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Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing.

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  1. Freenet build 1480 released

    Freenet 0.7.5 build 1480 is now available. [overview] Ship new Windows Installer and TrayUpdate Freemail to v0.2.7.3-r2 Thank you for using Freenet!For additional details see the release tag.You can download this release as usual from the download...

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  2. Freenet build 1479 released

    Freenet 0.7.5 build 1479 is now available.This release ships WoT 19 which provides performance and UI improvements. For details see the WoT19 tag.update.sh can now provide a failover via clearnet again (which was broken when our website SSL...

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  3. Freenet infrastructure changes

    We have to do infrastructure changes. This will bring some (hopefully short-term) breakage to the website. Please bear with us. Freenet itself (the network) should be unaffected.

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  4. Freenet build 1477 released

    Freenet 0.7.5 build 1477 is now available.This fixes two vulnerabilities, one reported by beardog108, the other accidentally introduced in 1476. For details, see the release tag.Thank you to all involved!

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Why we do this

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
/ Electronic Frontier Foundation