OONI Probe CLI v3.17.0-alpha

Changes since v3.16.0-alpha.3

• ✨ ooniprobe: add the --proxy command line flag which works like miniooni --proxy
• ✨ miniooni and ooniprobe: add support for the --proxy torsf:///, which uses snowflake over tor
• ✨ miniooni: add --snowflake-rendezvous CLI flag to specify the snowflake rendezvous policy
• ✨ miniooni: read OONI Run v2 descriptors form the filesystem with miniooni oonirun -f FILE
• ✨ oohelperd: add support for measuring HTTP/3
• ✨ portfiltering: new experiment for measuring port blocking
• ✨ echcheck: new experiment for measuring Encrypted Client Hello blocking
• ✨ tlsmiddlebox: new experiment implementing iterative network tracing for TLS
• ✨ [forwardport] webconnectivity: update LTE implementation to v0.5.19
• ✨ geoipx: use ASN+Country database generated using ooni/historical-geoip
• ✨ httpapi: new API allowing to fallback when multiple endpoints are available
• ✨ measurexlite: add refraction-networking/utls support
• ✨ probeservices: support compressed check-in API responses
• ❗ [API BREAK] oonimkall: drop deprecated APIs
• ❗ [API BREAK] oonimkall: rename CheckInConfigWebConnectivity's Add method to AddCategory
• ❗ [ABI BREAK] model: use udp rather than quic as the protocol (see #946 for details)
• 🐛 psiphon: make sure we include a config when building for Linux
• 🐛 [forwardport] signal: update the embedded signal CA
• 🐛 webconnectivity: increase robustness by trying to use all available TH before giving up
• 🐛 whatsapp: stop measuring http://web.whatsapp.com/ to avoid false positives
• 🐛 geolocate: make sure we use the session resolver for consistency
• 🐛 measurexlite: emit the resolve_start and resolve_done events
• 🐛 model: mark optional fields as optional and sync up with ooni/spec's data formats
• 🐛 [forwardport] model: improve measurements scrubbing
• 🐛 netxlite: make sure we wrap DNS decoding errors
• 🐛 scrubber: merge improvements from the snowflake codebase
• 🚧 [forwardport] telegram: stop measuring http://web.telegram.org/ to avoid potential false positives
• 🚧 .github/workflows: automatically generate several github workflows files
• 🚧 all: use go1.19.4 and update dependencies
• 🚧 QA: simplify quality assurance scripts and focus on web connectivity only
• 🚧 Makefile: add generic rules for building ooniprobe and miniooni for the current GOOS/GOARCH
• 🚧 MONOREPO: merge monorepo-like scripts to facilitate integration testing
• 🚧 ooniprobe: make database code abstract to facilitate subsequent refactoring
• 🚧 internal: change way in which we provide arguments to OONI experiments
• 🚧 probeservices: start using the httpapi package
• 🚧 probeservices: remove support for deprecated APIs
• 🚧 httpx: deprecate in favour of httpapi
• 🚧 model: reintroduce netxlite's underlying network functionality

Entries marked as [forwardport] lift patches from the latest stable releases in the v3.16.x series.

We don't need to bump the major version number because API changes in pkg/oonimkall do not influence the major version number.

New Contributors

• @arky made their first contribution in #967
• @ooninoob made their first contribution in #987
• @d1vyank made their first contribution in #970

Full Changelog: v3.16.0-alpha.3...v3.17.0-alpha