commit d194f2130dba83b5864b7309ee3beb3f2b419f74 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Wed May 16 09:05:47 2018 -0400

move a changelog entry and try writing a blurb --- ChangeLog | 33 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d3fcff4e0..3cdba8bdd 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-1? - XXX BLURB + Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It + includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's + binary size and idle CPU usage on mobile, along with prep work for new + bandwidth scanners, improvements + to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous other small + features and bugfixes.

o New system requirements: - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without @@ -32,6 +37,18 @@ Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-1? the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is idle. Closes ticket 25373. + - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second + callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving + this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when + Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our + once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve + CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing + connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus + voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed + SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache + (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay + operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of + Tor's uptime (26009).

o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security): - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they @@ -142,20 +159,6 @@ Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-1? - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. Closes ticket 26104.

- o Minor features (mainloop): - - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second - callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving - this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when - Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our - once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve - CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing - connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus - voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed - SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache - (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay - operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of - Tor's uptime (26009). - o Minor features (performance): - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.