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Bug 123530 - net-misc/tor: Version bump to 0.1.0.17
Summary: net-misc/tor: Version bump to 0.1.0.17
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED)
URL: http://tor.eff.org
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Reported: 2006-02-20 13:19 UTC by Christian Mandery
Modified: 2006-02-28 07:34 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Christian Mandery 2006-02-20 13:19:57 UTC
This should be stable in Portage as soon as possible because it reduces the load of Tor on the directory servers massively. There are no big changes, so bumping the old ebuild should work fine.

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Tor 0.1.0.17 fixes a crash bug for servers that enable hibernation,
lets Windows servers scale better, and tries to reduce the bandwidth
overhead from the old-style directory protocol. Both clients and servers
are encouraged to upgrade.

http://tor.eff.org/download

Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
Comment 1 Christian Mandery 2006-02-20 13:19:57 UTC
This should be stable in Portage as soon as possible because it reduces the load of Tor on the directory servers massively. There are no big changes, so bumping the old ebuild should work fine.

**

Tor 0.1.0.17 fixes a crash bug for servers that enable hibernation,
lets Windows servers scale better, and tries to reduce the bandwidth
overhead from the old-style directory protocol. Both clients and servers
are encouraged to upgrade.

http://tor.eff.org/download

Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
    - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
      sometimes they would trigger an assert.

  o Other important bugfixes:
    - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
      artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
      connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
      connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.

  o Backported features:
    - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
      and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
      small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
      without getting overloaded.
    - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
      once more. This will become important once servers start sending
      503's whenever they feel busy.
    - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
      Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
      directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
    - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
      from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
Comment 2 Bill Weiss 2006-02-26 10:11:16 UTC
I'm already running 0.1.0.17 on my server, seems stable.  The old ebuild with a version bump worked fine.
Comment 3 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-28 07:34:05 UTC
Commited. Thanks for testing.