A first alpha version is available. Please consider that the application may behave not yet really performant, nor always correct. The basic functionality is available, but may contain bugs. Please see also the releases' 'wishlist.txt' with the list of all not-yet implemented features and known bugs.
download steps:
If you download the software, you must agree to the applications GPL-based license.
To run YaCy, you need an installation and/or support for Java2. You can download the Java Runtime Environment "JRE" from the Sun Microsystems Java Page
The Release comes in different flavours: a general one with application wrappers for Unix/Linux, Macintosh OS X and Windows, and a specialized Windows version with Windows installer. Please choose from either one.
Latest Release:
The latest YaCy release version is 0.38
Download the generic (all platforms with J2SE 1.4: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris) YaCy 0.38 here.
If you want to install YaCy on Windows, you can use the convenient Windows-Installer-Version of YaCy 0.38.
YaCy is also hosted on yacy@BerliOS and yacy@freshmeat.net.
Please go to the installation page. If you upgrade from a previous version of YaCy, please migrate your data (simply move the DATA directory to your new application directory).
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