1 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-??
5 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
6 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
8 o Major features (security):
9 - Implementation of an AF_UNIX socket option to implement a SOCKS
10 proxy reachable by Unix Domain Socket. This allows client
11 applications to communicate with Tor without having the ability to
12 create AF_INET or AF_INET6 family sockets. If an application has
13 permission to create a socket with AF_UNIX, it may directly
14 communicate with Tor as if it were an other SOCKS proxy. This
15 should allow high risk applications to be entirely prevented from
16 connecting directly with TCP/IP, they will be able to only connect
17 to the internet through AF_UNIX and only through Tor. To create a
18 socket of this type, use the syntax "unix:/path/to/socket". Closes
21 o Major features (changed defaults):
22 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
23 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
24 the 'ExitRelay' option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
25 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
26 tends to indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting 'ExitRelay'
27 to 0 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
29 o Major features (hidden services):
30 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets on
31 suitable platforms. Resolves ticket #11485.
33 o Major features (performance):
34 - Refactor the CPU worker implementation for better performance by
35 avoiding the kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original
36 implementation used sockets to transfer data from the main thread
37 to the worker threads, and didn't allow any thread to be assigned
38 more than a single piece of work at once. The new implementation
39 avoids communications overhead by making requests in shared
40 memory, avoiding kernel IO where possible, and keeping more
41 request in flight at once. Resolves issue #9682.
43 o Major bugfixes (client):
44 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
45 an address is mapped into another address type that must be
46 automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
49 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
50 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
51 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
52 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
54 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
55 - When running as a relay and a client at the same time (not
56 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
57 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
58 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
59 circuits. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported
62 o Minor features (authorities, testing):
63 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir like TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard.
64 Ensures that authorities vote the HSDir flag for the listed relays
65 regardless of uptime or ORPort connectivity. Respects the value of
66 VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2. Partial implementation for ticket
67 14067. Patch by "teor".
69 o Minor features (build):
70 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
71 looking for a system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults tile. Resolves
74 o Minor features (controller):
75 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
76 events to let controllers observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
78 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/dir syntax as an
79 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
80 SocksPort and hidden services. Closes ticket 14451.
81 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
82 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
83 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for 13988.
85 o Minor features (directory client):
86 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
87 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
88 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
89 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
90 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
91 connection, do not limit the length of our request to what the
92 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
94 o Minor features (directory system):
95 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
96 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
97 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
98 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
99 227. Closes ticket 10395.
101 o Minor features (directory, memory usage):
102 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
103 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
104 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
106 o Minor features (DOS resistance):
107 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
108 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
109 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
110 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
111 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
112 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
114 o Minor features (geoip):
115 - Update geoip to the January 7 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
117 - Update geoip6 to the January 7 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
120 o Minor features (Guard nodes):
121 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
122 minute to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
123 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
125 o Minor features (hidden service):
126 - Make hidden service Sybil attacks harder by changing the minimum
127 time required to become an HSDir from 25 hours up to 96 hours.
128 Addresses ticket #14149.
129 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
130 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
131 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
132 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
133 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket #14084.
135 o Minor features (interface):
136 - Implement '-f -' CLI suboption to allow torrc to be read from
137 standard input, thus not requiring to store torrc in file system.
138 Implements feature 13865.
140 o Minor features (logging):
141 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
142 Resolves ticket 6852.
143 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
144 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
145 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
147 - Elevate authorized-client message from DEBUG to INFO. Closes
150 o Minor features (relay):
151 - Use separate minimum bandwidth values for the configurations of
152 relays and bridges. Raise the minimum configured bandwidth for
153 bridges to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old
154 values were 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
156 o Minor features (stability):
157 - Prevent bugs from causing infinite loops in our hash-table
158 iteration code by adding assertions that cached hash values have
159 not been corrupted. Closes ticket 11737.
161 o Minor features (systemd):
162 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
163 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
165 o Minor features (testing networks):
166 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
167 and the default to 2 minutes. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
169 - Drop the MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5
170 seconds, but keep the default at 30 seconds. This reduces HS
171 bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default time
172 in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch by "teor".
174 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
175 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
176 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
177 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
178 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket #12844.
180 o Minor bugfix (oom resistance):
181 - Make an educated guess about how much memory the system has when
182 our detection functionality fails on some operating system. Fixes
183 bug 14802; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
185 o Minor bugfixes (automapping):
186 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
187 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
190 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
191 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times. Previously, we
192 would report everything as "never expires." Fixes bug 14193;
193 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
194 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
195 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
196 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
197 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
199 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
200 - Check for a missing option value in parse_virtual_addr_network
201 before asserting on the NULL in tor_addr_parse_mask_ports. This
202 avoids crashing on torrc lines like Vi[rtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6]]
203 when no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
204 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
205 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
206 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
208 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
209 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
210 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
211 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
212 bug 14216; bugfix on tor-0.2.2.17-alpha. Patch from arma.
