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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-06-18 13:31:44 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-06-18 13:31:44 -0400
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Reflow 0.2.5.5-alpha changelog
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Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-1?
Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
- performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the
- Linux seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
+ performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
+ seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
track down.
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-1?
sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
- last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to
- known ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
+ last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
+ ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
@@ -44,10 +44,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-1?
o Major bugfixes (relay):
- Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
- descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously,
- relays would incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly
- wide variety of circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix
- on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
+ descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
+ incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
+ circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
- When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
@@ -110,12 +109,12 @@ Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-1?
o Minor bugfixes (performance):
- Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
- build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value whenever we
- successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as running or
- not running for any other reason), regardless of whether we had
- previously believed the router to be running. This forced us to
- run an expensive update operation far too often. Fixes bug 12170;
- bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
+ build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
+ whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
+ running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
+ whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
+ forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
+ Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
- Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.