Merge the rest of the changes into the 0.2.9.2-alpha changelog

Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-2?

  Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha XXXX BLURB HERE.

  o Major features (user interface):

    - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so

      that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,

      this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.

  o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):

    - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we

      already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;

      bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.

  o Minor features (config):

    - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.

      Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.

  o Minor features (geoip):

    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2

      Country database.

  o Minor features (user interface):

    - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to

      list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of

      ticket 19820.

  o Minor bugfixes (code style):

    - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion

      tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (compilation):

    - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for

      evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix

      on 0.2.5.4-alpha.

    - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our

      ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,

      when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.

      Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):

    - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing

      warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix on

      0.2.8.1-alpha.

      warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix

      on 0.2.8.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):

    - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback

      directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha

      and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".

  o Minor bugfixes (logging):

    - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.

      Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.

  o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):

    - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files

      and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.

  o Deprecated features:

    - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now

      deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future

      version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad

      idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options

      are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,

      UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.

    - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may

      be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:

      AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,

      AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,

      CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,

      CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,

      ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,

      UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.

    - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the

      corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options

      may someday be removed. The affected options are:

      ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,

      NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,

      and TransListenAddress.

  o Documentation:

    - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the

      VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.

  o Removed code:

    - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in

      Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.

Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08

  Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development

  o Removed code:

    - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in

      Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.

  o Minor features (config):

    - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.

      Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.

  o Minor bugfixes (logging):

    - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.

      Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.

  o Minor bugfixes (code style):

    - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion

      tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.