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Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-1?
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- XXX BLURB
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+ Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
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+ includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's
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+ binary size and idle CPU usage on mobile, along with prep work for new
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+ bandwidth scanners, improvements
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+ to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous other small
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+ features and bugfixes.
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o New system requirements:
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- Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
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@@ -32,6 +37,18 @@ Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-1?
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the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
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number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
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idle. Closes ticket 25373.
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+ - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
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+ callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
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+ this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
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+ Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
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+ once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
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+ CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
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+ connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
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+ voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
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+ SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
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+ (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
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+ operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
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+ Tor's uptime (26009).
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o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
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- When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
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@@ -142,20 +159,6 @@ Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-1?
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- Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
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database. Closes ticket 26104.
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- o Minor features (mainloop):
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- - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
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- callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
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- this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
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- Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
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- once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
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- CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
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- connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
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- voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
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- SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
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- (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
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- operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
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- Tor's uptime (26009).
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-
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o Minor features (performance):
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- Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
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relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
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