1 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
2 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
3 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
4 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
5 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
7 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
8 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
10 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
11 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
12 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
22 Resolves ticket 15515.
25 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
26 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
28 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
29 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
30 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
32 o Directory authority changes:
33 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
34 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
35 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
36 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
39 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
40 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
41 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
44 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
45 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
46 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
47 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
48 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
49 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
50 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
51 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
53 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
54 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
55 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
56 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
58 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
59 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
60 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
61 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
63 o Minor features (controller):
64 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
65 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
66 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
68 o Minor features (geoip):
69 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
70 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
73 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
74 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
75 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
76 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
77 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
78 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
80 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
81 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
82 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
83 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
85 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
86 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
87 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
88 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
89 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
90 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
91 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
92 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
94 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
95 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
96 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
98 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
99 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
100 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
101 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
102 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
106 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
107 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
108 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
111 o Directory authority changes:
112 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
113 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
114 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
115 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
118 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
119 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
120 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
121 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
123 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
124 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
125 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
126 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
127 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
128 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
129 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
130 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
132 o Minor features (geoip):
133 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
134 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
138 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
139 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
141 It adds several new security features, including improved
142 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
143 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
144 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
145 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
146 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
147 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
148 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
149 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
150 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
151 and features mentioned below.
153 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
154 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
156 o Deprecated versions:
157 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
158 attention for some while.
161 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
162 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
163 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
164 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
165 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
166 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
168 o Major security fixes:
169 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
170 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
171 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
173 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
174 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
175 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
176 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
179 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
180 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
181 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
182 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
185 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
186 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
187 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
189 o Downgraded warnings:
190 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
191 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
194 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
195 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
196 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
197 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
198 (which does affect Tor).
200 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
201 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
202 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
203 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
205 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
206 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
207 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
208 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
211 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
212 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
213 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
214 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
215 the directory authorities.
218 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
219 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
220 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
221 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
222 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
223 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
224 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
225 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
226 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
227 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
228 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
229 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
231 o Directory authority changes:
232 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
235 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
236 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
237 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
238 the directory authorities.
241 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
242 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
243 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
244 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
245 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
246 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
247 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
248 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
249 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
250 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
251 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
252 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
254 o Directory authority changes:
255 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
257 o Minor features (geoip):
258 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
262 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
263 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
264 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
265 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
266 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
268 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
269 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
270 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
271 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
272 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
273 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
274 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
275 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
276 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
277 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
278 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
279 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
280 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
281 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
282 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
283 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
285 o Major bugfixes (relay):
286 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
287 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
288 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
289 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
290 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
291 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
292 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
294 o Minor features (bridge):
295 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
296 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
298 o Minor features (geoip):
299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
302 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
303 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
304 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
305 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
306 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
307 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
308 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
309 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
310 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
311 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
312 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
313 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
314 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
315 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
316 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
318 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
319 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
320 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
321 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
322 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
324 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
325 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
326 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
327 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
328 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
331 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
332 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
333 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
334 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
335 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
336 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
337 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
338 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
339 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
340 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
341 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
344 o Distribution (systemd):
345 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
346 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
347 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
348 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
349 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
350 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
351 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
352 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
353 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
357 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
358 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
360 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
364 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
365 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
366 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
367 us closer to a release candidate.
369 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
370 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
371 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
372 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
373 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
375 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
376 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
377 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
378 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
379 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
380 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
381 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
382 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
383 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
387 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
388 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
389 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
390 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
391 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
392 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
393 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
397 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
398 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
399 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
400 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
401 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
402 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
403 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
406 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
408 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
409 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
410 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
411 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
412 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
413 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
414 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
415 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
416 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
417 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
420 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
421 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
422 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
423 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
425 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
426 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
427 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
430 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
431 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
432 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
433 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
436 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
437 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
438 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
439 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
440 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
441 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
442 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
443 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
444 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
445 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
448 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
449 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
450 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
451 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
452 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
453 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
454 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
455 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
459 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
460 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
461 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
462 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
463 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
464 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
465 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
466 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
467 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
468 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
469 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
470 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
471 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
474 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
478 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
479 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
480 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
481 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
482 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
483 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
486 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
487 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
488 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
489 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
490 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
491 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
492 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
493 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
494 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
495 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
496 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
497 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
498 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
500 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
501 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
502 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
503 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
506 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
507 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
508 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
510 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
511 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
512 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
513 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
514 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
515 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
516 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
517 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
518 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
519 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
520 router's identity is not forgeable.
522 o Major bugfixes (relay):
523 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
524 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
525 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
526 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
527 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
528 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
529 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
530 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
531 bugfix on every version of Tor.
533 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
534 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
535 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
536 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
539 o Minor features (diagnostic):
540 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
541 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
542 help diagnose bug 7164.
543 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
544 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
545 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
546 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
547 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
549 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
550 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
551 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
552 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
553 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
554 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
555 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
557 o Minor features (security, memory management):
558 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
559 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
560 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
561 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
562 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
563 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
565 o Minor features (security):
566 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
567 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
568 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
569 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
571 o Minor features (build):
572 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
573 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
574 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
576 o Minor features (other):
577 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
580 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
581 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
582 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
583 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
584 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
586 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
587 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
588 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
589 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
590 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
591 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
592 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
593 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
594 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
595 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
596 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
597 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
599 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
600 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
601 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
602 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
603 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
604 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
605 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
606 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
607 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
608 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
609 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
610 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
611 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
612 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
613 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
614 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
615 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
616 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
619 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
620 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
621 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
622 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
623 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
624 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
625 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
627 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
628 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
629 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
630 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
631 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
632 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
633 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
634 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
635 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
637 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
638 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
640 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
641 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
643 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
644 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
645 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
646 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
647 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
648 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
649 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
650 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
651 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
653 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
654 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
655 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
656 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
657 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
658 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
659 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
660 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
661 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
662 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
663 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
664 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
665 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
666 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
667 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
668 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
669 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
670 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
672 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
673 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
674 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
675 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
676 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
677 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
678 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
679 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
680 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
683 o Minor bugfixes (client):
684 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
685 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
686 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
687 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
689 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
690 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
691 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
692 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
694 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
695 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
696 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
697 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
698 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
699 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
700 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
701 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
703 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
704 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
705 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
706 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
709 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
710 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
711 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
712 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
713 versions. Found by "skruffy".
714 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
715 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
716 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
719 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
720 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
721 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
722 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
725 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
726 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
727 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
728 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
730 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
731 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
732 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
734 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
735 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
736 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
738 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
739 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
740 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
741 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
742 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
746 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
747 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
748 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
749 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
752 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
753 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
754 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
755 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
757 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
758 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
760 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
761 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
762 caches don't get confused.
765 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
766 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
767 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
768 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
769 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
772 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
773 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes #11742.
774 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
775 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
776 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
777 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
781 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
782 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
783 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
784 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
785 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
786 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
787 of RAM, and several others.
789 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
790 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
791 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
792 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
793 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
795 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
796 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
797 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
798 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
801 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
802 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
803 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
804 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
805 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
806 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
807 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
808 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
809 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
810 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
811 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
812 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
813 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
814 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
815 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
816 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
817 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
818 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
819 Resolves ticket 11438.
821 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
822 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
823 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
824 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
825 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
826 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
828 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
829 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
830 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
832 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
833 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
834 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
836 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
837 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
838 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
839 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
841 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
842 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
843 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
845 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
846 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
847 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
850 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
851 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
852 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
853 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
856 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
857 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
858 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
859 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
861 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
862 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
863 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
864 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
866 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
867 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
868 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
872 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
873 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
874 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
875 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
876 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
877 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
878 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
879 the Linux sandbox code.
881 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
882 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
883 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
885 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
886 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
888 o Major features (security):
889 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
890 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
891 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
892 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
893 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
894 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
895 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
896 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
898 o Major features (relay performance):
899 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
900 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
901 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
902 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
903 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
904 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
905 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
906 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
907 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
908 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
910 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
911 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
912 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
913 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
914 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
915 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
916 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
918 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
919 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
921 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
922 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
923 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
924 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
925 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
926 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
927 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
928 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
929 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
930 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
931 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
932 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
933 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
934 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
935 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
936 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
937 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
938 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
939 Resolves ticket 11438.
941 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
942 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
943 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
944 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
946 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
947 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
948 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
949 10267; patch from "yurivict".
950 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
951 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
952 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
953 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
954 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
955 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
957 o Minor features (security):
958 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
959 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
960 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
961 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
964 o Minor features (log verbosity):
965 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
966 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
967 Resolves ticket 5286.
968 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
969 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
970 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
971 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
972 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
973 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
974 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
975 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
976 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
978 o Minor features (relay):
979 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
980 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
981 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
983 o Minor features (controller):
984 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
985 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
987 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
988 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
989 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
991 o Minor features (bridge client):
992 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
993 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
994 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
996 o Minor features (diagnostic):
997 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
998 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
999 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
1000 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
1001 still referenced by a live node_t object.
1003 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
1004 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
1005 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
1006 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
1008 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
1009 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
1010 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
1011 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
1014 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
1015 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
1016 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1018 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
1019 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
1020 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
1021 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1022 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
1023 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
1024 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1026 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
1027 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
1028 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
1029 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1030 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
1031 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
1032 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1033 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
1034 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
1035 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
1036 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1037 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
1038 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
1041 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
1042 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
1043 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
1044 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
1045 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
1047 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
1048 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
1049 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
1052 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1053 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
1054 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1056 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1057 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
1058 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1060 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1061 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
1062 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
1063 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1065 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
1066 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
1067 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1068 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
1069 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
1071 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
1072 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
1073 early. Fixes bug 10081.
1075 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
1076 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
1077 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1078 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
1079 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1080 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
1081 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
1082 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
1084 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
1085 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
1086 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
1087 should never have affected anyone in practice.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
1090 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
1091 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
1094 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
1095 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
1096 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
1097 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
1098 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
1099 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
1100 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
1101 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
1102 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
1103 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
1104 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
1105 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
1106 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
1108 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
1109 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
1110 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
1111 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
1112 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
1113 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
1114 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
1115 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
1119 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
1120 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
1121 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
1122 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1123 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
1124 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1125 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
1126 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
1128 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
1130 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1131 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
1132 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
1133 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
1134 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
1137 o Deprecated versions:
1138 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
1139 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
1140 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
1141 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
1144 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
1145 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
1146 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
1147 Patch from Dana Koch.
1150 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
1151 Resolves ticket 11070.
1154 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
1155 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
1156 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
1157 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
1158 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
1161 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
1162 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
1164 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
1165 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
1166 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
1167 streams attached to each circuit.
1169 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
1170 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
1171 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
1172 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
1173 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
1174 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
1175 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
1176 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
1177 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
1178 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
1179 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
1180 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
1181 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
1183 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
1184 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
1185 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
1187 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
1188 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
1189 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
1190 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
1191 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
1192 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
1193 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
1194 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
1195 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
1197 o Minor features (other):
1198 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
1199 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
1200 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
1201 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
1202 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
1203 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
1204 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
1205 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
1206 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1209 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
1210 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
1211 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
1212 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
1213 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
1214 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
1215 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
1216 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
1218 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1219 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
1220 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
1221 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
1222 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1223 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
1224 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
1225 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
1227 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
1228 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
1229 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
1230 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
1231 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
1232 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1233 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
1234 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
1235 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1236 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
1237 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
1238 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1240 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
1241 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
1242 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1243 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
1244 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
1245 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
1246 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
1247 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
1248 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1249 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
1250 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
1251 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
1252 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
1253 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
1255 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
1256 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
1258 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
1259 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
1260 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
1261 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
1262 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
1263 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
1264 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1265 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
1266 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
1267 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
1268 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
1269 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1270 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
1271 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
1273 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
1274 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
1275 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
1276 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
1279 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
1280 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
1281 the rest of bug 10841.
1284 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
1285 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
1286 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
1287 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
1288 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
1289 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
1290 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
1291 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
1292 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
1293 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
1294 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
1295 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1296 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
1297 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
1298 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1300 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1301 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
1302 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
1304 o Test infrastructure:
1305 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
1306 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
1307 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
1308 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1311 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
1312 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
1313 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
1314 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
1316 o Major features (client security):
1317 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
1318 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
1319 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
1320 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
1321 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
1322 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
1325 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
1326 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
1327 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
1328 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1330 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1331 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
1332 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
1333 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
1334 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
1337 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
1338 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
1340 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
1341 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
1342 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
1343 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
1344 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
1345 GeoLite2 Country database.
1348 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
1349 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
1350 bugfix on every released Tor.
1351 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
1352 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
1353 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
1354 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1355 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
1356 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
1357 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
1358 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
1359 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
1360 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1361 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
1362 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
1363 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1364 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
1365 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1367 o Documentation fixes:
1368 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
1369 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1372 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
1373 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
1374 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
1375 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
1376 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
1377 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
1378 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
1379 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
1381 o Major features (client security):
1382 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
1383 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
1384 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
1385 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
1386 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
1387 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
1388 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
1389 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
1390 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
1391 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
1392 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
1393 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
1395 o Major features (bridges):
1396 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
1397 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
1398 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
1399 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
1400 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
1401 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
1402 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
1403 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
1406 o Major features (other):
1407 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
1408 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
1409 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
1410 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
1411 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
1412 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
1413 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
1414 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
1415 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
1416 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
1417 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
1418 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
1421 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
1422 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
1423 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1424 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
1425 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
1426 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
1427 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1429 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
1430 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
1431 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
1432 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
1433 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
1434 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
1435 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
1436 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
1437 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
1439 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
1440 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1441 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
1442 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
1443 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
1444 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
1446 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1447 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
1448 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
1449 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
1450 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
1451 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
1454 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
1455 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
1456 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
1457 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
1458 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
1459 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
1460 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
1462 o Minor features (security):
1463 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
1464 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
1467 o Minor features (config options and command line):
1468 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
1469 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
1470 Implements ticket 10060.
1471 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
1472 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
1473 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
1475 o Minor features (controller):
1476 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
1477 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
1478 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
1479 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
1480 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
1483 o Minor features (build):
1484 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
1485 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
1486 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
1487 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
1488 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
1489 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
1490 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
1492 o Minor features (testing):
1493 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
1494 the unit test scripts.
1495 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
1496 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
1497 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
1498 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
1500 o Minor features (log messages):
1501 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
1502 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
1503 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
1504 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
1505 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
1506 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
1507 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
1508 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
1509 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
1510 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1512 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1513 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
1514 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
1515 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
1516 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
1517 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
1518 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
1519 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
1520 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
1521 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1523 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
1524 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
1525 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
1526 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
1529 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1530 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
1531 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
1532 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
1533 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1535 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1536 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
1537 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
1538 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
1539 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
1540 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
1541 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
1543 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
1544 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
1545 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
1546 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
1547 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
1548 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
1549 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1551 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
1552 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
1553 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
1554 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1556 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
1557 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
1558 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
1559 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
1560 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
1561 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
1562 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
1563 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
1564 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
1565 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
1566 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1569 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
1570 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
1571 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
1572 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
1573 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
1574 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
1575 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
1576 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
1577 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
1579 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
1580 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
1581 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
1582 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
1585 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1586 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
1587 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
1588 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
1589 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
1590 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
1592 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
1593 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1595 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1596 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
1597 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
1598 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1600 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1601 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
1602 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
1603 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1604 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
1605 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
1606 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
1607 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1608 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
1609 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
1610 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
1611 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
1612 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
1613 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
1615 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
1616 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
1617 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1618 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
1619 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
1620 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
1622 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1623 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
1624 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1625 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
1626 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
1627 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
1628 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
1629 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
1630 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
1631 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1632 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
1633 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1636 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
1637 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
1638 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
1639 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
1640 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1641 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
1642 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
1643 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1644 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
1645 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
1646 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
1647 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
1648 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
1649 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
1650 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
1653 o Removed code and features:
1654 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
1655 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
1656 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
1657 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
1658 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
1659 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
1661 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
1662 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
1663 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
1664 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
1665 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
1666 part of a fix for bug 10841.
1668 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1669 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
1670 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
1671 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
1672 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
1673 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
1674 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
1675 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
1676 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
1677 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
1678 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
1681 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
1682 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
1683 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
1684 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
1685 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1687 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1688 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
1689 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
1690 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
1691 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
1692 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
1693 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
1696 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
1697 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
1698 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
1701 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
1702 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
1703 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
1704 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
1705 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
1706 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
1707 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
1709 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
1710 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
1713 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
1714 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
1715 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
1716 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
1717 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
1718 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
1719 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
1720 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
1722 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
1723 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1724 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
1725 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
1726 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
1727 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
1730 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
1731 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1732 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
1733 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
1734 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
1737 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
1738 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
1739 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
1740 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
1741 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
1742 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
1743 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
1744 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
1746 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
1747 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
1748 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
1749 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
1750 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
1751 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
1752 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
1753 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
1754 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
1755 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
1756 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
1757 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
1758 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
1759 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
1760 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
1761 security, and privacy fixes.
1764 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
1765 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
1766 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
1767 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
1770 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
1771 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
1772 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
1773 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
1774 them to solve bug 6033.)
1777 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
1778 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
1779 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
1780 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
1781 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
1782 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1783 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
1784 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
1786 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
1787 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
1788 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
1789 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1791 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
1792 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
1793 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1794 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
1795 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
1796 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
1797 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
1798 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
1799 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
1800 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1801 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
1802 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1804 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
1805 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
1806 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
1807 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
1808 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
1809 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1810 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
1811 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
1812 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1813 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
1814 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
1815 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
1816 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
1817 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
1818 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
1819 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
1822 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
1823 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
1824 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
1825 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
1826 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
1827 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
1828 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
1829 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
1830 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
1831 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
1832 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
1833 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
1834 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
1835 Implements part of proposal 222.
1837 o Minor features (other):
1838 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
1839 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
1840 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
1841 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
1842 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
1843 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
1844 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
1845 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
1846 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1848 o Documentation fixes:
1849 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
1850 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
1851 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
1852 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
1853 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
1854 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
1857 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
1858 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
1859 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
1860 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
1861 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
1862 release of the new branch.
1864 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
1865 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1866 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
1868 o Major features (security):
1869 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
1870 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
1871 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
1872 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
1873 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
1874 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
1875 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
1876 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
1877 Google Summer of Code.
1878 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
1879 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
1880 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
1881 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
1882 them to solve bug 6033.)
1884 o Major features (other):
1885 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
1886 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
1887 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
1888 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
1889 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
1891 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
1892 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
1893 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
1894 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
1895 Implements ticket 8530.
1896 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
1897 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
1900 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
1901 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
1902 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
1903 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
1904 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
1905 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1906 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
1907 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
1908 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1909 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
1910 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
1911 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
1912 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1915 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
1916 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
1917 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
1918 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
1919 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
1920 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
1921 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
1922 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
1923 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
1924 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
1928 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
1929 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
1930 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
1931 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
1932 invoking the other functions it calls.
1933 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
1934 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
1935 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
1936 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
1938 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
1939 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
1940 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
1941 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
1942 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
1943 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
1944 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
1945 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
1946 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
1947 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
1948 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
1949 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
1950 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
1951 Implements part of proposal 222.
1953 o Minor features (config options):
1954 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
1955 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
1956 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
1957 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
1958 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
1959 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
1960 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
1961 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
1962 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
1963 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
1964 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
1965 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
1966 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
1967 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
1968 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
1969 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
1970 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
1973 o Minor features (build):
1974 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
1975 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
1976 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
1977 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
1978 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
1981 o Minor features (other):
1982 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
1983 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
1984 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
1985 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
1986 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
1987 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
1988 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
1989 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
1990 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
1991 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
1992 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
1993 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
1995 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1998 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
1999 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2000 bugfix on every released Tor.
2001 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
2002 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
2003 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
2004 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
2005 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
2006 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
2008 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
2009 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
2010 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
2011 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2012 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
2013 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
2014 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
2015 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2017 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
2018 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
2019 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
2020 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
2021 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
2023 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
2024 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2026 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
2027 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
2028 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
2030 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
2031 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
2032 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
2033 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
2034 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2036 o Minor code improvements:
2037 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
2038 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
2040 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
2041 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
2042 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
2043 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
2044 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
2047 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
2048 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
2049 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
2050 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
2052 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2053 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
2054 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
2055 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
2056 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
2057 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
2058 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
2059 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
2060 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
2061 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
2062 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
2063 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
2064 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
2065 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
2066 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
2067 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
2070 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
2071 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2072 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
2073 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
2074 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
2075 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
2076 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
2079 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
2080 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
2081 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
2082 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
2083 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
2084 Implements ticket 9574.
2087 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
2088 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
2089 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2090 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
2091 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
2092 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
2093 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
2094 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
2095 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2096 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
2097 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
2098 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
2102 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
2103 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
2104 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
2105 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
2107 o Minor fixes (config options):
2108 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
2109 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
2110 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
2111 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
2112 message is logged at notice, not at info.
2113 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
2114 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
2115 or we just won't work.)
2118 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
2119 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
2120 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
2121 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2124 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
2125 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2126 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
2129 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
2130 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
2131 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2132 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
2133 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2134 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
2135 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
2137 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
2138 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2139 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
2140 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
2143 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
2144 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
2145 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2146 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
2147 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
2148 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
2149 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
2150 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
2151 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
2152 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
2153 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2154 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
2155 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2158 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2161 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
2162 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2163 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2164 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2167 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
2168 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
2169 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2172 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
2173 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
2174 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
2177 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
2178 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
2179 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2182 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
2183 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
2184 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
2185 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
2186 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
2187 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
2189 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
2190 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
2191 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
2192 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
2193 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
2194 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2196 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
2197 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
2198 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2201 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
2202 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
2203 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
2204 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
2205 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
2207 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
2208 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
2209 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
2210 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
2211 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
2212 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
2213 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
2215 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
2216 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
2217 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
2219 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
2220 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
2224 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
2225 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
2226 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
2228 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
2229 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
2230 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
2231 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
2232 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
2233 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
2235 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
2236 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
2237 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
2238 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
2239 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
2240 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
2241 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2244 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
2245 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
2246 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
2247 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
2248 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
2249 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
2250 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2251 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
2252 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2253 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
2254 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
2255 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2256 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
2257 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
2259 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
2260 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
2261 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
2262 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
2265 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2266 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
2267 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
2268 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
2269 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
2270 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
2272 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
2273 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
2277 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
2278 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
2279 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
2280 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
2281 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
2282 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
2283 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2285 o Removed documentation:
2286 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
2287 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
2289 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2290 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
2291 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
2292 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
2295 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
2296 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
2297 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
2298 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
2299 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
2300 variety of other issues.
2303 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
2304 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
2305 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
2306 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
2307 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
2308 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2309 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
2310 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
2312 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
2313 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
2314 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
2316 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
2317 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
2318 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
2319 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2320 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
2321 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
2322 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2324 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
2325 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
2326 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
2327 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
2328 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
2329 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
2330 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
2331 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2332 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
2333 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
2334 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
2335 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
2336 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2337 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
2338 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
2339 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
2340 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
2341 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
2342 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
2343 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
2344 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2346 o Major bugfixes (other):
2347 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
2348 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
2349 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
2350 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2353 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
2354 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
2355 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
2356 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
2358 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
2359 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
2361 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2363 o Minor features (build):
2364 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
2365 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
2367 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
2368 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
2370 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
2371 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
2372 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
2375 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2376 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
2377 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2378 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2379 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
2380 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
2381 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2382 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
2383 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
2384 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2385 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
2386 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
2387 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
2388 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
2391 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
2392 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
2393 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
2394 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
2395 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
2396 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
2397 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
2398 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
2399 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
2400 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
2401 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
2402 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
2403 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
2404 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2405 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2407 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2408 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
2409 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2410 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
2411 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
2412 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
2413 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
2414 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2415 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
2416 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
2417 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
2418 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
2419 Should help resolve bug 8235.
2420 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
2421 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
2422 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
2423 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2425 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
2426 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
2427 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
2428 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
2429 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
2430 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
2431 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
2432 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
2435 o Minor bugfixes (config):
2436 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
2437 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
2439 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
2440 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
2441 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2442 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
2443 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
2444 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
2445 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2446 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
2447 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
2448 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2449 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
2450 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
2451 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2452 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
2453 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
2456 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
2457 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
2458 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
2459 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
2460 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
2461 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
2462 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
2463 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
2465 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
2466 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
2467 or at least make it more diagnosable.
