Nice work! Those are some seriously awesome improvements.<br>-Tom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Damian Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atagar1@gmail.com">atagar1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi all. A new release of arm (<a href="http://www.atagar.com/arm/" target="_blank">http://www.atagar.com/arm/</a>) is now<br>
available. This completes the codebase refactoring project that's been<br>
a year in the works and provides numerous performance, usability, and<br>
stability improvements...<br>
<br>
* Relay Setup Wizard<br>
Setting up a relay can be tricky for new users. In headless<br>
environments this means navigating Tor's massive, user unfriendly man<br>
page and even when Vidalia's an option it makes relatively poor exit<br>
configurations. Starting arm before Tor now provides instructions for<br>
auto-generating a good relay setup...<br>
<br>
a. Selection for what you'd like to be<br>
<a href="http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard1.png" target="_blank">http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard1.png</a><br>
b. Picking your relay options<br>
<a href="http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard2.png" target="_blank">http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard2.png</a><br>
c. Confirmation for the configuration it's making<br>
<a href="http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard3.png" target="_blank">http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard3.png</a><br>
<br>
* Menu Interface<br>
All of arm's capabilities are now available via a simple menu interface.<br>
<a href="http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_menu.png" target="_blank">http://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_menu.png</a><br>
<br>
* Arm Gui Prototype<br>
Over this summer Kamran Khan has been working on a GTK frontend for<br>
arm as part of Google Summer of Code. The initial prototype is ready!<br>
<a href="http://inspirated.com/2011/06/28/summer-of-code-progress-graphs-logs-and-acid" target="_blank">http://inspirated.com/2011/06/28/summer-of-code-progress-graphs-logs-and-acid</a><br>
<br>
* Performance Improvements<br>
Several arm and TorCtl performance fixes providing a 83% faster<br>
startup time, 12% lower memory usage, and instantaneous shutdown.<br>
<br>
* Improved Platform Support<br>
Vastly better support for Mac OSX. Arm has also been backported to<br>
Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Lucid / Maverick.<br>
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/tor-arm" target="_blank">http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/tor-arm</a><br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/maverick-backports/+bug/721886" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/maverick-backports/+bug/721886</a><br>
<br>
* ... etc<br>
Options for requesting a new identity, shutting down Tor, reconnecting<br>
if Tor's been restarted and many, many bugfixes.<br>
<a href="http://www.atagar.com/arm/releaseNotes.php#1.4.3" target="_blank">http://www.atagar.com/arm/releaseNotes.php#1.4.3</a><br>
<br>
Cheers! -Damian<br>
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