1 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
2 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
3 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
4 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
5 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
8 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
10 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
11 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
13 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
14 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
15 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
21 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
22 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
23 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
24 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
26 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
27 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
28 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
29 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
30 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
31 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
34 o Major features (relay):
35 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
36 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
37 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
38 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
39 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
40 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
41 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
43 o Major features (portability):
44 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
45 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
46 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
47 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
51 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
52 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
53 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
54 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
55 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
56 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
58 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
59 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
60 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
61 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
62 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
63 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
64 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
65 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
67 o Minor features (path selection):
68 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
69 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
70 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
71 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
72 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
73 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
74 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
75 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
76 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
77 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
78 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
79 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
80 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
81 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
82 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
83 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
84 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
85 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
86 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
88 o Minor features (log messages):
89 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
90 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
91 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
92 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
95 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
96 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
97 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
98 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
99 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
100 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
101 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
102 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
103 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
104 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
105 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
106 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
108 o Build improvements:
109 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
110 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
111 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
112 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
113 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
114 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
115 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
116 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
117 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
118 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
119 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
120 than to perform erroneously.
123 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
124 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
125 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
127 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
128 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
129 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
132 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
133 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
135 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
136 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
140 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
141 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
145 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
146 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
147 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
151 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
152 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
153 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
154 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
157 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
158 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
159 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
160 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
161 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
162 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
163 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
164 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
165 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
166 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
167 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
170 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
171 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
172 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
173 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
174 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
175 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
176 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
177 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
178 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
179 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
180 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
182 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
183 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
184 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
186 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
187 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
188 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
190 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
192 o Major features (better link encryption):
193 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
194 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
195 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
196 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
197 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
198 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
201 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
202 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
203 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
204 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
205 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
206 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
207 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
209 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
210 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
211 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
212 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
214 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
217 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
218 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
219 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
222 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
223 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
224 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
225 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
226 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
227 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
228 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
229 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
230 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
232 o Minor features (testing):
233 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
234 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
235 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
237 o Minor features (path bias detection):
238 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
239 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
240 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
241 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
242 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
243 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
244 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
245 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
246 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
247 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
248 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
249 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
250 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
251 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
252 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
253 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
254 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
255 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
256 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
257 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
258 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
259 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
260 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
261 detection capability loss.
263 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
264 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
265 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
266 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
267 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
268 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
269 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
270 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
273 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
274 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
275 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
276 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
277 and the different handshakes it supports.
278 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
279 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
280 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
281 any encoding is overkill.
284 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
285 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
286 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
287 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
288 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
289 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
290 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
291 and fixes a variety of other issues.
293 o Major features (client resilience):
294 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
295 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
296 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
297 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
298 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
299 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
300 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
301 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
302 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
303 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
304 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
305 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
306 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
307 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
308 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
310 o Major features (IPv6):
311 - Tor now has (alpha) support for exiting to IPv6 addresses. To
312 enable it as an exit node, make sure that you have IPv6
313 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
314 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
315 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
316 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
317 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
318 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
319 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
321 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
322 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
324 o Major features (geoip database):
325 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
326 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
327 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
328 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
329 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
330 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
331 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
332 Country database, as modified above.
334 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
335 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
336 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
337 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
338 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
339 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
340 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
341 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
342 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
343 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
344 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
345 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
346 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
347 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
348 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
349 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
350 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
353 o Major bugfixes (other):
354 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
355 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
356 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
357 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
358 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
359 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
360 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
361 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
363 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
364 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
367 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
368 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
369 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
370 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
371 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
372 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
373 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
374 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
376 o Minor features (IPv6):
377 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
378 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
379 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
380 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
381 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
382 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
383 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
384 connect to the wrong addresses.
385 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
386 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
387 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
388 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
392 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
393 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
394 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
396 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
397 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
398 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
400 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
401 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
402 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
405 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
406 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
408 o Code simplification and refactoring:
409 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
410 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
411 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
412 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
415 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
416 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
417 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
418 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
419 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
420 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
421 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
422 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
424 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
425 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
426 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
427 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
428 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
429 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
430 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
431 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
432 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
433 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
434 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
437 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
438 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
439 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
440 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
441 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
442 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
443 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
444 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
445 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
446 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
449 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
450 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
454 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
455 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
456 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
457 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
460 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
461 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
463 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
464 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
465 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
466 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
467 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
468 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
469 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
470 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
471 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
472 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
475 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
477 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
478 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
479 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
480 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
481 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
484 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
485 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
486 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
487 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
488 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
490 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
491 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
492 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
493 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
494 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
495 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
496 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
498 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
499 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
500 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
501 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
502 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
503 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
504 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
505 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
507 o Code simplification and refactoring:
508 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
509 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
510 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
511 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
512 present the same extensions.)
515 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
516 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
517 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
518 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
519 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
521 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
522 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
523 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
524 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
526 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
527 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
528 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
529 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
531 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
532 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
533 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
534 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
535 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
536 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
537 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
538 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
539 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
541 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
542 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
543 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
544 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
545 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
548 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
549 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
550 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
552 o Code simplification and refactoring:
553 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
555 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
556 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
560 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
561 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
562 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
563 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
566 o Major bugfixes (security):
567 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
568 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
569 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
571 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
572 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
573 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
574 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
577 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
578 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
579 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
580 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
581 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
582 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
583 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
584 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
587 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
588 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
589 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
590 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
593 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
594 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
595 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
596 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
597 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
598 scheduling algorithms.
600 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
601 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
602 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
604 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
605 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
606 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
607 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
608 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
609 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
610 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
611 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
612 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
613 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
614 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
616 o Internal abstraction features:
617 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
618 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
619 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
620 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
621 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
622 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
623 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
624 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
625 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
626 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
627 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
628 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
629 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
630 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
631 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
632 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
633 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
635 o Required libraries:
636 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
637 strongly recommended.
640 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
641 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
642 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
643 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
644 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
645 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
646 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
647 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
648 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
650 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
651 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
652 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
653 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
654 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
655 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
656 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
657 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
658 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
659 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
660 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
661 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
662 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
663 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
664 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
667 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
668 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
669 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
670 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
671 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
672 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
673 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
674 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
675 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
676 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
677 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
678 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
679 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
680 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
681 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
682 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
683 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
684 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
685 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
687 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
688 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
689 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
690 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
691 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
692 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
693 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
696 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
697 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
698 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
699 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
701 o New directory authorities:
702 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
703 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
705 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
706 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
707 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
708 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
709 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
710 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
711 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
712 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
713 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
714 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
715 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
718 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
719 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
720 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
722 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
723 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
724 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
725 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
726 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
727 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
728 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
729 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
730 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
732 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
733 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
734 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
735 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
736 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
737 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
738 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
739 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
740 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
741 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
742 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
743 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
744 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
745 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
746 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
747 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
748 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
749 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
751 o Documentation fixes:
752 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
755 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
756 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
757 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
758 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
761 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
762 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
763 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
766 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
767 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
768 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
769 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
770 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
771 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
772 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
773 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
776 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
777 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
778 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
779 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
780 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
781 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
782 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identity tor2web
783 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
784 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
788 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
789 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
790 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
793 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
794 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
795 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
796 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
797 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
798 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
799 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
800 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
801 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
802 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
803 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
804 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
805 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
806 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
808 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
809 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
810 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
811 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
812 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
814 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
815 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
816 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
817 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
818 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
819 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
820 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
821 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
822 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
823 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
824 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
825 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
826 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
827 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
828 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
829 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
830 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
831 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
832 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
833 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
835 o Code simplification and refactoring:
836 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
837 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
838 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
839 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
840 testable, and a little less fragile too.
841 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
842 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
844 o Documentation fixes:
845 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
846 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
850 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
851 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
855 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
856 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
857 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
860 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
861 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
865 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
866 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
870 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
871 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
872 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
873 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
874 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
875 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
876 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
880 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
881 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
882 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
883 log messages less noisy.
886 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
887 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
891 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
892 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
893 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
894 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
895 last time we raised it).
898 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
899 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
901 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
902 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
904 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
905 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
906 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
910 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
911 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
912 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
913 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
914 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
916 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
917 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
918 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
919 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
920 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
921 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
922 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
923 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
924 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
925 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
926 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
927 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
930 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
931 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
932 bunch of compatibility code.
935 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
936 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
937 the ORPort and the DirPort.
940 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
941 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
942 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
943 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
945 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
946 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
947 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
949 o Major features (bridges):
950 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
951 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
952 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
955 o Major features (IPv6):
956 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
957 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
958 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
959 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
960 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
961 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
962 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
963 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
964 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
966 o Major features (build):
967 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
968 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
969 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
970 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
971 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
972 fixes by Jim Meyering.
973 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
974 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
975 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
977 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
978 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
979 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
980 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in end_service_load_keys().
981 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
982 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
983 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
984 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
985 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
986 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
987 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
989 o Minor features (streamlining);
990 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
991 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
993 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
994 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
995 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
996 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
997 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
998 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1000 o Minor features (controller):
1001 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
1003 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
1004 Implements ticket 4971.
1006 o Minor features (IPv6):
1007 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
1008 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
1009 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
1010 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
1011 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
1013 o Minor features (log messages):
1014 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
1015 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
1016 Resolves ticket 6758.
1017 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
1018 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
1019 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
1020 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1021 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
1022 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
1023 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
1025 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
1026 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
1027 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
1028 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1029 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
1032 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1033 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
1034 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
1035 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
1036 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
1038 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
1039 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
1040 Implements ticket 5529.
1041 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
1042 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
1043 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
1044 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
1045 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
1046 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
1047 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
1048 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
1049 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
1050 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
1053 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
1054 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
1055 from a source distribution.)
1058 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
1059 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1060 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
1061 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
1062 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
1063 and cleans up other smaller issues.
1065 o Major bugfixes (security):
1066 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
1067 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
1068 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
1069 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
1070 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
1071 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
1072 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
1073 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
1074 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
1075 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
1076 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
1077 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1078 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1079 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1080 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1081 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1085 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
1086 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
1087 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
1088 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1089 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
1090 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
1091 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
1092 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
1093 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
1094 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1097 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
1098 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
1099 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
1100 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1101 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1102 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
1103 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
1104 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
1105 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
1106 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
1107 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
1109 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
1110 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
1111 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
1113 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
1114 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
1115 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
1116 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
1117 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1118 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
1119 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
1120 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
1121 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1122 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
1123 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1124 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
1125 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
1126 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
1129 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1130 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
1131 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
1132 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
1133 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1134 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
1135 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
1136 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
1137 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
1138 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
1139 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1140 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
1141 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
1142 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
1143 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
1146 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
1147 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
1148 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
1149 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
1150 Resolves ticket 6732.
1153 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
1154 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
1155 attack that could in theory leak path information.
1158 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
1159 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
1160 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1161 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
1162 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
1163 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
1164 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
1165 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
1166 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
1167 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
1168 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
1169 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
1170 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
1171 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1174 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
1175 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1176 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
1177 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
1180 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
1181 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
1182 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1183 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
1184 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
1185 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1186 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
1187 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
1188 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
1189 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
1190 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
1191 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
1192 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
1193 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
1194 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
1195 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
1196 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1199 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
1200 a little more useful.
1201 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
1202 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1203 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
1204 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
1205 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
1206 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
1207 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
1210 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
1211 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1212 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
1213 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1214 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
1215 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
1219 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
1220 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
1221 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
1222 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
1223 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
1226 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
1227 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
1228 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
1231 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
1233 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
1235 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1236 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
1237 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
1238 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
1239 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
1242 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
1243 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1244 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
1245 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
1246 since the beginning of Tor.
1249 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
1250 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
1251 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
1252 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
1253 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
1254 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
1255 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
1256 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1257 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
1258 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
1261 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
1262 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1265 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
1266 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1267 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
1268 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
1271 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
1272 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1273 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
1274 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
1275 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
1276 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1278 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1279 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
1280 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
1281 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
1282 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
1283 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
1284 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1285 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
1286 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
1287 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
1288 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
1289 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
1290 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
1291 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1292 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
1293 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
1294 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1295 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
1296 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1298 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1299 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
1300 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
1302 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
1303 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1304 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
1305 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
1307 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
1308 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1309 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
1310 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1311 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
1312 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
1313 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1314 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
1315 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1316 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
1317 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1318 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
1319 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
1320 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1321 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
1322 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
1325 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
1326 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
1327 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
1328 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
1329 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
1332 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
1333 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
1334 options. Closes bug 4748.
1337 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
1338 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
1339 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
1340 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
1341 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
1345 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
1346 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
1348 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
1349 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
1350 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
1351 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
1352 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
1353 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
1354 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
1355 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
1356 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
1359 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
1360 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
1361 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
1362 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
1363 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
1364 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
1365 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
1366 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1369 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
1370 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
1371 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
1372 case for flushing marked connections.
1373 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
1374 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1375 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
1376 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
1377 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
1378 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
1379 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1380 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
1381 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1382 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
1383 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
1384 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
1385 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1386 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
1387 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
1388 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
1389 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1390 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
1391 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1392 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
1393 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
1394 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
1395 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1396 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
1397 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
1399 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
1400 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1401 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
1405 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
1406 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
1407 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
1408 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
1409 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
1410 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
1411 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
1412 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
1413 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
1414 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
1415 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
1416 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
1417 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
1418 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
1419 Addresses ticket 5458.
1420 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1422 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1423 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
1424 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
1427 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
1428 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
1429 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
1433 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
1434 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
1435 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
1436 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
1437 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
1438 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
1439 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1440 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
1441 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
1442 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
1443 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1446 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
1447 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
1450 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
1451 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
1454 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
1455 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
1456 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
1457 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
1458 that get us closer to a release candidate.
1460 o Major bugfixes (general):
1461 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
1462 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
1463 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
1464 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
1465 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
1466 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
1467 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1468 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
1469 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
1471 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
1472 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
1473 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
1474 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
1477 o Major bugfixes (clients):
1478 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
1479 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
1480 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
1481 which introduced predicted ports.
1482 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
1483 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
1484 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
1485 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1486 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
1487 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
1488 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
1489 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
1490 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
1491 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
1492 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1493 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
1494 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
1496 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
1497 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
1498 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
1499 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
1500 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
1501 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
1502 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
1503 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
1504 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
1505 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
1506 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
1510 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
1511 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
1512 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
1513 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
1514 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
1515 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
1516 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
1517 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
1518 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
1519 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
1520 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
1521 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
1522 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
1523 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
1525 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
1526 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
1527 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
1528 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
1529 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
1530 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
1531 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
1532 sure. Closes bug 5139.
1533 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
1534 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
1535 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
1536 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
1537 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
1538 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
1539 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1541 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
1542 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
1543 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
1544 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
1545 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
1546 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
1547 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
1548 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
1549 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
1550 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
1551 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
1552 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
1553 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
1554 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
1555 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
1556 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
1557 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
1558 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1559 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
1560 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
1562 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1563 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
1564 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
1565 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
1566 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
1567 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
1568 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
1569 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
1570 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
1571 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
1572 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
1573 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
1574 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
1576 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
1577 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1578 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
1579 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
1581 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
1582 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
1583 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1584 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
1585 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
1586 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1587 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
1588 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
1589 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
1590 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
1592 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
1593 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
1594 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
1596 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1597 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
1598 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
1599 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
1600 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
1601 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
1602 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
1603 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
1604 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
1605 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
1606 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
1607 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1608 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
1609 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
1610 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
1611 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1612 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
1613 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
1614 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
1615 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
1617 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
1618 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
1619 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1620 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
1621 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
1622 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
1624 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
1625 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
1626 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
1628 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
1629 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
1630 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
1631 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1632 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
1633 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1636 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
1637 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
1639 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
1640 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
1641 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1642 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
1643 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
1644 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1645 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
1646 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
1647 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
1648 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1649 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
1650 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
1651 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
1652 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
1653 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
1654 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
1656 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
1657 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
1658 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1659 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
1660 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
1661 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1662 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
1663 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1664 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
1665 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1666 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
1667 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
1668 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
1671 o Documentation fixes:
1672 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
1673 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
1674 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
1675 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
1676 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
1677 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
1680 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
1681 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
1685 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
1686 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
1687 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
1688 and fixes several crash bugs.
1690 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
1691 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
1692 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
1693 those packages and upgrade anyway.
1695 o Directory authority changes:
1696 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
1697 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
1701 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
1702 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
1703 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
1704 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
1705 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
1706 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
1707 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
1708 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
1709 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
1710 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
1711 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
1712 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
1713 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
1714 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
1715 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
1716 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
1717 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
1718 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
1719 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
1720 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
1721 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
1722 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
1723 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
1724 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
1725 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
1726 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
1727 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
1730 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
1731 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1732 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
1733 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
1735 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
1736 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
1738 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
1739 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
1740 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
1741 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
1742 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
1743 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
1744 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
1745 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
1748 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
1749 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
1750 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
1751 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
1752 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
1753 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
1754 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
1755 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
1756 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
1757 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
1758 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
1759 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
1760 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
1761 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
1762 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
1763 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
1764 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
1765 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
1766 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
1767 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
1768 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
1769 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
1770 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
1771 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
1772 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
1773 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
1774 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
1775 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
1776 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
1777 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
1778 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
1779 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
1780 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1781 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
1782 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1783 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
1784 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
1785 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
1786 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
1787 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1788 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
1789 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1790 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
1791 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
1792 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
1793 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1795 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
1796 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
1797 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
1798 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
1799 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
1800 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
1801 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
1802 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
1803 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
1804 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
1805 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1806 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
1807 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1808 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
1809 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
1812 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
1813 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
1814 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
1815 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
1817 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1820 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
1821 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
1822 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
1823 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
1824 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
1825 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
1826 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
1829 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
1830 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
1831 the development branch build on Windows again.
1833 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1834 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
1835 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
1836 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
1837 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
1838 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
1839 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
1840 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
1841 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
1842 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
1843 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
1844 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
1845 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1846 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
1847 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
1849 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1850 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
1851 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
1852 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1853 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
1855 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
1856 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
1857 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
1858 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
1859 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
1860 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1863 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
1864 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
1865 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
1866 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
1867 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
1868 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
1869 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
1870 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
1871 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
1874 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
1875 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
1876 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
1877 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
1881 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
1882 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
1883 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
1884 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
1886 o Directory authority changes:
1887 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
1891 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
1892 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1893 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
1894 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
1896 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
1897 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
1898 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
1899 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
1901 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
1902 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
1903 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1905 o Major features (performance):
1906 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
1907 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
1908 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
1909 much faster than other AES implementations.
1911 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
1912 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
1913 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
1914 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
1915 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
1916 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
1917 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
1918 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
1919 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
1920 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
1921 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
1922 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
1923 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
1924 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
1925 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1926 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
1927 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
1928 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1930 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
1931 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
1932 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
1933 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1934 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
1935 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1936 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
1937 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
1938 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
1940 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
1941 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
1942 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1943 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
1944 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
1945 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
1948 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
1949 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
1950 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
1951 please let us know about it.
1952 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
1953 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
1954 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
1955 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
1956 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1957 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1958 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
1959 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
1961 o Default torrc changes:
1962 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
1963 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
1965 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
1966 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
1967 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
1971 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
1972 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
1973 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
1974 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
1977 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
1978 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
1979 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
1980 it would be a bad idea to start.
1983 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
1984 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
1985 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
1986 that get us closer to a release candidate.
