[andrewosh]

The new version has a totally revamped networking stack that should be a lot faster and more reliable. Part of it includes a new UDP holepunching algorithm that's had a super high success rate for us in practice.

There are some diagrams describing this on the Hypercore Protocol [0] site, and the repo's can be found here.

[0] https://hypercore-protocol.org/#hyperswarm

[1] https://github.com/hyperswarm/hyperswarm

[mafintosh]

The new holepunching algorithm also runs distributed on the our DHT, meaning any peer can help you holepunch to other peers.

We also talk a bit more about this on the hypercore website