[tor-commits] [tor/release-0.4.0] Light editing on changelog
nickm at torproject.org
nickm at torproject.org
Thu Apr 11 15:29:05 UTC 2019
commit 5d83c34ef9dccab311b9991abc3904ab409c5cfc
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date: Thu Apr 11 10:26:41 2019 -0400
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Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
- several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had
- affected stability.
+ several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
+ stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
- When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
@@ -11,11 +11,15 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
- - Make bandwidth authorities to ignore relays that are reported in
- the bandwidth file with the key-value "vote=0". This change allows
- to report the relays that were not measured due some failure and
- diagnose the reasons without the bandwidth being included in the
- bandwidth authorities vote. Closes ticket 29806.
+ - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
+ bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
+ report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
+ their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
+ ticket 29806.
+ - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
+ bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
+ this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
+ ticket 21377.
o Minor features (circuit padding):
- Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
@@ -26,15 +30,9 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
o Minor features (continuous integration):
- On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
- caching target/ directory to speed up builds. Resolves
+ caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
issue 29962.
- o Minor features (dircache):
- - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
- bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
- this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
- ticket 21377.
-
o Minor features (dormant mode):
- Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
@@ -58,17 +56,24 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
- issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures
+ issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
Tobias Stoeckmann.
+ - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
+ with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
+ event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
+ fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
- - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This is
- being done to prevent future gcda file merge errors which causes
- the test suite for the process subsystem to fail. The process
- subsystem was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
+ - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
+ should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
+ suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
+ was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
on 0.2.9.15.
+ - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
+ (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
+ Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
- During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
@@ -80,25 +85,14 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
CID 1444119.
- o Minor bugfixes (CI):
- - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
- (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
- Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
-
o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
- - Minor tweaks to avoid very rare test failures related to timers
- and monotime. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha
+ - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
+ monotime. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha
o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
- Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
- - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
- with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
- event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
- fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
-
o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
@@ -108,20 +102,20 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
- - Restore old behaviour when it comes to discovering the path of a
- given Pluggable Transport exe-file. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix
- on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
+ - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
+ given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
+ 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
+ space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (testing):
- Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
+ - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
+ warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
+ on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (testing, windows):
- - Fix a test failure caused by an unexpected bug warning in our test
- for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, integration tests):
+ o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
- When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
@@ -131,15 +125,14 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
o Code simplification and refactoring:
- - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
- for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
- string to directory connection with or without compression.
+ - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
+ whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
Resolves issue 28816.
- Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
o Documentation:
- - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation between *Port listeners
+ - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
by default. Resolves issue 29121.
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