News

12th March 2007

Version 0.3.0-pr5 has been placed on the web.

This is the first Qt4.0 gui, and is a lot more user friendly than the FLTK gui. This of course came at a cost... lots of hours, and lots of pain trying to get cygwin + retroshare, pthreads, mingw + Qt4.0 all working together. (and 5 times bigger).

But its Done!. This is Pre-Release5, alternatively known as rc1. Please test, and report back.

20th Jan 2007

New GUI is functioning... Took a while. But got there in the end.

30th Nov 2006

Dr Bob leaves on a well earnt holiday, having sat on his butt while his employer was sold for 4 months. The plan is to get a good part of the gui done, in between a couple of nights out, and some time at the beach.

October 2006

Crypton joins the team, bringing in beginning of Qt GUI, and starting the push towards a new interface. This will a couple of month process, as everything gets bashed around a bit.

17th August 2006

Version 0.2.0rc4 has been placed on the web. This version brings the following new features:

  • First release with Web of Trust Authentication!
  • Downloads are automatically resumed
  • New Directory search interface.

12th August 2006

Ported the UDP Transport layer to Windows. Damn Microsoft make it hard to get the most basic of functionality to work!

15th July 2006

Finally completed the XPGP web of trust authentication system. Successfully tested it using a modified SSL3/TLS1 connection protocol.

21st April 2006

FIrst successful NAT hole punching using the new UDP communication layer.

15st April 2006

Implementation of a SSL BIO layer is completed, and the first successful tests of a SSL connection over the UDP transport layer have been run!

06th April 2006

Completed initial (Linux Only) implementation of UDP transport layer,

27th Feb 2006

Basic proxy system implemented to get around firewalls.

25th Feb 2006

Source Code for v0.1.0 is available under LGPL v2 Licence

6th Jan 2006

The first Windows release of Retroshare has been placed on the web. This version provides:

  • Standard SSL Hierarchical authentication scheme.
  • SSL over TCP connections between peers.
  • AutoDiscovery system to introduce you to others.
  • Shared directories, searchable by your peers.
  • Generic file downloading.