Merge branch 'maint-0.2.8'

changes/bug19499

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   o Minor features (build):
     - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development branch
-      (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
+      (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
 

changes/bug19556

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       private stats directory, calls check_private_dir(), which also
       opens and not just stats() the directory.  Therefore, we need to
       also allow open() for the stats dir in our sandboxing setup.
-      Fixes bug 19556.
+      Fixes bug 19556; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.

changes/bug19557

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   o Major bugfixes (sandboxing):
     - Our sandboxing code would not allow us to write to stats/hidserv-stats,
       causing tor to abort while trying to write stats.  This was previously
-      masked by bug 19556.  Fixes bug 19557.
+      masked by bug 19556. Fixes bug 19557; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.