2.1.0 release draft

i2p2www/blog/2023/01/09/2.1.0-Release.draft.rst

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+===========================================
+{% trans -%}2.1.0 Release{%- endtrans %}
+===========================================
+
+.. meta::
+   :author: zzz
+   :date: 2023-01-09
+   :category: release
+   :excerpt: {% trans %}2.1.0 with SSU2 and congestion fixes{% endtrans %}
+
+{% trans -%}
+Update details
+{%- endtrans %}
+============================================
+
+{% trans -%}
+We have learned several things since our 2.0.0 release in November.
+As routers have updated to that release, the network has gone from about 1% to over 60% support for our new SSU2 transport protocol.
+First, we have confirmed that SSU2 is a solid, well designed, and secure protocol.
+Second, however, we have found and fixed numerous minor or rarely-triggered bugs in the implementation of the protocol.
+Cumulatively, the effects of these bugs have reduced the performance of the network.
+{%- endtrans %}
+
+{% trans -%}
+Also, we are aware of increased tunnel count and reduced tunnel build success rate in the network,
+possibly triggered by Bitcoin's new I2P transient address feature,
+but made worse by our SSU2 bugs and other congestion control problems.
+We are working with Bitcoin and other non-Bitcoin projects to reduce I2P network demands.
+We have improved our algorithms to reduce network load during times of congestion.
+We are also collaborating with i2pd to develop common congestion control strategies.
+{%- endtrans %}
+
+{% trans -%}
+Therefore, we have accelerated this release by about six weeks, to get the fixes out to everybody.
+i2pd released their version 2.45.0 last week and the early results are encouraging.
+New protocols, and distributed networks, are difficult to develop.
+Congestion can arrive with little warning and with little clue of the cause.
+Thank you for your patience as we have diagnosed and hopefully fixed the problems.
+{%- endtrans %}
+
+{% trans -%}
+As usual, we recommend that you update to this release. The best way to
+maintain security and help the network is to run the latest release.
+{%- endtrans %}
+
+
+**{% trans %}RELEASE DETAILS{% endtrans %}**
+
+**{% trans %}Changes{% endtrans %}**
+
+- {% trans %}Console: New status and banned peers tabs on /peers{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2ptunnel: Add torsocks support{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2ptunnel: Add SOCKS tunnel conversion to CONNECT outproxy{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2ptunnel: Add SOCKS outproxy port configuration{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2ptunnel: Update encryption type defaults{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Router: Improved congestion detection and handling{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Router: Use compressible padding for destinations and router infos (proposal 161){% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU: Redesign symmetric NAT detection{% endtrans %}
+
+
+
+**{% trans %}Bug Fixes{% endtrans %}**
+
+- {% trans %}Console: Fix configuration for Argentinian Spanish{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Crypto: Fix LS2 encrypted leasesets, broken since 1.8.0{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2psnark: Avoid OOM starting large number of torrents{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2ptunnel: Numerous SOCKS tunnel fixes{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}NTCP: Fix rare termination NPE{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Profiles: Fix profile load stopping after hitting corrupt file{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Router: Clock skew handling fixes and improvements{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU: Don't publish IPv4 address when configured for IPv6-only{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU: Fix handling of banned peers{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Peer Test fixes and improvements{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Termination fixes and improvements{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Token and handshake fixes and improvements{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Fix rare packet handling NPE{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Fix rare termination IAE{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Fix retransmission of session confirmed{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Fix attempted connection to ourselves as an introducer{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}UPnP: Catch rare assertion error{% endtrans %}
+
+
+
+
+
+**{% trans %}Other{% endtrans %}**
+
+- {% trans %}Console: Add leaseset lookup to advanced search form{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2psnark: Add partial Dutch translation{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}i2ptunnel: Allow IRCv3 ACCOUNT and CHGHOST through filter{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}SSU2: Preliminary support for disabling SSU1{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Sybil: Add IPv6 address tests{% endtrans %}
+- {% trans %}Translation updates{% endtrans %}
+
+
+
+`{% trans %}Full list of fixed bugs{% endtrans %}`__
+
+__ http://{{ i2pconv('git.idk.i2p') }}/i2p-hackers/i2p.i2p/-/issues?scope=all&state=closed&milestone_title=2.1.0
+
+
+**{% trans %}SHA256 Checksums:{% endtrans %}**
+
+::
+
+     TBD
+