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[or-cvs] r10174: polish up the 0.2.0.1-alpha in-progress changelog (tor/trunk)
Author: arma
Date: 2007-05-12 19:19:10 -0400 (Sat, 12 May 2007)
New Revision: 10174
Modified:
tor/trunk/ChangeLog
Log:
polish up the 0.2.0.1-alpha in-progress changelog
Modified: tor/trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/ChangeLog 2007-05-12 10:19:13 UTC (rev 10173)
+++ tor/trunk/ChangeLog 2007-05-12 23:19:10 UTC (rev 10174)
@@ -34,16 +34,19 @@
as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
+ - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
+ to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
o Minor fixes (resource management):
- - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of active
- connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing our
- allocated connection limit.
+ - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
+ of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
+ our allocated connection limit.
- We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
- anonymous directory connection. Instead, we track the link
- internally and transfer the data in-process. This saves two
- sockets per anonymous directory connection (at the client and at
- the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair() workaround.
+ anonymous directory connection or a dirport test connection.
+ Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
+ in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
+ client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
+ workaround.
- Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
for every single inactive connection_t.
- Free items from the 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@
o Minor features (build):
- Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
- - Update deprecated macros in configure.in
+ - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
- When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
warning.
@@ -64,17 +67,18 @@
- Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
- Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
- openbsd or windows or what.
+ OpenBSD or Windows or what.
- When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
buffer type.
o Minor features (directory system):
- Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
- routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors that
- aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess bandwidth. Once
- these fields are removed from router descriptors, the bandwidth savings
- should be about 60%. (Limitation: servers do not yet upload extra-info
- documents.) [Partially implements proposal 104.]
+ routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
+ that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
+ bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
+ the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. (Limitation: servers
+ do not yet upload extra-info documents.) [Partially implements
+ proposal 104.]
- Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
implementing proposal 104 simpler.
@@ -89,12 +93,11 @@
- Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
- Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
- - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell whether
- the current version is recommended, and whether any versions are good,
- and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
+ - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
+ whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
+ are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
o Minor features (other):
- - Correctly report Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
- More unit tests.
o Removed features:
@@ -110,35 +113,36 @@
- Even though windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
try to use \ consistently on windows and / consistently on unix: it
makes the log messages nicer.
+ - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory):
+ - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
+ more often than they are allowed to appear.
+ - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
+ logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
+
o Minor bugfixes (other):
- Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
- Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
- Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
we restart.
- - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
- more often than they are allowed to appear.
- - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities to
- corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
- Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
- - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
- logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
- On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
- o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
+ o Minor bugfixes (controller):
- Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
- server, so we match what the control spec claims we do.
+ server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
+ by daejees.
- Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
- caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol.
+ caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
+ by daejees.
- The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but support people
- asking for GUARDS too.
+ asking for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
- Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
- to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (controller):
+ to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
- Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
purpose=controller.
@@ -146,10 +150,10 @@
- Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
implicit in other procedure arguments.
- Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the corresponding
- or connections got full: thanks to the cell queue feature, or conns
+ OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue feature, OR conns
don't get full any more.
- - Make dns_resolve handle attaching connections to circuits properly,
- so the caller doesn't have to.
+ - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
+ properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
- Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.