configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
2149 and 28335.
- The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
- has spend idle, persists across invocations. Implements
+ has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
ticket 28624.
- There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
- When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
- pluggable transport as separate from having successfully using
- that proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes
- tickets 27100 and 28884.
+ pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
+ proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
+ 27100 and 28884.
o Major features (circuit padding):
- Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
o Major features (refactoring):
- Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
- managed implicitly though various places throughout the codebase.
- (There still some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
+ managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
+ (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
ticket 28330.
o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
- When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
- situations where it seems that only internal paths are available
- and situations where it seems that external paths are available.
- Previously, Tor would often erroneously report that it had only
- internal paths. Closes ticket 27402.
+ situations where only internal paths are available and situations
+ where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
+ erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
+ ticket 27402.
o Minor features (continuous integration):
- Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
- 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our our
- consensus diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements
- proposal 293.
+ 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
+ diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
- Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
Patch by Neel Chauhan.
o Minor features (log messages):
- - Improve log message in v3 onion services service that could print
- out negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
+ - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
+ negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
by "ffmancera".
o Minor features (memory usage):
- Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
- - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, sot
+ - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
o Minor features (performance):
- Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
- have to parse the same Avoid parsing the same protocol-versions
- string over and over. This should save us a huge number of malloc
- calls on startup, and may reduce memory fragmentation with some
- allocators. Closes ticket 27225.
+ have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
+ This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
+ may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
+ ticket 27225.
- Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
Closes ticket 28852.
- Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
- Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
- pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180
+ pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
o Minor features (process management):
- Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (guards):
- - In count_acceptable_nodes() we now treat the minimum number of
- nodes as at one bridge or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for
- a circuit. Previously, we had added up the sum of all nodes with a
- descriptor, but that could cause us to build failing circuits when
- we had either too many bridges, or not enough guard nodes. Fixes
- bug 25885; bugfix on 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+ - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
+ or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
+ we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
+ could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
+ many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
+ 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
- Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
- - Avoid a BUG() stacktrace in case a SOCKS connection is found
- waiting for the descriptor while we do have it in the cache. There
- is a rare case when this can happen. Now, tor will recover and
- retry the descriptor. Fixes bug 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
+ - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
+ connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
+ cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
+ rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
+ 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
- Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
- check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new periodic event
- that will run once every hour even if Tor is not configured as
- onion router. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
+ check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
+ event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
- Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
- avoid deadlocking when the a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug
- 26360; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
+ avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
+ bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
- Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
- - Remove unnecessarily unsafe code from the Rust macro cstr!. Closes
+ - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
ticket 28077.
- Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
o Documentation:
- Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
- - Improve ControlPort deocumentation mention that it accepts
+ - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
ticket 28805.
- Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
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