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Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha is out



Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.

https://www.torproject.org/download.html.en

We've been improving our packages and bundles:
  o Packaging changes:
    - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
      installer bundles. See
      https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
      for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
    - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
    - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
      configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
    - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
      x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
    - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
      better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
    - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
      by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
      occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.

Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
  o Security fixes:
    - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
      can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
      on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
      on 0.0.9rc5.

  o New directory authorities:
    - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
      authority.

  o Major features:
    - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
      hardware crypto acceleration engines.
    - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
      a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
      configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.

  o Major bugfixes:
    - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
      by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
      by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
      patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
      before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
      oldest-bug prize.

  o New options for gathering stats safely:
    - Directories that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics on
      directory request to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
      --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
      1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
      shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
      the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
      with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
    - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
      number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
      24 hours.
    - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
      cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
    - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
      rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
      hours.
    - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
      "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
      their extra-info documents.

  o Minor features:
    - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
      source files Tor was built with.
    - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
    - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
      to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
      help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
    - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
      fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
      AccountingMax.
    - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
      want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
      a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
      setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
      as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
      set this option.
    - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
      the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).

  o Minor bugfixes:
    - If any the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should actually
      notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix on
      0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
    - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
    - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
      0.2.1.14-rc.
    - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
      Might help diagnosing bug 1051.

  o Deprecated and removed features:
    - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
      or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
    - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
      do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
      service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
      when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
    - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
      always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
      controllers.
    - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
      them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
      via application-level web tricks.

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