[tor-dev] #9321 changes not included in tor-0.2.6.3-alpha changelog

Nick Mathewson nickm at torproject.org
Tue Mar 10 12:48:17 UTC 2015


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:07 AM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
> Hello Nick,
>
> I noticed that the 0.2.6.3 changelog does not contain the
> guardfraction blurb of #9321. I think this happened in
> c2312f4f5fbc37581180f53fb67edb70f3360104 where the bug9321 file was
> deleted but its contents were not added to the changelog.
>
> The text that is missing is:
>
>   o Major features:
>     - Introduce the Guardfraction feature which improves the load
>       balancing of path selection towards guard nodes. Specifically,
>       it aims to reduce the traffic gap that guard nodes experience
>       when they first get the Guard flag. This is a required step if
>       we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9 months or greater.
>       Resolves ticket 9321.
>
> Maybe we should add it now even though the release has happened.

Whoops.  Added it; thanks!


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