[p2p-hackers] Announcing FreePastry 1.4

[Jeff Hoye]

The FreePastry team would like to announce the release of 
FreePastry-1.4.  FreePastry is a structured p2p network overlay based on 
the Pastry protocol, released under a BSD-style license.  Improvements 
over previous versions include:

* A more reliable transport layer
* Support for source routes to deal with Internet routing anomalies
* An implementation of a lease based version of PAST (our DHT)
* An implementation of multiple interconnected rings (see IPTPS'04)
* An implementation of Glacier, a data-durability system utilizing 
erasure codes (to appear in NSDI'05)
* Numerous bug fixes throughout Pastry, PAST, Scribe, and SplitStream

For more information on FreePastry and to download, please go to:

http://freepastry.rice.edu/FreePastry/

FreePastry-1.4 is also the underlying platform for ePOST, our
distributed email system, which has been deployed for over a year now.
For more information or to try out ePOST, please go to:

http://www.epostmail.org/

Finally, We've added several "community process" pieces including:
1) An email discussion group.
2) An Online Bug database
3) A tutorial to help you get started with FreePastry

http://freepastry.rice.edu/

-Jeff

Jeff Hoye
Programmer
FreePastry Team
Systems Group
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005