Hi all. Between the holidays and being oncall for work I didn't have very high hopes for December. However, by the time the dust settled it turned out to be a surprisingly productive month. Projects included...

* Finishing stem support for event handling. This was the last major feature we were missing before having feature parity with TorCtl.

* Ported arm and the consensus-tracker to stem [1][2]. The arm migration went surprisingly smoothly, but there's still a lot of cleanup work left to do here. Ideally arm will be a far simpler codebase now that it doesn't need a wrapper module around the controller.

* Moved stem's site to "https://stem.torproject.org/". [3]

* Smaller things include...

* finally fixed the periodic freezes in arm [4] * uniform support for a default response in Controller getters [5] * vastly improved performance and memory usage for the ExitPolicy class * expansions for descriptor handling [6][7][8] * extend_circuit(), attach_stream(), and get_circuits() support (patches by Ravi) [9][10] * TAKEOWNERSHIP support (thanks to Lunar^ for the initial patch) [11] * fixed a bug where circuit/stream ids were sometimes ints (caught by Lunar^) [12] * added a post-authentication hook so event listeners can be reattached to Tor * several OPW discussions with Marina (we didn't get any substantial applications) * added flash proxy and txtorcon to the volunteer page, and made lots of general revisions [13][14][15] * discussed TorCtl deprecation with Mike and made the announcement [16]

* Besides this, Sean Robinson has been submitting an absurd number of fixes, improvements, and code reviews of his own. Many thanks!

* version pre-requirement checks for events and tests [17] * testing expansion for malformed events [18] * close_stream() method [19] * STREAM_BW event handling [20] * testing util expansion to make it easier to test client use cases [21] * get_socks_listeners() method and related mocking changes [22] * ... and many, many more [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]

Cheers! -Damian

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/arm.git/commitdiff/ca6026c?hp=d83f1ad [2] https://gitweb.torproject.org/atagar/tor-utils.git/commitdiff/2e42c5d [3] https://trac.torproject.org/7324 [4] https://trac.torproject.org/6439 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/7832 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/7354 [7] https://trac.torproject.org/7827 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/7828 [9] https://trac.torproject.org/7653 [10] https://trac.torproject.org/7152 [11] https://trac.torproject.org/7666 [12] https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commitdiff/6711458be83b2050b058b7528b... [13] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-December/049737.html [14] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-December/050199.html [15] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-December/051059.html [16] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torctl-deprecation-and-stem-plans [17] https://trac.torproject.org/7674 [18] https://trac.torproject.org/7736 [19] https://trac.torproject.org/7687 [20] https://trac.torproject.org/7616 [21] https://trac.torproject.org/7693 [22] https://trac.torproject.org/7784 [23] https://trac.torproject.org/7617 [24] https://trac.torproject.org/7673 [25] https://trac.torproject.org/7672 [26] https://trac.torproject.org/7686 [27] https://trac.torproject.org/7688 [28] https://trac.torproject.org/7735 [29] https://trac.torproject.org/7741 [30] https://trac.torproject.org/7778 [31] https://trac.torproject.org/7779 [32] https://trac.torproject.org/7328 [33] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-December/004240.html [34] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-December/004271.html [35] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-December/004306.html