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authorRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2009-08-26 13:58:19 -0400
committerRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2009-08-26 13:58:19 -0400
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clean up the changelog for 0.2.2.1-alpha
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-Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-0?-??
+Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
+ o New directory authorities:
+ - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
+ authority.
+
o Major features:
- - Add support for dynamic OpenSSL hardware crypto acceleration engines
- via new AccelName and AccelDir options.
- - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over a SOCKS
- proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy configuration options.
- Code by Christopher Davis.
+ - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
+ hardware crypto acceleration engines.
+ - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
+ a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
+ configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
+
+ o Major bugfixes:
+ - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
+ by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
+ by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
+ patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
+ before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
+ oldest-bug prize.
o New options for gathering stats safely:
- Directories that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics on
@@ -31,10 +43,10 @@ Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-0?-??
source files Tor was built with.
- The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
- The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
- to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
+ to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
- Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
- fractional units. For example, "2.5 MB" is now a valid value for
+ fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
AccountingMax.
- Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
@@ -50,18 +62,22 @@ Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-0?-??
notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix on
0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
- If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
+ - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
+ 0.2.1.14-rc.
o Deprecated and removed features:
- The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
- Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
- do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the authorities
- still accept and serve version 0 descriptors when contacted by older
- hidden services/clients.
+ do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
+ service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
+ when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
- The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
controllers.
- - Removal of support for .noconnect style addresses.
+ - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
+ them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
+ via application-level web tricks.
Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-??-??