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Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha is released
To the Tor Community
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Chris Williamson.
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> On Nov 16, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, all!
> There's a new alpha Tor release! Because it's an alpha, you should
> only run it if you're ready to find more bugs than usual, and report
> them on trac.torproject.org.
>
> The source code is available from the downlaod page on
> www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a
> try? And if you don't build Tor from source, packages should be ready
> over the coming days, with a Tor Browser alpha release likely by the
> end of next week.
>
> Here's what's new:
>
> Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
> Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
> including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
> the future.
>
> o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
> - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
> OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
> running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
> 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
> support was added).
>
> o Minor features (geoip):
> - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
> Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
> - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
> some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
> use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
> - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
> open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
> Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
> able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
> on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
> - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
> mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
> not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
> on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
> - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
> packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
> bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
> - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
> source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
> - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
> OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
> on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (logging):
> - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
> ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
> on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
> - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
> bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
>
> o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
> - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
> introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
> whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
> intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
> 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
> - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
> close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
> we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
> bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
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