214 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPV6):
215 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
216 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
217 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
218 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
220 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
221 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
222 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
223 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
224 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
225 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
226 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
227 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
228 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
229 Addresses ticket 14188.
230 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
231 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
232 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
233 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
234 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
236 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
237 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
238 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
239 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
240 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
241 - On the control port, the "entry-guards" command was reporting an
242 "up" status for a relay that was actually down. This fixes the
243 check if "unreachable_since" is set and if so reports the "down"
244 status. Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
246 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
247 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
248 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
249 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
250 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
251 - Enlarge the buffer to read bw-auth generated files to avoid an
252 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
253 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
255 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
256 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
257 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
258 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
259 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA key file when the .old file is
260 missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
261 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
262 - Skip loading zero-length extra info store, router store, stats,
263 state, and key files.
264 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
265 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
268 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
269 - Close the intro circuit once we don't have any more usable intro
270 points instead of making it timeout at some point. This also make
271 sure no extra HS descriptor fetch is triggered. Fixes bug 14224;
273 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
274 we recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
275 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
276 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
277 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
278 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
280 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
281 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
282 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
283 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
285 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
286 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
288 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
289 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
290 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
291 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
292 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
293 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
295 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
296 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, count the number
297 listed in the consensus, not the number we have descriptors for.
298 Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
299 - Do not warn that we are missing directory information if we have
300 decided not to fetch directory information due to a long period of
301 idleness. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
302 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only do processing
303 for ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes
304 part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
306 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
307 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
308 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
310 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
311 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
313 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
314 - Allow Glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
315 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
316 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
317 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
319 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
320 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
321 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
322 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
325 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
326 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
327 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
330 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
331 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
332 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
334 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
335 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
336 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
337 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
338 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
339 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
340 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
342 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
343 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
346 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
347 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
348 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
350 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
351 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
352 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
355 o Code simplification and refactoring:
356 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
357 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
358 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
359 to copy one of them correctly had been the cause of at least one
360 bug in the past. Closes ticket 8546.
361 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() Doom-function into
362 multiple smaller and easier to understand subfunctions. Cover the
363 resulting subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant
364 portion of issue 12376.
365 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
366 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
368 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
372 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
373 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
374 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
375 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
376 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
377 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
379 o Downgraded warnings:
380 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
381 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
384 - To avoid confusion with the 'ExitRelay' option, 'ExitNode' is no
385 longer silently accepted as an alias for 'ExitNodes'.
386 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
387 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
388 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
392 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
393 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
394 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
395 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
396 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
397 (existing behaviour).
398 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
399 data (existing behaviour). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
400 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
401 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
403 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
404 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
405 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
406 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
408 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
409 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
410 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
413 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
414 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
415 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
416 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
417 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
418 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
420 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
421 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
422 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
423 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
425 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
426 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
427 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
428 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
429 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
430 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
432 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
433 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
434 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
435 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
436 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
437 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
438 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
441 o Major features (hidden services):
442 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
443 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
445 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
446 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
447 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
448 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
449 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
450 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
451 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
452 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
453 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
454 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
455 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
457 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
458 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
459 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
460 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
461 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
462 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
465 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
466 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
467 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
468 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
469 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
470 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
472 o Directory authority changes:
473 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
474 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
475 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
477 o Major removed features:
478 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
479 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
480 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
481 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
483 o Minor features (client):
484 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
485 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
486 Resolves ticket 13315.
488 o Minor features (controller):
489 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
490 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
493 o Minor features (geoip):
494 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
497 o Minor features (hidden services):
498 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
499 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
500 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
501 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
502 - When we fail to a retrieve hidden service descriptor, send the
503 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
505 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
506 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
507 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
509 o Minor features (systemd):
510 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
511 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
512 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
513 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
515 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
516 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
517 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
518 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
519 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
522 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
523 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
524 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
525 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
526 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
528 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
529 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
530 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
533 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
534 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
535 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
536 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
537 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
539 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
540 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
541 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
544 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
545 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
546 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
547 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
549 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
550 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
553 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
554 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
555 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
556 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
557 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
558 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
559 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
560 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
561 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
562 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
563 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
564 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
565 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
566 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
569 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
570 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
571 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
572 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
573 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
574 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
576 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
577 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
578 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
579 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
581 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
582 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
584 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
585 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
586 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
587 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
590 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
591 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
592 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
593 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
594 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
595 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
597 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
598 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
599 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
600 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
601 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
602 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
603 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
604 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
605 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
606 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
607 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
608 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
609 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
610 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
611 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
612 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
613 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
614 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
615 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
616 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
617 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
618 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
619 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
620 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
621 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
622 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
623 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
624 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
625 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
626 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
627 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
628 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
630 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
631 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
632 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
633 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
634 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
636 o Code simplification and refactoring:
637 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
638 with a function instead.
639 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
640 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
642 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
643 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
644 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
645 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
646 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
647 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
648 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
649 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
650 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
651 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
652 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
653 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
657 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
658 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
659 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
660 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
661 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
662 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
663 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
664 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
665 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
666 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
667 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
668 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
671 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
672 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
673 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
674 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
675 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
676 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
678 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
682 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
683 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
684 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
685 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
686 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
687 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
688 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
689 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
690 of introducing infinite download loops.
692 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
693 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
694 with 0.2.5.x for now.
