GNUnet - GNU's Framework for Secure Peer-to-Peer Networking

GNUNET 0.22.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.22.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-08-0.22.0.html

GSOC WORK PRODUCT: GNUNET OVER HTTP/3 GOALS OF THE PROJECT. This project aimed to implement a new communicator for GNUnet's Transport Next Generation (TNG) using the HTTP/3 protocol. WH...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-08-GSoC-HTTP3.html

DHT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION MILESTONE 5 We are happy to announce the completion of milestone 5 for the DHT specification. The general objective is to provide a detailed and comprehensive guid...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-07-DHTSpec2.html

THE EUROPEAN UNION MUST KEEP FUNDING FREE SOFTWARE The GNUnet project was granted NGI funding via NLnet . Other FOSS related projects also benefit from NGI funding. This funding is now at r...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-07-EU-continuing-NGI.html

GNUNET 0.21.2 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.21.1. It primarily addresses some connectivity issues introduced with our new transport subsystem. LINKS Source: https://ftpmirror.gn...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-06-0.21.2.html

LIBGNUNETCHAT 0.3.1 RELEASED This is mostly a bugfix release for libgnunetchat 0.3.0 to reduce build issues. DOWNLOAD LINKS libgnunetchat-0.3.1.tar.gz libgnunetchat-0.3.1.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-03-libgnunetchat-0.3.1.html

GNUNET 0.21.1 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.21.0. It primarily addresses some connectivity issues introduced with our new transport subsystem. LINKS Source: https://ftpmirror.gn...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-03-0.21.1.html

MESSENGER-GTK 0.9.0 Following the new release of "libgnunetchat" there have been some changes regarding the applications utilizing it. So we are pleased to announce the new release of the Mes...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-03-messenger-gtk-0.9.0.html

LIBGNUNETCHAT 0.3.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of libgnunetchat 0.3.0. This is a major new release bringing compatibility with the major changes in the Messenger servic...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-03-libgnunetchat-0.3.0.html

GNUNET 0.21.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.21.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-03-0.21.0.html

NGI WEBINAR: THE GNU NAME SYSTEM AND THE ROAD TO PUBLISHING AN RFC We have been invited by NLnet to present the GNU Name System and our efforts to create and publish RFC 9498 . You can f...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2024-02-NGI-Webinar-GNS.html

UPDATE FOR NGI ZERO ENTRUST: GNS TO DNS MIGRATION AND ZONE MANAGEMENT We are happy to announce that we have successfully completed two Milestones: Milestone 2a: A GNS Registrar Backend. Miles...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-12-NGI-Entrust-GNS-TLDs-Update.html

RFC 9498: THE GNU NAME SYSTEM We are happy to announce that our The GNU Name System (GNS) specification is now published as RFC 9498 . GNS addresses long-standing security and privacy i...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-11-RFC9498.html

GNUNET 0.20.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.20.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-09-0.20.0.html

GSOC WORK PRODUCT: GNUNET OVER QUIC Hi, my name is Marshall and throughout the summer of 2023 I worked on developing a new communicator for the GNUnet transport service. I learned a lot about...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-08-GSoC-QUIC.html

GNUNET 0.19.4 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.3. Special thanks goes out to ulfvonbelow who provided an array of patches. This is not an April Fool's joke. DOWNLOAD LINKS gnune...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-04-0.19.4.html

MESSENGER-GTK 0.8.0 Following the new release of "libgnunetchat" there have been some changes regarding the applications utilizing it. So we are pleased to announce the new release of the Mes...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-02-messenger-gtk-0.8.0.html

GNUNET 0.19.3 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.2. Note that starting with this release, we will no longer ship a verbose ChangeLog file in the tarball. The git log serves this purpose...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-02-0.19.3.html

LIBGNUNETCHAT 0.1.3 RELEASED This is mostly a bugfix and compatibility release for libgnunetchat 0.1.2. But it will also change the build process of libgnunetchat to use Meson instead of GNU ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-02-libgnunetchat-0.1.3.html

GNUNET 0.19.2 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.1. DOWNLOAD LINKS gnunet-0.19.2.tar.gz ( signature ) The GPG key used to sign is: 3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-01-0.19.2.html

GNUNET 0.19.1 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.19.0. DOWNLOAD LINKS gnunet-0.19.1.tar.gz ( signature ) The GPG key used to sign is: 3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-12-0.19.1.html

GNUNET 0.19.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.19.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-12-0.19.0.html

NGI ZERO ENTRUST: "GNS TO DNS MIGRATION AND ZONE MANAGEMENT" We are happy to announce that we have successfully acquired funding for further GNS development and polishing! The GNU Name Sys...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-11-NGI-Entrust-GNS-TLDs.html

