1 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/34260
2 Parse bridge blocking information from SQL database.
4 * FIXES https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40001
5 Remove the --reload command line switch. It doesn't actually do anything.
7 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29184
8 Add a new configuration option, BLACKLISTED_TOR_VERSIONS, which contains a
9 list of Tor versions. BridgeDB won't hand out bridges whose Tor version
10 is present in this blacklist.
12 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/19774
13 Add a favicon to BridgeDB's web UI.
15 Changes in version 0.10.1 - 2020-05-27
17 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33945
18 This patch fixes a bug that caused the email autoresponder to fail after
21 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/34154
22 Add new fields to the SQLite table BlockedBridges in preparation for taking
23 into account OONI's bridge measurement results.
25 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31528
26 BridgeDB's UI uses a bunch of obscure "chatspeak" references in its UI. One
27 example is that it responds with "Uh oh, spaghettios!" if there are
28 currently no bridges available. While funny to some, this is difficult to
29 translate and shouldn't be part of software that's used by an international
30 audience. This patch removes such references.
32 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/12802
33 Add a script that sends a bridge request over email, and then checks if it
34 received a response from BridgeDB. We use this script as part of our nagios
35 setup, so we notice when our autoresponder breaks.
37 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/17548
38 This patch removes PGP support. BridgeDB's signing key expired on
39 2015-09-11. Nobody ever complained and maintaining the bits and pieces
40 necessary to sign emails isn't worth the effort, so this patch removes that
43 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30941
44 Make our email responder more usable. This patch removes the concept of
45 "valid" email commands and returns bridges (obfs4, for now) no matter what
46 the user sends. BridgeDB still supports email commands in case the user
47 needs a vanilla or IPv6 bridge.
49 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29686
50 Rename files that contain "Bridges" to "bridgerings", to eliminate headache
51 on file systems that are case insensitive.
53 Changes in version 0.10.0 - 2020-04-01
55 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30317
56 Update our "howto" box, which explains how one adds bridges to Tor Browser.
57 In addition to updating the instructions, this patch also links to
58 instructions for Android.
60 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33631
61 So far, BridgeDB remembered only the first distribution mechanism it ever
62 learned for a given bridge. That means that if a bridge would change its
63 mind and re-configure its distribution mechanism using BridgeDistribution,
64 BridgeDB would ignore it. This patch changes this behavior, so bridges can
65 actually change their distribution mechanism.
67 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31967
68 Use a CSPRNG for selecting cached CAPTCHAs.
70 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33008
71 Add an info page, available at bridges.torproject.org/info. Relay Search
72 links to this info page to explain to bridge operators what their bridge
73 distribution mechanism means.
75 Changes in version 0.9.4 - 2020-02-19
77 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30946
78 This patch ports BridgeDB to Python 3. Python 2 is no longer supported
81 Changes in version 0.9.3 - 2020-02-18
83 * FIXES <https://bugs.torproject.org/33299>
84 This patch disables the distribution of FTE, ScrambleSuit, and obfs3.
86 Changes in version 0.9.2 - 2020-02-04
88 * FIXES <https://bugs.torproject.org/31427>
89 This patch updates the AUTHORS file, HACKING.md, contact information, the
90 Trac URL to report bugs, our instructions on BridgeDB's landing page, and it
91 fixes a small bug in descriptor generation.
93 Changes in version 0.9.1 - 2019-10-29
95 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32203
96 The metrics code used to weed out vanilla bridges, so they did not show up
97 in our metrics. This patch fixes this issue.
99 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32134
100 While implementing our language switcher (#26543), we added a new string,
101 "Language", that requires translations. This patch adds a new translation
102 request and also updates our instructions on how to request new
105 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32105
106 Mention an undocumented OS-level dependency: python3-dkim.
108 Changes in version 0.9.0 - 2019-10-16
110 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/26543
111 Implement a language switcher that allows users to override the locale that
112 BridgeDB automatically selects by inspecting the client's request headers.
114 Changes in version 0.8.3 - 2019-10-03
116 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31903
117 Update existing translations and request new translations. Thanks to all
118 volunteers who helped translate BridgeDB!
120 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31780
121 We implemented BridgeDB's metrics in #9316 but haven't specified its format
122 until now. In addition to adding a specification, this patch also makes our
123 implementation consistent with our (slightly updated) specification.
125 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29484
126 Update BridgeDB's requirements to the latest respective versions. Among
127 others, this patch set updates Twisted to 19.7.0, pyOpenSSL to 19.0.0, and
128 replaces (the abandoned) PyCrypto with PyCryptodome, which fixes security
131 Changes in version 0.8.2 - 2019-09-20
133 Updated translations for the following languages:
134 bn, da, eo, fa, it, ko, nl, pt_BR, pt_PT, sr, zh_CN.
136 Changes in version 0.8.1 - 2019-09-11
138 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/17626
139 BridgeDB gets confused when users reply to a "get help" email. The issue is
140 that BridgeDB interprets commands anywhere in the email body, even if it's
141 in quoted text. To fix this issue, we are ignoring commands whose email
142 body line starts with a '>' character, which is typically used for email
145 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/28533
146 The frontdesk is seeing plenty of empty bogus emails. This fix removes the
147 email links and instead encourages users to take a look at the Tor Browser
148 Manual and at our Support Portal.
150 Changes in version 0.8.0 - 2019-08-20
152 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/9316
153 Make BridgeDB export usage metrics every 24 hours. At the end of each
154 24-hour measurement interval, BridgeDB will append usage metrics to the file
155 METRICS_FILE, which is configured in bridgedb.conf. Our metrics keep track
156 of the number of (un)successful requests per transport type per country code
157 (or email provider) per distribution method. This way, we get to learn
158 that, say, over the last 24 hours there were 31-40 users in Iran who
159 successfully requested an obfs4 bridge over Moat.
161 * FIXES #26542 https://bugs.torproject.org/26542
162 Make BridgeDB distribute vanilla IPv6 bridges again.
164 * FIXES #22755 https://bugs.torproject.org/22755
165 Use stem instead of leekspin to create test descriptors. We now don't need
166 to depend on leekspin anymore.
168 * FIXES #31252 https://bugs.torproject.org/31252
169 Add an anti-bot mechanism that allows us to detect bots by matching HTTP
170 request headers for blacklisted patterns. For example, bots may have their
171 Accept-Language set to "Klingon". Blacklisted patterns are configured in
172 BLACKLISTED_REQUEST_HEADERS_FILE. When BridgeDB detects a bot request, we
173 can answer their request with a decoy bridge that's only handed out to bots.
174 Decoy bridges are configured in DECOY_BRIDGES_FILE.
176 Changes in version 0.7.1 - 2019-06-07
178 * FIXES #28496 https://bugs.torproject.org/28496
179 Remove Yahoo from the list of allowed email domains. Yahoo allows you to
180 create up to 500 disposable email addresses, which BridgeDB interprets as
182 https://bugs.torproject.org/28496#comment:8
183 We could address this issue in BridgeDB but at this point we seem better off
184 dropping support for Yahoo because the provider likely also fell behind in
187 Changes in version 0.7.0 - 2019-06-07
189 * FIXES #28655 https://bugs.torproject.org/28655
190 When a bridge supports an active probing-resistant transport, it should not
191 give out flavors that are vulnerable to active probing. For example, if a
192 bridge supports obfs4 and obfs3, it should only give out obfs4.
194 * FIXES #30706 https://bugs.torproject.org/30706
195 Do some simple BridgeDB housekeeping: Add missing CHANGELOG entries, add
196 Philipp's contact info to the support section, fix a broken Trac URL, and
197 turn HTTP link into HTTPS.
199 * FIXES #30157: https://bugs.torproject.org/30157
200 Update BridgeDB translations. This ticket both adds new translations and
201 updates existing ones.
203 Changes in version 0.6.9 - 2018-11-20
205 * FIXES #23894 https://bugs.torproject.org/23894
206 Really change the contact address, in the correct place this time.
208 Changes in version 0.6.8 - 2018-11-19
210 * FIXES #28528 https://bugs.torproject.org/28528
211 Change maintainer info.
213 * FIXES #23894 https://bugs.torproject.org/23894
214 Change contact email address.
216 Changes in version 0.6.7 - 2018-05-21
218 Print fingerprints in hex thank you very much.
220 Changes in version 0.6.6 - 2018-05-21
222 * FIXES #26150 https://bugs.torproject.org/26150
223 Hotfix for strange bridges missing address fields.
225 Changes in version 0.6.5 - 2018-05-04
227 * FIXES #26023 https://bugs.torproject.org/26023
228 There's few bridges whose ed25519 certificates contain the year 491869,
229 which the datetime module (called from Stem) believes "out of range". So
230 instead we'll parse the descriptors one at a time and catch the errors as we
233 * FIXES #25246 https://bugs.torproject.org/25246
234 Add script for assigning unallocated bridges to another distributor.
236 Changes in version 0.6.4 - 2018-02-13
238 * FIXES #24432 https://bugs.torproject.org/24432
239 Add config option to skip loopback addresses in X-Forwarded-For parsing.
241 Changes in version 0.6.3 - 2018-01-23
243 * FIXES #24432 https://bugs.torproject.org/24432
244 The production moat server had issues related to redirecting to resources
245 properly, which are now fixed.
247 * FIXES #24701 https://bugs.torproject.org/24701
248 Adds a special surprise for the special someone who has been automatedly
249 requesting bridges not through driving a browser, but through a script which
250 is so thoroughly stupid that it doesn't even send the URL parameters for the
251 CAPTCHA challenge and solution. Their script will now be delayed for quite
252 some time and then rickrolled. Mess with the best, die like the rest.
254 * FIXES #24704 https://bugs.torproject.org/24704
255 Bridges returned to a single request are now filtered such that there will
256 never be two bridges from the same IPv4 /16 or IPv6 /64.
258 And includes the following general changes:
260 * ADDS unittests for the legacy code in bridgedb/Bridges.py,
261 bringing the total test coverage above 90% for the first time.
263 Changes in version 0.6.2 - 2017-12-20
265 * FIXES #24636 https://bugs.torproject.org/24636
266 The moat API specification included an extra response type which could be
267 sent if there was no overlap between transports the client supported and
268 those which the server supported. This has been removed from the
269 specification, which now describes the behaviour moat has always exhibited:
270 if there is no overlap, the server responds with a CAPTCHA image response
271 which includes the list of transports it does support.
273 * FIXES #24637 https://bugs.torproject.org/24637
274 The moat server did not respond correctly with the specified JSON API error
275 type when there were no bridges available. It now responds correctly with a
276 404 error whose details describe why the request could not be fulfilled.
277 The moat server also now logs messages if there were not the configured
278 MOAT_BRIDGES_PER_RESPONSE number of bridges available.
280 Changes in version 0.6.1 - 2017-12-13
282 * ADDS a shell script, scripts/test-moat, for testing either a
283 locally-running moat server, or a remote one through a meek tunnel. Thanks
284 to David Fifield for his work on meek, assistance setting it up, and
285 providing the first version of this script.
287 * FIXES #24433 https://bugs.torproject.org/24433
288 The test-moat script wasn't sending an X-Forwarded-For header, which
289 triggered a bug in the moat server, since the CAPTCHA solution includes an
290 HMAC based on the client's IP (forwarded through all the several layers of
293 * FIXES #24443 https://bugs.torproject.org/24443
294 Due to a difference between how booleans are parsed by Python's json library
295 and normal Python booleans, the moat server was generating and returning
296 QRCodes… regardless of whether the remote client application asked for one.
299 * FIXES #24460 https://bugs.torproject.org/24460
300 There was an unhandled error when sending certain (what appears to be
301 possibly malicious? but in a very strange way) requests to BridgeDB's HTTPS
302 distributor. The robots making the requests were attempting to request
303 bridges, but were presenting a CAPTCHA solution without the correct HTML
304 form field parameters present, which isn't possible through normal usage of
305 the web interface. Whoever or whatever is doing this is now going to be
306 endlessly redirected so that they may forever spiral in their own private
307 internet hell. I reserve the right come up with a worse fate for them
308 later, should I get bored.
310 * FIXES #3015 https://bugs.torproject.org/3015
311 BridgeDB has had a partially-implemented concept of "buckets" since the age
312 of the dinosaurs: write some of the unallocated bridges to a file which
313 should (somehow) be manually distributed. In addition to be unused and
314 untested, there were several issues with the buckets, the most significant
315 of which were the inability to request pluggable transports in a bucket and
316 the fact that buckets were not persistent in any way (e.g. if i request a
317 bucket of 50 bridges for Gomez and another with 50 for Morticia, they might
318 end up with some of the same bridges, further, tomorrow they'll end up with
319 50 possibly different bridges than those they received today). All of this
322 And includes the following general changes:
324 * FIXES issues with JSON quote syntax and a mistaken JSON API
325 "type" parameter in the specification of the moat server (in the README).
326 Thanks to Mark Smith and Kathy Brade for pointing out the issues.
328 Changes in version 0.6.0 - 2017-11-15
330 * ADDS a new JSON API distributor called "moat", which is intended
331 for use for Tor Launcher to use to build an in-browser UI for retrieving
334 * CHANGES the organisation of code to add a new
335 bridgedb.distributors package as well as a bridgedb.distributors.common
336 package for code shared between multiple distributors.
338 Changes in version 0.5.0 - 2017-10-28
340 * FIXES #23957 https://bugs.torproject.org/23957
341 BridgeDB now supports bridge operators choosing how their bridge will be
342 distributed. See the "BridgeDistribution" torrc option in tor's manpage for
345 * FIXES #16650 https://bugs.torproject.org/16650
346 BridgeDB is now accessible via select remote user interfaces through a meek
349 * FIXES #22998 https://bugs.torproject.org/23033
350 * FIXES #23033 https://bugs.torproject.org/23033
351 * FIXES #23034 https://bugs.torproject.org/23034
352 Upgrades BridgeDB to newer versions of Twisted and PyOpenSSL, and fixes
353 several issues due to non-backwards compatible changes within those
356 Changes in version 0.4.0 - 2017-01-09
358 * FIXES #21162 https://bugs.torproject.org/21162
359 BridgeDB now supports arbitrarily blacklisting suspected bad bridges from
360 being distributed to clients. This is in response to a suspected sybil
361 attack by an unknown party. For more details, see:
362 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-December/000851.html
364 Changes in version 0.3.8 - 2016-09-22
366 * FIXES #20088 https://bugs.torproject.org/20088
367 BridgeDB now supports receiving descriptors from multiple Bridge
368 Authorities. See also #19690.
370 * FIXES #20087 https://bugs.torproject.org/20087
371 BridgeDB's version of Stem now supports parsing transport lines in bridge
372 extrainfo descriptors which contain IPv6 addresses contained within square
375 Changes in version 0.3.7 - 2016-08-04
377 * FIXES #19691 https://bugs.torproject.org
378 BridgeDB (as running on Tor Project infrastructure) is now invocated with a
379 redirection of stdout and stderr to the flog utility, in order to ensure
380 that file handles are properly closed and reopened when BridgeDB receives a
383 And includes the following general changes:
385 * ADDS some files which were missing from BridgeDB PyPI packages
386 to the MANIFEST.in, so that they are now included.
388 Changes in version 0.3.6 - 2016-07-28
390 * FIXES #18237 https://bugs.torproject.org/18237
391 During descriptor parsing, BridgeDB saves copies of descriptor files which
392 couldn't be parsed, for later debugging purposes. To avoid filing up the
393 runtime directory with these files, we now delete files older than 24 hours,
396 * FIXES #18949 https://bugs.torproject.org/18949
397 Since we've upgraded the host machine which runs The Tor Project's BridgeDB
398 instance to Debian Jessie, this patch updates the testing configurations and
399 continuous integration infrastructure to run tests on versions of Python
400 dependencies in Debian Jessie and Stretch.
402 Changes in version 0.3.4 - 0.3.5 - 2015-11-30
404 * FIXES #14685 https://bugs.torproject.org/14685
405 This disables distribution of obfs2 bridges. This pluggable transport has
406 known distiguishers which allow adversaries to identify client connections
407 to obfs2 bridges, which in turn allows these connections to be
408 blocked/censored. With numerous obfs3 and obfs4 bridges both readily
409 available, users should not be presented with an easily-configurable choice
410 that is known to be unsafe for the majority of users.
412 And includes the following general changes:
414 * ADDS error pages to BridgeDB's web interface, to provide
415 friendlier explanations for downtime, missing pages, and internal server
416 errors. For example: https://bridges.torproject.org/404
418 Changes in version 0.3.3 - 2015-10-25
420 * FIXES #12029 https://bugs.torproject.org/12029
421 BridgeDB now has an API for creating Bridge Distributors. See the
422 bridgedb.distribute module, or its developer documentation at
423 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb/bridgedb.distribute.html.
425 * FIXES PART OF #12506 https://bugs.torproject.org/12506
426 BridgeDB's two Distributors (HTTPS and Email) are now entirely modularised
427 and self-contained within separate subdirectories in the source code. This
428 is the first step to redesigning these Distributors into their own separate
429 processes, which will allow the Distributors to remain functional while
430 BridgeDB is reparsing bridge descriptors.
432 * FIXES #15968 https://bugs.torproject.org/15968
433 BridgeDB now sends a Content-Security-Policy header which explicitly allows
434 Javascript, images, CSS, and fonts, from https://bridges.torproject.org.
435 All other types of content are forbidden, including:
436 - embedding https://bridges.torproject.org within
437 <iframe>, <embed>, or <object>, and attempting to source
438 additional resources into its embedded context
439 - inline Javascript, including Javascript within SVG files
441 - externally hosted fonts
442 - inline SVG, e.g. via the HTML5 <svg> tag
443 - any and all connections made via Javascript XMLHttpRequests,
444 WebSockets, sendBeacon(), and Web Workers
447 BridgeDB's Content-Security-Policy does not yet make use of certain newer,
448 lesser supported, Content-Security-Policy v2.0 directives, such as
449 "reflected-xss" and "frame-ancestors", but may someday.
451 * FIXES #16273 https://bugs.torproject.org/16273
452 Several links to Tor Project gitweb URLs within the developer documentation
453 were outdated in that they still used the old gitweb URL format. These are
454 now updated. Thanks to David Fifield for the bug report and patches.
456 * FIXES #16330 https://bugs.torproject.org/16330
457 BridgeDB can now handle bridge-server-descriptors with extra-info-digest
458 fields which have two values, as well as both bridge-server-descriptors and
459 bridge-extrainfo descriptors which contain Ed25519 key material and
460 signatures. See Tor proposals #220 and #228 for more information on the
461 changes to these descriptors. Note that BridgeDB can now parse this
462 information, but does not yet make use of any Ed25519 cryptographic material
463 within bridge descriptors.
464 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/220-ecc-id-keys.txt
465 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/228-cross-certification-onionkeys.txt
466 Thanks to Atagar for patching Stem.
468 * FIXES #16616 https://bugs.torproject.org/16616
469 The HSDir flag can now be included within bridge-networkstatus documents.
470 BridgeDB now has unittests which guarantee that its parsers safely ignore
471 this flag, as well as any flags unknown to BridgeDB which may appear in the
472 future. Thanks to Roger Dingledine for alerting me about the change.
474 * FIXES #16649 https://bugs.torproject.org/16649
475 Mobile users, and other users with small screen pixel ratios, will find that
476 the UI of BridgeDB's HTTPS Distributor has greatly increased in usability
479 And includes the following general changes:
481 * FIXES an error when requesting the non-HTML version of the
482 bridges page (e.g. https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?format=plain)
484 * REMOVES the `bridgedb test` commandline option.
485 BridgeDB's tests can be run via `python setup.py test` or `make test` (or
486 `make coverage` for generating HTML test coverage statistics).
488 * CHANGES the HTTPS Distributor to HTML-encode Bridge Lines.
489 Previously, a malicious Pluggable Transport Bridge could include in its PT
490 arguments something like "evil=<script>[…]</script>" and if such a Bridge
491 were to be distributed to a user, that user's web browser would execute the
492 script (if Javacript was enabled). Other characters, including non-ASCII,
493 control characters, double quotes, and backslashes, are also sanitised from
494 Bridge Lines. Thanks to Robert Ransom for the patches.
496 * CHANGES BridgeDB's module/package version numbers to be compliant with
499 * CHANGES the layout of BridgeDB's source code directories.
500 Rather than storing BridgeDB's source in "lib/bridgedb/", it is now kept in
501 "bridgedb/". Similarly, the directory containing BridgeDB's tests has been
502 moved from "lib/bridgedb/test/" to "test/", which means that the tests are
503 no longer installed when running `python setup.py install` or `make
506 * ADDS several improvements to the developer documentation at
507 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb.
509 * UPDATE English (en_US) translations.
511 * UPDATE English (en) translations.
513 * ADD Serbian (sr) translations.
514 Thanks to obj.petit.a, Ivan Radeljic, and Milenko Doder.
516 * UPDATE Arabic (ar) translations.
517 Thanks to A. Hassan, debo debo, KACIMI LAMINE, and Nudroid A.
519 * UPDATE Catalan (ca) translations.
522 * UPDATE Czech (cs) translations.
523 Thanks to Tomas Palik and Vlastimil Burián.
525 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
526 Thanks to Mogelbjerg.
528 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
529 Thanks to jschfr, Junge Limba, and Toralf Förster.
531 * UPDATE English (en_GB) translations.
532 Thanks to Andi Chandler.
534 * UPDATE Farsi (fa) translations.
535 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
537 * UPDATE Finish (fi) translations.
538 Thanks to Riku Viitanen.
540 * UPDATE French (fr) translations.
541 Thanks to elouann, Trans-fr, and Towinet.
543 * UPDATE French (fr_CA) translations.
546 * UPDATE Croatian (hr_HR) translations.
547 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
549 * UPDATE Hungarian (hu) translations.
550 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
552 * UPDATE Indonesian (id) translations.
553 Thanks to Anthony Santana, Astryd Viandila Dahlan, cholif yulian,
554 constantius damar wicaksono, Dwi Cahyono, L1Nus, km242saya, and Zamani
557 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
560 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
561 Thanks to ABE Tsunehiko.
563 * UPDATE Latvian (lv) translations.
564 Thanks to Ojārs Balcers.
566 * UPDATE Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translations.
567 Thanks to Erik Matson and Kristian Andre Henriksen.
569 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
572 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
573 Thanks to Karol Obartuch.
575 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt) translations.
576 Thanks to Bruno D. Rodrigues and MMSRS.
578 * UPDATE Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
581 * UPDATE Romanian (ro) translations.
582 Thanks to Ana, axel_89, and Di N.
584 * UPDATE Russian (ru) translations.
587 * UPDATE Slovak (sk_SK) translations.
590 * UPDATE Albanian (sq) translations.
591 Thanks to some awesome unknown anonymous person who didn't add their name
592 to the list of translators.
594 * UPDATE Swedish (sv) translations.
595 Thanks to Peter Michanek.
597 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
598 Thanks to Bullgeschichte and Fomas.
600 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
603 * UPDATE Chinese Mandarin (zh_CN) translations.
606 * UPDATE Taiwanese Mandarin (zh_TW) translations.
609 Changes in version 0.3.2 - 2015-05-01
611 * FIXES a problem with the calculation of Levenshtein distances
612 between blacklisted email addresses and those on incoming email. This fixes
613 a problem with the fuzzy matching implemented in #9385:
614 https://bugs.torproject.org/9385.
616 * FIXES #1839 https://bugs.torproject.org/1839
617 BridgeDB's distributors now rotate their hashrings at configurable scheduled
620 * FIXES #4771 https://bugs.torproject.org/4771
621 BridgeDB now records which of the HTTPS Distributor's sub-hashrings are used
622 for clients coming from Tor Exit nodes and other known proxies.
624 * FIXES #12504 https://bugs.torproject.org/12504
625 Which Pluggable Transports BridgeDB distributes is now easily configurable
626 via the bridgedb.conf configuration file.
