1 Changes in version 0.11.0 - 2020-07-08
3 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31422
4 Make BridgeDB report internal metrics, like the median number of users that
5 bridges were handed out to.
7 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/34260
8 Parse bridge blocking information from SQL database.
10 * FIXES https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40001
11 Remove the --reload command line switch. It doesn't actually do anything.
13 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29184
14 Add a new configuration option, BLACKLISTED_TOR_VERSIONS, which contains a
15 list of Tor versions. BridgeDB won't hand out bridges whose Tor version
16 is present in this blacklist.
18 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/19774
19 Add a favicon to BridgeDB's web UI.
21 Changes in version 0.10.1 - 2020-05-27
23 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33945
24 This patch fixes a bug that caused the email autoresponder to fail after
27 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/34154
28 Add new fields to the SQLite table BlockedBridges in preparation for taking
29 into account OONI's bridge measurement results.
31 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31528
32 BridgeDB's UI uses a bunch of obscure "chatspeak" references in its UI. One
33 example is that it responds with "Uh oh, spaghettios!" if there are
34 currently no bridges available. While funny to some, this is difficult to
35 translate and shouldn't be part of software that's used by an international
36 audience. This patch removes such references.
38 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/12802
39 Add a script that sends a bridge request over email, and then checks if it
40 received a response from BridgeDB. We use this script as part of our nagios
41 setup, so we notice when our autoresponder breaks.
43 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/17548
44 This patch removes PGP support. BridgeDB's signing key expired on
45 2015-09-11. Nobody ever complained and maintaining the bits and pieces
46 necessary to sign emails isn't worth the effort, so this patch removes that
49 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30941
50 Make our email responder more usable. This patch removes the concept of
51 "valid" email commands and returns bridges (obfs4, for now) no matter what
52 the user sends. BridgeDB still supports email commands in case the user
53 needs a vanilla or IPv6 bridge.
55 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29686
56 Rename files that contain "Bridges" to "bridgerings", to eliminate headache
57 on file systems that are case insensitive.
59 Changes in version 0.10.0 - 2020-04-01
61 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30317
62 Update our "howto" box, which explains how one adds bridges to Tor Browser.
63 In addition to updating the instructions, this patch also links to
64 instructions for Android.
66 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33631
67 So far, BridgeDB remembered only the first distribution mechanism it ever
68 learned for a given bridge. That means that if a bridge would change its
69 mind and re-configure its distribution mechanism using BridgeDistribution,
70 BridgeDB would ignore it. This patch changes this behavior, so bridges can
71 actually change their distribution mechanism.
73 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31967
74 Use a CSPRNG for selecting cached CAPTCHAs.
76 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/33008
77 Add an info page, available at bridges.torproject.org/info. Relay Search
78 links to this info page to explain to bridge operators what their bridge
79 distribution mechanism means.
81 Changes in version 0.9.4 - 2020-02-19
83 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/30946
84 This patch ports BridgeDB to Python 3. Python 2 is no longer supported
87 Changes in version 0.9.3 - 2020-02-18
89 * FIXES <https://bugs.torproject.org/33299>
90 This patch disables the distribution of FTE, ScrambleSuit, and obfs3.
92 Changes in version 0.9.2 - 2020-02-04
94 * FIXES <https://bugs.torproject.org/31427>
95 This patch updates the AUTHORS file, HACKING.md, contact information, the
96 Trac URL to report bugs, our instructions on BridgeDB's landing page, and it
97 fixes a small bug in descriptor generation.
99 Changes in version 0.9.1 - 2019-10-29
101 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32203
102 The metrics code used to weed out vanilla bridges, so they did not show up
103 in our metrics. This patch fixes this issue.
105 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32134
106 While implementing our language switcher (#26543), we added a new string,
107 "Language", that requires translations. This patch adds a new translation
108 request and also updates our instructions on how to request new
111 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/32105
112 Mention an undocumented OS-level dependency: python3-dkim.
114 Changes in version 0.9.0 - 2019-10-16
116 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/26543
117 Implement a language switcher that allows users to override the locale that
118 BridgeDB automatically selects by inspecting the client's request headers.
120 Changes in version 0.8.3 - 2019-10-03
122 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31903
123 Update existing translations and request new translations. Thanks to all
124 volunteers who helped translate BridgeDB!
126 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/31780
127 We implemented BridgeDB's metrics in #9316 but haven't specified its format
128 until now. In addition to adding a specification, this patch also makes our
129 implementation consistent with our (slightly updated) specification.
131 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/29484
132 Update BridgeDB's requirements to the latest respective versions. Among
133 others, this patch set updates Twisted to 19.7.0, pyOpenSSL to 19.0.0, and
134 replaces (the abandoned) PyCrypto with PyCryptodome, which fixes security
137 Changes in version 0.8.2 - 2019-09-20
139 Updated translations for the following languages:
140 bn, da, eo, fa, it, ko, nl, pt_BR, pt_PT, sr, zh_CN.
142 Changes in version 0.8.1 - 2019-09-11
144 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/17626
145 BridgeDB gets confused when users reply to a "get help" email. The issue is
146 that BridgeDB interprets commands anywhere in the email body, even if it's
147 in quoted text. To fix this issue, we are ignoring commands whose email
148 body line starts with a '>' character, which is typically used for email
151 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/28533
152 The frontdesk is seeing plenty of empty bogus emails. This fix removes the
153 email links and instead encourages users to take a look at the Tor Browser
154 Manual and at our Support Portal.
156 Changes in version 0.8.0 - 2019-08-20
158 * FIXES https://bugs.torproject.org/9316
159 Make BridgeDB export usage metrics every 24 hours. At the end of each
160 24-hour measurement interval, BridgeDB will append usage metrics to the file
161 METRICS_FILE, which is configured in bridgedb.conf. Our metrics keep track
162 of the number of (un)successful requests per transport type per country code
163 (or email provider) per distribution method. This way, we get to learn
164 that, say, over the last 24 hours there were 31-40 users in Iran who
165 successfully requested an obfs4 bridge over Moat.
167 * FIXES #26542 https://bugs.torproject.org/26542
168 Make BridgeDB distribute vanilla IPv6 bridges again.
170 * FIXES #22755 https://bugs.torproject.org/22755
171 Use stem instead of leekspin to create test descriptors. We now don't need
172 to depend on leekspin anymore.
174 * FIXES #31252 https://bugs.torproject.org/31252
175 Add an anti-bot mechanism that allows us to detect bots by matching HTTP
176 request headers for blacklisted patterns. For example, bots may have their
177 Accept-Language set to "Klingon". Blacklisted patterns are configured in
178 BLACKLISTED_REQUEST_HEADERS_FILE. When BridgeDB detects a bot request, we
179 can answer their request with a decoy bridge that's only handed out to bots.
180 Decoy bridges are configured in DECOY_BRIDGES_FILE.
182 Changes in version 0.7.1 - 2019-06-07
184 * FIXES #28496 https://bugs.torproject.org/28496
185 Remove Yahoo from the list of allowed email domains. Yahoo allows you to
186 create up to 500 disposable email addresses, which BridgeDB interprets as
188 https://bugs.torproject.org/28496#comment:8
189 We could address this issue in BridgeDB but at this point we seem better off
190 dropping support for Yahoo because the provider likely also fell behind in
193 Changes in version 0.7.0 - 2019-06-07
195 * FIXES #28655 https://bugs.torproject.org/28655
196 When a bridge supports an active probing-resistant transport, it should not
197 give out flavors that are vulnerable to active probing. For example, if a
198 bridge supports obfs4 and obfs3, it should only give out obfs4.
200 * FIXES #30706 https://bugs.torproject.org/30706
201 Do some simple BridgeDB housekeeping: Add missing CHANGELOG entries, add
202 Philipp's contact info to the support section, fix a broken Trac URL, and
203 turn HTTP link into HTTPS.
205 * FIXES #30157: https://bugs.torproject.org/30157
206 Update BridgeDB translations. This ticket both adds new translations and
207 updates existing ones.
