1 Changes in version 0.10.1 - 2020-05-27
3 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33945
4 This patch fixes a bug that caused the email autoresponder to fail after
7 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/34154
8 Add new fields to the SQLite table BlockedBridges in preparation for taking
9 into account OONI's bridge measurement results.
11 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31528
12 BridgeDB's UI uses a bunch of obscure "chatspeak" references in its UI. One
13 example is that it responds with "Uh oh, spaghettios!" if there are
14 currently no bridges available. While funny to some, this is difficult to
15 translate and shouldn't be part of software that's used by an international
16 audience. This patch removes such references.
18 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/12802
19 Add a script that sends a bridge request over email, and then checks if it
20 received a response from BridgeDB. We use this script as part of our nagios
21 setup, so we notice when our autoresponder breaks.
23 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/17548
24 This patch removes PGP support. BridgeDB's signing key expired on
25 2015-09-11. Nobody ever complained and maintaining the bits and pieces
26 necessary to sign emails isn't worth the effort, so this patch removes that
29 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30941
30 Make our email responder more usable. This patch removes the concept of
31 "valid" email commands and returns bridges (obfs4, for now) no matter what
32 the user sends. BridgeDB still supports email commands in case the user
33 needs a vanilla or IPv6 bridge.
35 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29686
36 Rename files that contain "Bridges" to "bridgerings", to eliminate headache
37 on file systems that are case insensitive.
39 Changes in version 0.10.0 - 2020-04-01
41 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30317
42 Update our "howto" box, which explains how one adds bridges to Tor Browser.
43 In addition to updating the instructions, this patch also links to
44 instructions for Android.
46 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33631
47 So far, BridgeDB remembered only the first distribution mechanism it ever
48 learned for a given bridge. That means that if a bridge would change its
49 mind and re-configure its distribution mechanism using BridgeDistribution,
50 BridgeDB would ignore it. This patch changes this behavior, so bridges can
51 actually change their distribution mechanism.
53 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31967
54 Use a CSPRNG for selecting cached CAPTCHAs.
56 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33008
57 Add an info page, available at bridges.torproject.org/info. Relay Search
58 links to this info page to explain to bridge operators what their bridge
59 distribution mechanism means.
61 Changes in version 0.9.4 - 2020-02-19
63 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30946
64 This patch ports BridgeDB to Python 3. Python 2 is no longer supported
67 Changes in version 0.9.3 - 2020-02-18
69 * FIXES <https://bugs.torproject.org/33299>
70 This patch disables the distribution of FTE, ScrambleSuit, and obfs3.
72 Changes in version 0.9.2 - 2020-02-04
74 * FIXES <https://bugs.torproject.org/31427>
75 This patch updates the AUTHORS file, HACKING.md, contact information, the
76 Trac URL to report bugs, our instructions on BridgeDB's landing page, and it
77 fixes a small bug in descriptor generation.
79 Changes in version 0.9.1 - 2019-10-29
81 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32203
82 The metrics code used to weed out vanilla bridges, so they did not show up
83 in our metrics. This patch fixes this issue.
85 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32134
86 While implementing our language switcher (#26543), we added a new string,
87 "Language", that requires translations. This patch adds a new translation
88 request and also updates our instructions on how to request new
91 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32105
92 Mention an undocumented OS-level dependency: python3-dkim.
94 Changes in version 0.9.0 - 2019-10-16
96 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/26543
97 Implement a language switcher that allows users to override the locale that
98 BridgeDB automatically selects by inspecting the client's request headers.
100 Changes in version 0.8.3 - 2019-10-03
102 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31903
103 Update existing translations and request new translations. Thanks to all
104 volunteers who helped translate BridgeDB!
106 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31780
107 We implemented BridgeDB's metrics in #9316 but haven't specified its format
108 until now. In addition to adding a specification, this patch also makes our
109 implementation consistent with our (slightly updated) specification.
111 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29484
112 Update BridgeDB's requirements to the latest respective versions. Among
113 others, this patch set updates Twisted to 19.7.0, pyOpenSSL to 19.0.0, and
114 replaces (the abandoned) PyCrypto with PyCryptodome, which fixes security
117 Changes in version 0.8.2 - 2019-09-20
119 Updated translations for the following languages:
120 bn, da, eo, fa, it, ko, nl, pt_BR, pt_PT, sr, zh_CN.
122 Changes in version 0.8.1 - 2019-09-11
124 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/17626
125 BridgeDB gets confused when users reply to a "get help" email. The issue is
126 that BridgeDB interprets commands anywhere in the email body, even if it's
127 in quoted text. To fix this issue, we are ignoring commands whose email
128 body line starts with a '>' character, which is typically used for email
131 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/28533
132 The frontdesk is seeing plenty of empty bogus emails. This fix removes the
133 email links and instead encourages users to take a look at the Tor Browser
134 Manual and at our Support Portal.
136 Changes in version 0.8.0 - 2019-08-20
138 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/9316
139 Make BridgeDB export usage metrics every 24 hours. At the end of each
140 24-hour measurement interval, BridgeDB will append usage metrics to the file
141 METRICS_FILE, which is configured in bridgedb.conf. Our metrics keep track
142 of the number of (un)successful requests per transport type per country code
143 (or email provider) per distribution method. This way, we get to learn
144 that, say, over the last 24 hours there were 31-40 users in Iran who
145 successfully requested an obfs4 bridge over Moat.
147 * FIXES #26542 https://bugs.torproject.org/26542
148 Make BridgeDB distribute vanilla IPv6 bridges again.
150 * FIXES #22755 https://bugs.torproject.org/22755
151 Use stem instead of leekspin to create test descriptors. We now don't need
152 to depend on leekspin anymore.
154 * FIXES #31252 https://bugs.torproject.org/31252
155 Add an anti-bot mechanism that allows us to detect bots by matching HTTP
156 request headers for blacklisted patterns. For example, bots may have their
157 Accept-Language set to "Klingon". Blacklisted patterns are configured in
158 BLACKLISTED_REQUEST_HEADERS_FILE. When BridgeDB detects a bot request, we
159 can answer their request with a decoy bridge that's only handed out to bots.
160 Decoy bridges are configured in DECOY_BRIDGES_FILE.
162 Changes in version 0.7.1 - 2019-06-07
164 * FIXES #28496 https://bugs.torproject.org/28496
165 Remove Yahoo from the list of allowed email domains. Yahoo allows you to
166 create up to 500 disposable email addresses, which BridgeDB interprets as
168 https://bugs.torproject.org/28496#comment:8
169 We could address this issue in BridgeDB but at this point we seem better off
170 dropping support for Yahoo because the provider likely also fell behind in
173 Changes in version 0.7.0 - 2019-06-07
175 * FIXES #28655 https://bugs.torproject.org/28655
176 When a bridge supports an active probing-resistant transport, it should not
177 give out flavors that are vulnerable to active probing. For example, if a
178 bridge supports obfs4 and obfs3, it should only give out obfs4.
180 * FIXES #30706 https://bugs.torproject.org/30706
181 Do some simple BridgeDB housekeeping: Add missing CHANGELOG entries, add
182 Philipp's contact info to the support section, fix a broken Trac URL, and
183 turn HTTP link into HTTPS.
185 * FIXES #30157: https://bugs.torproject.org/30157
186 Update BridgeDB translations. This ticket both adds new translations and
187 updates existing ones.
189 Changes in version 0.6.9 - 2018-11-20
191 * FIXES #23894 https://bugs.torproject.org/23894
192 Really change the contact address, in the correct place this time.
194 Changes in version 0.6.8 - 2018-11-19
196 * FIXES #28528 https://bugs.torproject.org/28528
197 Change maintainer info.
199 * FIXES #23894 https://bugs.torproject.org/23894
200 Change contact email address.
202 Changes in version 0.6.7 - 2018-05-21
204 Print fingerprints in hex thank you very much.
206 Changes in version 0.6.6 - 2018-05-21
208 * FIXES #26150 https://bugs.torproject.org/26150
209 Hotfix for strange bridges missing address fields.
211 Changes in version 0.6.5 - 2018-05-04
213 * FIXES #26023 https://bugs.torproject.org/26023
214 There's few bridges whose ed25519 certificates contain the year 491869,
215 which the datetime module (called from Stem) believes "out of range". So
216 instead we'll parse the descriptors one at a time and catch the errors as we
219 * FIXES #25246 https://bugs.torproject.org/25246
220 Add script for assigning unallocated bridges to another distributor.
222 Changes in version 0.6.4 - 2018-02-13
224 * FIXES #24432 https://bugs.torproject.org/24432
225 Add config option to skip loopback addresses in X-Forwarded-For parsing.
227 Changes in version 0.6.3 - 2018-01-23
229 * FIXES #24432 https://bugs.torproject.org/24432
230 The production moat server had issues related to redirecting to resources
231 properly, which are now fixed.
233 * FIXES #24701 https://bugs.torproject.org/24701
234 Adds a special surprise for the special someone who has been automatedly
235 requesting bridges not through driving a browser, but through a script which
236 is so thoroughly stupid that it doesn't even send the URL parameters for the
237 CAPTCHA challenge and solution. Their script will now be delayed for quite
238 some time and then rickrolled. Mess with the best, die like the rest.
240 * FIXES #24704 https://bugs.torproject.org/24704
241 Bridges returned to a single request are now filtered such that there will
242 never be two bridges from the same IPv4 /16 or IPv6 /64.
244 And includes the following general changes:
246 * ADDS unittests for the legacy code in bridgedb/Bridges.py,
247 bringing the total test coverage above 90% for the first time.
249 Changes in version 0.6.2 - 2017-12-20
251 * FIXES #24636 https://bugs.torproject.org/24636
252 The moat API specification included an extra response type which could be
253 sent if there was no overlap between transports the client supported and
254 those which the server supported. This has been removed from the
255 specification, which now describes the behaviour moat has always exhibited:
256 if there is no overlap, the server responds with a CAPTCHA image response
257 which includes the list of transports it does support.
259 * FIXES #24637 https://bugs.torproject.org/24637
260 The moat server did not respond correctly with the specified JSON API error
261 type when there were no bridges available. It now responds correctly with a
262 404 error whose details describe why the request could not be fulfilled.
263 The moat server also now logs messages if there were not the configured
264 MOAT_BRIDGES_PER_RESPONSE number of bridges available.
266 Changes in version 0.6.1 - 2017-12-13
268 * ADDS a shell script, scripts/test-moat, for testing either a
269 locally-running moat server, or a remote one through a meek tunnel. Thanks
270 to David Fifield for his work on meek, assistance setting it up, and
271 providing the first version of this script.
273 * FIXES #24433 https://bugs.torproject.org/24433
274 The test-moat script wasn't sending an X-Forwarded-For header, which
275 triggered a bug in the moat server, since the CAPTCHA solution includes an
276 HMAC based on the client's IP (forwarded through all the several layers of
279 * FIXES #24443 https://bugs.torproject.org/24443
280 Due to a difference between how booleans are parsed by Python's json library
281 and normal Python booleans, the moat server was generating and returning
282 QRCodes… regardless of whether the remote client application asked for one.
285 * FIXES #24460 https://bugs.torproject.org/24460
286 There was an unhandled error when sending certain (what appears to be
287 possibly malicious? but in a very strange way) requests to BridgeDB's HTTPS
288 distributor. The robots making the requests were attempting to request
289 bridges, but were presenting a CAPTCHA solution without the correct HTML
290 form field parameters present, which isn't possible through normal usage of
291 the web interface. Whoever or whatever is doing this is now going to be
292 endlessly redirected so that they may forever spiral in their own private
293 internet hell. I reserve the right come up with a worse fate for them
294 later, should I get bored.
296 * FIXES #3015 https://bugs.torproject.org/3015
297 BridgeDB has had a partially-implemented concept of "buckets" since the age
298 of the dinosaurs: write some of the unallocated bridges to a file which
299 should (somehow) be manually distributed. In addition to be unused and
300 untested, there were several issues with the buckets, the most significant
301 of which were the inability to request pluggable transports in a bucket and
302 the fact that buckets were not persistent in any way (e.g. if i request a
303 bucket of 50 bridges for Gomez and another with 50 for Morticia, they might
304 end up with some of the same bridges, further, tomorrow they'll end up with
305 50 possibly different bridges than those they received today). All of this
308 And includes the following general changes:
310 * FIXES issues with JSON quote syntax and a mistaken JSON API
311 "type" parameter in the specification of the moat server (in the README).
312 Thanks to Mark Smith and Kathy Brade for pointing out the issues.
314 Changes in version 0.6.0 - 2017-11-15
316 * ADDS a new JSON API distributor called "moat", which is intended
317 for use for Tor Launcher to use to build an in-browser UI for retrieving
320 * CHANGES the organisation of code to add a new
321 bridgedb.distributors package as well as a bridgedb.distributors.common
322 package for code shared between multiple distributors.
324 Changes in version 0.5.0 - 2017-10-28
326 * FIXES #23957 https://bugs.torproject.org/23957
327 BridgeDB now supports bridge operators choosing how their bridge will be
328 distributed. See the "BridgeDistribution" torrc option in tor's manpage for
331 * FIXES #16650 https://bugs.torproject.org/16650
332 BridgeDB is now accessible via select remote user interfaces through a meek
335 * FIXES #22998 https://bugs.torproject.org/23033
336 * FIXES #23033 https://bugs.torproject.org/23033
337 * FIXES #23034 https://bugs.torproject.org/23034
338 Upgrades BridgeDB to newer versions of Twisted and PyOpenSSL, and fixes
339 several issues due to non-backwards compatible changes within those
342 Changes in version 0.4.0 - 2017-01-09
344 * FIXES #21162 https://bugs.torproject.org/21162
345 BridgeDB now supports arbitrarily blacklisting suspected bad bridges from
346 being distributed to clients. This is in response to a suspected sybil
347 attack by an unknown party. For more details, see:
348 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-December/000851.html
350 Changes in version 0.3.8 - 2016-09-22
352 * FIXES #20088 https://bugs.torproject.org/20088
353 BridgeDB now supports receiving descriptors from multiple Bridge
354 Authorities. See also #19690.
356 * FIXES #20087 https://bugs.torproject.org/20087
357 BridgeDB's version of Stem now supports parsing transport lines in bridge
358 extrainfo descriptors which contain IPv6 addresses contained within square
361 Changes in version 0.3.7 - 2016-08-04
363 * FIXES #19691 https://bugs.torproject.org
364 BridgeDB (as running on Tor Project infrastructure) is now invocated with a
365 redirection of stdout and stderr to the flog utility, in order to ensure
366 that file handles are properly closed and reopened when BridgeDB receives a
369 And includes the following general changes:
371 * ADDS some files which were missing from BridgeDB PyPI packages
372 to the MANIFEST.in, so that they are now included.
374 Changes in version 0.3.6 - 2016-07-28
376 * FIXES #18237 https://bugs.torproject.org/18237
377 During descriptor parsing, BridgeDB saves copies of descriptor files which
378 couldn't be parsed, for later debugging purposes. To avoid filing up the
379 runtime directory with these files, we now delete files older than 24 hours,
382 * FIXES #18949 https://bugs.torproject.org/18949
383 Since we've upgraded the host machine which runs The Tor Project's BridgeDB
384 instance to Debian Jessie, this patch updates the testing configurations and
385 continuous integration infrastructure to run tests on versions of Python
386 dependencies in Debian Jessie and Stretch.
388 Changes in version 0.3.4 - 0.3.5 - 2015-11-30
390 * FIXES #14685 https://bugs.torproject.org/14685
391 This disables distribution of obfs2 bridges. This pluggable transport has
392 known distiguishers which allow adversaries to identify client connections
393 to obfs2 bridges, which in turn allows these connections to be
394 blocked/censored. With numerous obfs3 and obfs4 bridges both readily
395 available, users should not be presented with an easily-configurable choice
396 that is known to be unsafe for the majority of users.
398 And includes the following general changes:
400 * ADDS error pages to BridgeDB's web interface, to provide
401 friendlier explanations for downtime, missing pages, and internal server
402 errors. For example: https://bridges.torproject.org/404
404 Changes in version 0.3.3 - 2015-10-25
406 * FIXES #12029 https://bugs.torproject.org/12029
407 BridgeDB now has an API for creating Bridge Distributors. See the
408 bridgedb.distribute module, or its developer documentation at
409 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb/bridgedb.distribute.html.
411 * FIXES PART OF #12506 https://bugs.torproject.org/12506
412 BridgeDB's two Distributors (HTTPS and Email) are now entirely modularised
413 and self-contained within separate subdirectories in the source code. This
414 is the first step to redesigning these Distributors into their own separate
415 processes, which will allow the Distributors to remain functional while
416 BridgeDB is reparsing bridge descriptors.
418 * FIXES #15968 https://bugs.torproject.org/15968
419 BridgeDB now sends a Content-Security-Policy header which explicitly allows
420 Javascript, images, CSS, and fonts, from https://bridges.torproject.org.
421 All other types of content are forbidden, including:
422 - embedding https://bridges.torproject.org within
423 <iframe>, <embed>, or <object>, and attempting to source
424 additional resources into its embedded context
425 - inline Javascript, including Javascript within SVG files
427 - externally hosted fonts
428 - inline SVG, e.g. via the HTML5 <svg> tag
429 - any and all connections made via Javascript XMLHttpRequests,
430 WebSockets, sendBeacon(), and Web Workers
433 BridgeDB's Content-Security-Policy does not yet make use of certain newer,
434 lesser supported, Content-Security-Policy v2.0 directives, such as
435 "reflected-xss" and "frame-ancestors", but may someday.
437 * FIXES #16273 https://bugs.torproject.org/16273
438 Several links to Tor Project gitweb URLs within the developer documentation
439 were outdated in that they still used the old gitweb URL format. These are
440 now updated. Thanks to David Fifield for the bug report and patches.
442 * FIXES #16330 https://bugs.torproject.org/16330
443 BridgeDB can now handle bridge-server-descriptors with extra-info-digest
444 fields which have two values, as well as both bridge-server-descriptors and
445 bridge-extrainfo descriptors which contain Ed25519 key material and
446 signatures. See Tor proposals #220 and #228 for more information on the
447 changes to these descriptors. Note that BridgeDB can now parse this
448 information, but does not yet make use of any Ed25519 cryptographic material
449 within bridge descriptors.
450 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/220-ecc-id-keys.txt
451 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/228-cross-certification-onionkeys.txt
452 Thanks to Atagar for patching Stem.
454 * FIXES #16616 https://bugs.torproject.org/16616
455 The HSDir flag can now be included within bridge-networkstatus documents.
456 BridgeDB now has unittests which guarantee that its parsers safely ignore
457 this flag, as well as any flags unknown to BridgeDB which may appear in the
458 future. Thanks to Roger Dingledine for alerting me about the change.
460 * FIXES #16649 https://bugs.torproject.org/16649
461 Mobile users, and other users with small screen pixel ratios, will find that
462 the UI of BridgeDB's HTTPS Distributor has greatly increased in usability
465 And includes the following general changes:
467 * FIXES an error when requesting the non-HTML version of the
468 bridges page (e.g. https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?format=plain)
470 * REMOVES the `bridgedb test` commandline option.
471 BridgeDB's tests can be run via `python setup.py test` or `make test` (or
472 `make coverage` for generating HTML test coverage statistics).
474 * CHANGES the HTTPS Distributor to HTML-encode Bridge Lines.
475 Previously, a malicious Pluggable Transport Bridge could include in its PT
476 arguments something like "evil=<script>[…]</script>" and if such a Bridge
477 were to be distributed to a user, that user's web browser would execute the
478 script (if Javacript was enabled). Other characters, including non-ASCII,
479 control characters, double quotes, and backslashes, are also sanitised from
480 Bridge Lines. Thanks to Robert Ransom for the patches.
482 * CHANGES BridgeDB's module/package version numbers to be compliant with
485 * CHANGES the layout of BridgeDB's source code directories.
486 Rather than storing BridgeDB's source in "lib/bridgedb/", it is now kept in
487 "bridgedb/". Similarly, the directory containing BridgeDB's tests has been
488 moved from "lib/bridgedb/test/" to "test/", which means that the tests are
489 no longer installed when running `python setup.py install` or `make
492 * ADDS several improvements to the developer documentation at
493 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb.
495 * UPDATE English (en_US) translations.
497 * UPDATE English (en) translations.
499 * ADD Serbian (sr) translations.
500 Thanks to obj.petit.a, Ivan Radeljic, and Milenko Doder.
502 * UPDATE Arabic (ar) translations.
503 Thanks to A. Hassan, debo debo, KACIMI LAMINE, and Nudroid A.
505 * UPDATE Catalan (ca) translations.
508 * UPDATE Czech (cs) translations.
509 Thanks to Tomas Palik and Vlastimil Burián.
511 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
512 Thanks to Mogelbjerg.
514 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
515 Thanks to jschfr, Junge Limba, and Toralf Förster.
517 * UPDATE English (en_GB) translations.
518 Thanks to Andi Chandler.
520 * UPDATE Farsi (fa) translations.
521 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
523 * UPDATE Finish (fi) translations.
524 Thanks to Riku Viitanen.
526 * UPDATE French (fr) translations.
527 Thanks to elouann, Trans-fr, and Towinet.
529 * UPDATE French (fr_CA) translations.
532 * UPDATE Croatian (hr_HR) translations.
533 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
535 * UPDATE Hungarian (hu) translations.
536 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
538 * UPDATE Indonesian (id) translations.
539 Thanks to Anthony Santana, Astryd Viandila Dahlan, cholif yulian,
540 constantius damar wicaksono, Dwi Cahyono, L1Nus, km242saya, and Zamani
543 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
546 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
547 Thanks to ABE Tsunehiko.
549 * UPDATE Latvian (lv) translations.
550 Thanks to Ojārs Balcers.
552 * UPDATE Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translations.
553 Thanks to Erik Matson and Kristian Andre Henriksen.
555 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
558 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
559 Thanks to Karol Obartuch.
561 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt) translations.
562 Thanks to Bruno D. Rodrigues and MMSRS.
564 * UPDATE Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
567 * UPDATE Romanian (ro) translations.
568 Thanks to Ana, axel_89, and Di N.
570 * UPDATE Russian (ru) translations.
573 * UPDATE Slovak (sk_SK) translations.
576 * UPDATE Albanian (sq) translations.
577 Thanks to some awesome unknown anonymous person who didn't add their name
578 to the list of translators.
580 * UPDATE Swedish (sv) translations.
581 Thanks to Peter Michanek.
583 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
584 Thanks to Bullgeschichte and Fomas.
586 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
589 * UPDATE Chinese Mandarin (zh_CN) translations.
592 * UPDATE Taiwanese Mandarin (zh_TW) translations.
595 Changes in version 0.3.2 - 2015-05-01
597 * FIXES a problem with the calculation of Levenshtein distances
598 between blacklisted email addresses and those on incoming email. This fixes
599 a problem with the fuzzy matching implemented in #9385:
600 https://bugs.torproject.org/9385.
602 * FIXES #1839 https://bugs.torproject.org/1839
603 BridgeDB's distributors now rotate their hashrings at configurable scheduled
606 * FIXES #4771 https://bugs.torproject.org/4771
607 BridgeDB now records which of the HTTPS Distributor's sub-hashrings are used
608 for clients coming from Tor Exit nodes and other known proxies.
610 * FIXES #12504 https://bugs.torproject.org/12504
611 Which Pluggable Transports BridgeDB distributes is now easily configurable
612 via the bridgedb.conf configuration file.
