cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17746311
This release, I2P 2.6.0, continues our work by fixing bugs, adding features, and improving the network's reliability.
Newer routers will be favored when selecting floodfill routers. I2PSnark received features which improve the performance of PeX(Peer Exchange), in addition to bug fixes. Legacy transport protocols are being removed, simplifying the code in the UDP transports. Locally-hosted destination will be reachable by local clients without requesting their LeaseSet, improving performance and testability. Additional tweaks were made to peer selection strategies.
I2P no longer allows I2P-over-Tor, connections from Tor exit IP addresses are now blocked. We discourage this because it degrades the performance of I2P and uses up the resources of Tor exits for no benefit. If you are a helpful person running both a Tor Exit and I2P we encourage you to continue to do so, using different IP addresses for each. Non-exit relays and Tor clients are unaffected by this and do not need to change anything.
As usual, we recommend that you update to this release. The best way to maintain security and help the network is to run the latest release.
RELEASE DETAILS Changes
Router: Increase minimum version for floodfill routers
Router: Disable I2P over Tor
Address Book: Cache locally hosted destinations
Bug Fixes
I2PSnark: Peer Exchange Tweaks
I2PSnark: Bugfixes
Router: Peer Selection Tweaks
Other
- Translation updates
Banning Tor is sus and not wise. I guess I2P traffic over Tor is barely noticeable for Tor, because I2P is much slower. Especially if you need do it by blocking ip addresses and cannot distinguish Tor nodes otherwise then you do it wrong. And now I2P literally has introduced global IP blocklist because of someone's opinionated decision.
Is it much slower though? I know it was, but is it still true? I get decent speeds on my torrents.
For web browsing i2p is still much slower for me than with Tor these days.
That's because you're using it for a purpose it wasn't intended. I2P isn't designed to be used to browse the regular internet, for that it's better to use TOR. However for anonymous torrenting or accessing i2p-sites, it's quite fast imho.
Okay, good.