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| author: Arne Babenhauserheide | ||
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| title: Freenet / Hyphanet build 1499: privacy, networking, css, UX, cleanups | ||
| date: 2024-12-28 | ||
| categories: release | ||
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| Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1499 is now available. | ||
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| > **Install Freenet / Hyphanet** for **[Windows][windows-installer]**, for **[GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes][linux-installer]**, or for **[Android][android-package]**. See the [download page][download page] for more information and other platforms (Apple Silicon needs library updates to work). | ||
| This release adds cleanups and optimizations on the way to Freenet / | ||
| Hyphanet 0.8. It improves privacy with DNS requests, optimizes the | ||
| networking and data transfer core and provides many improvements for | ||
| website authors and user experience. | ||
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| There are five larger areas of improvements: | ||
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| <div style="float: right; width: 30%; max-width: 300px;"><img src="./theme/images/logo-large.png" width="100%" style="filter: invert(30%)" /></div> | ||
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| - improved privacy protection | ||
| - optimized networking layer | ||
| - support for website authors | ||
| - better user experience | ||
| - clean ups and code purges | ||
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| <div style="clear: both"></div> | ||
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| ## Privacy | ||
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| The privacy improvements are reduced pings and DNS lookups. These make | ||
| it less likely that a node gets detected by pings it sends for other | ||
| nodes that use DNS addresses to have permanent addresses. Also thanks | ||
| to Torusrxxx SSL support is updated and when setting up a node for | ||
| access via SSL, unencrypted HTTP links now get upgraded to secured | ||
| HTTPS automatically. | ||
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| ## Networking | ||
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| The networking layer got a fix for very fast nodes. On these the bulk | ||
| queue could be starved when realtime requests were received faster | ||
| than they could be completed. Also bertm fixed bulk backoff getting | ||
| ignored. | ||
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| Juiceman removed unnecessary boxing and unboxing to reduce CPU load | ||
| and Torusrxxx improved IPv6 handling. | ||
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| ## Website | ||
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| Torusrxxx also added webp support to the content sanitation (filters), | ||
| so you can now use webp images on freesites and depending on the study | ||
| reduce the storage by around 30%. Minimizing storage is more critical | ||
| on Hyphanet compared to the clearnet, so webp can improve performance | ||
| for all sites. | ||
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| In addition to webp, Torusrxxx also added support for more CSS | ||
| keywords: border-{top,bottom}-{left,right}-radius, color-scheme, | ||
| dominant-baseline, margin-block, margin-block-end, margin-block-start, | ||
| margin-bottom, margin-inline, margin-inline-end, margin-inline-start, | ||
| margin-right, math-style, padding-block, padding-block-end, | ||
| padding-block-start, padding-inline, padding-inline-end, | ||
| padding-inline-start, padding-right, padding-right, padding-top, | ||
| padding-top, scroll-behavior, scroll-snap-align, scroll-snap-stop, | ||
| scroll-snap-type, text-combine-upright, text-decoration-thickness, | ||
| text-orientation, text-underline-offset. | ||
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| And font settings: monospace, system-ui, ui-serif, ui-sans-serif, | ||
| ui-monospace, ui-rounded, emoji, math, fangsong. Color keywords are | ||
| now checked case insensitively. | ||
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| Ban link as well as visited (these can cause requests depending on | ||
| interaction), replace with `any-link`. Also add more CSS selectors: | ||
| default, disabled, empty, enabled, focus-visible, indeterminate, | ||
| in-range, invalid, only-child, only-of-type, optional, out-of-range, | ||
| placeholder-shown, read-only, read-write, required, root. The | ||
| combination of `:root` and color-scheme enables settings for | ||
| dark-mode. The MIME types image/avif, heic, and heif are now known | ||
| (but have no validation). | ||
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| Also the `:checked` selector is now supported, so freesites can have | ||
| some CSS-based interactivity. | ||
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| There’s one loss: Chrome removed Theora support in 2024 and Firefox | ||
| followed suit in version 130 (which [broke brasilian banking OTPs](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1930548) ). | ||
| Firefox ESR (128) will still get support until may 27th 2025. Until | ||
| then we need sanitation for modern video formats like vp8 or vp9 and | ||
| webm to keep our video on demand (streaming) working. | ||
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| ## User experience | ||
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| There are two improvements of the interface itself: Qupo1 updated the | ||
| Japanese localization and bertm polished the bookmark editor and | ||
| directory listing in the Winterfacey theme. | ||
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| And thanks to Bombe the Freemail plugin now has a settings page for | ||
| the SMTP and IMAP address and port to use. | ||
