[tor-talk] Fwd: Re: Tor 0.2.4.24 and 0.2.5.8-rc are out
psilo
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Wed Sep 24 22:01:13 UTC 2014
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On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 23:51:04 psilo wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.24 and 0.2.5.8-rc are out
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 10:19:37
> From: psilo <psilo at aikq.de>
> To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
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> 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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