Roger Dingledine | 25 Apr 19:03
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Tor 0.1.2.13 is released

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
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