Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha is now available

by phobos | December 10, 2008

Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and fixes
a variety of other issues.

https://sedvblmbog.tudasnich.de/download

Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
Major features:

  • New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
    it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
    disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
    a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.

Security fixes:

  • When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
    one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
    all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
    Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.

Major bugfixes:

  • Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
    at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
  • Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
    on 0.2.1.5-alpha.

Minor bugfixes:

  • Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
    bug 859.
  • Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
    certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
  • Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
    sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
  • Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
    on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
  • Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
    0.1.2.8-beta.
  • If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
    rest, and don't automatically fail.
  • Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
    compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
  • Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
    could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
    on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
  • Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
  • Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
    Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
  • Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
    improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
    leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
  • Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
    want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
  • Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
    certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
    on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  • Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
    CID 349.

Minor features:

  • Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
    running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
    anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.

Minor features (controller):

  • Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
    bug 858.
  • The original announcement can be found at http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2008/msg00129.html

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    December 11, 2008

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    any chance of putting this new tor 0.2.1.8 in tor browser bundle?Need updates for tor browser bundle