Tor Releases

Tor 0.2.1.26 is released

Fri, 06/11/2010 - 21:43
Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off because it used too many resources, give this release a try. This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus. People running Tor as a relay should upgrade: https://www.torproject.org/download Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02 o Major bugfixes: - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clie
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