614 * FIXES #13202 https://bugs.torproject.org/13202
615 Old bridges running Tor-0.2.4.x with Pluggable Transports like scramblesuit
616 and obfs4proxy have a bug which causes them to not include the PT arguments
617 in the `transport` line they submit to the BridgeAuthority in their
618 extrainfo descriptors. This causes BridgeDB to have broken bridge lines for
619 these bridges. For example, scramblesuit requires a `password=` in the
620 `ClientTransportPlugin` for clients to connect to it. If BridgeDB receives
621 a line in that bridge's extrainfo which says `transport scramblesuit
622 1.2.3.4:1234` (without a password), then when BridgeDB gives clients a
623 bridge line for that bridge, it'll look like "Bridge scramblesuit
624 1.2.3.4:1234" - meaning that it won't work. This fixes the issue by
625 excluding broken transports from being distributed to clients.
627 * FIXES #15517 https://bugs.torproject.org/15517
628 For all clients who are coming from IPv6 addresses and are not using Tor,
629 who go to https://bridges.torproject.org, BridgeDB now groups these clients
630 together by /32. This "grouping" causes all IPv6 clients within the same
631 IPv6 /32 to get the same bridges. Previously, BridgeDB grouped IPv6 clients
632 by /64 (which is ridiculously small, considering standard IPv6 allocation
635 For all clients who are coming from IPv4 addresses and are not using Tor,
636 BridgeDB now groups these clients together by /16. Previously, BridgeDB
637 grouped IPv4 clients by /24. (This latter change was technically made as
640 * FIXES #15464 https://bugs.torproject.org/15464
641 The setup procedure for creating a BridgeDB Continuous Integration build
642 machine is now simplified and generalised to include build environments like
643 Jenkins, not just TravisCI.
645 * FIXES #15866 https://bugs.torproject.org/15866
646 BridgeDB now ignores nearly all the information in the networkstatus-bridges
647 file created by the BridgeAuthority.
649 * ADDS benchmark tests to BridgeDB's test suite, and some of
650 BridgeDB's algorithms have been revised to improve their speed.
652 Changes in version 0.3.1 - 2015-03-24
654 * FIXES #14065 https://bugs.torproject.org/14065
655 When requesting vanilla IPv6 bridges from https://bridges.torproject.org,
656 BridgeDB would respond with IPv4 addresses. It now correctly responds with
659 And includes the following general changes:
661 * FIXES an issue with the filtering of hashrings while answering
662 requests for Pluggable Transports. (commit 3ef37df6)
664 * FIXES the return value from the GnuPG interface initialization
665 function (bridgedb.crypto.initializeGnuPG) when creating a test signature
668 * CHANGES the way BridgeDB handles the case where it parses to
669 duplicate extrainfo descriptors (for the same Bridge) which also have
670 identical timestamps. Before, we assumed this wasn't possible. It turns
671 out that it not only is possible, but that usually every batch of
672 descriptors has at least one Bridge with such a set of perfectly identical
673 extrainfo descriptors. Even stranger, it appears that only Bridges started
674 for the first time quite recently (within the last eight hours) display this
675 behaviour. BridgeDB now logs these errors, rather than leaving them
676 unhandled. (commit a27d7905)
678 * ADDS an environment variable check to setup.py which controls
679 whether the setup.py script tries to install the dependencies listed in the
680 requirements.txt file with easy_install. If the environment variable
681 BRIDGEDB_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES=0, then setup.py will not use easy_install.
682 When BridgeDB is installed via `make install` the default is to not use
683 easy_install; however, when installed via `python setup.py install`, the
684 default is to use easy_install to check for, find, and install dependencies.
685 (NOTE: the latter is *not* recommended.) (commit d035fe64)
687 Changes in version 0.3.0 - 2015-03-21
689 * FIXES #2895 https://bugs.torproject.org/2895
690 BridgeDB no longer assumes that any extrainfo descriptor files are in
693 * FIXES #4405 https://bugs.torproject.org/4405
694 BridgeDB now has a built-in timer mechanism for scheduling cronjobesque
695 events. This is now used to routinely download and parse the list of Tor
696 exit relays in a completely asynchronous manner.
698 * FIXES #9380 https://bugs.torproject.org/9380
699 BridgeDB now uses Stem (https://stem.torproject.org) for its parsers, and
700 has better classes for parsing and storing information on Bridges and their
701 Pluggable Transports. Additionally, all of BridgeDB's parses and the new
702 Bridge/PluggableTransport classes all have 100% unittest and integration
705 * FIXES #10385 https://bugs.torproject.org/10385
706 BridgeDB now uses python-gnupg (https://pypi.python.org/gnupg) instead of
707 GPGME (libgpgme11 and pygpgme). Previously, when using GPGME, BridgeDB was
708 unable to sign emails with a subkey whose master private key was not
709 present, causing all signing to be broken. Additionally, GPGME tried to
710 access and modify the BridgeDB users $HOME directory, and GPGME would also
711 try to create signatures with encryption-only subkeys, and try to
712 encrypt/decrypt with signing-only subkeys. All of these issues are no more,
713 because the writhing tangled mass of bugs known ad GPGME is gone for good.
715 * FIXES #11216 https://bugs.torproject.org/11216
716 BridgeDB no longer parses any extrainfo descriptor files cumulatively.
717 Before, a Bridge which had a descriptor in cached-extrainfo and in
718 cached-extrainfo.new and supported obfs3, obfs4, and scramblesuit transports
719 would be parsed twice, resulting in the Bridge having six transports. This
720 is no longer the case.
722 * HOTFIXES an issue with non-deterministic unittest failures in
723 the Mechanize-based integrations tests in lib/bridgedb/test/test_https.py.
724 hotfix/0.2.4-mechanize-tags
726 * FIXES part of #12507 https://bugs.torproject.org/12507
727 BridgeDB now has semi-automated developer documentation builds at
728 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb/.
730 * FIXES #12805 https://bugs.torproject.org/12805
731 BridgeDB is now packaged on PyPI, in the hopes that someday other
732 organisations will be able to run their own BridgeDBs.
734 * FIXES #12843 https://bugs.torproject.org/12843
735 BridgeDB will no longer distribute bridges which it believes are located in
738 * FIXES #12872 https://bugs.torproject.org/12872
739 BridgeDB now has geolocational information for Bridges, telling it which
740 country each Bridge's primary ORAddress is within, as well as geolocational
741 information for each PluggableTransport address. Thanks to Alden S. Page
744 * FIXES #15155 https://bugs.torproject.org/15155
745 The instructions for obtaining a copy of Tor Browser should now be more
746 clear. Thanks to Jens Kubieziel, Nick Mathewson, and Peter Palfrader.
748 And includes the following general changes:
749 * CHANGES BridgeDB's continuous integration infrastructure to run
751 - Twisted-13.2.0 (Debian Wheezy version),
752 - Twisted-14.0.2 (Debian Jessie version), and
753 - Twisted-15.0.0 (latest and greatest)
754 As well as testing both:
755 - pyOpenSSL-0.13.1 (Debian Wheezy version), and
756 - pyOpenSSL-0.14 (Debian Jessie version).
757 See https://travis-ci.org/isislovecruft/bridgedb/builds
759 * FIXES an issue with the $PYTHON_EGG_CACHE directory being group
760 writable on Travis-CI build machines.
762 * UPDATE English (en_US) translations.
764 * UPDATE English (en) translations.
766 * ADD Tamil (ta) translations.
769 * ADD Albanian (sq) translations.
770 Thanks to Bujar Tafili.
772 * ADD Slovenian (sl_SI) translations.
773 Thanks to Dušan, marko, and Nwolfy.
775 * ADD Slovak (sk_SK) translations.
778 * ADD Esperanto (eo) translations.
779 Thanks to identity, Rico Chan, and trio.
781 * ADD Bulgarian (bg) translations.
784 * ADD Azerbaijani (az) translations.
787 * UPDATE Chinese (zh_TW) translations.
790 * UPDATE Chinese (zh_CN) translations.
791 Thanks to Wu Ming Shi and YF.
793 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
794 Thanks to Eugene ghostishev, LinuxChata, Oleksii Golub, and
797 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
798 Thanks to eromytsatiffird, Emir Sarı, Idil Yuksel, ozkansib,
799 Volkan Gezer, and zeki.
801 * UPDATE Swedish (sv) translations.