1988 o Directory authority changes:
1989 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
1992 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
1993 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
1994 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
1995 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
1996 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
1997 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
1998 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
1999 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2000 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2001 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2002 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2003 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2004 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2005 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2006 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2007 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2009 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
2010 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
2011 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
2012 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
2013 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
2014 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2015 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
2016 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
2017 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2018 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
2019 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
2020 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
2022 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
2023 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
2024 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2025 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
2026 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
2028 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2029 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
2030 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
2031 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
2032 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
2033 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2034 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2035 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2036 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2037 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2038 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2039 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2040 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2041 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2042 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2043 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
2044 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
2045 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
2046 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
2047 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
2048 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
2049 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
2052 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2053 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
2054 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2055 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
2056 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
2057 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
2058 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
2059 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
2060 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2061 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
2062 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
2063 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
2064 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
2065 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
2066 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
2067 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
2068 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
2071 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
2072 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
2073 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2076 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
2077 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
2078 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
2079 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
2082 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2083 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2085 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
2086 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
2087 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
2088 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2089 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
2090 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
2091 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
2092 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2093 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
2094 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
2095 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
2096 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2099 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
2100 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
2101 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
2102 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
2103 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
2104 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
2105 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2108 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2109 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2110 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2111 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2112 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
2113 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
2114 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
2115 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
2116 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
2117 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
2119 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
2120 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
2121 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
2122 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
2123 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2124 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2125 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2126 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
2127 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
2130 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2131 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
2132 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
2136 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
2137 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
2138 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
2139 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
2140 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
2141 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
2144 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
2145 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
2146 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
2147 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
2148 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
2149 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
2150 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
2151 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
2153 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
2154 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
2155 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
2156 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
2157 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
2158 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
2159 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
2160 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
2162 o Major security workaround:
2163 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2164 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2165 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2166 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2167 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2168 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2169 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2170 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2171 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2172 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2173 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2176 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2177 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2178 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2179 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2180 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2181 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2182 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2183 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2184 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
2185 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
2186 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
2187 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
2188 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
2190 o Minor features (controller):
2191 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
2192 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
2193 file. Resolves bug 1101.
2194 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
2195 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
2196 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
2197 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
2198 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
2199 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
2201 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
2202 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
2203 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
2204 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
2205 part of ticket 3457.
2206 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
2207 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
2208 circuit-status' control-port command.
2210 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2211 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2212 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2213 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2214 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2216 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
2217 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
2218 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
2219 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
2220 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
2221 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
2222 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
2224 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2225 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2227 o Minor features (other):
2228 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
2229 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
2230 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
2231 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
2232 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
2233 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
2234 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
2235 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
2237 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
2238 them from the other auths.
2239 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
2240 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
2241 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
2242 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
2244 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2246 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2247 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
2248 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
2249 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
2250 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
2251 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
2252 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
2253 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
2254 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
2255 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
2256 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2257 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
2258 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
2259 be disabled using the new
2260 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
2261 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2262 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
2263 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
2264 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
2265 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
2266 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
2267 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
2268 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
2269 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
2270 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
2271 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
2273 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
2274 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
2275 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
2278 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2279 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2280 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
2282 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
2283 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
2284 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
2285 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
2286 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2287 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
2288 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2290 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
2291 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
2292 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
2293 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
2294 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
2295 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
2296 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
2297 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
2299 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
2300 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
2301 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2302 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
2303 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
2304 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
2305 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
2306 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
2307 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
2310 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2311 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
2312 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
2313 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
2314 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
2315 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
2316 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
2317 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
2318 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
2319 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
2320 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
2321 accidentally been reverted.
2322 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
2323 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
2324 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
2325 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
2326 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
2327 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
2328 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2329 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
2330 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
2331 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2332 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
2333 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
2334 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
2335 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
2336 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2337 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
2338 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2339 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
2340 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2343 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
2344 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
2345 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
2346 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
2347 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
2348 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
2349 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
2351 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2352 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
2353 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
2354 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
2355 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
2356 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
2357 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
2359 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
2360 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
2361 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
2362 invalid value, rather than just -1.
2363 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
2364 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
2365 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
2366 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
2367 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
2368 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
2369 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
2373 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
2374 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
2375 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
2377 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
2378 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
2379 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
2380 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
2381 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
2382 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
2383 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
2384 (which Tor does not do by default).
2386 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
2387 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
2388 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
2389 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
2390 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
2392 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
2396 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
2397 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
2398 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
2399 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
2402 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
2403 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
2404 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
2405 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
2406 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
2407 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
2408 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
2409 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
2410 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
2411 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
2412 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2415 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2418 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
2419 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
2420 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
2422 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
2423 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
2424 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
2425 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
2426 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
2427 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
2428 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
2429 (which Tor does not do by default).
2431 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
2432 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
2433 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
2434 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
2435 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
2437 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
2438 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
2439 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
2442 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
2443 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
2444 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
2445 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
2446 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
2448 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
2449 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
2452 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
2453 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
2454 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
2455 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
2456 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
2457 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
2458 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
2459 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
2461 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
2462 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
2463 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
2464 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
2465 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
2466 close based on processing a cell on it.
2467 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
2468 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
2469 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
2470 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2471 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
2472 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
2473 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2474 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
2475 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
2476 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
2477 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
2478 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
2479 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
2480 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
2481 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
2484 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
2485 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
2486 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
2487 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
2488 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
2489 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
2490 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
2492 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
2493 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
2494 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
2495 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
2496 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
2497 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2498 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
2499 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
2500 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2501 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
2502 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
2503 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
2504 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
2505 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2506 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
2507 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
2508 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
2509 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
2510 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2511 Reported by "troll_un".
2512 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
2513 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2514 Reported by "troll_un".
2515 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
2516 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
2517 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
2518 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
2521 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
2522 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
2523 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
2524 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
2525 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
2526 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
2527 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
2528 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
2529 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
2530 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
2531 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2533 o Packaging changes:
2534 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
2535 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
2538 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
2539 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
2540 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
2541 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
2542 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
2544 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
2545 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
2547 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2548 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
2549 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
2550 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
2551 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2552 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
2553 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
2554 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
2555 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
2558 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2561 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
2562 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
2563 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
2564 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
2565 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
2566 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
2567 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
2570 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
2571 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
2572 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
2573 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
2574 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
2575 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
2576 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
2577 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
2578 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
2579 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
2580 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
2581 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
2582 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
2583 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
2584 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
2585 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
2586 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
2587 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
2588 Resolves ticket 4526.
2589 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
2590 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
2591 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
2592 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
2593 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
2594 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
2595 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
2596 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
2597 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
2598 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
2599 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
2600 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
2601 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
2602 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
2603 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
2604 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
2607 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
2608 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
2609 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
2610 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
2611 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
2612 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
2613 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
2614 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
2615 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
2616 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2618 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
2619 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
2620 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
2621 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
2622 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
2623 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
2624 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
2625 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
2626 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
2628 o Minor features (new/different config options):
2629 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
2630 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
2631 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
2632 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
2633 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
2634 Implements issue 933.
2635 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
2636 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
2637 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
2638 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
2639 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
2640 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
2641 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
2642 appending to the list.
2643 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
2644 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
2645 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
2646 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
2648 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
2649 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
2650 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
2651 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
2652 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
2653 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
2654 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
2655 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
2658 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
2659 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
2660 Resolves ticket 2474.
2661 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
2662 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
2663 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
2664 Required by fix for bug 3460.
2665 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
2666 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
2667 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
2668 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
2669 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
2670 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
2671 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
2672 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
2673 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
2675 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2676 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
2677 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
2679 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
2681 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
2682 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
2684 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
2685 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
2686 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
2687 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
2688 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
2689 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
2690 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
2692 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
2693 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
2694 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2695 Reported by "troll_un".
2696 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
2697 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2698 Reported by "troll_un".
2699 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
2700 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
2701 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
2702 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
2704 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
2705 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
2707 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
2708 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
2709 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
2710 with help from wanoskarnet.
2711 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
2712 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2715 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
2716 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
2717 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
2718 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2720 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
2721 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
2722 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
2723 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
2724 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
2725 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
2726 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
2727 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
2730 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
2731 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
2732 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
2733 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
2734 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
2735 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
2736 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
2737 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
2738 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
2741 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
2742 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
2743 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
2744 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
2746 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
2747 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
2748 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
2749 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2750 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
2751 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
2752 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
2753 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
2754 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
2755 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
2756 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
2757 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
2758 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
2759 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
2760 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
2761 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
2762 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
2763 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
2764 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
2765 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
2766 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
2767 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
2768 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
2769 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
2772 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
2773 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
2774 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
2775 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
2776 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
2777 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2778 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
2779 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
2782 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2783 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
2784 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
2785 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
2786 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
2787 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
2788 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
2789 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
2790 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
2791 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
2792 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
2793 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
2794 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
2795 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
2796 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
2798 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
2799 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
2800 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
2801 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
2802 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2803 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
2804 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
2805 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2806 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
2807 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
2808 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
2809 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
2810 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
2811 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2812 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
2813 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
2814 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2816 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2817 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
2818 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
2819 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
2820 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2822 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
2823 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
2824 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
2826 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
2827 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
2828 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
2830 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
2831 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
2833 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
2834 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2837 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
2838 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
2839 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
2840 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
2841 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
2842 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
2843 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
2844 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
2845 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
2846 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
2847 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
2848 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
2849 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
2850 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
2852 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
2853 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
2854 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2856 o Packaging changes:
2857 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
2858 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
2860 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2861 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
2862 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
2863 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
2864 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
2865 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
2866 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
2867 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
2868 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
2871 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
2873 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
2874 ./src/test/bench binary.
2875 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
2876 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
2879 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
2880 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
2881 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
2885 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
2886 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
2887 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
2888 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
2889 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
2890 close based on processing a cell on it.
2891 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
2892 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
2893 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2894 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
2895 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
2896 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
2897 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
2898 cells were introduced.
2901 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
2902 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
2905 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
2906 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
2907 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
2908 users. Everybody should upgrade.
2910 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
2911 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
2914 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
2915 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
2916 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
2917 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
2918 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
2919 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
2921 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
2922 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2923 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2924 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2925 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2926 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2927 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2928 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2929 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2930 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2931 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2932 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
2933 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
2934 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
2935 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
2936 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
2937 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
2938 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
2941 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2942 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
2943 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
2944 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
2945 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
2946 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
2947 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
2948 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
2949 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
2950 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
2951 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
2952 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
2953 Partly fixes bug 3825.
2954 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
2955 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
2956 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
2957 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
2958 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
2959 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
2960 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
2962 o Major bugfixes (other):
2963 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2964 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2965 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2966 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2967 Found by "frosty_un".
2968 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
2969 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
2970 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
2971 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
2972 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
2973 immensely in tracking this bug down.
2974 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
2975 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
2978 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2979 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
2980 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
2981 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
2982 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
2983 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
2984 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
2985 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
2986 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
2987 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
2988 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
2989 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
2990 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
2991 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2992 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
2993 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
2994 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
2995 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
2996 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
2997 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
2998 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3001 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
3002 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
3003 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3004 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
3005 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
3006 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
3007 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
3008 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
3009 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
3010 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
3013 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
3014 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
3015 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
3016 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
3017 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3018 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3019 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3020 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3021 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
3022 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
3023 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
3024 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
3025 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
3026 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3028 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3029 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
3030 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
3031 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
3032 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
3033 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
3034 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
3035 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
3038 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
3039 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
3040 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
3042 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
3043 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
3044 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
3045 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
3046 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
3047 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
3048 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
3049 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
3050 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
3051 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
3052 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
3053 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
3054 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
3056 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
3057 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
3058 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
3059 currently connected to them.
3061 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
3062 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
3063 remain; see for example proposal 188.
3065 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3066 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3067 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3068 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3069 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3070 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3071 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3072 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3073 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3074 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3075 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3076 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3077 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3078 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3079 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3080 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3081 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3082 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3085 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
3086 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
3087 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
3088 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
3089 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
3090 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
3091 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
3092 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3093 when bridges were introduced.
3094 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3095 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3096 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3097 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3098 Found by "frosty_un".
3101 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
3102 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
3104 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
3105 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
3106 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
3107 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
3108 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
3109 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
3110 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
3113 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
3114 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
3115 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
3116 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
3117 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
3118 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
3119 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
3120 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
3121 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
3122 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
3123 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
3124 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
3125 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
3126 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
3127 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
3128 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
3129 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
3130 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3132 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
3133 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
3134 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
3135 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3136 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3137 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3138 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3139 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3140 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
3141 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
3142 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
3143 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3146 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
3147 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
3148 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
3149 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3152 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
3153 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3154 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3155 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3156 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3158 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3159 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
3160 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
3161 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
3162 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
3163 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
3164 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
3165 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3166 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3167 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3169 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3170 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3171 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3172 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3173 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3174 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3175 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3176 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3177 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3178 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3179 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3180 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3181 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3182 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3183 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3184 Found by "frosty_un".
3185 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
3186 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
3187 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
3188 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
3189 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
3190 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3191 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
3192 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
3193 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3194 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
3195 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
3196 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
3197 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3198 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
3199 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
3200 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
3201 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
3202 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
3203 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
3205 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3206 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
3207 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
3208 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
3209 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
3210 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
3211 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
3212 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
3214 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
3215 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
3216 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
3217 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
3218 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
3219 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
3220 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
3221 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
3222 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
3223 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
3224 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
3225 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
3227 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
3228 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3229 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
3230 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3231 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
3232 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3233 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
3234 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
3235 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
3237 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
3239 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
3240 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
3241 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
3242 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3243 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
3244 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
3245 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
3246 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
3248 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
3249 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
3250 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
3251 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
3252 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
3254 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3255 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
3256 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
3257 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
3258 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3261 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
3262 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
3263 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
3264 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
3265 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
3268 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
3269 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
3270 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
3271 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
3272 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
3273 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
3274 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3275 when bridges were introduced.
3278 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
3279 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
3280 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3282 o Major features (networking):
3283 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
3284 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
3285 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
3286 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
3287 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
3291 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
3292 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
3293 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
3295 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
3296 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
3297 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
3298 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
3299 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3301 o Minor features (diagnostics):
3302 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
3303 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
3306 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
3307 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
3308 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
3309 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
3310 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
3311 listed in the network consensus and republish.
3313 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
3314 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
3315 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
3316 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3318 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
3319 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
3320 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
3321 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
3322 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
3323 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
3324 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
3325 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
3326 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
3327 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
3328 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
3330 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
3331 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
3332 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
3333 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
3334 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
3335 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
3336 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
3337 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
3338 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
3339 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3341 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
3342 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
3343 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
3344 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
3345 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
3346 fixes part of bug 2442.
3347 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
3348 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
3349 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
3351 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
3352 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
3353 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
3354 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
3355 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3357 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
3358 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
3359 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
3360 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
3361 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
3364 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
3365 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
3366 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
3370 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
3371 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
3372 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
3373 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
3374 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
3375 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
3376 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
3379 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
3380 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
3381 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
3382 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
3383 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
3384 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
3385 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
3388 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
3389 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
3390 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
3391 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
3392 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
3393 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
3394 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
3395 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
3396 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3399 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
3400 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
3403 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
3404 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
3405 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
3406 reachable from Iran again.
3409 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
3410 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
3411 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3413 o Minor features (security):
3414 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
3415 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
3416 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
3417 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
3418 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
3419 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
3420 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
3421 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
3422 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
3423 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
3426 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
3427 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
3428 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
3429 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
3430 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
3431 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
3432 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
3433 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
3434 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3436 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
3437 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
3438 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
3439 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
3440 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
3442 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
3443 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
3444 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
3445 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
3446 fixes part of bug 2442.
3447 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
3448 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
3449 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
3451 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
3452 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
3453 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
3454 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
3455 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3458 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
3459 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3460 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
3461 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
3462 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
3463 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
3466 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
3467 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
3468 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
3469 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
3470 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
3471 bufferevent-based networking backend.
3473 o Major features (stream isolation):
3474 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
3475 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
3476 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
3477 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
3478 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
3479 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
3480 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
3481 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
3482 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
3483 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
3484 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
3485 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
3486 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
3487 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
3489 o Major features (other):
3490 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
3491 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
3492 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
3493 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
3494 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
3495 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
3496 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
3497 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
3498 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
3499 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
3500 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
3501 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
3502 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
3504 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
3505 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
3507 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
3508 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
3509 Fixes part of bug 3752.
3510 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
3511 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
3512 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
3513 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
3514 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
3515 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
3516 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
3517 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
3518 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
3519 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
3520 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
3521 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
3522 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
3523 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
3524 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
3525 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
3526 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
3528 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
3529 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
3530 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
3531 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
3532 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
3533 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
3536 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
3537 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
3538 user. Implements ticket 1692.
3539 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
3540 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
3541 best copy data out of a buffer.
3542 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
3543 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
3544 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
3546 o Minor features (build compatibility):
3547 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
3548 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
3549 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3551 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
3552 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3554 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
3555 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
3556 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3557 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
3558 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
3559 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
3560 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3562 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
3563 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
3564 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
3565 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
3566 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
3568 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
3569 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
3570 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
3573 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
3574 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
3575 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
3576 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
3577 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
3578 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
3579 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
3580 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
3581 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
3582 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
3583 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
3584 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3585 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
3586 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
3587 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
3588 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
3589 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
3590 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
3591 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
3594 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3595 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
3596 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
3600 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
3601 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
3602 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
3603 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
3604 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
3605 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
3608 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
3609 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
3610 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
3611 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
3612 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
3613 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
3614 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
3615 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
3616 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
3617 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
3619 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
3620 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
3621 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
3622 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
3623 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
3624 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
3625 many many other features and bugfixes.
3628 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
3629 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
3630 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
3633 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
3634 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
3635 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
3636 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
3637 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
3638 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
3639 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
3640 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
3643 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3646 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
3647 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
3648 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3649 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
3650 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
3651 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
3652 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
3653 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
3654 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
3655 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
3656 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
3657 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
3658 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
3659 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3660 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
3661 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
3662 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
3663 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
3667 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
3668 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
3669 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
3670 up a variety of recently introduced features.
3673 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
3674 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
3675 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
3676 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
3677 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
3678 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
3679 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
3680 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
3681 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
3682 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
3683 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
3684 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
3685 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
3686 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
3687 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
3688 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
3690 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
3691 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
3692 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
3693 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
3694 order. Fixes bug 2798.
3695 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
3696 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
3697 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
3698 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
3699 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
3700 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
3704 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
3705 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
3706 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
3707 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
3709 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
3710 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
3711 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
3712 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
3713 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
3714 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
3715 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
3716 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
3717 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
3718 Implements ticket 3264.
3719 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
3720 implements ticket 3439.
3722 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
3723 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
3724 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
3725 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
3726 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
3727 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
3728 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
3729 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
3730 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
3731 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
3732 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
3733 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
3734 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
3735 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
3736 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
3737 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
3738 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
3739 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
3740 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
3741 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
3742 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
3743 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
3744 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
3745 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
3746 fails. Spotted by coverity.
3747 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
3748 present. Found by coverity.
3749 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
3750 a directory cache that provides them.
3752 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3753 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
3754 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
3755 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
3756 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
3757 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
3759 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
3760 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
3761 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3762 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
3763 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
3764 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3765 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
3766 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
3768 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3769 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
3770 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
3771 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
3772 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
3773 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
3774 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
3776 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
3780 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
3781 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
3782 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
3785 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
3786 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
3787 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3788 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3791 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
3792 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
3793 discovered by katmagic.
3794 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
3795 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
3796 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
3797 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3798 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
3799 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
3800 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
3801 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
3802 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
3803 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
3804 fixes part of bug 3465.
3805 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
3806 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
3810 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3813 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
3814 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
3815 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
3816 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
3817 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
3820 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
3821 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
3822 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
3823 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
3824 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
3827 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
3828 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
3829 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
3830 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
3831 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
3832 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
3835 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
3836 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
3837 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
3838 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3839 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
3840 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
3841 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
3842 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
3843 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
3844 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
3845 fixes part of bug 3407.