209 Changes in version 0.6.9 - 2018-11-20
211 * FIXES #23894 https://bugs.torproject.org/23894
212 Really change the contact address, in the correct place this time.
214 Changes in version 0.6.8 - 2018-11-19
216 * FIXES #28528 https://bugs.torproject.org/28528
217 Change maintainer info.
219 * FIXES #23894 https://bugs.torproject.org/23894
220 Change contact email address.
222 Changes in version 0.6.7 - 2018-05-21
224 Print fingerprints in hex thank you very much.
226 Changes in version 0.6.6 - 2018-05-21
228 * FIXES #26150 https://bugs.torproject.org/26150
229 Hotfix for strange bridges missing address fields.
231 Changes in version 0.6.5 - 2018-05-04
233 * FIXES #26023 https://bugs.torproject.org/26023
234 There's few bridges whose ed25519 certificates contain the year 491869,
235 which the datetime module (called from Stem) believes "out of range". So
236 instead we'll parse the descriptors one at a time and catch the errors as we
239 * FIXES #25246 https://bugs.torproject.org/25246
240 Add script for assigning unallocated bridges to another distributor.
242 Changes in version 0.6.4 - 2018-02-13
244 * FIXES #24432 https://bugs.torproject.org/24432
245 Add config option to skip loopback addresses in X-Forwarded-For parsing.
247 Changes in version 0.6.3 - 2018-01-23
249 * FIXES #24432 https://bugs.torproject.org/24432
250 The production moat server had issues related to redirecting to resources
251 properly, which are now fixed.
253 * FIXES #24701 https://bugs.torproject.org/24701
254 Adds a special surprise for the special someone who has been automatedly
255 requesting bridges not through driving a browser, but through a script which
256 is so thoroughly stupid that it doesn't even send the URL parameters for the
257 CAPTCHA challenge and solution. Their script will now be delayed for quite
258 some time and then rickrolled. Mess with the best, die like the rest.
260 * FIXES #24704 https://bugs.torproject.org/24704
261 Bridges returned to a single request are now filtered such that there will
262 never be two bridges from the same IPv4 /16 or IPv6 /64.
264 And includes the following general changes:
266 * ADDS unittests for the legacy code in bridgedb/Bridges.py,
267 bringing the total test coverage above 90% for the first time.
269 Changes in version 0.6.2 - 2017-12-20
271 * FIXES #24636 https://bugs.torproject.org/24636
272 The moat API specification included an extra response type which could be
273 sent if there was no overlap between transports the client supported and
274 those which the server supported. This has been removed from the
275 specification, which now describes the behaviour moat has always exhibited:
276 if there is no overlap, the server responds with a CAPTCHA image response
277 which includes the list of transports it does support.
279 * FIXES #24637 https://bugs.torproject.org/24637
280 The moat server did not respond correctly with the specified JSON API error
281 type when there were no bridges available. It now responds correctly with a
282 404 error whose details describe why the request could not be fulfilled.
283 The moat server also now logs messages if there were not the configured
284 MOAT_BRIDGES_PER_RESPONSE number of bridges available.
286 Changes in version 0.6.1 - 2017-12-13
288 * ADDS a shell script, scripts/test-moat, for testing either a
289 locally-running moat server, or a remote one through a meek tunnel. Thanks
290 to David Fifield for his work on meek, assistance setting it up, and
291 providing the first version of this script.
293 * FIXES #24433 https://bugs.torproject.org/24433
294 The test-moat script wasn't sending an X-Forwarded-For header, which
295 triggered a bug in the moat server, since the CAPTCHA solution includes an
296 HMAC based on the client's IP (forwarded through all the several layers of
299 * FIXES #24443 https://bugs.torproject.org/24443
300 Due to a difference between how booleans are parsed by Python's json library
301 and normal Python booleans, the moat server was generating and returning
302 QRCodes… regardless of whether the remote client application asked for one.
305 * FIXES #24460 https://bugs.torproject.org/24460
306 There was an unhandled error when sending certain (what appears to be
307 possibly malicious? but in a very strange way) requests to BridgeDB's HTTPS
308 distributor. The robots making the requests were attempting to request
309 bridges, but were presenting a CAPTCHA solution without the correct HTML
310 form field parameters present, which isn't possible through normal usage of
311 the web interface. Whoever or whatever is doing this is now going to be
312 endlessly redirected so that they may forever spiral in their own private
313 internet hell. I reserve the right come up with a worse fate for them
314 later, should I get bored.
316 * FIXES #3015 https://bugs.torproject.org/3015
317 BridgeDB has had a partially-implemented concept of "buckets" since the age
318 of the dinosaurs: write some of the unallocated bridges to a file which
319 should (somehow) be manually distributed. In addition to be unused and
320 untested, there were several issues with the buckets, the most significant
321 of which were the inability to request pluggable transports in a bucket and
322 the fact that buckets were not persistent in any way (e.g. if i request a
323 bucket of 50 bridges for Gomez and another with 50 for Morticia, they might
324 end up with some of the same bridges, further, tomorrow they'll end up with
325 50 possibly different bridges than those they received today). All of this
328 And includes the following general changes:
330 * FIXES issues with JSON quote syntax and a mistaken JSON API
331 "type" parameter in the specification of the moat server (in the README).
332 Thanks to Mark Smith and Kathy Brade for pointing out the issues.
334 Changes in version 0.6.0 - 2017-11-15
336 * ADDS a new JSON API distributor called "moat", which is intended
337 for use for Tor Launcher to use to build an in-browser UI for retrieving
340 * CHANGES the organisation of code to add a new
341 bridgedb.distributors package as well as a bridgedb.distributors.common
342 package for code shared between multiple distributors.
344 Changes in version 0.5.0 - 2017-10-28
346 * FIXES #23957 https://bugs.torproject.org/23957
347 BridgeDB now supports bridge operators choosing how their bridge will be
348 distributed. See the "BridgeDistribution" torrc option in tor's manpage for
351 * FIXES #16650 https://bugs.torproject.org/16650
352 BridgeDB is now accessible via select remote user interfaces through a meek
355 * FIXES #22998 https://bugs.torproject.org/23033
356 * FIXES #23033 https://bugs.torproject.org/23033
357 * FIXES #23034 https://bugs.torproject.org/23034
358 Upgrades BridgeDB to newer versions of Twisted and PyOpenSSL, and fixes
359 several issues due to non-backwards compatible changes within those
362 Changes in version 0.4.0 - 2017-01-09
364 * FIXES #21162 https://bugs.torproject.org/21162
365 BridgeDB now supports arbitrarily blacklisting suspected bad bridges from
366 being distributed to clients. This is in response to a suspected sybil
367 attack by an unknown party. For more details, see:
368 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-December/000851.html
370 Changes in version 0.3.8 - 2016-09-22
372 * FIXES #20088 https://bugs.torproject.org/20088
373 BridgeDB now supports receiving descriptors from multiple Bridge
374 Authorities. See also #19690.
376 * FIXES #20087 https://bugs.torproject.org/20087
377 BridgeDB's version of Stem now supports parsing transport lines in bridge
378 extrainfo descriptors which contain IPv6 addresses contained within square
381 Changes in version 0.3.7 - 2016-08-04
383 * FIXES #19691 https://bugs.torproject.org
384 BridgeDB (as running on Tor Project infrastructure) is now invocated with a
385 redirection of stdout and stderr to the flog utility, in order to ensure
386 that file handles are properly closed and reopened when BridgeDB receives a
389 And includes the following general changes:
391 * ADDS some files which were missing from BridgeDB PyPI packages
392 to the MANIFEST.in, so that they are now included.
394 Changes in version 0.3.6 - 2016-07-28
396 * FIXES #18237 https://bugs.torproject.org/18237
397 During descriptor parsing, BridgeDB saves copies of descriptor files which
398 couldn't be parsed, for later debugging purposes. To avoid filing up the
399 runtime directory with these files, we now delete files older than 24 hours,
402 * FIXES #18949 https://bugs.torproject.org/18949
403 Since we've upgraded the host machine which runs The Tor Project's BridgeDB
404 instance to Debian Jessie, this patch updates the testing configurations and
405 continuous integration infrastructure to run tests on versions of Python
406 dependencies in Debian Jessie and Stretch.
