an interim changelog for 0.1.1.14-alpha

Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-xx

  o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:

    - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)

      and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.

    - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that

      caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other

      fast Tor servers. This time for sure!

    - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.

    - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even

      if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to

      not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing

      had changed.

    - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus

      downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.

    - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,

      meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"

      connections.

  o Features:

    - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME

      as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.

    - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,

      and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way

      small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,

      without getting overloaded.

    - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines

      and remove them.

    - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when

      picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.

    - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can

      be forward-compatible.

    - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;

      warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.

    - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc.  This can be

      dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it

      makes sense.

    - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and

      ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80

      and OR conns to port 443.

    - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by

      Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the

      target arch.

Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09

  o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:

    - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would