Loading ChangeLog +80 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-01 o Usability improvements: - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress, since none of our users know what it means to bind an address or port. Warn if you use the old name in your config. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off by default. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about. - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages instead of a generic "Servers unavailable". - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform string for servers, and note any we do not recognize. - Clean up all the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect memory leaks better. - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring their operators to pay close attention. - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by fingerprint of server. o Performance improvements: - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.) - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default. - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest() to resolve a performance bottleneck. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC). - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which translates to 20+ megs of wasted space. o Security improvements: - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows crash bug. It might also slow things down. - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address), upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config option is set by the controller, then don't close it. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha: - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious. - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject it as obsolete. - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says we do. - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.) - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1 of the controller protocol. - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing it because of hibernation. - Make --hash-password not crash on exit. Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07 o New features (major): - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they Loading Loading
ChangeLog +80 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-01 o Usability improvements: - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress, since none of our users know what it means to bind an address or port. Warn if you use the old name in your config. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off by default. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about. - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages instead of a generic "Servers unavailable". - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform string for servers, and note any we do not recognize. - Clean up all the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect memory leaks better. - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring their operators to pay close attention. - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by fingerprint of server. o Performance improvements: - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.) - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default. - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest() to resolve a performance bottleneck. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC). - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which translates to 20+ megs of wasted space. o Security improvements: - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x: - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows crash bug. It might also slow things down. - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address), upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config option is set by the controller, then don't close it. o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha: - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious. - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject it as obsolete. - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says we do. - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.) - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1 of the controller protocol. - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing it because of hibernation. - Make --hash-password not crash on exit. Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07 o New features (major): - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they Loading
