Changelog for 0.2.7.4-rc (plan to release tomorrow)

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Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-20
Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 servies.
It a few small bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability
on different platforms. If no further significant bounds are found,
the next release will the the official stable release.
o Minor features (geoIP):
- Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
Country database.
o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
- Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
- Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
- Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD, to enable backtrace support. Fixes
part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
Marcin Cieślak.
o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
- Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
bugfix on tor-0.2.6.2-alpha~54^2~1. Patch from David Goulet.
o Minor bugfixes (testing):
- Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
- Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
- Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
address, and Don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
address. Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
- Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
Marcin Cieślak.
o Documentation:
- Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against