Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v1.1.0 (2019-03-27)

New

  • V3bwfile: Report excluded relays. Closes: #28565.
  • V3bwfile: Add time to report half network. Closes: #28983
  • Destination: Recover destination when it failed. Closes: #29589.
  • V3bwfile: Report relays that fail to be measured. Closes: #28567.
  • V3bwfile: Report relays that are not measured measured. Closes: #28566
  • V3bwfile: Add KeyValues to monitor relays. Closes: #29591.
  • Docs: document that authorities are not measured. Closes: #29722
  • Scanner: Warn when there is no progress. Closes: #28652

Fix

  • v3bwfile: Report relays even when they don’t reach a minimum number. Closes: #29853.
  • Minor fixes. Closes #29891.
  • Relaylist: Convert consensus bandwidth to bytes.

v1.0.5 (2019-03-06)

  • Release v1.0.5. this time with the correct version

v1.0.4 (2019-03-06)

  • Release v1.0.4. because there was a commit missing between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4-dev0 and what is released as 1.0.3 has version 1.0.4-dev0 and it can not be fixed now.

v1.0.3 (2019-02-28)

Fixed

  • scanner: check that ResultDump queue is not full Fixes bug #28866. Bugfix v0.1.0.
  • config: set stdout log level to cli argument. Closes: #29199
  • cleanup: Use getpath to get configuration paths. Bugfix v0.7.0.
  • destination: stop running twice usability tests. Fixes bug #28897. Bugfix v0.3.0
  • globals, stem: explain where torrc options are. Fixes bug #28646. Bugfix v0.4.0
  • stem: disable pad connections. Fixes bug 28692. Bugfix v0.4.0
  • generate: Load all results, including error ones. Closes #29568. Bugfix v0.4.0 (line introduced in v0.1.0).
  • relayprioritizer: Stop prioritizing relays that tend to fail. Fixes bug #28868. Bugfix v0.1.0
  • circuitbuilder: Stop building the circuit 3 times. Fixes bug #29295. Bugfix v0.1.0.
  • docs: add verify option to man and example. Closes bug #28788. Bugfix v0.4.0.
  • CI: run scanner using the test network. Fixes bug #28933. Bugfix v0.1.0.
  • scanner: catch SIGINT in the main loop. Fixes bug #28869. Bugfix v0.1.0.
  • Stop including tests network as binary blob. Fixes bug #28590. Bugfix v0.4.0.
  • relaylist: remove assertions that fail measurement. Closes #28870. Bugfix v0.4.0
  • config: Use configuration provided as argument. Fixes bug #28724. Bugfix v0.7.0.
  • stem: parse torrc options that are only a key. Fixes bug #28715. Bugfix v0.1.1
  • stem: Stop merging multiple torrc options with the same name. Fixes bug #28738. Bugfix v0.1.1
  • docs: add note about syslog when running systemd. Closes bug #28761. Bugfix v0.6.0
  • CI: include deb.torproject.org key. Closes #28922. Bugfix v1.0.3-dev0
  • config: stop allowing http servers without tls. Fixes bug #28789. Bugfix v0.2.0.
  • Make info level logs more clear and consistent. Closes bug #28736. Bugfix v0.3.0.
  • CI: check broken links in the docs. Closes #28670.
  • docs: add scanner and destination requirements. Closes bug #28647. Bugfix v0.4.0
  • generate: use round_digs variable name in methods. Closes bug #28602. Bugfix 1.0.3-dev0
  • docs: Change old broken links in the documentation. Closes #28662.
  • docs: replace http by https in links. Closes #28661.
  • Fix git repository link. Fixes bug #28762. Bugfix v1.0.0.
  • docs: add example destination in DEPLOY. Closes #28649.
  • docs: Change links to be interpreted by ReST. Closes #28648.
  • Force rtfd.io to install the package. Closes bug #28601.
  • config: continue when the file is not found. Closes: #28550.
  • Stop resolving domains locally and check same flags for the 2nd hop. Closes bug #28458, #28471. Bugfix 1.0.4.
  • Limit the relays’ bandwidth to their consensus bandwidth. Closes #28598.
  • globals: add torrc logging options. Closes #28645. Bugfix v0.2.0.
  • Limit bandwidth to the relay MaxAdvertisedBandwidth Fixes bug #28588. Bugfix 0.8.0.
  • Exclude results, then check for the minimum number. Closes bug 28572.
  • Make sbws round to 3 significant figures in torflow rounding mode. Bugfix on 27337 in sbws 1.0. Part of 28442.

Changed

  • tests: remove unused testnets. Fixes bug #29046. Bugfix v0.4.0.
  • scanner, destination: Log all possible exceptions.
  • docs: Update/improve documentation on how the scanner/generator work. Closes: #29149
  • Requests: Change make_session to use the TimedSession.
  • CI: change to Ubuntu Xenial.
  • docs: stop editing changelog on every bug/ticket. Closes ticket #28572.
  • Change sbws scaling method to torflow. Closes: #28446.
  • Round bandwidths to 2 significant digits by default. Implements part of proposal 276. Implements 28451.

