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
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.
I'm already running 0.1.0.17 on my server, seems stable. The old ebuild with a version bump worked fine.
Commited. Thanks for testing.