Hi, all! There is a new stable release of the Tor source code, with fixes for several important bugs.
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You can download the source from the usual place on the website. Packages should be up in a few days.
(There is also a concurrent release of Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha; for alpha announcements, please see tor-talk@ or the blog.)
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Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users who select public relays as their bridges.
o Major bugfixes (crash): - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected. Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler): - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing this one.
o Minor feature (fallback directories): - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
o Minor features (geoip): - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.