3846 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
3847 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
3848 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
3849 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
3850 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
3851 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
3852 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
3853 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
3854 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
3855 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
3857 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
3858 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
3859 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
3860 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
3863 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3865 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3866 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
3867 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
3869 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
3871 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
3874 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
3875 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
3876 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
3877 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
3878 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
3879 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
3883 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
3884 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
3885 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
3886 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3887 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
3888 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
3889 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
3891 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
3892 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3893 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
3894 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
3895 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
3896 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
3897 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
3898 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
3899 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
3900 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
3901 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
3902 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
3903 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
3904 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
3905 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
3906 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
3907 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
3908 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
3909 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
3913 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
3914 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
3915 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
3916 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
3917 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
3918 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
3919 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
3920 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
3921 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
3925 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
3926 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
3927 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
3929 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
3931 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
3932 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
3933 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
3934 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
3935 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3936 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
3937 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
3938 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
3939 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
3941 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
3942 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
3943 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
3944 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
3945 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
3946 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
3948 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
3949 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
3951 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
3952 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
3953 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3956 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
3957 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
3958 Resolves ticket 3252.
3959 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
3960 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
3961 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
3962 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
3963 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
3964 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
3967 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
3968 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
3971 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
3972 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
3973 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
3976 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
3977 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3978 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
3979 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
3980 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
3983 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
3984 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3985 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
3986 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
3987 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
3988 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
3989 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
3990 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
3991 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
3995 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
3996 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
3997 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
3998 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
3999 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
4001 o Security/privacy fixes:
4002 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
4003 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
4004 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
4005 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
4006 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
4007 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
4008 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4009 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4010 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4011 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4012 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4013 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4014 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
4015 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
4016 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4019 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
4020 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
4021 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
4022 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
4023 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
4024 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
4025 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
4026 part of ticket 3076.
4027 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
4028 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
4029 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
4033 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
4034 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
4035 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
4036 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
4037 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
4038 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
4039 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
4040 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
4042 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
4043 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
4044 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
4045 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
4046 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
4047 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
4048 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
4049 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
4050 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
4051 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
4052 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
4053 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
4054 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4057 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
4058 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
4059 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
4060 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
4061 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4062 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4063 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4065 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
4066 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
4067 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
4068 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
4069 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
4070 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
4071 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
4072 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
4073 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
4074 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
4075 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
4076 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
4077 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
4078 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
4079 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
4080 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
4082 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
4083 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
4085 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
4086 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
4088 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
4089 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
4091 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
4092 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
4093 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4095 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
4096 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
4097 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
4098 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
4099 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4100 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
4101 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
4102 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
4103 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
4104 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
4105 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
4107 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
4108 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
4109 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
4110 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
4111 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
4112 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
4113 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
4114 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
4115 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
4116 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
4117 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4118 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
4119 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
4123 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
4124 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
4125 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
4129 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
4130 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
4131 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
4132 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
4133 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
4134 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
4136 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
4137 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4138 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
4141 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
4142 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
4143 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
4144 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
4145 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
4146 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
4147 zero-copy transports where available.
4148 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
4149 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
4150 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
4151 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
4152 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
4153 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
4154 debug it as it breaks.
4155 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
4156 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
4157 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
4158 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
4159 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
4160 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
4161 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
4162 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
4163 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
4164 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
4165 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
4166 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
4167 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
4168 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
4169 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
4170 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
4171 PortForwarding option.
4172 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
4173 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
4174 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
4175 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
4176 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
4177 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
4178 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
4181 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
4182 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
4183 Implements enhancement 1668.
4184 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
4186 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
4187 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
4188 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
4189 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
4190 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
4191 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
4192 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
4194 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
4195 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
4196 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
4197 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
4198 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
4199 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
4200 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
4202 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
4203 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
4204 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
4205 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
4206 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
4207 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
4208 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
4210 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
4211 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
4212 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
4213 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
4214 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4215 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
4216 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
4217 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
4218 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
4219 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
4220 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
4221 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
4222 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
4223 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
4224 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
4227 o Minor features (controller):
4228 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
4229 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
4230 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
4231 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
4232 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
4233 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
4234 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
4237 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
4238 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
4239 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
4240 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
4241 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
4242 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
4243 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
4244 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
4246 o Minor packaging issues:
4247 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
4248 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
4250 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4251 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
4252 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
4253 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
4254 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
4255 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
4256 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
4257 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
4258 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
4259 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
4260 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
4261 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
4262 our library structure used to force them to link it.
4265 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
4266 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
4267 are no longer in use as servers.
4269 o Documentation fixes:
4270 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
4271 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
4272 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
4276 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
4277 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
4278 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
4279 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
4280 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
4281 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
4282 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
4283 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
4284 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
4285 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
4288 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
4289 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
4290 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
4291 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4292 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
4293 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
4294 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
4295 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
4296 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
4297 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4298 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
4299 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
4300 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4301 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
4302 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
4303 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
4305 o Security and stability fixes:
4306 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
4307 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
4308 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
4309 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
4310 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
4311 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
4312 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
4313 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
4314 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
4315 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
4316 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
4317 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
4318 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4319 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
4320 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
4321 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4324 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
4325 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
4326 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
4327 contributions to the network.
4329 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
4330 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
4331 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
4332 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
4333 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
4334 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
4335 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
4336 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
4337 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
4338 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
4339 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
4340 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
4341 connections to directory servers.
4342 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
4343 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
4344 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
4345 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
4346 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
4347 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
4348 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
4349 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
4350 information, or fetch directory information.
4351 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
4352 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
4353 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
4354 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
4355 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
4356 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
4357 unless you really want your Tor to break.
4358 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
4359 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
4360 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
4361 - When StrictNodes is 1:
4362 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
4363 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
4364 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
4365 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
4366 reachability self-tests.
4367 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
4368 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
4369 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
4370 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
4371 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4372 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
4373 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
4375 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
4376 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4377 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
4378 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
4379 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
4380 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4381 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
4382 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
4383 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
4384 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
4385 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
4388 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
4389 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
4390 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
4391 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
4392 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
4393 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4394 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
4395 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
4396 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
4397 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
4398 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
4399 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4400 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
4401 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
4402 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
4403 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
4404 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
4406 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
4407 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
4408 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
4409 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
4410 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4411 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
4412 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4413 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
4414 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4415 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
4416 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
4417 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
4418 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
4419 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
4420 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
4421 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4422 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
4423 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
4424 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
4425 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
4428 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
4429 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
4430 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
4431 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
4432 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
4433 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
4434 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
4435 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
4436 Required by fix for bug 3000.
4437 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
4438 by fix for bug 3000.
4439 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
4440 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
4442 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4443 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
4444 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
4445 send a body too). Since only server versions before
4446 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
4447 keep the workaround in place.
4448 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
4449 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
4450 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
4451 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
4452 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
4453 want to do it differently.
4454 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
4455 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
4456 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
4457 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
4458 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
4462 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
4463 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
4464 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
4465 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
4466 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
4469 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
4470 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
4471 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
4472 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
4473 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
4475 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
4476 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
4477 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
4478 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
4479 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
4480 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
4481 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
4482 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
4483 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
4484 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
4485 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
4486 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
4489 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
4490 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
4491 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
4492 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
4493 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
4494 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
4495 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
4497 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
4498 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
4499 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
4500 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
4501 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
4502 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
4503 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
4504 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
4505 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
4506 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
4507 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
4508 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
4509 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
4510 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
4511 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
4512 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
4513 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
4514 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
4515 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
4516 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
4517 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
4518 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
4519 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4522 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
4524 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
4525 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
4526 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
4528 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
4529 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
4530 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
4531 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
4533 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
4534 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
4535 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
4536 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4539 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
4540 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
4542 o Documentation changes:
4543 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
4544 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
4546 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
4549 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
4550 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
4551 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
4552 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
4553 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
4554 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
4557 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
4558 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
4559 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
4560 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
4561 the rest of bug 1074.
4562 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
4563 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
4564 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4565 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
4566 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
4567 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
4568 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4569 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
4570 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
4571 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
4572 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
4573 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
4574 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
4575 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4578 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
4579 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
4580 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
4581 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
4582 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
4583 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
4584 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
4585 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
4586 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
4587 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
4588 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
4589 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
4590 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
4591 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
4593 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4594 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
4595 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
4596 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
4597 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
4598 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
4600 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
4601 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
4602 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
4603 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
4604 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
4605 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
4606 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
4607 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
4608 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
4610 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
4611 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
4612 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
4613 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
4614 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
4615 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
4616 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
4617 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
4618 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
4619 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
4620 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
4621 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
4622 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
4623 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4624 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
4625 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
4627 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
4628 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
4629 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
4630 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
4631 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
4632 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
4634 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
4635 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
4636 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
4638 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4639 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
4640 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
4641 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
4642 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
4643 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
4644 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
4646 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
4647 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
4648 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
4649 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
4650 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
4654 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
4655 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
4656 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
4657 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
4658 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
4659 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
4660 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
4661 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
4662 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
4663 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
4664 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
4665 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
4667 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4669 o Minor features (log subsystem):
4670 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
4671 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
4672 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
4674 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
4675 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
4677 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
4678 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
4679 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
4682 o Packaging changes:
4683 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
4684 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
4685 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
4688 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
4689 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
4690 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
4691 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
4692 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
4693 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
4696 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
4697 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
4698 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
4699 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
4700 the rest of bug 1074.
4701 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
4702 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4704 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
4705 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
4706 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
4707 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
4708 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
4709 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
4710 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4713 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
4715 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4718 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
4719 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
4720 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
4721 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
4722 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
4723 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
4724 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
4725 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
4726 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
4727 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
4728 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4730 o Packaging changes:
4731 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
4732 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
4733 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
4734 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
4735 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
4736 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
4739 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
4740 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
4741 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
4742 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
4743 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
4744 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
4747 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
4748 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4750 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
4751 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
4752 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
4753 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
4756 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
4758 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
4759 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
4760 Implements ticket 2432.
4763 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
4764 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
4765 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
4768 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
4769 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
4770 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
4771 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
4772 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
4773 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
4775 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
4776 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
4777 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
4778 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
4780 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
4781 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
4782 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
4783 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
4784 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
4785 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
4786 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
4787 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
4789 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
4790 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
4791 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
4792 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
4793 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
4794 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
4795 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
4796 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
4797 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
4798 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
4799 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
4800 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
4801 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
4802 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
4805 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
4806 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
4807 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
4808 bug reported by doorss.
4809 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
4810 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
4811 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4812 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
4813 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
4815 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
4816 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
4817 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
4818 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
4819 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4821 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
4822 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4823 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
4825 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
4826 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
4827 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
4828 Automake 1.7 or later.
4829 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
4830 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
4831 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
4832 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
4834 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4835 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
4836 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
4839 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4840 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
4841 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
4842 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
4844 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4845 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
4846 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
4847 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
4848 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
4849 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
4850 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
4851 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
4852 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
4854 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
4855 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
4856 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
4859 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4860 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
4861 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
4862 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
4863 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
4864 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
4865 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
4866 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
4867 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
4868 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
4869 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
4870 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
4871 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
4873 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
4874 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
4878 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
4879 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
4880 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
4881 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
4882 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
4884 o Major bugfixes (security):
4885 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
4886 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
4887 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
4889 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
4890 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
4891 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
4892 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
4893 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
4894 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
4895 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
4896 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
4898 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4899 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
4900 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
4901 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
4902 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
4903 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
4904 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
4905 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
4906 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
4907 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
4908 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
4909 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
4910 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
4911 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
4914 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4915 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
4916 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
4917 bug reported by doorss.
4918 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
4919 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
4920 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4921 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
4922 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
4924 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
4925 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
4926 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
4927 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
4928 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4929 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
4930 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
4931 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
4932 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
4935 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4936 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
4939 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
4940 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
4941 Automake 1.7 or later.
4944 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
4945 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
4946 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
4947 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
4948 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
4951 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
4952 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
4953 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
4954 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
4955 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
4956 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
4957 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
4958 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
4959 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
4960 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
4961 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
4963 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
4964 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
4965 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
4966 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
4968 o Directory authority changes:
4969 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
4972 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
4973 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
4974 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
4975 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
4976 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
4977 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4978 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
4979 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
4980 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
4983 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4984 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
4985 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
4986 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
4987 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
4988 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
4989 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
4990 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
4991 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
4992 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
4996 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
4997 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
4998 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
4999 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
5003 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5004 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5005 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5006 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5008 o Directory authority changes:
5009 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5012 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5015 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
5016 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5017 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
5018 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
5019 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
5022 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5023 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5024 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5025 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5026 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5027 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5028 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5029 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5030 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5031 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5032 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5033 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5034 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5035 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5036 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5037 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5038 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5039 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5040 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
5041 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
5042 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
5043 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
5044 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
5047 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
5048 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
5049 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
5050 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
5052 o New directory authorities:
5053 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
5057 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
5058 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
5059 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
5061 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5062 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5063 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
5064 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
5065 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
5066 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
5068 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
5069 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
5070 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
5073 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
5074 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
5075 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
5076 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
5077 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
5078 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
5079 Patch from mingw-san.
5082 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
5083 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
5084 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
5085 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
5086 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
5087 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
5090 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
5091 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5092 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
5095 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5096 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5097 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5098 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5099 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5102 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
5103 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
5104 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
5105 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
5106 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
5107 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
5108 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
5109 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
5110 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
5113 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
5114 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
5115 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
5116 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
5117 to a stable release.
5120 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5121 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5122 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5123 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5124 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5125 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5126 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5127 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5128 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5129 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5130 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5131 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5132 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5133 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
5134 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
5135 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
5136 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
5137 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
5138 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
5139 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
5140 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
5141 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
5142 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
5143 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
5144 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5145 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
5146 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
5147 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
5148 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
5149 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
5150 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
5153 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5154 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
5155 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
5156 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
5157 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
5158 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
5159 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5160 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5161 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5162 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5163 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5164 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5165 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5166 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5167 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
5168 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
5169 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
5171 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5172 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5173 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
5174 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
5175 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
5177 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
5178 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
5179 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
5180 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
5183 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
5184 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
5185 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
5186 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
5187 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
5188 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
5189 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
5190 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5192 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5193 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
5194 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
5195 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
5196 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
5197 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
5198 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
5199 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
5200 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
5201 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
5202 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
5203 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
5204 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
5205 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
5206 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
5209 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
5210 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
5211 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
5212 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
5213 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
5214 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
5215 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
5216 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
5217 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
5220 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
5221 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
5222 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
5223 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
5224 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
5226 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
5227 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
5228 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
5229 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
5230 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
5231 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
5232 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5233 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
5234 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
5235 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
5236 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
5237 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
5238 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
5239 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
5241 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5242 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
5244 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
5245 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
5246 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
5247 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
5248 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
5249 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
5250 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
5251 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
5252 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
5253 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
5254 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
5255 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
5256 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
5257 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
5258 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
5259 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
5260 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
5261 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5263 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
5264 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
5265 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
5266 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
5267 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
5268 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
5269 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
5270 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
5271 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
5272 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
5273 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
5274 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
5275 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
5277 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
5278 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
5279 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
5280 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5283 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
5284 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
5285 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
5286 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
5287 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
5288 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
5289 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
5290 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
5291 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
5292 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
5293 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
5294 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
5295 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
5296 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
5297 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
5298 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
5299 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
5300 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
5301 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
5304 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5305 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
5306 based on the time during which we were active and not in
5307 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
5308 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
5309 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
5310 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
5311 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5313 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5314 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
5315 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
5316 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
5317 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
5318 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
5319 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
5320 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
5321 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
5322 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5325 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
5326 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
5327 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
5328 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
5330 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
5331 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
5332 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
5333 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
5334 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
5335 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
5336 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
5337 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
5338 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
5339 the longest-lived bug prize.
5340 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
5341 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
5342 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
5343 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
5344 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
5345 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
5347 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
5348 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
5349 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
5350 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
5351 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
5352 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
5356 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5357 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
5358 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
5359 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
5360 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
5361 got suppressed since the last warning.
5362 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
5363 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
5364 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
5365 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
5366 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
5367 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
5368 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
5369 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
5370 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
5371 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
5372 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
5373 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
5374 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
5375 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
5376 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
5377 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
5378 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
5379 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
5380 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
5382 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
5383 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
5384 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
5386 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5387 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
5388 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
5389 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
5390 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
5391 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
5392 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
5393 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
5394 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
5395 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
5396 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
5397 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
5398 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
5399 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
5400 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
5402 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
5403 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
5404 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
5405 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
5406 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
5407 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5408 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
5410 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
5411 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
5412 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
5413 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
5414 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
5417 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5418 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
5419 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
5420 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
5421 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
5422 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
5423 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
5424 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
5425 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
5426 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
5427 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
5428 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
5429 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
5430 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
5431 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
5432 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
5433 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
5434 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
5437 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
5440 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
5441 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
5442 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
5443 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
5444 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
5448 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
5449 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
5450 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
5451 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
5452 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
5453 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
5454 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
5455 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
5456 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
5457 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
5458 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
5459 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
5460 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
5461 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
5462 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
5463 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
5464 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
5467 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
5468 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
5469 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
5470 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
5471 they first get the Guard flag.
5472 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
5476 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5477 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
5478 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
5479 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
5480 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
5481 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
5482 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
5483 Patch from mingw-san.
5484 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
5485 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
5487 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
5488 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
5489 Implements enhancement 1790.
5491 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5492 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
5493 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
5494 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
5495 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
5496 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
5497 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
5498 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
5499 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
5500 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
5501 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
5502 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
5503 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
5504 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
5505 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
5506 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
5507 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
5508 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
5509 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
5510 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
5512 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
5513 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
5514 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
5515 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
5516 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
5517 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
5518 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
5519 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
5520 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
5521 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
5522 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
5523 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
5524 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
5526 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
5527 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
5528 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
5529 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
5530 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
5531 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5533 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5534 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
5535 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
5536 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
5537 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
5538 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
5539 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
5540 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5541 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
5542 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
5543 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
5544 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
5546 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
5547 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
5548 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
5549 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
5550 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
5551 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
5552 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
5554 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
5556 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
5557 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5558 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
5559 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
5560 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
5561 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
5563 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5564 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
5565 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
5566 structures and defines in or.h for now.
5567 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
5568 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
5569 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
5570 statistics code to be more easily tested.
5571 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
5572 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
5573 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
5576 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
5577 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
5578 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
5579 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
5580 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
5581 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
5585 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
5586 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
5587 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
5588 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
5589 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
5590 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
5591 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
5592 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
5593 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
5594 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
5595 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
5596 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
5597 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
5599 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
5600 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
5601 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
5602 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
5603 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
5604 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
5605 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
5606 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
5607 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
5608 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
5609 can be controlled by the consensus.
5612 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
5613 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
5614 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
5615 more accurate data for many African countries.
5616 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
5617 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
5618 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
5619 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
5620 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
5621 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
5622 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
5623 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
5624 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
5625 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
5626 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
5627 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
5629 o New directory authorities:
5630 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
5634 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
5635 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
5636 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
5637 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
5638 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
5639 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
5640 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
5641 what should go in a patch.
5642 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
5643 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
5644 over our stored history.
5645 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
5646 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
5647 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
5648 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
5649 file. Fixes bug 1296.
5650 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
5651 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
5652 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
5656 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
5658 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
5659 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
5660 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
5661 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
5662 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
5663 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
5664 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
5665 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
5666 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
5667 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
5668 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
5669 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5670 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
5671 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
5672 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
5673 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
5674 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
5675 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
5676 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
5677 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
5678 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
5679 two-hop circuits are actually created.
5680 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
5681 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5682 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
5683 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5686 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
5687 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
5688 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
5689 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
5690 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
5692 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
5693 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
5696 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
5697 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
5698 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
5699 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
5700 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
5701 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
5702 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
5703 their directory fetches over TLS).
5704 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
5705 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
5706 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
5707 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
5708 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
5709 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
5710 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
5711 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
5714 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
5715 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
5719 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
5720 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5721 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
5722 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
5723 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
5724 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
5725 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5728 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
5729 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
5730 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
5731 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
5732 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
5735 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
5736 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
5737 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
5738 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
5739 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
5740 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
5741 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
5742 their directory fetches over TLS).
5745 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
5746 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
5748 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
5749 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
5750 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
5751 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
5752 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
5753 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
5754 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
5755 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
5756 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
5757 hour of their uptime.
5760 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
5761 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
5762 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
5766 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
5767 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
5768 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
5769 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
5770 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
5771 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
5773 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
5774 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
5775 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
5777 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
5778 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
5782 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
5783 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
5784 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
5788 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
5789 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
5790 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
5793 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
5794 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
5795 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
5796 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
5797 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
5798 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
5799 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
5800 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
5801 about the option without breaking older ones.
