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-Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-0?
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+Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
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Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
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for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
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@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-0?
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home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
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to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
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+ This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
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+ bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
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+ stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
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+
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o Major features
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- Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
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backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
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@@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-0?
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- The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
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addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
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because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
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- date. Fixes bug 1982.
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+ date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
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- Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
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Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
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connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
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@@ -47,18 +51,21 @@ Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-0?
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by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
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o Minor features:
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- - Make logging resolution configurable and change default from 1
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- millisecond to 1 second. Implements enhancement 1668.
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- - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket 2444.
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+ - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogGranularity
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+ option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1
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+ second. Implements enhancement 1668.
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+ - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
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+ 2444.
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- Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
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127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
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There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
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behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
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- - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as statically
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- as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from Alexei Czeskis,
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- John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket 2702.
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- - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how many
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- CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
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+ - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
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+ statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
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+ Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
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+ 2702.
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+ - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
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+ many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
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- Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
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extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
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- Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
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@@ -79,6 +86,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-0?
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- The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
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at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
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of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
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+ - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
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+ legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
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+ Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
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- Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
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reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
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This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
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@@ -122,12 +132,15 @@ Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-0?
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our library structure used to force them to link it.
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o Removed features:
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- - Removed some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
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+ - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
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used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
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are no longer in use as servers.
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o Documentation fixes:
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- Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
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+ - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
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+ RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
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+ issue 2379.
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Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
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Nick Mathewson