696 o New compiler and system requirements:
697 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
698 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
699 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
700 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
702 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
703 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
704 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
705 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
706 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
707 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
708 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
709 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
710 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
712 o Removed platform support:
713 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
714 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
717 o Major features (bridges):
718 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
719 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
720 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
723 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
724 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
725 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
726 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
729 o Major features (directory system):
730 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
731 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
732 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
733 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
735 o Major features (sample torrc):
736 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
737 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
738 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
739 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
740 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
741 generally useful "sample torrc".
743 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
744 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
745 currently hibernating. Fixes #12573. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.10-alpha
747 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
748 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
749 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
750 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
751 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
753 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
754 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
755 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
756 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
758 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
759 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
760 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
761 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
762 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
763 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
766 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
767 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
768 document. Implements feature 10427.
770 o Minor features (client):
771 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
772 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
773 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
774 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
776 o Minor features (directory authorities):
777 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
778 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
779 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
780 argument more than once.
781 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
782 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
783 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
784 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
785 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
786 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
788 o Minor features (logging):
789 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
790 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
791 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
792 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
793 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
794 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
795 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
796 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
797 appending to them. Closes ticket #5583.
799 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
800 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
801 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
802 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
804 o Minor features (relay):
805 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
806 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
807 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
809 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
810 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
811 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
812 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
814 o Minor features (testing networks):
815 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
816 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
817 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
818 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
819 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
822 o Minor features (validation):
823 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
824 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
825 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
826 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
827 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
828 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
829 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
830 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
832 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
833 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
834 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
835 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
837 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
838 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
839 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
840 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
842 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
843 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
844 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
846 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
847 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
848 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
849 on tor-0.2.2.2-alpha.
850 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
851 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
852 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
853 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
854 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
855 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
856 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
858 o Minor bugfixes (client):
859 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
860 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
861 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
862 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
863 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
864 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
865 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
866 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
868 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
869 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
870 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
871 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
872 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
874 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
875 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
876 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
878 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
879 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
880 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
881 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
882 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
884 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
885 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
886 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
887 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
888 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
889 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
890 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
891 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
892 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
893 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
894 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
897 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
898 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
899 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
900 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
901 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
903 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
904 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
905 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
906 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
907 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
910 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
911 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
912 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
913 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
914 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
915 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
917 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
918 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
919 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
920 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
922 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
923 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
924 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
925 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
927 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
928 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
929 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
930 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
933 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
934 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
935 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
938 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
939 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
940 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
941 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
942 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
945 o Code simplification and refactoring:
946 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
947 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
949 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
950 Resolves ticket 12205.
951 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
952 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
953 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
954 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
956 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
957 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
958 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
960 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
961 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
963 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
964 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
965 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
966 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
967 or_options_t structure.
970 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
971 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
972 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
973 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
977 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
978 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
979 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
980 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
981 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
982 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
983 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
984 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
985 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
987 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
988 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
990 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
991 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
992 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
993 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
994 anymore, and ignore it.
997 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
998 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
999 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
1000 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
1001 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
1002 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
1003 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
1004 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
1005 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
1006 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
1007 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
1008 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
1010 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
1011 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
1012 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
1014 o Distribution (systemd):
1015 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
1016 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
1017 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
1018 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
1019 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1021 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
1022 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
1024 o Removed features (directory authorities):
1025 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
1026 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
1027 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
1028 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
1029 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
1030 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
1031 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
1032 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
1033 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
1035 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
1036 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
1037 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
1038 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
1041 o Testing (test-network.sh):
1042 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
1043 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
1045 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
1047 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
1048 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
1049 Partially implements ticket 13161.
1052 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
1053 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
1055 It adds several new security features, including improved
1056 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
1057 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
1058 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
1059 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
1060 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
1061 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
1062 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
1063 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
1064 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
1065 and features mentioned below.
1067 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
1068 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1070 o Deprecated versions:
1071 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
1072 attention for some while.
1075 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
1076 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1077 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1078 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1079 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1080 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
1082 o Major security fixes:
1083 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1084 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1085 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1087 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
1088 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1089 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1090 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1093 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
1094 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
1095 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
1096 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1098 o Compilation fixes:
1099 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
1100 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
1101 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
1103 o Downgraded warnings:
1104 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
1105 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
1108 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
1109 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1110 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1111 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1112 (which does affect Tor).
1114 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1115 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1116 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1117 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1119 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1120 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1121 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1122 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1125 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
1126 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1127 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1128 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1129 the directory authorities.
1132 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1133 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1134 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1135 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1136 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1137 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1138 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1139 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1140 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1141 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1142 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1143 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1145 o Directory authority changes:
1146 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1149 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
1150 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1151 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1152 the directory authorities.