Added

  • Send scanner metadata as part of every HTTP request. Closes: #28741
  • scanner: log backtrace when not progressing. Closes: 28932

v1.0.2 (2018-11-10)

Fixed

  • Update bandwidth file specification version in the generator (#28366).
  • Use 5 “=” characters as terminator in the bandwidth files (#28379)

Changed

  • Include the headers about eligible relays in all the bandwidth files, not only in the ones that does not have enough eligible relays (#28365).

v1.0.1 (2018-11-01)

Changed

  • Change default directories when sbws is run from a system service (#28268).

v1.0.0 (2018-10-29)

Important changes:

  • generate includes extra statistics header lines when the number of eligible relays to include is less than the 60% of the network. It does not include the relays’ lines.
  • Speed up scanner by disabling RTT measurements and waiting for measurement threads before prioritizing again the list of relays to measure.

Fixed

  • Update python minimal version in setup (#28043)
  • Catch unhandled exception when we fail to resolve a domain name (#28141)
  • Bandwidth filtered is the maximum between the bandwidth measurements and their mean, not the minimum (#28215)
  • Stop measuring the same relay by two threads(#28061)

Changed

  • Move examples/ to docs/ (#28040)
  • Number of results comparison and number of results away from each other are incorrect (#28041)
  • Stop removing results that are not away from some other X secs (#28103)
  • Use secs-away when provided instead of data_period (#28105)
  • Disable measuring RTTs (#28159)
  • Rename bandwidth file keyvalues (#28197)

Added

  • Write bw file only when the percentage of measured relays is bigger than 60% (#28062)
  • When the percentage of measured relays is less than the 60%, do not include the relays in the bandwidth file and instead include some statistics in the header (#28076)
  • When the percentage of measured relays is less than the 60% and it was more before, warn about it (#28155)
  • When the difference between the total consensus bandwidth and the total in the bandwidth lines is larger than 50%, warn (#28216)
  • Add documentation about how the bandwidth measurements are selected and scaled before writing them to the Bandwidth File (#27692)

v0.8.0 (2018-10-08)

Important changes:

  • Implement Torflow scaling/aggregation to be able to substitute Torflow with sbws without affecting the bandwidth files results.
  • Change stem dependency to 1.7.0, which removes the need for dependency_links
  • Update and cleanup documentation

Added

  • Add system physical requirements section to INSTALL (#26937)
  • Warn when there is not enough disk space (#26937)
  • Implement Torflow scaling (#27108)
  • Create methods to easy graph generation and obtain statistics to compare with current torflow results.(#27688)
  • Implement rounding bw in bandwidth files to 2 insignificant digits(#27337)
  • Filter results in order to include relays in the bandwidth file that:(#27338)
  • have at least two measured bandwidths
  • the measured bandwidths are within 24 hours of each other
  • have at least two descriptor observed bandwidths
  • the descriptor observed bandwidths are within 24 hours of each other

Fixed

  • Broken environment variable in default sbws config. To use envvar $FOO, write $$FOO in the config.
  • Stop using directory as argument in integration tests (#27342)
  • Fix typo getting configuration option to allow logging to file (#27960)
  • Set int type to new arguments that otherwise would be string (#27918)
  • Stop printing arguments default values, since they are printed by default (#27916)
  • Use dash instead of underscore in new cli argument names (#27917)

Changed

  • sbws install doc is confusing (#27341)
  • Include system and Python dependencies in INSTALL.
  • Include dependencies for docs and tests in INSTALL.
  • Point to DEPLOY to run sbws.
  • Remove obsolete sections in INSTALL
  • Simplify DEPLOY, reuse terms in the glossary.
  • Remove obsolete sbws init from DEPLOY.
  • Point to config documentation.
  • Add, unify and reuse terms in glossary.
  • refactor v3bwfile (#27386): move scaling method inside class
  • use custom install_command to test installation commands while dependency_links is needed until #26914 is fixed. (#27704)
  • documentation cleanup (#27773)
  • split, merge, simplify, extend, reorganize sections and files
  • generate scales as Torflow by default (#27976)
  • Replace stem dependency_links by stem 1.7.0 (#27705). This also eliminates the need for custom install_command in tox.

v0.7.0 (2018-08-09)

Important changes:

  • cleanup/stale_days is renamed to cleanup/data_files_compress_after_days
  • cleanup/rotten_days is renamed to cleanup/data_files_delete_after_days
  • sbws now takes as an argument the path to a config file (which contains sbws_home) instead of sbws_home (which contains the path to a config file)

Added

  • Log line on start up with sbws version, platform info, and library versions (trac#26751)
  • Manual pages (#26926)

