[tor-talk] Tor 0.3.4.4-rc is released

[Nick Mathewson]

Hi, all!

There's a new Tor release candidate!  Because it's not a stable
release yet, you should only run it if you're ready to find bugs and
report them on trac.torproject.org.

The source code is available from the usual place on
www.torproject.org; if you build Tor from source, why not give it a
try?  And if you don't build Tor from source, packages should be ready
over the coming days, with a Tor Browser alpha release likely by the
end of the month.

Here's what's new:


Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
  Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
  correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
  release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
  stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.

  o Minor features (compilation):
    - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
      recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
      ticket 26372.

  o Minor features (geoip):
    - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
      Country database. Closes ticket 26674.

  o Minor features (Rust, portability):
    - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.

  o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
    - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
      code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
      that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
      26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (control port):
    - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
      "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
    - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
      (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
      bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".

  o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
    - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
      has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
      r54 (pre-0.0.1).

  o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
    - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
      bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.

  o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
    - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
      strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
      module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
      26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
    - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
      (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
      Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
      on 0.2.5.5-alpha.