From 19c2a573aab101a38a8f978fbbface47abda98b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Alexander Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:56:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update changelog for v0.3.9 --- CHANGELOG.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index b8133a29..3945bf01 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -25,6 +25,33 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0. - in case of vulnerabilities. --> +## [0.3.9] - 2019-09-27 +### Added +- Yggdrasil will now complain more verbosely when a peer URI is incorrectly formatted +- Soft-shutdown methods have been added, allowing a node to shut down gracefully when terminated +- New multicast interval logic which sends multicast beacons more often when Yggdrasil is first started to increase the chance of finding nearby nodes quickly after startup + +### Changed +- The switch now buffers packets more eagerly in an attempt to give the best link a chance to send, which appears to reduce packet reordering when crossing aggregate sets of peerings +- Substantial amounts of the codebase have been refactored to use the actor model, which should substantially reduce the chance of deadlocks +- Nonce tracking in sessions has been modified so that memory usage is reduced whilst still only allowing duplicate packets within a small window +- Soft-reconfiguration support has been simplified using new actor functions +- The garbage collector threshold has been adjusted for mobile builds +- The maximum queue size is now managed exclusively by the switch rather than by the core + +### Fixed +- The broken `hjson-go` dependency which affected builds of the previous version has now been resolved in the module manifest +- Some minor memory leaks in the switch have been fixed, which improves memory usage on mobile builds +- A memory leak in the add-peer loop has been fixed +- The admin socket now reports the correct URI strings for SOCKS peers in `getPeers` +- A race condition when dialling a remote node by both the node address and routed prefix simultaneously has been fixed +- A race condition between the router and the dial code resulting in a panic has been fixed +- A panic which could occur when the TUN/TAP interface disappears (e.g. during soft-shutdown) has been fixed +- A bug in the semantic versioning script which accompanies Yggdrasil for builds has been fixed + +### Removed +- A number of legacy debug functions have now been removed and a number of exported API functions are now better documented + ## [0.3.8] - 2019-08-21 ### Changed - Yggdrasil can now send multiple packets from the switch at once, which results in improved throughput with smaller packets or lower MTUs @@ -39,10 +66,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0. - New nonce tracking should help to reduce the number of packets dropped as a result of multiple/aggregate paths or congestion control in the switch ### Fixed -- **Security vulnerability**: Address verification was not strict enough, which could result in a malicious session sending traffic with unexpected or spoofed source or destination addresses which Yggdrasil could fail to reject +- A deadlock was fixed in the session code which could result in Yggdrasil failing to pass traffic after some time + +### Security +- Address verification was not strict enough, which could result in a malicious session sending traffic with unexpected or spoofed source or destination addresses which Yggdrasil could fail to reject - Versions `0.3.6` and `0.3.7` are vulnerable - users of these versions should upgrade as soon as possible - Versions `0.3.5` and earlier are not affected -- A deadlock was fixed in the session code which could result in Yggdrasil failing to pass traffic after some time ## [0.3.7] - 2019-08-14 ### Changed