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[tor-announce] New stable Tor releases: 0.3.1.8, 0.3.0.12, 0.2.9.13, 0.2.8.16, 0.2.5.15



Hi, all!

There are new stable Tor releases available for download.  If you
build Tor from source, you can find the source for the latest stable
release on our Download page.  You can find the older releases at
https://dist.torproject.org/ .  Packages should be available over the
coming days, including a planned TorBrowser release in November.

These releases backport stability fixes from later Tor releases, and
add the key for the latest directory authority, "bastet".

Below are the changelog entries for the new releases mentioned in this email.

Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
  Tor 0.3.1.7 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
  It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
  that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
  a new directory authority, Bastet.

  o Directory authority changes:
    - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
      Closes ticket 23910.
    - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
      Closes ticket 23592.

  o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from
0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
      circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
      Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.

  o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
      IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
      3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
      52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.

  o Minor features (geoip):
    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
      Country database.

  o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
      32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
      and fixed by Andreas Stieger.

  o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
      the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
      on 0.3.1.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
    - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
      send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.

  o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
      error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
      bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
    - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
      Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
      time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
      on 0.3.1.1-alpha.



Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
  Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
  under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.

  Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
  2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
  the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.

  o Directory authority changes:
    - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
      Closes ticket 23910.
    - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
      Closes ticket 23592.

  o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from
0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
      circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
      Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.

  o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
      IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
      3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
      52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.

  o Minor features (geoip):
    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
      Country database.

  o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
    - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
      a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
      not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
      tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
      didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
      behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
      began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
      on 0.2.1.19-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
      error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
      bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
    - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
      Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
    - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
      correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
      the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
      delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
      failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
      Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".



Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
  Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
  under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.

  o Directory authority changes:
    - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
      Closes ticket 23910.
    - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
      Closes ticket 23592.

  o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from
0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
      circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
      Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.

  o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
      IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
      3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
      52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.

  o Minor features (geoip):
    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
      Country database.

  o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
    - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
      a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
      not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
      tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
      didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
      behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
      began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
      on 0.2.1.19-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
    - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
      Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
    - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
      correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
      the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
      delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
      failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
      Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".



Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
  Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
  under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.

  Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
  2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
  the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.

  o Directory authority changes:
    - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
      Closes ticket 23910.
    - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
      Closes ticket 23592.

  o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from
0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
      circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
      Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.

  o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
    - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
      IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
      3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
      52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.

  o Minor features (geoip):
    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
      Country database.



Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
  Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
  series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.

  Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
  2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
  the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.

  o Directory authority changes:
    - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
      Closes ticket 23910.
    - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
      Closes ticket 23592.

  o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
    - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
      inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
      handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
      22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.

  o Minor features (geoip):
    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
      Country database.

  o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior,
backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
    - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
      bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
      still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
      ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
      behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
      sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
      network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
      0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.

  o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
    - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
      configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
      developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
      better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
      to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
      Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
      repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
      your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
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