1155 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1156 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1157 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1158 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1159 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1160 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1161 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1162 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1163 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1164 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1165 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1166 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1168 o Directory authority changes:
1169 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1171 o Minor features (geoip):
1172 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1176 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
1177 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
1178 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
1179 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
1180 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
1182 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
1183 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
1184 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
1185 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
1186 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
1187 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
1188 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1189 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
1190 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
1191 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
1192 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
1193 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
1194 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
1195 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1196 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
1197 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
1199 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1200 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
1201 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1202 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1203 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
1204 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
1205 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
1206 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1208 o Minor features (bridge):
1209 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
1210 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
1212 o Minor features (geoip):
1213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1216 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1217 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
1218 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
1219 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
1220 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
1221 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
1222 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1223 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
1224 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
1225 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
1226 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
1227 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
1228 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
1229 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
1230 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
1232 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
1233 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
1234 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1235 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
1236 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
1238 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1239 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
1240 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1241 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
1242 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
1245 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1246 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
1247 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
1248 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
1249 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1250 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
1251 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
1252 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1253 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
1254 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
1255 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
1258 o Distribution (systemd):
1259 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
1260 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
1261 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
1262 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
1263 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
1264 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
1265 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
1266 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
1267 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1271 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
1272 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
1274 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
1278 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
1279 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
1280 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
1281 us closer to a release candidate.
1283 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
1284 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1285 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1286 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1287 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1289 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1290 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1291 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1292 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1293 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1294 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1295 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1296 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1297 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1301 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
1302 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
1303 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
1304 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
1305 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
1306 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
1307 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
1311 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
1312 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
1313 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
1314 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
1315 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
1316 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
1317 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
1318 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1320 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
1322 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1323 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1324 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1325 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1326 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1327 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1328 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1329 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1330 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1331 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1334 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
1335 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
1336 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
1337 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
1339 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
1340 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
1341 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
1344 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
1345 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
1346 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
1347 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
1350 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
1351 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
1352 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
1353 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
1354 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
1355 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
1356 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1357 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1358 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1359 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1362 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1363 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1364 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1365 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1366 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1367 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1368 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1369 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1373 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1374 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1375 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1376 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1377 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1378 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1379 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1380 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1381 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1382 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
1383 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
1384 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
1385 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
1388 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1392 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
1393 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
1394 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
1395 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
1396 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
1397 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
1400 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
1401 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
1402 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
1403 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
1404 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
1405 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
1406 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
1407 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
1408 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
1409 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
1410 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
1411 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
1412 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1414 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1415 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1416 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1417 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1420 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
1421 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
1422 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
1424 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
1425 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
1426 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
1427 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
1428 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
1429 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
1430 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
1431 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
1432 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
1433 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
1434 router's identity is not forgeable.
1436 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1437 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
1438 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
1439 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
1440 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1441 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
1442 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
1443 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
1444 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
1445 bugfix on every version of Tor.
1447 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
1448 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
1449 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
1450 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
1453 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1454 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
1455 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
1456 help diagnose bug 7164.
1457 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
1458 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
1459 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
1460 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
1461 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
1463 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
1464 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
1465 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
1466 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
1467 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
1468 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
1469 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
1471 o Minor features (security, memory management):
1472 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
1473 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
1474 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
1475 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
1476 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
1477 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
1479 o Minor features (security):
1480 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
1481 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
1482 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
1483 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
1485 o Minor features (build):
1486 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
1487 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
1488 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
1490 o Minor features (other):
1491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1494 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1495 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
1496 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
1497 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1498 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1500 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1501 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
1502 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
1503 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
1504 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
1505 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
1506 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
1507 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
1508 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1509 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
1510 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
1511 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
1513 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1514 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
1515 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1516 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
1517 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
1518 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
1519 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
1520 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
1521 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
1522 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
1523 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1524 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
1525 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
1526 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
1527 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
1528 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
1529 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
1530 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
1533 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
1534 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
1535 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
1536 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
1537 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
1538 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
1539 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1541 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
1542 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
1543 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1544 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
1545 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1546 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
1547 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1548 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
1549 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
1551 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
1552 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
1554 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
1555 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
1557 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
1558 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
1559 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1560 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
1561 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
1562 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1563 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
1564 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
1565 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
1567 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
1568 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
1569 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
1570 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
1571 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
1572 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1573 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
1574 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
1575 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1576 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
1577 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
1578 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1579 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
1580 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
1581 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
1582 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
1583 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
1584 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1586 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1587 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
1588 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
1589 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
1590 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
1591 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1592 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
1593 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
1594 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
1597 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1598 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
1599 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
1600 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
1601 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1603 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1604 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
1605 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
1606 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
1608 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
1609 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
1610 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
1611 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1612 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
1613 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
1614 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
1615 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
1617 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1618 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
1619 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
1620 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
1623 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
1624 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
1625 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
1626 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
1627 versions. Found by "skruffy".
1628 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
1629 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
1630 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
1633 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
1634 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
1635 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
1636 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
1639 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
1640 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
1641 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
1642 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
1644 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
1645 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
1646 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
1648 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
1649 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
1650 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1652 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1653 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
1654 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1655 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
1656 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
1660 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
1661 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
1662 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
1663 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
1666 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
1667 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
1668 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
1669 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
1671 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
1672 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
1674 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
1675 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
1676 caches don't get confused.
1679 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
1680 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
1681 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
1682 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
1683 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
1686 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
1687 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes #11742.
1688 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
1689 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
1690 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
1691 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
1695 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
1696 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
1697 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
1698 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
1699 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
1700 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
1701 of RAM, and several others.
