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@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
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Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series.
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o New system requirements:
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- - Tor no longer includes workarounds for Libevent versions before
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+ - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions before
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1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes ticket 15248.
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o Major features (controller):
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- - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allows the creation
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+ - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
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and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
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ticket 6411.
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- - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached" to get
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+ - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached" commands to get
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information about hidden services created via the controller. Part
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of ticket 6411.
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- New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
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@@ -18,33 +18,30 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
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ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
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o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
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- - Revert commit that made directory authority assign the HSDir flag
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- to relay without a DirPort which is bad because relay can't handle
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+ - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir flag
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+ to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays can't handle
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BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
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o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
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- Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
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happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
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hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
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- fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766. [I'd call this a
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- major feature if it actually fixed all of the issues.]
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+ fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
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o Minor features (command-line interface):
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- Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
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- Closes ticket 15542.
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+ Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
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- Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
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as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
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- - The "--hash-password" option now implies "--hush" to avoid
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- needless noise. Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
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o Minor features (controller):
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- - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to output
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- of the GETINFO config/defaults controller command if not already
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+ - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the output
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+ of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
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present. Implements ticket 14840.
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- - Controllers can now use GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/... to retrieve
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+ - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to retrieve
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items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache. Closes
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ticket 14845.
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- - Implement a new controller command "status/fresh-relay-descs" to
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+ - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-descs" to
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fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on demand
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just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
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@@ -61,9 +58,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
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o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
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- To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
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when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
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- cycle it when a random value of introductions is reached thus
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+ cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
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making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
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- clients that has passed through the introduction point for a
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+ clients that have used the introduction point for a
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specific HS. Closes ticket 15745.
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o Minor features (logging):
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@@ -72,7 +69,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-??
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ticket 15026.
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o Minor features (pluggable transports):
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- - When launching managed pluggable transports on linux systems,
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+ - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
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attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
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pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
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ticket 15471.
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