Author: atagar Date: 2011-04-04 15:15:20 +0000 (Mon, 04 Apr 2011) New Revision: 24554

Modified: arm/trunk/ChangeLog Log: Release notes for version 1.4.2.

Modified: arm/trunk/ChangeLog =================================================================== --- arm/trunk/ChangeLog 2011-04-03 19:44:18 UTC (rev 24553) +++ arm/trunk/ChangeLog 2011-04-04 15:15:20 UTC (rev 24554) @@ -1,5 +1,53 @@ CHANGE LOG

+4/4/11 - version 1.4.2 +This release chiefly consists of a fully reimplemented connection panel. Besides being a sane, maintainable implementation this includes numerous new features and improvements like full circuit paths, applications involved for local connections, and better type identification. + + * added: full rewrite of the connection panel, providing: + o listing the full paths involved in active circuits + o identification of socks, hidden service, and controller applications (arm, vidalia, polipo, etc) + o identification of exit connections with the common usage for the port they're using + o display of the local -> internal -> external address when room is available (original patch by Fabian Keil) + o better accuracy and performance in identifying client and directory connections + o marking the uptimes for initial connections (arm only tracks connection uptimes since starting, so these entries are just minimum durations) + o lazily loading the initial IP -> fingerprint mappings to improve the startup time + o using the circuit-status to disambiguating multiple relays on the same IP address + o smarter space utilization, filling in smaller columns if there isn't room for higher priority but larger entries + o connection details popup changes: + + using the consensus exit policies rather than the longer descriptor versions when available + + displaying connection details no longer freezes the rest of the display + + detail panel uses the full screen width and is dynamically resizable + + more resilient to missing descriptors + * change: hiding most tor config values by default (idea by arma) + * change: dropping warning suggesting that users set the FetchUselessDescriptors option (suggestion by Sebastian and others) + * change: always starting the bandwidth field from zero rather than using the state file total, which only contains the last day's worth of data (thanks to guilhem) + * change: suggesting authentication and giving steps for it in the readme (suggestion by Sebastian) + * change: caching config display lines, which reduces the CPU usage when scrolling by around 40% + * change: added summaries for the remaining tor configuration options + * change: using a dedicated enum class rather than tuple sets + * fix: torrc validation requires 'GETINFO config-text' which was introduced in Tor verison 0.2.2.7 (caught by Sjon, talion, and torland, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2501) + * fix: off-by-one issue with the displayed line numbers for torrc errors (caught by Sjon) + * fix: bin function wasn't available before python 2.6 (caught by Paul Menzel) + * fix: mis-parsing family entries when there's no entry after the comma (caught by StrangeCharm, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2414) + * fix: preventing SOCKS and CONTROL connections from being expanded (patch by Fabian Keil) + * fix: disabling name resolution for application queries to avoid leaking to resolvers (patch by Fabian Keil) + * fix: reversing src and dst addresses of SOCKS and CONTROL connections (caught by Fabian Keil) + * fix: changing the 'APPLICATION' type to 'SOCKS' since the previous label was too long (caught by Fabian Keil) + * fix: crashing issue from unknown relay nicknames (caught by krkhan) + * fix: concurrency bug occasionally causing "syshook" stacktraces when shutting down + * fix: header panel displayed the wrong IP address if it changed since we first started (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2776) + * fix: unchecked OSError could cause us to crash when making directories (for instance if there was a permissions issue) + * fix: the availability check for bsd resolvers was broken, probably causing resolution to fail for a few seconds on that platform + * fix: dropping the pointless 'Log notice stdout' entry provided by config-text queries (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2362) + * fix: taking DirServer and AlternateDirAuthority into account when determining the directory authorities + * fix: consuming a little extra space in the connection panel when scrollbars aren't visible + * fix: dropping the deprecated 'features.config.descriptions.persistPath' config option + * fix: failed connection attempts to the control port were generating zombie connections (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2812) + * fix: concurrency bug in joining on the TorCtl thread when tor shut down + * fix: the 'startup.dataDirectory' config option was being ignored + * fix: recognizing the proper private ip ranges of the 172.* block + * fix: missing 'is default' option from config sort ordering + 1/7/11 - version 1.4.1 (r24054) Platform specific enhancements including BSD compatibility and vastly improved performance on Linux.