Bug fixes for OTA and WeChat image

• 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

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

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.

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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