2468 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
2469 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
2470 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
2471 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2473 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
2474 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
2475 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
2476 the relaxed timeout log message.
2477 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
2478 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
2479 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
2481 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
2482 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
2483 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2484 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
2485 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2486 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
2487 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
2490 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
2491 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
2492 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
2493 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
2494 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2495 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
2496 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2497 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
2498 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2499 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
2500 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
2501 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
2502 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2503 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
2504 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
2505 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
2506 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2508 o Documentation fixes:
2509 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
2510 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
2511 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
2512 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
2513 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
2514 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
2515 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
2516 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
2519 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
2520 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
2524 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
2525 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
2526 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
2527 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
2529 o Major features (directory authorities):
2530 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
2531 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
2532 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
2533 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
2534 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
2535 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
2536 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
2537 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
2538 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
2539 Implements ticket 8151.
2541 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2542 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
2543 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
2544 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
2545 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
2547 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2548 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
2549 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
2550 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
2551 whether authentication information is present, causing all
2552 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
2553 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
2555 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
2556 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
2557 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
2559 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
2560 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
2561 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
2562 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
2563 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
2564 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
2565 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
2566 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
2567 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
2568 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
2569 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
2570 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
2571 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
2572 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
2573 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
2574 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
2575 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
2576 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
2579 o Minor features (portability):
2580 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
2581 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2582 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
2583 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
2584 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
2585 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
2586 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
2587 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2589 o Minor features (other):
2590 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
2591 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
2592 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
2593 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
2594 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
2595 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
2596 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
2597 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
2599 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2601 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2602 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
2603 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
2604 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
2605 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
2606 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2607 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
2608 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
2609 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
2610 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
2612 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
2613 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
2614 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
2615 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2617 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2618 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
2619 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
2620 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
2621 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
2622 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
2623 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
2625 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
2626 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
2627 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
2628 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
2629 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
2631 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
2632 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
2633 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
2634 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
2636 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2637 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
2638 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
2641 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
2642 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
2643 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2644 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
2646 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
2647 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2648 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
2649 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2651 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
2652 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
2653 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
2655 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
2656 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
2657 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
2658 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
2660 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
2661 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
2662 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2663 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
2664 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
2665 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
2666 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2668 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2669 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
2673 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
2674 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
2675 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
2676 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
2677 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
2680 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2681 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
2682 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
2683 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
2685 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
2686 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
2687 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
2691 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
2692 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
2693 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
2694 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
2695 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
2696 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
2697 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
2698 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
2699 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
2700 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2701 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
2702 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
2703 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
2706 o Major features (relay):
2707 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
2708 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
2709 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
2710 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
2711 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
2712 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
2713 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
2715 o Major features (portability):
2716 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
2717 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
2718 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
2719 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
2720 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2723 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
2724 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
2725 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
2726 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
2727 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
2728 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
2730 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
2731 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
2732 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
2733 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
2734 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
2735 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
2736 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
2737 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
2739 o Minor features (path selection):
2740 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
2741 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
2742 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
2743 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
2744 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
2745 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
2746 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
2747 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
2748 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
2749 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
2750 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
2751 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
2752 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
2753 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
2754 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
2755 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
2756 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
2757 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
2758 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
2760 o Minor features (log messages):
2761 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
2762 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
2763 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
2764 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
2767 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
2768 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
2769 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2770 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
2771 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
2772 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
2773 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
2774 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
2775 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
2776 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2777 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
2778 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2780 o Build improvements:
2781 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
2782 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
2783 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
2784 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
2785 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
2786 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
2787 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
2788 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
2789 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
2790 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
2791 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
2792 than to perform erroneously.
2795 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
2796 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
2797 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
2799 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
2800 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
2801 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
2804 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2805 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
2807 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
2808 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
2812 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
2813 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
2817 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
2818 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
2819 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
2823 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
2824 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
2825 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
2826 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
2829 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
2830 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
2831 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
2832 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
2833 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
2834 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
2835 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
2836 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
2837 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
2838 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
2839 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
2842 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
2843 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
2844 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
2845 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
2846 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
2847 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
2848 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
2849 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
2850 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
2851 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
2852 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
2854 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
2855 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
2856 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
2858 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
2859 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
2860 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
2862 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
2864 o Major features (better link encryption):
2865 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
2866 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
2867 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
2868 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
2869 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
2870 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
2873 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
2874 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
2875 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
2876 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
2877 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
2878 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
2879 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
2881 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
2882 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
2883 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
2884 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
2886 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
2889 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
2890 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
2891 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2894 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
2895 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
2896 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
2897 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
2898 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
2899 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
2900 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
2901 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2902 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2904 o Minor features (testing):
2905 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
2906 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
2907 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
2909 o Minor features (path bias detection):
2910 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
2911 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
2912 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
2913 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
2914 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
2915 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
2916 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
2917 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
2918 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
2919 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
2920 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
2921 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
2922 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
2923 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
2924 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
2925 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
2926 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
2927 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
2928 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
2929 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
2930 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
2931 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
2932 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
2933 detection capability loss.
2935 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2936 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
2937 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
2938 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
2939 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2940 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
2941 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
2942 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
2945 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2946 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
2947 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
2948 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
2949 and the different handshakes it supports.
2950 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
2951 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
2952 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
2953 any encoding is overkill.
2956 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
2957 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
2958 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
2959 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
2960 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
2961 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
2962 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
2963 and fixes a variety of other issues.
2965 o Major features (client resilience):
2966 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
2967 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
2968 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
2969 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
2970 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
2971 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
2972 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
2973 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
2974 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
2975 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
2976 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
2977 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
2978 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
2979 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
2980 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
2982 o Major features (IPv6):
2983 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
2984 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
2985 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
2986 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
2987 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
2988 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
2989 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
2990 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
2992 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
2993 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
2995 o Major features (geoip database):
2996 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
2997 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
2998 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
2999 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
3000 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
3001 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
3002 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
3003 Country database, as modified above.
3005 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
3006 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
3007 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
3008 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
3009 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
3010 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
3011 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
3012 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
3013 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
3014 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
3015 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
3016 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
3017 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
3018 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
3019 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
3020 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
3021 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
3024 o Major bugfixes (other):
3025 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
3026 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
3027 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
3028 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
3029 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
3030 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
3031 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
3032 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
3034 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
3035 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
3038 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
3039 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
3040 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
3041 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
3042 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
3043 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
3044 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
3045 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
3047 o Minor features (IPv6):
3048 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
3049 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
3050 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
3051 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
3052 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
3053 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
3054 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
3055 connect to the wrong addresses.
3056 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
3057 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
3058 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
3059 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
3063 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
3064 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
3065 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
3067 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
3068 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
3069 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
3071 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
3072 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
3073 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
3076 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
3077 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
3079 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3080 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
3081 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
3082 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
3083 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
3086 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
3087 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
3088 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
3089 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
3090 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
3091 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
3092 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
3093 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
3095 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
3096 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
3097 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
3098 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
3099 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
3100 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
3101 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
3102 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
3103 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
3104 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
3105 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
3108 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
3109 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
3110 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
3111 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
3112 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
3113 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
3114 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
3115 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
3116 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
3117 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
3120 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
3121 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
3125 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
3126 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
3127 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
3128 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
3131 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
3132 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
3134 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
3135 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
3136 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
3137 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
3138 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
3139 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
3140 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
3141 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
3142 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
3143 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
3146 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
3148 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
3149 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
3150 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
3151 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
3152 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
3155 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
3156 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
3157 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3158 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
3159 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
3161 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
3162 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3163 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
3164 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
3165 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
3166 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
3167 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
3169 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
3170 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3171 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
3172 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
3173 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
3174 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3175 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
3176 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3178 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3179 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
3180 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
3181 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
3182 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
3183 present the same extensions.)
3186 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
3187 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
3188 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
3189 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
3190 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
3192 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
3193 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
3194 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
3195 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
3197 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
3198 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
3199 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
3200 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3202 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
3203 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
3204 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
3205 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
3206 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
3207 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
3208 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
3209 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
3210 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3212 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
3213 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
3214 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
3215 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
3216 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3219 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
3220 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
3221 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
3223 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3224 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
3226 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
3227 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
3231 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
3232 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
3233 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
3234 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
3237 o Major bugfixes (security):
3238 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
3239 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
3240 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
3242 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
3243 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
3244 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
3245 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3248 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
3249 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
3250 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
3251 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
3252 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
3253 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
3254 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
3255 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3258 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
3259 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
3260 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
3261 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3264 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
3265 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
3266 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
3267 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
3268 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
3269 scheduling algorithms.
3271 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
3272 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
3273 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
3275 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
3276 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
3277 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
3278 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
3279 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
3280 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
3281 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
3282 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
3283 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
3284 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
3285 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
3287 o Internal abstraction features:
3288 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
3289 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
3290 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
3291 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
3292 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
3293 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
3294 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
3295 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
3296 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
3297 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
3298 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
3299 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
3300 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
3301 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
3302 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
3303 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
3304 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
3306 o Required libraries:
3307 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
3308 strongly recommended.
3311 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
3312 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
3313 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
3314 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
3315 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
3316 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
3317 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
3318 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
3319 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
3321 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
3322 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
3323 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
3324 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
3325 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
3326 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
3327 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
3328 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3329 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
3330 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
3331 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
3332 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
3333 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
3334 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
3335 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3338 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
3339 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
3340 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
3341 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
3342 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
3343 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
3344 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
3345 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
3346 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
3347 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
3348 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
3349 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
3350 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
3351 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
3352 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3353 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
3354 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
3355 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
3356 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
3358 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
3359 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
3360 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
3361 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
3362 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
3363 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
3364 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
3367 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
3368 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
3369 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
3370 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
3372 o New directory authorities:
3373 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
3374 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
3376 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
3377 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
3378 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
3379 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
3380 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
3381 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
3382 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
3383 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
3384 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
3385 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
3386 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
3389 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
3390 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
3391 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
3393 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3394 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
3395 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
3396 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3397 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
3398 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
3399 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3400 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
3401 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
3403 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3404 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
3405 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
3406 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
3407 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
3408 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
3409 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
3410 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
3411 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
3412 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
3413 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
3414 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
3415 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3416 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
3417 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
3418 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
3419 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
3420 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
3422 o Documentation fixes:
3423 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
3426 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
3427 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
3428 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
3429 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
3432 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3433 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3434 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3437 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
3438 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
3439 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
3440 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
3441 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
3442 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
3443 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
3444 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3446 o Security features:
3447 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
3448 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
3449 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
3450 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
3451 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
3452 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
3453 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
3454 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
3455 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
3459 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
3460 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
3461 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
3464 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
3465 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
3466 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3467 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
3468 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3469 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
3470 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
3471 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
3472 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
3473 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
3474 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3475 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
3476 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
3477 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
3479 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
3480 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3481 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
3482 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
3483 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3485 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
3486 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
3487 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
3488 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3489 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
3490 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
3491 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3492 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
3493 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
3494 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
3495 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
3496 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
3497 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
3498 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3499 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
3500 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
3501 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3502 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
3503 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
3504 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
3506 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3507 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
3508 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
3509 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
3510 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
3511 testable, and a little less fragile too.
3512 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
3513 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3515 o Documentation fixes:
3516 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
3517 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
3521 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
3522 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
3526 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3527 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3528 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3531 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
3532 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
3536 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
3537 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
3541 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3542 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3543 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3544 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
3545 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
3546 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
3547 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
3551 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
3552 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
3553 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
3554 log messages less noisy.
3557 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
3558 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
3562 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
3563 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
3564 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
3565 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
3566 last time we raised it).
3569 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
3570 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
3572 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
3573 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
3574 part of ticket 6736.
3575 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
3576 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
3577 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
3581 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
3582 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
3583 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3584 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
3585 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
3587 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
3588 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3589 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
3590 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
3591 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3592 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
3593 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
3594 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3595 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
3596 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3597 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
3598 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3601 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
3602 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
3603 bunch of compatibility code.
3606 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
3607 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
3608 the ORPort and the DirPort.
3611 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
3612 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
3613 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
3614 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
3616 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
3617 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3618 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
3620 o Major features (bridges):
3621 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
3622 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
3623 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
3626 o Major features (IPv6):
3627 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
3628 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
3629 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
3630 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
3631 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
3632 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
3633 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
3634 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
3635 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
3637 o Major features (build):
3638 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
3639 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
3640 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
3641 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
3642 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
3643 fixes by Jim Meyering.
3644 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
3645 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
3646 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
3648 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
3649 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
3650 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
3651 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
3652 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
3653 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
3654 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
3655 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
3656 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
3657 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
3658 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
3660 o Minor features (streamlining);
3661 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
3662 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
3664 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
3665 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
3666 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
3667 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
3668 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
3669 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3671 o Minor features (controller):
3672 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
3674 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
3675 Implements ticket 4971.
3677 o Minor features (IPv6):
3678 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
3679 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
3680 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
3681 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
3682 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
3684 o Minor features (log messages):
3685 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
3686 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
3687 Resolves ticket 6758.
3688 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
3689 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
3690 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
3691 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3692 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
3693 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
3694 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
3696 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
3697 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
3698 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
3699 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
3700 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
3703 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3704 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
3705 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
3706 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
3707 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
3709 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
3710 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
3711 Implements ticket 5529.
3712 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
3713 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
3714 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
3715 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
3716 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
3717 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
3718 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
3719 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
3720 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
3721 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
3724 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
3725 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
3726 from a source distribution.)
3729 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
3730 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3731 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
3732 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
3733 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
3734 and cleans up other smaller issues.
3736 o Major bugfixes (security):
3737 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
3738 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
3739 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
3740 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
3741 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
3742 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
3743 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
3744 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
3745 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
3746 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
3747 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
3748 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3749 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
3750 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
3751 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
3752 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
3756 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
3757 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
3758 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
3759 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3760 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
3761 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
3762 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
3763 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
3764 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
3765 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3768 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
3769 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
3770 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
3771 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
3772 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3773 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
3774 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
3775 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
3776 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
3777 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
3778 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
3780 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
3781 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
3782 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
3784 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
3785 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
3786 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
3787 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
3788 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3789 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
3790 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
3791 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
3792 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3793 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
3794 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3795 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
3796 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
3797 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
3800 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3801 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
3802 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
3803 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
3804 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3805 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
3806 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
3807 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
3808 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
3809 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
3810 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
3811 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
3812 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
3813 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
3814 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3817 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
3818 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
3819 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
3820 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
3821 Resolves ticket 6732.
3824 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
3825 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
3826 attack that could in theory leak path information.
3829 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
3830 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
3831 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3832 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
3833 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
3834 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
3835 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
3836 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
3837 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
3838 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
3839 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
3840 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
3841 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
3842 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3845 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
3846 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3847 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
3848 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
3851 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
3852 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
3853 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3854 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
3855 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
3856 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3857 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
3858 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
3859 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
3860 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
3861 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
3862 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
3863 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
3864 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
3865 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
3866 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
3867 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3870 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
3871 a little more useful.
3872 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
3873 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3874 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
3875 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
3876 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
3877 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
3878 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
3881 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
3882 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3883 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
3884 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3885 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
3886 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
3890 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
3891 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
3892 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
3893 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
3894 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
3897 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
3898 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
3899 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
3902 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
3904 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
3906 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3907 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
3908 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
3909 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
3910 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
3913 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
3914 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3915 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
3916 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
3917 since the beginning of Tor.
3920 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
3921 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
3922 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
3923 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
3924 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
3925 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
3926 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
3927 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3928 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
3929 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3932 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
3933 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
3936 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
3937 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3938 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3939 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3942 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
3943 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3944 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
3945 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
3946 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
3947 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3949 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3950 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
3951 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
3952 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
3953 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
3954 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
3955 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3956 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
3957 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
3958 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
3959 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
3960 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
3961 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
3962 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
3963 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
3964 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
3965 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3966 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
3967 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3969 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3970 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
3971 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
3973 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
3974 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3975 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
3976 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
3978 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
3979 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3980 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
3981 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3982 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
3983 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
3984 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3985 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
3986 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3987 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
3988 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3989 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
3990 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
3991 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3992 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
3993 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
3996 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
3997 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
3998 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
3999 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
4000 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
4003 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
4004 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
4005 options. Closes bug 4748.
4008 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
4009 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
4010 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
4011 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
4012 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
4016 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
4017 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
4019 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
4020 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
4021 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
4022 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
4023 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
4024 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
4025 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
4026 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
4027 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
4030 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
4031 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
4032 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
4033 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
4034 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
4035 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
4036 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
4037 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
4040 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
4041 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
4042 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
4043 case for flushing marked connections.
4044 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
4045 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4046 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
4047 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
4048 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
4049 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
4050 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4051 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
4052 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4053 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
4054 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
4055 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
4056 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4057 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
4058 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
4059 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
4060 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4061 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
4062 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4063 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
4064 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
4065 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
4066 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4067 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
4068 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
4070 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
4071 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4072 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
4076 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
4077 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
4078 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
4079 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
4080 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
4081 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
4082 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
4083 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
4084 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
4085 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
4086 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
4087 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
4088 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
4089 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
4090 Addresses ticket 5458.
4091 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4093 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4094 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
4095 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
4098 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
4099 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
4100 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
4104 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
4105 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
4106 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
4107 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
4108 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
4109 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
4110 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4111 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
4112 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
4113 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
4114 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4117 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
4118 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4121 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
4122 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
4125 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
4126 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
4127 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
4128 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
4129 that get us closer to a release candidate.
4131 o Major bugfixes (general):
4132 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
4133 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
4134 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
4135 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
4136 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
4137 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
4138 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4139 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
4140 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
4142 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
4143 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
4144 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
4145 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
4148 o Major bugfixes (clients):
4149 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
4150 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
4151 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
4152 which introduced predicted ports.
4153 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
4154 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
4155 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
4156 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4157 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
4158 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
4159 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
4160 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
4161 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
4162 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
4163 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4164 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
4165 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
4167 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
4168 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
4169 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
4170 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
4171 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
4172 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
4173 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
4174 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
4175 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
4176 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
4177 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
4181 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
4182 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
4183 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
4184 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
4185 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
4186 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
4187 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
4188 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
4189 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
4190 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
4191 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
4192 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
4193 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
4194 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
4196 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
4197 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
4198 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
4199 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
4200 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
4201 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
4202 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
4203 sure. Closes bug 5139.
4204 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
4205 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
4206 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
4207 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
4208 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
4209 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
4210 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4212 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
4213 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
4214 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
4215 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
4216 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
4217 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
4218 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
4219 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
4220 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
4221 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
4222 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
4223 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
4224 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
4225 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
4226 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
4227 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
4228 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
4229 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4230 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
4231 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
4233 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4234 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
4235 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
4236 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
4237 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
4238 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
4239 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
4240 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
4241 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
4242 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
4243 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
4244 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
4245 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
4247 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
4248 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4249 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
4250 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
4252 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
4253 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
4254 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4255 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
4256 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
4257 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4258 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
4259 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4260 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
4261 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
4263 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
4264 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
4265 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4268 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
4269 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
4270 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
4271 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
4272 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
4273 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
4274 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
4275 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4276 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
4277 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
4278 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4279 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
4280 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
4281 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
4282 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4283 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
4284 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
4285 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
4286 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
4288 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
4289 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
4290 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4291 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
4292 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
4293 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
4295 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
4296 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
4297 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
4299 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
4300 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
4301 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
4302 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4303 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
4304 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4306 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4307 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
4308 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
4310 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
4311 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
4312 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4313 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
4314 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
4315 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4316 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
4317 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
4318 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
4319 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4320 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
4321 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
4322 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
4323 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
4324 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
4325 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
4327 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
4328 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
4329 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4330 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
4331 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
4332 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4333 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
4334 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4335 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
4336 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4337 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
4338 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
4339 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
4342 o Documentation fixes:
4343 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
4344 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
4345 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
4346 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
4347 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
4348 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
4351 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
4352 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
4356 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
4357 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
4358 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
4359 and fixes several crash bugs.
4361 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
4362 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
4363 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
4364 those packages and upgrade anyway.
4366 o Directory authority changes:
4367 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
4368 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
4372 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
4373 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
4374 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
4375 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
4376 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
4377 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
4378 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
4379 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
4380 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
4381 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
4382 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
4383 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
4384 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
4385 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
4386 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
4387 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
4388 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
4389 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
4390 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
4391 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
4392 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
4393 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
4394 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
4395 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
4396 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
4397 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
4398 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
4401 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
4402 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4403 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
4404 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
4406 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
4407 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
4409 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
4410 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
4411 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
4412 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
4413 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
4414 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
4415 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
4416 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
4419 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
4420 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
4421 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
4422 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
4423 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
4424 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
4425 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
4426 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
4427 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
4428 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
4429 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
4430 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
4431 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
4432 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
4433 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
4434 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
4435 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
4436 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
4437 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
4438 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
4439 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
4440 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
4441 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
4442 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
4443 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
4444 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
4445 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
4446 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
4447 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
4448 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
4449 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
4450 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
4451 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4452 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
4453 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4454 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
4455 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
4456 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
4457 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
4458 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4459 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
4460 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4461 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
4462 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
4463 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
4464 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4466 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
4467 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
4468 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
4469 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
4470 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
4471 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
4472 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
4473 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
4474 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
4475 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
4476 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4477 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
4478 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4479 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
4480 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
4483 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
4484 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
4485 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
4486 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
4488 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4491 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
4492 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
4493 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
4494 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
4495 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
4496 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
4497 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
4500 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
4501 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
4502 the development branch build on Windows again.
4504 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4505 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
4506 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
4507 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
4508 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
4509 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
4510 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
4511 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
4512 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4513 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
4514 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
4515 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
4516 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4517 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
4518 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
4520 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4521 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
4522 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
4523 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4524 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
4526 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
4527 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
4528 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
4529 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
4530 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
4531 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4534 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
4535 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
4536 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
4537 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
4538 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
4539 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
4540 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
4541 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
4542 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
4545 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
4546 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
4547 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
4548 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
4552 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
4553 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
4554 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
4555 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
4557 o Directory authority changes:
4558 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
4562 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
4563 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4564 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
4565 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
4567 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
4568 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
4569 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
4570 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
4572 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
4573 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
4574 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4576 o Major features (performance):
4577 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
4578 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
4579 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
4580 much faster than other AES implementations.
4582 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
4583 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
4584 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
4585 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
4586 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
4587 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
4588 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
4589 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
4590 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
4591 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
4592 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
4593 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
4594 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
4595 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
4596 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4597 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
4598 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
4599 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
4601 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
4602 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
4603 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
4604 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4605 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
4606 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4607 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
4608 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
4609 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
4611 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
4612 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
4613 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4614 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
4615 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
4616 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4619 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
4620 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
4621 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
4622 please let us know about it.
4623 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
4624 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
4625 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
4626 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
4627 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4628 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4629 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
4630 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
4632 o Default torrc changes:
4633 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
4634 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
4636 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
4637 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
4638 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
4642 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
4643 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
4644 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
4645 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
4648 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
4649 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
4650 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
4651 it would be a bad idea to start.
4654 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
4655 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
4656 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
4657 that get us closer to a release candidate.
4659 o Directory authority changes:
4660 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
4663 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
4664 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
4665 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
4666 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
4667 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
4668 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
4669 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
4670 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
4671 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
4672 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
4673 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
4674 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
4675 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
4676 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
4677 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
4678 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
4680 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
4681 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
4682 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
4683 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
4684 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
4685 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4686 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
4687 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
4688 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4689 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
4690 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
4691 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
4693 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
4694 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
4695 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4696 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
4697 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
4699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4700 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
4701 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
4702 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
4703 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
4704 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
4705 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
4706 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
4707 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
4708 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
4709 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
4710 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
4711 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4712 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
4713 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4714 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
4715 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
4716 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
4717 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
4718 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
4719 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
4720 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
4723 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4724 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
4725 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4726 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
4727 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
4728 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
4729 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
4730 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
4731 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4732 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
4733 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
4734 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
4735 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
4736 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
4737 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
4738 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
4739 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
4742 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
4743 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
4744 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4747 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
4748 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
4749 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
4750 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
4753 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
4754 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
4756 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
4757 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
4758 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
4759 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4760 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
4761 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
4762 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
4763 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4764 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
4765 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
4766 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
4767 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4770 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
4771 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
4772 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
4773 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
4774 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
4775 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
4776 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4779 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
4780 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
4781 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
4782 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4783 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
4784 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
4785 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
4786 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
4787 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
4788 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
4790 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
4791 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
4792 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
4793 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
4794 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4795 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
4796 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
4797 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
4798 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
4801 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4802 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
4803 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
4807 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
4808 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
4809 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
4810 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
4811 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
4812 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
4815 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
4816 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
4817 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
4818 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
4819 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
4820 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
4821 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
4822 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
4824 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
4825 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
4826 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
4827 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
4828 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
4829 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
4830 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
4831 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
4833 o Major security workaround:
4834 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
4835 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
4836 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
4837 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
4838 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
4839 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
4840 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
4841 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
4842 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
4843 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
4844 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
4847 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
4848 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
4849 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
4850 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
4851 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
4852 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
4853 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
4854 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4855 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
4856 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
4857 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
4858 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
4859 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
4861 o Minor features (controller):
4862 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
4863 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
4864 file. Resolves bug 1101.
4865 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
4866 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
4867 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
4868 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
4869 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
4870 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
4872 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
4873 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
4874 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
4875 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
4876 part of ticket 3457.
4877 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
4878 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
4879 circuit-status' control-port command.
4881 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4882 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
4883 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
4884 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
4885 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
4887 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
4888 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
4889 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
4890 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
4891 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
4892 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
4893 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
4895 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
4896 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
4898 o Minor features (other):
4899 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
4900 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
4901 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
4902 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
4903 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
4904 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
4905 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
4906 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
4908 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
4909 them from the other auths.
4910 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
4911 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
4912 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
4913 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
4915 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4917 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4918 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
4919 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
4920 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
4921 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
4922 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
4923 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
4924 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
4925 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
4926 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
4927 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4928 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
4929 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
4930 be disabled using the new
4931 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
4932 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4933 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
4934 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
4935 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
4936 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
4937 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
4938 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
4939 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
4940 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
4941 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
4942 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
4944 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
4945 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
4946 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
4949 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4950 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
4951 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
4953 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
4954 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
4955 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
4956 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
4957 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4958 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
4959 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4961 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
4962 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
4963 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
4964 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
4965 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
4966 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
4967 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
4968 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
4970 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
4971 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
4972 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
4973 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
4974 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
4975 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
4976 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
4977 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
4978 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
4981 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4982 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
4983 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
4984 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
4985 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
4986 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
4987 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
4988 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
4989 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
4990 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
4991 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
4992 accidentally been reverted.
4993 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
4994 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
4995 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
4996 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
4997 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
4998 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
4999 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5000 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
5001 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
5002 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5003 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
5004 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
5005 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
5006 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
5007 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5008 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
5009 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5010 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
5011 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5014 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5015 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5016 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5017 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5018 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5019 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5020 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5022 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5023 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
5024 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
5025 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
5026 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
5027 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
5028 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
5030 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
5031 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
5032 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
5033 invalid value, rather than just -1.
5034 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
5035 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
5036 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
5037 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
5038 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
5039 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
5040 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
5044 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
5045 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
5046 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
5048 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
5049 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
5050 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
5051 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
5052 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
5053 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
5054 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
5055 (which Tor does not do by default).
5057 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
5058 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
5059 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
5060 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
5061 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
5063 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
5067 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5068 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5069 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5070 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5073 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
5074 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
5075 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
5076 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
5077 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
5078 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
5079 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
5080 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
5081 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5082 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
5083 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5086 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5089 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
5090 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
5091 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
5093 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
5094 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
5095 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
5096 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
5097 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
5098 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
5099 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
5100 (which Tor does not do by default).
5102 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
5103 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
5104 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
5105 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
5106 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
5108 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
5109 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
5110 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
5113 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
5114 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
5115 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
5116 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
5117 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
5119 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
5120 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
5123 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5124 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5125 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5126 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5127 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
5128 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
5129 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
5130 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
5132 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
5133 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
5134 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
5135 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
5136 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
5137 close based on processing a cell on it.
5138 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
5139 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
5140 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
5141 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5142 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
5143 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
5144 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5145 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
5146 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
5147 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
5148 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
5149 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
5150 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
5151 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
5152 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
5155 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
5156 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
5157 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
5158 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
5159 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
5160 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
5161 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
5163 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
5164 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
5165 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
5166 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
5167 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
5168 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5169 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
5170 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
5171 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5172 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
5173 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
5174 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
5175 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
5176 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5177 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
5178 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
5179 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
5180 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
5181 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5182 Reported by "troll_un".
5183 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
5184 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5185 Reported by "troll_un".
5186 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5187 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
5188 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
5189 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
5192 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
5193 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
5194 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
5195 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
5196 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
5197 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
5198 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
5199 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
5200 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
5201 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
5202 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5204 o Packaging changes:
5205 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
5206 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
5209 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
5210 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
5211 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
5212 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
5213 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
5215 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
5216 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
5218 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5219 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
5220 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
5221 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
5222 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5223 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5224 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5225 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5226 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5229 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5232 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
5233 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
5234 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
5235 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
5236 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
5237 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
5238 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
5241 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
5242 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
5243 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
5244 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
5245 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
5246 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
5247 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
5248 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
5249 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
5250 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
5251 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
5252 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
5253 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
5254 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
5255 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
5256 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
5257 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
5258 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
5259 Resolves ticket 4526.
5260 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
5261 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
5262 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
5263 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
5264 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
5265 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
5266 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
5267 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
5268 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
5269 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
5270 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
5271 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
5272 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
5273 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
5274 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
5275 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
5278 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
5279 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
5280 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
5281 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
5282 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
5283 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
5284 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
5285 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
5286 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
5287 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5289 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
5290 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
5291 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
5292 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
5293 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
5294 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
5295 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
5296 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
5297 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
5299 o Minor features (new/different config options):
5300 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
5301 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
5302 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
5303 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
5304 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
5305 Implements issue 933.
5306 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
5307 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
5308 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
5309 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
5310 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
5311 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
5312 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
5313 appending to the list.
5314 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
5315 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
5316 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
5317 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
5319 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
5320 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
5321 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
5322 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
5323 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
5324 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
5325 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
5326 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
5329 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
5330 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
5331 Resolves ticket 2474.
5332 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
5333 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
5334 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
5335 Required by fix for bug 3460.
5336 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
5337 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
5338 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
5339 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
5340 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
5341 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
5342 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
5343 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
5344 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
5346 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5347 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
5348 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
5350 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
5352 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
5353 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
5355 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
5356 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
5357 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5358 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
5359 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
5360 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
5361 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
5363 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
5364 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
5365 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5366 Reported by "troll_un".
5367 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
5368 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5369 Reported by "troll_un".
5370 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
5371 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
5372 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
5373 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
5375 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
5376 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
5378 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
5379 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
5380 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
5381 with help from wanoskarnet.
5382 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
5383 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5386 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
5387 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
5388 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
5389 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5391 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
5392 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
5393 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
5394 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
5395 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
5396 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
5397 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
5398 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
5401 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
5402 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
5403 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
5404 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
5405 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
5406 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
5407 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
5408 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
5409 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
5412 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
5413 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
5414 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
5415 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
5417 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
5418 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
5419 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
5420 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5421 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
5422 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
5423 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
5424 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
5425 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
5426 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
5427 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
5428 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
5429 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
5430 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
5431 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
5432 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
5433 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
5434 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
5435 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
5436 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
5437 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
5438 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
5439 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
5440 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
5443 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
5444 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
5445 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
5446 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
5447 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
5448 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5449 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
5450 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
5453 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5454 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
5455 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
5456 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
5457 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
5458 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
5459 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
5460 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
5461 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
5462 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
5463 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
5464 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
5465 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
5466 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
5467 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
5469 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
5470 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
5471 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
5472 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
5473 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5474 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
5475 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
5476 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5477 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
5478 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
5479 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
5480 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
5481 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
5482 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5483 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
5484 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
5485 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5487 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5488 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
5489 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
5490 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
5491 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5493 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
5494 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
5495 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
5497 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
5498 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
5499 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
5501 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
5502 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
5504 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
5505 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5508 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
5509 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
5510 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
5511 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
5512 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
5513 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
5514 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
5515 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
5516 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
5517 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
5518 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
5519 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
5520 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
5521 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
5523 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
5524 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
5525 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5527 o Packaging changes:
5528 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
5529 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
5531 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5532 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
5533 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
5534 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
5535 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
5536 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
5537 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
5538 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
5539 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
5542 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
5544 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
5545 ./src/test/bench binary.
5546 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
5547 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
5550 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
5551 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
5552 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
5556 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
5557 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
5558 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
5559 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
5560 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
5561 close based on processing a cell on it.
5562 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
5563 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
5564 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5565 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
5566 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
5567 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
5568 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
5569 cells were introduced.
5572 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
5573 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
5576 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
5577 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
5578 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
5579 users. Everybody should upgrade.
5581 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
5582 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
5585 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
5586 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
5587 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
5588 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
5589 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
5590 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
5592 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
5593 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5594 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5595 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5596 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5597 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5598 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5599 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5600 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5601 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5602 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5603 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
5604 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
5605 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
5606 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
5607 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
5608 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
5609 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
5612 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5613 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
5614 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
5615 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
5616 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
5617 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
5618 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
5619 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
5620 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
5621 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
5622 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
5623 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
5624 Partly fixes bug 3825.
5625 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
5626 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
5627 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
5628 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
5629 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
5630 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
5631 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
5633 o Major bugfixes (other):
5634 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5635 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5636 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5637 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5638 Found by "frosty_un".
5639 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
5640 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
5641 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
5642 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
5643 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
5644 immensely in tracking this bug down.
5645 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
5646 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
5649 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5650 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
5651 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
5652 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
5653 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
5654 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
5655 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
5656 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
5657 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
5658 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
5659 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
5660 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
5661 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
5662 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5663 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
5664 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
5665 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
5666 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
5667 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
5668 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
5669 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
5671 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5672 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
5673 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
5674 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5675 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
5676 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
5677 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
5678 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
5679 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
5680 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
5681 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
5684 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
5685 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
5686 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
5687 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
5688 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
5689 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
5690 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
5691 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
5692 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
5693 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
5694 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
5695 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
5696 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
5697 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5699 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5700 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
5701 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
5702 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
5703 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
5704 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
5705 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
5706 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
5709 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
5710 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
5711 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
5713 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
5714 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
5715 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
5716 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
5717 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
5718 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
5719 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
5720 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
5721 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
5722 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
5723 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
5724 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
5725 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
5727 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
5728 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
5729 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
5730 currently connected to them.
5732 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
5733 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
5734 remain; see for example proposal 188.
5736 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
5737 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5738 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5739 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5740 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5741 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5742 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5743 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5744 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5745 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5746 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5747 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
5748 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
5749 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
5750 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
5751 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
5752 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
5753 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
5756 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
5757 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
5758 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
5759 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
5760 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
5761 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
5762 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
5763 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5764 when bridges were introduced.
5765 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5766 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5767 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5768 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5769 Found by "frosty_un".
5772 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
5773 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
5775 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
5776 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
5777 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
5778 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
5779 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
5780 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
5781 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
5784 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
5785 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
5786 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
5787 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
5788 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
5789 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
5790 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
5791 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
5792 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
5793 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
5794 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
5795 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
5796 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
5797 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
5798 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
5799 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
5800 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
5801 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
5803 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
5804 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
5805 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
5806 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5807 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
5808 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
5809 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
5810 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
5811 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
5812 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
5813 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
5814 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5817 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5818 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5819 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
5820 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5823 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
5824 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
5825 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
5826 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
5827 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
5829 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5830 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
5831 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
5832 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
5833 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
5834 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
5835 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
5836 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5837 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5838 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5840 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5841 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5842 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5843 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5844 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5845 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5846 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5847 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5848 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5849 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5850 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5851 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5852 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5853 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5854 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5855 Found by "frosty_un".
5856 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
5857 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
5858 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
5859 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
5860 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
5861 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5862 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5863 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5864 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5865 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5866 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5867 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5868 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5869 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
5870 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
5871 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
5872 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
5873 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
5874 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
5876 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5877 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
5878 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
5879 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
5880 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
5881 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
5882 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
5883 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
5885 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
5886 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
5887 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
5888 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
5889 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
5890 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
5891 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
5892 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
5893 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
5894 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
5895 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
5896 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
5898 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
5899 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5900 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
5901 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5902 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
5903 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5904 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
5905 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
5906 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
5908 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
5910 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
5911 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
5912 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
5913 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5914 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
5915 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
5916 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
5917 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5919 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
5920 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
5921 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
5922 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
5923 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
5925 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5926 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
5927 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
5928 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
5929 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5932 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
5933 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
5934 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
5935 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
5936 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
5939 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
5940 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
5941 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
5942 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
5943 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
5944 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
5945 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5946 when bridges were introduced.
5949 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
5950 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
5951 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5953 o Major features (networking):
5954 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
5955 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
5956 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
5957 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
5958 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
5962 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
5963 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
5964 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
5967 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
5968 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
5969 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
5970 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5972 o Minor features (diagnostics):
5973 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
5974 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
5977 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
5978 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
5979 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
5980 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
5981 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
5982 listed in the network consensus and republish.
5984 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
5985 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
5986 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
5987 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5989 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
5990 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
5991 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
5992 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
5993 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
5994 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
5995 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
5996 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
5997 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
5998 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
5999 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6001 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6002 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6003 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6004 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6005 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6006 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6007 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6008 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
6009 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
6010 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6012 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6013 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
6014 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
6015 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
6016 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
6017 fixes part of bug 2442.
6018 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
6019 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
6020 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
6022 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
6023 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
6024 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
6025 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
6026 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6028 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6029 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
6030 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
6031 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
6032 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
6035 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
6036 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
6037 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
6041 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
6042 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
6043 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
6044 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
6045 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
6046 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
6047 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
6050 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
6051 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
6052 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
6053 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
6054 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
6055 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
6056 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
6059 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
6060 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
6061 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
6062 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
6063 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
6064 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6065 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
6066 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
6067 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6070 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
6071 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
6074 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
6075 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
6076 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
6077 reachable from Iran again.
6080 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6081 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6082 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6084 o Minor features (security):
6085 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
6086 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
6087 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
6088 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
6089 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
6090 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
6091 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
6092 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
6093 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
6094 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6097 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6098 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6099 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6100 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6101 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6102 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6103 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
6104 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
6105 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6107 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
6108 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
6109 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
6110 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
6111 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
6113 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
6114 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
6115 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
6116 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
6117 fixes part of bug 2442.
6118 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
6119 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
6120 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
6122 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
6123 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
6124 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
6125 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
6126 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6129 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
6130 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
6131 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
6132 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
6133 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
6134 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
6137 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
6138 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
6139 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
6140 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
6141 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
6142 bufferevent-based networking backend.
6144 o Major features (stream isolation):
6145 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
6146 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
6147 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
6148 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
6149 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
6150 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
6151 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
6152 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
6153 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
6154 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
6155 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
6156 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
6157 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
6158 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
6160 o Major features (other):
6161 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
6162 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
6163 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
6164 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
6165 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
6166 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
6167 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
6168 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
6169 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
6170 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
6171 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
6172 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
6173 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
6175 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
6176 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
6178 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
6179 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
6180 Fixes part of bug 3752.
6181 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
6182 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
6183 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
6184 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
6185 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
6186 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
6187 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
6188 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
6189 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
6190 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
6191 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
6192 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
6193 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
6194 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
6195 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
6196 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
6197 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
6199 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
6200 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
6201 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
6202 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
6203 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
6204 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
6207 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
6208 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
6209 user. Implements ticket 1692.
6210 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
6211 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
6212 best copy data out of a buffer.
6213 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
6214 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
6215 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
6217 o Minor features (build compatibility):
6218 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
6219 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
6220 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
6222 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
6223 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6225 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
6226 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
6227 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6228 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
6229 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
6230 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
6231 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6233 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
6234 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
6235 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
6236 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
6237 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
6239 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
6240 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
6241 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
6244 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
6245 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
6246 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
6247 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
6248 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
6249 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
6250 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
6251 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
6252 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
6253 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
6254 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
6255 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6256 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
6257 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
6258 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
6259 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
6260 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
6261 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
6262 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
6265 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6266 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
6267 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
6271 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
6272 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
6273 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
6274 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
6275 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
6276 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
6279 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
6280 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
6281 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
6282 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
6283 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
6284 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
6285 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
6286 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
6287 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
6288 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
6290 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
6291 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
6292 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
6293 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
6294 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
6295 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
6296 many many other features and bugfixes.
6299 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
6300 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
6301 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
6304 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
6305 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
6306 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
6307 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
6308 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
6309 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
6310 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
6311 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
6314 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6317 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
6318 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
6319 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6320 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
6321 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
6322 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
6323 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
6324 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
6325 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
6326 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
6327 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
6328 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
6329 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
6330 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6331 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
6332 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
6333 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
6334 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
6338 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
6339 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
6340 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
6341 up a variety of recently introduced features.
6344 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
6345 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
6346 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
6347 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
6348 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
6349 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
6350 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
6351 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
6352 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
6353 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
6354 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
6355 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
6356 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
6357 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
6358 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
6359 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
6361 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
6362 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
6363 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
6364 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
6365 order. Fixes bug 2798.
6366 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
6367 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
6368 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
6369 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
6370 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
6371 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
6375 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
6376 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
6377 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
6378 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
6380 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
6381 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
6382 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
6383 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
6384 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
6385 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
6386 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
6387 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
6388 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
6389 Implements ticket 3264.
6390 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
6391 implements ticket 3439.
6393 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
6394 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
6395 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
6396 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
6397 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
6398 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
6399 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
6400 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
6401 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
6402 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
6403 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
6404 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
6405 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
6406 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
6407 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
6408 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
6409 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
6410 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
6411 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
6412 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
6413 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
6414 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
6415 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
6416 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
6417 fails. Spotted by coverity.
6418 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
6419 present. Found by coverity.
6420 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
6421 a directory cache that provides them.
6423 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6424 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
6425 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
6426 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
6427 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
6428 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
6430 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
6431 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
6432 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6433 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
6434 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
6435 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6436 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
6437 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
6439 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6440 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
6441 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
6442 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
6443 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
6444 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
6445 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
6447 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
6451 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
6452 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
6453 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
6456 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
6457 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
6458 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
6459 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
6462 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
6463 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
6464 discovered by katmagic.
6465 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
6466 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
6467 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
6468 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6469 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
6470 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
6471 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
6472 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6473 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
6474 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
6475 fixes part of bug 3465.
6476 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
6477 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
6481 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6484 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
6485 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
6486 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
6487 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
6488 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
6491 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
6492 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
6493 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
6494 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
6495 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
6498 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
6499 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
6500 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
6501 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
6502 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
6503 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
6506 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
6507 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
6508 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
6509 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6510 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
6511 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
6512 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
6513 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
6514 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
6515 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
6516 fixes part of bug 3407.
6517 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
6518 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
6519 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
6520 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
6521 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
6522 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
6523 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
6524 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
6525 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
6526 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
6528 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
6529 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
6530 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
6531 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
6534 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6536 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6537 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
6538 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
6540 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
6542 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
6545 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
6546 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
6547 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
6548 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
6549 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
6550 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
6554 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
6555 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
6556 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
6557 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6558 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
6559 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
6560 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
6562 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
6563 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6564 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
6565 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
6566 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
6567 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
6568 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
6569 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
6570 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
6571 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
6572 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
6573 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
6574 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
6575 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
6576 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
6577 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
6578 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
6579 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
6580 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
6584 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
6585 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
6586 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
6587 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
6588 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
6589 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
6590 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
6591 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
6592 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
6596 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6597 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
6598 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
6600 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
6602 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
6603 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
6604 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
6605 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
6606 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6607 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
6608 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
6609 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
6610 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
6612 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
6613 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
6614 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
6615 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
6616 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
6617 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
6619 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
6620 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
6622 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
6623 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
6624 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6627 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
6628 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
6629 Resolves ticket 3252.
6630 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
6631 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
6632 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
6633 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
6634 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
6635 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
6638 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6639 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6642 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
6643 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
6644 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
6647 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
6648 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6649 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
6650 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
6651 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
6654 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
6655 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6656 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
6657 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
6658 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
6659 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
6660 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
6661 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
6662 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
6666 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
6667 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
6668 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
6669 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
6670 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
6672 o Security/privacy fixes:
6673 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6674 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6675 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6676 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6677 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6678 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6679 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6680 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
6681 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
6682 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
6683 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
6684 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6685 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
6686 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
6687 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6690 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
6691 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
6692 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
6693 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
6694 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
6695 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
6696 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
6697 part of ticket 3076.
6698 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
6699 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
6700 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
6704 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
6705 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
6706 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
6707 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
6708 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
6709 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
6710 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
6711 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
6713 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
6714 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
6715 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
6716 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
6717 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
6718 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
6719 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
6720 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
6721 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
6722 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
6723 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
6724 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
6725 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6728 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
6729 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
6730 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
6731 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
6732 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6733 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6734 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6736 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
6737 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
6738 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
6739 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
6740 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
6741 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
6742 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
6743 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
6744 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
6745 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
6746 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
6747 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
6748 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
6749 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
6750 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
6751 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
6753 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
6754 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
6756 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
6757 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
6759 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
6760 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
6762 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
6763 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
6764 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6766 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
6767 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
6768 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
6769 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
6770 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6771 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
6772 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
6773 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
6774 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
6775 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
6776 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
6778 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
6779 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
6780 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
6781 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
6782 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
6783 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
6784 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
6785 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
6786 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
6787 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
6788 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6789 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
6790 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
6794 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
6795 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
6796 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
6800 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
6801 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
6802 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
6803 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
6804 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
6805 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
6807 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
6808 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
6809 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
6812 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
6813 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
6814 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
6815 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
6816 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
6817 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
6818 zero-copy transports where available.
6819 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
6820 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
6821 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
6822 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
6823 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
6824 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
6825 debug it as it breaks.
6826 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
6827 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
6828 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
6829 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
6830 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
6831 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
6832 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
6833 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
6834 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
6835 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
6836 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
6837 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
6838 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
6839 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
6840 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
6841 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
6842 PortForwarding option.
6843 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
6844 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
6845 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
6846 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
6847 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
6848 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
6849 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
6852 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
6853 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
6854 Implements enhancement 1668.
6855 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
6857 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
6858 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
6859 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
6860 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
6861 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
6862 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
6863 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
6865 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
6866 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
6867 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6868 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6869 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
6870 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
6871 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
6873 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
6874 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
6875 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
6876 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
6877 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
6878 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
6879 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
6881 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
6882 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
6883 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
6884 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
6885 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6886 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
6887 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
6888 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
6889 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
6890 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
6891 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
6892 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
6893 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
6894 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
6895 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
6898 o Minor features (controller):
6899 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
6900 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
6901 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
6902 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
6903 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
6904 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
6905 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
6908 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
6909 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
6910 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
6911 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
6912 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
6913 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
6914 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
6915 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
6917 o Minor packaging issues:
6918 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
6919 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
6921 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6922 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
6923 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
6924 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
6925 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
6926 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
6927 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
6928 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
6929 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
6930 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
6931 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
6932 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
6933 our library structure used to force them to link it.
6936 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
6937 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
6938 are no longer in use as servers.
6940 o Documentation fixes:
6941 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
6942 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
6943 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
6947 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
6948 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
6949 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
6950 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
6951 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
6952 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
6953 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
6954 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
6955 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
6956 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
6959 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
6960 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
6961 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
6962 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
6963 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
6964 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
6965 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
6966 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
6967 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
6968 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6969 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
6970 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
6971 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6972 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
6973 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
6974 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
6976 o Security and stability fixes:
6977 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
6978 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
6979 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
6980 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
6981 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
6982 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
6983 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
6984 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
6985 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
6986 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
6987 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
6988 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6989 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6990 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
6991 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
6992 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6995 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
6996 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
6997 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
6998 contributions to the network.
7000 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
7001 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
7002 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
7003 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
7004 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
7005 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
7006 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
7007 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
7008 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
7009 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
7010 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
7011 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
7012 connections to directory servers.
7013 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
7014 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
7015 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
7016 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
7017 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
7018 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
7019 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
7020 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
7021 information, or fetch directory information.
7022 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
7023 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
7024 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
7025 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
7026 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
7027 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
7028 unless you really want your Tor to break.
7029 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
7030 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
7031 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
7032 - When StrictNodes is 1:
7033 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
7034 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
7035 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
7036 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
7037 reachability self-tests.
7038 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
7039 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
7040 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
7041 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
7042 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7043 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
7044 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
7046 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
7047 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7048 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
7049 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
7050 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
7051 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7052 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
7053 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
7054 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
7055 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
7056 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
7059 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
7060 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
7061 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
7062 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
7063 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
7064 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7065 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
7066 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
7067 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
7068 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
7069 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
7070 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7071 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
7072 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
7073 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7074 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
7075 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
7077 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
7078 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
7079 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
7080 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
7081 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7082 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
7083 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7084 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
7085 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7086 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
7087 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
7088 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
7089 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
7090 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
7091 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
7092 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7093 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
7094 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
7095 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
7096 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
7099 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
7100 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
7101 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
7102 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
7103 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
7104 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
7105 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
7106 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
7107 Required by fix for bug 3000.
7108 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
7109 by fix for bug 3000.
7110 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
7111 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
7113 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7114 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
7115 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
7116 send a body too). Since only server versions before
7117 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
7118 keep the workaround in place.
7119 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
7120 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
7121 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
7122 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
7123 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
7124 want to do it differently.
7125 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
7126 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
7127 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
7128 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
7129 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
7133 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
7134 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
7135 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
7136 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
7137 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
7140 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
7141 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
7142 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
7143 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
7144 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
7146 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
7147 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
7148 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
7149 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
7150 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
7151 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
7152 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
7153 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
7154 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
7155 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
7156 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
7157 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
7160 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
7161 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
7162 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
7163 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
7164 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
7165 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
7166 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
7168 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
7169 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
7170 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
7171 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
7172 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
7173 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
7174 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
7175 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
7176 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
7177 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
7178 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
7179 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
7180 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
7181 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
7182 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
7183 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
7184 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
7185 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
7186 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
7187 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
7188 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
7189 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
7190 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7193 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
7195 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
7196 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
7197 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
7199 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
7200 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
7201 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
7202 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
7204 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
7205 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
7206 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
7207 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7210 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
7211 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
7213 o Documentation changes:
7214 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
7215 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
7217 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
7220 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
7221 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
7222 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
7223 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
7224 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
7225 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
7228 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7229 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
7230 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
7231 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
7232 the rest of bug 1074.
7233 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
7234 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
7235 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7236 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
7237 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
7238 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
7239 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7240 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
7241 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
7242 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
7243 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
7244 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
7245 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
7246 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7249 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
7250 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
7251 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
7252 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
7253 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
7254 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
7255 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
7256 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
7257 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
7258 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
7259 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
7260 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
7261 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
7262 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
7264 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7265 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
7266 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
7267 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
7268 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
7269 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
7271 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
7272 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
7273 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
7274 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
7275 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
7276 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
7277 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
7278 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
7279 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
7281 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
7282 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
7283 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
7284 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
7285 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
7286 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
7287 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
7288 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
7289 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
7290 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
7291 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
7292 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
7293 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
7294 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7295 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
7296 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
7298 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
7299 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
7300 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
7301 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
7302 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
7303 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
7305 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
7306 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
7307 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
7309 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7310 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
7311 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
7312 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
7313 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
7314 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
7315 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
7317 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
7318 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
7319 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
7320 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
7321 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
7325 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
7326 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
7327 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
7328 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
7329 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
7330 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
7331 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
7332 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
7333 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
7334 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
7335 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
7336 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
7338 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7340 o Minor features (log subsystem):
7341 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
7342 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
7343 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
7345 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
7346 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
7348 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
7349 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
7350 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
7353 o Packaging changes:
7354 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
7355 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
7356 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
7359 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
7360 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
7361 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
7362 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
7363 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
7364 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
7367 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7368 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
7369 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
7370 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
7371 the rest of bug 1074.
7372 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
7373 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7375 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
7376 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
7377 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
7378 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
7379 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
7380 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
7381 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7384 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
7386 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7389 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
7390 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
7391 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
7392 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
7393 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
7394 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
7395 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
7396 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
7397 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
7398 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
7399 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7401 o Packaging changes:
7402 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
7403 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
7404 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
7405 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
7406 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
7407 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
7410 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
7411 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
7412 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
7413 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
7414 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
7415 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
7418 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
7419 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7421 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
7422 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
7423 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
7424 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
7427 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
7429 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
7430 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
7431 Implements ticket 2432.
7434 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
7435 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
7436 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
7439 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
7440 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
7441 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
7442 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
7443 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
7444 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
7446 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7447 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
7448 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
7449 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
7451 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
7452 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
7453 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
7454 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
7455 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
7456 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
7457 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
7458 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
7460 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7461 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
7462 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
7463 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
7464 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
7465 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
7466 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
7467 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
7468 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
7469 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
7470 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
7471 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
7472 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
7473 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
7476 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7477 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
7478 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
7479 bug reported by doorss.
7480 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
7481 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
7482 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7483 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
7484 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
7486 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
7487 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
7488 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
7489 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
7490 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7492 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
7493 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7494 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
7496 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
7497 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
7498 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
7499 Automake 1.7 or later.
7500 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
7501 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
7502 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
7503 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
7505 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7506 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
7507 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
7510 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7511 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
7512 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
7513 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
7515 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7516 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
7517 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
7518 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
7519 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
7520 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
7521 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
7522 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
7523 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
7525 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
7526 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
7527 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
7530 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7531 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
7532 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
7533 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
7534 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
7535 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
7536 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
7537 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
7538 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
7539 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
7540 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
7541 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
7542 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
7544 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7545 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
7549 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
7550 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
7551 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
7552 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
7553 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
7555 o Major bugfixes (security):
7556 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
7557 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
7558 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
7560 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
7561 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
7562 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
7563 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
7564 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
7565 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
7566 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
7567 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
7569 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
7570 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
7571 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
7572 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
7573 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
7574 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
7575 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
7576 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
7577 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
7578 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
7579 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
7580 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
7581 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
7582 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
7585 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7586 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
7587 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
7588 bug reported by doorss.
7589 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
7590 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
7591 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7592 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
7593 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
7595 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
7596 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
7597 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
7598 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
7599 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7600 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
7601 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
7602 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
7603 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
7606 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7607 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
7610 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
7611 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
7612 Automake 1.7 or later.
7615 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
7616 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
7617 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
7618 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
7619 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
7622 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
7623 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
7624 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
7625 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
7626 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
7627 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
7628 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
7629 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
7630 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
7631 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
7632 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
7634 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
7635 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
7636 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
7637 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
7639 o Directory authority changes:
7640 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
7643 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
7644 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
7645 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
7646 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
7647 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
7648 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7649 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
7650 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
7651 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
7654 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7655 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
7656 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
7657 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
7658 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
7659 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
7660 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
7661 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
7662 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
7663 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
7667 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
7668 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
7669 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
7670 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
7674 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
7675 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
7676 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
7677 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
7679 o Directory authority changes:
7680 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
7683 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7686 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
7687 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
7688 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
7689 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
7690 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
7693 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
7694 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
7695 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
7696 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
7697 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7698 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
7699 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
7700 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
7701 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
7702 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7703 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
7704 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7705 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
7706 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
7707 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
7708 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
7709 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
7710 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7711 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
7712 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
7713 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
7714 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
7715 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
7718 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
7719 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
7720 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
7721 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
7723 o New directory authorities:
7724 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
7728 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
7729 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
7730 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
7732 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
7733 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7734 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
7735 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
7736 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
7737 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
7739 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
7740 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
7741 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
7744 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
7745 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
7746 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
7747 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
7748 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
7749 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
7750 Patch from mingw-san.
7753 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
7754 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
7755 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
7756 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
7757 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
7758 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
7761 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
7762 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
7763 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
7766 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
7767 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
7768 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
7769 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
7770 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7773 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
7774 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
7775 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
7776 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
7777 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
7778 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
7779 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
7780 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
7781 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
7784 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
7785 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
7786 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
7787 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
7788 to a stable release.
7791 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
7792 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
7793 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
7794 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7795 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
7796 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
7797 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
7798 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
7799 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7800 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
7801 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7802 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
7803 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
7804 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
7805 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
7806 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
7807 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
7808 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
7809 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
7810 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
7811 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
7812 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
7813 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
7814 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
7815 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
7816 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
7817 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
7818 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
7819 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
7820 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
7821 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
7824 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7825 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
7826 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
7827 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
7828 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
7829 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
7830 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
7831 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
7832 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
7833 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
7834 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
7835 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
7836 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
7837 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7838 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
7839 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
7840 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
7842 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
7843 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7844 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
7845 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
7846 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
7848 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
7849 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
7850 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
7851 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
7854 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
7855 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
7856 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
7857 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
7858 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
7859 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
7860 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
7861 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7863 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7864 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
7865 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
7866 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
7867 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
7868 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
7869 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
7870 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
7871 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
7872 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
7873 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
7874 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
7875 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
7876 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
7877 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
7880 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
7881 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
7882 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
7883 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
7884 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
7885 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
7886 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
7887 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
7888 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
7891 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
7892 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
7893 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
7894 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
7895 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
7897 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
7898 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
7899 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
7900 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
7901 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
7902 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
7903 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7904 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
7905 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
7906 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
7907 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
7908 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
7909 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
7910 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
7912 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7913 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
7915 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
7916 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
7917 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
7918 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
7919 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
7920 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
7921 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
7922 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
7923 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
7924 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
7925 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
7926 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
7927 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
7928 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
7929 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
7930 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
7931 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
7932 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7934 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
7935 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
7936 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
7937 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
7938 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
7939 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
7940 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
7941 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
7942 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
7943 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
7944 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
7945 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
7946 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
7948 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
7949 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
7950 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
7951 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7954 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
7955 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
7956 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
7957 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
7958 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
7959 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
7960 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
7961 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
7962 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
7963 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
7964 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
7965 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
7966 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
7967 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
7968 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
7969 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
7970 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
7971 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
7972 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
7975 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7976 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
7977 based on the time during which we were active and not in
7978 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
7979 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
7980 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
7981 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
7982 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7984 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7985 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
7986 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
7987 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
7988 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
7989 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
7990 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
7991 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
7992 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
7993 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
7996 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
7997 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
7998 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
7999 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
8001 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
8002 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
8003 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
8004 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
8005 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
8006 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
8007 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
8008 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
8009 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
8010 the longest-lived bug prize.
8011 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
8012 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
8013 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
8014 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
8015 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
8016 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
8018 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
8019 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
8020 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
8021 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
8022 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
8023 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
8027 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8028 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
8029 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
8030 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
8031 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
8032 got suppressed since the last warning.
8033 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
8034 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
8035 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
8036 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
8037 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
8038 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
8039 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
8040 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
8041 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
8042 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
8043 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
8044 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
8045 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
8046 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
8047 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
8048 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
8049 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
8050 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
8051 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
8053 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8054 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8055 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8057 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8058 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
8059 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
8060 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
8061 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
8062 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
8063 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
8064 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
8065 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
8066 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
8067 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
8068 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8069 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8070 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8071 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8073 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
8074 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
8075 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
8076 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
8077 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
8078 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8079 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
8081 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
8082 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
8083 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
8084 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
8085 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
8088 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8089 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
8090 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
8091 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
8092 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
8093 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
8094 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
8095 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
8096 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
8097 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
8098 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
8099 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
8100 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
8101 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
8102 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
8103 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
8104 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
8105 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
8108 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
8111 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
8112 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
8113 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
8114 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
8115 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
8119 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
8120 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
8121 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
8122 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
8123 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
8124 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
8125 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
8126 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
8127 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
8128 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
8129 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
8130 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
8131 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
8132 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
8133 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
8134 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
8135 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
8138 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
8139 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
8140 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
8141 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
8142 they first get the Guard flag.
8143 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
8147 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8148 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
8149 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
8150 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
8151 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
8152 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
8153 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
8154 Patch from mingw-san.
8155 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
8156 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
8158 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
8159 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
8160 Implements enhancement 1790.
8162 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8163 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
8164 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
8165 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
8166 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
8167 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
8168 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
8169 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
8170 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
8171 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
8172 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
8173 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
8174 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
8175 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
8176 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
8177 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
8178 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
8179 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
8180 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
8181 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
8183 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
8184 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
8185 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
8186 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
8187 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
8188 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
8189 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
8190 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
8191 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
8192 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
8193 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
8194 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
8195 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
8197 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
8198 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
8199 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
8200 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
8201 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
8202 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8204 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8205 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
8206 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
8207 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
8208 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
8209 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
8210 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
8211 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8212 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
8213 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
8214 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
8215 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
8217 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
8218 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
8219 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
8220 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
8221 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
8222 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
8223 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
8225 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
8227 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
8228 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8229 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
8230 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
8231 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
8232 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
8234 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8235 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
8236 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
8237 structures and defines in or.h for now.
8238 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
8239 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
8240 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
8241 statistics code to be more easily tested.
8242 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
8243 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
8244 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
8247 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
8248 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
8249 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
8250 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
8251 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
8252 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
8256 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
8257 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
8258 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
8259 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
8260 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
8261 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
8262 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
8263 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
8264 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
8265 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
8266 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
8267 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
8268 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
8270 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
8271 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
8272 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
8273 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
8274 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
8275 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
8276 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
8277 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
8278 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
8279 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
8280 can be controlled by the consensus.
8283 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
8284 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
8285 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
8286 more accurate data for many African countries.
8287 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
8288 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
8289 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
8290 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
8291 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
8292 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
8293 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
8294 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
8295 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
8296 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
8297 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
8298 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
8300 o New directory authorities:
8301 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
8305 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
8306 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
8307 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
8308 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
8309 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
8310 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
8311 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
8312 what should go in a patch.
8313 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
8314 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
8315 over our stored history.
8316 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
8317 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
8318 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
8319 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
8320 file. Fixes bug 1296.
8321 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
8322 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
8323 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
8327 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
8329 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
8330 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
8331 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
8332 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
8333 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
8334 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
8335 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
8336 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
8337 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
8338 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
8339 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
8340 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8341 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
8342 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
8343 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
8344 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
8345 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
8346 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
8347 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
8348 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
8349 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
8350 two-hop circuits are actually created.
8351 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
8352 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8353 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
8354 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8357 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
8358 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
8359 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
8360 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
8361 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
8363 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
8364 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
8367 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
8368 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
8369 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
8370 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
8371 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
8372 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
8373 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
8374 their directory fetches over TLS).
8375 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
8376 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
8377 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
8378 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
8379 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
8380 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
8381 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
8382 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
8385 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
8386 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
8390 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
8391 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8392 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
8393 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
8394 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
8395 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
8396 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8399 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
8400 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
8401 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
8402 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
8403 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
8406 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
8407 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
8408 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
8409 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
8410 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
8411 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
8412 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
8413 their directory fetches over TLS).
8416 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
8417 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
8419 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
8420 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
8421 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
8422 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
8423 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
8424 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
8425 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
8426 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
8427 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
8428 hour of their uptime.
8431 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
8432 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
8433 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
8437 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
8438 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
8439 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
8440 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
8441 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
8442 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
8444 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
8445 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
8446 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
8448 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
8449 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
8453 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
8454 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
8455 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
8459 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
8460 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
8461 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
8464 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
8465 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
8466 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
8467 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
8468 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
8469 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
8470 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
8471 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
8472 about the option without breaking older ones.
8473 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
8474 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
8475 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
8476 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
8479 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
8480 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
8481 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
8482 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
8484 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
8485 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
8486 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
8489 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
8490 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
8492 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
8493 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
8494 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
8495 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
8496 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
8497 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
8498 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8499 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
8500 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
8501 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
8502 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
8505 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
8506 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8507 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
8508 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
8509 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
8510 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
8511 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8514 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
8515 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
8516 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
8517 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
8518 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
8519 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
8522 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8523 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8524 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8525 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
8527 o Major features (performance):
8528 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
8529 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
8530 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
8531 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
8532 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
8533 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
8534 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
8536 o Minor features (performance):
8537 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
8538 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
8539 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
8540 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
8541 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
8545 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
8546 speeds up the build considerably.
8548 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8549 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
8550 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8551 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
8552 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8553 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
8554 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
8555 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8557 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
8558 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8559 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8561 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8562 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8563 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8564 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8566 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8567 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
8568 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
8569 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
8570 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
8571 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
8574 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
8575 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
8576 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
8578 o Directory authority changes:
8579 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
8580 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
8581 service directory authority) from the list.
8584 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8585 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8586 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8587 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8588 libraries in a security patch.
8589 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8590 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8591 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8592 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8594 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
8595 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
8596 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
8597 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
8598 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8599 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8600 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8603 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
8604 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
8605 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
8606 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
8607 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
8608 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
8609 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
8610 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
8611 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
8612 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
8613 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
8614 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
8615 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
8617 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
8618 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
8619 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
8620 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
8621 control-spec.txt said they were.
8622 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8623 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8624 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
8625 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
8626 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8628 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8629 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
8630 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
8632 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
8633 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
8634 iPhone SDK versions.
8635 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
8636 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
8637 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
8638 projects directory in svn.
8639 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
8640 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
8641 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
8645 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
8646 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
8647 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
8649 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
8650 to the circuit build timeout.
8651 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
8652 arguments we do not recognize.
8653 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
8654 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
8655 open() without checking it.
8658 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
8659 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
8660 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
8661 several minor potential security bugs.
8664 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8665 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8666 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8667 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
8668 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8669 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8670 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8673 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8674 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8676 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8677 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8678 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8679 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8683 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
8684 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
8688 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
8689 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
8690 customized patches to run/build.
8693 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
8694 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
8695 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
8698 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8699 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8700 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8701 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8702 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8703 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8704 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8705 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8708 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8709 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8710 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8711 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8712 libraries in a security patch.
8713 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8714 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8715 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8716 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8719 o Directory authority changes:
8720 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
8721 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
8722 service directory authority) from the list.
8725 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8726 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8729 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8730 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8731 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8732 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8733 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8736 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
8737 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
8738 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
8742 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
8743 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
8744 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
8745 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
8746 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8749 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
8750 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
8751 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
8755 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
8756 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
8757 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
8758 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
8759 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
8761 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
8762 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
8764 o Directory authority changes:
8765 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
8768 o Major features (performance):
8769 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8770 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8771 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8772 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8773 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8774 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8775 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8776 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
8777 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
8778 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
8779 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
8780 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
8781 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
8783 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
8784 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
8785 but never per-conn write limits.
8786 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
8787 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
8788 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
8789 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
8791 o Major features (relay selection options):
8792 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
8793 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
8794 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
8795 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
8796 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
8797 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
8798 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
8800 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
8801 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
8803 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
8804 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
8805 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
8806 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
8807 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
8808 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
8809 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
8810 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
8811 the network changes.
8814 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
8815 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
8816 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8819 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
8820 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
8821 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
8822 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
8823 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
8824 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
8825 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
8826 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
8827 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
8828 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
8829 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
8830 generated while acting as a relay.
8831 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
8832 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8833 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8834 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8835 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8836 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8838 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
8839 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
8840 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8841 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
8842 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
8843 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
8846 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
8847 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
8848 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
8850 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
8851 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
8852 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
8854 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
8855 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
8857 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
8858 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
8859 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
8861 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
8862 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
8865 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8866 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
8867 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
8868 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
8869 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
8870 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
8871 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
8872 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
8873 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
8875 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
8879 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
8880 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
8881 hidden service usage.
8884 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
8885 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
8886 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
8887 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
8888 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
8890 o Directory authority changes:
8891 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
8895 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
8896 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
8897 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8900 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
8901 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
8902 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
8903 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
8904 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
8907 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
8908 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
8909 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
8910 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
8911 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
8912 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
8913 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
8916 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
8917 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
8918 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8919 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
8920 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
8921 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
8923 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
8924 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
8927 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
8928 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
8929 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
8930 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
8931 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
8932 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
8935 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
8936 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
8937 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
8939 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
8940 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
8941 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
8942 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
8943 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
8944 download consensus + microdescriptors".
8945 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
8946 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
8947 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
8948 hash algorithm in the future.
8949 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
8950 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
8951 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
8952 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
8953 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
8954 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
8955 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
8956 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
8957 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
8960 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
8961 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
8962 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
8963 won't work unless we say we are.
8966 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
8967 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
8968 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
8969 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
8970 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
8971 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
8972 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
8973 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
8974 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8975 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
8976 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
8977 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
8978 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
8979 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
8980 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
8981 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
8982 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
8983 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
8984 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
8985 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
8986 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
8987 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
8990 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
8991 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
8992 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
8993 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8995 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
8996 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
8998 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
8999 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
9000 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
9001 in the Vidalia Settings window.
9004 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
9005 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
9006 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
9007 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
9008 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
9010 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
9011 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
9013 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
9014 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
9015 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
9018 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
9019 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
9020 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
9022 o New directory authorities:
9023 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
9025 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
9028 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
9029 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
9031 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
9032 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
9033 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9034 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
9035 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
9036 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
9037 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9038 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9039 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
9040 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
9041 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
9042 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
9043 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
9044 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
9045 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
9046 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
9047 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
9049 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
9050 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
9051 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
9053 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
9054 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
9058 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
9059 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
9060 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
9061 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
9062 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
9065 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
9066 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9069 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9071 o Directory authorities:
9072 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
9076 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
9077 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
9078 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
9079 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
9080 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
9083 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
9084 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
9085 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
9086 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
9088 o New directory authorities:
9089 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
9092 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
9093 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
9094 SSL handshake issues.
9095 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
9096 during the TLS handshake.