GNUNET 0.18.1 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.18.0. DOWNLOAD LINKS gnunet-0.18.1.tar.gz ( signature ) gnunet-gtk-0.18.1.tar.gz ( signature ) The GPG key used to sign is: 3D...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-11-0.18.1.html

LIBGNUNETCHAT 0.1.1 RELEASED This is mostly a bugfix release for libgnunetchat 0.1.0. But it will also update the build process of libgnunetchat to use GNU Automake and it will ensure compati...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-10-libgnunetchat-0.1.1.html

GNUNET 0.18.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.18.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-10-0.18.0.html

GNUNET 0.17.6 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.5. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.6.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.6.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-09-0.17.6.html

MESSENGER-CLI 0.1.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of the messenger-cli application. The application is a counterpart for the terminal to the previous release of the GTK ap...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-09-messenger-cli-0.1.0.html

GNUNET 0.17.5 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.4.. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.5.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.5.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-09-0.17.5.html

GNUNET 0.17.4 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.3 because of a missing file in the tarball required to build the documentation. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnu...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-08-0.17.4.html

GNUNET 0.17.3 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.2. In addition to the fixed in the source, the documentation websites including the handbook have been updated and consolidated: https:/...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-08-0.17.3.html

GNUNET 0.17.2 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.1. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.2.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.2.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-07-0.17.2.html

DHT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION MILESTONES 1-3/5 We are happy to announce the completion of the following milestones for the DHT specification. The objective is to provide a detailed and comprehe...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-06-DHTSpec1.html

GNUNET 0.17.1 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.0. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.1.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.17.1.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-06-0.17.1.html

GNUNET 0.17.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.17.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-06-0.17.0.html

MESSENGER-GTK 0.7.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of the Messenger-GTK application. The application is a convergent GTK messaging application using the GNUnet Messenger se...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-05-messenger-gtk-0.7.0.html

LIBGNUNETCHAT 0.1.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of the client side library libgnunetchat 0.1.0. This library brings an abstraction layer using the client API from differ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-04-libgnunetchat-0.1.0.html

GNUNET 0.16.2 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.16.1. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.16.2.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.16.2.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-03-0.16.2.html

GNUNET 0.16.1 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.16.0. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.16.1.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.16.1.tar.gz.sig ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-03-0.16.1.html

GNUNET 0.16.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.16.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2022-02-0.16.0.html

GNS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION CALL FOR REVIEWS We are happy to announce that our GNS specification is currently under review by the Independent Stream Editor (ISE). We have already received fee...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2021-12-GNSSpecISE.html

GNUNET 0.15.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.15.0. This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.14.x versions. Please be aware that ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2021-08-0.15.0.html

DISSENS: DECENTRALIZED IDENTITIES FOR SELF-SOVEREIGN END-USERS (NGI TRUST) Since mid 2020, a consortium between Taler Systems S.A. , the Bern University of Applied Sciences and Fraunhofer A...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2021-05-DISSENS.html

GNUNET 0.14.1 Continuing to "release early / release often", we present GNUnet 0.14.1. This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.14.0. DOWNLOAD LINKS http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2021-03-0.14.1.html

NO GSOC PROJECTS IN 2021 For 2021, GNU has not been selected as a GSoC organization . This also means that GNUnet GSoC projects will not be offered through the GSoC programme. Thanks to all...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2021-03-gsoc-update.html

GNUNET 0.14.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.14.0. This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.13.x versions. Please be aware that ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-11-0.14.0.html

GNS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION MILESTONE 4/4 AND PACKAGING 1+2 We are happy to announce the completion of the fourth and last milestone for the GNS Specification. The fourth milestone consists o...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-11-GNSSpec4.html

GNUNET 0.13.3 RELEASED Continuing to "release early / release often", we present GNUnet 0.13.3. This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.13.2. It fixes some build issues and contains major cha...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-09-0.13.3.html

GNUNET 0.13.2 RELEASED This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.13.1. It fixes some build issues and contains changes to the REST API implmementation (no change in the API itself) as well as O...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-08-0.13.2.html

GNUNET 0.13.1 RELEASED This is a bugfix release for gnunet and gnunet-gtk specifically. For gnunet, no changes to the source have been made. However, the default configuration had to be mod...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-07-0.13.1.html

GNUNET 0.13.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.13.0. This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.12.x versions. Please be aware that ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-07-0.13.0.html

GNS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION MILESTONE 3/4 We are happy to announce the completion of the third milestone for the GNS Specification. The third milestone consists of documenting the GNS zone re...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-06-GNSSpec3.html

ONLINE GNUNET HACKER MEETING IN JUNE 2020 We are happy to announce that we will have a GNUnet Hacker Meeting from 17-21 of June 2020 taking place online. For more information see here .

