Today, we are excited to announce the release of drasyl 0.5.0 with end-to-end encryption, an IP multicast-based peer discovery, and TCP-fallback if UDP is blocked.

Changelog

Upgrade Notes

• The identities must be replaced by a new one. Just delete the old drasyl.identity.json and let drasyl generate a new one.
• If you’re using a custom configuration with super peer defined, make sure to use (our) super peers running 0.5.0.

Added

• Multicast is used to discovery other nodes running within the same network.
• TCP is used as fallback if UDP traffic is blocked.
• Experimental support for native image added.
• All traffic is now end-to-end encrypted 🎉.
• kqueue is used on macOS based systems for better performance.
• epoll is used on linux based systems for better performance.
• An InboundExceptionEvent is emitted every time an inbound message could not be processed.
• Support for Apple Silicon added.
• Backpressure mechanism for outbound messages added.

Changed

• Switched to MIT License.
• DrasylNode#send() will now return an CompletationStage instead of an CompletableFuture.
• Dependencies have been updated.
• Maven module parent has been renamed to drasyl-parent.
• Class CompressedPublicKey has been renamed to IdentityPublicKey.

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