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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2014-03-12 15:53:58 -0400
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Start work on an 0.2.5.3-alpha changelog.
This collects all the changes file, and find the stuff that also appeared new in 0.2.4.21.
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+Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-??
+
+ o Major features:
+ - Also consider stream buffer sizes when calculating OOM
+ conditions. Rename MaxMemInCellQueues to MaxMemInQueues. Fixes
+ bug 10169.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Exit immediately when exiting because of dropped connection from
+ a process-owning controller. Previously, if we were running in
+ server mode, we would wait for a little while as in the when we
+ got an INT signal--but this was problematic, since there was no
+ feedback for the user. Controllers that want to do a clean
+ shutdown should send an INT signal, and let the user know what's
+ going on. Fix for bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Log an improved message when excluding hidden service directory
+ nodes prevents a hidden service from working.
+ Improves on our fix for bug #10722, which was a bugfix on
+ 0.2.0.10-alpha.
+
+ o Removed code
+ - Remove all code for hidden service authorities to accept and serve
+ version 0 descriptors and left-over code for hidden services and
+ hidden service clients to upload and fetch version 0 descriptors.
+ Version 0 descriptors are not in use anymore since 0.2.2.1-alpha.
+ Fixes the rest of bug 10841.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Bridges write the SHA1 digest of their identity key fingerprint to
+ notice-level logs and to hashed-fingerprint, so that bridge
+ operators can look up their bridge in Globe and similar tools.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
+ - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
+ define static functions only some of which will get used later in
+ the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
+ unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
+ - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
+ manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
+ Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (unit tests);
+ - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
+ call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask.
+ Fixes bug 10928; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes
+ - Fix IPv6 support when using the SocksPort with SOCKS5. Using IPv6
+ through a SOCKS5 using the SocksPort option will now work with
+ this fix. This part of the code has never been updated to support
+ IPv6 thus this does not fix a previously introduced regression.
+ Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
+
+ o Minor features (log messages):
+ - Improve the message that gets displayed when Tor as a bridge is
+ using pluggable transports but doesn't have an Extended ORPort
+ listener. Furthermore, we now log the message in the log file
+ too. Resolves ticket 11043.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Build using the -fasynchronous-unwind-tables option so that more
+ platforms (in particular, ones like 32-bit Intel where the
+ -fomit-frame-pointer option is on by default and table
+ generation is not) will support generating backtraces. This
+ doesn't yet add Windows support yet; only Linux, OSX, and some BSD
+ are affected. Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix
+ on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed asswertions
+ at the same time and both try to log backtraces at
+ once. (Previously, if this had happened, both threads would
+ have stored their intermediate results in the same buffer, and
+ generated junk outputs.) Reported by "cypherpunks". Fixes bug
+ 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (clients):
+ - Fix tor so that it raises a control port warning when we fail to
+ connect to all of our bridges. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
+ tor-0.2.1.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Warn the user if they put any ports in the SocksPolicy,
+ DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
+ AuthDirBadExit options. Fixes ticket #11108.
+
+ o Documentation:
+ - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and their allies don't take
+ port arguments. Fixes ticket #11108.
+
+ o Documentation:
+ - Fix the max client name length in the manpage's description of
+ HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient description: it should have been
+ 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (clients):
+ - Fix a bug where we would attempt to connect to bridges before
+ our pluggable transports were configured, which resulted in some
+ erroneous log messages. Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on
+ 0.2.3.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Don't log at warning severity when we refuse to launch a
+ pluggable transport proxy that we don't need. Resolves ticket
+ 5018; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for relays.
+ Fix for bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related to
+ bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
+ server using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing):
+ - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests
+ so that comparisons NULL strings no longer crash the tests;
+ they now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on
+ 0.2.2.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
+ to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that
+ field unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage.
+ Fixes bug 9099; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
+
+ o Documentation:
+ - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
+ "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
+ "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket #9222.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Give the correct URL in the warning message that we present
+ when the user is trying to run a Tor relay on an ancient version
+ of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Non-exit servers no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
+ DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha,
+ when non-exit servers stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug
+ 965; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
+
+ o Minor changes:
+ - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes, to
+ appease raspberry pi users. Fixes bug 9686.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
+ SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
+ feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
+ client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
+ number of data entries all calculated to be stored at the same
+ hash table position, thereby degrading hash table
+ performance. With this feature, hash table positions are derived
+ from a randomized cryptographic key using SipHash-2-4, and an
+ attacker cannot predict which entries will collide.
+ Closes ticket 4900.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Update geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
+ database.
+ o Minor features:
+ - Update to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Fix our version of the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
+ - Fix a 64-to-32-conversion warning in format_number_sigsafe().
+ Bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
+
+ o Code simplifications and refactoring:
+ - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
+ string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
+
+ o Minor features:
+ - Made PREDICTED_CIRCS_RELEVANCE_TIME configurable from config
+ file with a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime. Implements
+ ticket #9176. Patch by unixninja92.
+
+ o Testing:
+ - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
+
+
+
Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
@@ -59,7 +250,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
-Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2013-02-13
+Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential