25 Apr 19:03
Tor 0.1.2.13 is released
Roger Dingledine <arma <at> mit.edu>
2007-04-25 17:03:42 GMT
2007-04-25 17:03:42 GMT
Tor 0.1.2.13, the first stable release of the 0.1.2.x branch, is finally ready. This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11. https://tor.eff.org/download.html Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for free speech on the Internet. Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24 o Major features, client performance: - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.) - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first, 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience. - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should(Continue reading)
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