[freenet-support] Freenet 0.7 build 1141, 1142, 1143

[Matthew Toseland]

Freenet 0.7 build 1143 was released yesterday, and is mandatory tomorrow. 
Sorry for the lack of changelogs. Here they are for the last few builds:

1141:
- Don't give up so easily when loading plugins. We were having some problems 
with plugins failing to load.

1142:
- Show one-line summaries of useralerts on the homepage, in a single box, 
rather than showing the full alert. The summary links to the full explanation 
on the (new) Alerts page. At least one user in usability testing wasn't able 
to use Freenet because he didn't see the bookmarks for all the useralerts!
- Fix long delay enabling opennet in the first-time wizard.
- Don't start sending requests until 5 minutes after enabling opennet, not 5 
minutes after startup. This is good for new users if they don't complete 
setup immediately.
- Various other web interface improvements.
- Bandwidth limiting: rewrite and simplify some code. Hopefully it is more 
accurate now.
- Fix running UP&P and STUN every 5 minutes.
- Fix USK at ... sometimes redirecting to a CHK if no trailing slash.
- Some optimisations / memory usage reductions.
- Some stats fixes, including the infamous off by one in the too-few-peers 
alerts.
- FCP changes: RemovePersistentRequest is now RemoveRequest (the old name 
works too), and removes non-persistent requests as well as persistent ones 
(if Global=false). PersistentPutDir indicates what kind of directory upload 
it is.
- Installer: Fix broken plugin downloading, and a bug breaking opening a 
browser.
- There was also work on saces' KeyExplorer plugin, Bombe's jFCPlib and jSite, 
and dieppe's Thingamablog (with help from nextgens)

Credits:
batosai
dbkr
j16sdiz
saces
toad
tommy
wavey

1143:
- Some improvements to the code that decides whether to accept a request (or 
start a local one). Freenet now takes into account whether a request is local 
or not, this should lead to increased bandwidth usage when there are requests 
queued (it might open up some timing attacks, so it can be disabled; there 
are other probably easier attacks if you're worried about that though!).
- More work on the web interface and useralerts, including a button to remove 
all notification alerts (download complete, bookmark updated) if there are 
more than two.
- Make maximum memory usage configurable on the config page and in the 
first-time wizard.
- Some wording improvements.
- Installer: Tell the user when the process page has finished on Windows (we 
already do this on linux/mac).
- Dieppe did some more work on Thingamablog.

Credits:
dbkr
j16sdiz
(mrogers contributed some improved text)
nextgens
toad
wavey
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