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Tor 0.1.1.14-alpha is out
This is the fourteenth development snapshot for the 0.1.1.x series.
It fixes a few more bugs with clients and servers (including a memory
bloating bug for servers) and ties up other loose ends.
http://tor.eff.org/download.html
Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
- We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
- Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
- We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
had changed.
- Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
- We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
connections.
- If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
o Features:
- If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
- When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
without getting overloaded.
- Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
and remove them.
- Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
- Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
be forward-compatible.
- Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
- Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
makes sense.
- Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
and OR conns to port 443.
- Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
target arch.
- New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
- Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).