notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
227. Closes ticket 10395.
+ o Major features (guards):
+ - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
+ guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
+ guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
+ a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
+ months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
+
o Major features (performance):
- Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used