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@@ -1,51 +1,106 @@ Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-??-?? o Major features: - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR - records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given - IPv4 address). This has been specified for a long time, but was - previously never implemented. This is only supported by eventdns; - servers now announce in their descriptors whether they support - eventdns. + records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a + given IPv4 address). This has been specified for a long time, + but was previously never implemented. This is only supported by + eventdns; servers now announce in their descriptors whether they + support eventdns. - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS lookups; see doc/socks-extensions.txt for full information. o Minor features: - Check for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing DNS - requests and replace the 'no such server' answer with a "helpful" - redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. We're a little clever - about this, in order to work around DNS hijackers who "helpfully" - decline to hijack known-invalid RFC2606 addresses. [Resolves bug 330.] + requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful" + redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. We're a little + clever about this, in order to work around DNS hijackers who + "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid RFC2606 addresses. + Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0" lets you turn it off. - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless - requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS be useful to - the network. + requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to + be useful to the network. - o Security Fixes, minor + o Security Fixes, minor: - If a client asked for a server by name, and we didn't have a - descriptor for a named server with that name, we might return an old - one. + descriptor for a named server with that name, we might return an + old one. + - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM + to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD + and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower(). - o Major bugfixes - - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address, - and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer. - Previously, we would give them no answer at all. - - o Minor Bugfixes - - Small performance improvements on parsing descriptors (x2). - - Major performance descriptor on inserting descriptors; change + o Major bugfixes: + - Avoiding crashing on race condition in dns.c: + tor_assert(! resolve->expire) + - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to) + an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer. + Previously, the server would give them no answer at all. + + o Minor Bugfixes: + - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors. + - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n). - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where malloc(0) returns a pointer. - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y" instead of "X resolved to X". - - Prevent the 'exitlist' script from printing the same result more - than once. - - Build correctly for use on OS X platforms with case-sensitive - filesystems. + - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same + result more than once. + - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume + building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on + Debian woody. + - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup). + - Improve Tor's chances of building and running on Cygwin again. + - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status + documents, we would discard status documents from authorities + we don't recognize. o Documentation - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and ServerDNSResolvConfFile options. + + + o Packaging: + - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows. + - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting, + to distinguish configuration errors from other errors. + - Update rpms to require libevent 1.1b. + - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are + now universal binaries. + + - Make eventdns on-by-default. + - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages. + - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator + choose an alternate resolve.conf file. + + - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their + directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter). + - Apply patch from Adam Langley: fix assert() in eventdns.c. + - Finally fix the openssl warnings with newer gccs that believe that + ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and + then ignoring it is a sign of madness. + - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an + "extendcircuit" request. + - Add a "getinfo address" controller command. + - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings" + response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails. + - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're + a client, so you can become a server more smoothly. + - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream + is detached. + - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0. + - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor. + - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on + non-versioning dirservers. + - Send out a burst of long-range drop cells after we've established + that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully + a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps + us quicker. + - Remove 8888 as a long lived port, and add 6697 (ircs). + + (stopped at r8478) + + Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27 o Major features: - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to |