5802 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
5803 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
5804 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
5805 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
5808 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
5809 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
5810 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
5811 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
5813 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
5814 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
5815 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
5818 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
5819 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
5821 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
5822 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
5823 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
5824 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
5825 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
5826 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
5827 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5828 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
5829 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
5830 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
5831 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
5834 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
5835 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5836 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
5837 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
5838 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
5839 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
5840 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5843 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
5844 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
5845 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
5846 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
5847 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
5848 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
5851 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
5852 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
5853 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
5854 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
5856 o Major features (performance):
5857 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
5858 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
5859 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
5860 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
5861 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
5862 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
5863 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
5865 o Minor features (performance):
5866 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
5867 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
5868 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
5869 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
5870 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
5874 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
5875 speeds up the build considerably.
5877 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5878 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
5879 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5880 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
5881 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5882 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
5883 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
5884 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5886 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
5887 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
5888 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
5890 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
5891 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
5892 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
5893 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
5895 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5896 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
5897 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
5898 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
5899 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
5900 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
5903 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
5904 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
5905 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
5907 o Directory authority changes:
5908 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
5909 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
5910 service directory authority) from the list.
5913 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
5914 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
5915 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
5916 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
5917 libraries in a security patch.
5918 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
5919 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
5920 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
5921 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
5923 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
5924 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
5925 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
5926 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
5927 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
5928 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
5929 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
5932 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
5933 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
5934 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
5935 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
5936 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
5937 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
5938 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
5939 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
5940 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
5941 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
5942 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
5943 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
5944 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
5946 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
5947 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
5948 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
5949 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
5950 control-spec.txt said they were.
5951 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
5952 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
5953 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
5954 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
5955 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5957 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5958 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
5959 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
5961 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
5962 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
5963 iPhone SDK versions.
5964 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
5965 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
5966 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
5967 projects directory in svn.
5968 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
5969 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
5970 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
5974 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
5975 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
5976 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
5978 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
5979 to the circuit build timeout.
5980 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
5981 arguments we do not recognize.
5982 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
5983 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
5984 open() without checking it.
5987 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
5988 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
5989 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
5990 several minor potential security bugs.
5993 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
5994 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
5995 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
5996 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
5997 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
5998 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
5999 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6002 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6003 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6005 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6006 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6007 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6008 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6012 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
6013 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
6017 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
6018 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
6019 customized patches to run/build.
6022 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
6023 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
6024 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
6027 o Major bugfixes (performance):
6028 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6029 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6030 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6031 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6032 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6033 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6034 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6037 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6038 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6039 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6040 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6041 libraries in a security patch.
6042 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6043 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6044 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6045 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6048 o Directory authority changes:
6049 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6050 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6051 service directory authority) from the list.
6054 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6055 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6058 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6059 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6060 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6061 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6062 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6065 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
6066 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
6067 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
6071 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
6072 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
6073 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
6074 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
6075 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6078 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
6079 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
6080 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
6084 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
6085 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
6086 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
6087 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
6088 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
6090 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
6091 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
6093 o Directory authority changes:
6094 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
6097 o Major features (performance):
6098 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6099 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6100 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6101 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6102 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6103 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6104 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6105 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
6106 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
6107 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
6108 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
6109 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
6110 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
6112 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
6113 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
6114 but never per-conn write limits.
6115 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
6116 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
6117 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
6118 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
6120 o Major features (relay selection options):
6121 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
6122 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
6123 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
6124 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
6125 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
6126 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
6127 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
6129 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
6130 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
6132 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
6133 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
6134 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
6135 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
6136 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
6137 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
6138 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
6139 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
6140 the network changes.
6143 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
6144 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
6145 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6148 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
6149 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
6150 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
6151 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
6152 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
6153 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
6154 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
6155 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
6156 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
6157 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
6158 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
6159 generated while acting as a relay.
6160 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
6161 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6162 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6163 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6164 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6165 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
6168 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
6169 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6170 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
6171 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
6172 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
6175 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
6176 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
6177 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
6179 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
6180 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
6181 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
6183 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
6184 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
6186 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
6187 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
6188 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
6190 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
6191 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
6194 o Minor bugfixes (other):
6195 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
6196 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6197 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
6198 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
6199 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
6200 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
6201 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
6202 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
6204 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
6208 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
6209 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
6210 hidden service usage.
6213 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
6214 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
6215 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
6216 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
6217 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
6219 o Directory authority changes:
6220 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
6224 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
6225 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
6226 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6229 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
6230 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
6231 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
6232 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
6233 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
6236 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
6237 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
6238 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
6239 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
6240 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
6241 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
6242 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
6245 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
6246 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
6247 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6248 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
6249 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
6250 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
6252 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
6253 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
6256 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
6257 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
6258 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
6259 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
6260 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
6261 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
6264 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
6265 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
6266 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
6268 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
6269 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
6270 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
6271 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
6272 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
6273 download consensus + microdescriptors".
6274 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
6275 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
6276 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
6277 hash algorithm in the future.
6278 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
6279 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
6280 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
6281 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
6282 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
6283 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
6284 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
6285 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
6286 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
6289 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
6290 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
6291 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
6292 won't work unless we say we are.
6295 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
6296 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
6297 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
6298 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
6299 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
6300 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
6301 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
6302 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
6303 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6304 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
6305 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
6306 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
6307 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
6308 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
6309 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
6310 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
6311 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
6312 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
6313 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
6314 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
6315 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
6316 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
6319 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
6320 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
6321 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
6322 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
6324 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
6325 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
6327 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
6328 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
6329 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
6330 in the Vidalia Settings window.
6333 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
6334 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
6335 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
6336 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
6337 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
6339 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
6340 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
6342 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
6343 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
6344 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
6347 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
6348 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
6349 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
6351 o New directory authorities:
6352 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
6354 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
6357 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
6358 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
6360 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
6361 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
6362 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6363 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
6364 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
6365 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
6366 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6367 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
6368 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
6369 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
6370 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
6371 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
6372 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
6373 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
6374 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
6375 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
6376 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
6378 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
6379 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
6380 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
6382 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
6383 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
6387 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
6388 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
6389 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
6390 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
6391 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
6394 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
6395 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6398 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6400 o Directory authorities:
6401 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
6405 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
6406 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
6407 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
6408 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
6409 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
6412 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
6413 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
6414 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
6415 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
6417 o New directory authorities:
6418 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
6421 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
6422 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
6423 SSL handshake issues.
6424 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
6425 during the TLS handshake.
6426 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
6427 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
6428 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
6429 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
6430 none of which are very big.
6433 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
6435 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
6436 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6437 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
6438 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
6439 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6440 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
6441 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
6442 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
6445 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6446 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
6447 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
6448 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
6449 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
6452 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
6453 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6456 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
6457 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
6460 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
6461 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
6462 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6465 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
6466 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
6467 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
6468 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
6469 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
6470 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
6473 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
6474 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
6475 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
6476 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
6477 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
6478 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
6479 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
6480 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
6481 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
6482 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
6483 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
6484 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
6485 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
6486 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
6487 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
6488 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
6489 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
6490 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
6493 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
6494 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
6498 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
6499 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
6500 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6501 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
6502 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
6503 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
6504 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6505 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
6506 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
6507 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
6508 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6509 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
6510 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
6511 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
6512 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
6513 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
6514 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
6515 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
6516 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
6517 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
6518 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
6520 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
6521 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
6522 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
6523 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6524 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
6525 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
6527 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
6528 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
6529 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
6532 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
6533 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
6534 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
6535 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
6536 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
6537 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
6540 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
6541 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
6542 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
6543 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
6544 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
6547 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
6548 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
6549 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
6552 o New directory authorities:
6553 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
6557 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
6558 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
6559 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
6560 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
6561 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
6564 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
6565 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
6566 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
6567 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
6568 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
6571 o New options for gathering stats safely:
6572 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
6573 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
6574 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
6575 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
6576 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
6577 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
6578 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
6579 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
6580 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
6582 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
6583 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
6584 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
6585 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
6587 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
6588 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
6589 their extra-info documents.
6592 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
6593 source files Tor was built with.
6594 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
6595 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
6596 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
6597 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
6598 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
6599 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
6601 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
6602 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
6603 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
6604 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
6605 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
6607 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
6608 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
6611 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
6612 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
6613 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
6614 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
6615 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
6617 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
6618 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
6620 o Deprecated and removed features:
6621 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
6622 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
6623 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
6624 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
6625 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
6626 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
6627 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
6628 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
6630 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
6631 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
6632 via application-level web tricks.
6634 o Packaging changes:
6635 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
6636 installer bundles. See
6637 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
6638 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
6639 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
6640 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
6641 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
6642 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
6643 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
6644 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
6645 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
6646 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
6647 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
6648 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
6651 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
6652 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
6653 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
6656 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
6657 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
6658 part of patch provided by "optimist".
6661 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
6662 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
6663 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
6664 and confuse fewer users.
6667 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
6668 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
6669 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
6670 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
6671 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
6672 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
6673 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
6676 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
6677 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
6678 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
6679 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
6680 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
6681 other features and bug fixes.
6684 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
6687 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
6688 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
6689 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
6690 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
6691 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
6694 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
6695 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
6696 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
6697 failure message (oops).
6700 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
6701 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
6702 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
6703 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
6707 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
6708 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
6709 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
6710 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
6711 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
6712 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
6713 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6714 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
6715 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
6716 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
6717 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
6718 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
6719 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
6720 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
6721 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
6724 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
6725 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
6726 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
6727 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
6728 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
6729 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
6730 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
6731 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
6732 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
6733 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
6734 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
6735 Workaround for bug 1024.
6736 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
6740 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
6741 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
6742 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
6745 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
6747 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
6748 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
6749 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
6750 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
6751 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
6754 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
6755 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
6756 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
6757 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
6758 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
6759 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
6760 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
6761 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
6762 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
6763 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
6766 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
6767 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
6768 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
6769 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
6770 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
6771 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
6772 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
6773 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
6776 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
6777 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
6778 a bunch of minor bugs.
6781 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
6782 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
6783 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
6785 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
6786 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
6787 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
6788 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
6790 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
6794 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
6795 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
6796 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
6798 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6799 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
6801 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
6802 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
6804 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
6805 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
6806 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
6807 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
6808 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
6809 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
6810 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
6811 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
6813 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6814 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
6815 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
6817 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
6818 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
6819 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
6820 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
6821 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
6825 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
6826 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
6827 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
6830 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6831 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
6832 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
6833 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
6835 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6836 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
6837 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
6838 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6839 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
6840 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
6841 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
6842 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
6843 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
6844 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
6845 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
6846 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6847 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
6848 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
6849 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
6850 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
6851 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
6853 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
6854 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
6855 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
6856 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6858 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6859 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
6860 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
6863 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
6864 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
6865 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
6866 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
6867 addresses to fall out of the directory.
6870 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
6871 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
6872 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
6873 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
6875 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
6876 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
6877 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
6878 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
6879 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
6880 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
6881 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
6882 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
6883 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
6884 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
6885 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
6886 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
6887 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
6889 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
6890 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
6893 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
6894 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
6895 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
6896 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
6897 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
6898 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
6900 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
6901 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
6902 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
6903 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
6904 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
6906 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
6909 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
6910 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
6912 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
6913 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
6914 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6915 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6916 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
6917 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
6919 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
6920 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6921 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
6922 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
6923 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
6924 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6925 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
6926 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
6927 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
6928 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
6929 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
6930 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
6934 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
6935 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
6936 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
6939 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
6940 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
6941 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6943 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
6944 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
6945 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
6946 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
6947 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
6948 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
6949 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
6950 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
6951 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
6952 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
6953 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
6954 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6955 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
6956 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
6957 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
6958 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
6959 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
6960 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
6961 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
6962 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
6963 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
6964 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
6965 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
6966 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
6967 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
6968 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
6970 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
6971 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
6972 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
6973 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
6974 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
6975 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
6976 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
6977 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
6978 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
6979 of 0. Suggested by lark.
6981 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6982 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
6983 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
6984 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
6985 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
6988 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
6990 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
6991 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
6992 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
6993 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
6996 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
6997 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
6998 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
6999 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7000 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
7002 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
7003 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
7004 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
7005 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
7008 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7009 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7010 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7011 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7012 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7013 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
7014 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
7015 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
7018 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
7019 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7020 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7021 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7024 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
7025 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
7026 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
7027 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7028 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
7029 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
7032 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7033 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7034 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7035 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7036 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7037 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7040 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
7041 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
7042 reported by Matt Edman.
7043 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
7045 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
7046 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
7047 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
7048 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
7050 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
7051 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7052 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
7053 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7054 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7055 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7056 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
7057 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
7058 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
7059 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
7060 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
7061 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
7062 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
7063 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7064 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
7065 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7066 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
7067 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
7068 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7071 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
7072 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7073 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
7074 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
7077 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
7078 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
7079 the letter of C99's alias rules.
7082 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
7083 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
7084 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
7085 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
7087 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
7088 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
7089 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
7092 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
7093 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
7096 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
7097 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
7098 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
7099 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
7100 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
7102 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
7103 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
7104 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
7105 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
7106 identify a connection.
7107 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
7108 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
7109 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
7110 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
7111 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
7112 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
7113 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7114 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
7115 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
7116 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
7118 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
7119 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
7120 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
7121 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
7122 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
7123 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
7124 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
7127 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
7128 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
7130 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
7131 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
7132 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
7133 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
7134 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
7135 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
7136 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7137 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
7139 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
7140 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
7141 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
7142 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
7143 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
7144 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
7145 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
7146 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
7147 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
7148 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
7149 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
7150 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
7151 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
7152 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
7153 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7154 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
7155 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
7156 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7157 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
7158 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
7159 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
7160 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
7161 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
7162 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
7163 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
7164 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
7165 840. Patch from rovv.
7166 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
7167 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
7168 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
7170 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
7171 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
7172 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
7173 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
7174 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
7175 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
7176 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7178 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7179 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
7180 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
7183 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
7184 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
7186 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
7187 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
7188 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
7189 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
7190 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
7191 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
7192 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
7193 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
7194 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
7196 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
7198 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
7199 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
7203 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
7204 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
7205 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
7206 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
7207 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
7208 have had some time to upgrade.)
7211 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
7212 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
7215 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
7216 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
7217 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
7218 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
7219 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
7222 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
7223 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
7225 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
7226 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7227 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
7228 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
7229 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
7230 entirely. Patch from coderman.
7233 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
7234 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7235 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
7236 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
7237 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
7238 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7239 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
7243 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
7244 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
7245 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
7246 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
7247 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
7248 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
7249 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
7252 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
7253 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
7254 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
7255 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
7256 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
7258 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
7259 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
7260 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
7261 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
7262 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
7263 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
7264 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7265 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
7266 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
7267 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
7271 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
7272 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
7273 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
7275 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
7276 without support for deprecated functions.
7277 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
7279 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7280 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
7281 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
7282 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
7283 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7284 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
7285 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
7286 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
7287 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
7288 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
7289 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
7290 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
7291 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
7292 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
7293 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
7294 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
7295 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
7296 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
7297 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
7298 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
7299 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7300 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
7301 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
7303 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7304 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
7305 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
7306 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
7307 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
7308 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
7310 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
7311 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
7312 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
7313 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
7314 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
7316 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
7317 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
7318 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
7320 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
7321 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
7324 o Deprecated and removed features:
7325 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
7326 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
7327 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
7330 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7331 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
7332 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
7333 with log.h on Android.
7334 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
7335 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
7338 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
7339 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
7341 o New directory authorities:
7342 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
7346 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
7347 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
7348 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
7349 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
7350 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
7351 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7354 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
7355 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
7356 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
7357 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
7358 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
7359 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
7360 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
7361 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
7363 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
7364 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
7365 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
7366 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
7369 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
7370 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
7372 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
7373 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
7374 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
7375 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
7376 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
7377 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
7378 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
7379 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
7380 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
7381 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
7382 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
7383 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
7384 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
7385 Implements proposal 148.
7386 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
7387 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
7388 system to do it for us.
7389 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
7390 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
7391 this fix will be slightly helpful.
7392 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
7393 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
7394 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
7395 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
7396 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
7397 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
7398 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
7399 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
7400 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
7403 o Minor features (controller):
7404 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
7405 been fetched and validated.
7406 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
7407 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
7408 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
7409 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
7410 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
7411 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
7414 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
7415 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7416 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
7417 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
7418 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
7420 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
7421 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
7422 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7423 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
7424 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
7425 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7426 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
7427 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
7428 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
7430 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7431 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
7432 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
7433 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
7434 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
7435 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
7436 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
7437 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
7439 o Deprecated and removed features:
7440 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
7442 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
7443 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
7444 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
7446 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7447 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
7448 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
7450 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
7451 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
7452 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
7453 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
7454 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
7455 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
7458 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
7459 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
7460 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
7461 fixes a variety of other issues.
7464 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
7465 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
7466 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
7467 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
7470 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
7471 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
7472 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
7473 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
7476 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
7477 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7478 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
7482 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
7484 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
7485 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
7486 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
7487 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
7488 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
7489 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
7490 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
7492 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
7493 rest, and don't automatically fail.
7494 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
7495 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7496 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
7497 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
7499 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
7500 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
7501 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
7502 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
7503 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
7504 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
7505 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
7506 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
7507 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
7508 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
7510 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
7514 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
7515 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
7516 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
7518 o Minor features (controller):
7519 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
7523 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
7524 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
7525 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
7526 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
7527 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
7528 variety of other issues.
7531 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
7532 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
7533 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
7534 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
7535 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
7536 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
7537 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
7538 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
7539 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
7540 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
7541 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
7542 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
7545 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
7546 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7548 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7549 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
7550 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
7551 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
7552 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
7553 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
7554 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7555 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
7556 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
7557 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
7558 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
7559 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
7560 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
7561 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
7562 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
7566 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
7567 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
7568 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
7569 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
7570 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
7571 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
7572 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
7573 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
7574 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
7575 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
7576 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
7577 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
7578 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
7579 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
7580 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
7581 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
7582 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
7583 list. It has been gone for many months.
7584 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
7585 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
7586 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
7589 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7590 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
7591 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
7594 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
7595 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
7596 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
7597 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
7598 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
7599 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
7600 variety of other issues.
7603 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
7604 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
7605 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
7606 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
7607 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
7608 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
7609 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
7610 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
7611 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
7612 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
7613 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
7614 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
7615 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
7616 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
7619 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
7620 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
7621 Suggested by Lucky Green.
7622 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
7623 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
7624 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
7625 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
7626 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
7627 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
7629 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
7630 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
7632 o Hidden service performance improvements:
7633 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
7634 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
7635 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
7636 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
7637 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
7638 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
7639 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
7640 faster after restart.
7643 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
7644 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
7645 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
7646 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
7647 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
7648 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
7649 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
7650 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
7651 840. Patch from rovv.
7652 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
7653 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
7654 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
7655 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
7656 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
7657 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
7658 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
7659 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
7660 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
7662 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
7663 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
7664 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
7665 have already been marked for close.
7666 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
7667 introduction points.
7668 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
7669 memory performance during directory parsing.
7670 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
7671 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
7672 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
7673 because of a pending download.
7676 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
7677 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
7678 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
7679 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
7682 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
7683 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
7684 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
7685 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
7686 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
7687 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
7688 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
7689 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
7690 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
7691 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
7692 lookups more reliable.
7693 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
7694 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
7695 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
7696 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
7697 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
7698 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
7699 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
7702 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
7703 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
7704 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7705 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
7706 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
7707 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
7708 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
7709 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
7710 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
7711 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
7712 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
7714 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
7715 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
7716 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
7717 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
7718 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
7719 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7720 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
7721 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
7722 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7725 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
7726 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
7727 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
7728 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
7729 locked down these days.
7730 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
7731 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
7732 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
7733 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
7734 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
7736 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
7737 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
7738 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
7739 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
7740 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
7741 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
7742 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
7743 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
7744 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
7745 people find host:port too confusing.
7746 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
7747 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
7748 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
7751 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7753 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
7754 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
7755 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
7756 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
7757 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
7759 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
7760 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
7761 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
7762 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
7763 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
7764 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
7765 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
7766 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
7767 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
7768 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
7769 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
7770 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
7772 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
7773 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
7774 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
7775 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
7776 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
7777 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
7778 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7779 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
7780 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
7782 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
7783 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
7784 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
7785 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
7786 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
7787 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7788 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
7789 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
7790 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
7791 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
7792 bug 820, reported by seeess.
