o This new build incorporates the new "rate limiting" load balancing
mechanism discussed here. Rate limiting has proven surprisingly
effective in the unstable branch, typically keeping a node's load
within a few percentage points of where it is supposed to be.
This is in stark contrast to previous load balancing attempts
where load was continuously so high as to render Freenet nodes
almost completely useless.
a) fixes "major vulnerability in the HTML filter" in the web interface
http://www.freenetproject.org/ says:
> 18th July, 2003 - Upgrade to 0.5.2.1
> Freenet 0.5.2.1 fixes amongst other things a
> major vulnerability in the HTML filter. Anyone running
> Freenet should upgrade.
b) situation seems to be serious and urgent update is required.
PR: 54652, 54580 and 54430
Submitted by: Stefan Walter <sw@gegenunendlich.de>
Suggestion by: kuriyama