9097 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
9098 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
9099 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
9100 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
9101 none of which are very big.
9104 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
9106 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
9107 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9108 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
9109 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
9110 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9111 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
9112 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
9113 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
9116 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9117 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
9118 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
9119 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
9120 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
9123 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
9124 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9127 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
9128 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
9131 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
9132 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
9133 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9136 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
9137 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
9138 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
9139 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
9140 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
9141 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
9144 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
9145 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
9146 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
9147 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
9148 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
9149 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
9150 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
9151 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
9152 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
9153 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
9154 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
9155 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
9156 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
9157 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
9158 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
9159 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
9160 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
9161 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
9164 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
9165 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
9169 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
9170 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
9171 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9172 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
9173 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
9174 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
9175 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9176 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
9177 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
9178 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
9179 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9180 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9181 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
9182 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
9183 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
9184 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
9185 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
9186 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
9187 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
9188 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
9189 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
9191 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
9192 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
9193 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
9194 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9195 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
9196 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
9198 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
9199 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
9200 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
9203 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
9204 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
9205 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
9206 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
9207 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
9208 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
9211 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
9212 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
9213 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
9214 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
9215 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
9218 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
9219 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
9220 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
9223 o New directory authorities:
9224 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
9228 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
9229 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
9230 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
9231 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
9232 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
9235 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
9236 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
9237 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
9238 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
9239 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
9242 o New options for gathering stats safely:
9243 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
9244 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
9245 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
9246 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
9247 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
9248 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
9249 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
9250 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
9251 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
9253 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
9254 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
9255 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
9256 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
9258 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
9259 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
9260 their extra-info documents.
9263 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
9264 source files Tor was built with.
9265 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
9266 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
9267 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
9268 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
9269 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
9270 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
9272 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
9273 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
9274 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
9275 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
9276 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
9278 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
9279 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
9282 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
9283 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
9284 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
9285 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
9286 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
9288 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
9289 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
9291 o Deprecated and removed features:
9292 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
9293 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
9294 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
9295 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
9296 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
9297 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
9298 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
9299 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
9301 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
9302 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
9303 via application-level web tricks.
9305 o Packaging changes:
9306 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
9307 installer bundles. See
9308 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
9309 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
9310 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
9311 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
9312 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
9313 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
9314 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
9315 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
9316 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
9317 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
9318 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
9319 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
9322 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
9323 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
9324 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
9327 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
9328 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
9329 part of patch provided by "optimist".
9332 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
9333 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
9334 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
9335 and confuse fewer users.
9338 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
9339 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
9340 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
9341 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
9342 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
9343 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
9344 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
9347 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
9348 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
9349 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
9350 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
9351 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
9352 other features and bug fixes.
9355 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
9358 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
9359 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
9360 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
9361 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
9362 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
9365 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
9366 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
9367 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
9368 failure message (oops).
9371 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
9372 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
9373 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
9374 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
9378 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
9379 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
9380 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
9381 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
9382 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
9383 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
9384 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9385 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
9386 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
9387 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
9388 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
9389 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
9390 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
9391 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
9392 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
9395 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
9396 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
9397 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
9398 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
9399 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
9400 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
9401 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
9402 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
9403 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
9404 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
9405 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
9406 Workaround for bug 1024.
9407 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
9411 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
9412 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
9413 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
9416 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
9418 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
9419 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
9420 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
9421 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
9422 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
9425 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
9426 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
9427 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
9428 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
9429 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
9430 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
9431 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
9432 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
9433 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
9434 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
9437 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
9438 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
9439 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
9440 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
9441 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
9442 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
9443 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
9444 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
9447 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
9448 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
9449 a bunch of minor bugs.
9452 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
9453 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
9454 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
9456 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
9457 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
9458 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
9459 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
9461 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
9465 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
9466 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
9467 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
9469 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9470 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
9472 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
9473 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
9475 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
9476 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
9477 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
9478 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
9479 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
9480 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
9481 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
9482 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
9484 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9485 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
9486 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
9488 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
9489 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
9490 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
9491 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
9492 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
9496 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
9497 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
9498 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
9501 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9502 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
9503 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
9504 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
9506 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9507 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
9508 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
9509 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9510 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
9511 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
9512 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
9513 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
9514 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
9515 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
9516 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
9517 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9518 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
9519 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
9520 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
9521 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
9522 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
9524 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
9525 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
9526 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
9527 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9529 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9530 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
9531 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9534 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
9535 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
9536 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
9537 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
9538 addresses to fall out of the directory.
9541 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
9542 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
9543 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
9544 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
9546 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
9547 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
9548 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
9549 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
9550 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
9551 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
9552 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
9553 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
9554 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
9555 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
9556 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
9557 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
9558 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
9560 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
9561 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
9564 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
9565 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
9566 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
9567 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
9568 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
9569 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
9571 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
9572 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
9573 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
9574 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
9575 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
9577 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
9580 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
9581 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
9583 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
9584 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
9585 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9586 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9587 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
9588 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
9590 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
9591 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9592 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
9593 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
9594 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
9595 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9596 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
9597 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
9598 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
9599 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
9600 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
9601 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
9605 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
9606 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
9607 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
9610 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
9611 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
9612 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9614 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
9615 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
9616 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
9617 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
9618 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
9619 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
9620 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
9621 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
9622 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
9623 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
9624 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
9625 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9626 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
9627 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
9628 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
9629 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
9630 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
9631 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
9632 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
9633 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
9634 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
9635 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
9636 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
9637 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
9638 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
9639 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
9641 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
9642 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
9643 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
9644 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
9645 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
9646 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
9647 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
9648 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
9649 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
9650 of 0. Suggested by lark.
9652 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9653 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
9654 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
9655 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
9656 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
9659 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
9661 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
9662 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
9663 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
9664 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
9667 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
9668 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
9669 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
9670 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9671 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
9673 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
9674 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
9675 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
9676 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
9679 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9680 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9681 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9682 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9683 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9684 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
9685 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
9686 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
9689 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
9690 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9691 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9692 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9695 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
9696 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
9697 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
9698 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9699 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
9700 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
9703 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9704 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9705 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9706 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9707 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9708 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9711 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
9712 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
9713 reported by Matt Edman.
9714 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
9716 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
9717 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
9718 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
9719 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
9721 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
9722 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9723 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
9724 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9725 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9726 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9727 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
9728 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
9729 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
9730 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
9731 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
9732 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
9733 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
9734 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9735 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
9736 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9737 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
9738 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
9739 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9742 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
9743 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9744 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
9745 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
9748 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
9749 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
9750 the letter of C99's alias rules.
9753 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
9754 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
9755 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
9756 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
9758 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
9759 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
9760 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
9763 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
9764 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
9767 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
9768 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
9769 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
9770 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
9771 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
9773 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
9774 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
9775 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
9776 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
9777 identify a connection.
9778 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
9779 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
9780 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
9781 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
9782 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
9783 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
9784 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9785 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
9786 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
9787 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
9789 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
9790 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
9791 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
9792 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
9793 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
9794 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
9795 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
9798 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
9799 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
9801 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
9802 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
9803 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
9804 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
9805 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
9806 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
9807 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9808 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
9810 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
9811 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
9812 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
9813 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
9814 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
9815 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
9816 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
9817 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
9818 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
9819 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
9820 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
9821 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
9822 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
9823 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
9824 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9825 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
9826 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
9827 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9828 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
9829 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
9830 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
9831 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
9832 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
9833 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
9834 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
9835 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
9836 840. Patch from rovv.
9837 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
9838 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
9839 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
9841 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
9842 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
9843 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
9844 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
9845 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
9846 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
9847 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9849 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9850 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
9851 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
9854 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
9855 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
9857 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
9858 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
9859 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
9860 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
9861 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
9862 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
9863 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
9864 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
9865 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
9867 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
9869 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9870 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
9874 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
9875 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
9876 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
9877 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
9878 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
9879 have had some time to upgrade.)
9882 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
9883 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
9886 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
9887 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
9888 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
9889 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
9890 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
9893 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
9894 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
9896 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
9897 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9898 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
9899 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
9900 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
9901 entirely. Patch from coderman.
9904 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
9905 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9906 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
9907 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
9908 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
9909 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9910 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
9914 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
9915 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
9916 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
9917 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
9918 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
9919 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
9920 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
9923 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
9924 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
9925 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
9926 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
9927 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
9929 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
9930 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
9931 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
9932 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
9933 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
9934 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
9935 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9936 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
9937 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
9938 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
9942 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
9943 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
9944 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
9946 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
9947 without support for deprecated functions.
9948 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
9950 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9951 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
9952 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
9953 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
9954 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9955 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
9956 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
9957 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
9958 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
9959 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
9960 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
9961 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
9962 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
9963 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
9964 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
9965 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
9966 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
9967 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
9968 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
9969 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
9970 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9971 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
9972 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
9974 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9975 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
9976 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
9977 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
9978 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
9979 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
9981 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
9982 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
9983 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
9984 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
9985 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
9987 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
9988 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
9989 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
9991 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
9992 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
9995 o Deprecated and removed features:
9996 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
9997 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
9998 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
10001 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10002 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
10003 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
10004 with log.h on Android.
10005 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
10006 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
10009 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
10010 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
10012 o New directory authorities:
10013 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
10017 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
10018 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
10019 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
10020 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
10021 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
10022 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10025 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
10026 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
10027 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
10028 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
10029 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
10030 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
10031 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
10032 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
10033 reported by "wood".
10034 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
10035 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
10036 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
10037 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
10040 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
10041 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
10043 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
10044 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
10045 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
10046 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
10047 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
10048 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
10049 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
10050 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
10051 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
10052 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
10053 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
10054 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
10055 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
10056 Implements proposal 148.
10057 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
10058 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
10059 system to do it for us.
10060 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
10061 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
10062 this fix will be slightly helpful.
10063 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
10064 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
10065 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
10066 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
10067 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
10068 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
10069 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
10070 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
10071 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
10074 o Minor features (controller):
10075 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
10076 been fetched and validated.
10077 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
10078 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
10079 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
10080 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
10081 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
10082 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
10085 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
10086 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10087 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
10088 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
10089 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
10091 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
10092 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
10093 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10094 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
10095 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
10096 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10097 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
10098 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
10099 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
10101 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10102 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
10103 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
10104 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
10105 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
10106 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
10107 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
10108 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
10110 o Deprecated and removed features:
10111 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
10113 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
10114 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
10115 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
10117 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10118 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
10119 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
10121 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
10122 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
10123 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
10124 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
10125 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
10126 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
10129 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
10130 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
10131 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
10132 fixes a variety of other issues.
10135 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
10136 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
10137 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
10138 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
10141 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
10142 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
10143 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
10144 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10147 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
10148 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10149 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
10153 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
10155 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
10156 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
10157 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
10158 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
10159 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
10160 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
10161 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
10163 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
10164 rest, and don't automatically fail.
10165 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
10166 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10167 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
10168 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
10170 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
10171 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
10172 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
10173 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
10174 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
10175 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
10176 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
10177 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
10178 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
10179 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
10181 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
10185 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
10186 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
10187 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
10189 o Minor features (controller):
10190 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
10194 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
10195 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
10196 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
10197 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
10198 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
10199 variety of other issues.
10202 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
10203 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
10204 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
10205 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
10206 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
10207 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
10208 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
10209 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
10210 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
10211 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
10212 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
10213 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
10216 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
10217 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10219 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10220 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
10221 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
10222 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
10223 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
10224 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
10225 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10226 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
10227 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
10228 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
10229 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
10230 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
10231 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
10232 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
10233 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
10237 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
10238 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
10239 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
10240 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
10241 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
10242 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
10243 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
10244 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
10245 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
10246 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
10247 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
10248 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
10249 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
10250 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
10251 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
10252 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
10253 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
10254 list. It has been gone for many months.
10255 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
10256 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
10257 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
10260 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10261 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
10262 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
10265 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
10266 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
10267 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
10268 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
10269 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
10270 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
10271 variety of other issues.
10274 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
10275 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
10276 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
10277 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
10278 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
10279 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
10280 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
10281 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
10282 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
10283 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
10284 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
10285 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
10286 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
10287 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
10290 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
10291 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
10292 Suggested by Lucky Green.
10293 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
10294 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
10295 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
10296 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
10297 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
10298 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
10300 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
10301 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
10303 o Hidden service performance improvements:
10304 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
10305 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
10306 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
10307 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
10308 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
10309 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
10310 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
10311 faster after restart.
10314 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
10315 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
10316 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
10317 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
10318 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
10319 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
10320 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
10321 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
10322 840. Patch from rovv.
10323 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
10324 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
10325 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
10326 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
10327 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
10328 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
10329 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
10330 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
10331 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
10333 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
10334 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
10335 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
10336 have already been marked for close.
10337 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
10338 introduction points.
10339 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
10340 memory performance during directory parsing.
10341 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
10342 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
10343 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
10344 because of a pending download.
10347 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
10348 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
10349 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
10350 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10353 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
10354 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
10355 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
10356 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
10357 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
10358 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
10359 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
10360 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
10361 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
10362 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
10363 lookups more reliable.
10364 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
10365 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
10366 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
10367 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
10368 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
10369 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
10370 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10373 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
10374 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
10375 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10376 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
10377 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
10378 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
10379 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
10380 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
10381 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
10382 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
10383 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
10385 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
10386 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
10387 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
10388 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
10389 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
10390 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10391 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
10392 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
10393 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10396 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
10397 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
10398 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
10399 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
10400 locked down these days.
10401 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
10402 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
10403 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
10404 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
10405 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
10407 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
10408 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
10409 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
10410 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
10411 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
10412 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
10413 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
10414 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
10415 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
10416 people find host:port too confusing.
10417 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
10418 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10419 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
10422 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10424 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
10425 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
10426 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
10427 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
10428 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
10430 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
10431 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
10432 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
10433 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
10434 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
10435 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
10436 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
10437 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
10438 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
10439 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
10440 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
10441 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
10443 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
10444 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
10445 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
10446 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
10447 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
10448 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
10449 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10450 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
10451 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
10453 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
10454 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
10455 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
10456 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
10457 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
10458 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10459 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
10460 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
10461 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
10462 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
10463 bug 820, reported by seeess.
10464 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
10465 list. It has been gone for many months.
10467 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10468 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
10469 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
10470 actual mistakes we're making here.
10471 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
10472 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
10473 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
10474 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
10477 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
10478 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
10479 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
10480 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10483 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
10484 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
10485 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
10486 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
10487 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
10488 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
10490 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
10491 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
10492 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
10493 pointed out by rovv.
10496 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
10497 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10498 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
10499 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10500 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
10501 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
10502 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
10503 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
10504 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
10505 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10506 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
10507 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
10508 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
10509 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10510 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
10511 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
10512 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
10513 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
10514 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
10515 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
10516 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
10519 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
10520 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
10521 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
10522 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
10523 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
10524 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
10525 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10528 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
10530 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
10531 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
10532 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
10533 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
10534 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
10535 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
10536 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
10538 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
10539 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
10540 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
10541 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
10542 known descriptor before building circuits.
10544 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
10545 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
10546 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
10547 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
10548 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
10549 identify a connection.
10550 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
10551 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
10552 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
10554 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
10555 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
10556 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
10557 pointed out by rovv.
10560 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
10561 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10562 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
10563 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
10564 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
10565 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10566 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
10567 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10568 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
10569 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
10570 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
10571 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
10572 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
10573 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
10574 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10577 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
10578 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
10579 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
10580 answer sections match.
10581 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
10582 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
10585 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
10586 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10589 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
10590 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
10591 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
10593 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
10594 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
10595 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10598 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
10599 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
10600 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
10601 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
10604 o Removed features:
10605 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
10606 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
10609 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
10610 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
10611 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
10612 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
10613 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
10614 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
10616 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
10617 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
10618 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
10621 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
10622 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
10623 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
10624 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
10625 be sent using an "early" cell.
10628 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
10629 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
10630 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
10631 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
10632 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
10633 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
10634 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
10637 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
10638 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
10639 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
10640 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
10641 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
10642 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
10643 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
10644 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
10645 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
10646 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
10647 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
10648 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
10649 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
10650 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
10651 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
10652 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
10655 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
10656 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
10657 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
10658 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
10659 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
10660 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
10661 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
10662 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
10663 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
10665 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
10666 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
10667 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
10668 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
10669 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
10672 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10673 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
10674 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
10675 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
10677 o Removed features:
10678 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
10679 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
10683 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
10685 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
10686 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
10687 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
10690 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
10691 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
10692 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10695 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
10696 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
10697 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
10698 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
10699 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10700 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
10701 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
10702 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
10703 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10704 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
10705 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
10706 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
10707 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
10708 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
10709 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
10710 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
10711 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
10712 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
10713 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
10714 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
10715 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
10716 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
10717 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
10720 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
10721 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
10723 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
10724 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
10725 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
10726 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
10727 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
10728 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
10729 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
10731 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
10732 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
10733 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
10734 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
10735 found by Geoff Goodell.
10738 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
10739 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
10740 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
10741 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
10742 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
10743 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
10746 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
10747 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
10748 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
10751 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
10752 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
10753 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
10754 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
10755 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10756 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
10757 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
10758 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
10759 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10760 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
10761 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
10762 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
10763 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
10764 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
10767 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
10768 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
10769 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
10771 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
10772 fingerprints with or without space.
10773 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
10774 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
10775 partway through and wants to catch up.
10776 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
10777 state to start out in.
10780 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
10781 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
10782 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10783 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
10784 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
10787 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
10788 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
10789 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
10790 some of the connection attempts fail.
10791 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
10792 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
10793 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
10794 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
10795 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
10796 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
10798 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
10799 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
10800 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
10803 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
10804 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
10805 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
10806 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
10807 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
10808 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
10809 and adds a variety of smaller features.
10812 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
10813 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
10814 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
10815 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
10817 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
10818 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
10819 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
10820 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
10822 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
10823 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
10824 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
10825 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
10826 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
10827 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
10828 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
10831 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
10832 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
10833 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
10834 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
10835 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
10837 o Memory fixes and improvements:
10838 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
10839 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
10840 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
10841 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
10842 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
10843 on a typical directory cache.
10844 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
10845 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
10846 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
10847 and may reduce fragmentation.
10848 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
10849 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
10850 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
10852 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
10853 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
10854 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
10856 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
10857 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
10861 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
10862 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
10863 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
10864 done that for a long time.
10865 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
10866 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
10867 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
10868 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
10871 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
10872 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
10873 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
10874 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
10875 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
10876 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
10878 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
10879 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
10880 output to messages of warning and error severity.
10881 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
10882 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
10883 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
10884 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
10885 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
10886 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
10887 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
10888 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
10889 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
10890 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
10891 directory requests we should expect to see.
10892 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
10894 - Lots of new unit tests.
10895 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
10896 two parallel lists in lockstep.
10899 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
10900 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
10901 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10904 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
10905 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
10906 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
10907 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
10908 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
10909 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
10910 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
10913 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
10914 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
10915 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
10919 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
10920 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
10921 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
10924 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
10925 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
10926 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
10928 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
10929 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
10931 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
10932 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
10933 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
10934 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
10935 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10936 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
10937 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
10939 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
10940 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
10941 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
10942 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
10943 - Fix compile on Windows.
10946 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
10947 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
10948 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
10949 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
10950 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
10951 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
10952 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
10955 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
10956 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
10959 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
10960 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
10961 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
10962 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
10964 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
10965 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
10966 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
10969 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
10970 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
10971 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
10972 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
10976 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
10977 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
10978 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
10979 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
10981 o Major security fixes:
10982 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
10983 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
10984 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
10985 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
10986 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
10989 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
10990 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10993 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
10994 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
10997 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
10998 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
11001 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
11002 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
11003 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
11006 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
11007 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11010 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
11011 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
11012 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
11013 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
11014 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
11016 o New directory authorities:
11017 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
11018 it has been down for months.
11019 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
11023 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
11024 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
11026 o Minor features (security):
11027 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
11028 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
11029 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
11032 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
11033 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
11034 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
11035 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
11036 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
11037 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
11038 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
11039 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
11040 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11042 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
11043 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
11044 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11045 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
11046 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11047 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
11048 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11049 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
11050 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
11052 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11053 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
11054 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
11055 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
11056 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
11057 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
11058 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
11059 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
11060 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
11061 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
11062 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11063 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
11064 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
11065 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
11066 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
11067 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
11068 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
11069 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
11070 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
11073 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
11074 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11075 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
11076 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
11079 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
11080 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
11081 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
11082 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
11085 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
11086 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11087 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
11088 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
11089 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
11092 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
11093 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
11094 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
11095 certain censored countries by default again.
11098 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
11099 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11100 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
11101 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
11102 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11103 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
11104 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
11105 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
11107 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
11108 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
11109 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
11110 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
11111 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
11112 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
11113 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
11114 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
11115 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
11116 a directory. Fix from lodger.
11118 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11119 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
11120 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
11121 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
11122 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
11123 RelayBandwidth* values.
11124 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
11125 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
11126 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
11127 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
11128 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
11129 get_interface_address6().
11130 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
11131 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
11132 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
11134 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
11135 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
11136 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
11137 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11138 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
11139 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
11140 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11141 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
11142 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
11143 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11146 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
11147 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
11148 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
11151 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
11152 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11153 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
11154 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
11155 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
11158 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
11159 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
11160 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
11161 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
11162 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
11163 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
11164 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
11165 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
11166 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
11169 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
11170 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
11171 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
11172 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11175 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
11176 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11177 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
11178 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
11179 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
11180 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
11181 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
11184 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
11185 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
11186 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
11187 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
11188 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
11189 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
11190 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
11192 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
11193 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
11194 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
11195 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
11196 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
11199 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
11200 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
11201 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11202 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
11203 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
11204 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
11205 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11206 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
11207 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
11208 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
11209 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
11210 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
11211 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
11212 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
11213 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
11214 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11215 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
11216 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11217 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11218 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
11219 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
11220 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
11221 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
11222 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
11223 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
11224 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
11226 o Minor features (performance):
11227 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
11229 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
11230 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
11231 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
11232 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
11233 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
11234 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
11235 non-system include paths.
11236 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
11237 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
11240 o Minor features (other):
11241 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
11243 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
11244 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
11245 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
11248 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
11249 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
11250 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
11251 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
11253 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
11254 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
11255 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
11256 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
11257 Should fix bug 537.
11258 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
11259 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
11260 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11261 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
11262 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11264 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11265 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
11266 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
11267 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
11268 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
11269 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
11270 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
11271 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
11272 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
11273 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
11274 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
11275 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
11276 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
11277 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
11278 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
11279 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11280 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
11281 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
11282 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
11283 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
11284 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
11285 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
11286 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
11287 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
11288 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
11291 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11292 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
11293 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
11297 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
11298 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
11299 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
11300 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
11301 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
11304 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
11305 Tor's x509 certificates.
11308 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
11309 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
11310 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11311 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
11312 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
11313 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11315 o Minor features (security):
11316 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
11317 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
11319 o Minor features (directory authority):
11320 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
11321 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
11322 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
11323 bandwidthburst values.
11325 o Minor features (controller):
11326 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
11327 processes from running us out of memory.
