[tor-commits] [tor] 04/05: release: ChangeLog and ReleaseNotes for 0.4.6.12

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commit f76d5169822a472f40b94cfa1245e1ee2f615355
Author: David Goulet <dgoulet at torproject.org>
AuthorDate: Fri Aug 12 10:16:38 2022 -0400

    release: ChangeLog and ReleaseNotes for 0.4.6.12
    
    Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet at torproject.org>
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 ChangeLog    | 13 +++++++++++++
 ReleaseNotes | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aadc8220fb..f5e6c01f82 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
+  This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
+  database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
+  latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
+  affected.
+
+  o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
+    - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
+      (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
+      are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
+      Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
+
+
 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
   This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
   relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes
index 54a1076959..aaab3f5ac2 100644
--- a/ReleaseNotes
+++ b/ReleaseNotes
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@ This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
 
+Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
+  This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
+  database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
+  latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
+  affected.
+
+  o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
+    - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
+      (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
+      are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
+      Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
+
+
 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
   This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
   relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for

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