7793 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
7794 list. It has been gone for many months.
7796 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7797 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
7798 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
7799 actual mistakes we're making here.
7800 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
7801 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
7802 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
7803 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
7806 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
7807 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
7808 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
7809 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
7812 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
7813 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
7814 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
7815 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
7816 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
7817 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
7819 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
7820 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
7821 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
7822 pointed out by rovv.
7825 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
7826 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7827 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
7828 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7829 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
7830 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
7831 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
7832 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
7833 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
7834 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7835 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
7836 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
7837 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
7838 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7839 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
7840 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
7841 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
7842 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
7843 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
7844 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
7845 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
7848 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
7849 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
7850 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
7851 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
7852 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
7853 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
7854 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
7857 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
7859 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
7860 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
7861 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
7862 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
7863 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
7864 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
7865 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
7867 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
7868 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
7869 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
7870 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
7871 known descriptor before building circuits.
7873 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
7874 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
7875 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
7876 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
7877 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
7878 identify a connection.
7879 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
7880 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
7881 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
7883 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
7884 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
7885 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
7886 pointed out by rovv.
7889 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
7890 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7891 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
7892 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
7893 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
7894 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7895 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
7896 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7897 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
7898 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
7899 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
7900 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
7901 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
7902 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
7903 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7906 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
7907 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
7908 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
7909 answer sections match.
7910 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
7911 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
7914 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
7915 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7918 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
7919 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
7920 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
7922 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
7923 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
7924 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7927 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
7928 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
7929 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
7930 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
7934 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
7935 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
7938 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
7939 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
7940 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
7941 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
7942 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
7943 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
7945 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
7946 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
7947 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
7950 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
7951 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
7952 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
7953 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
7954 be sent using an "early" cell.
7957 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
7958 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
7959 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
7960 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
7961 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
7962 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
7963 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
7966 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
7967 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
7968 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
7969 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
7970 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
7971 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
7972 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
7973 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
7974 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
7975 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
7976 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
7977 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
7978 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
7979 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
7980 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
7981 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
7984 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
7985 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
7986 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
7987 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
7988 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
7989 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
7990 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
7991 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
7992 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
7994 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
7995 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
7996 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
7997 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
7998 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
8001 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8002 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
8003 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
8004 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8007 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
8008 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
8012 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
8014 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8015 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8016 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8019 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
8020 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
8021 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8024 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
8025 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
8026 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8027 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8028 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8029 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
8030 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
8031 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
8032 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8033 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8034 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
8035 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
8036 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8037 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8038 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
8039 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
8040 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
8041 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
8042 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
8043 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
8044 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
8045 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
8046 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
8049 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
8050 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
8052 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
8053 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
8054 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
8055 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
8056 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
8057 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
8058 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
8060 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
8061 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
8062 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
8063 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
8064 found by Geoff Goodell.
8067 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
8068 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
8069 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
8070 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
8071 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
8072 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
8075 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
8076 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
8077 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
8080 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8081 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
8082 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8083 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8084 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8085 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8086 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
8087 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
8088 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8089 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
8090 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
8091 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
8092 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
8093 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
8096 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
8097 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
8098 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
8100 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
8101 fingerprints with or without space.
8102 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
8103 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
8104 partway through and wants to catch up.
8105 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
8106 state to start out in.
8109 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
8110 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
8111 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8112 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
8113 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
8116 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
8117 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
8118 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
8119 some of the connection attempts fail.
8120 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
8121 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
8122 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
8123 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
8124 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
8125 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
8127 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
8128 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
8129 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
8132 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
8133 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
8134 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
8135 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
8136 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
8137 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
8138 and adds a variety of smaller features.
8141 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
8142 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
8143 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
8144 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
8146 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
8147 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
8148 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
8149 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
8151 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
8152 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
8153 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
8154 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
8155 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
8156 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
8157 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
8160 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
8161 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
8162 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
8163 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
8164 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
8166 o Memory fixes and improvements:
8167 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
8168 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
8169 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
8170 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
8171 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
8172 on a typical directory cache.
8173 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
8174 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
8175 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
8176 and may reduce fragmentation.
8177 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
8178 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
8179 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
8181 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
8182 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
8183 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
8185 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
8186 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
8190 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
8191 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
8192 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
8193 done that for a long time.
8194 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
8195 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
8196 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
8197 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
8200 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
8201 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
8202 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
8203 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
8204 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
8205 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
8207 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
8208 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
8209 output to messages of warning and error severity.
8210 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
8211 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
8212 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
8213 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
8214 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
8215 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
8216 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
8217 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
8218 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
8219 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
8220 directory requests we should expect to see.
8221 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
8223 - Lots of new unit tests.
8224 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
8225 two parallel lists in lockstep.
8228 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
8229 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
8230 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8233 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
8234 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
8235 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
8236 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
8237 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
8238 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
8239 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
8242 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
8243 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
8244 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
8248 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
8249 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
8250 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
8253 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
8254 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
8255 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
8257 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
8258 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
8260 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
8261 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
8262 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
8263 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
8264 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8265 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
8266 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
8268 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
8269 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
8270 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
8271 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
8272 - Fix compile on Windows.
8275 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
8276 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
8277 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
8278 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
8279 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
8280 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
8281 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
8284 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
8285 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
8288 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
8289 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
8290 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
8291 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
8293 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
8294 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
8295 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
8298 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
8299 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
8300 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
8301 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
8305 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
8306 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
8307 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
8308 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
8310 o Major security fixes:
8311 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
8312 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
8313 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
8314 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
8315 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
8318 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
8319 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8322 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
8323 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
8326 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
8327 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
8330 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
8331 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
8332 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
8335 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
8336 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8339 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
8340 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
8341 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
8342 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
8343 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
8345 o New directory authorities:
8346 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
8347 it has been down for months.
8348 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
8352 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
8353 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
8355 o Minor features (security):
8356 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
8357 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
8358 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
8361 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
8362 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
8363 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
8364 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
8365 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
8366 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
8367 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
8368 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
8369 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8371 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
8372 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
8373 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8374 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
8375 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
8376 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
8377 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8378 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
8379 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
8381 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8382 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
8383 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
8384 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
8385 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
8386 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
8387 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
8388 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
8389 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
8390 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
8391 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8392 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
8393 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
8394 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
8395 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
8396 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
8397 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
8398 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
8399 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
8402 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
8403 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
8404 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
8405 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
8408 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
8409 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
8410 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
8411 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
8414 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
8415 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
8416 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
8417 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
8418 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
8421 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
8422 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
8423 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
8424 certain censored countries by default again.
8427 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
8428 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8429 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
8430 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
8431 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8432 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
8433 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
8434 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
8436 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
8437 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
8438 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
8439 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
8440 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
8441 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
8442 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
8443 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
8444 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
8445 a directory. Fix from lodger.
8447 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8448 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
8449 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
8450 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
8451 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
8452 RelayBandwidth* values.
8453 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
8454 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
8455 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
8456 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
8457 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
8458 get_interface_address6().
8459 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
8460 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
8461 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
8463 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
8464 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
8465 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
8466 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8467 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
8468 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
8469 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8470 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
8471 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
8472 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8475 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
8476 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
8477 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
8480 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
8481 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
8482 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
8483 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
8484 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
8487 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
8488 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
8489 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
8490 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
8491 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
8492 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
8493 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
8494 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
8495 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
8498 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
8499 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
8500 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
8501 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8504 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
8505 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
8506 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
8507 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
8508 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
8509 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
8510 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
8513 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
8514 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
8515 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
8516 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
8517 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
8518 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
8519 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
8521 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
8522 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
8523 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
8524 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
8525 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
8528 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
8529 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
8531 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
8532 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
8533 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
8534 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8535 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
8536 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
8537 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
8538 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
8539 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
8540 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
8541 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
8542 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
8543 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8544 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
8545 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8546 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8547 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
8548 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
8549 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
8550 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
8551 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
8552 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
8553 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
8555 o Minor features (performance):
8556 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
8558 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
8559 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
8560 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
8561 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
8562 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
8563 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
8564 non-system include paths.
8565 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
8566 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
8569 o Minor features (other):
8570 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
8572 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
8573 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
8574 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
8577 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
8578 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
8579 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
8580 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
8582 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
8583 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
8584 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
8585 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
8587 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
8588 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
8589 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8590 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
8591 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8593 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8594 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
8595 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
8596 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
8597 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
8598 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
8599 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
8600 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
8601 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
8602 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
8603 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
8604 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
8605 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
8606 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
8607 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
8608 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8609 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
8610 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
8611 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
8612 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
8613 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
8614 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
8615 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
8616 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
8617 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
8620 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8621 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
8622 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
8626 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
8627 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
8628 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
8629 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
8630 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
8633 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
8634 Tor's x509 certificates.
8637 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
8638 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
8639 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8640 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
8641 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
8642 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8644 o Minor features (security):
8645 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
8646 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
8648 o Minor features (directory authority):
8649 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
8650 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
8651 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
8652 bandwidthburst values.
8654 o Minor features (controller):
8655 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
8656 processes from running us out of memory.
8658 o Minor features (misc):
8659 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
8660 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
8661 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
8662 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
8664 o Deprecated features (controller):
8665 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
8666 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
8667 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
8670 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
8671 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
8673 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
8674 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
8675 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8676 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
8677 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
8678 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8679 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
8680 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
8682 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
8683 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8684 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
8685 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8686 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
8687 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
8688 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
8689 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
8691 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
8692 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
8693 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
8694 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
8695 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8696 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
8697 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8698 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
8699 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8700 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
8701 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
8702 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8704 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8705 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
8707 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
8708 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
8709 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
8710 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
8711 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
8712 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
8715 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
8716 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
8717 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
8718 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
8719 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
8721 o New directory authorities:
8722 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
8726 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
8727 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
8728 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
8729 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
8730 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
8731 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
8732 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
8733 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
8737 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
8738 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
8739 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
8740 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
8741 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
8742 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
8743 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
8744 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
8745 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
8746 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
8749 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
8750 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
8751 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
8752 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
8756 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
8757 the request isn't encrypted.
8758 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
8759 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
8760 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
8761 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
8762 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
8765 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
8766 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
8769 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
8772 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
8773 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
8774 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
8776 o New directory authorities:
8777 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
8780 o Major performance improvements:
8781 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
8782 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
8783 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
8784 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
8785 memory fragmentation.
8788 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
8789 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
8790 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
8791 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
8792 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
8793 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
8794 bodies when they receive them.
8795 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
8796 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
8797 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
8799 o Minor performance improvements:
8800 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
8801 of them were actually distinct.
8802 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
8803 interested in a given message.
8806 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
8807 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
8808 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
8809 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
8810 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
8811 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
8812 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
8813 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
8814 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
8815 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
8816 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
8818 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
8819 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
8820 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
8821 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
8822 this country" and "1 person from this country".
8823 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
8824 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
8825 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
8826 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
8827 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
8829 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
8830 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
8831 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
8833 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
8834 but client versions are not.
8835 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
8836 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
8838 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
8839 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
8840 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
8841 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
8842 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
8844 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
8845 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
8846 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
8849 o Minor features (controller):
8850 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
8851 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
8852 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
8853 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
8855 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8856 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
8857 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
8858 running a test network on a single host.
8859 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
8860 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
8862 o Minor features (bridges):
8863 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
8864 unencrypted connections.
8866 o Minor features (other):
8867 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
8868 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
8869 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
8870 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
8873 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
8874 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
8875 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
8876 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8879 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
8880 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
8881 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
8882 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
8886 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
8887 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
8888 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
8889 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
8890 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
8891 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
8892 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
8893 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
8894 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
8895 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
8896 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
8897 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
8900 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
8901 rebuild our server descriptor.
8902 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
8903 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
8904 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
8905 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
8906 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
8907 nonstandard integer types.
8908 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
8909 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
8910 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
8911 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
8912 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
8914 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
8915 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
8916 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
8917 when they receive them.
8918 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
8919 This includes some 64-bit systems.
8920 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
8921 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
8922 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
8923 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
8924 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
8925 router_get_by_hexdigest().
8926 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
8927 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
8931 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
8932 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
8933 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8936 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
8937 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
8938 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
8939 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
8940 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
8941 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
8942 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
8943 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8946 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
8947 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
8948 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
8949 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
8951 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
8952 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
8955 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
8956 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
8959 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
8961 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
8962 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
8964 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
8965 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
8966 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
8967 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8968 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
8969 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
8970 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
8971 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8972 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
8973 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
8977 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
8978 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
8979 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
8982 - Make the unit tests build again.
8983 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
8984 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
8985 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
8986 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
8987 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
8988 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8989 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
8990 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
8991 the next one as a duplicate.
8994 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
8995 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
8996 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
8997 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
9000 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
9001 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
9002 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
9005 o New directory authorities:
9006 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
9010 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
9011 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
9012 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
9013 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
9014 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
9015 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9016 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
9018 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
9019 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
9021 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9022 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9023 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
9024 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
9025 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
9026 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
9028 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
9029 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
9030 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9031 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
9032 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
9033 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9036 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
9037 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
9038 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
9039 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
9040 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
9041 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
9042 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
9043 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
9044 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
9045 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
9046 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
9047 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
9048 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
9049 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
9050 where Tor is blocked.
9051 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
9052 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
9053 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
9054 to a file periodically.
9055 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
9056 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
9057 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
9061 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
9062 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
9063 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
9064 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
9065 in the relevant networkstatus document.
9066 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
9067 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
9068 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9069 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
9070 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
9071 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
9072 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
9074 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
9075 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
9076 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
9077 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
9078 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
9079 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9080 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
9081 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
9082 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
9083 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9084 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
9085 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
9086 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
9087 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9088 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9089 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
9090 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
9091 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9092 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9093 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9094 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9095 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
9096 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9097 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
9098 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
9099 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9100 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
9101 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9104 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
9105 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
9106 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
9107 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
9108 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
9109 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
9110 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
9111 even if your DirPort isn't on.
9112 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
9113 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
9114 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
9116 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
9117 multiple controller passwords.
9118 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
9119 router based on the router's purpose.
9120 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
9121 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
9122 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
9123 the approved-routers file.
9126 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
9127 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
9128 well as a few minor bugs.
9131 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
9132 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
9133 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
9135 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9136 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9137 rebuild our server descriptor.
9139 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9140 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
9141 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
9142 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
9143 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
9144 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
9145 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
9146 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
9147 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
9148 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
9150 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
9151 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
9152 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
9153 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
9154 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
9155 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
9156 then be flexible about families.
9159 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
9160 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
9161 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
9165 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
9166 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
9167 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
9168 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
9169 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
9172 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9173 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9174 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9175 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9176 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9179 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9180 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
9182 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
9183 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
9184 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
9185 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
9186 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
9187 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
9188 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9190 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
9191 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
9192 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
9193 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
9196 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
9197 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
9200 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
9201 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
9202 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9205 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
9206 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
9207 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
9208 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
9209 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
9210 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
9211 addresses many more minor issues.
9213 o New directory authorities:
9214 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
9217 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
9218 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
9219 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
9220 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
9222 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
9223 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
9224 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
9225 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
9226 and are reaching it.
9227 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
9228 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
9229 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
9230 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
9231 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
9232 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
9235 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
9236 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
9238 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
9239 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
9240 no longer work for clients.
9241 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
9242 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
9244 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
9245 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
9246 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
9247 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
9248 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
9249 enough directory information to build a circuit.
9250 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
9251 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
9252 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
9253 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
9254 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
9255 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
9257 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
9258 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
9259 requests for all of them.
9260 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
9262 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
9263 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
9264 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
9267 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
9268 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
9272 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
9273 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
9274 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
9275 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
9276 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
9277 networkstatuses that we already have.
9278 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
9279 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
9280 we start knowing some directory caches.
9281 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
9282 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
9283 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
9284 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
9285 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
9286 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
9287 Good in combination with --hash-password.
9288 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
9289 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
9291 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
9292 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
9293 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
9295 o Minor features (bridges):
9296 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
9297 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
9298 back to trying the bridge directly.
9299 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
9300 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
9302 o Minor features (controller):
9303 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
9304 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
9305 report the value as a "minimum skew."
9308 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
9309 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
9313 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
9314 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
9315 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
9316 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
9317 reported by tup and ioerror.
9318 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
9319 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9322 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
9324 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
9325 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
9326 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
9328 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
9329 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9330 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
9331 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9332 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
9333 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9334 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
9336 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
9337 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
9338 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9340 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
9341 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
9342 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
9343 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
9344 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
9347 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
9348 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
9349 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
9350 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
9351 lists for a few hours each day.
9353 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9354 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
9355 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
9356 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
9357 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
9358 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9359 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
9360 rend_process_relay_cell().
9362 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9363 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
9364 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
9365 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
9366 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
9367 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
9368 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
9369 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
9371 o Major bugfixes (other):
9372 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
9373 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
9374 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
9375 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
9376 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
9377 circuit cannibalization).
9378 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
9379 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
9380 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
9381 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
9382 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
9383 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
9386 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
9387 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
9389 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
9390 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
9391 absent. Resolves bug 467.
9392 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
9393 a way to trigger this remotely.)
9394 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
9395 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
9396 were reporting the dir port.)
9397 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
9398 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
9399 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
9400 the future. Fixes bug 434.
9401 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
9403 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
9404 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
9405 the onion key from getting rotated.
9406 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
9407 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
9408 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
9409 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
9410 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
9411 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
9412 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
9413 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
9414 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
9417 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
9418 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
9419 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
9420 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
9421 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
9422 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
9424 o Major features (directory system):
9425 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
9426 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
9427 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
9428 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
9429 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
9430 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
9431 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
9432 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
9433 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
9434 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
9435 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
9436 Partially implements proposal 122.
9437 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
9438 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
9441 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
9442 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
9443 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
9444 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
9446 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
9447 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
9448 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
9449 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
9450 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
9451 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9452 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
9453 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
9454 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9456 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
9457 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
9459 - Allow certificates to include an address.
9460 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
9461 and download operations.
9462 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
9463 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
9464 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
9465 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
9466 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
9467 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
9469 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
9470 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
9473 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
9474 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
9475 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
9476 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
9478 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
9479 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
9480 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
9482 o Minor features (performance):
9483 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
9484 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
9485 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
9486 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
9487 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
9488 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
9489 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
9492 o Minor features (compilation):
9493 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
9494 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
9496 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
9497 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
9498 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
9499 stick around indefinitely.
9500 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
9502 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
9503 v3 directory authority.
9504 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
9505 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
9507 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
9508 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
9509 "moria on moria:9031."
9510 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
9511 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
9512 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
9513 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
9514 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
9515 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
9516 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
9517 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
9519 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
9520 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
9521 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
9522 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
9523 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
9524 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
9525 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
9526 downloads than for other types.
9528 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
9529 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
9531 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
9532 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
9533 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9535 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9536 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
9537 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9538 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
9539 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
9540 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
9541 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
9542 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
9544 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9545 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
9546 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
9547 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
9548 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9549 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
9550 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
9551 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9552 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
9553 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
9554 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
9556 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
9557 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
9560 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9561 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
9562 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
9563 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
9564 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
9565 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
9566 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
9567 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
9568 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
9569 so that they all take the same named flags.
9572 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
9573 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
9574 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
9577 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
9578 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
9579 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
9580 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
9581 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
9582 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
9584 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
9585 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
9586 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
9587 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
9588 annotations along with descriptors.
9589 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
9590 source, and its purpose.
9591 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
9593 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
9594 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
9595 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
9596 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
9599 o Major features (directory authorities):
9600 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
9602 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
9603 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
9604 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
9605 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
9606 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
9607 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
9609 o Major features (v3 directory system):
9610 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
9611 and download the descriptors listed in them.
9612 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
9613 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
9614 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
9616 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9617 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
9618 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
9619 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
9622 o Major bugfixes (performance):
9623 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
9624 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
9625 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
9626 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
9628 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
9629 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
9630 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
9631 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
9632 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
9633 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9635 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
9636 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
9638 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
9639 certificate is requested.
