Update details

0.9.26 contains a major upgrade to our native crypto library, a new addressbook subscription protocol with signatures, and major improvements to the Debian/Ubuntu packaging.

For crypto, we have upgraded to GMP 6.0.0, and added support for newer processors, which will speed up crypto operations considerably. Also, we are now using constant-time GMP functions to prevent side-channel attacks. For caution, the GMP changes are enabled for new installs and Debian/Ubuntu builds only; we will include them for in-net updates in the 0.9.27 release.

For Debian/Ubuntu builds, we have added dependencies on several packages, including Jetty 8 and geoip, and removed the equivalent bundled code.

There's a collection of bug fixes also, including a fix for a timer bug that caused instability and performance degradations over time.

Come sempre consigliamo ad ogni utente di aggiornare il proprio sistema a questa versione. Il modo migliore per essere anonimi ed aiutare gli altri ad esserlo è eseguire un software aggiornato.

DETTAGLI DELLA RELEASE

Modifiche

• GMP 6.0.0 and jbigi/jcpuid native libraries, enabling significant speedups on newer architectures, and constant-time crypto operations (new installs and Debian/Ubuntu builds only, will include in the updates in the next release, 0.9.27)
• Addressbook subscription protocol, enabling signed addressbook updates
• Generate signed authentication strings for subscriptions in i2ptunnel
• Enhance hosts blockfile format to allow for multiple destinations per entry
• Use system GeoIP database when available
• Remove systray4j.jar from non-Windows installers and Debian/Ubuntu packages
• Remove multiple external libraries from Debian/Ubuntu builds, and add dependencies on: geoip-database, gettext-base, libgetopt-java, libjetty8-java, libservlet3.0-java, glassfish-javaee
• Store CRLs received in the news feed, to distribute key revocations when necessary
• Enhancements to the desktopgui system tray feature, to be enabled by default in next release
• Wrapper 3.5.29 (new non-Windows installs only)

Bug fix

• Fix periodic timers not firing after a backwards OS clock shift, which caused widespread instability and gradual deterioration
• Fix wrapper on FreeBSD 10 (new installs only, see ticket #1118 for manual fix)
• Fix NPE on hostname lookup failure in SOCKS 4a
• Fix setting JAVA_HOME on Mac OS X (new installs only, see ticket #1783 for manual fix)
• Fix UTF-8 console passwords, and partial fix for usernames
• Fix router family configuration form
• Fix NTP sending random data in some fields that should be zero

Altro

• More verification of received NTP packets
• Rework resource bundle generation for 20x speedup in build time (requires gettext version 0.19)
• Aggiornamenti traduzione
• Aggiornamento dati GeoIP (solo nuove installazioni e PPA)

Full list of fixed bugs

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