408 Changes in version 0.3.4 - 0.3.5 - 2015-11-30
410 * FIXES #14685 https://bugs.torproject.org/14685
411 This disables distribution of obfs2 bridges. This pluggable transport has
412 known distiguishers which allow adversaries to identify client connections
413 to obfs2 bridges, which in turn allows these connections to be
414 blocked/censored. With numerous obfs3 and obfs4 bridges both readily
415 available, users should not be presented with an easily-configurable choice
416 that is known to be unsafe for the majority of users.
418 And includes the following general changes:
420 * ADDS error pages to BridgeDB's web interface, to provide
421 friendlier explanations for downtime, missing pages, and internal server
422 errors. For example: https://bridges.torproject.org/404
424 Changes in version 0.3.3 - 2015-10-25
426 * FIXES #12029 https://bugs.torproject.org/12029
427 BridgeDB now has an API for creating Bridge Distributors. See the
428 bridgedb.distribute module, or its developer documentation at
429 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb/bridgedb.distribute.html.
431 * FIXES PART OF #12506 https://bugs.torproject.org/12506
432 BridgeDB's two Distributors (HTTPS and Email) are now entirely modularised
433 and self-contained within separate subdirectories in the source code. This
434 is the first step to redesigning these Distributors into their own separate
435 processes, which will allow the Distributors to remain functional while
436 BridgeDB is reparsing bridge descriptors.
438 * FIXES #15968 https://bugs.torproject.org/15968
439 BridgeDB now sends a Content-Security-Policy header which explicitly allows
440 Javascript, images, CSS, and fonts, from https://bridges.torproject.org.
441 All other types of content are forbidden, including:
442 - embedding https://bridges.torproject.org within
443 <iframe>, <embed>, or <object>, and attempting to source
444 additional resources into its embedded context
445 - inline Javascript, including Javascript within SVG files
447 - externally hosted fonts
448 - inline SVG, e.g. via the HTML5 <svg> tag
449 - any and all connections made via Javascript XMLHttpRequests,
450 WebSockets, sendBeacon(), and Web Workers
453 BridgeDB's Content-Security-Policy does not yet make use of certain newer,
454 lesser supported, Content-Security-Policy v2.0 directives, such as
455 "reflected-xss" and "frame-ancestors", but may someday.
457 * FIXES #16273 https://bugs.torproject.org/16273
458 Several links to Tor Project gitweb URLs within the developer documentation
459 were outdated in that they still used the old gitweb URL format. These are
460 now updated. Thanks to David Fifield for the bug report and patches.
462 * FIXES #16330 https://bugs.torproject.org/16330
463 BridgeDB can now handle bridge-server-descriptors with extra-info-digest
464 fields which have two values, as well as both bridge-server-descriptors and
465 bridge-extrainfo descriptors which contain Ed25519 key material and
466 signatures. See Tor proposals #220 and #228 for more information on the
467 changes to these descriptors. Note that BridgeDB can now parse this
468 information, but does not yet make use of any Ed25519 cryptographic material
469 within bridge descriptors.
470 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/220-ecc-id-keys.txt
471 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/228-cross-certification-onionkeys.txt
472 Thanks to Atagar for patching Stem.
474 * FIXES #16616 https://bugs.torproject.org/16616
475 The HSDir flag can now be included within bridge-networkstatus documents.
476 BridgeDB now has unittests which guarantee that its parsers safely ignore
477 this flag, as well as any flags unknown to BridgeDB which may appear in the
478 future. Thanks to Roger Dingledine for alerting me about the change.
480 * FIXES #16649 https://bugs.torproject.org/16649
481 Mobile users, and other users with small screen pixel ratios, will find that
482 the UI of BridgeDB's HTTPS Distributor has greatly increased in usability
485 And includes the following general changes:
487 * FIXES an error when requesting the non-HTML version of the
488 bridges page (e.g. https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?format=plain)
490 * REMOVES the `bridgedb test` commandline option.
491 BridgeDB's tests can be run via `python setup.py test` or `make test` (or
492 `make coverage` for generating HTML test coverage statistics).
494 * CHANGES the HTTPS Distributor to HTML-encode Bridge Lines.
495 Previously, a malicious Pluggable Transport Bridge could include in its PT
496 arguments something like "evil=<script>[…]</script>" and if such a Bridge
497 were to be distributed to a user, that user's web browser would execute the
498 script (if Javacript was enabled). Other characters, including non-ASCII,
499 control characters, double quotes, and backslashes, are also sanitised from
500 Bridge Lines. Thanks to Robert Ransom for the patches.
502 * CHANGES BridgeDB's module/package version numbers to be compliant with
505 * CHANGES the layout of BridgeDB's source code directories.
506 Rather than storing BridgeDB's source in "lib/bridgedb/", it is now kept in
507 "bridgedb/". Similarly, the directory containing BridgeDB's tests has been
508 moved from "lib/bridgedb/test/" to "test/", which means that the tests are
509 no longer installed when running `python setup.py install` or `make
512 * ADDS several improvements to the developer documentation at
513 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb.
515 * UPDATE English (en_US) translations.
517 * UPDATE English (en) translations.
519 * ADD Serbian (sr) translations.
520 Thanks to obj.petit.a, Ivan Radeljic, and Milenko Doder.
522 * UPDATE Arabic (ar) translations.
523 Thanks to A. Hassan, debo debo, KACIMI LAMINE, and Nudroid A.
525 * UPDATE Catalan (ca) translations.
528 * UPDATE Czech (cs) translations.
529 Thanks to Tomas Palik and Vlastimil Burián.
531 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
532 Thanks to Mogelbjerg.
534 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
535 Thanks to jschfr, Junge Limba, and Toralf Förster.
537 * UPDATE English (en_GB) translations.
538 Thanks to Andi Chandler.
540 * UPDATE Farsi (fa) translations.
541 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
543 * UPDATE Finish (fi) translations.
544 Thanks to Riku Viitanen.
546 * UPDATE French (fr) translations.
547 Thanks to elouann, Trans-fr, and Towinet.
549 * UPDATE French (fr_CA) translations.
552 * UPDATE Croatian (hr_HR) translations.
553 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
555 * UPDATE Hungarian (hu) translations.
556 Thanks to some awesome anonymous person for helping out.
558 * UPDATE Indonesian (id) translations.
559 Thanks to Anthony Santana, Astryd Viandila Dahlan, cholif yulian,
560 constantius damar wicaksono, Dwi Cahyono, L1Nus, km242saya, and Zamani
563 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
566 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
567 Thanks to ABE Tsunehiko.
569 * UPDATE Latvian (lv) translations.
570 Thanks to Ojārs Balcers.
572 * UPDATE Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translations.
573 Thanks to Erik Matson and Kristian Andre Henriksen.
575 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
578 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
579 Thanks to Karol Obartuch.
581 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt) translations.
582 Thanks to Bruno D. Rodrigues and MMSRS.
584 * UPDATE Brazillian Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
587 * UPDATE Romanian (ro) translations.
588 Thanks to Ana, axel_89, and Di N.
590 * UPDATE Russian (ru) translations.
593 * UPDATE Slovak (sk_SK) translations.
596 * UPDATE Albanian (sq) translations.
597 Thanks to some awesome unknown anonymous person who didn't add their name
598 to the list of translators.
600 * UPDATE Swedish (sv) translations.
601 Thanks to Peter Michanek.
603 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
604 Thanks to Bullgeschichte and Fomas.
606 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
609 * UPDATE Chinese Mandarin (zh_CN) translations.
612 * UPDATE Taiwanese Mandarin (zh_TW) translations.
615 Changes in version 0.3.2 - 2015-05-01
617 * FIXES a problem with the calculation of Levenshtein distances
618 between blacklisted email addresses and those on incoming email. This fixes
619 a problem with the fuzzy matching implemented in #9385:
620 https://bugs.torproject.org/9385.
622 * FIXES #1839 https://bugs.torproject.org/1839
623 BridgeDB's distributors now rotate their hashrings at configurable scheduled
626 * FIXES #4771 https://bugs.torproject.org/4771
627 BridgeDB now records which of the HTTPS Distributor's sub-hashrings are used
628 for clients coming from Tor Exit nodes and other known proxies.
630 * FIXES #12504 https://bugs.torproject.org/12504
631 Which Pluggable Transports BridgeDB distributes is now easily configurable
632 via the bridgedb.conf configuration file.
