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 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
  Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
-  several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had
-  affected stability.
+  several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
+  stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.

  o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
    - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
@@ -11,11 +11,15 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
      Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.

  o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
-    - Make bandwidth authorities to ignore relays that are reported in
-      the bandwidth file with the key-value "vote=0". This change allows
-      to report the relays that were not measured due some failure and
-      diagnose the reasons without the bandwidth being included in the
-      bandwidth authorities vote. Closes ticket 29806.
+    - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
+      bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
+      report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
+      their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
+      ticket 29806.
+    - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
+      bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
+      this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
+      ticket 21377.

  o Minor features (circuit padding):
    - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
@@ -26,15 +30,9 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11

  o Minor features (continuous integration):
    - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
-      caching target/ directory to speed up builds. Resolves
+      caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
      issue 29962.

-  o Minor features (dircache):
-    - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
-      bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
-      this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
-      ticket 21377.
-
  o Minor features (dormant mode):
    - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
      treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
@@ -58,17 +56,24 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
      the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
      read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
      source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
-      issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures
+      issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
      which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
      30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
      Tobias Stoeckmann.
+    - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
+      with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
+      event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
+      fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.

  o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
-    - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This is
-      being done to prevent future gcda file merge errors which causes
-      the test suite for the process subsystem to fail. The process
-      subsystem was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
+    - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
+      should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
+      suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
+      was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
      on 0.2.9.15.
+    - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
+      (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
+      Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
    - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
@@ -80,25 +85,14 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
      29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
      CID 1444119.

-  o Minor bugfixes (CI):
-    - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
-      (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
-      Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
-
  o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
-    - Minor tweaks to avoid very rare test failures related to timers
-      and monotime. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha
+    - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
+      monotime. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha

  o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
    - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
      authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.

-  o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
-    - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
-      with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
-      event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
-      fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
-
  o Minor bugfixes (logging):
    - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
      tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
@@ -108,20 +102,20 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
      on 0.4.0.2-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
-    - Restore old behaviour when it comes to discovering the path of a
-      given Pluggable Transport exe-file. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix
-      on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
+    - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
+      given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
+      0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
+      space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.

  o Minor bugfixes (testing):
    - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
      recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
      bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
+    - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
+      warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
+      on 0.2.9.3-alpha.

-  o Minor bugfixes (testing, windows):
-    - Fix a test failure caused by an unexpected bug warning in our test
-      for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
-
-  o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, integration tests):
+  o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
    - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
      client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
      Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
@@ -131,15 +125,14 @@ Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
      bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.

  o Code simplification and refactoring:
-    - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
-      for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
-      string to directory connection with or without compression.
+    - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
+      whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
      Resolves issue 28816.
    - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
      connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.

  o Documentation:
-    - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation between *Port listeners
+    - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
      by default. Resolves issue 29121.