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