From f4c7d062f27b0adba13cd0e0da4d6ab23e74d565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:46:50 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add the dedication to Aaron. --- ChangeLog | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ReleaseNotes | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1e10d393d3..4b194633b0 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,30 @@ +Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11 + The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz + (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide + Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing + transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing + design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest + martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights, + and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us. + + Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features + a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide + better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit + creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration + risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable + transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database; + gets much closer to ipv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes + directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised + ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS + caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge + reachability testing. This new release introduces two new design + abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits + and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay + transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of + circuits for a channel. It also includes many stability, security, + and privacy fixes. + + Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 82d7184e35..485d275ced 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -3,8 +3,14 @@ This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file. -Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-11-2x - The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to [...] +Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11 + The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz + (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide + Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing + transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing + design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest + martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights, + and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us. Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide -- 2.11.4.GIT