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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2015-05-05 18:24:19 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2015-05-05 18:24:19 -0400
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Tweak changelog entries a bit
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@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series.
o New system requirements:
- - Tor no longer includes workarounds for Libevent versions before
+ - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions before
1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes ticket 15248.
o Major features (controller):
- - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allows the creation
+ - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
ticket 6411.
- - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached" to get
+ - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached" commands to get
information about hidden services created via the controller. Part
of ticket 6411.
- New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
@@ -18,33 +18,30 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
- - Revert commit that made directory authority assign the HSDir flag
- to relay without a DirPort which is bad because relay can't handle
+ - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir flag
+ to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays can't handle
BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
- Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
- fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766. [I'd call this a
- major feature if it actually fixed all of the issues.]
+ fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
o Minor features (command-line interface):
- Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
- Closes ticket 15542.
+ Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
- Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
- - The "--hash-password" option now implies "--hush" to avoid
- needless noise. Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
o Minor features (controller):
- - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to output
- of the GETINFO config/defaults controller command if not already
+ - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the output
+ of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
present. Implements ticket 14840.
- - Controllers can now use GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/... to retrieve
+ - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to retrieve
items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache. Closes
ticket 14845.
- - Implement a new controller command "status/fresh-relay-descs" to
+ - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-descs" to
fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on demand
just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
@@ -61,9 +58,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
- To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
- cycle it when a random value of introductions is reached thus
+ cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
- clients that has passed through the introduction point for a
+ clients that have used the introduction point for a
specific HS. Closes ticket 15745.
o Minor features (logging):
@@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
ticket 15026.
o Minor features (pluggable transports):
- - When launching managed pluggable transports on linux systems,
+ - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
ticket 15471.