GNU.FREE 1.6 is now available.

[Jason Kitcat]

Hi all,

We are very proud to announce the release GNU.FREE version 1.6 which 
offers the following exciting new features and changes:

+ Internationalisation support has been added the FreeClient with 9 
languages now available.
+ Logs have tamper resistance due to a message digest system. Using 
FreeTest the administrator can check to see which line of the logs 
tampering began at.
+ The central data structures have been improved to remove large 
amounts of redundant and/or repeated code.
+ GNU.FREE now has out of the box support for PostgeSQL and MySQL, 
with the installer providing all the setup you need to talk to them.
+ FreeInstall now supports multiple ports so that RTServer and 
ERServer can be run on the same physical machine - for test purposes.
+ Test Ballots can now be created. These are used to prove that 
voting XXXX actually registers XXXX in the RTServer. This system is 
blind until the final step to stop a test vote being registered as a 
real vote.
+ The GNU.FREE Testing Suite (FreeTest) has been massively updated to 
support stress testing with the new security architectures developed 
over the last few versions. It also generates test data for importing 
into the servers.
+ Menus have been added to the server interfaces making regular use 
more streamlined.
+ The log console display has been vastly improved with the inclusion 
of auto-scrolling, word-wrap and the long awaited return of colour!
+ Automated Electoral Roll data import has been implemented. Data is 
read in the CSV format.

Main download sites:
- http://www.free-project.org/download/
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/free/

A big thank you to the testers, translators, users and coders who 
contributed. We'd also like to thank the Free Software Foundation and 
FreeDevelopers for their support. We've got some great ideas for the 
next version so stick with us...

All the best,
Jason

+++ The FREE e-democracy project aims to create secure, private, 
scalable and reliable non-partisan Internet Voting software protected 
by the GNU GPL. This software is GNU.FREE and is written in Java.

+++ Additionally the project advocates the Free Software paradigm and 
is supported by the Free Software Foundation as part of their GNU 
project.

+++ We evangelise the use of technology to strengthen democracy 
within a holistic understanding of the current malaise.


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