What’s New in HashGuard

One profile key now sets a baseline for every option, from Ghost to Extreme, and anything you write explicitly still wins.

One key, a sensible baseline

The profile option accepts Ghost, Low, Medium, High or Extreme and sets the starting value of every boolean option. Explicit keys in the JSON always override the profile.

Release 26.10.0 • Profiles

A budget for the heavy passes

maxOutputRatio caps the output at a multiple of the input instruction count. When the budget is spent, heavy transformers such as control-flow flattening stop on their own instead of inflating the jar.

Finer control over what is protected

• Exclusion rules take an optional token prefix, so flatten:net.minecraft.** skips flattening only.
• A leading ! re-includes a pattern inside a broader exclusion.
• Wildcards match any depth, and pkg.ClassName** excludes a class with all its members.
• A ready-made exclusion preset ships for Minecraft 1.7.10.

mappingOutput still exports an old-to-new name mapping, so obfuscated stack traces stay decodable.

The plrObfuscate task takes a jar and a config and writes one protected jar per slot, plus the manifest of derived keys.

One command, up to a hundred slots

Set slotCount between 1 and 100 and run ./gradlew plrObfuscate. Every slot is obfuscated in parallel with its own derived keys and written to build/plr-obfuscated as client_0.jar up to client_N.jar.

Release 26.9.2 • Gradle plugin

Fresh keys on every run

Seeds are never persisted: each plrObfuscate run generates new keys and records them in keys-manifest.json for the delivery pipeline.

Two compatibility details that protected jars depend on: Gson-annotated fields and string decryption on older JVMs.

Gson fields keep their names

The access transformer skips fields annotated with @SerializedName, so Gson 2.14+ deserialization keeps working on obfuscated classes.

Release 26.9.0 • Compatibility

String decryption on Java 8

String encryption uses privateLookupIn on Java 9 and later and falls back to an invokedynamic decryptor that Java 8 accepts.