vidalia releases

New releases, new hires, new funding
Christian Fromme joins Tor to work on development and maintenance of the growing number of tools we’ve created over the past year. Christian is a great python hacker with a strong security mindset. He’s going to enhance and maintain the tools such as tor weather, get-tor, bridge database, tor control, tor flow, check.torproject.org, etc. Christian has been a volunteer developer for the past year helping to enhance get-tor, tor weather, and generally helping out with our python coding needs.

On October 10, we released Tor version 0.2.2.4-alpha. The release notes can be read at https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0224-alpha-released or below: read more »

Vidalia 0.2.4 is released. The OS X -alpha bundles are updated to fix a bug in the default "bootstrap" vidalia.conf file that pointed to a non-existent Polipo configuration file, causing Polipo to fail on startup.

The Changelog for this release is: read more »

• Split the message log into "Basic" and "Advanced" views. The
  "Advanced" view contains standard log messages from Tor, while the new
  experimental "Basic" view displays status events received from Tor.
  (Ticket #265)
• Apply an application-global stylesheet on OS X that forces all tree
  widgets in Vidalia to use the 12pt font recommended by Apple's human
  interface guidelines.
• Add an OSX_FORCE_32BIT CMake option that can be used to force a 32-bit
  build on Mac OS X versions that default to 64-bit builds (e.g., Snow
  Leopard), if only 32-bit versions of the Qt libraries are available.
• Fix a bug introduced in 0.2.3 that prevented Vidalia from correctly
  

I've updated the Tor Browser Bundle with torbutton 1.2.2, the new Vidalia 0.2.2, and openssl 0.9.8k compiled with Microsoft Visual C to handle ssl compatibility issues with various versions of Windows.

If this works, it will be the new Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.8. Please test away.

The full list of changes:

• update Torbutton to 1.2.2
• update Vidalia to 0.2.2
• compile OpenSSL 0.9.8k with Visual C to make dlls

There is an issue for some people using a clean Windows XP, Vista, 7 which would either require we ship the Visual C redistributable package, or compile OpenSSL ourselves with Visual C. The symptoms were the "find bridges now" button didn't appear in Vidalia 0.2.x, and the relays would never get flags. A few people posted comments to this blog about lacking flags and geoip information with TBB. read more »

Vidalia 0.2.2 is released. It addresses an issue with openssl which causes the geoip lookups to fail on various versions of Windows. It also switches from the Nullsoft Installer to the Microsoft System Installer for better compatibility with Microsoft Windows.

There are now separate Apple OS X builds, one for PowerPC architectures and one for i386 architectures. No more Universal binary bloat to download.

The changes are: read more »

• When the user clicks "Browse" in the Advanced settings page to locate
  a new torrc, set the initial directory shown in the file dialog to the
  current location of the user's torrc. (Ticket #505)
• Use 'ditto' to strip the architectures we don't want from the Qt
  frameworks installed into the app bundle with the dist-osx,
  dist-osx-bundle and dist-osx-split-bundle build targets.
• Fix a bug in the CMakeLists.txt files for ts2po and po2ts that caused
  build errors on Panther for those two tools.

Vidalia 0.1.15 is released. It contains fixes for:

• Bump the minimum required Qt version to 4.3.0.
• Remove USE_QSSLSOCKET as a build option. If your Qt doesn't support !OpenSSL, then you don't get GeoIP lookups.
• Fix the TorPostFlight portion of the OS X bundle installer so it doesn't fail when installing Torbutton.
• Include libeay32.dll in the Windows installers.

It can be obtained at https://www.torproject.org/vidalia/