Hi, everybody! Usually, Roger sends these announcements out, but he's away from the internet this week, and I thought it was a good idea to get this one out soon, given the discussion in the last thread on this list. For obvious reasons, it'll be signed with my GPG key, not Roger's.
I don't do releases too often, so it's possible I've messed up building or uploading or publishing something. I hope not, though! Please let me know if there's anything I need to resolve. It would be a great help if a bunch of people could test this one out once it exists in your preferred package format: we're hoping to get 0.2.4.x into a stable status as soon as we can, and we're also planning to backport a number of fixes from this release into a new 0.2.3.x release soon if they prove to be stable. Testing helps us backport fixes with confidence, and reach stability in a timely fashion. ===== Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems present in 0.2.4.13-alpha. It also includes all of the various fixes present in 0.2.4.13-alpha; see the ChangeLog for full details there. The source is up now at: https://www.torproject.org/dist/ There should be more packages uploaded once they're ready. o Major bugfixes: - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc. This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha, where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