628 * FIXES #13202 https://bugs.torproject.org/13202
629 Old bridges running Tor-0.2.4.x with Pluggable Transports like scramblesuit
630 and obfs4proxy have a bug which causes them to not include the PT arguments
631 in the `transport` line they submit to the BridgeAuthority in their
632 extrainfo descriptors. This causes BridgeDB to have broken bridge lines for
633 these bridges. For example, scramblesuit requires a `password=` in the
634 `ClientTransportPlugin` for clients to connect to it. If BridgeDB receives
635 a line in that bridge's extrainfo which says `transport scramblesuit
636 1.2.3.4:1234` (without a password), then when BridgeDB gives clients a
637 bridge line for that bridge, it'll look like "Bridge scramblesuit
638 1.2.3.4:1234" - meaning that it won't work. This fixes the issue by
639 excluding broken transports from being distributed to clients.
641 * FIXES #15517 https://bugs.torproject.org/15517
642 For all clients who are coming from IPv6 addresses and are not using Tor,
643 who go to https://bridges.torproject.org, BridgeDB now groups these clients
644 together by /32. This "grouping" causes all IPv6 clients within the same
645 IPv6 /32 to get the same bridges. Previously, BridgeDB grouped IPv6 clients
646 by /64 (which is ridiculously small, considering standard IPv6 allocation
649 For all clients who are coming from IPv4 addresses and are not using Tor,
650 BridgeDB now groups these clients together by /16. Previously, BridgeDB
651 grouped IPv4 clients by /24. (This latter change was technically made as
654 * FIXES #15464 https://bugs.torproject.org/15464
655 The setup procedure for creating a BridgeDB Continuous Integration build
656 machine is now simplified and generalised to include build environments like
657 Jenkins, not just TravisCI.
659 * FIXES #15866 https://bugs.torproject.org/15866
660 BridgeDB now ignores nearly all the information in the networkstatus-bridges
661 file created by the BridgeAuthority.
663 * ADDS benchmark tests to BridgeDB's test suite, and some of
664 BridgeDB's algorithms have been revised to improve their speed.
666 Changes in version 0.3.1 - 2015-03-24
668 * FIXES #14065 https://bugs.torproject.org/14065
669 When requesting vanilla IPv6 bridges from https://bridges.torproject.org,
670 BridgeDB would respond with IPv4 addresses. It now correctly responds with
673 And includes the following general changes:
675 * FIXES an issue with the filtering of hashrings while answering
676 requests for Pluggable Transports. (commit 3ef37df6)
678 * FIXES the return value from the GnuPG interface initialization
679 function (bridgedb.crypto.initializeGnuPG) when creating a test signature
682 * CHANGES the way BridgeDB handles the case where it parses to
683 duplicate extrainfo descriptors (for the same Bridge) which also have
684 identical timestamps. Before, we assumed this wasn't possible. It turns
685 out that it not only is possible, but that usually every batch of
686 descriptors has at least one Bridge with such a set of perfectly identical
687 extrainfo descriptors. Even stranger, it appears that only Bridges started
688 for the first time quite recently (within the last eight hours) display this
689 behaviour. BridgeDB now logs these errors, rather than leaving them
690 unhandled. (commit a27d7905)
692 * ADDS an environment variable check to setup.py which controls
693 whether the setup.py script tries to install the dependencies listed in the
694 requirements.txt file with easy_install. If the environment variable
695 BRIDGEDB_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES=0, then setup.py will not use easy_install.
696 When BridgeDB is installed via `make install` the default is to not use
697 easy_install; however, when installed via `python setup.py install`, the
698 default is to use easy_install to check for, find, and install dependencies.
699 (NOTE: the latter is *not* recommended.) (commit d035fe64)
701 Changes in version 0.3.0 - 2015-03-21
703 * FIXES #2895 https://bugs.torproject.org/2895
704 BridgeDB no longer assumes that any extrainfo descriptor files are in
707 * FIXES #4405 https://bugs.torproject.org/4405
708 BridgeDB now has a built-in timer mechanism for scheduling cronjobesque
709 events. This is now used to routinely download and parse the list of Tor
710 exit relays in a completely asynchronous manner.
712 * FIXES #9380 https://bugs.torproject.org/9380
713 BridgeDB now uses Stem (https://stem.torproject.org) for its parsers, and
714 has better classes for parsing and storing information on Bridges and their
715 Pluggable Transports. Additionally, all of BridgeDB's parses and the new
716 Bridge/PluggableTransport classes all have 100% unittest and integration
719 * FIXES #10385 https://bugs.torproject.org/10385
720 BridgeDB now uses python-gnupg (https://pypi.python.org/gnupg) instead of
721 GPGME (libgpgme11 and pygpgme). Previously, when using GPGME, BridgeDB was
722 unable to sign emails with a subkey whose master private key was not
723 present, causing all signing to be broken. Additionally, GPGME tried to
724 access and modify the BridgeDB users $HOME directory, and GPGME would also
725 try to create signatures with encryption-only subkeys, and try to
726 encrypt/decrypt with signing-only subkeys. All of these issues are no more,
727 because the writhing tangled mass of bugs known ad GPGME is gone for good.
729 * FIXES #11216 https://bugs.torproject.org/11216
730 BridgeDB no longer parses any extrainfo descriptor files cumulatively.
731 Before, a Bridge which had a descriptor in cached-extrainfo and in
732 cached-extrainfo.new and supported obfs3, obfs4, and scramblesuit transports
733 would be parsed twice, resulting in the Bridge having six transports. This
734 is no longer the case.
736 * HOTFIXES an issue with non-deterministic unittest failures in
737 the Mechanize-based integrations tests in lib/bridgedb/test/test_https.py.
738 hotfix/0.2.4-mechanize-tags
740 * FIXES part of #12507 https://bugs.torproject.org/12507
741 BridgeDB now has semi-automated developer documentation builds at
742 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb/.
744 * FIXES #12805 https://bugs.torproject.org/12805
745 BridgeDB is now packaged on PyPI, in the hopes that someday other
746 organisations will be able to run their own BridgeDBs.
748 * FIXES #12843 https://bugs.torproject.org/12843
749 BridgeDB will no longer distribute bridges which it believes are located in
752 * FIXES #12872 https://bugs.torproject.org/12872
753 BridgeDB now has geolocational information for Bridges, telling it which
754 country each Bridge's primary ORAddress is within, as well as geolocational
755 information for each PluggableTransport address. Thanks to Alden S. Page
758 * FIXES #15155 https://bugs.torproject.org/15155
759 The instructions for obtaining a copy of Tor Browser should now be more
760 clear. Thanks to Jens Kubieziel, Nick Mathewson, and Peter Palfrader.
762 And includes the following general changes:
763 * CHANGES BridgeDB's continuous integration infrastructure to run
765 - Twisted-13.2.0 (Debian Wheezy version),
766 - Twisted-14.0.2 (Debian Jessie version), and
767 - Twisted-15.0.0 (latest and greatest)
768 As well as testing both:
769 - pyOpenSSL-0.13.1 (Debian Wheezy version), and
770 - pyOpenSSL-0.14 (Debian Jessie version).
771 See https://travis-ci.org/isislovecruft/bridgedb/builds
773 * FIXES an issue with the $PYTHON_EGG_CACHE directory being group
774 writable on Travis-CI build machines.
776 * UPDATE English (en_US) translations.
778 * UPDATE English (en) translations.
780 * ADD Tamil (ta) translations.
783 * ADD Albanian (sq) translations.
784 Thanks to Bujar Tafili.
786 * ADD Slovenian (sl_SI) translations.
787 Thanks to Dušan, marko, and Nwolfy.
789 * ADD Slovak (sk_SK) translations.
792 * ADD Esperanto (eo) translations.
793 Thanks to identity, Rico Chan, and trio.
795 * ADD Bulgarian (bg) translations.
798 * ADD Azerbaijani (az) translations.
801 * UPDATE Chinese (zh_TW) translations.
804 * UPDATE Chinese (zh_CN) translations.
