Release notes from cow

Bug fixes for OTA and WeChat image

2016-06-19T16:06:35Z

Fix OTA bug caused by bug in shadowsocks-go library (report by @defia)
Fix WeChat image url fix (by @breath-co2 @haha1903)
Fix connection reset detection (by @fgid)

Support shadowsocks One Time Auth

2016-05-04T14:01:55Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, download compiled binaries below.

Bug fix and support reload by sending SIGUSR1 on Unix

2015-06-07T14:07:49Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/latest

Changes

Reload config by sending SIGUSR1 on Unix system
Load blocked/direct/stat file from same directory as rc file by default
Allow user to specify blocked/direct/stat file path
Detect arm without vfp in install script.
Fix estimate timeout bug

Support chacha20 and salsa20, along with other small fixes.

2015-05-13T02:05:46Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/latest

Changes:

Support new encryption method "chacha20" and "salsa20"
Avoid biased parent proxy selection for hash load balacing
Fix AirDrop on OS X when using PAC
Fix failed start with corrupted stat file
Support changing the estimate timeout target

Bug fix: close stat file after load

2014-10-08T05:01:29Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/

Support new encryption method "rc4-md5"

2014-09-21T13:22:08Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/

Support new encryption method "rc4-md5"

Connection latency based load balancing

2014-07-22T16:35:24Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/

Reduce the possibility of encountering too many open file error
New connection latency based load balancing
Fix auto load plist for OS X
Identify blocked site by HTTP error code

Fix save site stat problem on some system

2013-12-21T06:00:04Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/

Fix can't save site stat file if tmp directory is on a different partition with cow's config directory
Improved install and startup script

New feature: COW chain

2013-12-02T14:22:52Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/

Note: configuration syntax is simplified, existing configuration will be upgraded automatically.

New feature: two COW servers can be connected using encrypted connection, thus we have an encrypted HTTP proxy chain that can be used to bypass the firewall
Allow client to use HTTP basic authentication
Simplify configuration syntax
Better reuse for HTTP parent connections
Reduce direct/blocked delta
Generate new PAC every minute

Share server connection between client connections

2013-08-10T16:24:10Z

For OS X and Linux, run the following command to update

curl -L git.io/cow | bash

For Windows, please download from http://dl.chenyufei.info/cow/

Share server connections between different clients
Add tunnelAllowedPort option to limit ports CONNECT method can connect to
Avoid timeout too soon for frequently visited direct sites
Fix reporting malformed requests in two cases when request has body:
- Authenticate requests
- Error occured before request is sent
Support multi-lined headers
Change client connection timeout to 15s
Change as direct delta to 15
Provide ARMv5 binary