802 Thanks to Anders Jensen-Urstad, Emil Johansson, GabSeb, ph AA, phst,
805 * UPDATE Slovak (sk) translations.
806 Thanks to elo, FooBar, Michal Slovák, Roman 'Kaktuxista' Benji, and
809 * UPDATE Russian (ru) translations.
810 Thanks to Andrey Yoker Ogurchikov, Evgrafov Denis, foo,
811 joshuaridney, Oleg, Sergey Briskin, Valid Olov, and Vitaliy Grishenko.
813 * UPDATE Romanian (ro) translations.
814 Thanks to Isus Satanescu, laura berindei, and clopotel.
816 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
817 Thanks to João Paulo S.S.
819 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt) translations.
820 Thanks to alfalb.as, André Monteiro, kagazz, Manuela Silva,
821 alfalb_mansil, Andrew_Melim, Pedro Albuquerque, Sérgio Marques, and
824 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
825 Thanks to Aron, JerBen, bogdrozd, Dawid, Rikson, Krzysztof Łojowski,
828 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
829 Thanks to Adriaan Callaerts, Ann Boen, Cleveridge, Dick,
830 Johann Behrens, Shondoit Walker, Marco Brohet, guryman, Marco
831 Brohet, Tom Becht, Tonko Mulder, math1985, and BBLN.
833 * UPDATE Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translations.
834 Thanks to Allan Nordhøy, Harald, lateralus, Per Thorsheim,
837 * UPDATE Latvian (lv) translations.
838 Thanks to Ojārs Balcers and ThePirateDuck.
840 * UPDATE Khmer (km) translations.
841 Thanks to Seng Sutha, Sokhem Khoem, and Sok Sophea.
843 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
844 Thanks to brt, ABE Tsunehiko, タカハシ, Masaki Saito, and
847 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
848 Thanks to fetidyoo, Francesca Ciceri, HostFat, ironbishop, and
851 * UPDATE Hungarian (hu) translations.
852 Thanks to Blackywantscookies, Lajos Pasztor, Cerbo, and vargaviktor.
854 * UPDATE Croatian (hr) translations.
855 Thanks to Ana B, Armando Vega, skiddiep, Tomislav Siroglavić,
858 * UPDATE French (fr_CA) translations.
859 Thanks to Lunar, mehditaileb, Onizuka, and yahoe.001.
861 * UPDATE French (fr) translations.
862 Thanks to apaddlingduck, fayçal fatihi, Boubou, Cryptie,
863 Frisson Reynald, hpatte, Lucas Leroy, Lunar, Onizuka, and mehditaileb.
865 * UPDATE Finnish (fi) translations.
866 Thanks to Jorma Karvonen, Spacha, Ossi Kallunki, Sami Kuusisto,
867 viljaminojonen, and Finland355.
869 * UPDATE Farsi (fa) translations.
870 Thanks to arashaalaei, signal89, ardeshir, Gilberto, johnholzer,
871 Mohammad Hossein, perspolis, and Setareh.
873 * UPDATE Spanish (es) translations.
874 Thanks to dark_yoshi, toypurina, BL, NinjaTuna, Noel Torres,
875 Paola Falcon, strel, and Jonis.
877 * UPDATE English (en_GB) translations.
878 Thanks to Andi Chandler, Richard Shaylor, and ronnietse.
880 * UPDATE Greek (el) translations.
881 Thanks to Adrian Pappas, andromeas, oahanx, isv31, and kotkotkot.
883 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
884 Thanks to trantor, Ettore Atalan, unknwon_anonymous, konstibae,
885 Locke, Tobias Bannert, qbi, Sebastian, and debakel.
887 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
888 Thanks to Christian Villum, David Nielsen, OliverMller, torebjornson,
889 Thomas Pryds, and Tore Bjørnson.
891 * UPDATE Czech (cs) translations.
892 Thanks to A5h8d0wf0x, Adam Slovacek, Elisa, Sanky, Jiří Vírava,
893 mxsedlacek, and Radek Bensch.
895 * UPDATE Catalan (ca) translations.
896 Thanks to Albert, Assumpta Anglada, Eloi García i Fargas, Humbert,
899 * UPDATE Arabic (ar) translations.
900 Thanks to Ash and Valetudinarian.
902 Changes in version 0.2.4 - 2015-02-03
904 * HOTFIXES a UnicodeDecodeError resulting from patches for #12627.
905 https://bugs.torproject.org/12627
907 * FIXES #9874 https://bugs.torproject.org/9874
908 BridgeDB now has integration tests for all bridge distributors. Thanks to
909 trygve for the patches.
911 * FIXES #12871 https://bugs.torproject.org/12871
912 Bridge Buckets now work, even if the code for calculating Bridge stability
913 is disabled. Thanks to Matt Finkel for the patches.
915 * FIXES part of #12029 https://bugs.torproject.org/12029
916 Major sections of the bridgedb.Bridges module, which holds BridgeDB's main
917 data structures for storing and parsing Bridges, have been refactored in
918 preparation for upcoming changes to use Stem's parsers (see #9380
919 https://bugs.torproject.org/9380)
921 * FIXES #12932 https://bugs.torproject.org/12932
922 Arguments for Pluggable Transports in the bridge lines which BridgeDB
923 distributes to users are now properly space-separated. This issue was
924 affecting the deployment of the obfs4 PT (see #12130
925 https://bugs.torproject.org/12130).
927 * FIXES #13123 https://bugs.torproject.org/13123
928 Previously, there were two additional whitespace characters at the beginning
929 of bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor, which would be
930 annoyingly copy+pasted into TorLauncher and torrcs, etc. These are now
933 * FIXES #12664 https://bugs.torproject.org/12664
934 Previously, for the bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor,
935 the newlines were not properly pasted when a user would copy+paste the
936 lines. This is now fixed. Additionally, there is now a "Select All" button
937 (JS must be enabled) to select all text for the bridge lines, to attempt to
938 reduce user copy+paste errors. If the display area which contains the
939 bridge lines is clicked, and JS is enabled, it has the same effect as
940 clicking the "Select All" button.
942 * FIXES #14064 https://bugs.torproject.org/14064
943 The bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor are now
944 displayed with a horizontal scrollbar if they are too long to fit into the
947 * FIXES #11345 https://bugs.torproject.org/11345
948 BridgeDB now supports giving users QRCodes for their bridge lines, to
949 facilitate getting bridges into Tails and onto mobile devices.
951 * FIXES #12130 https://bugs.torproject.org/12130
952 BridgeDB's distributors now have options to distribute obfs4 bridges.
954 And includes the following general changes:
955 * CHANGES the integration tests based on Mechanize to only run on
956 CI servers, not locally on developers laptops, since it requires the running
957 BridgeDB test/staging instance to offer a plaintext HTTP interface. See
959 https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git/commit/?id=24acf6a72931c602631c97dbbeb582c22cf446cb
961 * ADDS better installation instructions in README.rst for
962 developers who wish to test their changes to BridgeDB. Thanks to Alden Page
965 Changes in version 0.2.3 - 2014-07-26
967 * FIXES #5463 https://bugs.torproject.org/5463
968 BridgeDB can now OpenPGP sign outgoing emails.
970 * FIXES #9385 https://bugs.torproject.org/9385
971 BridgeDB now has the ability to blacklist email addresses, and configurable
972 options to fuzzy match and block addresses which are similar enough to those
975 * FIXES #11139 https://bugs.torproject.org/11139
976 You can now email BridgeDB from Riseup email addresses!
978 * FIXES #12147 https://bugs.torproject.org/12147
979 An additional issue with BridgeDB's code for scheduling actions was
980 identified by Robert Ransom, who also provided a unittest to demonstrate the
981 issue and test for future regressions. The issue pointed out has also been
984 * FIXES #12635 https://bugs.torproject.org/12635
985 The links in BridgeDB's email and HTTPS distributor UIs have been changed
987 https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en#downloads-beta
989 https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.
