Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway Friday, November 5, 2010 Inferno Nettverk A/S is pleased to announce a new release of p2pd - a free P2P-based Video-on-Demand streaming system. The 'p2pd' system is free software available under a BSD-like license, with source code available. For more information, see the project web page: "http://www.inet.no/shepherd/" The Shepherd project is managed and hosted by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a UNIX consulting company located in Oslo Research Park, Norway. Inferno Nettverk A/S specializes in services related to software development and porting on UNIX/Linux and embedded/real-time platforms, and has been a developer of open source software for many years; the BSD licensed SOCKS implementation Dante was released by Inferno Nettverk A/S in 1998. Please see "http://www.inet.no/en/services.html" for more information about our services. For more information about Inferno Nettverk A/S, please see "http://www.inet.no/en/inferno.html". ************************************************************************* Please note that this is a pre-release. We ask that everyone who can, tests it to the extent possible, to help reduce problems in the upcoming release. Problems can be reported to shepherd-bugs@inet.no. Also note that pre-releases are configured in a way that puts a considerably larger load on the running system than the standard releases. This to help simulate high-load situations. A stable release is expected to be made in late 2010/early 2011. ************************************************************************* Compared to the previous pre-release, this version brings amongst other changes the following: o Various bug fixes, including stability fixes for OS X/Darwin. See the PRERELEASE file for the full list. Known problems: