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				|  |  |        Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
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				|  |  |      - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
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				|  |  |        descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
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				|  |  | +    - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
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				|  |  | +      flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
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				|  |  | +      up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
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				|  |  | +      "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
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				|  |  | +      used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
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				|  |  | +      a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
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				|  |  |    o Major features:
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				|  |  |      - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
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				|  |  |    o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
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				|  |  |      - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
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				|  |  |        detection for future instances of bug 4457.
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				|  |  | +    - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
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				|  |  | +      function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
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				|  |  | +      busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
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				|  |  |      - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
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				|  |  |        --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
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				|  |  |        0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
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				|  | @@ -89,6 +98,12 @@ Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-21
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				|  |  |        on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
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				|  |  |    o Minor features:
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				|  |  | +    - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
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				|  |  | +      AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
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				|  |  | +      Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
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				|  |  | +      that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
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				|  |  | +      the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
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				|  |  | +      Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
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				|  |  |      - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
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				|  |  |        include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
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				|  |  |        Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
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