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Tor 0.0.2pre20 prerelease is out
This release lays some groundwork for performance tweaking---the network
has been expanding lately and performance is starting to become, erm,
sporadic.
I've left my circuit-making debugging info in at log-level warn, so you
can play with it too and get a feel for when/how it breaks. Run it with
"-l info" if you want even more info.
pre20 should be compatible with pre18 and pre19. But I'd like to ask
at least all the servers to upgrade anyway, so I can start playing
with things.
http://freehaven.net/tor/dist/tor-0.0.2pre20.tar.gz
Note that 'make install' will clobber your torrc, so back it up if you've
changed it.
Improvements since 0.0.2pre19:
New features:
- We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
it, apt-getters. :)
- I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and BandwidthBurst
(how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap kicks in).
This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set BandwidthRate
to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good performance
while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
- Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
- Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
to new ones.
- Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
have them reattach to new circuits instead.
Bugfixes:
- Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
after a while.
- Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
- Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.