Changelog

3.7.0

• Java 21 support
• Improved memory efficiency of loader
• Hardened string encryption and flow obfuscation against JVM-side hooking
• Improved performance of generated native code with CSE on JNI ID caches

3.6.0

• Java 20 support
• Zig 0.11.0 support (Zig 0.10.1 or newer is now required)
• New <useIntrinsics> option to enable supported Java methods, such as String#equals, to be implemented directly in native code, preventing instrumentation.
• Added static analysis to improve code generation by eliding null checks where they are not required.

3.5.1

• Fixed a rare mistranslation of long arithmetic
• Fixed a rare segfault on ARM compiles when multiple native threads attempt to load a class concurrently
• Optimised some corner cases in code generation
• Zig 0.10.0 or newer is now required

3.5.0

• Java 19 support
• New <fastCompile> option to improve compilation times for large projects
• Faster, more compact and more secure native string encryption based on ChaCha20
• Support for annotations to include and exclude methods from translation
• Hardened <flowObf> against reverse engineering
• Hardened invokedynamic translation against reverse engineering

3.4.0

• Java 18 support
• New <flowObf> option to enable native control flow obfuscation
• New <options> section in the config which encloses <stringObf>, <mangle> and the new <flowObf> option
• Randomised data layouts in native code

3.3.0

• Up to a 40% reduction in file size for large projects
• Translations of instanceof and athrow now handle null correctly
• Targets are now compiled in parallel
• Hardened protection mechanisms against static analysis

3.2.0

• JNIC now requires Java 11+ and Zig 0.9.1+ to run, but can still process Java 8 classes
• Fixed a bug with invokedynamic translation on Java 9+
• Hardened protection mechanisms with stringObf enabled

3.1.1

• Loader class name is now randomly generated to prevent conflicts

3.1.0

• All native methods are now compiled into a single library
• Improved performance of generated code by up to 4x
• Improved performance of invokedynamic emulation by up to 10x
• Significantly reduced file size overhead of string encryption
• Various bugfixes

3.0.0

• Java 17 support
• Obfuscation is now a single step
• Multi-platform support without needing to compile on each platform separately
• Various bugfixes

2.1.0

• Implemented per-user / online licencing
• Changed default optimisation level to -O1 from -O3

2.0.0

• Implemented XOR based string encryption
• <clinit> is now translated by moving it to $jnicClinit
• Added methodDesc attribute to <match> tags

1.0.1

• Java 14 support
• Relocated main package to dev.jnic

1.0.0

Initial release