991 * FIXES #12650 https://bugs.torproject.org/12650
992 BridgeDB's translation files sometimes take a little while to update because
993 real live human volunteers need to go to Transifex.org and convert the
994 strings between languages. Then I need to import the strings, check all of
995 them by hand to make sure there's no funny business which could harm users
996 in them, and then commit all the diffs. Sadly, there isn't much more we can
997 do to speed up this process, so sometimes BridgeDB's UI falls back to
998 English when it doesn't have new enough translations files. Sorry!
1000 And includes the following general changes:
1002 * UPDATE translation: Chinese - Taiwan (zh_TW)
1004 * UPDATE translation: Chinese - China (zh_CN)
1005 THANKS TO Meng3, leungsookfan, and Wu Ming Shi.
1006 * UPDATE translation: Turkish (tr)
1007 THANKS TO eromytsatiffird, Emre, Idil Yuksel, ozkansib,
1008 Volkan Gezer, and zeki.
1009 * UPDATE translation: Swedish (sv)
1010 THANKS TO Anders Jensen-Urstad, GabSeb, and phst.
1011 * UPDATE translation: Russian (ru)
1012 THANKS TO Evgrafov Denis, Eugene, foo, Sergey Briskin,
1013 Valid Olov, and Vitaliy Grishenko.
1014 * UPDATE translation: Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
1015 THANKS TO Isabel Ferreira, and Rodrigo Emmanuel Santana
1017 * UPDATE translation: Portuguese (pt)
1018 THANKS TO André Monteiro, kagazz, Manuela Silva,
1019 Andrew_Melim, and Sérgio Marques.
1020 * UPDATE translation: Polish (pl)
1021 THANKS TO Aron, Dawid, Krzysztof Łojowski, and seb.
1022 * UPDATE translation: Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
1023 THANKS TO Allan Nordhøy, Harald, and thor574.
1024 * UPDATE translation: Malay (ms_MY)
1026 * UPDATE translation: Latvian (lv)
1027 THANKS TO Ojārs Balcers.
1028 * UPDATE translation: Khmer (km)
1029 THANKS TO Seng Sutha, Sokhem Khoem, and Sok Sophea.
1030 * UPDATE translation: Hungarian (hu)
1031 THANKS TO Blackywantscookies, and Cerbo.
1032 * UPDATE translation: Croatian (hr_HR)
1034 * UPDATE translation: Hebrew (he)
1036 * UPDATE translation: Canadian French (fr_CA)
1037 THANKS TO yahoe.001.
1038 * UPDATE translation: French (fr)
1039 THANKS TO fayçal fatihi, Frisson Reynald, hpatte, Lunar,
1040 Onizuka, themen, Towinet, and Yannick Heintz.
1041 * UPDATE translation: Finish (fi)
1042 THANKS TO viljaminojonen, and Finland355.
1043 * UPDATE translation: Farsi (fa)
1044 THANKS TO Mohammad Hossein.
1045 * UPDATE translation: Spanish - Chile (es_CL)
1046 THANKS TO Pablo Lezaeta.
1047 * UPDATE translation: Spanish (es)
1048 THANKS TO Paola Falcon.
1049 * UPDATE translation: British English (en_GB)
1050 THANKS TO richardshaylor.
1051 * UPDATE translation: Greek (el)
1052 THANKS TO Adrian Pappas, andromeas, isv31, and Wasilis
1054 * UPDATE translation: German (de)
1055 THANKS TO Tobias Bannert.
1056 * UPDATE translation: Danish (da)
1057 THANKS TO autofunk78.
1058 * UPDATE translation: Arabic (ar)
1059 THANKS TO Ahmad Gharbeia, Mohamed El-Feky, AnonymousLady,
1060 0xidz, Sherief Alaa , and محيي الدين.
1062 Changes in version 0.2.2 - 2014-06-06
1064 * FIXES #9874 https://bugs.torproject.org/9874
1065 BridgeDB's email and HTTPS distributors were written in a manner that makes
1066 them largely impossible to write unittests for. Since the recent rewrite of
1067 BridgeDB's email distributor server backends for version 0.2.1, BridgeDB
1068 email distributor is now testable and has near 100% code coverage, see
1069 https://coveralls.io/r/isislovecruft/bridgedb
1071 * FIXES #12086 https://bugs.torproject.org/12086
1072 BridgeDB was found to accept incoming emails sent to any email address whose
1073 local part included the word bridges, e.g. emails sent to
1074 'givemebridges@serious.ly' would be responded to as if they were destined
1075 for BridgeDB's real email address.
1076 - BridgeDB now strictly checks that the local part of the email address
1077 that an incoming email was sent to (after removing plus aliases, i.e.
1078 '+es_ES', '+fa', etc.) exactly matches BridgeDB configured email address
1080 - BridgeDB now checks that the domain name portion of the email address
1081 that an incoming email was sent to either matches the domain name
1082 portion of BridgeDB's configured email address, or is a subdomain of
1085 * FIXES #12089 https://bugs.torproject.org/12089
1086 There has been a bug for quite some time now where BridgeDB could be used to
1087 email arbitrary email addresses (as long as these addresses were ones which
1088 BridgeDB allows, i.e. Gmail or Yahoo email addresses). This was due to
1089 BridgeDB not checking that the email address used in the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:'
1090 command on an incoming message matched the one used in that email's 'From:'
1092 - BridgeDB now checks that the email addresses in the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:'
1093 and the 'From:' header on that incoming email match, in addition to the
1094 previous checks that the email address' domain is in the set of allowed
1097 * FIXES #12090 https://bugs.torproject.org/12090
1098 BridgeDB has been replying with an empty email. I don't actually know for
1099 sure if this one is fixed. Before deploying version 0.2.1, the continuous
1100 integration tests showed email responses being correctly generated, and I
1101 was also able to receive correctly formed email responses from BridgeDB on a
1102 local testing instance on my laptop. It appears that this bug occurs only on
1103 the deployment server at ponticum.torproject.org, possibly due to the
1104 outdated Python version in Debian Wheezy. I have not been able to reproduce
1105 this bug on any other machine.
1107 * FIXES #12091 https://bugs.torproject.org/12091
1108 BridgeDB wasn't properly ignoring emails whose DKIM signature verification
1109 header read "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: dunno".
1110 - Bridgedb now marks incoming emails which have a
1111 "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: dunno" header as invalid and ignores
1114 * FIXES #12147 https://bugs.torproject.org/12147
1115 If a user refreshed https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges after
1116 successfully solving a CAPTCHA, BridgeDB would reply with a new set of
1117 bridges for each page refresh. This was due to the use of `getInterval()` in
1118 `IPBasedDistributor.getBridgesForIP()`. The correct function to use is
1119 `getIntervalStart()`. This had been noted in a "XXX FIXME" comment above
1120 the call for quite some time, however, when the `bridgedb.schedule`
1121 (previously called `bridgedb.Time`) module was revised to support CAPTCHA
1122 timeouts (#11215), the call to `getInterval()` was mistakenly not replaced
1123 with the correct function.
1124 - BridgeDB CAPTCHAs must be solved within 10 minutes.
1125 - Hashring rotation for bridges in BridgeDB HTTPS distributor occurs every
1126 3 hours. Refreshing the page with bridges on it will return these same
1127 bridges for that time period, and afterwards redirect back to the
1128 CAPTCHA page. THANKS TO francisco on IRC and arma for reporting the
1131 * FIXES #12212 https://bugs.torproject.org/12122
1132 TRANSLATOR comments are now properly extracted into the gettext PO template
1135 And include the following general changes:
1136 * FIXES an issue where, when verifying GnuPG signatures made by
1137 BridgeDB's email distributor, GnuPG would error, saying, "invalid armor
1140 * ADD Korean (ko) translations.