9640 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
9641 certificate requests.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
9644 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
9645 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
9646 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
9649 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9650 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
9651 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
9652 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9654 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
9655 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
9657 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
9658 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
9659 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9660 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
9661 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
9662 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
9663 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
9664 downloads more sensible.
9665 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
9666 another when serving certificates.
9668 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9669 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
9670 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
9671 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
9673 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
9674 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9675 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
9677 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
9678 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
9680 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9681 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
9682 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
9683 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
9684 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9686 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
9687 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
9688 WARN-severity events.
9689 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
9690 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
9691 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
9693 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
9694 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
9695 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
9697 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
9698 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
9699 circuit cannibalization).
9701 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9702 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
9703 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
9704 new module, networkstatus.c.
9705 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
9706 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
9707 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
9708 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
9709 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
9710 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
9711 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
9712 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
9713 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
9715 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
9717 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
9718 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
9721 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
9722 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
9723 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
9724 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
9726 o New directory authorities:
9727 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
9728 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
9730 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9731 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
9732 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9734 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
9735 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
9736 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
9737 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
9738 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
9739 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
9740 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
9741 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
9742 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
9743 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
9744 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9746 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9747 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
9748 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
9749 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
9750 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
9751 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
9752 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
9753 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
9754 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
9756 o Minor features (security):
9757 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
9758 address maps to an internal address space.
9759 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
9760 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
9762 o Minor features (guard nodes):
9763 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
9764 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
9765 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
9766 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
9768 o Minor features (speed):
9769 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
9770 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
9771 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
9772 on big-endian hosts.)
9774 o Minor features (controller):
9775 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
9776 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
9777 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
9778 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
9782 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
9783 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
9784 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
9785 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
9786 implementation of proposal 104.
9787 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
9788 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
9789 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
9790 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
9791 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
9792 patch from Karsten Loesing.
9793 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
9794 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
9797 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
9798 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
9799 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9800 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
9801 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9802 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
9803 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9804 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
9805 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
9806 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9807 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
9808 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
9809 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
9810 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9811 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
9812 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
9813 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
9814 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9815 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
9816 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
9818 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9819 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
9820 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
9822 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
9823 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
9824 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
9825 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
9828 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
9829 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
9830 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
9831 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
9832 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
9835 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
9836 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
9839 o Major bugfixes (security):
9840 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
9841 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
9842 become more of a headache than it's worth.
9844 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
9845 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
9846 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
9848 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
9849 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
9850 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
9851 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
9852 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
9853 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
9855 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
9856 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
9857 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
9858 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
9859 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
9861 o Minor features (controller):
9862 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
9863 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
9864 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
9865 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
9867 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9868 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
9869 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
9870 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
9871 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
9872 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
9873 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
9874 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
9876 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9877 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
9878 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
9879 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
9880 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
9881 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
9882 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
9883 if we ran off the end of the list.
9884 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
9885 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
9886 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
9887 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
9888 every time we change any piece of our config.
9889 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
9890 encourage people using them to stop.
9891 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
9893 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
9894 servers to choose a circuit.
9895 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
9896 unparseable piece of it.
9899 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
9900 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
9901 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
9902 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
9905 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
9906 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
9907 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
9908 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
9909 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
9911 o New directory authorities:
9912 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
9915 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
9916 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
9917 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
9918 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
9920 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
9921 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
9922 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
9924 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
9925 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
9926 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
9927 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
9928 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
9929 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
9931 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
9932 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
9933 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9936 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
9937 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
9938 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
9939 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
9943 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
9944 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
9945 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
9946 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
9948 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
9949 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
9951 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
9952 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
9953 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
9954 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
9955 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
9956 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
9957 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9958 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
9959 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9960 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
9963 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
9964 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
9965 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
9966 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
9967 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
9968 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
9971 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
9972 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
9973 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
9974 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
9977 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
9978 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
9979 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
9980 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
9981 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
9984 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
9985 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
9986 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
9987 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
9988 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
9991 o Minor features (directory servers):
9992 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
9993 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
9995 o Minor features (directory voting):
9996 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
9999 o Minor features (security):
10000 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
10001 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10002 encourage people using them to stop.
10004 o Minor features (controller):
10005 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10006 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10007 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10008 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10009 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
10010 cookie authentication file, and config option
10011 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
10013 o Minor features (unit testing):
10014 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
10015 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
10016 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
10017 logging for the unit tests.
10019 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10020 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10021 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10022 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10023 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10024 every time we change any piece of our config.
10025 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10026 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10027 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10029 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10030 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10031 the onion key from getting rotated.
10032 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
10033 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
10034 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
10037 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10038 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
10039 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
10041 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
10042 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
10043 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
10044 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
10047 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
10048 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
10049 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
10050 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
10051 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
10052 TorK, etc. Or worse.
10054 o Major security fixes:
10055 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10056 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10059 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
10060 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
10061 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
10062 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
10064 o Major security fixes:
10065 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10066 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10068 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10069 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
10072 o Minor features (performance):
10073 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
10074 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
10075 performance-intensive.
10076 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10077 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
10078 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
10079 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
10080 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10081 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
10085 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
10086 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
10087 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
10088 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
10092 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
10093 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
10094 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
10095 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
10096 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
10098 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
10099 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
10100 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
10101 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
10103 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
10104 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
10105 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
10106 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
10107 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
10109 o Major features (experimental):
10110 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
10111 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
10112 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
10113 handling before it's ready for use.
10116 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
10117 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
10118 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
10119 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10120 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
10121 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
10123 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
10124 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
10125 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
10126 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
10127 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
10129 o Major bugfixes (directory):
10130 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
10131 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10133 o Minor features (controller):
10134 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
10135 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10136 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
10137 from Robert Hogan.)
10138 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
10139 from Robert Hogan.)
10140 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
10141 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
10143 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
10144 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
10145 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
10146 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
10147 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10148 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
10149 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
10152 o Minor features (misc):
10153 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
10155 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
10156 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
10157 the authority identity key.
10158 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
10160 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
10161 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
10162 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
10165 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
10166 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10167 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10168 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
10169 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10170 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10171 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10172 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10174 o Performance improvements:
10175 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
10177 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
10178 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
10181 o Deprecated and removed features:
10182 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
10183 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
10184 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
10185 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
10187 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10188 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
10189 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
10190 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
10191 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
10192 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
10193 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
10194 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
10195 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
10198 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
10199 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
10200 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
10201 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
10202 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
10204 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
10205 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
10208 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10209 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
10210 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
10211 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
10212 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
10213 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
10214 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
10215 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
10216 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
10219 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
10220 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
10221 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
10222 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
10224 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10225 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
10227 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10228 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
10229 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
10230 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
10231 routerlist while inserting a new router.
10232 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
10233 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
10235 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
10236 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
10237 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
10239 o Major bugfixes (security):
10240 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
10242 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
10243 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
10244 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
10245 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
10246 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
10247 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
10248 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
10249 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
10250 guard list unless we need to.
10252 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
10253 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
10254 don't get overused as guards.
10256 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10257 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
10258 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
10259 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
10260 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
10262 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10263 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
10264 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
10267 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10268 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
10269 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
10270 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
10271 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
10272 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
10273 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
10274 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
10277 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
10278 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
10279 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
10280 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
10282 o Minor features (directory):
10283 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
10284 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
10285 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
10286 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
10288 o Minor build issues:
10289 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
10290 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
10291 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
10292 in the tarball, not as "x".
10295 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
10296 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
10297 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
10298 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
10299 forward on a lot of fronts.
10301 o Major features, server usability:
10302 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
10303 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
10304 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
10305 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
10307 o Major features, client usability:
10308 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
10309 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
10310 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
10311 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
10312 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
10313 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
10314 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
10315 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
10317 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
10318 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
10319 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
10320 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
10321 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
10322 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
10324 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
10325 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
10326 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
10328 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
10329 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
10330 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
10331 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
10332 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
10334 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
10335 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
10336 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
10337 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
10339 o Major features, other:
10340 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
10341 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
10342 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
10343 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
10344 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
10347 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
10348 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
10349 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
10352 o Minor fixes (resource management):
10353 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
10354 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
10355 our allocated connection limit.
10356 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
10357 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
10358 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
10359 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
10360 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
10362 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
10363 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
10364 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
10366 o Minor features (build):
10367 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
10368 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
10369 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
10370 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
10372 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
10373 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
10374 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
10375 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
10376 Use this version consistently in log messages.
10378 o Minor features (logging):
10379 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
10380 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
10381 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
10382 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
10383 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
10386 o Minor features (directory system):
10387 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
10388 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
10389 not to serve V2 directory information.
10390 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
10391 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
10392 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
10394 o Minor features (controller):
10395 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
10396 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
10398 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
10399 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
10400 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
10401 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
10402 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
10403 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
10405 o Minor features (hidden services):
10406 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
10407 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
10408 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
10409 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
10411 o Minor features (other):
10413 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
10414 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
10415 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
10416 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
10417 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
10418 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
10419 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
10420 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
10421 longer a completely silly thing to do.
10422 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
10423 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
10424 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
10425 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
10427 o Removed features:
10428 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
10429 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
10430 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
10431 back an error and close the connection.
10432 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
10433 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
10436 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10437 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
10438 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
10439 makes the log messages nicer.
10440 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
10441 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
10442 partial results on small file reads.
10444 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10445 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
10446 more often than they are allowed to appear.
10447 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
10448 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
10450 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10451 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
10452 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
10453 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
10455 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10456 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
10457 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
10458 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
10459 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
10460 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
10461 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
10462 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
10463 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
10464 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
10465 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
10467 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
10468 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
10469 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
10471 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
10472 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
10473 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
10474 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
10476 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10477 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
10478 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
10480 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
10481 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
10484 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10485 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
10486 implicit in other procedure arguments.
10487 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
10488 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
10489 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
10490 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
10491 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
10492 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
10493 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
10494 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
10495 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
10498 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
10499 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
10500 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
10501 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
10503 o Directory authority changes:
10504 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
10505 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
10506 or use hidden services.
10508 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10509 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
10510 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
10511 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
10512 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
10513 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
10514 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
10515 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
10516 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
10519 o Major bugfixes (security):
10520 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
10521 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
10522 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
10524 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
10525 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
10526 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
10527 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
10528 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
10529 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
10530 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
10531 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
10532 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
10533 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
10536 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
10537 purpose=controller.
10538 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
10539 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
10541 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
10542 having a hard time downloading.
10543 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
10544 partial results on small file reads.
10545 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
10546 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
10547 the gaps in the store get very large.
10550 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
10551 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
10553 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
10554 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
10557 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
10558 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
10559 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
10560 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
10561 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
10562 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
10564 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
10565 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
10566 free speech on the Internet.
10569 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
10570 get one we don't recognize.
10571 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
10572 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
10575 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
10577 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
10578 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
10579 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
10580 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
10583 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
10584 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
10587 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
10588 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
10589 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
10590 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
10591 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
10592 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
10593 ask for GUARDS too.
10596 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
10597 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
10598 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
10599 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
10600 on Win98 and friends again.
10602 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10603 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
10604 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
10607 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
10608 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
10609 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
10610 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
10611 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
10612 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
10613 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
10614 and maybe also bug 397.)
10616 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10617 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
10618 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
10620 o Minor bugfixes (server):
10621 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
10624 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
10625 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
10626 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
10627 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
10628 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
10630 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10631 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
10632 load on authorities.
10634 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10635 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
10636 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
10637 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
10639 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
10641 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
10642 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
10643 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
10644 the last of bug 326.)
10645 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
10646 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
10650 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
10651 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10652 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
10653 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
10654 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
10655 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
10656 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
10658 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
10659 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
10661 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10662 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
10663 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
10665 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
10666 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
10667 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
10669 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10670 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
10671 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
10672 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
10674 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
10675 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
10677 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
10678 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
10679 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
10682 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10683 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
10684 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
10685 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
10686 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
10687 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
10688 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
10689 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
10690 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
10691 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
10692 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
10693 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
10694 other than file-not-found.
10695 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
10696 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
10697 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
10698 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
10699 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
10700 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
10701 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
10702 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
10703 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
10704 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
10705 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
10706 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
10707 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
10708 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
10709 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
10711 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
10713 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
10714 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
10716 o Minor features (controller):
10717 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
10718 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
10719 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
10721 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
10722 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10723 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
10724 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
10725 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
10726 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
10727 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
10728 connected or resolved cell.
10730 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10731 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
10732 some profiles, but not others.)
10733 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
10734 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
10735 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
10738 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
10740 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
10741 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
10742 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
10743 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
10744 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
10745 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
10746 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
10747 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
10748 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
10749 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
10750 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
10751 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
10752 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
10753 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
10754 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
10756 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
10759 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
10760 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
10761 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
10762 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
10763 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
10764 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
10765 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
10767 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
10768 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
10769 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
10770 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
10771 buckets go absurdly negative.
10772 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
10773 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
10776 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
10777 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
10778 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
10779 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
10780 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
10781 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
10782 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
10783 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
10786 o Major bugfixes (other):
10787 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
10788 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
10789 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
10790 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
10792 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
10794 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
10795 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
10797 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
10798 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
10799 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
10800 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
10801 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
10802 to wait for 0.2.0.)
10804 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
10805 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
10806 possible memory-stomping bugs.
10807 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
10808 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
10810 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
10811 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
10812 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
10813 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
10814 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
10815 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
10817 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10818 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
10819 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
10820 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
10822 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
10823 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
10824 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
10825 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
10826 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
10827 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
10828 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
10829 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
10830 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
10831 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
10832 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
10833 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
10834 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
10836 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
10837 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
10838 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
10839 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
10840 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
10841 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
10842 to the resulting address.
10845 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
10846 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
10847 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
10848 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
10851 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
10852 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
10854 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
10855 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
10856 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
10857 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
10858 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
10859 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
10860 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
10861 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
10862 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
10863 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
10864 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
10865 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
10866 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
10867 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
10868 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
10869 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
10870 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
10873 o Minor features (controller):
10874 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
10875 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
10876 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
10877 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
10878 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
10879 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
10880 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
10884 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
10886 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
10887 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
10888 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
10889 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
10890 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
10891 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
10894 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
10895 weren't planning to resolve.
10896 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
10897 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
10898 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
10899 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
10900 the controller from learning about current events.
10902 o Minor features (more controller status events):
10903 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
10904 learn when our address changes.
10905 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
10906 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
10907 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
10908 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
10910 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
10911 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
10912 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
10913 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
10914 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
10915 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
10916 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
10917 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
10918 are accepted by a directory.
10919 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
10920 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
10921 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
10922 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
10923 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
10925 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
10926 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
10927 about changes to DNS server status.
10929 o Minor features (directory):
10930 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
10931 too much load to the exit nodes.
10934 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
10936 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
10937 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
10938 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
10939 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
10940 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
10942 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
10943 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
10944 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
10946 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
10947 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
10948 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
10949 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
10950 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
10951 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
10952 config options if you like.
10954 o Minor features (config and docs):
10955 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
10956 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
10957 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
10958 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
10959 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
10961 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
10962 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
10963 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
10964 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
10965 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
10967 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
10968 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
10969 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
10970 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
10971 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
10972 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
10973 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
10974 documentation: "make check-docs".
10975 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
10976 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
10978 o Minor features (DNS):
10979 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
10980 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
10981 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
10982 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
10983 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
10984 our tests for DNS hijacking.
10986 o Minor features (directory):
10987 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
10988 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
10989 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
10990 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
10991 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
10992 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
10993 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
10994 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
10995 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
10996 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
10997 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
10998 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
10999 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
11000 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
11001 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
11002 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
11003 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
11004 for the thing we're trying to download.
11005 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
11006 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
11007 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
11009 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
11010 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
11011 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
11014 o Minor features (controller):
11015 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
11016 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
11018 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
11019 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
11020 entry guard status as it changes.
11022 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
11023 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
11024 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
11025 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
11026 to set log options.
11027 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
11028 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
11029 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
11030 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
11033 o Major bugfixes (security):
11034 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11035 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11036 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11037 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11039 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
11040 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
11041 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
11042 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
11043 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
11045 o Major bugfixes (other):
11046 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
11047 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
11048 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
11049 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
11051 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
11052 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
11053 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
11054 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
11055 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
11056 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
11060 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11061 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11062 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
11063 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
11064 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
11066 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
11067 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
11069 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
11070 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
11071 family lists conveniently.
11072 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
11073 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
11074 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
11076 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
11077 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
11079 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
11080 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
11081 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
11082 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
11083 if their identity keys are as expected.
11084 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
11085 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
11086 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
11088 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11089 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
11090 reported by Mike Perry.
11091 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
11092 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
11093 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
11094 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
11097 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
11098 o Security bugfixes:
11099 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11100 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11101 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11102 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11106 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11107 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11108 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
11111 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
11113 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
11114 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
11115 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
11118 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
11119 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
11120 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
11121 watching for STREAM events.
11122 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
11123 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
11124 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
11125 operations, for profiling.
11128 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
11129 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
11130 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
11131 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
11132 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
11133 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
11135 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
11139 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
11140 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
11141 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
11142 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
11143 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
11145 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
11146 correctly in the Windows installer.
11147 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
11148 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
11149 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
11150 MIPSpro C compiler.
11151 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
11152 when we're running as a client.
11155 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
11157 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
11158 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
11159 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
11160 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
11161 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
11162 its circuits on demand.
11163 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
11164 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
11165 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
11166 connections more stable on average.
11167 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
11168 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
11169 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
11171 o Security bugfixes:
11172 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
11173 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
11176 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
11178 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
11179 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
11180 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
11181 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
11182 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
11183 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
11184 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
11185 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
11188 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
11190 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
11191 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
11192 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
11193 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
11194 routers for even longer.
11195 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
11196 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
11197 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
11198 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
11199 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
11200 caching HTTP proxies.
11201 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
11204 o Minor features, controller:
11205 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
11206 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
11207 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
11208 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
11210 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
11211 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
11212 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
11213 working much like those for circuit events.
11214 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
11215 about the current status of a router.
11216 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
11217 a router's status has changed.
11218 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
11219 can tell which events and features are supported.
11220 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
11221 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
11223 o Security bugfixes:
11224 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
11225 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
11228 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
11229 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
11230 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
11231 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
11232 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
11233 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
11234 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
11235 long nicknames where appropriate.
11236 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
11237 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
11238 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
11239 chews through many circuits before giving up.
11240 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
11241 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
11242 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
11243 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
11244 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
11245 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
11247 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
11248 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
11249 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
11251 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
11252 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
11253 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
11254 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
11255 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
11256 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
11257 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
11258 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
11259 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
11260 (reported by fookoowa).
11261 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
11262 and reported by some Centos users.
11263 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
11264 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
11265 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
11266 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
11267 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
11268 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
11269 before we check for libevent.
11272 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
11274 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
11275 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
11276 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
11277 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
11278 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
11279 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
11280 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
11281 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
11282 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
11283 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
11284 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
11285 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
11286 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
11287 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
11288 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
11289 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
11290 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
11291 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
11292 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
11293 lets you turn it off.
11294 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
11295 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
11296 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
11297 us into the directory more quickly.
11299 o New/improved config options:
11300 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
11301 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
11302 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
11303 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
11304 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
11305 all the machines on the same subnet.
11306 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
11307 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
11308 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
11309 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
11310 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
11311 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
11312 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
11313 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
11314 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
11315 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
11317 o Minor features, controller:
11318 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
11319 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
11320 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
11321 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
11322 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
11323 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
11324 for more information.
11325 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
11326 best guess to the user.
11327 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
11328 descriptor has changed.
11329 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
11331 o Minor features, other:
11332 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
11333 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
11334 useful to the network.
11335 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
11336 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
11337 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
11338 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
11339 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
11340 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
11341 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
11342 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
11343 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
11344 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
11345 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
11346 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
11347 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
11348 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
11349 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
11351 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
11352 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
11353 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
11354 could return an unnamed server instead.
11355 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
11356 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
11357 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
11358 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
11359 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
11360 a more attractive target for compromise.)
