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Vidalia 0.2.4 Released

phobos — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:13:01 -0700

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:

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
responding to ADDRMAP events from Tor. The result was that users would
sometimes see IP addresses in the connection list shown under the network
map rather than hostnames.
Fix a bug in the default "bootstrap" vidalia.conf file included in the
OS X drag-and-drop bundles that pointed to a non-existent Polipo
configuration file, causing Polipo to fail on startup.

Vidalia 0.2.3 released

phobos — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:48:53 -0700

On August 27th, we released Vidalia 0.2.3. This fixes some more bugs with "Who has used by bridge" functionality and switches to Qt signals for event handling.

The updated Vidalia packages can be found at https://www.torproject.org/vidalia

The changes are:

Create the data directory before trying to copy over the default
Vidalia configuration file from inside the application bundle on Mac
OS X. Affects only OS X drag-and-drop installer users without a
previous Vidalia installation.
Change all Tor event handling to use Qt's signals and slots mechanism
instead of custom QEvent subclasses.
Fix another bug that resulted in the "Who has used my bridge?" link
initially being visible when the user clicks "Setup Relaying" from
the control panel if they are running a non-bridge relay.
(Ticket #509, reported by "vrapp")
Always hide the "Who has used my bridge?" link when Tor isn't running,
since clicking it won't return useful information until Tor actually
is running.

Technology Preview: Marble and Vidalia-0.2.0

phobos — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:21:39 -0700

One of the most requested upgrades to Vidalia is a better map of the world. We looked into a few different technologies and decided on KDE's Marble interface. Marble enables an accurate mapping of nodes according to their geolocation, allows for future enhancements such as "click a country to start or end your Tor circuit", and plugins for extra data views. This also gives us the ability to use Qt's Webkit browser to display custom information about nodes, circuits, or anything else in a pop-up window. An anonymous funder covered the costs involved in developing this feature. We thank them for their support.

I've attached some screenshots to this blog post. You can download the relevant packages from the Vidalia website. If you want marble-enabled Vidalia, look for -marble- in the file name. Please report bugs on Vidalia's Bug Tracker.

As of this release, there are now two branches of Vidalia, stable and alpha. The first release of the alpha branch is Vidalia 0.2.0. The stable branch is at Vidalia 0.1.12.

One last big change for OS X users is the drag and drop installer. There is no migration of old settings to new, nor do we clean up the old installs in /Library/Tor, /Library/Vidalia, /Library/Torbutton, /Library/Privoxy, etc. Follow these instructions for how to remove the old vidalia-tor bundles from your computer if you want to completely test this alpha branch of Vidalia. We will figure out a better way to do this in the near future.

Remember, this is a technology preview. However, OS X installs are migrating to drag and drop. I've solely used Vidalia 0.2.0 and drag-and-drop installer for 3 months now. I even previously blogged about it.

Additional changes in alpha Vidalia 0.2.0:

Qt 4.5.0 is used for Win32 and OS X Universal packages.
We've switched from the Nullsoft Installer to the Microsoft System Installer (msi) for better integration with Microsoft Windows.
There are non-Marble and Marble-enabled packages for Win32 and OS X Universal. OS X PowerPC based on OS X 10.3.9 isn't supported by Qt 4.5.x, therefore Marble-enabled Vidalia is not available
Add support for changing UI languages without having to restart Vidalia.
Add preliminary support for using the KDE Marble widget for the network map. It's currently a compile-time option and is disabled by default.
Add support for displaying Tor's plaintext port warnings. Also gives the user the option to disable future warnings.
Add an interface for displaying the geographic distribution of clients who have recently used a bridge operator's relay.
Add tooltips to tree items in the help browser's table of contents. Some of the help topic labels are a bit long.
Switch to a simpler About dialog and move the license information to a separate HTML-formatted display.
Switch to a simpler drag-and-drop installer in the OS X bundles.
Switch to an MSI-based installer on Windows.
Clear the list of default CA certificates used by QSslSocket before adding the only one we care about. Suggested by coderman.
Support building with Visual Studio again.
Add a Debian package structure from dererk.
Updated Albanian, Czech, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish and many other translations.