done for them.
>
> While the docs on the website haven't been updated to reflect the new
> tunnel routing and crypto changes yet, the nitty gritty is up at
> http://dev.i2p.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/i2p/router/doc/tunnel-alt.html?rev=HEAD
>
> There will be another release in the 0.5 series beyond this one,
> including more options for allowing the user to control the impact
> of predecessor attacks on their anonymity.  There will certainly be
> performance and load balancing improvements as well, using the
> feedback we get deploying the new tunnel code on a wider network.
>
> Until the UDP transport is added in 0.6, we will want to continue to
> be fairly low key, as we've already run into the default limits on
> some braindead OSes (*cough*98*cough*).  There is much we can improve
> upon while the network is small though, and while I know we all want
> to go out and show the world what I2P can do, another two months
> waiting won't hurt.
>
> Anyway, thats that.  The new net is up and running, squid.i2p and
> other services should be up, you know where to get the goods, so
> get goin'!
>
> =jr
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