The major user facing change in this release is implementing support for uploading distinct descriptors to each of the hidden service directories. The allows each OnionBalance service to use up to 60 backend onion service instances.

Changelog

• Use setproctitle to set a cleaner process title
• Replace the python-schedule dependency with a custom scheduler.
• Add a Unix domain socket which outputs the status of the OnionBalance service when a client connects. By default this socket is created at /var/run/onionbalance/control. Thank you to Federico Ceratto for the original socket implementation.
• Add support for handling the SIGINT and SIGTERM signals. Thank you to Federico Ceratto for this feature.
• Upgrade tests to use the stable Tor 0.2.7.x release.
• Fix bug when validating the modulus length of a provided RSA private key.
• Upload distinct service descriptors to each hidden service directory by default. The distinct descriptors allows up to 60 introduction points or backend instances to be reachable by external clients. Thank you to Ceysun Sucu for describing this technique in his Masters thesis.
• Add INITIAL_DELAY option to wait longer before initial descriptor publication. This is useful when there are many backend instance descriptors which need to be downloaded.
• Add configuration option to allow connecting to a Tor control port on a different host.
• Remove external image assets when documentation is generated locally instead of on ReadTheDocs.