634 * FIXES #13202 https://bugs.torproject.org/13202
635 Old bridges running Tor-0.2.4.x with Pluggable Transports like scramblesuit
636 and obfs4proxy have a bug which causes them to not include the PT arguments
637 in the `transport` line they submit to the BridgeAuthority in their
638 extrainfo descriptors. This causes BridgeDB to have broken bridge lines for
639 these bridges. For example, scramblesuit requires a `password=` in the
640 `ClientTransportPlugin` for clients to connect to it. If BridgeDB receives
641 a line in that bridge's extrainfo which says `transport scramblesuit
642 1.2.3.4:1234` (without a password), then when BridgeDB gives clients a
643 bridge line for that bridge, it'll look like "Bridge scramblesuit
644 1.2.3.4:1234" - meaning that it won't work. This fixes the issue by
645 excluding broken transports from being distributed to clients.
647 * FIXES #15517 https://bugs.torproject.org/15517
648 For all clients who are coming from IPv6 addresses and are not using Tor,
649 who go to https://bridges.torproject.org, BridgeDB now groups these clients
650 together by /32. This "grouping" causes all IPv6 clients within the same
651 IPv6 /32 to get the same bridges. Previously, BridgeDB grouped IPv6 clients
652 by /64 (which is ridiculously small, considering standard IPv6 allocation
655 For all clients who are coming from IPv4 addresses and are not using Tor,
656 BridgeDB now groups these clients together by /16. Previously, BridgeDB
657 grouped IPv4 clients by /24. (This latter change was technically made as
660 * FIXES #15464 https://bugs.torproject.org/15464
661 The setup procedure for creating a BridgeDB Continuous Integration build
662 machine is now simplified and generalised to include build environments like
663 Jenkins, not just TravisCI.
665 * FIXES #15866 https://bugs.torproject.org/15866
666 BridgeDB now ignores nearly all the information in the networkstatus-bridges
667 file created by the BridgeAuthority.
669 * ADDS benchmark tests to BridgeDB's test suite, and some of
670 BridgeDB's algorithms have been revised to improve their speed.
672 Changes in version 0.3.1 - 2015-03-24
674 * FIXES #14065 https://bugs.torproject.org/14065
675 When requesting vanilla IPv6 bridges from https://bridges.torproject.org,
676 BridgeDB would respond with IPv4 addresses. It now correctly responds with
679 And includes the following general changes:
681 * FIXES an issue with the filtering of hashrings while answering
682 requests for Pluggable Transports. (commit 3ef37df6)
684 * FIXES the return value from the GnuPG interface initialization
685 function (bridgedb.crypto.initializeGnuPG) when creating a test signature
688 * CHANGES the way BridgeDB handles the case where it parses to
689 duplicate extrainfo descriptors (for the same Bridge) which also have
690 identical timestamps. Before, we assumed this wasn't possible. It turns
691 out that it not only is possible, but that usually every batch of
692 descriptors has at least one Bridge with such a set of perfectly identical
693 extrainfo descriptors. Even stranger, it appears that only Bridges started
694 for the first time quite recently (within the last eight hours) display this
695 behaviour. BridgeDB now logs these errors, rather than leaving them
696 unhandled. (commit a27d7905)
698 * ADDS an environment variable check to setup.py which controls
699 whether the setup.py script tries to install the dependencies listed in the
700 requirements.txt file with easy_install. If the environment variable
701 BRIDGEDB_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES=0, then setup.py will not use easy_install.
702 When BridgeDB is installed via `make install` the default is to not use
703 easy_install; however, when installed via `python setup.py install`, the
704 default is to use easy_install to check for, find, and install dependencies.
705 (NOTE: the latter is *not* recommended.) (commit d035fe64)
707 Changes in version 0.3.0 - 2015-03-21
709 * FIXES #2895 https://bugs.torproject.org/2895
710 BridgeDB no longer assumes that any extrainfo descriptor files are in
713 * FIXES #4405 https://bugs.torproject.org/4405
714 BridgeDB now has a built-in timer mechanism for scheduling cronjobesque
715 events. This is now used to routinely download and parse the list of Tor
716 exit relays in a completely asynchronous manner.
718 * FIXES #9380 https://bugs.torproject.org/9380
719 BridgeDB now uses Stem (https://stem.torproject.org) for its parsers, and
720 has better classes for parsing and storing information on Bridges and their
721 Pluggable Transports. Additionally, all of BridgeDB's parses and the new
722 Bridge/PluggableTransport classes all have 100% unittest and integration
725 * FIXES #10385 https://bugs.torproject.org/10385
726 BridgeDB now uses python-gnupg (https://pypi.python.org/gnupg) instead of
727 GPGME (libgpgme11 and pygpgme). Previously, when using GPGME, BridgeDB was
728 unable to sign emails with a subkey whose master private key was not
729 present, causing all signing to be broken. Additionally, GPGME tried to
730 access and modify the BridgeDB users $HOME directory, and GPGME would also
731 try to create signatures with encryption-only subkeys, and try to
732 encrypt/decrypt with signing-only subkeys. All of these issues are no more,
733 because the writhing tangled mass of bugs known ad GPGME is gone for good.
735 * FIXES #11216 https://bugs.torproject.org/11216
736 BridgeDB no longer parses any extrainfo descriptor files cumulatively.
737 Before, a Bridge which had a descriptor in cached-extrainfo and in
738 cached-extrainfo.new and supported obfs3, obfs4, and scramblesuit transports
739 would be parsed twice, resulting in the Bridge having six transports. This
740 is no longer the case.
742 * HOTFIXES an issue with non-deterministic unittest failures in
743 the Mechanize-based integrations tests in lib/bridgedb/test/test_https.py.
744 hotfix/0.2.4-mechanize-tags
746 * FIXES part of #12507 https://bugs.torproject.org/12507
747 BridgeDB now has semi-automated developer documentation builds at
748 https://pythonhosted.org/bridgedb/.
750 * FIXES #12805 https://bugs.torproject.org/12805
751 BridgeDB is now packaged on PyPI, in the hopes that someday other
752 organisations will be able to run their own BridgeDBs.
754 * FIXES #12843 https://bugs.torproject.org/12843
755 BridgeDB will no longer distribute bridges which it believes are located in
758 * FIXES #12872 https://bugs.torproject.org/12872
759 BridgeDB now has geolocational information for Bridges, telling it which
760 country each Bridge's primary ORAddress is within, as well as geolocational
761 information for each PluggableTransport address. Thanks to Alden S. Page
764 * FIXES #15155 https://bugs.torproject.org/15155
765 The instructions for obtaining a copy of Tor Browser should now be more
766 clear. Thanks to Jens Kubieziel, Nick Mathewson, and Peter Palfrader.
768 And includes the following general changes:
769 * CHANGES BridgeDB's continuous integration infrastructure to run
771 - Twisted-13.2.0 (Debian Wheezy version),
772 - Twisted-14.0.2 (Debian Jessie version), and
773 - Twisted-15.0.0 (latest and greatest)
774 As well as testing both:
775 - pyOpenSSL-0.13.1 (Debian Wheezy version), and
776 - pyOpenSSL-0.14 (Debian Jessie version).
777 See https://travis-ci.org/isislovecruft/bridgedb/builds
779 * FIXES an issue with the $PYTHON_EGG_CACHE directory being group
780 writable on Travis-CI build machines.
782 * UPDATE English (en_US) translations.
784 * UPDATE English (en) translations.
786 * ADD Tamil (ta) translations.
789 * ADD Albanian (sq) translations.
790 Thanks to Bujar Tafili.
792 * ADD Slovenian (sl_SI) translations.
793 Thanks to Dušan, marko, and Nwolfy.
795 * ADD Slovak (sk_SK) translations.
798 * ADD Esperanto (eo) translations.
799 Thanks to identity, Rico Chan, and trio.
801 * ADD Bulgarian (bg) translations.
804 * ADD Azerbaijani (az) translations.
807 * UPDATE Chinese (zh_TW) translations.
810 * UPDATE Chinese (zh_CN) translations.
