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| -rw-r--r-- | changes/autoreconf | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | changes/bufferevent-support | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | changes/cpudetect | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | changes/eventdns_routerinfo_key | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | changes/microdesc_dl | 4 |
5 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changes/autoreconf b/changes/autoreconf new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c08cc7a376 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/autoreconf @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + o Minor build changes: + - Use autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, etc from autogen.sh. + This is more robust against some of the failure modes associated + with running the autotools chain on its own. + diff --git a/changes/bufferevent-support b/changes/bufferevent-support new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e39c36f13b --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bufferevent-support @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ + o Major features + - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO + backend provided by Libevent, when building with Libevent 2.0.7-rc + or later. To use this feature, make sure you have the latest possible + version of Libevent, and run autoconf with the --enable-bufferevents + flag. Using this feature will make our networking code more flexible, + lets us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient + zero-copy transports where available. + - As an experimental feature, when using the "bufferevents" buffered + IO backend, Tor can try to use Windows's IOCP networking API. This + is off by default. To turn it on, add "DisableIOCP 0" to your torrc. + diff --git a/changes/cpudetect b/changes/cpudetect new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eeaa492f58 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/cpudetect @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ + o Minor features + - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will try to detect how many + CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior. diff --git a/changes/eventdns_routerinfo_key b/changes/eventdns_routerinfo_key new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..46dcb52dbb --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/eventdns_routerinfo_key @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ + o Minor feature removals + - Removed old code to work around versions of Tor so old that they + used multiple forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such + versions of Tor are no longer in use as servers. diff --git a/changes/microdesc_dl b/changes/microdesc_dl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aca634c13f --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/microdesc_dl @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ + o Major features: + - Caches now download and cache all the consensus flavors that + they know about. This allows them to assess which microdescriptors + they need to fetch. |