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| The defunct new load management statistics are now gone — thanks to | ||
| Torusrxxx. These were just distracting. | ||
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| When you change the auto-updater key, updates are now checked | ||
| instantly, not only after update (for example to get updates via a | ||
| testing key for checking an update before release). | ||
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| And a bug was fixed that could lead to plugins being killed early | ||
| during shutdown. | ||
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| ## Cleanups | ||
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| Thanks to qupo1, Christophe, and Bombe, our gradle setup is more up to | ||
| date and cleaner. | ||
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| And thanks to Bombe, Bertm, Venfernand, and Juiceman we purged a lot | ||
| of outdated code that is no longer needed on modern JVMs (the code | ||
| base once had to work with Java 1) or replaced it with more recent | ||
| paradigms. Those make it quite a bit more enjoyable to work with the | ||
| affected parts of the code. | ||
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| Finally qupo1 fixed links and code badges in our readme and Bertm made | ||
| sure that our IPv6 preference setting keeps working in Java 24 and | ||
| later. | ||
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| ## Contribute | ||
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| _Join our core._ | ||
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| If you want to help us get better, please chat with us in <a href="https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Rabbit|?#freenet" id="chatlink" class="btn button-custom btn-custom-two">#freenet @ irc.libera.chat</a>. And give us time to answer, we’re all volunteers and might not be in your timezone. | ||
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| To get into development right-away, have a look at one of the [Freenet / Hyphanet Projects](https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/Projects) or just get [fred](https://github.com/hyphanet/fred) and fix something that annoys you. | ||
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| And to take on something that makes a big difference, have a look at the [high-impact tasks](https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/High-Impact-tasks). | ||
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| In addition to coding, spreading Hyphanet, joining the community, writing a decentralized website, and other ways to contribute within Hyphanet, you can join the awesome team of translators [at transifex][transifex-project]. They are the reason why we’re able to support several different languages, the often unseen heroes who make our work accessible to those who need it the most. | ||
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| ## What is Freenet / Hyphanet? | ||
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| Hyphanet is the original Freenet, | ||
| a peer-to-peer platform for | ||
| censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting | ||
| publishing and communication. | ||
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| > I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though | ||
| > she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I | ||
| > worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say | ||
| > 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from | ||
| > the Internet? --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation | ||
| _What about the name „Hyphanet“? See [Freenet renamed to Hyphanet][freenet-hyphanet]._ | ||
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| That Hyphanet can keep moving forward and help people worldwide to | ||
| exercise their basic rights and freedoms is the work of amazing | ||
| volunteers, both contributors and people running Hyphanet nodes. | ||
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| Thank you for your contributions, and thank you for using Freenet / Hyphanet! | ||
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| \-- AB | ||
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| > **Install Freenet / Hyphanet** for **[Windows][windows-installer]**, for **[GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes][linux-installer]**, or for **[Android][android-package]**. See the [download page][download page] for more information and other platforms. | ||
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| [high-impact-task]: https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/High-Impact-tasks | ||
| [Roadmap]: https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/Roadmap | ||
| [exe signing workflow]: https://github.com/hyphanet/sign-windows-installer | ||
| [verify-build script]: https://github.com/hyphanet/scripts/blob/master/verify-build | ||
| [debian-package]: https://www.draketo.de/dateien/freenet/build01499/hyphanet-fred-build01499.deb | ||
| [gentoo-package]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-p2p/freenet/ | ||
| [arch-package]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freenet | ||
| [guix-package]: https://git.sr.ht/~pranavats/freenet-guix/tree/master/item/freenet.scm | ||
| [transifex-project]: https://explore.transifex.com/otf/freenet/ | ||
| [freenet-hyphanet]: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html | ||
| [pyFreenet]: https://github.com/hyphanet/pyFreenet | ||
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| [releasetag1499]: https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01499 | ||
| [download page]: pages/download.html | ||
| [windows-installer]: https://www.draketo.de/dateien/freenet/build01499/FreenetInstaller-1499.exe | ||
| [linux-installer]: https://www.draketo.de/dateien/freenet/build01499/new_installer_offline_1499.jar | ||
| [android-package]: https://freenet-mobile.github.io/app/ |
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