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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
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2149 and 28335.
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- The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
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- has spend idle, persists across invocations. Implements
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+ has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
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ticket 28624.
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- There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
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if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
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@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
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27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
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- When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
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- pluggable transport as separate from having successfully using
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- that proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes
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- tickets 27100 and 28884.
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+ pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
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+ proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
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+ 27100 and 28884.
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o Major features (circuit padding):
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- Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
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@@ -45,16 +45,16 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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o Major features (refactoring):
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- Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
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initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
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- managed implicitly though various places throughout the codebase.
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- (There still some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
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+ managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
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+ (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
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ticket 28330.
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o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
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- When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
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- situations where it seems that only internal paths are available
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- and situations where it seems that external paths are available.
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- Previously, Tor would often erroneously report that it had only
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- internal paths. Closes ticket 27402.
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+ situations where only internal paths are available and situations
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+ where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
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+ erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
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+ ticket 27402.
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o Minor features (continuous integration):
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- Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
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@@ -81,9 +81,8 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
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soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
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descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
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- 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our our
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- consensus diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements
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- proposal 293.
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+ 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
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+ diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
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o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
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- Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
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@@ -112,14 +111,14 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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Patch by Neel Chauhan.
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o Minor features (log messages):
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- - Improve log message in v3 onion services service that could print
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- out negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
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+ - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
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+ negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
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by "ffmancera".
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o Minor features (memory usage):
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- Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
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compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
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- - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, sot
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+ - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
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that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
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memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
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@@ -130,10 +129,10 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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o Minor features (performance):
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- Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
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- have to parse the same Avoid parsing the same protocol-versions
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- string over and over. This should save us a huge number of malloc
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- calls on startup, and may reduce memory fragmentation with some
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- allocators. Closes ticket 27225.
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+ have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
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+ This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
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+ may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
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+ ticket 27225.
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- Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
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speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
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Closes ticket 28852.
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@@ -148,7 +147,7 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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- Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
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a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
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- Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
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- pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180
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+ pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
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o Minor features (process management):
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- Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
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@@ -203,12 +202,12 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (guards):
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- - In count_acceptable_nodes() we now treat the minimum number of
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- nodes as at one bridge or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for
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- a circuit. Previously, we had added up the sum of all nodes with a
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- descriptor, but that could cause us to build failing circuits when
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- we had either too many bridges, or not enough guard nodes. Fixes
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- bug 25885; bugfix on 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
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+ - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
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+ or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
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+ we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
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+ could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
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+ many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
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+ 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
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o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
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- Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
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@@ -229,22 +228,22 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
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- - Avoid a BUG() stacktrace in case a SOCKS connection is found
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- waiting for the descriptor while we do have it in the cache. There
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- is a rare case when this can happen. Now, tor will recover and
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- retry the descriptor. Fixes bug 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
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+ - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
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+ connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
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+ cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
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+ rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
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+ 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
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- Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
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- check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new periodic event
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- that will run once every hour even if Tor is not configured as
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- onion router. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
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+ check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
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+ event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
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- Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
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standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
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- avoid deadlocking when the a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug
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- 26360; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
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+ avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
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+ bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
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- Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
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@@ -261,7 +260,7 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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o Code simplification and refactoring:
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- Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
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trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
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- - Remove unnecessarily unsafe code from the Rust macro cstr!. Closes
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+ - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
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ticket 28077.
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- Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
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parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
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@@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
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o Documentation:
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- Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
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running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
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- - Improve ControlPort deocumentation mention that it accepts
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+ - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
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address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
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ticket 28805.
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- Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
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Nick Mathewson