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-05-GHM_Jun_2020.html

GNUNET 0.12.2 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.12.2. This is a new bugfix release. In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still A LARGE NUMBE...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-01-0.12.2.html

GNS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION MILESTONE 2/4 We are happy to announce the completion of the second milestone for the GNS Specification. The second milestone consists of documenting the GNS name ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-01-GNSSpec2.html

UPCOMING GNUNET TALKS There will be various talks in the next few months on GNUnet and related projects on both the Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) as well as FOSDEM. Here is an overview:...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-12-UpcomingTalks.html

GNUNET 0.12.1 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.12.1. This is a very minor release. It largely fixes one function that is needed by GNU Taler 0.6.0. Please read th...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.12.1.html

GNUNET 0.12.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.12.0. This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.11.x versions. Please be aware that ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.12.0.html

GNS@ICANN66 The ICANN Annual General Meeting is concluded. We were invited to join a panel discussion on Emerging Internet Identifier Technologies in order to share our ideas and work on the...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-11-ICANNUpdate.html

GNUNET 0.11.8 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.8. This is a hotfix release for 0.11.7. As always: In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are s...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.8.html

GNUNET 0.11.7 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.7. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.6, fixing a lot of minor bugs, improving stability and code quality. Furthe...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.7.html

GNUNET PROJECT INVITED TO ICANN66 We are delighted to announce that ICANN has invited the GNUnet project to speak at the next ICANN Annual General Meeting . We have been invited to join a pa...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-10-ICANNPanel.html

GNS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION MILESTONE 1/4 We are happy to announce the completion of the first milestone for the GNS Specification. The objective is to provide a detailed and comprehensive gu...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-10-GNSSpec1.html

GNUNET 0.11.6 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.6. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.5, fixing a lot of minor bugs, improving stability and code quality. Furthe...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.6.html

GNUNET HACKER MEETING IN AUGUST 2019 AT WERNSDORT (NEAR BERLIN) In August 2019, some of us met in Wernsdorf for focused work on GNUnet.

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-07-GHM_Aug_2019.html

PEER DSTJ IS DEAD, LONG LIVE PEER Y924 After some issues with our infrastructure we needed to replace our bootstrapping peer. To avoid problems when connecting to GNUnet the operator of a pee...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-06-DSTJ.html

GNUNET 0.11.5 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.5. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.4, mostly fixing a few minor bugs and improving performance, in particular ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.5.html

GNUNET HACKER MEETING 2019 AT LA DÉCENTRALE, SWITZERLAND The members of the GNUnet community met again in the wonderful souroundings of St. Imier to hack on GNUnet. New people joined our ses...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-06.html

GNUNET 0.11.4 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.4. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.3, mostly fixing a few build issues. In terms of usability, users should be...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.4.html

GNUNET 0.11.3 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.3. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.2, mostly fixing a few build issues. In terms of usability, users should be...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.3.html

GNUNET 0.11.2 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.2. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.0, mostly fixing minor bugs, improving documentation and fixing various bui...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.2.html

GNUNET 0.11.1 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.1. This is a bugfix release for 0.11.0, mostly fixing minor bugs, improving documentation and fixing various bui...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.1.html

GNUNET 0.11.0 RELEASED We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.0. This is a major release after about five years of development. In terms of usability, users should be aware t...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-0.11.0.html

2019-02: TOPICS FOR GSOC 2019 GNUnet is participating in the Google Summer of Code again through GNU. If you are interested in any of these projects, reach out to us! ANDROID PORT It is...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2019-02.html

SECOND GNUNET HACKER MEETING 2018 AT LA DÉCENTRALE, SWITZERLAND The GNUnet hackers met for the second time this year. The primary goal was to squash bugs to bring out a new release. Aside fr...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2018-07.html

GNUNET 0.11.0PRE66 We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.0pre66. This is a pre-release to assist developers and downstream packagers to test the package before the final rel...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2018-06.html

TYPO-PROTECTED PUBLIC KEYS THIS IS AN IMPORTED NEWS ITEM FROM THE OLD DRUPAL GNUNET HOMEPAGE. When users type in public keys (such as the 53-characters of a GNS zone), they might make typo...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2013-12-28-archived-typos-pkeys.html

SPECIAL-USE DOMAIN NAMES OF PEER-TO-PEER NAME SYSTEMS THIS IS AN IMPORTED NEWS ITEM FROM THE OLD DRUPAL GNUNET HOMEPAGE. We just submitted our draft for Special-Use Domain Names of Peer-to...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2013-11-15-special-use-gns.html

VFORK AND THE SIGNAL RACE THIS IS AN IMPORTED NEWS ITEM FROM THE OLD DRUPAL GNUNET HOMEPAGE. Many articles uniformly claim that using vfork should be avoided and that the only difference ...

https://gnunet.org/en/news/2011-11-24-archived-vfork.html