1703 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1704 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
1705 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
1706 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
1707 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
1709 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
1710 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1711 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1712 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1715 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1716 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
1717 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
1718 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
1719 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
1720 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
1721 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1722 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
1723 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
1724 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
1725 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
1726 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
1727 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
1728 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
1729 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
1730 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
1731 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
1732 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
1733 Resolves ticket 11438.
1735 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
1736 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
1737 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
1738 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
1739 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1740 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1742 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1743 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
1744 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1746 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1747 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
1748 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1750 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1751 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
1752 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
1753 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1755 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1756 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
1757 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
1759 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1760 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
1761 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1764 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
1765 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
1766 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
1767 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
1770 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1771 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
1772 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
1773 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
1775 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1776 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
1777 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
1778 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
1780 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1781 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
1782 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
1786 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
1787 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
1788 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
1789 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
1790 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
1791 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
1792 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
1793 the Linux sandbox code.
1795 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
1796 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
1797 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
1799 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
1800 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1802 o Major features (security):
1803 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
1804 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
1805 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
1806 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
1807 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
1808 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
1809 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
1810 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
1812 o Major features (relay performance):
1813 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
1814 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
1815 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
1816 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
1817 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
1818 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
1819 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
1820 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
1821 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
1822 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
1824 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
1825 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
1826 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
1827 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
1828 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
1829 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
1830 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
1832 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
1833 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
1835 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
1836 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
1837 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
1838 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
1839 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
1840 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
1841 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1842 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
1843 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
1844 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
1845 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
1846 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
1847 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
1848 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
1849 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
1850 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
1851 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
1852 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
1853 Resolves ticket 11438.
1855 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
1856 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
1857 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
1858 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1860 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
1861 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
1862 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
1863 10267; patch from "yurivict".
1864 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
1865 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
1866 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
1867 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
1868 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
1869 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
1871 o Minor features (security):
1872 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
1873 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
1874 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
1875 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
1878 o Minor features (log verbosity):
1879 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
1880 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
1881 Resolves ticket 5286.
1882 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
1883 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
1884 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
1885 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
1886 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
1887 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
1888 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
1889 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
1890 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
1892 o Minor features (relay):
1893 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
1894 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
1895 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
1897 o Minor features (controller):
1898 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
1899 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
1901 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
1902 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
1903 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
1905 o Minor features (bridge client):
1906 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
1907 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
1908 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
1910 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1911 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
1912 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
1913 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
1914 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
1915 still referenced by a live node_t object.
1917 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
1918 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
1919 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
1920 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
1922 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
1923 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
1924 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
1925 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
1928 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
1929 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
1930 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1932 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
1933 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
1934 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
1935 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1936 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
1937 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
1938 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1940 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
1941 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
1942 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
1943 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1944 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
1945 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
1946 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1947 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
1948 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
1949 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
1950 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1951 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
1952 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
1955 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
1956 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
1957 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
1958 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
1959 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
1961 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
1962 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
1963 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
1966 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1967 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
1968 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1970 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1971 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
1972 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1974 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1975 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
1976 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
1977 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1979 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
1980 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
1981 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1982 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
1983 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
1985 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
1986 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
1987 early. Fixes bug 10081.
1989 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
1990 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
1991 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1992 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
1993 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1994 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
1995 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
1996 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
1998 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
1999 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
2000 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
2001 should never have affected anyone in practice.
2003 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
2004 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
2005 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2007 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
2008 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
2009 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
2010 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
2011 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
2012 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
2013 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
2014 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
2015 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
2016 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
2017 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
2018 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
2019 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
2020 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
2022 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
2023 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
2024 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
2025 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
2026 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
2027 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
2028 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
2029 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
2033 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
2034 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
2035 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
2036 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2037 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
2038 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2039 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
2040 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
2042 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
2044 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2045 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
2046 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
2047 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
2048 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
2051 o Deprecated versions:
2052 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2053 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
2054 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
2055 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
2058 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
2059 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
2060 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
2061 Patch from Dana Koch.
2064 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
2065 Resolves ticket 11070.
2068 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
2069 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
2070 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
2071 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
2072 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
2075 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
2076 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
2078 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
2079 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
2080 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
2081 streams attached to each circuit.
2083 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
2084 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
2085 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
2086 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
2087 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
2088 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
2089 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
2090 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
2091 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
2092 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
2093 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
2094 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
2095 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
2097 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
2098 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
2099 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2101 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2102 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
2103 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
2104 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
2105 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
2106 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
2107 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
2108 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
2109 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
2111 o Minor features (other):
2112 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
2113 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
2114 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
2115 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
2116 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
2117 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
2118 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
2119 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
2120 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2123 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
2124 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2125 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2126 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2127 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2128 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2129 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2130 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2132 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2133 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
2134 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
2135 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
2136 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2137 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
2138 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
2139 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
2141 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
2142 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
2143 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
2144 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
2145 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
2146 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2147 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
2148 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
2149 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2150 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
2151 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
2152 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2154 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
2155 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
2156 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2157 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
2158 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
2159 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
2160 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
2161 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
2162 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2163 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
2164 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2165 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
2166 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
2167 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
2169 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
2170 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
2172 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
2173 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
2174 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
2175 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
2176 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
2177 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
2178 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2179 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
2180 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
2181 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
2182 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
2183 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2184 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
2185 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
2187 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
2188 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
2189 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
2190 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2193 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
2194 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
2195 the rest of bug 10841.
