GNUnet 0.7.1a released

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet uses a simple, excess-based economic model to allocate resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect to resource usage; peers that contribute to the network are rewarded with better service.

Download GNUnet 0.7.1a here. gnunet-gtk has not changed, gnunet-gtk 0.7.1 will work with GNUnet 0.7.1a.
This release fixes various minor bugs and adds some minor features to GNUnet 0.7.1.
Noteworthy improvements since GNUnet 0.7.1 are:

• Automatic detection of external IP addresses and port mapping for peers behind NAT using UPnP
• gnunet-download can now be used to download files from already downloaded GNUnet directory files
• gnunet-peer-info can now do reverse DNS lookups on peer addresses
• gnunet-pseudonym is properly linked
• Updated various man pages and other documentation
• Extended options supported by gnunet-setup (now complete)

The following bugs have been resolved in GNUnet 0.7.1:

• TCP transport did not connect from behind NAT if the TCP PORT was set to zero
• potential assertion failure due to large select write queue (rare)
• testing of bi-directional transports behind NAT with gnunet-transport-check
• gnunetd now drops supplementary groups when changing permissions on startup
• build problems with libiconv on some systems
• verbose option for gnunet-transport-check
• aborting gnunet-transport-check with CTRL-C

IMHO, this is a great step for GNUnet since the UPnP support will bring easiness to users that will just install GNUnet and see it working without any extra configuration.

gnunet-chat is predicted to be released in GNUnet 0.7.3, that we hope to see online in June.