11329 o Minor features (misc):
11330 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
11331 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
11332 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
11333 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
11335 o Deprecated features (controller):
11336 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
11337 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
11338 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
11341 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
11342 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
11344 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
11345 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
11346 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11347 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
11348 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
11349 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11350 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
11351 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
11353 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
11354 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11355 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
11356 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11357 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
11358 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
11359 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
11360 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
11362 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
11363 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
11364 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
11365 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
11366 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11367 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
11368 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11369 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
11370 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11371 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
11372 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
11373 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11375 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11376 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
11378 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
11379 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
11380 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
11381 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
11382 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
11383 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
11386 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
11387 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
11388 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
11389 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
11390 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
11392 o New directory authorities:
11393 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
11397 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
11398 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
11399 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
11400 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
11401 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
11402 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
11403 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
11404 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
11408 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
11409 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
11410 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
11411 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
11412 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
11413 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
11414 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
11415 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
11416 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
11417 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
11420 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
11421 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
11422 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
11423 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
11427 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
11428 the request isn't encrypted.
11429 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
11430 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
11431 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
11432 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
11433 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
11436 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
11437 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
11440 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
11443 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
11444 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
11445 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
11447 o New directory authorities:
11448 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
11451 o Major performance improvements:
11452 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
11453 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
11454 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
11455 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
11456 memory fragmentation.
11459 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
11460 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
11461 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
11462 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
11463 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
11464 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
11465 bodies when they receive them.
11466 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
11467 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
11468 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
11470 o Minor performance improvements:
11471 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
11472 of them were actually distinct.
11473 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
11474 interested in a given message.
11477 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
11478 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
11479 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
11480 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
11481 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
11482 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
11483 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
11484 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
11485 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
11486 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
11487 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
11489 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
11490 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
11491 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
11492 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
11493 this country" and "1 person from this country".
11494 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
11495 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
11496 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
11497 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
11498 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
11500 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
11501 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
11502 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
11504 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
11505 but client versions are not.
11506 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
11507 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
11509 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
11510 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
11511 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
11512 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
11513 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
11515 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
11516 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
11517 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
11520 o Minor features (controller):
11521 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
11522 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
11523 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
11524 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
11526 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11527 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
11528 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
11529 running a test network on a single host.
11530 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
11531 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
11533 o Minor features (bridges):
11534 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
11535 unencrypted connections.
11537 o Minor features (other):
11538 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
11539 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
11540 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
11541 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
11544 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
11545 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
11546 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
11547 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11550 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
11551 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
11552 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
11553 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
11554 on network address.
11557 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
11558 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
11559 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
11560 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
11561 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
11562 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
11563 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
11564 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
11565 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
11566 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
11567 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
11568 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
11571 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
11572 rebuild our server descriptor.
11573 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
11574 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
11575 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
11576 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
11577 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
11578 nonstandard integer types.
11579 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
11580 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
11581 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
11582 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
11583 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
11585 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
11586 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
11587 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
11588 when they receive them.
11589 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
11590 This includes some 64-bit systems.
11591 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
11592 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
11593 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
11594 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
11595 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
11596 router_get_by_hexdigest().
11597 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
11598 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
11602 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
11603 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
11604 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11607 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
11608 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
11609 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
11610 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
11611 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
11612 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
11613 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
11614 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11617 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
11618 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
11619 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
11620 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
11622 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
11623 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
11626 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
11627 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
11630 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
11632 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
11633 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
11635 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
11636 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
11637 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
11638 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11639 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
11640 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
11641 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
11642 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11643 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
11644 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
11648 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
11649 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
11650 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
11653 - Make the unit tests build again.
11654 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
11655 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
11656 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
11657 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
11658 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
11659 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11660 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
11661 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
11662 the next one as a duplicate.
11665 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
11666 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
11667 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
11668 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
11671 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
11672 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
11673 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
11676 o New directory authorities:
11677 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
11681 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
11682 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
11683 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
11684 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
11685 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
11686 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
11687 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
11689 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
11690 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
11692 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
11693 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
11694 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
11695 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
11696 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
11697 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
11699 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
11700 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
11701 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11702 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
11703 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
11704 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11707 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
11708 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
11709 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
11710 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
11711 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
11712 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
11713 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
11714 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
11715 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
11716 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
11717 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
11718 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
11719 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
11720 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
11721 where Tor is blocked.
11722 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
11723 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
11724 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
11725 to a file periodically.
11726 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
11727 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
11728 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
11732 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
11733 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
11734 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
11735 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
11736 in the relevant networkstatus document.
11737 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
11738 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
11739 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11740 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
11741 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
11742 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
11743 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
11744 by Karsten Loesing.
11745 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
11746 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
11747 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
11748 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
11749 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
11750 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11751 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
11752 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
11753 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
11754 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11755 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
11756 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
11757 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
11758 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11759 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
11760 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
11761 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
11762 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
11763 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
11764 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11765 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11766 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
11767 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11768 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
11769 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
11770 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11771 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
11772 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11775 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
11776 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
11777 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
11778 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
11779 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
11780 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
11781 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
11782 even if your DirPort isn't on.
11783 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
11784 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
11785 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
11787 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
11788 multiple controller passwords.
11789 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
11790 router based on the router's purpose.
11791 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
11792 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
11793 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
11794 the approved-routers file.
11797 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
11798 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
11799 well as a few minor bugs.
11802 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
11803 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
11804 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
11806 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
11807 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
11808 rebuild our server descriptor.
11810 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11811 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
11812 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
11813 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
11814 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
11815 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
11816 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
11817 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
11818 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
11819 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
11821 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
11822 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
11823 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
11824 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
11825 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
11826 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
11827 then be flexible about families.
11830 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
11831 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
11832 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
11836 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
11837 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
11838 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
11839 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
11840 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
11843 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
11844 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
11845 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
11846 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
11847 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11850 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
11851 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
11853 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
11854 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
11855 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
11856 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
11857 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
11858 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
11859 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11861 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
11862 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
11863 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
11864 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
11867 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
11868 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
11871 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
11872 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
11873 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11876 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
11877 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
11878 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
11879 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
11880 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
11881 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
11882 addresses many more minor issues.
11884 o New directory authorities:
11885 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
11888 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
11889 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
11890 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
11891 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
11893 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
11894 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
11895 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
11896 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
11897 and are reaching it.
11898 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
11899 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
11900 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
11901 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
11902 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
11903 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
11906 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
11907 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
11909 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
11910 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
11911 no longer work for clients.
11912 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
11913 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
11915 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
11916 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
11917 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
11918 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
11919 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
11920 enough directory information to build a circuit.
11921 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
11922 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
11923 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
11924 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
11925 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
11926 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
11928 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
11929 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
11930 requests for all of them.
11931 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
11933 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
11934 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
11935 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
11937 o New requirements:
11938 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
11939 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
11943 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
11944 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
11945 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
11946 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
11947 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
11948 networkstatuses that we already have.
11949 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
11950 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
11951 we start knowing some directory caches.
11952 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
11953 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
11954 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
11955 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
11956 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
11957 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
11958 Good in combination with --hash-password.
11959 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
11960 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
11962 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
11963 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
11964 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
11966 o Minor features (bridges):
11967 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
11968 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
11969 back to trying the bridge directly.
11970 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
11971 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
11973 o Minor features (controller):
11974 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
11975 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
11976 report the value as a "minimum skew."
11979 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
11980 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
11984 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
11985 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
11986 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
11987 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
11988 reported by tup and ioerror.
11989 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
11990 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
11992 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11993 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
11995 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
11996 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
11997 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
11999 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
12000 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12001 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
12002 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12003 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
12004 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12005 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
12007 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
12008 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
12009 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12011 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
12012 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
12013 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
12014 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
12015 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
12018 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
12019 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
12020 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
12021 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
12022 lists for a few hours each day.
12024 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12025 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
12026 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
12027 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
12028 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
12029 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12030 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
12031 rend_process_relay_cell().
12033 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12034 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
12035 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
12036 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
12037 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
12038 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
12039 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
12040 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
12042 o Major bugfixes (other):
12043 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
12044 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
12045 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
12046 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
12047 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
12048 circuit cannibalization).
12049 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
12050 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
12051 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
12052 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
12053 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
12054 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
12057 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
12058 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
12060 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
12061 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
12062 absent. Resolves bug 467.
12063 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
12064 a way to trigger this remotely.)
12065 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
12066 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
12067 were reporting the dir port.)
12068 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
12069 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
12070 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
12071 the future. Fixes bug 434.
12072 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
12074 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
12075 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
12076 the onion key from getting rotated.
12077 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
12078 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
12079 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
12080 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
12081 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
12082 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
12083 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
12084 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12085 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
12088 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
12089 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
12090 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
12091 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
12092 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
12093 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
12095 o Major features (directory system):
12096 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
12097 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
12098 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
12099 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
12100 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
12101 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
12102 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
12103 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
12104 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
12105 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
12106 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
12107 Partially implements proposal 122.
12108 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
12109 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
12112 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
12113 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
12114 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
12115 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
12117 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
12118 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
12119 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
12120 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
12121 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
12122 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12123 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
12124 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
12125 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12127 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
12128 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
12130 - Allow certificates to include an address.
12131 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
12132 and download operations.
12133 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
12134 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
12135 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
12136 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
12137 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
12138 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
12140 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
12141 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
12144 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
12145 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
12146 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
12147 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
12149 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
12150 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
12151 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
12153 o Minor features (performance):
12154 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
12155 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
12156 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
12157 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
12158 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
12159 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
12160 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
12163 o Minor features (compilation):
12164 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
12165 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
12167 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
12168 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
12169 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
12170 stick around indefinitely.
12171 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
12173 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
12174 v3 directory authority.
12175 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
12176 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
12178 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
12179 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
12180 "moria on moria:9031."
12181 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
12182 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
12183 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
12184 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
12185 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
12186 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
12187 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
12188 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
12190 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
12191 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
12192 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
12193 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
12194 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
12195 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
12196 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
12197 downloads than for other types.
12199 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
12200 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
12202 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
12203 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
12204 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12206 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12207 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
12208 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12209 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
12210 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
12211 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
12212 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
12213 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
12215 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12216 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
12217 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
12218 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
12219 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12220 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
12221 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
12222 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12223 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
12224 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
12225 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
12227 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
12228 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
12231 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12232 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
12233 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
12234 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
12235 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
12236 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
12237 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
12238 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
12239 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
12240 so that they all take the same named flags.
12243 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
12244 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
12245 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
12248 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
12249 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
12250 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
12251 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
12252 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
12253 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
12255 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
12256 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
12257 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
12258 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
12259 annotations along with descriptors.
12260 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
12261 source, and its purpose.
12262 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
12264 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
12265 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
12266 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
12267 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
12270 o Major features (directory authorities):
12271 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
12273 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
12274 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
12275 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
12276 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
12277 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
12278 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
12280 o Major features (v3 directory system):
12281 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
12282 and download the descriptors listed in them.
12283 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
12284 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
12285 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
12287 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12288 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
12289 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
12290 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
12293 o Major bugfixes (performance):
12294 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
12295 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
12296 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
12297 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
12299 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
12300 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
12301 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
12302 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
12303 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
12304 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12306 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
12307 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
12309 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
12310 certificate is requested.
12311 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
12312 certificate requests.
12314 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
12315 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
12316 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
12317 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
12320 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12321 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
12322 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
12323 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12325 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
12326 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
12328 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
12329 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
12330 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12331 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
12332 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
12333 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
12334 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
12335 downloads more sensible.
12336 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
12337 another when serving certificates.
12339 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12340 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
12341 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
12342 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
12344 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
12345 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12346 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
12348 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
12349 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12351 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12352 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
12353 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
12354 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
12355 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12357 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
12358 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
12359 WARN-severity events.
12360 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
12361 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
12362 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
12364 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
12365 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
12366 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
12368 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
12369 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
12370 circuit cannibalization).
12372 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12373 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
12374 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
12375 new module, networkstatus.c.
12376 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
12377 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
12378 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
12379 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
12380 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
12381 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
12382 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
12383 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
12384 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
12386 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
12388 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
12389 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12392 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
12393 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
12394 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
12395 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
12397 o New directory authorities:
12398 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
12399 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
12401 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12402 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
12403 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12405 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
12406 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
12407 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
12408 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
12409 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12410 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
12411 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
12412 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
12413 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
12414 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
12415 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12417 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12418 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
12419 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
12420 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
12421 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
12422 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
12423 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
12424 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
12425 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
12427 o Minor features (security):
12428 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
12429 address maps to an internal address space.
12430 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
12431 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
12433 o Minor features (guard nodes):
12434 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
12435 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
12436 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
12437 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
12439 o Minor features (speed):
12440 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
12441 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
12442 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
12443 on big-endian hosts.)
12445 o Minor features (controller):
12446 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
12447 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
12448 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
12449 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
12452 o Removed features:
12453 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
12454 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
12455 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
12456 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
12457 implementation of proposal 104.
12458 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
12459 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
12460 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
12461 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
12462 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
12463 patch from Karsten Loesing.
12464 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
12465 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
12468 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
12469 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
12470 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12471 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
12472 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12473 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
12474 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12475 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
12476 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
12477 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12478 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
12479 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
12480 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
12481 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12482 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
12483 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
12484 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
12485 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12486 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
12487 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
12489 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12490 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
12491 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
12493 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
12494 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
12495 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
12496 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
12499 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
12500 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
12501 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
12502 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
12503 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
12506 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
12507 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
12510 o Major bugfixes (security):
12511 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
12512 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
12513 become more of a headache than it's worth.
12515 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
12516 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
12517 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
12519 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
12520 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
12521 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
12522 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
12523 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
12524 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
12526 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
12527 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
12528 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
12529 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
12530 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
12532 o Minor features (controller):
12533 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
12534 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
12535 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
12536 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
12538 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12539 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
12540 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
12541 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
12542 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
12543 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
12544 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
12545 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
12547 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12548 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
12549 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
12550 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
12551 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
12552 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
12553 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
12554 if we ran off the end of the list.
12555 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
12556 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
12557 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
12558 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
12559 every time we change any piece of our config.
12560 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
12561 encourage people using them to stop.
12562 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
12564 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
12565 servers to choose a circuit.
12566 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
12567 unparseable piece of it.
12570 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
12571 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
12572 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
12573 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
12576 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
12577 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
12578 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
12579 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
12580 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
12582 o New directory authorities:
12583 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
12586 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
12587 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
12588 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
12589 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
12591 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
12592 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
12593 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
12595 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
12596 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
12597 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
12598 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
12599 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
12600 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
12602 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
12603 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
12604 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12607 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
12608 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
12609 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
12610 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
12614 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
12615 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
12616 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
12617 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
12619 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
12620 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
12622 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
12623 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
12624 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
12625 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
12626 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
12627 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
12628 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12629 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
12630 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12631 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
12634 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
12635 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
12636 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
12637 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
12638 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
12639 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
12641 o Removed features:
12642 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
12643 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
12644 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
12645 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
12648 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
12649 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
12650 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
12651 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
12652 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
12655 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
12656 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
12657 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
12658 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
12659 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
12660 reported by lodger.
12662 o Minor features (directory servers):
12663 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
12664 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
12666 o Minor features (directory voting):
12667 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
12670 o Minor features (security):
12671 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
12672 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
12673 encourage people using them to stop.
12675 o Minor features (controller):
12676 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
12677 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
12678 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
12679 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
12680 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
12681 cookie authentication file, and config option
12682 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
12684 o Minor features (unit testing):
12685 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
12686 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
12687 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
12688 logging for the unit tests.
12690 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12691 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
12692 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
12693 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
12694 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
12695 every time we change any piece of our config.
12696 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
12697 the future. Fixes bug 434.
12698 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
12700 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
12701 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
12702 the onion key from getting rotated.
12703 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
12704 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
12705 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
12708 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12709 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
12710 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
12712 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
12713 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
12714 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
12715 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
12718 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
12719 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
12720 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
12721 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
12722 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
12723 TorK, etc. Or worse.
12725 o Major security fixes:
12726 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
12727 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
12730 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
12731 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
12732 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
12733 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
12735 o Major security fixes:
12736 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
12737 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
12739 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12740 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
12743 o Minor features (performance):
12744 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
12745 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
12746 performance-intensive.
12747 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
12748 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
12749 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
12750 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
12751 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
12752 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
12756 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
12757 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
12758 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
12759 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
12763 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
12764 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
12765 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
12766 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
12767 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
12769 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
12770 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
12771 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
12772 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
12774 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
12775 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
12776 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
12777 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
12778 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
12780 o Major features (experimental):
12781 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
12782 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
12783 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
12784 handling before it's ready for use.
12787 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
12788 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
12789 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
12790 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12791 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
12792 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
12794 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
12795 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
12796 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
12797 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
12798 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
12800 o Major bugfixes (directory):
12801 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
12802 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12804 o Minor features (controller):
12805 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
12806 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12807 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
12808 from Robert Hogan.)
12809 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
12810 from Robert Hogan.)
12811 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
12812 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
12814 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
12815 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
12816 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
12817 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
12818 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12819 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
12820 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
12823 o Minor features (misc):
12824 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
12826 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
12827 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
12828 the authority identity key.
12829 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
12831 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
12832 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
12833 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
12836 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
12837 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
12838 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
12839 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
12840 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
12841 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
12842 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
12843 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12845 o Performance improvements:
12846 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
12848 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
12849 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
12852 o Deprecated and removed features:
12853 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
12854 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
12855 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
12856 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
12858 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12859 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
12860 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12861 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
12862 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
12863 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12864 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
12865 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
12866 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
12869 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
12870 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
12871 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12872 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
12873 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
12875 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
12876 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
12879 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12880 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
12881 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
12882 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
12883 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
12884 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
12885 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
12886 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
12887 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
12890 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
12891 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
12892 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
12893 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
12895 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12896 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
12898 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12899 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
12900 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
12901 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
12902 routerlist while inserting a new router.
12903 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
12904 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
12906 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
12907 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
12908 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
12910 o Major bugfixes (security):
12911 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
12913 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
12914 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
12915 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
12916 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
12917 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
12918 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
12919 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
12920 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
12921 guard list unless we need to.
12923 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
12924 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
12925 don't get overused as guards.
12927 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12928 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
12929 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
12930 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
12931 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
12933 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12934 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
12935 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
12938 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12939 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
12940 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
12941 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
12942 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
12943 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
12944 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
12945 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
12948 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
12949 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
12950 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
12951 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
12953 o Minor features (directory):
12954 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
12955 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
12956 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
12957 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
12959 o Minor build issues:
12960 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
12961 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
12962 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
12963 in the tarball, not as "x".
12966 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
12967 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
12968 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
12969 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
12970 forward on a lot of fronts.
12972 o Major features, server usability:
12973 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
12974 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
12975 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
12976 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
12978 o Major features, client usability:
12979 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
12980 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
12981 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
12982 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
12983 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
12984 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
12985 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
12986 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
12988 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
12989 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
12990 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
12991 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
12992 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
12993 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
12995 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
12996 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
12997 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
12999 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
13000 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
13001 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
13002 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
13003 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
13005 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
13006 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
13007 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
13008 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
13010 o Major features, other:
13011 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
13012 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
13013 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
13014 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
13015 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
13018 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
13019 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
13020 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
13023 o Minor fixes (resource management):
13024 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
13025 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
13026 our allocated connection limit.
13027 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
13028 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
13029 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
13030 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
13031 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
13033 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
13034 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
13035 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
13037 o Minor features (build):
13038 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
13039 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
13040 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
13041 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
13043 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
13044 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
13045 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
13046 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
13047 Use this version consistently in log messages.
13049 o Minor features (logging):
13050 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
13051 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
13052 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
13053 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
13054 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
13057 o Minor features (directory system):
13058 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
13059 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
13060 not to serve V2 directory information.
13061 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
13062 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
13063 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
13065 o Minor features (controller):
13066 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
13067 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
13069 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
13070 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
13071 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
13072 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
13073 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
13074 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
13076 o Minor features (hidden services):
13077 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
13078 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
13079 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
13080 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
13082 o Minor features (other):
13084 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
13085 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
13086 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
13087 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
13088 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
13089 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
13090 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
13091 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
13092 longer a completely silly thing to do.
13093 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
13094 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
13095 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
13096 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
13098 o Removed features:
13099 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
13100 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
13101 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
13102 back an error and close the connection.
13103 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
13104 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
13107 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13108 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
13109 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
13110 makes the log messages nicer.
13111 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
13112 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
13113 partial results on small file reads.
13115 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13116 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
13117 more often than they are allowed to appear.
13118 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
13119 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
13121 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13122 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
13123 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
13124 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
13126 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13127 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
13128 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
13129 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
13130 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
13131 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
13132 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
13133 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
13134 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
13135 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
13136 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
13138 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
13139 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
13140 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
13142 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
13143 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
13144 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
13145 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
13147 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13148 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
13149 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
13151 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
13152 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
13155 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13156 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
13157 implicit in other procedure arguments.
13158 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
13159 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
13160 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
13161 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
13162 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
13163 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
13164 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
13165 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
13166 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
13169 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
13170 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
13171 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
13172 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
13174 o Directory authority changes:
13175 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
13176 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
13177 or use hidden services.
13179 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13180 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
13181 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
13182 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
13183 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
13184 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
13185 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
13186 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
13187 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
13190 o Major bugfixes (security):
13191 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
13192 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
13193 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
13195 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
13196 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
13197 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
13198 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
13199 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
13200 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
13201 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
13202 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
13203 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
13204 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
13207 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
13208 purpose=controller.
13209 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
13210 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
13212 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
13213 having a hard time downloading.
13214 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
13215 partial results on small file reads.
13216 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
13217 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
13218 the gaps in the store get very large.
13221 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
13222 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
13224 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
13225 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
13228 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
13229 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
13230 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
13231 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
13232 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
13233 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
13235 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
13236 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
13237 free speech on the Internet.
13240 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
13241 get one we don't recognize.
13242 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
13243 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
13246 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
13248 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
13249 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
13250 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
13251 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
13254 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
13255 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
13258 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
13259 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
13260 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
13261 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
13262 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
13263 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
13264 ask for GUARDS too.
13267 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
13268 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
13269 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
13270 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
13271 on Win98 and friends again.
13273 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13274 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
13275 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
13278 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
13279 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
13280 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
13281 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
13282 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
13283 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
13284 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
13285 and maybe also bug 397.)
13287 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13288 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
13289 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
13291 o Minor bugfixes (server):
13292 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
13295 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
13296 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
13297 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
13298 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
13299 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
13301 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13302 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
13303 load on authorities.
13305 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13306 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
13307 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
13308 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
13310 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
13312 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
13313 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
13314 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
13315 the last of bug 326.)
13316 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
13317 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
13321 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
13322 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13323 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
13324 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
13325 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
13326 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
13327 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
13329 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
13330 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
13332 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13333 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
13334 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
13336 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
13337 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
13338 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
13340 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13341 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
13342 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
13343 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
13345 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
13346 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
13348 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
13349 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
13350 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
13353 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13354 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
13355 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
13356 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
13357 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
13358 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
13359 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
13360 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
13361 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
13362 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
13363 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
13364 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
13365 other than file-not-found.
13366 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
13367 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
13368 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
13369 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
13370 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
13371 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
13372 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
13373 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
13374 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
13375 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
13376 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
13377 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
13378 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
13379 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
13380 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
13382 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
13384 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
13385 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
13387 o Minor features (controller):
13388 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
13389 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
13390 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
13392 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
13393 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13394 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
13395 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
13396 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
13397 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
13398 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
13399 connected or resolved cell.
13401 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13402 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
13403 some profiles, but not others.)
13404 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
13405 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
13406 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
13409 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
13411 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
13412 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
13413 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
13414 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
13415 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
13416 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
13417 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
13418 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
13419 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
13420 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
13421 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
13422 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
13423 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
13424 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
13425 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
13427 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
13430 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
13431 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
13432 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
13433 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
13434 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
13435 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
13436 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
13438 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
13439 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
13440 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
13441 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
13442 buckets go absurdly negative.
13443 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
13444 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
13447 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
13448 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
13449 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
13450 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
13451 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
13452 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
13453 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
13454 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
13457 o Major bugfixes (other):
13458 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
13459 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
13460 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
13461 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
13463 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
13465 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
13466 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
13468 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
13469 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
13470 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
13471 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
13472 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
13473 to wait for 0.2.0.)
13475 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
13476 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
13477 possible memory-stomping bugs.
13478 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
13479 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
13481 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
13482 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
13483 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
13484 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
13485 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
13486 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
13488 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13489 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
13490 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
13491 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
13493 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
13494 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
13495 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
13496 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
13497 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
13498 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
13499 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
13500 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
13501 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
13502 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
13503 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
13504 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
13505 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
13507 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
13508 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
13509 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
13510 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
13511 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
13512 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
13513 to the resulting address.
13516 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
13517 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
13518 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
13519 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
13522 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
13523 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
13525 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
13526 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
13527 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
13528 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
13529 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
13530 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
13531 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
13532 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
13533 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
13534 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
13535 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
13536 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
13537 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
13538 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
13539 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
13540 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
13541 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
13544 o Minor features (controller):
13545 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
13546 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
13547 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
13548 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
13549 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
13550 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
13551 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
13555 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
13557 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
13558 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
13559 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
13560 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
13561 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
13562 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
13565 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
13566 weren't planning to resolve.
13567 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
13568 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
13569 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
13570 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
13571 the controller from learning about current events.
13573 o Minor features (more controller status events):
13574 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
13575 learn when our address changes.
13576 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
13577 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
13578 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
13579 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
13581 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
13582 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
13583 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
13584 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
13585 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
13586 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
13587 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
13588 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
13589 are accepted by a directory.
13590 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
13591 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
13592 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
13593 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
13594 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
13596 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
13597 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
13598 about changes to DNS server status.
13600 o Minor features (directory):
13601 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
13602 too much load to the exit nodes.
13605 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
13607 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
13608 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
13609 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
13610 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
13611 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
13613 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
13614 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
13615 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
13617 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
13618 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
13619 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
13620 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
13621 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
13622 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
13623 config options if you like.
13625 o Minor features (config and docs):
13626 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
13627 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
13628 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
13629 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
13630 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
13632 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
13633 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
13634 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
13635 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
13636 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
13638 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
13639 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
13640 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
13641 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
13642 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
13643 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
13644 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
13645 documentation: "make check-docs".
13646 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
13647 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
13649 o Minor features (DNS):
13650 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
13651 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
13652 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
13653 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
13654 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
13655 our tests for DNS hijacking.
13657 o Minor features (directory):
13658 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
13659 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
13660 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
13661 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
13662 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
13663 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
13664 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
13665 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
13666 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
13667 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
13668 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
13669 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
13670 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
13671 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
13672 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
13673 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
13674 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
13675 for the thing we're trying to download.
13676 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
13677 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
13678 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
13680 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
13681 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
13682 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
13685 o Minor features (controller):
13686 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
13687 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
13689 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
13690 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
13691 entry guard status as it changes.
13693 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
13694 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
13695 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
13696 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
13697 to set log options.
13698 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
13699 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
13700 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
13701 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
13704 o Major bugfixes (security):
13705 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
13706 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
13707 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
13708 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
13710 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
13711 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
13712 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
13713 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
13714 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
13716 o Major bugfixes (other):
13717 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
13718 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
13719 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
13720 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
13722 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
13723 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
13724 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
13725 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
13726 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
13727 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
13731 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
13732 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
13733 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
13734 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
13735 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
13737 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
13738 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
13740 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
13741 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
13742 family lists conveniently.
13743 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
13744 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
13745 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
13747 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
13748 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
13750 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
13751 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
13752 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
13753 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
13754 if their identity keys are as expected.
13755 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
13756 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
13757 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
13759 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13760 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
13761 reported by Mike Perry.
13762 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
13763 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
13764 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
13765 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
13768 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
13769 o Security bugfixes:
13770 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
13771 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
13772 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
13773 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
13777 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
13778 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
13779 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
13782 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
13784 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
13785 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
13786 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
13789 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
13790 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
13791 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
13792 watching for STREAM events.
13793 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
13794 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
13795 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
13796 operations, for profiling.
13799 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
13800 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
13801 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
13802 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
13803 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
13804 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
13806 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
13810 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
13811 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
13812 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
13813 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
13814 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
13816 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
13817 correctly in the Windows installer.
13818 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
13819 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
13820 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
13821 MIPSpro C compiler.
13822 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
13823 when we're running as a client.
13826 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
13828 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
13829 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
13830 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
13831 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
13832 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
13833 its circuits on demand.
13834 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
13835 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
13836 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
13837 connections more stable on average.
13838 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
13839 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
13840 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
13842 o Security bugfixes:
13843 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
13844 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
13847 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
13849 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
13850 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
13851 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
13852 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
13853 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
13854 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
13855 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
13856 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
13859 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
13861 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
13862 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
13863 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
13864 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
13865 routers for even longer.
13866 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
13867 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
13868 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
13869 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
13870 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
13871 caching HTTP proxies.
13872 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
13875 o Minor features, controller:
13876 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
13877 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
13878 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
13879 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
13881 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
13882 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
13883 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
13884 working much like those for circuit events.
13885 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
13886 about the current status of a router.
13887 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
13888 a router's status has changed.
13889 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
13890 can tell which events and features are supported.
13891 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
13892 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
13894 o Security bugfixes:
13895 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
13896 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
13899 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
13900 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
13901 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
13902 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
13903 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
13904 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
13905 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
13906 long nicknames where appropriate.
13907 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
13908 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
13909 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
13910 chews through many circuits before giving up.
13911 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
13912 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
13913 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
13914 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
13915 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
13916 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
13918 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
13919 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
13920 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
13922 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
13923 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
13924 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
13925 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
13926 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
13927 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
13928 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
13929 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
13930 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
13931 (reported by fookoowa).
13932 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
13933 and reported by some Centos users.
13934 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
13935 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
13936 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
13937 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
13938 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
13939 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
13940 before we check for libevent.
13943 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
13945 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
13946 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
13947 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
13948 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
13949 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
13950 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
13951 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
13952 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
13953 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
13954 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
13955 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
13956 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
13957 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
13958 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
13959 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
13960 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
13961 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
13962 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
13963 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
13964 lets you turn it off.
13965 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
13966 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
13967 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
13968 us into the directory more quickly.
13970 o New/improved config options:
13971 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
13972 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
13973 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
13974 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
13975 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
13976 all the machines on the same subnet.
13977 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
13978 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
13979 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
13980 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
13981 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
13982 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
13983 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
13984 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
13985 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
13986 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
13988 o Minor features, controller:
13989 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
13990 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
13991 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
13992 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
13993 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
13994 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
13995 for more information.
13996 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
13997 best guess to the user.
13998 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
13999 descriptor has changed.
14000 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
14002 o Minor features, other:
14003 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
14004 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
14005 useful to the network.
14006 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
14007 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
14008 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
14009 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
14010 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
14011 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
14012 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
14013 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
14014 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
14015 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
14016 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
14017 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
14018 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
14019 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
14020 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
14022 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
14023 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
14024 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
14025 could return an unnamed server instead.
14026 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
14027 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
14028 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
14029 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
14030 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
14031 a more attractive target for compromise.)
14032 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
14033 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
14034 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
14036 o Major bugfixes, other:
14037 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
14038 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
14039 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
14040 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
14041 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
14042 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
14043 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
14044 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
14045 its circuits on demand.
14046 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
14047 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
14048 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
14049 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
14051 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
14052 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
14053 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
14054 we don't recognize.
14055 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
14057 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
14058 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
14059 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
14060 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
14061 "extendcircuit" request.
14062 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
14063 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
14064 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
14066 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
14067 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
14068 instead of "X resolved to X".
14069 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
14070 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
14071 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
14072 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
14073 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
14074 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
14075 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
14076 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
14077 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
14079 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
14080 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
14081 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
14082 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
14083 result more than once.
14084 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
14085 non-versioning dirservers.
14086 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
14087 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
14089 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
14090 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
14091 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
14092 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
14093 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
14094 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
14095 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
14096 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
14097 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
14099 o Packaging, features:
14100 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
14101 now universal binaries.
14102 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
14103 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
14104 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
14106 o Packaging, bugfixes:
14107 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
14108 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
14109 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
14110 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
14112 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
14113 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
14114 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
14117 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
14118 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
14119 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
14123 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
14125 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
14126 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
14127 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
14128 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
14129 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
14130 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
14131 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
14132 it can't resolve its hostname.
14135 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
14136 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
14137 "extendcircuit" request.
14138 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
14139 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
14140 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
14141 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
14143 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
14144 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
14145 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
14147 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
14148 methods: these are known to be buggy.
14149 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
14150 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
14151 we don't recognize.
14154 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
14156 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
14157 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
14158 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
14159 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
14160 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
14161 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
14162 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
14163 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
14164 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
14165 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
14166 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
14167 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
14168 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
14169 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
14170 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
14171 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
14172 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
14173 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
14174 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
14175 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
14176 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
14177 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
14178 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
14179 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
14182 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
14183 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
14184 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
14185 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
14186 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
14187 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
14188 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
14189 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
14190 recommendation system saner.)
14191 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
14193 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
14194 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
14195 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
14196 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
14197 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
14198 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
14199 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
14200 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
14201 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
14202 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
14203 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
14204 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
14205 your ORPort is set.
14206 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
14207 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
14208 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
14209 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
14210 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
14211 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
14212 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
14213 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
14214 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
14215 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
14216 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
14217 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
14219 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
14220 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
14221 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
14222 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
14223 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
14224 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
14227 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
14228 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
14229 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
14230 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
14231 our DirPort now, etc.
14232 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
14233 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
14234 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
14235 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
14236 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
14237 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
14238 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
14240 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
14241 whether the config options are bad or good.
14242 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
14243 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
14244 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
14245 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
14246 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
14247 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
14248 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
14249 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
14252 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
14253 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
14254 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
14255 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
14256 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
14257 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
14258 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
14259 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
14260 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
14261 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
14262 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
14263 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
14264 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
14265 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
14266 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
14267 of it), is not therefore "up".
14268 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
14269 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
14270 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
14271 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
14272 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
14273 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
14276 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
14278 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
14279 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
14280 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
14281 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
14282 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
14283 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
14284 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
14285 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
14286 test reachability, so you won't publish.
14289 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
14290 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
14291 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
14292 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
14293 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
14295 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
14296 own server descriptor yet.
14299 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
14301 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
14302 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
14303 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
14304 make sure to test via one of these.
14305 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
14306 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
14307 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
14308 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
14309 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
14311 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
14312 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
14313 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
14316 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
14317 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
14318 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
14319 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
14320 directory authority.
14321 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
14322 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
14323 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
14324 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
14327 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
14328 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
14329 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
14331 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
14332 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
14333 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
14334 current guards when picking a new guard.
14335 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
14336 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
14337 when we had more than one pending.
14338 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
14339 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
14340 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
14341 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
14342 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
14343 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
14344 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
14345 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
14346 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
14347 debug the reachability problems better.
14349 o Log / documentation fixes:
14350 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
14351 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
14352 about protocol violations by others.
14353 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
14354 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
14355 about what happened to our old torrc.
14358 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
14360 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
14362 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
14363 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
14364 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
14365 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
14368 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
14370 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
14371 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
14372 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
14373 old ORPort and receive connections.
14374 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
14376 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
14377 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
14378 and network-statuses.
14379 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
14380 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
14381 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
14382 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
14384 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
14387 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
14388 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
14389 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
14392 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
14394 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
14395 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
14396 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
14397 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
14398 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
14401 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
14402 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
14404 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
14405 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
14406 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
14407 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
14408 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
14409 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
14410 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
14411 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
14412 rather than not sending anything back at all.
14413 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
14414 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
14415 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
14416 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
14417 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
14418 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
14419 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
14420 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
14421 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
14422 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
14423 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
14424 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
14425 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
14426 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
14427 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
14428 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
14429 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
14430 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
14431 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
14432 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
14433 default ulimit -n is 1024.
14436 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
14437 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
14438 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
14439 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
14442 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
14444 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
14445 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
14446 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
14447 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
14448 entry guards running these flawed versions.
14449 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
14450 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
14451 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
14452 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
14453 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
14456 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
14457 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
14459 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
14460 and it is confusing some users.
14461 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
14462 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
14463 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
14464 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
14465 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
14468 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
14470 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
14471 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
14472 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
14473 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
14474 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
14475 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
14476 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
14477 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
14478 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
14479 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
14480 dirport is set for now.
14482 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
14483 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
14484 unattached before we fail it?
14485 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
14486 at least this many seconds ago.
14487 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
14488 at least this many seconds ago.
14491 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
14492 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
14493 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
14494 or resolve-wait stream.
14495 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
14496 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
14497 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
14498 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
14499 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
14500 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
14501 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
14502 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
14504 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
14505 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
14506 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
14507 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
14508 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
14509 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
14510 given as hex digests.
14511 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
14512 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
14513 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
14514 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
14515 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
14516 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
14517 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
14518 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
14521 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14522 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
14523 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
14524 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
14525 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
14526 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
14527 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
14528 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
14529 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
14530 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
14531 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
14534 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
14535 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
14536 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
14537 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
14538 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
14539 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
14540 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
14543 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
14544 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
14545 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
14546 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
14547 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
14548 misreading their logs.
14549 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
14550 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
14551 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
14552 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
14553 valid router descriptors.
14554 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
14555 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
14556 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
14557 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
14558 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
14559 silently resetting it to its default.
14560 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
14562 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
14565 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
14566 use clean circuits.
14567 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
14568 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
14569 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
14570 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
14571 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
14573 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
14574 because older Tors do not understand it.
14575 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
14579 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
14580 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14581 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
14582 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
14583 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
14584 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
14585 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
14586 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
14587 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
14588 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
14589 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
14591 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
14592 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
14593 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
14594 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
14596 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
14597 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
14600 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
14601 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
14602 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
14603 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
14604 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
14605 without getting overloaded.
14606 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
14608 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
14609 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
14610 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
14611 be forward-compatible.
14612 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
14613 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
14614 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
14615 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
14617 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
14618 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
14619 and OR conns to port 443.
14620 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
14621 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
14623 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
14624 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
14625 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
14626 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
14627 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
14628 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
14629 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
14632 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
14633 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14634 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
14635 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
14637 o Other important bugfixes:
14638 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
14639 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
14640 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
14641 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
14643 o Backported features:
14644 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
14645 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
14646 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
14647 without getting overloaded.
14648 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
14649 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
14650 503's whenever they feel busy.
14651 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
14652 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
14653 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
14654 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
14655 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
14658 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
14659 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
14660 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
14661 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
14662 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
14663 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
14664 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
14665 know if the crashes continue.
14666 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
14667 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
14668 seg faults in at least some cases.)
14669 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
14670 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
14671 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
14674 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
14675 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
14676 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
14677 try to be a bit more fair.
14678 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
14679 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
14680 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
14681 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
14682 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
14683 bug that let it go negative.
14684 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
14685 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
14686 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
14687 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
14688 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
14689 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
14690 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
14691 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
14692 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
14693 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
14694 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
14697 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
14699 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
14700 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
14701 service descriptors.
14704 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
14705 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
14706 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
14707 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
14709 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
14710 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
14711 versions *are* still recommended.
14712 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
14713 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
14714 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
14715 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
14716 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
14717 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
14718 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
14719 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
14721 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
14722 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
14723 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
14724 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
14725 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
14726 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
14727 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
14728 on it. Not used by clients yet.
14729 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
14730 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
14731 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
14732 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
14733 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
14734 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
14735 established a circuit.
14736 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
14737 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
14738 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
14739 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
14742 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
14743 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14744 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
14745 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
14746 quickly enough. Oops.
14747 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
14749 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14750 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
14753 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
14754 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
14755 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
14756 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
14757 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
14758 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
14759 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
14760 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
14761 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
14762 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
14763 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
14764 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
14765 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
14766 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
14767 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
14768 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
14769 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
14772 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
14773 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
14774 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
14775 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
14776 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
14777 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
14778 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
14779 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
14780 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
14781 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
14782 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
14783 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
14784 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
14785 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
14786 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
14787 connections more reliable.
14790 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
14791 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
14792 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
14793 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
14794 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
14795 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
14796 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
14797 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
14798 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
14799 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
14800 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
14801 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
14802 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
14803 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
14807 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
14808 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
14809 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
14810 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
14811 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
14812 need to be uint64_t's.
14813 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
14814 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
14815 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
14817 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
14819 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
14820 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
14821 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
14822 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
14823 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
14824 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
14825 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
14827 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
14828 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
14829 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
14830 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
14831 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
14832 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
14833 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
14834 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
14835 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
14836 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
14837 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
14838 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
14839 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
14842 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
14843 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
14844 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
14845 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
14846 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
14847 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
14848 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
14850 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
14851 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
14852 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
14853 can answer v2 directory requests too.
14854 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
14855 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
14856 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
14857 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
14859 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
14860 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
14861 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
14862 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
14863 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
14864 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
14865 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
14866 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
14867 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
14868 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
14869 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
14870 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
14871 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
14872 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
14873 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
14875 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
14876 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
14879 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
14880 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14881 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
14882 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
14883 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
14884 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
14885 too -- so detect and avoid this.
14886 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
14888 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
14889 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
14890 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
14891 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
14892 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
14893 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
14894 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
14895 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
14896 rendezvous circuits.
14897 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
14899 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14900 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
14901 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
14902 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
14903 advertising it because of hibernation.
14904 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
14905 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
14906 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
14907 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
14908 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
14909 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
14910 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
14911 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
14912 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
14913 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
14914 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
14915 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
14916 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
14917 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
14920 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
14921 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14922 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
14923 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
14924 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
14925 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
14926 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
14927 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
14928 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
14929 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
14930 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
14931 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
14932 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
14933 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
14934 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
14935 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
14936 connections once a week.
14937 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
14938 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
14939 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
14940 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
14941 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
14942 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
14944 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
14945 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
14946 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
14948 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14949 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
14950 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
14951 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
14952 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
14953 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
14954 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
14955 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
14956 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
14957 firewall options forbid.
14958 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
14959 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
14960 can only proxy to certain destinations.
14961 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
14962 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
14963 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
14964 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
14965 aids some statistical attacks.
14966 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
14967 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
14968 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
14969 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
14971 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14972 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
14973 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
14974 server descriptor sometimes.
14975 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
14976 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
14977 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
14978 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
14979 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
14980 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
14981 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
14982 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
14984 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
14985 case the controller wants to change that too.
14986 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
14987 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
14988 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
14989 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
14991 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
14992 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
14993 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
14995 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
14996 descriptors that they know they will reject.
14998 o Features and updates:
14999 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
15000 significantly faster.
15001 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
15002 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
15003 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
15004 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
15005 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
15006 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
15007 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
15008 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
15009 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
15010 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
15011 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
15012 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
15013 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
15014 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
15015 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
15016 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
15017 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
15018 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
15019 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
15020 as authoritative dirserver.
15021 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
15022 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
15023 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
15026 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
15027 o Usability improvements:
15028 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
15029 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
15031 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
15032 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
15033 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
15035 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
15036 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
15037 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
15038 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
15039 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
15040 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
15041 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
15042 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
15043 memory leaks better.
15044 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
15045 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
15046 their operators to pay close attention.
15047 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
15048 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
15050 o Performance improvements:
15051 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
15052 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
15053 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
15054 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
15055 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
15056 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
15057 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
15058 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
15059 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
15060 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
15061 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
15062 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
15063 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
15064 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
15065 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
15066 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
15067 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
15069 o Security improvements:
15070 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
15071 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
15072 fingerprint of server.
15073 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
15074 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
15075 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
15077 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15078 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
15079 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
15080 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
15081 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
15082 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
15083 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
15084 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
15085 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
15086 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
15087 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
15088 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
15089 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
15090 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
15091 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
15092 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
15093 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
15094 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
15095 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
15096 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
15097 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
15099 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
15100 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
15101 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
15103 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
15104 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
15106 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
15107 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
15108 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
15109 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
15110 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
15111 of the controller protocol.
15112 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
15113 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
15114 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
15117 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
15118 o New features (major):
15119 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
15120 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
15121 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
15122 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
15123 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
15124 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
15125 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
15126 we're using a default DirPort.
15127 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
15129 o New features (minor):
15130 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
15131 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
15132 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
15133 mirrors still cache and serve it).
15134 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
15135 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
15136 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
15137 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
15138 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
15139 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
15140 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
15141 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
15142 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
15143 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
15144 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
15145 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
15146 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
15147 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
15148 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
15150 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
15151 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
15152 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
15153 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
15154 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
15155 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
15156 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
15157 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
15159 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
15160 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
15161 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
15162 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
15163 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
15164 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
15165 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
15166 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
15167 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
15168 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
15170 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
15171 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
15172 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
15173 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
15174 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
15176 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
15177 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
15178 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
15180 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
15181 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
15183 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
15184 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
15185 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
15186 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
15187 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
15188 don't warn twice about the same name.
15189 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
15190 if we've not heard of the server.
15191 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
15192 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
15195 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
15196 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15197 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
15198 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
15199 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
15200 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
15201 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
15202 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
15203 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
15204 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
15205 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
15206 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
15207 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
15208 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
15209 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
15212 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
15213 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
15214 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
15215 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
15216 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
15218 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
15219 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
15220 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
15221 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
15222 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
15223 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
15227 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
15228 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
15229 nickname) is reachable by you.
15230 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
15233 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
15234 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
15235 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
15236 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
15237 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
15238 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
15239 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
15240 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
15241 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
15242 we fail to connect).
15243 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
15244 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
15245 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
15246 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
15248 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
15249 it was self-testing that told us so.
15252 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
15253 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
15254 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
15255 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
15256 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
15257 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
15258 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
15259 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
15260 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
15261 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
15262 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
15263 exit policy using him for any exits.
15264 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
15267 o New controller features/fixes:
15268 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
15269 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
15270 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
15271 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
15272 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
15273 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
15274 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
15275 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
15276 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
15278 o Start on the new directory design:
15279 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
15280 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
15282 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
15283 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
15284 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
15285 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
15287 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
15288 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
15289 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
15290 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
15291 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
15292 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
15293 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
15294 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
15297 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
15298 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
15299 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
15300 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
15301 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
15302 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
15303 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
15304 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
15305 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
15306 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
15308 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
15309 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
15310 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
15311 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
15312 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
15313 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
15314 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
15315 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
15316 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
15318 o Config option changes:
15319 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
15320 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
15321 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
15322 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
15323 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
15324 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
15326 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
15327 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
15328 people have started using them for spam too.
15329 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
15330 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
15331 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
15332 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
15333 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
15334 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
15335 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
15336 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
15337 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
15338 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
15339 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
15340 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
15341 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
15342 services faster on the service end.
15343 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
15344 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
15345 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
15346 it a fair shake next time we try.
15347 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
15348 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
15349 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
15350 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
15351 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
15352 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
15353 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
15354 able to discover them.
15355 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
15356 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
15357 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
15358 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
15359 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
15360 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
15361 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
15362 testing for reachability.
15363 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
15364 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
15366 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
15368 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
15369 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
15372 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
15373 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
15375 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15376 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
15377 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
15378 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
15381 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
15382 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15383 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
15385 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
15386 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
15389 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
15390 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
15393 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
15394 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
15395 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
15396 options, getinfo keys.
15399 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
15400 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15401 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
15402 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
15403 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
15404 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
15405 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
15407 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
15408 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
15412 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
15413 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
15414 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
15416 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
15418 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
15419 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
15420 circuit events and we go offline.
15421 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
15422 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
15423 you don't have enough intro points already.
15425 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
15426 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
15427 many bytes we've used in this time period.
15428 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
15429 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
15430 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
15431 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
15432 enabled by default yet.
15434 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
15435 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
15436 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
15437 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
15438 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
15441 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
15442 o New directory servers:
15443 - tor26 has changed IP address.
15445 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15446 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
15447 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
15448 pthreads libraries.
15449 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
15450 claims its dirport is 0.
15451 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
15452 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
15456 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
15457 o New directory servers:
15458 - tor26 has changed IP address.
15460 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
15461 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
15463 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
15464 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
15465 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
15466 ports that have changed.
15467 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
15469 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
15470 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
15471 Windows-style errno back.
15472 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
15474 want to make it an NT service.
15475 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
15476 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
15477 name, give the full name in our response.
15478 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
15479 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
15480 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
15481 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
15482 pthreads libraries.
15484 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15485 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
15489 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
15490 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
15491 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
15492 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
15493 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
15496 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
15497 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15498 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
15499 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
15500 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
15501 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
15502 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
15503 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
15506 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
15508 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
15509 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
15510 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
15511 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
15512 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
15513 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
15515 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
15516 temporarily unreachable.
15517 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
15521 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
15522 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
15523 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
15524 our protocol works.
15525 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
15529 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
15530 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
15531 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
15532 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
15533 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
15537 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
15538 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
15539 libevent before 1.1a.
15542 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
15544 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
15545 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
15546 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
15547 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
15548 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
15550 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
15551 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
15552 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
15553 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
15554 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
15555 of CPU time plus memory.
15556 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
15557 normal web requests.
15558 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
15559 tor_lookup_hostname().
15560 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
15561 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
15562 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
15563 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
15564 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
15565 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
15567 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
15568 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
15569 HttpProxyAuthenticator
15570 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
15571 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
15572 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
15574 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
15575 the user asks you to.
15576 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
15577 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
15578 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
15579 their descriptors are being rejected.
15580 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
15584 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
15586 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
15587 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
15588 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
15590 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
15592 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
15594 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
15595 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
15596 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
15597 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
15598 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
15599 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
15600 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
15601 keys) from the exit server's process.
15602 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
15603 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
15604 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
15605 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
15606 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
15607 point at your Tor server.
15608 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
15609 you're not sending a socks reply back.
15612 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
15613 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
15614 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
15615 to make it easier to write controllers.
15618 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
15620 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
15621 installing on Tiger.
15622 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
15623 complain during installation.
15624 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
15625 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
15626 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
15627 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
15628 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
15629 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
15631 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
15632 something more reasonable when first installing.
15633 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
15636 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
15638 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
15639 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
15641 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
15642 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
15643 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
15644 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
15645 when using the default exit policy.
15646 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
15647 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
15648 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
15649 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
15650 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
15651 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
15652 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
15653 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
15654 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
15655 we fetched a new directory.
15656 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
15657 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
15660 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
15661 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
15662 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
15663 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
15664 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
15665 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
15666 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
15667 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
15669 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
15670 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
15671 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
15672 save memory on systems that need to fork.
15673 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
15674 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
15675 is valid without actually launching Tor.
15676 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
15677 rather than just rejecting it.
15680 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
15682 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
15683 we didn't like its cert.
15685 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
15686 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
15687 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
15688 on patch from Adam Langley.
15689 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
15690 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
15691 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
15692 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
15694 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
15695 directory every time you regenerate it.
15696 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
15697 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
15700 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
15701 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15702 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
15703 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
15704 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
15707 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
15709 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
15710 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
15711 TLS errors better in other situations too.
15712 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
15713 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
15714 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
15715 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
15716 and don't log when you are.
15717 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
15718 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
15720 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
15721 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
15722 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
15723 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
15724 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
15727 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
15728 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
15729 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
15730 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
15731 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
15732 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
15733 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
15734 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
15735 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
15736 nickname+key are allowed.
15737 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
15738 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
15739 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
15740 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
15741 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
15742 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
15743 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
15744 have quite wrong clocks).
15745 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
15746 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
15747 - Efficiency improvements:
15748 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
15749 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
15750 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
15751 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
15752 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
15753 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
15754 lowercase and be done with it.
15755 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
15756 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
15757 to abandon partially built circuits.
15758 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
15759 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
15761 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
15763 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
15764 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
15765 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
15766 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
15768 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
15769 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
15771 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
15772 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
15773 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
15774 obeying the exit policy internally.
15775 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
15776 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
15778 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
15779 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
15780 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
15781 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
15783 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
15784 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
15785 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
15786 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
15787 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
15789 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
15790 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
15791 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
15792 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
15793 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
15794 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
15795 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
15796 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
15797 descriptors we just dropped.
15798 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
15799 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
15800 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
15801 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
15802 artificially capped at 500kB.
15805 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
15806 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15807 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
15808 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
15809 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
15810 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
15811 busy for more than 100 seconds.
15814 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
15815 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
15816 - Fixes on reachability detection:
15817 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
15818 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
15819 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
15820 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
15821 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
15822 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
15823 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
15824 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
15825 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
15826 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
15827 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
15828 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
15829 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
15830 server not already connected to them.
15831 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
15832 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
15833 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
15835 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
15837 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
15838 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
15839 are in a different state than they actually are.
15840 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
15841 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
15842 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
15844 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
15845 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
15846 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
15848 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
15849 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
15850 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
15851 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
15852 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
15853 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
15854 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
15856 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
15857 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
15858 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
15859 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
15862 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
15863 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15864 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
15865 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
15866 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
15867 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
15868 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
15869 creating actual system users.
15870 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
15871 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
15875 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
15877 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
15878 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
15879 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
15880 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
15881 hidden services better.
15882 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
15884 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
15885 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
15886 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
15887 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
15888 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
15889 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
15890 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
15891 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
15892 patch by Matt Edman).
15893 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
15894 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
15895 required exit node for certain sites.
15896 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
15897 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
15898 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
15899 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
15900 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
15901 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
15902 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
15903 rather than just "success" or "failure".
15904 - A more sane version numbering system. See
15905 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
15906 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
15907 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
15909 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
15910 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
15911 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
15912 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
15913 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
15914 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
15915 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
15917 o Robustness/stability fixes:
15918 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
15919 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
15920 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
15922 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
15923 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
15924 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
15926 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
15927 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
15928 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
15930 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
15931 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
15932 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
15933 that will want high uptime circuits.
15934 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
15935 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
15936 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
15937 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
15938 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
15939 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
15940 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
15941 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
15942 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
15943 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
15944 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
15945 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
15946 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
15947 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
15948 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
15949 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
15950 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
15951 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
15952 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
15953 when we try to launch one.
15954 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
15955 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
15956 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
15957 "ShutdownWaitLength".
15958 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
15959 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
15960 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
15961 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
15962 and to take errno into account where possible.
15965 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
15966 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
15967 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
15968 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
15969 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
15970 file more reasonable.
15971 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
15972 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
15973 addresses -- it won't.
15974 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
15975 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
15976 for google.com" problem.
15977 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
15978 so it's not just "unknown platform".
15979 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
15980 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
15981 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
15982 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
15984 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
15985 they could use instead.
15986 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
15987 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
15988 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
15989 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
15990 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
15991 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
15992 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
15993 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
15994 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
15996 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
16000 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
16001 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
16003 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
16004 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
16005 private-IP addresses.
16006 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
16007 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
16009 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
16010 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
16011 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
16012 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
16013 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
16014 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
16015 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
16017 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
16018 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
16019 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
16020 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
16021 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
16022 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
16023 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
16024 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
16026 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
16028 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
16029 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
16030 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
16031 whether the server is hibernating.
16034 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
16035 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
16036 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
16037 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
16038 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
16039 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
16040 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
16041 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
16042 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
16043 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
16044 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
16045 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
16046 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
16047 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
16048 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
16050 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
16051 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
16052 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
16053 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
16054 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
16055 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
16056 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
16057 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
16058 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
16059 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
16060 existing torrc files.
16061 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
16064 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
16065 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16066 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
16067 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
16068 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
16069 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
16070 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
16071 the win32 SYSTEM account.
16072 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
16073 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
16074 file descriptors available.
16075 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
16076 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
16077 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
16080 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
16081 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16082 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
16083 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
16085 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
16086 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
16087 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
16088 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
16089 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
16091 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
16092 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
16093 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
16094 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
16095 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
16096 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
16097 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
16098 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
16099 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
16100 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
16101 800kB/s of capacity.
16102 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
16105 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
16106 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16107 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
16108 need as much processor time.
16109 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
16110 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
16111 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
16112 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
16113 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
16114 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
16115 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
16116 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
16117 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
16118 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
16119 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
16120 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
16122 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
16123 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
16124 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
16125 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
16126 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
16127 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
16128 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
16131 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
16132 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
16133 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
16135 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
16136 style address, then we'd crash.
16137 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
16138 a dirserver is broken.
16139 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
16141 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
16142 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
16143 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
16145 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
16146 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
16147 name out of the warning/assert messages.
16148 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
16149 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
16150 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
16152 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
16153 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
16154 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
16156 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
16158 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
16159 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
16160 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
16161 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
16162 values at once couldn't work.
16163 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
16164 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
16165 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
16166 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
16167 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
16168 they can handle any number of routers.
16169 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
16170 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
16171 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
16172 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
16173 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
16174 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
16175 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
16176 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
16177 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
16180 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
16181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16182 - Make hibernation actually work.
16183 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
16184 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
16185 don't use the stream status code.
16188 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
16190 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
16191 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
16193 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
16196 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
16197 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
16198 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
16199 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
16200 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
16201 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
16202 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
16203 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
16204 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
16205 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
16207 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16208 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
16209 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
16210 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
16211 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
16212 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
16213 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
16214 - Make unit tests work on win32.
16217 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
16218 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
16219 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
16221 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
16222 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
16223 than just chopping them off.
16224 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
16226 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16227 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
16228 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
16229 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
16230 right after sending the begin cell.
16231 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
16232 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
16233 exit nodes too. Oops.
16236 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
16237 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
16238 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
16239 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
16240 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
16241 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
16242 the user knows which one it's talking about.
16243 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
16244 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
16245 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
16248 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
16249 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16250 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
16251 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
16253 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
16255 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
16256 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
16257 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
16259 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
16260 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
16261 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
16262 Clip rather than rejecting.
16263 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
16264 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
16267 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
16268 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
16269 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
16270 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
16272 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
16275 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
16276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16277 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
16278 win32 socket errors better.
16280 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
16281 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
16284 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
16285 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16286 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
16287 so we don't see those messages days later.
16289 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
16290 - Make tor-resolve work again.
16291 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
16292 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
16295 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
16296 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
16297 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
16298 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
16300 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
16301 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
16302 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
16305 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
16306 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16307 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
16308 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
16309 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
16310 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
16311 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
16312 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
16313 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
16315 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
16316 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
16317 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
16318 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
16320 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
16321 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
16324 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
16325 hibernation properties by
16326 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
16327 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
16328 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
16329 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
16330 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
16331 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
16332 get back to normal.)
16333 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
16335 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
16336 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
16337 to fill the last cell completely.
16338 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
16341 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
16342 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16343 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
16344 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
16345 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
16346 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
16347 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
16348 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
16349 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
16350 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
16351 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
16353 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
16354 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
16355 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
16356 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
16357 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
16358 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
16359 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
16360 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
16362 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
16363 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
16364 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
16365 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
16366 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
16367 have it on start-up.
16370 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
16371 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
16372 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
16373 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
16374 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
16375 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
16376 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
16377 configuration to torrc.
16378 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
16379 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
16380 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
16381 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
16382 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
16384 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
16385 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
16386 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
16387 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
16388 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
16389 log more informatively.
16390 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
16391 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
16392 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
16393 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
16394 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
16395 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
16396 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
16397 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
16398 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
16399 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
16400 from each other, to hinder linkability.
16403 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
16404 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
16405 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
16406 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
16407 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
16408 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
16409 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
16411 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
16412 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
16413 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
16414 they ran out of file descriptors.
16415 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
16416 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
16417 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
16418 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
16419 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
16420 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
16421 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
16423 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
16426 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
16427 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
16428 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
16429 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
16430 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
16431 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
16432 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
16433 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
16434 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
16435 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
16436 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
16437 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
16438 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
16439 with the control port.
16440 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
16441 use in authenticating to the control interface.
16442 - New log format in config:
16443 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
16444 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
16447 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
16448 from their dirserver.
16449 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
16451 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
16452 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
16453 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
16454 them act more like real nodes.
16455 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
16456 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
16458 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
16459 nickname to its identity key.
16460 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
16461 not on the command line.
16462 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
16463 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
16464 1024) file descriptors.
16466 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
16467 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
16469 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
16470 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
16471 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
16474 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
16475 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
16476 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
16477 exit policy, not reject *:*.
16478 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
16479 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
16480 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
16481 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
16482 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
16483 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
16484 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
16487 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
16488 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
16489 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
16490 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
16491 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
16492 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
16493 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
16496 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
16497 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16498 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
16499 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
16500 the ones we find in directories.)
16501 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
16503 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
16504 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
16506 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
16507 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
16508 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
16510 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
16511 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
16512 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
16513 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
16515 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
16516 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
16517 any more exit policy lines.
16520 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
16521 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
16522 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
16523 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
16524 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
16525 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
16526 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
16527 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
16528 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
16529 will be able to get a directory.
16530 - Http proxy support
16531 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
16532 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
16533 be routed through this host.
16534 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
16535 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
16536 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
16537 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
16540 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
16542 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
16543 clients/servers with an open dirport.
16544 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
16545 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
16546 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
16547 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
16548 intermittent connections.
16549 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
16550 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
16552 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
16553 in reporting stats locally.
16554 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
16555 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
16556 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
16559 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
16561 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
16562 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
16565 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
16567 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
16568 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
16569 if you don't want it open.
16570 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
16571 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
16572 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
16573 intermittent connections.
16574 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
16576 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
16577 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
16578 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
16579 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
16580 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
16581 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
16582 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
16583 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
16584 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
16585 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
16586 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
16587 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
16588 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
16589 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
16590 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
16591 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
16594 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
16595 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
16596 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
16597 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
16598 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
16600 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
16602 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
16603 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
16604 specified in HTTP 1.0.
16605 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
16606 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
16607 than once per minute.
16608 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
16609 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
16612 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
16613 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
16616 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
16617 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
16618 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
16619 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
16622 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
16623 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
16625 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
16626 don't put it into the client dns cache.
16627 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
16628 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
16629 until we get our next directory.
16631 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
16632 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
16633 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
16634 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
16635 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
16636 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
16637 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
16638 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
16639 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
16640 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
16641 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
16643 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
16645 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
16646 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
16648 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
16649 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
16650 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
16652 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
16654 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
16655 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
16656 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
16657 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
16658 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
16659 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
16660 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
16661 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
16664 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
16665 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
16666 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
16667 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
16670 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
16671 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
16672 ask them to resolve the host "".
16675 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
16676 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
16677 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
16678 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
16679 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
16680 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
16681 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
16682 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
16683 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
16684 clients don't use this yet.)
16685 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
16686 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
16687 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
16688 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
16689 for pointing out this bug.)
16690 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
16691 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
16692 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
16693 kazaa, gnutella ports.
16694 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
16696 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
16697 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
16698 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
16699 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
16700 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
16701 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
16702 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
16703 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
16704 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
16705 wolf unpredictably.
16706 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
16707 that's still handshaking.
16708 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
16709 you'll choose it for your path.
16710 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
16711 end relay cell, etc.
16712 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
16713 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
16714 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
16717 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
16718 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
16720 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
16721 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
16722 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
16723 list to decide who's running or verified.
16724 - Bugfixes and features:
16725 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
16726 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
16727 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
16728 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
16729 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
16730 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
16732 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
16733 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
16734 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
16735 know you might want to get it verified.
16736 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
16739 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
16741 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
16742 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
16743 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
16744 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
16746 o Protocol changes:
16747 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
16748 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
16749 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
16750 hadn't heard of before.
16753 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
16754 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
16755 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
16756 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
16757 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
16758 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
16759 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
16760 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
16761 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
16762 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
16763 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
16764 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
16765 - Directory caching.
16766 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
16767 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
16768 directory they've pulled down.
16769 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
16770 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
16771 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
16772 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
16773 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
16774 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
16775 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
16777 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
16778 This isn't used yet.
16779 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
16780 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
16781 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
16782 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
16783 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
16784 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
16785 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
16786 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
16787 - File and name management:
16788 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
16789 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
16791 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
16792 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
16793 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
16794 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
16795 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
16796 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
16797 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
16799 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
16800 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
16801 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
16802 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
16803 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
16805 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
16806 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
16807 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
16808 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
16809 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
16810 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
16811 - New docs in the tarball:
16813 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
16816 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
16817 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
16818 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
16821 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
16822 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
16823 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
16826 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
16827 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
16830 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
16831 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
16832 - Make it build on Win32 again.
16833 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
16834 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
16838 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
16840 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
16841 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
16842 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
16843 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
16844 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
16845 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
16846 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
16847 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
16848 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
16849 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
16852 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
16855 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
16856 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
16857 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
16858 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
16860 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
16861 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
16862 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
16864 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
16865 hidden service per 15-minute period.
16866 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
16867 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
16868 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
16869 o Fixes for security bugs:
16870 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
16871 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
16872 a trusted dirserver.
16874 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
16875 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
16876 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
16877 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
16878 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
16879 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
16880 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
16881 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
16882 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
16883 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
16885 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
16886 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
16887 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
16888 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
16890 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
16891 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
16892 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
16893 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
16894 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
16895 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
16896 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
16897 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
16898 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
16899 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
16900 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
16901 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
16902 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
16905 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
16906 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
16907 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
16908 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
16911 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
16912 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
16913 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
16914 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
16915 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
16916 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
16917 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
16921 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
16922 [version bump only]
16925 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
16926 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
16927 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
16928 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
16929 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
16931 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
16934 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
16935 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
16936 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
16937 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
16938 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
16939 o Better debugging for tls errors
16940 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
16941 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
16942 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
16943 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
16944 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
16945 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
16946 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
16947 o win32's close can't close a socket.
16950 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
16951 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
16952 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
16953 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
16954 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
16955 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
16956 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
16957 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
16958 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
16959 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
16960 just close the circ.
16961 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
16962 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
16963 (this was quite rare).
16966 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
16967 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
16968 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
16969 if you decrypted them correctly.
16970 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
16971 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
16972 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
16975 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
16976 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
16977 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
16978 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
16979 a second one and it works.
16980 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
16981 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
16982 alice would just have to wait to time out.
16983 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
16984 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
16985 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
16986 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
16987 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
16988 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
16989 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
16990 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
16991 i'd still like to find the bug though.
16992 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
16994 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
16998 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
16999 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
17000 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
17001 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
17002 he retries a couple of times
17003 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
17004 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
17005 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
17006 too long (they were sticking around forever).
17007 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
17011 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
17012 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
17013 - make hup work again
17014 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
17015 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
17016 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
17017 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
17018 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
17019 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
17021 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
17022 o changes from 0.0.5:
17023 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
17024 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
17025 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
17026 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
17027 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
17029 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
17030 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
17031 in-memory directories too
17034 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
17035 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
17038 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
17040 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
17041 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
17042 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
17043 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
17046 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
17047 [version bump only]
17050 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
17051 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
17053 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
17054 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
17055 but that aren't warnings
17058 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
17059 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
17060 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
17061 the dns farm to do it.
17062 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
17063 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
17065 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
17066 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
17067 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
17070 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
17071 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
17072 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
17073 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
17074 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
17075 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
17076 expect it to have a nickname.
17077 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
17078 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
17081 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
17082 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
17086 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
17087 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
17088 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
17089 - include missing header fcntl.h
17090 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
17091 - deal with hardware word alignment
17092 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
17093 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
17094 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
17095 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
17096 by kill -USR1 currently.
17097 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
17098 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
17099 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
17102 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
17103 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
17104 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
17107 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
17109 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
17110 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
17111 - And fix a few endian issues.
17114 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
17116 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
17117 try that circuit again: try a new one.
17118 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
17119 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
17120 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
17121 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
17122 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
17123 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
17125 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
17126 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
17127 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
17129 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
17131 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
17132 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
17133 side isn't reading right then.
17134 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
17135 RecommendedVersions
17136 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
17137 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
17138 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
17141 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
17143 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
17144 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
17147 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
17151 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
17153 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
17154 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
17155 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
17156 connection is finished.
17157 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
17158 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
17159 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
17160 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
17161 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
17162 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
17163 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
17164 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
17165 rather than warn and continue.
17166 - Make --version work
17167 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
17170 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
17172 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
17173 knows it's working.
17174 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
17175 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
17177 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
17178 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
17179 so you can collect coredumps there.
17181 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
17182 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
17183 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
17184 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
17185 dns cache actually gets populated.
17186 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
17187 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
17188 end cell down it first.
17189 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
17190 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
17193 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
17195 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
17196 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
17198 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
17199 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
17200 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
17201 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
17202 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
17203 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
17205 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
17207 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
17208 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
17209 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
17210 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
17211 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
17212 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
17214 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
17215 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
17218 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
17220 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
17221 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
17222 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
17223 tor. It even has a man page.
17224 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
17225 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
17226 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
17227 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
17229 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
17231 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
17234 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
17236 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
17237 it, apt-getters. :)
17238 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
17239 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
17240 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
17241 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
17242 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
17243 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
17244 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
17245 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
17246 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
17247 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
17248 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
17250 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
17251 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
17254 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
17256 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
17257 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
17260 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
17262 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
17263 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
17264 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
17265 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
17266 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
17267 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
17268 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
17269 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
17270 logfile so you know it's working.
17271 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
17272 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
17275 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
17277 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
17278 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
17279 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
17282 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
17284 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
17285 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
17286 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
17289 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
17290 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
17291 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
17293 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
17294 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
17296 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
17297 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
17298 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
17300 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
17301 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
17305 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
17307 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
17308 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
17309 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
17312 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
17313 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
17314 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
17315 - Add port ranges to exit policies
17316 - Add a conservative default exit policy
17317 - Warn if you're running tor as root
17318 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
17319 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
17320 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
17321 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
17323 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
17326 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
17327 o Robustness and bugfixes:
17328 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
17329 really screw things up.
17330 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
17332 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
17333 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
17335 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
17336 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
17337 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
17338 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
17339 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
17340 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
17343 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
17346 - Change default loglevel to warn.
17347 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
17348 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
17350 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
17353 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
17354 o Robustness and bugfixes:
17355 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
17356 - to get ownership/permissions right
17357 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
17358 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
17359 pull down a directory again
17360 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
17361 causing server crashes
17362 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
17363 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
17364 - exit if bind() fails
17365 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
17366 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
17367 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
17368 - fix minor bias in PRNG
17369 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
17372 - Wrote the design document (woo)
17374 o Circuit building and exit policies:
17375 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
17377 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
17378 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
17379 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
17380 exists, rather than failing
17381 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
17382 which AP connections are standing by
17383 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
17384 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
17385 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
17387 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
17388 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
17391 - APPort is now called SocksPort
17392 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
17394 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
17395 hardcoded (for dirservers)
17396 - Reloads config on HUP
17397 - Usage info on -h or --help
17398 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
17401 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
17402 o General stability:
17403 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
17404 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
17405 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
17406 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
17407 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
17408 to take down the network when I approve a new router
17409 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
17412 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
17413 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
17415 o Autoconf improvements:
17416 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
17417 - Make install now works
17418 - create var/lib/tor on make install
17419 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
17420 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
17422 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
17423 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
17424 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
17425 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup