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Tor 0.1.0.8-rc is out



This is the eighth release candidate for the 0.1.0.x series. This
release makes Tor no longer induce kernel panics on OS X 10.3.9, disables
threading on OpenBSD, and fixes other odds and ends.

Please report any bugs, either in the installers or in Tor operation, so
we can get it perfect for an actual release: http://bugs.noreply.org/tor

http://tor.eff.org/download.html

  o Bugfixes:
    - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
      panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
    - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
      spec file.
    - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
      reentrant either.
    - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
      ancient.
    - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
    - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
      version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
      to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
      even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
    - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
      a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
      keys) from the exit server's process.
    - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
      have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
    - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
      so it doesn't seg fault on error.
    - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
      point at your Tor server.
    - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
      you're not sending a socks reply back.

  o Features:
    - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
      the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
    - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
      to make it easier to write controllers.