2198 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
2199 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
2200 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
2201 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
2202 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
2203 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
2204 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
2205 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
2206 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
2207 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
2208 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
2209 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2210 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
2211 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
2212 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2214 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2215 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
2216 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
2218 o Test infrastructure:
2219 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
2220 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
2221 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
2222 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2225 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
2226 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
2227 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
2228 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
2230 o Major features (client security):
2231 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2232 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2233 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2234 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2235 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2236 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2239 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2240 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2241 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2242 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2244 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2245 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2246 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
2247 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
2248 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
2251 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2252 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2254 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2255 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2256 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2257 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2258 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
2259 GeoLite2 Country database.
2262 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2263 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2264 bugfix on every released Tor.
2265 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2266 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2267 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2268 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2269 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2270 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2271 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2272 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2273 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2274 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2275 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2276 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2277 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2278 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2279 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2281 o Documentation fixes:
2282 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2283 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2286 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
2287 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
2288 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
2289 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
2290 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
2291 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
2292 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
2293 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
2295 o Major features (client security):
2296 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2297 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2298 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2299 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2300 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2301 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2302 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
2303 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
2304 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
2305 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
2306 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
2307 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
2309 o Major features (bridges):
2310 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
2311 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
2312 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
2313 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
2314 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
2315 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
2316 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
2317 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
2320 o Major features (other):
2321 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
2322 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
2323 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
2324 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
2325 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
2326 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
2327 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
2328 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
2329 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
2330 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
2331 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
2332 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
2335 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2336 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2337 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2338 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2339 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2340 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2341 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2343 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2344 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2345 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2346 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2347 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2348 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2349 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2350 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2351 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2353 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2354 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2355 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2356 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2357 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2358 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2360 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2361 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2362 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2363 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2364 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2365 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2368 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2369 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
2370 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
2371 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
2372 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
2373 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
2374 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
2376 o Minor features (security):
2377 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2378 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2381 o Minor features (config options and command line):
2382 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
2383 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
2384 Implements ticket 10060.
2385 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
2386 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
2387 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
2389 o Minor features (controller):
2390 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
2391 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
2392 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
2393 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
2394 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
2397 o Minor features (build):
2398 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
2399 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
2400 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
2401 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
2402 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
2403 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
2404 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
2406 o Minor features (testing):
2407 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
2408 the unit test scripts.
2409 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
2410 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
2411 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
2412 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
2414 o Minor features (log messages):
2415 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
2416 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
2417 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
2418 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
2419 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
2420 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
2421 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
2422 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
2423 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2424 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2426 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2427 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2428 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2429 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2430 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2431 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2432 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2433 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2434 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2435 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2437 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2438 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
2439 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
2440 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
2443 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2444 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2445 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2446 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2447 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2449 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2450 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
2451 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
2452 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
2453 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
2454 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
2455 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
2457 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
2458 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
2459 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
2460 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
2461 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
2462 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
2463 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2465 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
2466 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
2467 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
2468 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2470 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
2471 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
2472 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
2473 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
2474 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
2475 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
2476 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
2477 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
2478 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
2479 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
2480 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2482 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
2483 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
2484 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
2485 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
2486 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
2487 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
2488 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
2489 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
2490 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
2491 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
2493 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
2494 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
2495 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
2496 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
2499 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2500 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
2501 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
2502 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
2503 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
2504 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
2506 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
2507 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2509 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2510 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2511 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2512 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2514 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2515 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
2516 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
2517 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2518 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
2519 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
2520 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
2521 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2522 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
2523 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
2524 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
2525 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
2526 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
2527 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
2529 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2530 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2531 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2532 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2533 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2534 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2536 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2537 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2538 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2539 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2540 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2541 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2542 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2543 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2544 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2545 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2546 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2547 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2549 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2550 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2551 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2552 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2553 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2554 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2555 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2556 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2557 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2558 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2559 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2560 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2561 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2562 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2563 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2564 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2567 o Removed code and features:
2568 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
2569 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
2570 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
2571 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
2572 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
2573 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
2575 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
2576 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
2577 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
2578 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
2579 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
2580 part of a fix for bug 10841.
2582 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2583 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
2584 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
2585 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
2586 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
2587 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
2588 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
2589 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2590 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
2591 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
2592 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
2595 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
2596 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
2597 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
2598 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2599 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2601 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2602 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2603 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2604 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2605 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2606 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2607 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2610 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
2611 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
2612 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
2615 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
2616 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
2617 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
2618 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
2619 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
2620 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
2621 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
2623 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
2624 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
2627 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2628 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2629 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2630 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2631 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2632 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2633 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2634 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2636 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2637 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2638 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2639 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2640 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2641 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2644 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2645 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2646 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2647 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2648 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2651 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
2652 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
2653 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
2654 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
2655 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
2656 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
2657 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
2658 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
2660 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
2661 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
2662 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
2663 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
2664 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
2665 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
2666 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
2667 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
2668 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
2669 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
2670 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
2671 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
2672 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
2673 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
2674 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
2675 security, and privacy fixes.
2678 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
2679 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2680 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
2681 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
2684 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
2685 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
2686 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
2687 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
2688 them to solve bug 6033.)
2691 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2692 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2693 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2694 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
2695 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
2696 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2697 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2698 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2700 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
2701 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
2702 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
2703 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2705 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
2706 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2707 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2708 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2709 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2710 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2711 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2712 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2713 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2714 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2715 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2716 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2718 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
2719 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2720 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2721 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2722 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2723 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2724 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2725 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2726 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2727 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2728 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2729 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2730 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2731 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2732 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2733 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2736 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
2737 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
2738 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
2739 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
2740 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
2741 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
2742 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
2743 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
2744 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
2745 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
2746 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
2747 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
2748 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
2749 Implements part of proposal 222.
2751 o Minor features (other):
2752 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2753 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2754 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2755 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2756 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2757 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2758 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2759 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2760 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2762 o Documentation fixes:
2763 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2764 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2765 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2766 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2767 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2768 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2771 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
2772 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
2773 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
2774 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
2775 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
2776 release of the new branch.
2778 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
2779 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
2780 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
2782 o Major features (security):
2783 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
2784 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
2785 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
2786 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
2787 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
2788 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
2789 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
2790 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
2791 Google Summer of Code.
2792 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
2793 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
2794 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
2795 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
2796 them to solve bug 6033.)
2798 o Major features (other):
2799 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
2800 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
2801 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
2802 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
2803 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
2805 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
2806 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
2807 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
2808 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
2809 Implements ticket 8530.
2810 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
2811 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
2814 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
2815 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
2816 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
2817 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
2818 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
2819 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2820 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
2821 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
2822 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2823 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
2824 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
2825 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
2826 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2829 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
2830 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
2831 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
2832 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
2833 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
2834 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
2835 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
2836 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
2837 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
2838 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
2842 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
2843 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
2844 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
2845 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
2846 invoking the other functions it calls.
2847 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
2848 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
2849 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
2850 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
2852 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
2853 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
2854 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
2855 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
2856 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
2857 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
2858 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
2859 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
2860 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
2861 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
2862 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
2863 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
2864 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
2865 Implements part of proposal 222.
2867 o Minor features (config options):
2868 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
2869 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
2870 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
2871 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
2872 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
2873 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
2874 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
2875 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
2876 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
2877 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
2878 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
2879 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
2880 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
2881 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
2882 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
2883 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
2884 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
2887 o Minor features (build):
2888 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
2889 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
2890 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
2891 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
2892 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
2895 o Minor features (other):
2896 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
2897 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
2898 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
2899 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
2900 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
2901 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
2902 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
2903 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
2904 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
2905 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
2906 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
2907 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
2909 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2912 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2913 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2914 bugfix on every released Tor.
2915 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
2916 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
2917 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
2918 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
2919 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
2920 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
2922 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
2923 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
2924 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
2925 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2926 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
2927 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
2928 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
2929 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2931 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
2932 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
2933 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
2934 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
2935 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
2937 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
2938 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2940 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
2941 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
2942 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
2944 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
2945 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
2946 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
2947 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
2948 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2950 o Minor code improvements:
2951 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
2952 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
2954 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
2955 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
2956 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
2957 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
2958 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
2961 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
2962 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
2963 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
2964 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
2966 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2967 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
2968 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
2969 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
2970 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
2971 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
2972 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
2973 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
2974 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
2975 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
2976 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
2977 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
2978 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
2979 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
2980 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
2981 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
2984 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
2985 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2986 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
2987 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
2988 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
2989 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
2990 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
2993 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
2994 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
2995 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
2996 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
2997 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
2998 Implements ticket 9574.
3001 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
3002 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
3003 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3004 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
3005 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
3006 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
3007 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
3008 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
3009 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3010 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
3011 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
3012 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
3016 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
3017 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
3018 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
3019 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
3021 o Minor fixes (config options):
3022 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
3023 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
3024 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
3025 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
3026 message is logged at notice, not at info.
3027 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
3028 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
3029 or we just won't work.)
3032 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
3033 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
3034 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
3035 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3038 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
3039 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3040 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
3043 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
3044 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
3045 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3046 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
3047 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3048 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
3049 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
3051 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
3052 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3053 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
3054 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
3057 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
3058 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
3059 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3060 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
3061 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
3062 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
3063 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
3064 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
3065 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
3066 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
3067 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3068 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
3069 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3072 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3075 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
3076 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3077 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3078 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3081 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
3082 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
3083 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3086 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
3087 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
3088 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
3091 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
3092 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
3093 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3096 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
3097 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
3098 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
3099 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
3100 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
3101 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3103 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
3104 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
3105 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
3106 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
3107 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
3108 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3110 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
3111 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
3112 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3115 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
3116 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
3117 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
3118 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
3119 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
3121 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
3122 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
3123 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
3124 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3125 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
3126 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
3127 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
3129 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
3130 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
3131 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
3133 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
3134 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
3138 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
3139 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
3140 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
3142 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
3143 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
3144 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
3145 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
3146 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
3147 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
3149 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
3150 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
3151 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
3152 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
3153 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
3154 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
3155 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3158 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
3159 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
3160 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
3161 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
3162 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
3163 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
3164 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3165 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
3166 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3167 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
3168 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
3169 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3170 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
3171 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
3173 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
3174 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
3175 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
3176 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
3179 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3180 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
3181 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
3182 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
3183 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
3184 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
3186 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
3187 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
3191 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
3192 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
3193 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
3194 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
3195 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
3196 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
3197 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3199 o Removed documentation:
3200 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
3201 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
3203 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3204 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
3205 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
3206 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
3209 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
3210 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
3211 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
3212 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
3213 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
3214 variety of other issues.