Fixed

  • Stop deleting the latest.v3bw symlink. Instead, do an atomic rename. (#26740)
  • State file for storing the last time sbws scanner was started, and able to be used for storing many other types of state in the future. (GH#166)
  • Log files weren’t rotating. Now they are. (#26881)

Changed

  • Remove test data v3bw file and generate it from the same test. (#26736)
  • Stop using food terms for cleanup-related config options
  • cleanup command now cleans up old v3bw files too (#26701)
  • Make sbws more compatible with system packages: (#26862)
  • Allow a configuration file argument
  • Remove directory argument
  • Create minimal user configuration when running
  • Do not require to run a command to initialize
  • Initialize directories when running
  • Do not require configuration file inside directories specified by the configuration

v0.6.0 (2018-07-11)

Important changes:

  • The way users configure logging has changed. No longer are most users expected to be familiar with how to configure python’s standard logging library with a config file. Instead we’ve abstracted out the setting of log level, format, and destinations to make these settings more accessible to users. Expert users familiar with the logging config file format can still make tweaks.

Summary of changes:

  • Make logging configuration easier for the user.
  • Add UML diagrams to documentation. They can be found in docs/source/images/ and regenerated with make umlsvg in docs/.

Added

  • UML diagrams to documentation. In docs/ run make umlsvg to rebuild them. Requires graphviz to be installed.(GHPR#226)
  • Add metadata to setup.py, useful for source/binary distributions.
  • Add possibility to log to system log. (#26683)
  • Add option to cleanup v3bw files. (#26701)

Fixed

  • Measure relays that have both Exit and BadExit as non-exits, which is how clients would use them. (GH#217)
  • Could not init sbws because of a catch-22 related to logging configuration. Overhaul how logging is configured. (GH#186 GHPR#224)
  • Call write method of V3BWFile class from the object instance. (#26671)
  • Stop calculating median on empty list .(#26666)

Changed

  • Remove is_controller_ok. Instead catch possible controller exceptions and log them

Removed

v0.5.0 (2018-06-26)

Important changes:

  • Result format changed, causing a version bump to 4. Updating sbws to 0.5.0 will cause it to ignore results with version less than 4.

Summary of changes:

  • Keep previously-generated v3bw files
  • Allow a relay to limit its weight based on RelayBandwidthRate/MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
  • 1 CPU usage optimization
  • 1 memory usage optimization

Added

  • Use a relay’s {,Relay}BandwidthRate/MaxAdvertisedBandwidth as an upper bound on the measurements we make for it. (GH#155)
  • Ability to only consider results for a given relay valid if they came from when that relay is using its most recent known IP address. Thanks Juga. (GH#154 GHPR#199)
  • Maintenance script to help us find functions that are (probably) no longer being called.
  • Integration test(s) for RelayPrioritizer (GHPR#206)
  • Git/GitHub usage guidelines to CONTRIBUTING document (GH#208 GHPR#215)

Fixed

  • Make relay priority calculations take only ~5% of the time they used to (3s vs 60s) by using sets instead of lists when selecting non-Authority relays. (GH#204)
  • Make relay list refreshing take much less time by not allowing worker threads to dogpile on the CPU. Before they would all start requesting descriptors from Tor at roughly the same time, causing us to overload our CPU core and make the process take unnecessarily long. Now we let one thread do the work so it can peg the CPU on its own and get the refresh done ASAP. (GH#205)
  • Catch a JSON decode exception on malformed results so sbws can continue gracefully (GH#210 GHPR#212)

Changed

  • Change the path where the Bandwidth List files are generated: now they are stored in v3bw directory, named YYmmdd_HHMMSS.v3bw, and previously generated ones are kept. A latest.v3bw symlink is updated. (GH#179 GHPR#190)
  • Code refactoring in the v3bw classes and generation area
  • Replace v3bw-into-xy bash script with python script to handle a more complex v3bw file format (GH#182)

v0.4.1 (2018-06-14)

Changed

  • If the relay to measure is an exit, put it in the exit position and choose a non-exit to help. Previously the relay to measure would always be the first hop. (GH#181)
  • Try harder to find a relay to help measure the target relay with two changes. Essentially: (1) Instead of only picking from relays that are 1.25 - 2.00 times faster than it by consensus weight, try (in order) to find a relay that is at least 2.00, 1.75, 1.50, 1.25, or v1.00 times as fast. If that fails, instead of giving up, (2) pick the fastest relay in the network instead of giving up. This compliments the previous change about measuring target exits in the exit position.

Fixed

  • Exception that causes sbws to fall back to one measurement thread. We first tried fixing something in this area with 88fae60bc but neglected to remember that .join() wants only string arguments and can’t handle a None. So fix that.
  • Exception when failing to get a relay’s ed25519_master_key from Tor and trying to do .rstrip() on a None.
  • earliest_bandwidth being the newest bw not the oldest (thanks juga0)
  • node_id was missing the character “$” at the beginning