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+- Update the wrapper files in dependencies.properties to 3.5.30
+  This change sets a consistent wrapper-version for Windows, *Nix, and
+  also OSX, thanks to operhiem1 for the review
+- Pseudonymous people found found a bug in our splitfile inserter that
+  TheSeeker tracked down to its source. It threw an exception if the
+  checksum was exactly [0,0,0,0], thanks to operhiem1 for the review
+- Update default bookmarks: Replace inactive indexes, add Shoeshop,
+  show active sites first. Thanks to AC4BB21B for the review!
+- Fix FreenetURI intern() to not forget edition of USK — thanks to
+  debbiedub for new nodes where UPnP does not give the speed.
 - required module opens for Java 17 to wrapper.conf
-- add output of filtered file to the OggFilterTest
-- fix peer scaling for very fast peers
-- try replacing spaces by newlines in noderefs when parsing fails
+- Replace Pointer.SIZE with Native.POINTER_SIZE for JNA 5.x — thanks
+  to Leo3418 and Bombe
+- fix peer scaling for very fast peers: 
+  Very fast nodes have more peers to fix a conceptual mistake
+  (did not take the aggregated bandwidth limit of the peers into account). 
+  Thanks to TheSeeker for the review!
+- Java 17 support of the installer
+- more resilient noderef parsing for easier friend-to-friend connections
+  try replacing spaces by newlines in noderefs when parsing fails
 - Accept FreenetURI in add peer field; only try regular url on failure
-- add max size to the fetched noderef
-- increase default datastore size to 100GiB, because SSDs are much faster today
+  — thanks to desyncr for the review
+- Add warning about surveillance through voice recognition tech
+- increase default datastore size to 100GiB, because SSDs are much
+  faster today
 - Set standard thread limit to 1000
+- decreased default thread stack size for reduced memory usage
+  (512KiB)
+- Increase default bandwidth to 32KiB/s. This should improve
+  performance, thanks to operhiem1 for the review
+- add output of filtered file to the OggFilterTest
 
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