Change Log
0.2.1
- v2 codebase now uses Cryptodome instead of the deprecated PyCrypto library.
- v3 codebase is now more flexible when it comes to requiring a live
consensus. This should increase the reachability of Onionbalance in scenarios
where the network is having trouble establishing a new consensus.
- v3 support for connecting to the control port through a Unix socket. Patch by Peter Tripp.
- Introduce status socket support for v3 onions. Patch by vporton.
- Sending a SIGHUP signal now reloads the v3 config. Patch by Peter Chung.
0.2.0
- Allow migration from Tor to Onionbalance by reading tor private keys directly
using the ‘key’ directive in the YAML config file. Also update
onionbalance-config to support that.
- Improve onionbalance-config for v3 onions. Simplify the output directory
(and change docs to reflect so) and the wizard suggestions.
0.1.9
- Initial support for v3 onions!
0.1.8
- Fix a bug which could cause descriptor fetching to crash and stall if an
old instance descriptor was retrieved from a HSDir. #64
- Minors fixes to documentation and addition of a tutorial.
0.1.7
- Add functionality to reconnect to the Tor control port while Onionbalance is
running. Thank you to Ceysun Sucu for the patch. #45
- Fix bug where instance descriptors were not updated correctly when an
instance address was listed under multiple master service. #49
- Improve performance by only requesting each unique instance descriptor
once per round, rather once for each time it was listed in the config
file. #51
- Fix bug where an exception was raised when the status socket location did
not exist.
- Improve the installation documentation for Debian and Fedora/EPEL
installations.
0.1.6
- Remove unicode tags from the yaml files generated by onionbalance-config.
- Fix bug resulting in invalid instance onion addresses when attempting to
remove the “.onion” TLD. #44
0.1.5
- Log error when Onionbalance does not have permission to read a private key. #34
- Fix bug loading descriptors when an address with .onion extension is listed
in the configuration file. #37
- Add support for connecting to the Tor control port over a unix domain socket. #3
0.1.4
- Use setproctitle to set a cleaner process title
- Replace the python-schedule dependency with a custom scheduler.
- Add a Unix domain socket which outputs the status of the Onionbalance
service when a client connects. By default this socket is created at
/var/run/onionbalance/control. Thank you to Federico Ceratto for the
original socket implementation.
- Add support for handling the SIGINT and SIGTERM signals. Thank you to
Federico Ceratto for this feature.
- Upgrade tests to use the stable Tor 0.2.7.x release.
- Fix bug when validating the modulus length of a provided RSA private key.
- Upload distinct service descriptors to each hidden service directory by
default. The distinct descriptors allows up to 60 introduction points or
backend instances to be reachable by external clients. Thank you to Ceysun
Sucu for describing this technique in his Masters thesis.
- Add INITIAL_DELAY option to wait longer before initial descriptor
publication. This is useful when there are many backend instance descriptors
which need to be downloaded.
- Add configuration option to allow connecting to a Tor control port on a
different host.
- Remove external image assets when documentation is generated locally
instead of on ReadTheDocs.
0.1.3
- Streamline the integration tests by using Tor and Chutney from the
upstream repositories.
- Fix bug when HSFETCH is called with a HSDir argument (3d225fd).
- Remove the ‘schedule’ package from the source code and re-add it as a
dependency. This Python package is now packaged for Debian.
- Extensively restructure the documentation to make it more comprehensible.
- Add –version argument to the command line
- Add configuration options to output log entries to a log file.
0.1.2
- Remove dependency on the schedule package to prepare for packaging
Onionbalance in Debian. The schedule code is now included directly in
onionbalance/schedule.py.
- Fix the executable path in the help messages for onionbalance and
onionbalance-config.
0.1.1
- Patch to resolve issue when saving generated torrc files from
onionbalance-config in Python 2.
