[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.24 and 0.2.5.8-rc are out

[psilo]

On 09/23/2014 08:55 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
> connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
> the directory authorities.
>
> Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
> series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
> connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
> the directory authorities.
>
> https://www.torproject.org/dist/
>
> Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
>   o Major bugfixes:
>     - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
>       point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
>       the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
>       they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
>       the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
>       point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
>       the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
>       services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
>       that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
>       on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
>       some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
>       bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
>
>   o Directory authority changes:
>     - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
>
>   o Minor features (geoip):
>     - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
>       Country database.
>
>
> Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
>   o Major bugfixes:
>     - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
>       point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
>       the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
>       they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
>       the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
>       point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
>       the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
>       services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
>       that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
>       on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
>       some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
>       bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
>
>   o Directory authority changes:
>     - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
>
>
>
Hello,

thanks for the update. Is there a reason why
deb.torproject.org/torproject.org delivers the 0.2.5.8-rc as stable and
not 0.2.4.24?
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