[or-cvs] r9962: first cut at 0.1.2.13 release notes (tor/branches/tor-0_1_2-patches)

arma at seul.org arma at seul.org
Sun Apr 15 23:49:38 UTC 2007


Author: arma
Date: 2007-04-15 19:49:37 -0400 (Sun, 15 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 9962

Modified:
   tor/branches/tor-0_1_2-patches/ReleaseNotes
Log:
first cut at 0.1.2.13 release notes


Modified: tor/branches/tor-0_1_2-patches/ReleaseNotes
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--- tor/branches/tor-0_1_2-patches/ReleaseNotes	2007-04-15 13:33:40 UTC (rev 9961)
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 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
 
+Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-xx
+  o Major features, client performance:
+    - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
+      let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
+      succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
+      choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
+    - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
+      middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
+      is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
+    - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
+      application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
+      10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
+      that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
+    - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
+      to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
+      make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
+      unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
+
+  o Major features, client functionality:
+    - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
+      server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
+      plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
+      config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
+      you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
+    - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
+      bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
+      mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
+      can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
+      through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
+    - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
+      5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
+      SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
+
+  o Major features, servers:
+    - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
+      with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
+      asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
+      would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
+      authenticated, so use with care.
+    - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
+      and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
+      masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
+      lots of memory.
+    - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
+      checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
+      that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
+      to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
+      in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
+      easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
+
+  o Improvements on DNS support:
+    - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
+      from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
+      concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
+      multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
+    - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
+      records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
+      IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
+      now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
+    - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
+      DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
+      redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
+      DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
+      RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
+      lets you turn it off.
+    - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
+      wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
+      their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
+    - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
+      requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
+      useful to the network.
+    - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
+      useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
+    - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
+      lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
+    - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
+      our tests for DNS hijacking.
+
+  o Improvements on reachability testing:
+    - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
+      established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
+      so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
+      bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
+    - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
+      so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
+    - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
+      if their identity keys are as expected.
+    - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
+      chews through many circuits before giving up.
+    - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
+      to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
+    - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
+      to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
+      we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
+      other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
+    - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
+      authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
+      long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
+      connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
+      more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
+      0.1.1.x is obsolete.
+
+  o Improvements on rate limiting:
+    - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
+      capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
+      than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
+    - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
+      would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
+      to send them.
+    - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
+      they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
+      more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
+    - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
+    - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
+      connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
+    - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
+      writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
+      trying to flush.
+    - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
+      a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
+
+  o Major features, NT services:
+    - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
+      command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
+      "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
+      existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
+      will look for its configuration file in the service user's
+      %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
+      directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
+      directory.)
+    - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
+      directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
+      the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
+      from Matt Edman.
+    - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
+      get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
+      exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
+      command line.
+    - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
+      stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
+
+  o Directory authority improvements:
+    - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
+      bandwidth cutoffs.
+    - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
+    - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
+      too much load to the exit nodes.
+    - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
+      about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
+      clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
+      The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
+      protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
+    - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
+      clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
+      having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
+      moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
+    - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
+      can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
+      broken. Not used yet.
+    - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
+      approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
+      authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
+      of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
+      that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
+    - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
+      non-versioning dirservers.
+    - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
+      without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
+      restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
+      per day.
+    - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
+      a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
+      authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
+      clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
+
+  o Directory mirrors and clients:
+    - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
+      directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
+    - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
+      dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
+      gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
+    - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
+      longer count the failure against the total number of failures
+      allowed for the object we're trying to download.
+    - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
+      discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
+      recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
+      the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
+      routers for even longer.
+    - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
+      headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
+      caching HTTP proxies.
+    - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
+      haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
+      causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
+      you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
+
+  o Major fixes, crashes:
+    - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
+      one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
+    - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
+      out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
+      bug 390.)
+    - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
+      cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
+    - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
+      stream is detached.
+    - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
+      uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
+    - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
+      service circuits (reported by mwenge).
+    - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
+      and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
+    - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
+      handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
+      on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
+
+  o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
+    - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
+      /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
+      "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
+      want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
+    - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
+      1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
+    - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
+      keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
+      we never stay up for a week ourselves.
+    - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
+      in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
+      could return an unnamed server instead.
+    - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
+      many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
+      a more attractive target for compromise.)
+    - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
+      able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
+      only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
+    - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
+      Stefan Nordhausen.
+    - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
+      connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
+
+  o Major fixes, other:
+    - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
+      uptime in the descriptor.
+    - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
+      up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
+    - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
+      indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
+      discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
+    - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
+      move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
+      Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
+      the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
+    - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
+      if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
+      our DirPort now, etc.
+    - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
+      its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
+      back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
+
+  o New config options or behaviors:
+    - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
+      in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
+      EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
+    - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
+      ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
+      are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
+    - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
+    - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
