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Hyphanet ships build 1507, patches probe-privacy bug, drops Java 8 support

Hyphanet released build 1507 of its 0.7.5 line, cutting startup time, updating plugins and polishing Italian localization. The update also fixes a privacy flaw in probe requests, discovered by researchers Cynthia and Blub, by adding location randomization that had previously been missing. This is the final build to support Java 8, as future releases will require Java 17.

hyphanet.org · 2026-09-13

Jactl scripting language mimics Virtual Threads on pre-Loom Java

The creator of Jactl, an embeddable scripting language for Java, explains how it was built to avoid blocking event-loop threads even though it targeted Java 8 and 11, long before Virtual Threads and Project Loom existed. Jactl uses an internal async mechanism that suspends a script's execution during blocking operations like database calls, freeing the underlying thread, and later resumes the script once the result is ready.

jactl.io · 2026-09-01