811 Thanks to Wu Ming Shi and YF.
813 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
814 Thanks to Eugene ghostishev, LinuxChata, Oleksii Golub, and
817 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
818 Thanks to eromytsatiffird, Emir Sarı, Idil Yuksel, ozkansib,
819 Volkan Gezer, and zeki.
821 * UPDATE Swedish (sv) translations.
822 Thanks to Anders Jensen-Urstad, Emil Johansson, GabSeb, ph AA, phst,
825 * UPDATE Slovak (sk) translations.
826 Thanks to elo, FooBar, Michal Slovák, Roman 'Kaktuxista' Benji, and
829 * UPDATE Russian (ru) translations.
830 Thanks to Andrey Yoker Ogurchikov, Evgrafov Denis, foo,
831 joshuaridney, Oleg, Sergey Briskin, Valid Olov, and Vitaliy Grishenko.
833 * UPDATE Romanian (ro) translations.
834 Thanks to Isus Satanescu, laura berindei, and clopotel.
836 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
837 Thanks to João Paulo S.S.
839 * UPDATE Portuguese (pt) translations.
840 Thanks to alfalb.as, André Monteiro, kagazz, Manuela Silva,
841 alfalb_mansil, Andrew_Melim, Pedro Albuquerque, Sérgio Marques, and
844 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
845 Thanks to Aron, JerBen, bogdrozd, Dawid, Rikson, Krzysztof Łojowski,
848 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
849 Thanks to Adriaan Callaerts, Ann Boen, Cleveridge, Dick,
850 Johann Behrens, Shondoit Walker, Marco Brohet, guryman, Marco
851 Brohet, Tom Becht, Tonko Mulder, math1985, and BBLN.
853 * UPDATE Norwegian Bokmål (nb) translations.
854 Thanks to Allan Nordhøy, Harald, lateralus, Per Thorsheim,
857 * UPDATE Latvian (lv) translations.
858 Thanks to Ojārs Balcers and ThePirateDuck.
860 * UPDATE Khmer (km) translations.
861 Thanks to Seng Sutha, Sokhem Khoem, and Sok Sophea.
863 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
864 Thanks to brt, ABE Tsunehiko, タカハシ, Masaki Saito, and
867 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
868 Thanks to fetidyoo, Francesca Ciceri, HostFat, ironbishop, and
871 * UPDATE Hungarian (hu) translations.
872 Thanks to Blackywantscookies, Lajos Pasztor, Cerbo, and vargaviktor.
874 * UPDATE Croatian (hr) translations.
875 Thanks to Ana B, Armando Vega, skiddiep, Tomislav Siroglavić,
878 * UPDATE French (fr_CA) translations.
879 Thanks to Lunar, mehditaileb, Onizuka, and yahoe.001.
881 * UPDATE French (fr) translations.
882 Thanks to apaddlingduck, fayçal fatihi, Boubou, Cryptie,
883 Frisson Reynald, hpatte, Lucas Leroy, Lunar, Onizuka, and mehditaileb.
885 * UPDATE Finnish (fi) translations.
886 Thanks to Jorma Karvonen, Spacha, Ossi Kallunki, Sami Kuusisto,
887 viljaminojonen, and Finland355.
889 * UPDATE Farsi (fa) translations.
890 Thanks to arashaalaei, signal89, ardeshir, Gilberto, johnholzer,
891 Mohammad Hossein, perspolis, and Setareh.
893 * UPDATE Spanish (es) translations.
894 Thanks to dark_yoshi, toypurina, BL, NinjaTuna, Noel Torres,
895 Paola Falcon, strel, and Jonis.
897 * UPDATE English (en_GB) translations.
898 Thanks to Andi Chandler, Richard Shaylor, and ronnietse.
900 * UPDATE Greek (el) translations.
901 Thanks to Adrian Pappas, andromeas, oahanx, isv31, and kotkotkot.
903 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
904 Thanks to trantor, Ettore Atalan, unknwon_anonymous, konstibae,
905 Locke, Tobias Bannert, qbi, Sebastian, and debakel.
907 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
908 Thanks to Christian Villum, David Nielsen, OliverMller, torebjornson,
909 Thomas Pryds, and Tore Bjørnson.
911 * UPDATE Czech (cs) translations.
912 Thanks to A5h8d0wf0x, Adam Slovacek, Elisa, Sanky, Jiří Vírava,
913 mxsedlacek, and Radek Bensch.
915 * UPDATE Catalan (ca) translations.
916 Thanks to Albert, Assumpta Anglada, Eloi García i Fargas, Humbert,
919 * UPDATE Arabic (ar) translations.
920 Thanks to Ash and Valetudinarian.
922 Changes in version 0.2.4 - 2015-02-03
924 * HOTFIXES a UnicodeDecodeError resulting from patches for #12627.
925 https://bugs.torproject.org/12627
927 * FIXES #9874 https://bugs.torproject.org/9874
928 BridgeDB now has integration tests for all bridge distributors. Thanks to
929 trygve for the patches.
931 * FIXES #12871 https://bugs.torproject.org/12871
932 Bridge Buckets now work, even if the code for calculating Bridge stability
933 is disabled. Thanks to Matt Finkel for the patches.
935 * FIXES part of #12029 https://bugs.torproject.org/12029
936 Major sections of the bridgedb.Bridges module, which holds BridgeDB's main
937 data structures for storing and parsing Bridges, have been refactored in
938 preparation for upcoming changes to use Stem's parsers (see #9380
939 https://bugs.torproject.org/9380)
941 * FIXES #12932 https://bugs.torproject.org/12932
942 Arguments for Pluggable Transports in the bridge lines which BridgeDB
943 distributes to users are now properly space-separated. This issue was
944 affecting the deployment of the obfs4 PT (see #12130
945 https://bugs.torproject.org/12130).
947 * FIXES #13123 https://bugs.torproject.org/13123
948 Previously, there were two additional whitespace characters at the beginning
949 of bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor, which would be
950 annoyingly copy+pasted into TorLauncher and torrcs, etc. These are now
953 * FIXES #12664 https://bugs.torproject.org/12664
954 Previously, for the bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor,
955 the newlines were not properly pasted when a user would copy+paste the
956 lines. This is now fixed. Additionally, there is now a "Select All" button
957 (JS must be enabled) to select all text for the bridge lines, to attempt to
958 reduce user copy+paste errors. If the display area which contains the
959 bridge lines is clicked, and JS is enabled, it has the same effect as
960 clicking the "Select All" button.
962 * FIXES #14064 https://bugs.torproject.org/14064
963 The bridge lines handed out by BridgeDB's HTTPS distributor are now
964 displayed with a horizontal scrollbar if they are too long to fit into the
967 * FIXES #11345 https://bugs.torproject.org/11345
968 BridgeDB now supports giving users QRCodes for their bridge lines, to
969 facilitate getting bridges into Tails and onto mobile devices.
971 * FIXES #12130 https://bugs.torproject.org/12130
972 BridgeDB's distributors now have options to distribute obfs4 bridges.
974 And includes the following general changes:
975 * CHANGES the integration tests based on Mechanize to only run on
976 CI servers, not locally on developers laptops, since it requires the running
977 BridgeDB test/staging instance to offer a plaintext HTTP interface. See
979 https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git/commit/?id=24acf6a72931c602631c97dbbeb582c22cf446cb
981 * ADDS better installation instructions in README.rst for
982 developers who wish to test their changes to BridgeDB. Thanks to Alden Page
985 Changes in version 0.2.3 - 2014-07-26
987 * FIXES #5463 https://bugs.torproject.org/5463
988 BridgeDB can now OpenPGP sign outgoing emails.
990 * FIXES #9385 https://bugs.torproject.org/9385
991 BridgeDB now has the ability to blacklist email addresses, and configurable
992 options to fuzzy match and block addresses which are similar enough to those
995 * FIXES #11139 https://bugs.torproject.org/11139
996 You can now email BridgeDB from Riseup email addresses!
998 * FIXES #12147 https://bugs.torproject.org/12147
999 An additional issue with BridgeDB's code for scheduling actions was
1000 identified by Robert Ransom, who also provided a unittest to demonstrate the
1001 issue and test for future regressions. The issue pointed out has also been
1004 * FIXES #12635 https://bugs.torproject.org/12635
1005 The links in BridgeDB's email and HTTPS distributor UIs have been changed
1007 https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en#downloads-beta
1009 https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.
