zeronet-conservancy v0.7.8 as another small step towards riza

not all plans go accordingly. as a matter of fact, most don’t. so did the plan to build riza quickly from scratch. however, the project is not abandoned and step by step crawls the roadmap.

one of this steps is zeronet-conservancy v0.7.8 which, while still not addressing the biggest 0net issue (user identity & spam protection), we still deemed it a necessary step to sustain 0net as useable network, further protect its users and prepare for bigger changes.

in today’s release changelog:

  • use archived version of .bit domain registry to avoid malicious rewrites
  • readdress .bit domains as part of their deprecation
  • remove potential vulnerability via setuptools (@ajesse11x)
  • improve copying peers from sidebar
  • reduce fingerprinting information available to unprivileged sites
  • improve starting script
  • fix default ssl version to be secure
  • disable geoip-related ip address leak when in tor-only mode
  • windows os build/running instruction (WIP)
  • better command line parsing
  • ArchLinux AUR package
  • update android instruction (thanks oseido for reporting)
  • better browser launch handling
  • ability to add/remove from favourites from sidebar
  • NoNewSites plugin
  • show help message even when startup fails
  • fix plugin options handling regression
  • multiple code improvements

is that a lot? is that a little? really, neither. what we need is a dedicated team to work on both sustaining zeronet-conservancy, making it fully decentralized and revolutionizing api — the main step towards riza

that said, today we’re just happy to celebrate v0.7.8 and invite you to celebrate with us!