1141 Thanks to ilbe123, cwt96, Dr.what, and pCsOrI.
1143 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
1144 Thanks to LinuxChata and ghostishev.
1146 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
1147 Thanks to volkangezer.
1149 * UPDATE Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
1150 Thanks to Communia, Humberto Sartini, Anastasia01, and recognitium.
1152 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
1153 Thanks to hoek, yodaa, maxxx, and sebx.
1155 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
1156 Thanks to Ann Boen, erwindelaat, guryman, and BBLN.
1157 You guys are extra awesome for translating the phrase:
1158 "Uh oh, spaghettios!"
1161 which, in English, literally means:
1162 "Unfortunately, peanut butter!"
1163 You guys totally just made my day. Thanks.
1165 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
1166 Thanks to plazmism, who is extra awesome for translating the phrase:
1167 "Uh oh, spaghettios!"
1170 which apparently the literal English translation is:
1171 "Husband spaghetti!"
1173 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
1176 * UPDATE Canadian French (fr_CA) translations.
1179 * UPDATE Spanish (es) translations.
1180 Thanks to dark_yoshi and strel.
1182 * UPDATE Greek (el) translations.
1183 Thanks to pappasadrian.
1185 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
1186 Thanks to trantor and unknwon_anonymous.
1188 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
1189 Thanks to autofunk78 and DavidNielsen.
1191 Changes in version 0.2.1 - 2014-05-16
1192 * FIXES #5463 https://bugs.torproject.org/5463
1193 Emails sent from BridgeDB's email distributor should now be signed.
1194 - BridgeDB's emails will be signed with its online GnuPG keypair. The
1195 public key has the following fingerprint:
1196 DF81 1109 E17C 8BF1 34B5 EEB6 8DC4 3A28 4882 1E32
1197 The online keypair rotates (a new one is placed on the server once per
1198 year), and it will ALWAYS be signed with BridgeDB's offline keypair.
1199 - The online keypair above contains two subkeys. The signing subkey has
1201 9FE3 9D1A 7438 9223 3B3F 66F2 21B5 54E9 5938 F4D0
1202 - BridgeDB's offline keypair has the following fingerprint:
1203 7B78 4370 15E6 3DF4 7BB1 270A CBD9 7AA2 4E8E 472E
1204 All of BridgeDB's keys may be found on the public keyservers, as well as at
1205 https://bridges.torproject.org/keys
1207 * FIXES #7547 https://bugs.torproject.org/7547
1208 BridgeDB's email distributor will now send you a message explaining how to
1209 use it, including valid commands and the list of Pluggable Transport TYPES
1210 currently supported. To receive help with the email distributor, simply send
1211 an email to mailto:bridges@torproject.org.
1212 - Any emails which do not contain a valid command will receive the help
1214 - Otherwise, to specifically request the help text, just say "get help" in
1215 the body of your email.
1217 * FIXES #7550 https://bugs.torproject.org/7550
1218 BridgeDB's email responder is now interactive, as described in the above
1219 entry for ticket #7547.
1221 * FIXES #8241 https://bugs.torproject.org/8241
1222 BridgeDB's HTTP distributor won't tell you how to get obfs3 bridges through
1223 email, although a blank email, or an email containing "get help" will.
1225 * CLOSES #9678 https://bugs.torproject.org/9678
1226 A "Select Language" button was requested for the HTTP distributor on
1227 https://bridges.torproject.org. Instead, translated pages are distributed
1228 automatically (via detecting the "Accept-Language" header which can be set
1229 in the Settings panel of all modern browers).
1230 - To request a specific translation, the "lang=LOCALE" argument can be
1231 added to the URL of any page. For example:
1232 https://bridges.torproject.org/options?lang=ar will provide the bridge
1233 options selection page in Arabic.
1235 * FIXES #11215 https://bugs.torproject.org/11215
1236 BridgeDB's usage of gimp-captcha, which creates a local cache of CAPTCHA for
1237 use on the HTTP distributor, now supports timeouts. If a CAPTCHA is not
1238 solved within 30 minutes of being served to a client, the solution is
1239 invalid regardless of its correctness.
1241 * FIXES #11475 https://bugs.torproject.org/11475
1242 BridgeDB's email responder, up until this point, explained how to use
1243 bridges with Vidalia. It now uses the same help text as found at
1244 https://bridges.torproject.org/howto which explains how to enter bridges
1245 into TorLauncher (used by Tor Browser and Tails).
1247 * FIXES #11522 https://bugs.torproject.org/11522
1248 There were several errors and bugs in BridgeDB's email distributor. The
1249 entire system of server supporting BridgeDB's email distribution system was
1252 * FIXES #11664 https://bugs.torproject.org/11664
1253 Due to changes in the Python language builtin `buffer` in Python3, which
1254 were backported to Python 2.7.6, but neither backported to Python 2.6.x nor
1255 to Python <= 2.7.5, BridgeDB's use of `io.StringIO` and `io.BytesIO`
1256 combined with buffers had to be revised to support both the new and old
1257 Python `buffer` APIs.
1259 * FIXES #11753 https://bugs.torproject.org/11753
1260 BridgeDB's emails should now be translated.
1261 - The translations system for BridgeDB, as well as the template system for
1262 emails, was completely rewritten. By default, email responses are in
1263 English. To receive an alternate translation, send an email to
1264 bridges+LOCALE@torproject.org, where "LOCALE" is a locale specifier.
1265 - For example, to receive BridgeDB emails translated into Chinese, use
1266 mailto:bridges+zh_CN@torproject.org.
1267 - Or for Farsi translations, use mailto:bridges+fa@torproject.org.
1268 - For the full list of currently supported LOCALE codes, see
1269 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/bridgedb.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/bridgedb/i18n/
1271 And includes the following general changes:
1272 * UPDATES the Italian (it) gettext file.
1273 Thanks to Francesca Ciceri.
1274 * ADD Welsh (cy) translations.
1275 Thanks to huwwaters and littlegreykida.
1276 * ADD Slovak (sk) translations.
1277 Thanks to Michelozzo and Svistwarrior273.
1278 * UPDATES the bridgedb.pot translation template file. All the new
1279 strings in the email and HTTP user interfaces will now need
1280 translation! To help out with translations, please see:
1281 https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/torproject/resource/2-bridgedb-bridgedb-pot/
1282 * FIXES several typos in the BridgeDB's code documentation.
1283 * ADDS code documentation for several previously undocumented modules.
1285 Changes in version 0.2.0 - 2014-04-19
1286 * FIXES #5232 Perform long running and blocking transactions in
1287 background threads. Primarily this moves bridge descriptor reparsing
1288 into another thread, which significantly increases the availability
1290 * FIXES #9119 BridgeDB's logger now automatically sanitises all email
1291 and IP addresses when the SAFELOGGING config option is enabled.
1292 * FIXES #9875 BridgeDB logger now has 100% unittest coverage. FIXES #10803
1293 * Vidalia is no longer mentioned on
1294 https://bridges.torproject.org, and instead there are new
1295 instructions on how to enter bridges into TBB>=3.5 (with
1297 * FIXES #11346 The web interface now has a homepage link. By clicking
1298 "BridgeDB" in the upper left corner, users can go back to the start
1299 of TBB downloading and bridge selection instructions at
1300 https://bridges.torproject.org.
1301 * FIXES #11370 We were using an old (and deprecated) module when we
1302 created our email responses. Now we use the newer version.
1303 * FIXES #11377 CAPTCHAs on BridgeDB's HTTPS interface are now
1304 case-insensitive. Thanks to Kostas Jakeliunas for the patch.
1305 * FIXES #11522 fixes several issues with encodings and exception
1306 handling in the email distributor.
1308 And includes the following general changes:
1309 * NEW interface design for https://bridges.torproject.org, including
1310 updated CSS stylesheets, fonts, and HTML templates. In particular,
1311 the https://bridges.torproject.org/options page has been redesigned
1312 completely. Thanks to Xengi for providing a modified design of the
1313 "roots" Tor Project logo, which is used to link to
1314 https://www.torproject.org.
1315 * CHANGES the TBB download link on the main web interface page to link
1316 to the new TBB-3.6.x-beta bundles, which include patches by David
1317 Fifield to unify TBB and PTTBB into one browser, so that Pluggable
1318 Transports (PTs) are only enabled when the user includes a bridge
1319 line which uses that PT.
