[tor-dev] Upcoming Onionoo version 3.1 removes "family" field from details and stops returning code 500 when serving stale data

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 11/01/16 10:25, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> Hello Onionoo users,
> 
> the upcoming Onionoo [0] version 3.1 will contain two minor
> changes that are worth announcing in advance:
> 
> - Details documents will not contain a "family" field anymore but 
> instead two fields "alleged_family" and "effective_family" which 
> together contain the entries in the now removed "family" field. 
> Clients that wish to continue using "family" field entries will
> need to switch to using the union of the other two fields instead.
> See #18026 [1] for details.
> 
> - The Onionoo server will not return status code 500 anymore if
> its data gets more than 6 hours old but instead continue returning
> status code 200 with the somewhat stale data in the body.  Clients
> that wish to keep the current behavior will need to check the
> "Last-Modified" header themselves and see if the contained
> timestamp is more than 6 hours old.  See #16907 [2] for details.
> 
> I'm planning to deploy version 3.1 in a week from now, by January
> 19, 2016.

After realizing that 11 + 7 = 18 != 19, I just deployed version 3.1.

All the best,
Karsten


> If you need to adjust your Onionoo client to these changes, please
> do that soon.
> 
> All the best, Karsten
> 
> 
> [0] https://onionoo.torproject.org/protocol.html [1]
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18026 [2]
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16907
> 

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