The major network structure change in this release is preferential opennet peer acceptance based on link length. The Roos, Schiller, Hacker, and Strufe paper reports far too many long links. [0] The statistics we've been collecting observe this as well. This release accepts comparatively few long links, which should allow much better navigation of the local keyspace. This will result in rejecting more connections offered over announcement, so in a future version announcements may indicate link length preference to lessen the load.
Matthew speculates that this will not interact well with the existing behavior, so it will be mandatory 2014-08-16. Java 6 has been EOL since February 2013. [1] This release adds an alert when running with Java earlier than 1.7. [2] Freenet will require Java 1.7 or later in a future release. Also in this release: * Add Russian Windows installer translation. Thanks zabuldon! If you want to give a translation for another language please do so; the English source file is here: [2] In addition to Russian there are currently translations for Spanish, French, and Dutch. * Update German, Finnish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese translations thanks to volunteers on Transifex. * Add permissions attribute to main jar manifest. * Allow building with Bouncy Castle 1.50 and higher. 1.49 had a draft implementation of OCBBlockCipher, and an updated draft in 1.50 limited the nonce size below what Freenet was using. Bouncy Castle 1.51 will be deployed in a future release. * Add X-Content-Type-Options nosniff header. This requests that browsers treat files as their given MIME types and not guess based on their content. As Microsoft explains, "[it] is a security feature that helps prevent attacks based on MIME-type confusion." [3] * Disable negtypes before 9. Negtype 9 has been mandatory since build 1448 went mandatory on July 23rd, 2013. Future releases will remove the code for these unused negtypes. * Remove :visited from CSS to prevent pages from appearing differently based on browser history, which is useful in attacks. [4] * Clean up CSS filter. * Add documentation. * Code cleanup. * Update seed nodes. Thanks justusranvier and Stanley! - Steve Dougherty [0] https://freenetproject.org/papers/roos-pets2014.pdf [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html [2] https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/269 [3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg622941%28v=vs.85%29.aspx [4] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/css_calc/
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