[mnet-devel] (not really) Announceming Mnet v0.6.1

[Zooko]

The Mnet Development Team [1] is pleased to announce the release of Mnet v0.6.1.

Mnet is a "universal file space" -- a global space in which you can store and 
retrieve files.  The contents of the universal file space are independent of 
any particular server.  It comes with a GUI file browser that looks a bit like 
a classical file-sharing tool such as Napster.  The code is published under the 
L GNU Public License.

The major user-visible improvements of v0.6.1 over v0.6 are GUI improvements, 
faster searches, less RAM usage and less CPU usage.

The major Known Bug in this release is that the fundamental architecture is 
efficient for small networks but inherently unscalable.  Zooko pulls the 
following numbers out of his ass: the current code (v0.6.1) will start failing 
once there are more than 250 nodes on the network, and that incremental 
improvements (which will probably be named v0.6.2) will work with more than 
250 nodes but will start failing once there are more than 2500 nodes.  A new 
fundamental architecture that can handle arbitrarily large networks is under 
development, and will be released as Mnet v0.7.  (See the Mnet weather 
report [2] for the current size of the network and some performance 
measurements.)

Please view the ChangeLog for more details:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mnet/mnet/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Please visit the download page for precompiled packages for Linux, Windows, 
FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.  Also available from the download page are 
instructions for compiling the software from source.

http://mnet.sf.net/download.php

Please use Mnet and report bugs via e-mail to <mnet-devel at lists.sf.net>, or by 
using the SourceForge bug tracker:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=43482&atid=436453

The availability and persistence of files is strongly influenced by how stable 
the servers are.  If you run a stable Mnet server it will help.

More information is available on the project web page:

http://mnet.sf.net/

Regards,

Zooko

Developer, Mnet Project

[1] The Mnet Development Team is a loosely-organized band of hackers from around 
the planet who work on the project as a volunteer, non-profit operation in the 
public interest.  Each hacker is either single or else associated with a very 
supportive romantic partner.

[2] The Mnet Weather Report is a series of e-mails to the mnet-devel mailing 
list with the mysterious From: address "Carnivore".
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7702

P.S.  I'm going to remove the part about Rectal Number Extraction in the real 
Release Announcement.  Please PLEASE don't forward this beta-test Release 
Announcement anywhere, or my mother might see it and be shocked.



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