805 Thanks to Wu Ming Shi and YF.
807 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
808 Thanks to Eugene ghostishev, LinuxChata, Oleksii Golub, and
811 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
812 Thanks to eromytsatiffird, Emir Sarı, Idil Yuksel, ozkansib,
813 Volkan Gezer, and zeki.
815 * UPDATE Swedish (sv) translations.
816 Thanks to Anders Jensen-Urstad, Emil Johansson, GabSeb, ph AA, phst,
819 * UPDATE Slovak (sk) translations.
820 Thanks to elo, FooBar, Michal Slovák, Roman 'Kaktuxista' Benji, and
823 * UPDATE Russian (ru) translations.
824 Thanks to Andrey Yoker Ogurchikov, Evgrafov Denis, foo,
825 joshuaridney, Oleg, Sergey Briskin, Valid Olov, and Vitaliy Grishenko.
827 * UPDATE Romanian (ro) translations.
828 Thanks to Isus Satanescu, laura berindei, and clopotel.
830 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
831 Thanks to João Paulo S.S.
833 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt) translations.
834 Thanks to alfalb.as, André Monteiro, kagazz, Manuela Silva,
835 alfalb_mansil, Andrew_Melim, Pedro Albuquerque, Sérgio Marques, and
838 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
839 Thanks to Aron, JerBen, bogdrozd, Dawid, Rikson, Krzysztof Łojowski,
842 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
843 Thanks to Adriaan Callaerts, Ann Boen, Cleveridge, Dick,
844 Johann Behrens, Shondoit Walker, Marco Brohet, guryman, Marco
845 Brohet, Tom Becht, Tonko Mulder, math1985, and BBLN.
847 * UPDATE Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translations.
848 Thanks to Allan Nordhøy, Harald, lateralus, Per Thorsheim,
851 * UPDATE Latvian (lv) translations.
852 Thanks to Ojārs Balcers and ThePirateDuck.
854 * UPDATE Khmer (km) translations.
855 Thanks to Seng Sutha, Sokhem Khoem, and Sok Sophea.
857 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
858 Thanks to brt, ABE Tsunehiko, タカハシ, Masaki Saito, and
861 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
862 Thanks to fetidyoo, Francesca Ciceri, HostFat, ironbishop, and
865 * UPDATE Hungarian (hu) translations.
866 Thanks to Blackywantscookies, Lajos Pasztor, Cerbo, and vargaviktor.
868 * UPDATE Croatian (hr) translations.
869 Thanks to Ana B, Armando Vega, skiddiep, Tomislav Siroglavić,
872 * UPDATE French (fr_CA) translations.
873 Thanks to Lunar, mehditaileb, Onizuka, and yahoe.001.
875 * UPDATE French (fr) translations.
876 Thanks to apaddlingduck, fayçal fatihi, Boubou, Cryptie,
877 Frisson Reynald, hpatte, Lucas Leroy, Lunar, Onizuka, and mehditaileb.
879 * UPDATE Finnish (fi) translations.
880 Thanks to Jorma Karvonen, Spacha, Ossi Kallunki, Sami Kuusisto,
881 viljaminojonen, and Finland355.
883 * UPDATE Farsi (fa) translations.
884 Thanks to arashaalaei, signal89, ardeshir, Gilberto, johnholzer,
885 Mohammad Hossein, perspolis, and Setareh.
887 * UPDATE Spanish (es) translations.
888 Thanks to dark_yoshi, toypurina, BL, NinjaTuna, Noel Torres,
889 Paola Falcon, strel, and Jonis.
891 * UPDATE English (en_GB) translations.
892 Thanks to Andi Chandler, Richard Shaylor, and ronnietse.
894 * UPDATE Greek (el) translations.
895 Thanks to Adrian Pappas, andromeas, oahanx, isv31, and kotkotkot.
897 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
898 Thanks to trantor, Ettore Atalan, unknwon_anonymous, konstibae,
899 Locke, Tobias Bannert, qbi, Sebastian, and debakel.
901 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
902 Thanks to Christian Villum, David Nielsen, OliverMller, torebjornson,
903 Thomas Pryds, and Tore Bjørnson.
905 * UPDATE Czech (cs) translations.
906 Thanks to A5h8d0wf0x, Adam Slovacek, Elisa, Sanky, Jiří Vírava,
907 mxsedlacek, and Radek Bensch.
909 * UPDATE Catalan (ca) translations.
910 Thanks to Albert, Assumpta Anglada, Eloi García i Fargas, Humbert,
913 * UPDATE Arabic (ar) translations.
914 Thanks to Ash and Valetudinarian.
916 Changes in version 0.2.4 - 2015-02-03
918 * HOTFIXES a UnicodeDecodeError resulting from patches for #12627.
919 https://bugs.torproject.org/12627
921 * FIXES #9874 https://bugs.torproject.org/9874
922 BridgeDB now has integration tests for all bridge distributors. Thanks to
923 trygve for the patches.
925 * FIXES #12871 https://bugs.torproject.org/12871
926 Bridge Buckets now work, even if the code for calculating Bridge stability
927 is disabled. Thanks to Matt Finkel for the patches.
929 * FIXES part of #12029 https://bugs.torproject.org/12029
930 Major sections of the bridgedb.Bridges module, which holds BridgeDB's main
931 data structures for storing and parsing Bridges, have been refactored in
932 preparation for upcoming changes to use Stem's parsers (see #9380
933 https://bugs.torproject.org/9380)
935 * FIXES #12932 https://bugs.torproject.org/12932
936 Arguments for Pluggable Transports in the bridge lines which BridgeDB
937 distributes to users are now properly space-separated. This issue was
938 affecting the deployment of the obfs4 PT (see #12130
939 https://bugs.torproject.org/12130).
941 * FIXES #13123 https://bugs.torproject.org/13123
942 Previously, there were two additional whitespace characters at the beginning
943 of bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor, which would be
944 annoyingly copy+pasted into TorLauncher and torrcs, etc. These are now
947 * FIXES #12664 https://bugs.torproject.org/12664
948 Previously, for the bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor,
949 the newlines were not properly pasted when a user would copy+paste the
950 lines. This is now fixed. Additionally, there is now a "Select All" button
951 (JS must be enabled) to select all text for the bridge lines, to attempt to
952 reduce user copy+paste errors. If the display area which contains the
953 bridge lines is clicked, and JS is enabled, it has the same effect as
954 clicking the "Select All" button.
956 * FIXES #14064 https://bugs.torproject.org/14064
957 The bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor are now
958 displayed with a horizontal scrollbar if they are too long to fit into the
961 * FIXES #11345 https://bugs.torproject.org/11345
962 BridgeDB now supports giving users QRCodes for their bridge lines, to
963 facilitate getting bridges into Tails and onto mobile devices.
965 * FIXES #12130 https://bugs.torproject.org/12130
966 BridgeDB's distributors now have options to distribute obfs4 bridges.
968 And includes the following general changes:
969 * CHANGES the integration tests based on Mechanize to only run on
970 CI servers, not locally on developers laptops, since it requires the running
971 BridgeDB test/staging instance to offer a plaintext HTTP interface. See
973 https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git/commit/?id=24acf6a72931c602631c97dbbeb582c22cf446cb
975 * ADDS better installation instructions in README.rst for
976 developers who wish to test their changes to BridgeDB. Thanks to Alden Page
979 Changes in version 0.2.3 - 2014-07-26
981 * FIXES #5463 https://bugs.torproject.org/5463
982 BridgeDB can now OpenPGP sign outgoing emails.
984 * FIXES #9385 https://bugs.torproject.org/9385
985 BridgeDB now has the ability to blacklist email addresses, and configurable
986 options to fuzzy match and block addresses which are similar enough to those
989 * FIXES #11139 https://bugs.torproject.org/11139
990 You can now email BridgeDB from Riseup email addresses!
992 * FIXES #12147 https://bugs.torproject.org/12147
993 An additional issue with BridgeDB's code for scheduling actions was
994 identified by Robert Ransom, who also provided a unittest to demonstrate the
995 issue and test for future regressions. The issue pointed out has also been
998 * FIXES #12635 https://bugs.torproject.org/12635
999 The links in BridgeDB's email and HTTPS distributor UIs have been changed
1001 https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en#downloads-beta
1003 https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.