1011 * FIXES #12650 https://bugs.torproject.org/12650
1012 BridgeDB's translation files sometimes take a little while to update because
1013 real live human volunteers need to go to Transifex.org and convert the
1014 strings between languages. Then I need to import the strings, check all of
1015 them by hand to make sure there's no funny business which could harm users
1016 in them, and then commit all the diffs. Sadly, there isn't much more we can
1017 do to speed up this process, so sometimes BridgeDB's UI falls back to
1018 English when it doesn't have new enough translations files. Sorry!
1020 And includes the following general changes:
1022 * UPDATE translation: Chinese - Taiwan (zh_TW)
1024 * UPDATE translation: Chinese - China (zh_CN)
1025 THANKS TO Meng3, leungsookfan, and Wu Ming Shi.
1026 * UPDATE translation: Turkish (tr)
1027 THANKS TO eromytsatiffird, Emre, Idil Yuksel, ozkansib,
1028 Volkan Gezer, and zeki.
1029 * UPDATE translation: Swedish (sv)
1030 THANKS TO Anders Jensen-Urstad, GabSeb, and phst.
1031 * UPDATE translation: Russian (ru)
1032 THANKS TO Evgrafov Denis, Eugene, foo, Sergey Briskin,
1033 Valid Olov, and Vitaliy Grishenko.
1034 * UPDATE translation: Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
1035 THANKS TO Isabel Ferreira, and Rodrigo Emmanuel Santana
1037 * UPDATE translation: Portuguese (pt)
1038 THANKS TO André Monteiro, kagazz, Manuela Silva,
1039 Andrew_Melim, and Sérgio Marques.
1040 * UPDATE translation: Polish (pl)
1041 THANKS TO Aron, Dawid, Krzysztof Łojowski, and seb.
1042 * UPDATE translation: Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
1043 THANKS TO Allan Nordhøy, Harald, and thor574.
1044 * UPDATE translation: Malay (ms_MY)
1046 * UPDATE translation: Latvian (lv)
1047 THANKS TO Ojārs Balcers.
1048 * UPDATE translation: Khmer (km)
1049 THANKS TO Seng Sutha, Sokhem Khoem, and Sok Sophea.
1050 * UPDATE translation: Hungarian (hu)
1051 THANKS TO Blackywantscookies, and Cerbo.
1052 * UPDATE translation: Croatian (hr_HR)
1054 * UPDATE translation: Hebrew (he)
1056 * UPDATE translation: Canadian French (fr_CA)
1057 THANKS TO yahoe.001.
1058 * UPDATE translation: French (fr)
1059 THANKS TO fayçal fatihi, Frisson Reynald, hpatte, Lunar,
1060 Onizuka, themen, Towinet, and Yannick Heintz.
1061 * UPDATE translation: Finish (fi)
1062 THANKS TO viljaminojonen, and Finland355.
1063 * UPDATE translation: Farsi (fa)
1064 THANKS TO Mohammad Hossein.
1065 * UPDATE translation: Spanish - Chile (es_CL)
1066 THANKS TO Pablo Lezaeta.
1067 * UPDATE translation: Spanish (es)
1068 THANKS TO Paola Falcon.
1069 * UPDATE translation: British English (en_GB)
1070 THANKS TO richardshaylor.
1071 * UPDATE translation: Greek (el)
1072 THANKS TO Adrian Pappas, andromeas, isv31, and Wasilis
1074 * UPDATE translation: German (de)
1075 THANKS TO Tobias Bannert.
1076 * UPDATE translation: Danish (da)
1077 THANKS TO autofunk78.
1078 * UPDATE translation: Arabic (ar)
1079 THANKS TO Ahmad Gharbeia, Mohamed El-Feky, AnonymousLady,
1080 0xidz, Sherief Alaa , and محيي الدين.
1082 Changes in version 0.2.2 - 2014-06-06
1084 * FIXES #9874 https://bugs.torproject.org/9874
1085 BridgeDB's email and HTTPS distributors were written in a manner that makes
1086 them largely impossible to write unittests for. Since the recent rewrite of
1087 BridgeDB's email distributor server backends for version 0.2.1, BridgeDB
1088 email distributor is now testable and has near 100% code coverage, see
1089 https://coveralls.io/r/isislovecruft/bridgedb
1091 * FIXES #12086 https://bugs.torproject.org/12086
1092 BridgeDB was found to accept incoming emails sent to any email address whose
1093 local part included the word bridges, e.g. emails sent to
1094 'givemebridges@serious.ly' would be responded to as if they were destined
1095 for BridgeDB's real email address.
1096 - BridgeDB now strictly checks that the local part of the email address
1097 that an incoming email was sent to (after removing plus aliases, i.e.
1098 '+es_ES', '+fa', etc.) exactly matches BridgeDB configured email address
1100 - BridgeDB now checks that the domain name portion of the email address
1101 that an incoming email was sent to either matches the domain name
1102 portion of BridgeDB's configured email address, or is a subdomain of
1105 * FIXES #12089 https://bugs.torproject.org/12089
1106 There has been a bug for quite some time now where BridgeDB could be used to
1107 email arbitrary email addresses (as long as these addresses were ones which
1108 BridgeDB allows, i.e. Gmail or Yahoo email addresses). This was due to
1109 BridgeDB not checking that the email address used in the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:'
1110 command on an incoming message matched the one used in that email's 'From:'
1112 - BridgeDB now checks that the email addresses in the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:'
1113 and the 'From:' header on that incoming email match, in addition to the
1114 previous checks that the email address' domain is in the set of allowed
1117 * FIXES #12090 https://bugs.torproject.org/12090
1118 BridgeDB has been replying with an empty email. I don't actually know for
1119 sure if this one is fixed. Before deploying version 0.2.1, the continuous
1120 integration tests showed email responses being correctly generated, and I
1121 was also able to receive correctly formed email responses from BridgeDB on a
1122 local testing instance on my laptop. It appears that this bug occurs only on
1123 the deployment server at ponticum.torproject.org, possibly due to the
1124 outdated Python version in Debian Wheezy. I have not been able to reproduce
1125 this bug on any other machine.
1127 * FIXES #12091 https://bugs.torproject.org/12091
1128 BridgeDB wasn't properly ignoring emails whose DKIM signature verification
1129 header read "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: dunno".
1130 - Bridgedb now marks incoming emails which have a
1131 "X-DKIM-Authentication-Results: dunno" header as invalid and ignores
1134 * FIXES #12147 https://bugs.torproject.org/12147
1135 If a user refreshed https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges after
1136 successfully solving a CAPTCHA, BridgeDB would reply with a new set of
1137 bridges for each page refresh. This was due to the use of `getInterval()` in
1138 `IPBasedDistributor.getBridgesForIP()`. The correct function to use is
1139 `getIntervalStart()`. This had been noted in a "XXX FIXME" comment above
1140 the call for quite some time, however, when the `bridgedb.schedule`
1141 (previously called `bridgedb.Time`) module was revised to support CAPTCHA
1142 timeouts (#11215), the call to `getInterval()` was mistakenly not replaced
1143 with the correct function.
1144 - BridgeDB CAPTCHAs must be solved within 10 minutes.
1145 - Hashring rotation for bridges in BridgeDB HTTPS distributor occurs every
1146 3 hours. Refreshing the page with bridges on it will return these same
1147 bridges for that time period, and afterwards redirect back to the
1148 CAPTCHA page. THANKS TO francisco on IRC and arma for reporting the
1151 * FIXES #12212 https://bugs.torproject.org/12122
1152 TRANSLATOR comments are now properly extracted into the gettext PO template
1155 And include the following general changes:
1156 * FIXES an issue where, when verifying GnuPG signatures made by
1157 BridgeDB's email distributor, GnuPG would error, saying, "invalid armor
1160 * ADD Korean (ko) translations.
1161 Thanks to ilbe123, cwt96, Dr.what, and pCsOrI.
1163 * UPDATE Ukranian (uk) translations.
1164 Thanks to LinuxChata and ghostishev.
1166 * UPDATE Turkish (tr) translations.
1167 Thanks to volkangezer.
1169 * UPDATE Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translations.
