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Start a changelog for 0.4.1.2-alpha

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Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-05
  Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the previous
  alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing improvements,
  and an improvement to the security of our authenticated sendme
  implementation.
  o Major bugfixes (bridges):
    - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list of
      bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the status of its
      directory information when bridges changed, and therefore would not
      realize that it was no longer able to build circuits. Fixes part of bug
      29875.
    - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our total of
      working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges changed, it
      would think that the old bridges were still usable, and delay fetching
      router descriptors for the new ones.  Fixes part of bug 29875; bugfix
      on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
  o Major bugfixes (Flow Control, SENDME):
    - The decrement of the stream-level package window was done in a log_debug()
      statement meaning that if the debug logs were not enabled, the decrement
      would never happen and thus the window would be out of sync with the other
      end point. Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
  o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
    - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state when
      circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias,
      measurement, or other circuit types. This should fix some instances of
      introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
  o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
    - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit
      to prevent an attacker from successfully predicting what SENDME cells
      they will need to send: at a random interval, if we have not send
      randomness already, leave some extra space at the end of a cell that
      we can fill with random bytes.  Closes ticket 26846.
  o Minor features (continuous integration):
    - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
      to avoid RNG-based coverage differences.
      Part of ticket 28878.
  o Minor features (maintenance):
    - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to
      apply all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
      codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
  o Minor features (testing):
    - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
      so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
    - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
      to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG.
      Part of ticket 28878.
    - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
      our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track changes in
      code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
  o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
    - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that want
      authentication along with configured (but unused!)
      ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
  o Minor bugfixes (controller):
    - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
      broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified.  Fixes bug 30580;
      bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
    - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
      expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix on
      0.4.1.1-alpha.
  o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
    - Fix pre-push hook to refrain from rejecting fixup and squash commits
      when pushing to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix on
      0.4.0.1-alpha.
  o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
    - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority votes
      so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix on
      0.3.5.1-alpha.
  o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
    - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
      MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
      30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
  o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
    - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
      try purging just the older entries at first.  Previously, we would
      purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
  o Minor bugfixes (portability):
    - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems that
      define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has been here
      long enough that we question whether people are running Tor on such
      systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.) Fixes bug 30561;
      bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
  o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
    - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that we
      shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users. We
      believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur on the
      shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled data. Fixes
      bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
  o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
    - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to lower our
      chances of missing any real warnings in the future. Fixes bug 30150;
      bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
  o Testing:
    - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
      integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
      Resolves issue 29702.
Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
  This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
  lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder

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  o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
    - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state when
      circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias,
      measurement, or other circuit types. This should fix some instances of
      introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.

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  o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
    - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that want
      authentication along with configured (but unused!)
      ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.

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  o Major bugfixes (bridges):
    - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our total of
      working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges changed, it
      would think that the old bridges were still usable, and delay fetching
      router descriptors for the new ones.  Fixes part of bug 29875; bugfix
      on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
    - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list of
      bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the status of its
      directory information when bridges changed, and therefore would not
      realize that it was no longer able to build circuits. Fixes part of bug
      29875.

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  o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
    - Fix pre-push hook to refrain from rejecting fixup and squash commits
      when pushing to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix on
      0.4.0.1-alpha.
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