[tor-commits] [tor/master] Sort changelog entries a little more
nickm at torproject.org
nickm at torproject.org
Tue Sep 22 13:14:34 UTC 2015
commit 2a9650625f5ce2cbad67299ce57c92bc70677a9b
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date: Tue Sep 22 09:14:07 2015 -0400
Sort changelog entries a little more
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ChangeLog | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
+Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-2?
XXXX write a blurb
o Major features (security, hidden services):
@@ -16,50 +16,40 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
- On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
+ o Major features (performance testing):
+ - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
+ Requires the corresponding chutney performance testing changes.
+ Patch by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
+
o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
- Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
- Improve handling of expired signing keys along with offline master
keys. Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
- o Major enhancements (performance testing):
- - Add chutney performance testing support to src/test/test-
- network.sh The following arguments change how chutney verifies the
- network: "--bytes n" sends n bytes per test connection;
- "--connections n" makes n test connections per client; and
- "--hs-multi-client 1" makes each client connect to each HS.
- Requires the corresponding chutney performance testing changes.
- Note: using --connections 7 or greater on a HS will trigger issue
- 15937. Patch by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
-
- o Minor features:
- - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
- standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
- of Tor ever.
- - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
- Country database.
-
o Minor features (client-side privacy):
- Indefinitely extend circuit lifespan by resetting dirtyness, if
IsolateSOCKSAuth is in use, the new `KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth`
option is set, and streams with SOCKS authentication are attached
to the circuit. Implements feature 15482.
+ - When logging malformed hostnames in socks5 requests, respect
+ SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
o Minor features (compilation):
- Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
- o Minor features (Hidden service directory):
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database.
+
+ o Minor features (hidden services):
- Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
drop. Fixes ticket 15963.
-
- o Minor features (hidden Service Statistics):
- Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. Closes
ticket 15254.
-
- o Minor features (hidden service):
- Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache.
@@ -74,7 +64,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
See rendcache.c for a detailed explanation of the cache's
behavior. Closes ticket 16389.
- o Minor features (performance):
+ o Minor features (ed25519 performance):
- Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519
keypair generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with
SSE2 available. Implements ticket 16535.
@@ -82,12 +72,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support when there are a
lot of signatures to verify at once. Implements ticket 16533.
- o Minor features (testing):
- - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and tor sources are side-
- by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
- by "teor".
-
- o Minor features (testing, authorities):
+ o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
- New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags. "A node
will never receive the corresponding flag unless that node is
specified in the TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir} list,
@@ -95,8 +80,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
Closes ticket 14882. Patch by "robgjansen", modified by "teor" as
VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 is now obsolete. Commit message and
changes file by "teor" & "robgjansen".
-
- o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
- Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
@@ -105,13 +88,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
particular flag. Fixed as part of 14882. Patch by "teor". Bugfix
on 0.2.6.3 (f9d57473e1ff on 10 January 2015).
- o Minor features (testing, bridges, hidden services):
- - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
- tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
- to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
- test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor), 16946
- (chutney) . Patches by "teor".
-
o Minor bug fixes (security, exit policies):
- ExitPolicyRejectPrivate rejects more private addresses by default:
* the relay's published IPv6 address (if any), and * any publicly
@@ -119,29 +95,33 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
ticket 17027. Patch by "teor". Patch on 42b8fb5a1523 (11 Nov
2007), released in 0.2.0.11-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes:
+ o Minor bugfixes (portability):
+ - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
+ standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
+ of Tor ever.
- Check correctly for windows socket errors in the workqueue
backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
- shutdown is indicated. This doesn't currently affect the behaviour
- of Tor, because Tor never indicates fatal error or shutdown except
- in its unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- - Fix an usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
- the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on
- Tor 0.2.2.28-beta.
- Fix the behavior of crypto_time_t when told to consider times
before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
+ - Fix an usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
+ the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on
+ Tor 0.2.2.28-beta.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay):
+ - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
+ shutdown is indicated. This doesn't currently affect the behaviour
+ of Tor, because Tor never indicates fatal error or shutdown except
+ in its unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
- When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
- - When logging malformed hostnames in socks5 requests, respect
- SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
- - include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
- to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
- on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
- accept6/reject6 * lines only produce IPv6 wildcard addresses,
@@ -163,7 +143,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Patch on 2eb7eafc9d78 and
a96c0affcb4c (25 Oct 2012), released in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
- o Minor bugfix (open file limit):
+ o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
- Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
limit to the current limit in case setrlimit() fails so we at
least have a usable value; Fixes bug 16274; bugfix on tor-
@@ -234,13 +214,14 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
- Wrap windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
they are broken.
-
- o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
o Documentation:
- Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
+ - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
+ to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
+ on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
o Removed code:
- The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
@@ -249,8 +230,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very confidence-
inspiring in their secure-proggramming techniques. Closes
ticket 13338.
-
- o Removed features:
- Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
@@ -259,6 +238,14 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-????? - 2015-09-1?
in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
o Testing:
+ - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
+ tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
+ to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
+ test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor), 16946
+ (chutney) . Patches by "teor".
+ - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and tor sources are side-
+ by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
+ by "teor".
- Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
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