+      the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
+      for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
+    - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
+      disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
+      a timely fashion.
+    - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
+      the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
+    - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
+    - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
+      accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
+      options files.
+    - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
+      NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
+    - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
+      avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
+      AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
+      is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
+    - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
+      and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
+      setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
+    - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
+      0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
+      SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
+      to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
+    - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
+    - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
+      suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
+    - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
+      choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
+    - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
+      directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
+      if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
+      the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
+    - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
+      for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
+      as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
+      authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
+      to continue being hidden service authorities too.
+    - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
+    - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
+      ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
+      an address.
+    - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
+      descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
+      your ORPort is set.
+
+  o Docs:
+    - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
+      new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
+      versions too.
+    - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
+      addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
+    - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
+      and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
+
+  o Packaging, porting, and contrib
+    - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
+      whether the config options are bad or good.
+    - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
+      to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
+    - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
+      take arguments rather than require direct editing.
+    - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
+      result more than once.
+    - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
+    - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
+      esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
+    - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
+      values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
+    - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
+    - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
+      Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
+      before we check for libevent.
+    - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
+    - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
+      or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
+      it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
+      win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
+      recommendation system saner.)
+    - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
+      define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
+    - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
+      now universal binaries.
+    - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
+    - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
+      for sure!)
+    - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
+      and many others).
+    - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
+    - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
+      ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
+      then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
+    - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
+      bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
+
+  o Minor features, controller:
+    - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
+      control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
+      the next development series, so it's good to give people some
+      advance warning.
+    - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
+      use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
+    - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
+      impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
+      mwenge; closes bug 394.)
+    - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
+      address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
+      directive.
+    - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
+      make them generated in every case where we get a successful
+      connected or resolved cell.
+    - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
+      available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
+    - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
+      can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
+    - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
+    - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
+    - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
+      actual keys.
+    - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
+    - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
+      entry guard status as it changes.
+    - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
+      immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
+      successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
+      watching for STREAM events.
+    - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
+      field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
+      event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
+      a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
+      Mike Perry)
+    - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
+      controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
+    - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
+      working much like those for circuit events.
+    - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
+      about the current status of a router.
+    - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
+      a router's status has changed.
+    - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
+      can tell which events and features are supported.
+    - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
+      client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
+    - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
+      identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
+    - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
+      of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
+      for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
+      and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
+      for more information.
+    - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
+      best guess to the user.
+    - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
+      descriptor has changed.
+    - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
+    - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
+      don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
+
+  o Minor bugfixes, controller:
+    - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
+      event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
+    - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
+      to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
+    - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
+      implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
+      ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
+    - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
+      clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
+      that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
+      3 of bug 367.)
+    - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
+      protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
+      "INTERNAL".
+    - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
+      we finally get the IP from an exit node.
+    - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
+      long.
+    - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
+      flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
+      the controller from learning about current events.
+    - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
+      reported by Mike Perry.
+    - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
+      when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
+    - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
+      controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
+    - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
+      about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
+      long nicknames where appropriate.
+    - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
+      make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
+      not requested.
+    - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
+      SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
+    - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
+      the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
+    - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
+
+  o Minor features, code performance:
+    - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
+      algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
+    - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
+      time.
+    - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
+      some profiles, but not others.)
+    - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
+      arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
+      (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
+    - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
+      operations, for profiling.
+    - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
+      malloc(0) returns a pointer.
+    - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
+      split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
+      These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
+      also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
+    - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
+      This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
+
+  o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
+    - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
+    - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
+      no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
+      in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
+      we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
+    - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
+      even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
+      family lists conveniently.
+
+  o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
+    - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
+      recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
+    - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
+      DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
+    - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
+      For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
+      its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
+    - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
+      such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
+    - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
+      when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
+    - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
+      as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
+      of it), is not therefore "up".
+
+  o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
+    - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
+      what version a router is running.
+    - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
+      "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
+      secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
+    - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
+      preceded by "opt".
+    - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
+      to have the wrong circ_id_type.
+    - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
+      actually mattered since 0.0.9.
+    - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
+      changed.
+
+  o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
+    - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
+      whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
+      bug 373.)
+    - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
+      time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
+      time it is now.
+    - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
+      throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
+      handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
+      goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
+    - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
+      handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
+      days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
+    - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
+      "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
+    - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
+      unstable ones.
+    - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
+      'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
+      authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
+      but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
+    - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
+      2GB/s total advertised capacity.
+    - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
+
+
 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
   o Security bugfixes:
     - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory



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