[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is released

[Sarah Alawami]

Thanks for this. Hopefully it will make it to homebrew for when I run my update script in a few weeks.

Happy Thursday.
> On Jun 15, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
>  Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
>  If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
>  release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
>  previous versions.
> 
> You can download the source from the usual place on the website.
> Packages should be available over the next several days. Remember
> to check the signatures!
> 
> PLEASE NOTE: This is a release candidate. We think that we solved all
> of the showstopper bugs, but crucial bugs may remain. Please only run
> this release if you're willing to test and find bugs. If no
> showstopper bugs are found, we'll be putting out 0.2.8.5 as a stable
> release.
> 
> The changelog follows.
> 
> Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
> 
>  o Major bugfixes (user interface):
>    - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
>      by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
>      Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
> 
>  o Minor features (build):
>    - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
>      branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
> 
>  o Minor features (geoip):
>    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
>      Country database.
> 
>  o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
>    - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
>      lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
> 
>  o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
>    - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
>      we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
>      "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
>      bug 19191.
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