11361 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
11362 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
11363 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
11365 o Major bugfixes, other:
11366 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
11367 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
11368 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
11369 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
11370 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
11371 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
11372 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
11373 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
11374 its circuits on demand.
11375 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
11376 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
11377 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
11378 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
11380 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
11381 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
11382 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
11383 we don't recognize.
11384 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
11386 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
11387 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
11388 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
11389 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
11390 "extendcircuit" request.
11391 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
11392 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
11393 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
11395 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
11396 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
11397 instead of "X resolved to X".
11398 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
11399 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
11400 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
11401 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
11402 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
11403 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
11404 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
11405 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
11406 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
11408 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
11409 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
11410 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
11411 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
11412 result more than once.
11413 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
11414 non-versioning dirservers.
11415 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
11416 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
11418 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
11419 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
11420 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
11421 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
11422 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
11423 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
11424 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
11425 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
11426 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
11428 o Packaging, features:
11429 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
11430 now universal binaries.
11431 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
11432 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
11433 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
11435 o Packaging, bugfixes:
11436 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
11437 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
11438 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
11439 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
11441 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
11442 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
11443 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
11446 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
11447 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
11448 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
11452 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
11454 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
11455 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
11456 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
11457 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
11458 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
11459 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
11460 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
11461 it can't resolve its hostname.
11464 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
11465 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
11466 "extendcircuit" request.
11467 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
11468 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
11469 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
11470 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
11472 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
11473 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
11474 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
11476 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
11477 methods: these are known to be buggy.
11478 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
11479 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
11480 we don't recognize.
11483 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
11485 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
11486 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
11487 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
11488 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
11489 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
11490 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
11491 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
11492 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
11493 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
11494 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
11495 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
11496 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
11497 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
11498 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
11499 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
11500 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
11501 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
11502 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
11503 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
11504 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
11505 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
11506 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
11507 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
11508 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
11511 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
11512 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
11513 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
11514 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
11515 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
11516 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
11517 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
11518 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
11519 recommendation system saner.)
11520 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
11522 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
11523 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
11524 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
11525 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
11526 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
11527 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
11528 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
11529 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
11530 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
11531 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
11532 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
11533 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
11534 your ORPort is set.
11535 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
11536 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
11537 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
11538 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
11539 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
11540 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
11541 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
11542 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
11543 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
11544 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
11545 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
11546 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
11548 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
11549 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
11550 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
11551 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
11552 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
11553 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
11556 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
11557 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
11558 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
11559 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
11560 our DirPort now, etc.
11561 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
11562 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
11563 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
11564 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
11565 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
11566 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
11567 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
11569 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
11570 whether the config options are bad or good.
11571 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
11572 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
11573 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
11574 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
11575 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
11576 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
11577 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
11578 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
11581 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
11582 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
11583 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
11584 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
11585 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
11586 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
11587 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
11588 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
11589 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
11590 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
11591 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
11592 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
11593 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
11594 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
11595 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
11596 of it), is not therefore "up".
11597 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
11598 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
11599 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
11600 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
11601 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
11602 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
11605 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
11607 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
11608 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
11609 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
11610 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
11611 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
11612 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
11613 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
11614 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
11615 test reachability, so you won't publish.
11618 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
11619 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
11620 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
11621 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
11622 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
11624 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
11625 own server descriptor yet.
11628 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
11630 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
11631 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
11632 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
11633 make sure to test via one of these.
11634 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
11635 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
11636 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
11637 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
11638 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
11640 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
11641 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
11642 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
11645 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
11646 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
11647 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
11648 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
11649 directory authority.
11650 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
11651 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
11652 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
11653 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
11656 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
11657 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
11658 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
11660 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
11661 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
11662 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
11663 current guards when picking a new guard.
11664 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
11665 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
11666 when we had more than one pending.
11667 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
11668 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
11669 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
11670 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
11671 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
11672 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
11673 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
11674 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
11675 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
11676 debug the reachability problems better.
11678 o Log / documentation fixes:
11679 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
11680 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
11681 about protocol violations by others.
11682 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
11683 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
11684 about what happened to our old torrc.
11687 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
11689 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
11691 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
11692 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
11693 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
11694 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
11697 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
11699 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
11700 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
11701 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
11702 old ORPort and receive connections.
11703 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
11705 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
11706 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
11707 and network-statuses.
11708 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
11709 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
11710 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
11711 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
11713 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
11716 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
11717 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
11718 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
11721 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
11723 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
11724 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
11725 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
11726 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
11727 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
11730 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
11731 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
11733 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
11734 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
11735 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
11736 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
11737 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
11738 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
11739 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
11740 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
11741 rather than not sending anything back at all.
11742 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
11743 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
11744 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
11745 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
11746 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
11747 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
11748 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
11749 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
11750 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
11751 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
11752 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
11753 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
11754 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
11755 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
11756 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
11757 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
11758 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
11759 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
11760 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
11761 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
11762 default ulimit -n is 1024.
11765 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
11766 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
11767 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
11768 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
11771 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
11773 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
11774 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
11775 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
11776 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
11777 entry guards running these flawed versions.
11778 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
11779 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
11780 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
11781 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
11782 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
11785 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
11786 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
11788 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
11789 and it is confusing some users.
11790 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
11791 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
11792 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
11793 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
11794 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
11797 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
11799 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
11800 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
11801 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
11802 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
11803 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
11804 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
11805 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
11806 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
11807 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
11808 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
11809 dirport is set for now.
11811 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
11812 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
11813 unattached before we fail it?
11814 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
11815 at least this many seconds ago.
11816 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
11817 at least this many seconds ago.
11820 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
11821 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
11822 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
11823 or resolve-wait stream.
11824 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
11825 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
11826 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
11827 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
11828 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
11829 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
11830 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
11831 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
11833 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
11834 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
11835 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
11836 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
11837 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
11838 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
11839 given as hex digests.
11840 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
11841 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
11842 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
11843 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
11844 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
11845 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
11846 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
11847 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
11850 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11851 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
11852 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
11853 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
11854 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
11855 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
11856 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
11857 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
11858 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
11859 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
11860 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
11863 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
11864 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
11865 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
11866 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
11867 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
11868 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
11869 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
11872 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
11873 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
11874 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
11875 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
11876 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
11877 misreading their logs.
11878 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
11879 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
11880 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
11881 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
11882 valid router descriptors.
11883 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
11884 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
11885 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
11886 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
11887 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
11888 silently resetting it to its default.
11889 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
11891 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
11894 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
11895 use clean circuits.
11896 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
11897 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
11898 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
11899 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
11900 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
11902 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
11903 because older Tors do not understand it.
11904 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
11908 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
11909 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11910 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
11911 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
11912 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
11913 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
11914 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
11915 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
11916 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
11917 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
11918 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
11920 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
11921 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
11922 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
11923 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
11925 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
11926 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
11929 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
11930 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
11931 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
11932 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
11933 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
11934 without getting overloaded.
11935 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
11937 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
11938 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
11939 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
11940 be forward-compatible.
11941 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
11942 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
11943 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
11944 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
11946 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
11947 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
11948 and OR conns to port 443.
11949 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
11950 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
11952 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
11953 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
11954 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
11955 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
11956 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
11957 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
11958 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
11961 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
11962 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11963 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
11964 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
11966 o Other important bugfixes:
11967 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
11968 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
11969 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
11970 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
11972 o Backported features:
11973 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
11974 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
11975 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
11976 without getting overloaded.
11977 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
11978 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
11979 503's whenever they feel busy.
11980 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
11981 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
11982 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
11983 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
11984 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
11987 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
11988 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
11989 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
11990 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
11991 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
11992 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
11993 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
11994 know if the crashes continue.
11995 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
11996 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
11997 seg faults in at least some cases.)
11998 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
11999 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
12000 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
12003 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
12004 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
12005 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
12006 try to be a bit more fair.
12007 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
12008 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
12009 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
12010 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
12011 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
12012 bug that let it go negative.
12013 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
12014 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
12015 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
12016 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
12017 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12018 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12019 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12020 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12021 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
12022 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
12023 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
12026 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
12028 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
12029 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
12030 service descriptors.
12033 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
12034 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
12035 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
12036 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
12038 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
12039 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
12040 versions *are* still recommended.
12041 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
12042 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
12043 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
12044 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
12045 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
12046 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
12047 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
12048 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
12050 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
12051 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
12052 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
12053 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
12054 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
12055 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
12056 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
12057 on it. Not used by clients yet.
12058 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
12059 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
12060 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
12061 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
12062 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
12063 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
12064 established a circuit.
12065 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
12066 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
12067 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
12068 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
12071 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
12072 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12073 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
12074 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
12075 quickly enough. Oops.
12076 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
12078 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12079 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
12082 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
12083 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12084 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
12085 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
12086 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
12087 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
12088 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
12089 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
12090 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
12091 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
12092 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
12093 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
12094 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
12095 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
12096 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
12097 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
12098 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
12101 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
12102 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
12103 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
12104 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
12105 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
12106 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
12107 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
12108 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
12109 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
12110 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
12111 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
12112 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
12113 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
12114 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
12115 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
12116 connections more reliable.
12119 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
12120 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
12121 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
12122 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
12123 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
12124 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
12125 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
12126 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
12127 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
12128 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
12129 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
12130 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
12131 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
12132 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
12136 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
12137 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
12138 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
12139 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
12140 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
12141 need to be uint64_t's.
12142 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
12143 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
12144 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
12146 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
12148 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
12149 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
12150 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
12151 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
12152 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
12153 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
12154 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
12156 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
12157 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
12158 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
12159 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
12160 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
12161 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
12162 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
12163 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
12164 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
12165 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
12166 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
12167 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
12168 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
12171 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
12172 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
12173 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
12174 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
12175 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
12176 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
12177 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
12179 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
12180 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
12181 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
12182 can answer v2 directory requests too.
12183 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
12184 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
12185 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
12186 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
12188 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
12189 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
12190 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
12191 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
12192 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
12193 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
12194 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
12195 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
12196 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
12197 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
12198 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
12199 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
12200 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
12201 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
12202 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
12204 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
12205 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
12208 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
12209 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12210 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
12211 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
12212 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
12213 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
12214 too -- so detect and avoid this.
12215 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
12217 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
12218 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
12219 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
12220 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
12221 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
12222 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
12223 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
12224 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
12225 rendezvous circuits.
12226 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
12228 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12229 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
12230 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
12231 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
12232 advertising it because of hibernation.
12233 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
12234 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
12235 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
12236 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
12237 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
12238 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
12239 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
12240 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
12241 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
12242 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
12243 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
12244 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
12245 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
12246 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
12249 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
12250 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12251 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
12252 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
12253 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
12254 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
12255 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
12256 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
12257 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
12258 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
12259 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
12260 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
12261 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
12262 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
12263 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
12264 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
12265 connections once a week.
12266 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
12267 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
12268 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
12269 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
12270 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
12271 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
12273 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
12274 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
12275 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
12277 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12278 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
12279 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
12280 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
12281 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
12282 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
12283 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
12284 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
12285 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
12286 firewall options forbid.
12287 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
12288 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
12289 can only proxy to certain destinations.
12290 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
12291 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
12292 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
12293 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
12294 aids some statistical attacks.
12295 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
12296 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
12297 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
12298 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
12300 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12301 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
12302 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
12303 server descriptor sometimes.
12304 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
12305 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
12306 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
12307 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
12308 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
12309 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
12310 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
12311 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
12313 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
12314 case the controller wants to change that too.
12315 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
12316 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
12317 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
12318 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
12320 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
12321 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
12322 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
12324 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
12325 descriptors that they know they will reject.
12327 o Features and updates:
12328 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
12329 significantly faster.
12330 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
12331 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
12332 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
12333 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
12334 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
12335 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
12336 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
12337 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
12338 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
12339 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
12340 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
12341 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
12342 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
12343 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
12344 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
12345 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
12346 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
12347 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
12348 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
12349 as authoritative dirserver.
12350 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
12351 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
12352 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
12355 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
12356 o Usability improvements:
12357 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
12358 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
12360 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
12361 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
12362 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
12364 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
12365 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
12366 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
12367 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
12368 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
12369 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
12370 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
12371 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
12372 memory leaks better.
12373 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
12374 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
12375 their operators to pay close attention.
12376 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
12377 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
12379 o Performance improvements:
12380 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
12381 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
12382 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
12383 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
12384 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
12385 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
12386 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
12387 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
12388 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
12389 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
12390 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
12391 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
12392 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
12393 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
12394 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
12395 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
12396 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
12398 o Security improvements:
12399 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
12400 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
12401 fingerprint of server.
12402 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
12403 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
12404 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
12406 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12407 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
12408 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
12409 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
12410 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
12411 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
12412 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
12413 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
12414 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
12415 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
12416 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
12417 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
12418 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
12419 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
12420 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
12421 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
12422 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
12423 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
12424 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
12425 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
12426 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
12428 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
12429 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
12430 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
12432 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
12433 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
12435 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
12436 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
12437 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
12438 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
12439 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
12440 of the controller protocol.
12441 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
12442 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
12443 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
12446 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
12447 o New features (major):
12448 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
12449 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
12450 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
12451 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
12452 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
12453 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
12454 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
12455 we're using a default DirPort.
12456 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
12458 o New features (minor):
12459 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
12460 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
12461 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
12462 mirrors still cache and serve it).
12463 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
12464 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
12465 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
12466 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
12467 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
12468 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
12469 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
12470 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
12471 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
12472 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
12473 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
12474 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
12475 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
12476 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
12477 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
12479 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
12480 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
12481 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
12482 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
12483 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
12484 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
12485 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
12486 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
12488 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
12489 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
12490 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
12491 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
12492 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
12493 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
12494 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
12495 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
12496 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
12497 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
12499 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
12500 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
12501 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
12502 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
12503 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
12505 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
12506 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
12507 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
12509 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
12510 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
12512 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
12513 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
12514 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
12515 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
12516 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
12517 don't warn twice about the same name.
12518 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
12519 if we've not heard of the server.
12520 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
12521 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
12524 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
12525 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12526 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
12527 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
12528 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
12529 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
12530 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
12531 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
12532 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
12533 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
12534 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
12535 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
12536 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
12537 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
12538 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
12541 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
12542 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
12543 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
12544 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
12545 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
12547 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
12548 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
12549 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
12550 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
12551 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
12552 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
12556 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
12557 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
12558 nickname) is reachable by you.
12559 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
12562 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
12563 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
12564 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
12565 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
12566 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
12567 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
12568 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
12569 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
12570 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
12571 we fail to connect).
12572 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
12573 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
12574 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
12575 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
12577 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
12578 it was self-testing that told us so.
12581 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
12582 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
12583 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
12584 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
12585 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
12586 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
12587 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
12588 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
12589 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
12590 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
12591 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
12592 exit policy using him for any exits.
12593 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
12596 o New controller features/fixes:
12597 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
12598 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
12599 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
12600 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
12601 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
12602 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
12603 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
12604 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
12605 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
12607 o Start on the new directory design:
12608 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
12609 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
12611 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
12612 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
12613 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
12614 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
12616 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
12617 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
12618 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
12619 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
12620 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
12621 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
12622 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
12623 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
12626 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
12627 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
12628 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
12629 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
12630 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
12631 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
12632 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
12633 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
12634 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
12635 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
12637 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
12638 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
12639 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
12640 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
12641 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
12642 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
12643 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
12644 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
12645 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
12647 o Config option changes:
12648 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
12649 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
12650 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
12651 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
12652 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
12653 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
12655 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
12656 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
12657 people have started using them for spam too.
12658 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
12659 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
12660 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
12661 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
12662 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
12663 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
12664 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
12665 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
12666 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
12667 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
12668 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
12669 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
12670 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
12671 services faster on the service end.
12672 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
12673 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
12674 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
12675 it a fair shake next time we try.
12676 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
12677 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
12678 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
12679 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
12680 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
12681 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
12682 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
12683 able to discover them.
12684 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
12685 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
12686 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
12687 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
12688 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
12689 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
12690 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
12691 testing for reachability.
12692 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
12693 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
12695 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
12697 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
12698 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
12701 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
12702 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
12704 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12705 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
12706 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
12707 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
12710 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
12711 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12712 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
12714 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
12715 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
12718 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
12719 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
12722 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
12723 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
12724 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
12725 options, getinfo keys.
12728 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
12729 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12730 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
12731 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
12732 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
12733 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
12734 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
12736 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
12737 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
12741 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
12742 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
12743 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
12745 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
12747 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
12748 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
12749 circuit events and we go offline.
12750 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
12751 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
12752 you don't have enough intro points already.
12754 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
12755 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
12756 many bytes we've used in this time period.
12757 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
12758 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
12759 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
12760 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
12761 enabled by default yet.
12763 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
12764 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
12765 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
12766 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
12767 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
12770 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
12771 o New directory servers:
12772 - tor26 has changed IP address.
12774 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12775 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
12776 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
12777 pthreads libraries.
12778 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
12779 claims its dirport is 0.
12780 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
12781 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
12785 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
12786 o New directory servers:
12787 - tor26 has changed IP address.
12789 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
12790 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
12792 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
12793 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
12794 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
12795 ports that have changed.
12796 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
12798 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
12799 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
12800 Windows-style errno back.
12801 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
12803 want to make it an NT service.
12804 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
12805 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
12806 name, give the full name in our response.
12807 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
12808 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
12809 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
12810 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
12811 pthreads libraries.
12813 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12814 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
12818 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
12819 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
12820 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
12821 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
12822 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
12825 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
12826 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12827 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
12828 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
12829 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
12830 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
12831 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
12832 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
12835 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
12837 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
12838 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
12839 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
12840 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
12841 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
12842 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
12844 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
12845 temporarily unreachable.
12846 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
12850 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
12851 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
12852 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
12853 our protocol works.
12854 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
12858 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
12859 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
12860 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
12861 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
12862 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
12866 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
12867 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
12868 libevent before 1.1a.
12871 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
12873 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
12874 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
12875 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
12876 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
12877 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
12879 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
12880 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
12881 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
12882 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
12883 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
12884 of CPU time plus memory.
12885 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
12886 normal web requests.
12887 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
12888 tor_lookup_hostname().
12889 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
12890 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
12891 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
12892 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
12893 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
12894 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
12896 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
12897 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
12898 HttpProxyAuthenticator
12899 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
12900 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
12901 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
12903 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
12904 the user asks you to.
12905 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
12906 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
12907 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
12908 their descriptors are being rejected.
12909 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
12913 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
12915 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
12916 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
12917 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
12919 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
12921 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
12923 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
12924 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
12925 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
12926 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
12927 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
12928 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
12929 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
12930 keys) from the exit server's process.
12931 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
12932 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
12933 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
12934 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
12935 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
12936 point at your Tor server.
12937 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
12938 you're not sending a socks reply back.
12941 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
12942 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
12943 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
12944 to make it easier to write controllers.
12947 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
12949 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
12950 installing on Tiger.
12951 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
12952 complain during installation.
12953 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
12954 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
12955 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
12956 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
12957 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
12958 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
12960 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
12961 something more reasonable when first installing.
12962 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
12965 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
12967 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
12968 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
12970 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
12971 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
12972 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
12973 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
12974 when using the default exit policy.
12975 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
12976 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
12977 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
12978 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
12979 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
12980 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
12981 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
12982 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
12983 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
12984 we fetched a new directory.
12985 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
12986 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
12989 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
12990 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
12991 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
12992 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
12993 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
12994 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
12995 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
12996 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
12998 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
12999 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
13000 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
13001 save memory on systems that need to fork.
13002 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
13003 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
13004 is valid without actually launching Tor.
13005 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
13006 rather than just rejecting it.
13009 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
13011 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
13012 we didn't like its cert.
13014 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
13015 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
13016 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
13017 on patch from Adam Langley.
13018 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
13019 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
13020 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
13021 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
13023 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
13024 directory every time you regenerate it.
13025 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
13026 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
13029 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
13030 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13031 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13032 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
13033 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
13036 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
13038 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13039 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
13040 TLS errors better in other situations too.
13041 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
13042 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
13043 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
13044 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
13045 and don't log when you are.