1170 Thanks to Communia, Humberto Sartini, Anastasia01, and recognitium.
1172 * UPDATE Polish (pl) translations.
1173 Thanks to hoek, yodaa, maxxx, and sebx.
1175 * UPDATE Dutch (nl) translations.
1176 Thanks to Ann Boen, erwindelaat, guryman, and BBLN.
1177 You guys are extra awesome for translating the phrase:
1178 "Uh oh, spaghettios!"
1181 which, in English, literally means:
1182 "Unfortunately, peanut butter!"
1183 You guys totally just made my day. Thanks.
1185 * UPDATE Japanese (ja) translations.
1186 Thanks to plazmism, who is extra awesome for translating the phrase:
1187 "Uh oh, spaghettios!"
1190 which apparently the literal English translation is:
1191 "Husband spaghetti!"
1193 * UPDATE Italian (it) translations.
1196 * UPDATE Canadian French (fr_CA) translations.
1199 * UPDATE Spanish (es) translations.
1200 Thanks to dark_yoshi and strel.
1202 * UPDATE Greek (el) translations.
1203 Thanks to pappasadrian.
1205 * UPDATE German (de) translations.
1206 Thanks to trantor and unknwon_anonymous.
1208 * UPDATE Danish (da) translations.
1209 Thanks to autofunk78 and DavidNielsen.
1211 Changes in version 0.2.1 - 2014-05-16
1212 * FIXES #5463 https://bugs.torproject.org/5463
1213 Emails sent from BridgeDB's email distributor should now be signed.
1214 - BridgeDB's emails will be signed with its online GnuPG keypair. The
1215 public key has the following fingerprint:
1216 DF81 1109 E17C 8BF1 34B5 EEB6 8DC4 3A28 4882 1E32
1217 The online keypair rotates (a new one is placed on the server once per
1218 year), and it will ALWAYS be signed with BridgeDB's offline keypair.
1219 - The online keypair above contains two subkeys. The signing subkey has
1221 9FE3 9D1A 7438 9223 3B3F 66F2 21B5 54E9 5938 F4D0
1222 - BridgeDB's offline keypair has the following fingerprint:
1223 7B78 4370 15E6 3DF4 7BB1 270A CBD9 7AA2 4E8E 472E
1224 All of BridgeDB's keys may be found on the public keyservers, as well as at
1225 https://bridges.torproject.org/keys
1227 * FIXES #7547 https://bugs.torproject.org/7547
1228 BridgeDB's email distributor will now send you a message explaining how to
1229 use it, including valid commands and the list of Pluggable Transport TYPES
1230 currently supported. To receive help with the email distributor, simply send
1231 an email to mailto:bridges@torproject.org.
1232 - Any emails which do not contain a valid command will receive the help
1234 - Otherwise, to specifically request the help text, just say "get help" in
1235 the body of your email.
1237 * FIXES #7550 https://bugs.torproject.org/7550
1238 BridgeDB's email responder is now interactive, as described in the above
1239 entry for ticket #7547.
1241 * FIXES #8241 https://bugs.torproject.org/8241
1242 BridgeDB's HTTP distributor won't tell you how to get obfs3 bridges through
1243 email, although a blank email, or an email containing "get help" will.
1245 * CLOSES #9678 https://bugs.torproject.org/9678
1246 A "Select Language" button was requested for the HTTP distributor on
1247 https://bridges.torproject.org. Instead, translated pages are distributed
1248 automatically (via detecting the "Accept-Language" header which can be set
1249 in the Settings panel of all modern browers).
1250 - To request a specific translation, the "lang=LOCALE" argument can be
1251 added to the URL of any page. For example:
1252 https://bridges.torproject.org/options?lang=ar will provide the bridge
1253 options selection page in Arabic.
1255 * FIXES #11215 https://bugs.torproject.org/11215
1256 BridgeDB's usage of gimp-captcha, which creates a local cache of CAPTCHA for
1257 use on the HTTP distributor, now supports timeouts. If a CAPTCHA is not
1258 solved within 30 minutes of being served to a client, the solution is
1259 invalid regardless of its correctness.
1261 * FIXES #11475 https://bugs.torproject.org/11475
1262 BridgeDB's email responder, up until this point, explained how to use
1263 bridges with Vidalia. It now uses the same help text as found at
1264 https://bridges.torproject.org/howto which explains how to enter bridges
1265 into TorLauncher (used by Tor Browser and Tails).
1267 * FIXES #11522 https://bugs.torproject.org/11522
1268 There were several errors and bugs in BridgeDB's email distributor. The
1269 entire system of server supporting BridgeDB's email distribution system was
1272 * FIXES #11664 https://bugs.torproject.org/11664
1273 Due to changes in the Python language builtin `buffer` in Python3, which
1274 were backported to Python 2.7.6, but neither backported to Python 2.6.x nor
1275 to Python <= 2.7.5, BridgeDB's use of `io.StringIO` and `io.BytesIO`
1276 combined with buffers had to be revised to support both the new and old
1277 Python `buffer` APIs.
1279 * FIXES #11753 https://bugs.torproject.org/11753
1280 BridgeDB's emails should now be translated.
1281 - The translations system for BridgeDB, as well as the template system for
1282 emails, was completely rewritten. By default, email responses are in
1283 English. To receive an alternate translation, send an email to
1284 bridges+LOCALE@torproject.org, where "LOCALE" is a locale specifier.
1285 - For example, to receive BridgeDB emails translated into Chinese, use
1286 mailto:bridges+zh_CN@torproject.org.
1287 - Or for Farsi translations, use mailto:bridges+fa@torproject.org.
1288 - For the full list of currently supported LOCALE codes, see
1289 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/bridgedb.git/tree/HEAD:/lib/bridgedb/i18n/
1291 And includes the following general changes:
1292 * UPDATES the Italian (it) gettext file.
1293 Thanks to Francesca Ciceri.
1294 * ADD Welsh (cy) translations.
1295 Thanks to huwwaters and littlegreykida.
1296 * ADD Slovak (sk) translations.
1297 Thanks to Michelozzo and Svistwarrior273.
1298 * UPDATES the bridgedb.pot translation template file. All the new
1299 strings in the email and HTTP user interfaces will now need
1300 translation! To help out with translations, please see:
1301 https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/torproject/resource/2-bridgedb-bridgedb-pot/
1302 * FIXES several typos in the BridgeDB's code documentation.
1303 * ADDS code documentation for several previously undocumented modules.
1305 Changes in version 0.2.0 - 2014-04-19
1306 * FIXES #5232 Perform long running and blocking transactions in
1307 background threads. Primarily this moves bridge descriptor reparsing
1308 into another thread, which significantly increases the availability
1310 * FIXES #9119 BridgeDB's logger now automatically sanitises all email
1311 and IP addresses when the SAFELOGGING config option is enabled.
1312 * FIXES #9875 BridgeDB logger now has 100% unittest coverage. FIXES #10803
1313 * Vidalia is no longer mentioned on
1314 https://bridges.torproject.org, and instead there are new
1315 instructions on how to enter bridges into TBB>=3.5 (with
1317 * FIXES #11346 The web interface now has a homepage link. By clicking
1318 "BridgeDB" in the upper left corner, users can go back to the start
1319 of TBB downloading and bridge selection instructions at
1320 https://bridges.torproject.org.
1321 * FIXES #11370 We were using an old (and deprecated) module when we
1322 created our email responses. Now we use the newer version.
1323 * FIXES #11377 CAPTCHAs on BridgeDB's HTTPS interface are now
1324 case-insensitive. Thanks to Kostas Jakeliunas for the patch.
1325 * FIXES #11522 fixes several issues with encodings and exception
1326 handling in the email distributor.
1328 And includes the following general changes:
1329 * NEW interface design for https://bridges.torproject.org, including
1330 updated CSS stylesheets, fonts, and HTML templates. In particular,
1331 the https://bridges.torproject.org/options page has been redesigned
1332 completely. Thanks to Xengi for providing a modified design of the
1333 "roots" Tor Project logo, which is used to link to
1334 https://www.torproject.org.
1335 * CHANGES the TBB download link on the main web interface page to link
1336 to the new TBB-3.6.x-beta bundles, which include patches by David
1337 Fifield to unify TBB and PTTBB into one browser, so that Pluggable
1338 Transports (PTs) are only enabled when the user includes a bridge
1339 line which uses that PT.