1320 * FIXES plaintext responses on https://bridges.torproject.org,
1321 these can be requested by using the 'format' HTTP parameter, like
1322 so: https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?format=plain
1323 * FIXES the logging of all lines of (including headers!) of incoming
1325 * FIXES logfile rotation so that the files are only reable/writable
1326 by the running process owner, and no other user.
1327 * CHANGES the data format used for encrypted-then-HMACed CAPTCHAs
1328 to assume that the HMAC is the first 20 bytes. Before we assumed
1329 that the HMAC was separated from the encrypted data with a ';'
1330 character, which causes intermittent issues with some encoding and
1331 CAPTCHA solution values.
1332 * REFACTORS some of the translations handling code, so that soon emails
1333 will be translated (see #7550), and https://bridges.torproject.org
1334 should have a "Select Language" button (see #9678).
1335 * BUMPS leekspin version to 0.1.3.
1337 Changes in version 0.1.6 - 2014-03-26
1338 BridgeDB 0.1.6 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1339 * FIXES #11196 BridgeDB should use leekspin
1340 * FIXES #11218 ReCaptchaProtectedResource.checkSolution()
1341 doesn't expect a deferred
1342 * FIXES #11219 BridgeDB's twisted version doesn´t have a
1343 `t.w.client.HTTPConnectionPool` class
1344 * FIXES #11231 BridgeDB's txrecaptcha returns the "No bridges
1345 available!" page if 'captcha_response_field' is blank
1347 And includes the following general changes:
1348 * ADDS several new translations languages.
1350 Changes in version 0.1.5 - 2014-02-27
1351 BridgeDB 0.1.5 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1352 * FIXES #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's bridge
1353 pool assignment files
1354 * FIXES #10809 reCAPTCHA on bridges.torproject.org are impossible
1356 * FIXES #10834 Configurable reCAPTCHA remoteip
1357 * FIXES #11127 reCaptcha verification is hardcoded to use
1360 And includes the following general changes:
1361 * CHANGES the way the client's IP address is reported to the
1362 reCaptcha API server. Previously, for each client request, a completely
1363 random IP address was generated, and BridgeDB lied to the reCaptcha server
1364 by sending this random IP and saying that it was the client's IP. With these
1365 changes, BridgeDB can be configured to report a static IP address (it's own
1366 IP) as the client's IP, in the hopes that the IP whitelisting used by
1367 reCaptcha makes the returned CAPTCHAs less impossible to solve.
1368 * ADDS the ability to use a local cache of CAPTCHAs created by
1369 scripting Gimp with Python. See:
1370 https://github.com/isislovecruft/gimp-captcha
1371 * USES TLS during CAPTCHA solution verification when using
1374 Changes in version 0.1.4 - 2014-02-21
1375 BridgeDB 0.1.4 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1376 * FIXES an RTL encoding issue in the "Step 2" text on index.html
1377 of the HTTPS distributor.
1379 Changes in version 0.1.3 - 2014-02-21
1380 BridgeDB 0.1.3 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1381 * FIXES #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's bridge
1382 pool assignment files
1383 * FIXES a bug caused by attempts to convert descriptor digests
1384 which could not be parsed into hexadecimal.
1385 * FIXES a unicode decoding error within the bridgedb.persistent
1387 * REMOVES continuous integration testing for Python 2.6.
1389 Including the following general changes:
1390 * ADD volunteer page text for GSoC 2014 applications.
1392 Changes in version 0.1.2 - 2014-02-05
1393 BridgeDB 0.1.2 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1394 * FIXES #10811 BridgeDB's assignments.log files are not being updated
1396 Changes in version 0.1.1 - 2014-02-03
1397 BridgeDB 0.1.1 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1398 * FIXES #9127 Users can't ask for ipv6 bridges with the new bridgedb
1400 * FIXES #9988 Refactor BridgeDB's use of `sha` module to use `hashlib`
1401 * FIXES #10724 Most of the time spent in testing, as well as most
1402 of the time spent when "BridgeDB is down" (i.e. when I reply
1403 with "BridgeDB is single-threaded (see #5232) and is parsing
1404 millions of descriptors"), is within the same
1405 `bridgedb.Stability.addOrUpdateBridgeHistory()` function (see
1406 #10724). This function is pretty brutal on CPU and memory, is
1407 blocking, and it needs to runs thousands and thousands of
1408 times whenever BridgeDB is restarted (every half hour). The
1409 algorithm within that function has a time complexity increasing
1410 linearithmically relative to the number of bridges and timestamps
1411 already within the database. [0]
1412 This patch adds a config option to disable/enable running
1413 the `addOrUpdateBridgeHistory()` function.
1414 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Linearithmic_time
1415 * FIXES #10737 POST arguments to bridges.torproject.org are dropped if
1416 entering a CAPTCHA fails
1418 Including the following general changes:
1419 * ADDS A general simple error page to display rather than
1420 webserver tracebacks. See #6127.
1421 * MOVES The recently added BridgeDB specification file
1422 ('doc/bridge-db-spec.txt') to the torspec repo:
1423 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git
1424 * FIXES template caching for the web interface.
1426 Changes in version 0.1.0 - 2014-01-14
1427 BridgeDB 0.1.0 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1428 * FIXES #1606 Write a BridgeDB spec
1429 * FIXES #3573 bridges.torproject.org doesn't have a robots.txt
1430 * FIXES #6127 bridges.tpo runs in development mode
1431 * FIXES #9013 BridgeDB should pass pluggable transport
1432 shared-secrets to clients
1433 * FIXES #9157 Persian and Arabic should be right aligned on bridges.tpo
1434 * FIXES #9462 BridgeDB netstatus descriptor parsers need refactoring
1435 * FIXES #9959 BridgeDB seems to be missing English translations
1436 * FIXES #9865 Add automated code coverage report generation
1437 * FIXES #9872 Create a test runner for BridgeDB unittests
1438 * FIXES #9873 Convert BridgeDB's old unittests to use twisted.trial
1439 * FIXES #9937 Create fake non-sanitised bridge descriptors for
1440 BridgeDB testing purposes
1441 * FIXES #10333 Indexing list-like objects by 0L in
1442 Bridges.getConfigLine
1443 * FIXES #10446 BridgeDB is/was using a GeoIP module which is
1444 incompatible with virtualenvs
1445 * FIXES #10559 BridgeDB writes `keyid=` before fingerprints
1447 Including the following general changes:
1448 * ADD Numerous unittests and automated continuous integration testing.
1449 * ADD Patches by sysrqb to correctly render right-to-left languages.
1450 * FIXES fallback languages for translations.
1451 * ADD Sphinx makefiles, substantial amounts of documentation.
1452 * ADD Documentations builds (currently at
1453 https://para.noid.cat/bridgedb)
1455 Changes in version 0.0.1 - 2013-08-20
1456 BridgeDB 0.0.1 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1457 * FIXES #5332 Update BridgeDB documentation with deployment
1459 * FIXES #9156 BridgeDB: Users try to add obfsbridges to their
1461 These commits were added to fix a compatibility issue with
1462 Vidalia, though they may be reverted to switch back to the old
1463 behaviour of returning bridge lines in the form:
1464 Bridge [transport_method] address:port [keyid=fingerprint] [K=v] […]
1465 in order to work with torrc files and the new TBB-3.x packages
1466 which use TorLauncher instead of Vidalia.
1467 * PARTIAL FIX #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's
1468 bridge pool assignment files.
1469 * FIXES #9425 Create and document a better BridgeDB (re)deployment
1472 Including the following general changes:
1473 * UPDATE translations files with finished files from Transifex for
1474 the strings for the newly-refactored web interface created by
1476 * ADD an automatic version-numbering system as part of developing
1477 a better deployment strategy.
1478 * CHANGE setup.py script to automatically install Python-based
1479 dependencies from requirements.txt.
1480 * REMOVE MANIFEST.in and put equivalent 'include' directives into
1481 setup.py (the less places we have for manually keeping track of
1483 * REMOVE the "bridge " prefix from the lines returned on the web