1005 * FIXES #12650 https://bugs.torproject.org/12650
1006 BridgeDB's translation files sometimes take a little while to update because
1007 real live human volunteers need to go to Transifex.org and convert the
1008 strings between languages. Then I need to import the strings, check all of
1009 them by hand to make sure there's no funny business which could harm users
1010 in them, and then commit all the diffs. Sadly, there isn't much more we can
1011 do to speed up this process, so sometimes BridgeDB's UI falls back to
1012 English when it doesn't have new enough translations files. Sorry!
1014 And includes the following general changes:
1016 * UPDATE translation: Chinese - Taiwan (zh_TW)
1018 * UPDATE translation: Chinese - China (zh_CN)
1019 THANKS TO Meng3, leungsookfan, and Wu Ming Shi.
1020 * UPDATE translation: Turkish (tr)
1021 THANKS TO eromytsatiffird, Emre, Idil Yuksel, ozkansib,
1022 Volkan Gezer, and zeki.
1023 * UPDATE translation: Swedish (sv)
1024 THANKS TO Anders Jensen-Urstad, GabSeb, and phst.
1025 * UPDATE translation: Russian (ru)
1026 THANKS TO Evgrafov Denis, Eugene, foo, Sergey Briskin,
1027 Valid Olov, and Vitaliy Grishenko.
1028 * UPDATE translation: Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
1029 THANKS TO Isabel Ferreira, and Rodrigo Emmanuel Santana
1031 * UPDATE translation: Portuguese (pt)
1032 THANKS TO André Monteiro, kagazz, Manuela Silva,
1033 Andrew_Melim, and Sérgio Marques.
1034 * UPDATE translation: Polish (pl)
1035 THANKS TO Aron, Dawid, Krzysztof Łojowski, and seb.
1036 * UPDATE translation: Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
1037 THANKS TO Allan Nordhøy, Harald, and thor574.
1038 * UPDATE translation: Malay (ms_MY)
1040 * UPDATE translation: Latvian (lv)
1041 THANKS TO Ojārs Balcers.
1042 * UPDATE translation: Khmer (km)
1043 THANKS TO Seng Sutha, Sokhem Khoem, and Sok Sophea.
1044 * UPDATE translation: Hungarian (hu)
1045 THANKS TO Blackywantscookies, and Cerbo.
1046 * UPDATE translation: Croatian (hr_HR)
1048 * UPDATE translation: Hebrew (he)
1050 * UPDATE translation: Canadian French (fr_CA)
1051 THANKS TO yahoe.001.
1052 * UPDATE translation: French (fr)
1053 THANKS TO fayçal fatihi, Frisson Reynald, hpatte, Lunar,
1054 Onizuka, themen, Towinet, and Yannick Heintz.
1055 * UPDATE translation: Finish (fi)
1056 THANKS TO viljaminojonen, and Finland355.
1057 * UPDATE translation: Farsi (fa)
1058 THANKS TO Mohammad Hossein.
1059 * UPDATE translation: Spanish - Chile (es_CL)
1060 THANKS TO Pablo Lezaeta.
1061 * UPDATE translation: Spanish (es)
1062 THANKS TO Paola Falcon.
1063 * UPDATE translation: British English (en_GB)
1064 THANKS TO richardshaylor.
1065 * UPDATE translation: Greek (el)
1066 THANKS TO Adrian Pappas, andromeas, isv31, and Wasilis
1068 * UPDATE translation: German (de)
1069 THANKS TO Tobias Bannert.
1070 * UPDATE translation: Danish (da)
1071 THANKS TO autofunk78.
1072 * UPDATE translation: Arabic (ar)
1073 THANKS TO Ahmad Gharbeia, Mohamed El-Feky, AnonymousLady,
1074 0xidz, Sherief Alaa , and محيي الدين.
1076 Changes in version 0.2.2 - 2014-06-06
1078 * FIXES #9874 https://bugs.torproject.org/9874
1079 BridgeDB's email and HTTPS distributors were written in a manner that makes
1080 them largely impossible to write unittests for. Since the recent rewrite of
1081 BridgeDB's email distributor server backends for version 0.2.1, BridgeDB
1082 email distributor is now testable and has near 100% code coverage, see
1083 https://coveralls.io/r/isislovecruft/bridgedb
1085 * FIXES #12086 https://bugs.torproject.org/12086
1086 BridgeDB was found to accept incoming emails sent to any email address whose
1087 local part included the word bridges, e.g. emails sent to
1088 'givemebridges@serious.ly' would be responded to as if they were destined
1089 for BridgeDB's real email address.
1090 - BridgeDB now strictly checks that the local part of the email address
1091 that an incoming email was sent to (after removing plus aliases, i.e.
1092 '+es_ES', '+fa', etc.) exactly matches BridgeDB configured email address
1094 - BridgeDB now checks that the domain name portion of the email address
1095 that an incoming email was sent to either matches the domain name
1096 portion of BridgeDB's configured email address, or is a subdomain of
1099 * FIXES #12089 https://bugs.torproject.org/12089
1100 There has been a bug for quite some time now where BridgeDB could be used to
1101 email arbitrary email addresses (as long as these addresses were ones which
1102 BridgeDB allows, i.e. Gmail or Yahoo email addresses). This was due to
1103 BridgeDB not checking that the email address used in the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:'
1104 command on an incoming message matched the one used in that email's 'From:'
1106 - BridgeDB now checks that the email addresses in the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:'
1107 and the 'From:' header on that incoming email match, in addition to the
1108 previous checks that the email address' domain is in the set of allowed
1111 * FIXES #12090 https://bugs.torproject.org/12090
1112 BridgeDB has been replying with an empty email. I don't actually know for
1113 sure if this one is fixed. Before deploying version 0.2.1, the continuous
1114 integration tests showed email responses being correctly generated, and I
1115 was also able to receive correctly formed email responses from BridgeDB on a
1116 local testing instance on my laptop. It appears that this bug occurs only on
1117 the deployment server at ponticum.torproject.org, possibly due to the
1118 outdated Python version in Debian Wheezy. I have not been able to reproduce
1119 this bug on any other machine.
1121 * FIXES #12091 https://bugs.torproject.org/12091
1122 BridgeDB wasn't properly ignoring emails whose DKIM signature verification
1123 header read "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: dunno".
1124 - Bridgedb now marks incoming emails which have a
1125 "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: dunno" header as invalid and ignores
1128 * FIXES #12147 https://bugs.torproject.org/12147
1129 If a user refreshed https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges after
1130 successfully solving a CAPTCHA, BridgeDB would reply with a new set of
1131 bridges for each page refresh. This was due to the use of `getInterval()` in
1132 `IPBasedDistributor.getBridgesForIP()`. The correct function to use is
1133 `getIntervalStart()`. This had been noted in a "XXX FIXME" comment above
1134 the call for quite some time, however, when the `bridgedb.schedule`
1135 (previously called `bridgedb.Time`) module was revised to support CAPTCHA
1136 timeouts (#11215), the call to `getInterval()` was mistakenly not replaced
1137 with the correct function.
1138 - BridgeDB CAPTCHAs must be solved within 10 minutes.
1139 - Hashring rotation for bridges in BridgeDB HTTPS distributor occurs every
1140 3 hours. Refreshing the page with bridges on it will return these same
1141 bridges for that time period, and afterwards redirect back to the
1142 CAPTCHA page. THANKS TO francisco on IRC and arma for reporting the
1145 * FIXES #12212 https://bugs.torproject.org/12122
1146 TRANSLATOR comments are now properly extracted into the gettext PO template
1149 And include the following general changes:
1150 * FIXES an issue where, when verifying GnuPG signatures made by
1151 BridgeDB's email distributor, GnuPG would error, saying, "invalid armor
1154 * ADD Korean (ko) translations.
1155 Thanks to ilbe123, cwt96, Dr.what, and pCsOrI.
1157 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
1158 Thanks to LinuxChata and ghostishev.
1160 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
1161 Thanks to volkangezer.
1163 * UPDATE Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
1164 Thanks to Communia, Humberto Sartini, Anastasia01, and recognitium.
1166 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
1167 Thanks to hoek, yodaa, maxxx, and sebx.
1169 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
1170 Thanks to Ann Boen, erwindelaat, guryman, and BBLN.
1171 You guys are extra awesome for translating the phrase:
1172 "Uh oh, spaghettios!"
1175 which, in English, literally means:
1176 "Unfortunately, peanut butter!"
1177 You guys totally just made my day. Thanks.
1179 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
1180 Thanks to plazmism, who is extra awesome for translating the phrase:
1181 "Uh oh, spaghettios!"
1184 which apparently the literal English translation is:
1185 "Husband spaghetti!"
1187 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
1190 * UPDATE Canadian French (fr_CA) translations.
1193 * UPDATE Spanish (es) translations.
1194 Thanks to dark_yoshi and strel.
1196 * UPDATE Greek (el) translations.
1197 Thanks to pappasadrian.
1199 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
1200 Thanks to trantor and unknwon_anonymous.
1202 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
1203 Thanks to autofunk78 and DavidNielsen.
1205 Changes in version 0.2.1 - 2014-05-16
1206 * FIXES #5463 https://bugs.torproject.org/5463
1207 Emails sent from BridgeDB's email distributor should now be signed.
1208 - BridgeDB's emails will be signed with its online GnuPG keypair. The
1209 public key has the following fingerprint:
1210 DF81 1109 E17C 8BF1 34B5 EEB6 8DC4 3A28 4882 1E32
1211 The online keypair rotates (a new one is placed on the server once per
1212 year), and it will ALWAYS be signed with BridgeDB's offline keypair.
1213 - The online keypair above contains two subkeys. The signing subkey has
1215 9FE3 9D1A 7438 9223 3B3F 66F2 21B5 54E9 5938 F4D0
1216 - BridgeDB's offline keypair has the following fingerprint:
1217 7B78 4370 15E6 3DF4 7BB1 270A CBD9 7AA2 4E8E 472E
1218 All of BridgeDB's keys may be found on the public keyservers, as well as at
1219 https://bridges.torproject.org/keys
1221 * FIXES #7547 https://bugs.torproject.org/7547
1222 BridgeDB's email distributor will now send you a message explaining how to
1223 use it, including valid commands and the list of Pluggable Transport TYPES
1224 currently supported. To receive help with the email distributor, simply send
1225 an email to mailto:bridges@torproject.org.
1226 - Any emails which do not contain a valid command will receive the help
1228 - Otherwise, to specifically request the help text, just say "get help" in
1229 the body of your email.
1231 * FIXES #7550 https://bugs.torproject.org/7550
1232 BridgeDB's email responder is now interactive, as described in the above
1233 entry for ticket #7547.
1235 * FIXES #8241 https://bugs.torproject.org/8241
1236 BridgeDB's HTTP distributor won't tell you how to get obfs3 bridges through
1237 email, although a blank email, or an email containing "get help" will.
1239 * CLOSES #9678 https://bugs.torproject.org/9678
1240 A "Select Language" button was requested for the HTTP distributor on
1241 https://bridges.torproject.org. Instead, translated pages are distributed
1242 automatically (via detecting the "Accept-Language" header which can be set
1243 in the Settings panel of all modern browers).
1244 - To request a specific translation, the "lang=LOCALE" argument can be
1245 added to the URL of any page. For example:
1246 https://bridges.torproject.org/options?lang=ar will provide the bridge
1247 options selection page in Arabic.
1249 * FIXES #11215 https://bugs.torproject.org/11215
1250 BridgeDB's usage of gimp-captcha, which creates a local cache of CAPTCHA for
1251 use on the HTTP distributor, now supports timeouts. If a CAPTCHA is not
1252 solved within 30 minutes of being served to a client, the solution is
1253 invalid regardless of its correctness.
1255 * FIXES #11475 https://bugs.torproject.org/11475
1256 BridgeDB's email responder, up until this point, explained how to use
1257 bridges with Vidalia. It now uses the same help text as found at
1258 https://bridges.torproject.org/howto which explains how to enter bridges
1259 into TorLauncher (used by Tor Browser and Tails).
1261 * FIXES #11522 https://bugs.torproject.org/11522
1262 There were several errors and bugs in BridgeDB's email distributor. The
1263 entire system of server supporting BridgeDB's email distribution system was
1266 * FIXES #11664 https://bugs.torproject.org/11664
1267 Due to changes in the Python language builtin `buffer` in Python3, which
1268 were backported to Python 2.7.6, but neither backported to Python 2.6.x nor
1269 to Python <= 2.7.5, BridgeDB's use of `io.StringIO` and `io.BytesIO`
1270 combined with buffers had to be revised to support both the new and old
1271 Python `buffer` APIs.
1273 * FIXES #11753 https://bugs.torproject.org/11753
1274 BridgeDB's emails should now be translated.
1275 - The translations system for BridgeDB, as well as the template system for
1276 emails, was completely rewritten. By default, email responses are in
1277 English. To receive an alternate translation, send an email to
1278 bridges+LOCALE@torproject.org, where "LOCALE" is a locale specifier.
1279 - For example, to receive BridgeDB emails translated into Chinese, use
1280 mailto:bridges+zh_CN@torproject.org.
1281 - Or for Farsi translations, use mailto:bridges+fa@torproject.org.
1282 - For the full list of currently supported LOCALE codes, see
1283 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/bridgedb.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/bridgedb/i18n/
1285 And includes the following general changes:
1286 * UPDATES the Italian (it) gettext file.
1287 Thanks to Francesca Ciceri.
1288 * ADD Welsh (cy) translations.
1289 Thanks to huwwaters and littlegreykida.
1290 * ADD Slovak (sk) translations.
1291 Thanks to Michelozzo and Svistwarrior273.
1292 * UPDATES the bridgedb.pot translation template file. All the new
1293 strings in the email and HTTP user interfaces will now need
1294 translation! To help out with translations, please see:
1295 https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/torproject/resource/2-bridgedb-bridgedb-pot/
1296 * FIXES several typos in the BridgeDB's code documentation.
1297 * ADDS code documentation for several previously undocumented modules.
1299 Changes in version 0.2.0 - 2014-04-19
1300 * FIXES #5232 Perform long running and blocking transactions in
1301 background threads. Primarily this moves bridge descriptor reparsing
1302 into another thread, which significantly increases the availability
1304 * FIXES #9119 BridgeDB's logger now automatically sanitises all email
1305 and IP addresses when the SAFELOGGING config option is enabled.
1306 * FIXES #9875 BridgeDB logger now has 100% unittest coverage. FIXES #10803
1307 * Vidalia is no longer mentioned on
1308 https://bridges.torproject.org, and instead there are new
1309 instructions on how to enter bridges into TBB>=3.5 (with
1311 * FIXES #11346 The web interface now has a homepage link. By clicking
1312 "BridgeDB" in the upper left corner, users can go back to the start
1313 of TBB downloading and bridge selection instructions at
1314 https://bridges.torproject.org.
1315 * FIXES #11370 We were using an old (and deprecated) module when we
1316 created our email responses. Now we use the newer version.
1317 * FIXES #11377 CAPTCHAs on BridgeDB's HTTPS interface are now
1318 case-insensitive. Thanks to Kostas Jakeliunas for the patch.
1319 * FIXES #11522 fixes several issues with encodings and exception
1320 handling in the email distributor.
1322 And includes the following general changes:
1323 * NEW interface design for https://bridges.torproject.org, including
1324 updated CSS stylesheets, fonts, and HTML templates. In particular,
1325 the https://bridges.torproject.org/options page has been redesigned
1326 completely. Thanks to Xengi for providing a modified design of the
1327 "roots" Tor Project logo, which is used to link to
1328 https://www.torproject.org.
1329 * CHANGES the TBB download link on the main web interface page to link
1330 to the new TBB-3.6.x-beta bundles, which include patches by David
1331 Fifield to unify TBB and PTTBB into one browser, so that Pluggable
1332 Transports (PTs) are only enabled when the user includes a bridge
1333 line which uses that PT.
1334 * FIXES plaintext responses on https://bridges.torproject.org,
1335 these can be requested by using the 'format' HTTP parameter, like
1336 so: https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?format=plain
1337 * FIXES the logging of all lines of (including headers!) of incoming
1339 * FIXES logfile rotation so that the files are only reable/writable
1340 by the running process owner, and no other user.
1341 * CHANGES the data format used for encrypted-then-HMACed CAPTCHAs
1342 to assume that the HMAC is the first 20 bytes. Before we assumed
1343 that the HMAC was separated from the encrypted data with a ';'
1344 character, which causes intermittent issues with some encoding and
1345 CAPTCHA solution values.
1346 * REFACTORS some of the translations handling code, so that soon emails
1347 will be translated (see #7550), and https://bridges.torproject.org
1348 should have a "Select Language" button (see #9678).
1349 * BUMPS leekspin version to 0.1.3.
1351 Changes in version 0.1.6 - 2014-03-26
1352 BridgeDB 0.1.6 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1353 * FIXES #11196 BridgeDB should use leekspin
1354 * FIXES #11218 ReCaptchaProtectedResource.checkSolution()
1355 doesn't expect a deferred
1356 * FIXES #11219 BridgeDB's twisted version doesn´t have a
1357 `t.w.client.HTTPConnectionPool` class
1358 * FIXES #11231 BridgeDB's txrecaptcha returns the "No bridges
1359 available!" page if 'captcha_response_field' is blank
1361 And includes the following general changes:
1362 * ADDS several new translations languages.
1364 Changes in version 0.1.5 - 2014-02-27
1365 BridgeDB 0.1.5 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1366 * FIXES #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's bridge
1367 pool assignment files
1368 * FIXES #10809 reCAPTCHA on bridges.torproject.org are impossible
1370 * FIXES #10834 Configurable reCAPTCHA remoteip
1371 * FIXES #11127 reCaptcha verification is hardcoded to use
1374 And includes the following general changes:
1375 * CHANGES the way the client's IP address is reported to the
1376 reCaptcha API server. Previously, for each client request, a completely
1377 random IP address was generated, and BridgeDB lied to the reCaptcha server
1378 by sending this random IP and saying that it was the client's IP. With these
1379 changes, BridgeDB can be configured to report a static IP address (it's own
1380 IP) as the client's IP, in the hopes that the IP whitelisting used by
1381 reCaptcha makes the returned CAPTCHAs less impossible to solve.
1382 * ADDS the ability to use a local cache of CAPTCHAs created by
1383 scripting Gimp with Python. See:
1384 https://github.com/isislovecruft/gimp-captcha
1385 * USES TLS during CAPTCHA solution verification when using
1388 Changes in version 0.1.4 - 2014-02-21
1389 BridgeDB 0.1.4 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1390 * FIXES an RTL encoding issue in the "Step 2" text on index.html
1391 of the HTTPS distributor.
1393 Changes in version 0.1.3 - 2014-02-21
1394 BridgeDB 0.1.3 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1395 * FIXES #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's bridge
1396 pool assignment files
1397 * FIXES a bug caused by attempts to convert descriptor digests
1398 which could not be parsed into hexadecimal.
1399 * FIXES a unicode decoding error within the bridgedb.persistent
1401 * REMOVES continuous integration testing for Python 2.6.
1403 Including the following general changes:
1404 * ADD volunteer page text for GSoC 2014 applications.
1406 Changes in version 0.1.2 - 2014-02-05
1407 BridgeDB 0.1.2 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1408 * FIXES #10811 BridgeDB's assignments.log files are not being updated
1410 Changes in version 0.1.1 - 2014-02-03
1411 BridgeDB 0.1.1 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1412 * FIXES #9127 Users can't ask for ipv6 bridges with the new bridgedb
1414 * FIXES #9988 Refactor BridgeDB's use of `sha` module to use `hashlib`
1415 * FIXES #10724 Most of the time spent in testing, as well as most
1416 of the time spent when "BridgeDB is down" (i.e. when I reply
1417 with "BridgeDB is single-threaded (see #5232) and is parsing
1418 millions of descriptors"), is within the same
1419 `bridgedb.Stability.addOrUpdateBridgeHistory()` function (see
1420 #10724). This function is pretty brutal on CPU and memory, is
1421 blocking, and it needs to runs thousands and thousands of
1422 times whenever BridgeDB is restarted (every half hour). The
1423 algorithm within that function has a time complexity increasing
1424 linearithmically relative to the number of bridges and timestamps
1425 already within the database. [0]
1426 This patch adds a config option to disable/enable running
1427 the `addOrUpdateBridgeHistory()` function.
1428 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Linearithmic_time
1429 * FIXES #10737 POST arguments to bridges.torproject.org are dropped if
1430 entering a CAPTCHA fails
1432 Including the following general changes:
1433 * ADDS A general simple error page to display rather than
1434 webserver tracebacks. See #6127.
1435 * MOVES The recently added BridgeDB specification file
1436 ('doc/bridge-db-spec.txt') to the torspec repo:
1437 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git
1438 * FIXES template caching for the web interface.
1440 Changes in version 0.1.0 - 2014-01-14
1441 BridgeDB 0.1.0 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1442 * FIXES #1606 Write a BridgeDB spec
1443 * FIXES #3573 bridges.torproject.org doesn't have a robots.txt
1444 * FIXES #6127 bridges.tpo runs in development mode
1445 * FIXES #9013 BridgeDB should pass pluggable transport
1446 shared-secrets to clients
1447 * FIXES #9157 Persian and Arabic should be right aligned on bridges.tpo
1448 * FIXES #9462 BridgeDB netstatus descriptor parsers need refactoring
1449 * FIXES #9959 BridgeDB seems to be missing English translations
1450 * FIXES #9865 Add automated code coverage report generation
1451 * FIXES #9872 Create a test runner for BridgeDB unittests
1452 * FIXES #9873 Convert BridgeDB's old unittests to use twisted.trial
1453 * FIXES #9937 Create fake non-sanitised bridge descriptors for
1454 BridgeDB testing purposes
1455 * FIXES #10333 Indexing list-like objects by 0L in
1456 Bridges.getConfigLine
1457 * FIXES #10446 BridgeDB is/was using a GeoIP module which is
1458 incompatible with virtualenvs
1459 * FIXES #10559 BridgeDB writes `keyid=` before fingerprints
1461 Including the following general changes:
1462 * ADD Numerous unittests and automated continuous integration testing.
1463 * ADD Patches by sysrqb to correctly render right-to-left languages.
1464 * FIXES fallback languages for translations.
1465 * ADD Sphinx makefiles, substantial amounts of documentation.
1466 * ADD Documentations builds (currently at
1467 https://para.noid.cat/bridgedb)
1469 Changes in version 0.0.1 - 2013-08-20
1470 BridgeDB 0.0.1 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1471 * FIXES #5332 Update BridgeDB documentation with deployment
1473 * FIXES #9156 BridgeDB: Users try to add obfsbridges to their
1475 These commits were added to fix a compatibility issue with
1476 Vidalia, though they may be reverted to switch back to the old
1477 behaviour of returning bridge lines in the form:
1478 Bridge [transport_method] address:port [keyid=fingerprint] [K=v] […]
1479 in order to work with torrc files and the new TBB-3.x packages
1480 which use TorLauncher instead of Vidalia.
1481 * PARTIAL FIX #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's
1482 bridge pool assignment files.
1483 * FIXES #9425 Create and document a better BridgeDB (re)deployment
1486 Including the following general changes:
1487 * UPDATE translations files with finished files from Transifex for
1488 the strings for the newly-refactored web interface created by
1490 * ADD an automatic version-numbering system as part of developing
1491 a better deployment strategy.
1492 * CHANGE setup.py script to automatically install Python-based
1493 dependencies from requirements.txt.
1494 * REMOVE MANIFEST.in and put equivalent 'include' directives into
1495 setup.py (the less places we have for manually keeping track of
1497 * REMOVE the "bridge " prefix from the lines returned on the web