1340 * FIXES plaintext responses on https://bridges.torproject.org,
1341 these can be requested by using the 'format' HTTP parameter, like
1342 so: https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?format=plain
1343 * FIXES the logging of all lines of (including headers!) of incoming
1345 * FIXES logfile rotation so that the files are only reable/writable
1346 by the running process owner, and no other user.
1347 * CHANGES the data format used for encrypted-then-HMACed CAPTCHAs
1348 to assume that the HMAC is the first 20 bytes. Before we assumed
1349 that the HMAC was separated from the encrypted data with a ';'
1350 character, which causes intermittent issues with some encoding and
1351 CAPTCHA solution values.
1352 * REFACTORS some of the translations handling code, so that soon emails
1353 will be translated (see #7550), and https://bridges.torproject.org
1354 should have a "Select Language" button (see #9678).
1355 * BUMPS leekspin version to 0.1.3.
1357 Changes in version 0.1.6 - 2014-03-26
1358 BridgeDB 0.1.6 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1359 * FIXES #11196 BridgeDB should use leekspin
1360 * FIXES #11218 ReCaptchaProtectedResource.checkSolution()
1361 doesn't expect a deferred
1362 * FIXES #11219 BridgeDB's twisted version doesn´t have a
1363 `t.w.client.HTTPConnectionPool` class
1364 * FIXES #11231 BridgeDB's txrecaptcha returns the "No bridges
1365 available!" page if 'captcha_response_field' is blank
1367 And includes the following general changes:
1368 * ADDS several new translations languages.
1370 Changes in version 0.1.5 - 2014-02-27
1371 BridgeDB 0.1.5 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1372 * FIXES #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's bridge
1373 pool assignment files
1374 * FIXES #10809 reCAPTCHA on bridges.torproject.org are impossible
1376 * FIXES #10834 Configurable reCAPTCHA remoteip
1377 * FIXES #11127 reCaptcha verification is hardcoded to use
1380 And includes the following general changes:
1381 * CHANGES the way the client's IP address is reported to the
1382 reCaptcha API server. Previously, for each client request, a completely
1383 random IP address was generated, and BridgeDB lied to the reCaptcha server
1384 by sending this random IP and saying that it was the client's IP. With these
1385 changes, BridgeDB can be configured to report a static IP address (it's own
1386 IP) as the client's IP, in the hopes that the IP whitelisting used by
1387 reCaptcha makes the returned CAPTCHAs less impossible to solve.
1388 * ADDS the ability to use a local cache of CAPTCHAs created by
1389 scripting Gimp with Python. See:
1390 https://github.com/isislovecruft/gimp-captcha
1391 * USES TLS during CAPTCHA solution verification when using
1394 Changes in version 0.1.4 - 2014-02-21
1395 BridgeDB 0.1.4 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1396 * FIXES an RTL encoding issue in the "Step 2" text on index.html
1397 of the HTTPS distributor.
1399 Changes in version 0.1.3 - 2014-02-21
1400 BridgeDB 0.1.3 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1401 * FIXES #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's bridge
1402 pool assignment files
1403 * FIXES a bug caused by attempts to convert descriptor digests
1404 which could not be parsed into hexadecimal.
1405 * FIXES a unicode decoding error within the bridgedb.persistent
1407 * REMOVES continuous integration testing for Python 2.6.
1409 Including the following general changes:
1410 * ADD volunteer page text for GSoC 2014 applications.
1412 Changes in version 0.1.2 - 2014-02-05
1413 BridgeDB 0.1.2 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1414 * FIXES #10811 BridgeDB's assignments.log files are not being updated
1416 Changes in version 0.1.1 - 2014-02-03
1417 BridgeDB 0.1.1 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1418 * FIXES #9127 Users can't ask for ipv6 bridges with the new bridgedb
1420 * FIXES #9988 Refactor BridgeDB's use of `sha` module to use `hashlib`
1421 * FIXES #10724 Most of the time spent in testing, as well as most
1422 of the time spent when "BridgeDB is down" (i.e. when I reply
1423 with "BridgeDB is single-threaded (see #5232) and is parsing
1424 millions of descriptors"), is within the same
1425 `bridgedb.Stability.addOrUpdateBridgeHistory()` function (see
1426 #10724). This function is pretty brutal on CPU and memory, is
1427 blocking, and it needs to runs thousands and thousands of
1428 times whenever BridgeDB is restarted (every half hour). The
1429 algorithm within that function has a time complexity increasing
1430 linearithmically relative to the number of bridges and timestamps
1431 already within the database. [0]
1432 This patch adds a config option to disable/enable running
1433 the `addOrUpdateBridgeHistory()` function.
1434 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Linearithmic_time
1435 * FIXES #10737 POST arguments to bridges.torproject.org are dropped if
1436 entering a CAPTCHA fails
1438 Including the following general changes:
1439 * ADDS A general simple error page to display rather than
1440 webserver tracebacks. See #6127.
1441 * MOVES The recently added BridgeDB specification file
1442 ('doc/bridge-db-spec.txt') to the torspec repo:
1443 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git
1444 * FIXES template caching for the web interface.
1446 Changes in version 0.1.0 - 2014-01-14
1447 BridgeDB 0.1.0 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1448 * FIXES #1606 Write a BridgeDB spec
1449 * FIXES #3573 bridges.torproject.org doesn't have a robots.txt
1450 * FIXES #6127 bridges.tpo runs in development mode
1451 * FIXES #9013 BridgeDB should pass pluggable transport
1452 shared-secrets to clients
1453 * FIXES #9157 Persian and Arabic should be right aligned on bridges.tpo
1454 * FIXES #9462 BridgeDB netstatus descriptor parsers need refactoring
1455 * FIXES #9959 BridgeDB seems to be missing English translations
1456 * FIXES #9865 Add automated code coverage report generation
1457 * FIXES #9872 Create a test runner for BridgeDB unittests
1458 * FIXES #9873 Convert BridgeDB's old unittests to use twisted.trial
1459 * FIXES #9937 Create fake non-sanitised bridge descriptors for
1460 BridgeDB testing purposes
1461 * FIXES #10333 Indexing list-like objects by 0L in
1462 Bridges.getConfigLine
1463 * FIXES #10446 BridgeDB is/was using a GeoIP module which is
1464 incompatible with virtualenvs
1465 * FIXES #10559 BridgeDB writes `keyid=` before fingerprints
1467 Including the following general changes:
1468 * ADD Numerous unittests and automated continuous integration testing.
1469 * ADD Patches by sysrqb to correctly render right-to-left languages.
1470 * FIXES fallback languages for translations.
1471 * ADD Sphinx makefiles, substantial amounts of documentation.
1472 * ADD Documentations builds (currently at
1473 https://para.noid.cat/bridgedb)
1475 Changes in version 0.0.1 - 2013-08-20
1476 BridgeDB 0.0.1 includes fixes for the following bugs:
1477 * FIXES #5332 Update BridgeDB documentation with deployment
1479 * FIXES #9156 BridgeDB: Users try to add obfsbridges to their
1481 These commits were added to fix a compatibility issue with
1482 Vidalia, though they may be reverted to switch back to the old
1483 behaviour of returning bridge lines in the form:
1484 Bridge [transport_method] address:port [keyid=fingerprint] [K=v] […]
1485 in order to work with torrc files and the new TBB-3.x packages
1486 which use TorLauncher instead of Vidalia.
1487 * PARTIAL FIX #9264 Problem with transport lines in BridgeDB's
1488 bridge pool assignment files.
1489 * FIXES #9425 Create and document a better BridgeDB (re)deployment
1492 Including the following general changes:
1493 * UPDATE translations files with finished files from Transifex for
1494 the strings for the newly-refactored web interface created by
1496 * ADD an automatic version-numbering system as part of developing
1497 a better deployment strategy.
1498 * CHANGE setup.py script to automatically install Python-based
1499 dependencies from requirements.txt.
1500 * REMOVE MANIFEST.in and put equivalent 'include' directives into
1501 setup.py (the less places we have for manually keeping track of
1503 * REMOVE the "bridge " prefix from the lines returned on the web