13046 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
13047 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
13049 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
13050 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
13051 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
13052 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
13053 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
13056 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
13057 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13058 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
13059 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
13060 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
13061 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
13062 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
13063 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
13064 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
13065 nickname+key are allowed.
13066 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
13067 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
13068 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
13069 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
13070 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
13071 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
13072 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
13073 have quite wrong clocks).
13074 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
13075 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
13076 - Efficiency improvements:
13077 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
13078 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
13079 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
13080 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
13081 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
13082 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
13083 lowercase and be done with it.
13084 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
13085 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
13086 to abandon partially built circuits.
13087 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
13088 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
13090 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
13092 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
13093 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
13094 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
13095 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
13097 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
13098 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
13100 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13101 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
13102 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
13103 obeying the exit policy internally.
13104 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
13105 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
13107 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
13108 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
13109 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
13110 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
13112 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
13113 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
13114 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
13115 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
13116 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
13118 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
13119 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
13120 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
13121 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
13122 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
13123 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
13124 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
13125 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
13126 descriptors we just dropped.
13127 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
13128 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
13129 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
13130 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
13131 artificially capped at 500kB.
13134 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
13135 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13136 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
13137 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
13138 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
13139 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
13140 busy for more than 100 seconds.
13143 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
13144 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
13145 - Fixes on reachability detection:
13146 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
13147 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
13148 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
13149 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
13150 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
13151 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
13152 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
13153 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
13154 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
13155 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
13156 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
13157 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
13158 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
13159 server not already connected to them.
13160 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
13161 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
13162 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
13164 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
13166 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
13167 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
13168 are in a different state than they actually are.
13169 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
13170 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
13171 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
13173 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
13174 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
13175 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
13177 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
13178 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
13179 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
13180 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
13181 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
13182 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
13183 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
13185 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
13186 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
13187 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
13188 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
13191 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
13192 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13193 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
13194 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
13195 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
13196 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
13197 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
13198 creating actual system users.
13199 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
13200 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
13204 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
13206 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
13207 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
13208 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
13209 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
13210 hidden services better.
13211 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
13213 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
13214 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
13215 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
13216 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
13217 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
13218 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
13219 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
13220 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
13221 patch by Matt Edman).
13222 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
13223 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
13224 required exit node for certain sites.
13225 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
13226 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
13227 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
13228 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
13229 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
13230 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
13231 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
13232 rather than just "success" or "failure".
13233 - A more sane version numbering system. See
13234 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
13235 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
13236 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
13238 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
13239 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
13240 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
13241 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
13242 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
13243 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
13244 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
13246 o Robustness/stability fixes:
13247 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
13248 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
13249 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
13251 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
13252 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
13253 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
13255 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
13256 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
13257 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
13259 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
13260 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
13261 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
13262 that will want high uptime circuits.
13263 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
13264 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
13265 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
13266 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
13267 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
13268 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
13269 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
13270 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
13271 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
13272 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
13273 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
13274 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
13275 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
13276 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
13277 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
13278 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
13279 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
13280 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
13281 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
13282 when we try to launch one.
13283 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
13284 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
13285 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
13286 "ShutdownWaitLength".
13287 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
13288 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
13289 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
13290 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
13291 and to take errno into account where possible.
13294 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
13295 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
13296 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
13297 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
13298 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
13299 file more reasonable.
13300 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
13301 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
13302 addresses -- it won't.
13303 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
13304 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
13305 for google.com" problem.
13306 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
13307 so it's not just "unknown platform".
13308 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
13309 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
13310 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
13311 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
13313 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
13314 they could use instead.
13315 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
13316 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
13317 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
13318 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
13319 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
13320 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
13321 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
13322 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
13323 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
13325 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
13329 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
13330 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
13332 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
13333 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
13334 private-IP addresses.
13335 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
13336 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
13338 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
13339 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
13340 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
13341 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
13342 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
13343 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
13344 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
13346 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
13347 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
13348 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
13349 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
13350 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
13351 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
13352 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
13353 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
13355 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
13357 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
13358 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
13359 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
13360 whether the server is hibernating.
13363 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
13364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
13365 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
13366 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
13367 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
13368 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
13369 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
13370 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
13371 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
13372 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
13373 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
13374 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
13375 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
13376 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
13377 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
13379 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
13380 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
13381 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
13382 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
13383 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
13384 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
13385 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
13386 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
13387 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
13388 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
13389 existing torrc files.
13390 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
13393 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
13394 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13395 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
13396 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
13397 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
13398 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
13399 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
13400 the win32 SYSTEM account.
13401 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
13402 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
13403 file descriptors available.
13404 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
13405 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
13406 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
13409 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
13410 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
13411 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
13412 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
13414 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
13415 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
13416 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
13417 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
13418 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
13420 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
13421 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
13422 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
13423 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
13424 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
13425 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
13426 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
13427 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
13428 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
13429 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
13430 800kB/s of capacity.
13431 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
13434 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
13435 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
13436 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
13437 need as much processor time.
13438 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
13439 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
13440 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
13441 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
13442 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
13443 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
13444 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
13445 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
13446 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
13447 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
13448 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
13449 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
13451 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
13452 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
13453 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
13454 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
13455 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
13456 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
13457 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
13460 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
13461 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
13462 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
13464 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
13465 style address, then we'd crash.
13466 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
13467 a dirserver is broken.
13468 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
13470 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
13471 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
13472 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
13474 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
13475 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
13476 name out of the warning/assert messages.
13477 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
13478 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
13479 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
13481 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
13482 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
13483 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
13485 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
13487 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
13488 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
13489 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
13490 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
13491 values at once couldn't work.
13492 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
13493 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
13494 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
13495 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
13496 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
13497 they can handle any number of routers.
13498 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
13499 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
13500 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
13501 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
13502 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
13503 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
13504 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
13505 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
13506 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
13509 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
13510 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
13511 - Make hibernation actually work.
13512 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
13513 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
13514 don't use the stream status code.
13517 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
13519 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
13520 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
13522 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
13525 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
13526 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
13527 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
13528 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
13529 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
13530 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
13531 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
13532 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
13533 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
13534 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
13536 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13537 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
13538 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
13539 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
13540 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
13541 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
13542 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
13543 - Make unit tests work on win32.
13546 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
13547 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
13548 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
13550 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
13551 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
13552 than just chopping them off.
13553 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
13555 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13556 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
13557 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
13558 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
13559 right after sending the begin cell.
13560 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
13561 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
13562 exit nodes too. Oops.
13565 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
13566 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
13567 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
13568 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
13569 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
13570 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
13571 the user knows which one it's talking about.
13572 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
13573 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
13574 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
13577 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
13578 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13579 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
13580 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
13582 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
13584 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
13585 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
13586 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
13588 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
13589 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
13590 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
13591 Clip rather than rejecting.
13592 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
13593 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
13596 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
13597 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
13598 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
13599 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
13601 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
13604 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
13605 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13606 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
13607 win32 socket errors better.
13609 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
13610 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
13613 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
13614 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13615 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
13616 so we don't see those messages days later.
13618 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
13619 - Make tor-resolve work again.
13620 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
13621 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
13624 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
13625 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
13626 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
13627 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
13629 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
13630 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
13631 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
13634 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
13635 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13636 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
13637 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
13638 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
13639 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
13640 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
13641 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
13642 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
13644 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
13645 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
13646 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
13647 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
13649 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
13650 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
13653 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
13654 hibernation properties by
13655 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
13656 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
13657 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
13658 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
13659 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
13660 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
13661 get back to normal.)
13662 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
13664 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
13665 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
13666 to fill the last cell completely.
13667 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
13670 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
13671 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13672 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
13673 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
13674 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
13675 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
13676 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
13677 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
13678 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
13679 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
13680 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
13682 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
13683 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
13684 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
13685 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
13686 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
13687 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
13688 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
13689 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
13691 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
13692 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
13693 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
13694 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
13695 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
13696 have it on start-up.
13699 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
13700 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
13701 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
13702 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
13703 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
13704 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
13705 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
13706 configuration to torrc.
13707 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
13708 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
13709 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
13710 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
13711 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
13713 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
13714 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
13715 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
13716 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
13717 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
13718 log more informatively.
13719 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
13720 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
13721 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
13722 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
13723 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
13724 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
13725 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
13726 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
13727 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
13728 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
13729 from each other, to hinder linkability.
13732 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
13733 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
13734 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
13735 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
13736 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
13737 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
13738 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
13740 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
13741 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
13742 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
13743 they ran out of file descriptors.
13744 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
13745 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
13746 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
13747 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
13748 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
13749 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
13750 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
13752 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
13755 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
13756 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
13757 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
13758 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
13759 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
13760 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
13761 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
13762 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
13763 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
13764 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
13765 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
13766 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
13767 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
13768 with the control port.
13769 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
13770 use in authenticating to the control interface.
13771 - New log format in config:
13772 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
13773 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
13776 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
13777 from their dirserver.
13778 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
13780 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
13781 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
13782 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
13783 them act more like real nodes.
13784 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
13785 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
13787 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
13788 nickname to its identity key.
13789 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
13790 not on the command line.
13791 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
13792 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
13793 1024) file descriptors.
13795 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
13796 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
13798 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
13799 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
13800 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
13803 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
13804 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
13805 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
13806 exit policy, not reject *:*.
13807 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
13808 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
13809 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
13810 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
13811 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
13812 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
13813 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
13816 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
13817 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
13818 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
13819 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
13820 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
13821 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
13822 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
13825 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
13826 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
13827 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
13828 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
13829 the ones we find in directories.)
13830 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
13832 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
13833 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
13835 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
13836 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
13837 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
13839 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
13840 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
13841 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
13842 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
13844 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
13845 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
13846 any more exit policy lines.
13849 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
13850 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
13851 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
13852 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
13853 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
13854 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
13855 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
13856 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
13857 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
13858 will be able to get a directory.
13859 - Http proxy support
13860 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
13861 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
13862 be routed through this host.
13863 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
13864 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
13865 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
13866 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
13869 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
13871 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
13872 clients/servers with an open dirport.
13873 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
13874 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
13875 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
13876 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
13877 intermittent connections.
13878 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
13879 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
13881 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
13882 in reporting stats locally.
13883 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
13884 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
13885 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
13888 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
13890 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
13891 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
13894 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
13896 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
13897 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
13898 if you don't want it open.
13899 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
13900 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
13901 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
13902 intermittent connections.
13903 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
13905 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
13906 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
13907 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
13908 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
13909 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
13910 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
13911 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
13912 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
13913 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
13914 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
13915 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
13916 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
13917 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
13918 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
13919 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
13920 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
13923 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
13924 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
13925 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
13926 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
13927 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
13929 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
13931 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
13932 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
13933 specified in HTTP 1.0.
13934 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
13935 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
13936 than once per minute.
13937 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
13938 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
13941 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
13942 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
13945 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
13946 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
13947 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
13948 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
13951 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
13952 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
13954 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
13955 don't put it into the client dns cache.
13956 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
13957 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
13958 until we get our next directory.
13960 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
13961 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
13962 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
13963 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
13964 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
13965 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
13966 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
13967 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
13968 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
13969 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
13970 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
13972 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
13974 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
13975 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
13977 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
13978 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
13979 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
13981 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
13983 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
13984 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
13985 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
13986 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
13987 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
13988 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
13989 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
13990 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
13993 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
13994 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
13995 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
13996 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
13999 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
14000 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
14001 ask them to resolve the host "".
14004 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
14005 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14006 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
14007 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
14008 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
14009 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
14010 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
14011 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
14012 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
14013 clients don't use this yet.)
14014 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
14015 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
14016 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
14017 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
14018 for pointing out this bug.)
14019 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
14020 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
14021 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
14022 kazaa, gnutella ports.
14023 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
14025 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
14026 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
14027 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
14028 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
14029 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
14030 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
14031 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
14032 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
14033 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
14034 wolf unpredictably.
14035 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
14036 that's still handshaking.
14037 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
14038 you'll choose it for your path.
14039 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
14040 end relay cell, etc.
14041 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
14042 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
14043 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
14046 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
14047 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14049 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
14050 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
14051 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
14052 list to decide who's running or verified.
14053 - Bugfixes and features:
14054 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
14055 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
14056 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
14057 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
14058 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
14059 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
14061 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
14062 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
14063 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
14064 know you might want to get it verified.
14065 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
14068 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
14070 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
14071 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
14072 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
14073 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
14075 o Protocol changes:
14076 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
14077 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
14078 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
14079 hadn't heard of before.
14082 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
14083 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
14084 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
14085 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
14086 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
14087 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
14088 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
14089 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
14090 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
14091 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
14092 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
14093 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
14094 - Directory caching.
14095 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
14096 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
14097 directory they've pulled down.
14098 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
14099 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
14100 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
14101 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
14102 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
14103 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
14104 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
14106 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
14107 This isn't used yet.
14108 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
14109 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
14110 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
14111 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
14112 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
14113 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
14114 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
14115 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
14116 - File and name management:
14117 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
14118 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
14120 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
14121 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
14122 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
14123 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
14124 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
14125 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
14126 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
14128 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
14129 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
14130 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
14131 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
14132 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
14134 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
14135 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
14136 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
14137 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
14138 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
14139 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
14140 - New docs in the tarball:
14142 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
14145 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
14146 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
14147 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
14150 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
14151 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
14152 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
14155 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
14156 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
14159 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
14160 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
14161 - Make it build on Win32 again.
14162 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
14163 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
14167 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
14169 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
14170 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
14171 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
14172 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
14173 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
14174 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
14175 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
14176 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
14177 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
14178 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
14181 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
14184 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
14185 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
14186 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
14187 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
14189 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
14190 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
14191 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
14193 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
14194 hidden service per 15-minute period.
14195 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
14196 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
14197 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
14198 o Fixes for security bugs:
14199 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
14200 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
14201 a trusted dirserver.
14203 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
14204 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
14205 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
14206 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
14207 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
14208 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
14209 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
14210 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
14211 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
14212 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
14214 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
14215 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
14216 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
14217 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
14219 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
14220 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
14221 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
14222 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
14223 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
14224 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
14225 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
14226 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
14227 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
14228 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
14229 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
14230 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
14231 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
14234 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
14235 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
14236 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
14237 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
14240 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
14241 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
14242 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
14243 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
14244 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
14245 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
14246 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
14250 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
14251 [version bump only]
14254 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
14255 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
14256 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
14257 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
14258 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
14260 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
14263 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
14264 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
14265 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
14266 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
14267 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
14268 o Better debugging for tls errors
14269 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
14270 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
14271 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
14272 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
14273 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
14274 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
14275 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
14276 o win32's close can't close a socket.
14279 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
14280 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
14281 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
14282 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
14283 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
14284 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
14285 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
14286 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
14287 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
14288 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
14289 just close the circ.
14290 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
14291 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
14292 (this was quite rare).
14295 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
14296 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
14297 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
14298 if you decrypted them correctly.
14299 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
14300 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
14301 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
14304 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
14305 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
14306 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
14307 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
14308 a second one and it works.
14309 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
14310 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
14311 alice would just have to wait to time out.
14312 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
14313 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
14314 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
14315 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
14316 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
14317 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
14318 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
14319 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
14320 i'd still like to find the bug though.
14321 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
14323 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
14327 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
14328 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
14329 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
14330 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
14331 he retries a couple of times
14332 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
14333 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
14334 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
14335 too long (they were sticking around forever).
14336 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
14340 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
14341 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
14342 - make hup work again
14343 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
14344 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
14345 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
14346 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
14347 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
14348 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
14350 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
14351 o changes from 0.0.5:
14352 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
14353 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
14354 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
14355 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
14356 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
14358 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
14359 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
14360 in-memory directories too
14363 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
14364 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
14367 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
14369 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
14370 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
14371 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
14372 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
14375 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
14376 [version bump only]
14379 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
14380 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
14382 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
14383 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
14384 but that aren't warnings
14387 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
14388 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
14389 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
14390 the dns farm to do it.
14391 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
14392 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
14394 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
14395 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
14396 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
14399 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
14400 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
14401 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
14402 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
14403 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
14404 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
14405 expect it to have a nickname.
14406 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
14407 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
14410 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
14411 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
14415 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
14416 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
14417 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
14418 - include missing header fcntl.h
14419 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
14420 - deal with hardware word alignment
14421 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
14422 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
14423 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
14424 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
14425 by kill -USR1 currently.
14426 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
14427 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
14428 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
14431 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
14432 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
14433 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
14436 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
14438 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
14439 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
14440 - And fix a few endian issues.
14443 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
14445 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
14446 try that circuit again: try a new one.
14447 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
14448 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
14449 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
14450 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
14451 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
14452 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
14454 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
14455 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
14456 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
14458 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
14460 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
14461 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
14462 side isn't reading right then.
14463 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
14464 RecommendedVersions
14465 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
14466 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
14467 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
14470 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
14472 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
14473 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
14476 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
14480 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
14482 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
14483 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
14484 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
14485 connection is finished.
14486 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
14487 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
14488 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
14489 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
14490 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
14491 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
14492 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
14493 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
14494 rather than warn and continue.
14495 - Make --version work
14496 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
14499 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
14501 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
14502 knows it's working.
14503 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
14504 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
14506 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
14507 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
14508 so you can collect coredumps there.
14510 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
14511 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
14512 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
14513 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
14514 dns cache actually gets populated.
14515 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
14516 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
14517 end cell down it first.
14518 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
14519 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
14522 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
14524 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
14525 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
14527 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
14528 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
14529 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
14530 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
14531 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
14532 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
14534 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
14536 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
14537 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
14538 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
14539 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
14540 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
14541 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
14543 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
14544 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
14547 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
14549 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
14550 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
14551 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
14552 tor. It even has a man page.
14553 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
14554 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
14555 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
14556 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
14558 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
14560 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
14563 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
14565 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
14566 it, apt-getters. :)
14567 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
14568 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
14569 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
14570 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
14571 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
14572 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
14573 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
14574 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
14575 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
14576 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
14577 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
14579 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
14580 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
14583 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
14585 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
14586 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
14589 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
14591 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
14592 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
14593 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
14594 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
14595 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
14596 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
14597 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
14598 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
14599 logfile so you know it's working.
14600 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
14601 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
14604 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
14606 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
14607 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
14608 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
14611 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
14613 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
14614 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
14615 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
14618 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
14619 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
14620 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
14622 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
14623 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
14625 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
14626 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
14627 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
14629 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
14630 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
14634 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
14636 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
14637 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
14638 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
14641 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
14642 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
14643 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
14644 - Add port ranges to exit policies
14645 - Add a conservative default exit policy
14646 - Warn if you're running tor as root
14647 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
14648 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
14649 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
14650 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
14652 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
14655 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
14656 o Robustness and bugfixes:
14657 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
14658 really screw things up.
14659 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
14661 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
14662 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
14664 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
14665 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
14666 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
14667 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
14668 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
14669 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
14672 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
14675 - Change default loglevel to warn.
14676 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
14677 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
14679 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
14682 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
14683 o Robustness and bugfixes:
14684 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
14685 - to get ownership/permissions right
14686 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
14687 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
14688 pull down a directory again
14689 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
14690 causing server crashes
14691 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
14692 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
14693 - exit if bind() fails
14694 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
14695 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
14696 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
14697 - fix minor bias in PRNG
14698 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
14701 - Wrote the design document (woo)
14703 o Circuit building and exit policies:
14704 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
14706 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
14707 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
14708 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
14709 exists, rather than failing
14710 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
14711 which AP connections are standing by
14712 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
14713 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
14714 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
14716 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
14717 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
14720 - APPort is now called SocksPort
14721 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
14723 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
14724 hardcoded (for dirservers)
14725 - Reloads config on HUP
14726 - Usage info on -h or --help
14727 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
14730 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
14731 o General stability:
14732 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
14733 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
14734 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
14735 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
14736 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
14737 to take down the network when I approve a new router
14738 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
14741 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
14742 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
14744 o Autoconf improvements:
14745 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
14746 - Make install now works
14747 - create var/lib/tor on make install
14748 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
14749 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
14751 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
14752 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
14753 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
14754 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup