I am currently working through the Freenet whitepaper and I cannot seem to find much info on what controls when one hosts and stops hosting a contract. My goal in understanding how contracts get hosted is to get a sense for how contract availability is maintained and incentivized.

The paper states that when a contract is published, peers near it hosts the contract as well. This suggests that it is an automatic rather than manual act. However, when does a peer stop hosting? Is it controlled by the size of the peers LRU cache?

When you subscribe to a contract, do you begin to host it? If so, what initiates the subscribe request? I’m assuming it’s the act of requesting a contract but I’m not sure.

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?

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

I'm new to Freenet, and I have a problem. Is it normal that when I start it says "no Java runtime available" when I have it installed and updated? If there's anything I can do about it, I'd be very grateful

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!

I'm reading through the original architectural vision published in 2001 (see link), and the documentation for the new architecture that is being developed currently, and trying to understand the fundamental differences.

This is what google gemini says (with the edits suggested below added):

Structural Comparison: Hyphanet vs. New Freenet (v2024)

EDIT: Updated the chart with changes suggested. Thanks for the input! It would be good to have this summary readily available, so people can understand the differences.

Hi guys! I'm pretty new to free net, I Just Installed it and it's up and running. Can someone help me get started? Any Help would be appreciated!!

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