3217 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
3218 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
3219 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
3220 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
3221 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
3222 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3223 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
3224 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
3226 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
3227 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
3228 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
3230 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
3231 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
3232 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
3233 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3234 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
3235 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
3236 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3238 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
3239 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
3240 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
3241 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
3242 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
3243 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
3244 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
3245 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3246 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
3247 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
3248 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
3249 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
3250 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3251 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
3252 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
3253 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
3254 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
3255 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
3256 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
3257 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
3258 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3260 o Major bugfixes (other):
3261 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
3262 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
3263 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
3264 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3267 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
3268 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
3269 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
3270 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
3272 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
3273 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
3275 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3277 o Minor features (build):
3278 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
3279 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
3281 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
3282 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
3284 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
3285 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
3286 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
3289 o Minor bugfixes (build):
3290 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
3291 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3292 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3293 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
3294 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
3295 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3296 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
3297 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
3298 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3299 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
3300 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
3301 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
3302 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
3305 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
3306 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
3307 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
3308 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
3309 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
3310 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
3311 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
3312 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
3313 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
3314 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
3315 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
3316 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
3317 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
3318 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3319 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3321 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3322 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
3323 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3324 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
3325 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
3326 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
3327 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
3328 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3329 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
3330 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
3331 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
3332 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
3333 Should help resolve bug 8235.
3334 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
3335 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
3336 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
3337 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
3340 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
3341 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
3342 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
3343 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
3344 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
3345 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
3346 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
3349 o Minor bugfixes (config):
3350 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
3351 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
3353 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
3354 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
3355 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3356 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
3357 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
3358 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
3359 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3360 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
3361 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
3362 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3363 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
3364 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
3365 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3366 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
3367 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
3370 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
3371 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
3372 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
3373 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
3374 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
3375 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
3376 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
3377 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
3379 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
3380 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
3381 or at least make it more diagnosable.
3382 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
3383 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
3384 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
3385 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3387 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3388 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
3389 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
3390 the relaxed timeout log message.
3391 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
3392 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
3393 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
3395 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
3396 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
3397 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3398 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
3399 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3400 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
3401 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
3404 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3405 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
3406 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
3407 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
3408 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3409 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
3410 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3411 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
3412 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3413 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
3414 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
3415 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
3416 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3417 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
3418 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
3419 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
3420 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3422 o Documentation fixes:
3423 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
3424 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
3425 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
3426 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
3427 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
3428 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
3429 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
3430 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
3433 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
3434 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
3438 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
3439 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
3440 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
3441 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
3443 o Major features (directory authorities):
3444 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
3445 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
3446 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
3447 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
3448 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
3449 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
3450 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
3451 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
3452 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
3453 Implements ticket 8151.
3455 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3456 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
3457 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
3458 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
3459 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3461 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3462 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
3463 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
3464 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
3465 whether authentication information is present, causing all
3466 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
3467 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
3469 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
3470 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
3471 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
3473 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
3474 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
3475 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
3476 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
3477 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
3478 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
3479 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
3480 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
3481 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
3482 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
3483 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
3484 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
3485 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
3486 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
3487 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
3488 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
3489 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
3490 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
3493 o Minor features (portability):
3494 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
3495 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3496 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
3497 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
3498 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
3499 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
3500 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
3501 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3503 o Minor features (other):
3504 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
3505 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
3506 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
3507 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
3508 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
3509 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
3510 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
3511 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
3513 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3515 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3516 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
3517 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
3518 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
3519 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
3520 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3521 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
3522 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
3523 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
3524 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
3526 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
3527 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
3528 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
3529 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3531 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3532 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
3533 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
3534 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
3535 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
3536 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
3537 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
3539 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
3540 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
3541 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
3542 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
3543 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
3545 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
3546 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
3547 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
3548 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3550 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3551 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
3552 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
3555 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
3556 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
3557 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3558 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
3560 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
3561 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3562 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
3563 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3565 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
3566 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
3567 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
3569 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
3570 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
3571 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
3572 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
3574 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
3575 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
3576 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3577 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
3578 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
3579 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
3580 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3582 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3583 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
3587 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
3588 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
3589 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
3590 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
3591 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
3594 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3595 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
3596 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
3597 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3599 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
3600 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
3601 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3605 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
3606 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
3607 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
3608 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
3609 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
3610 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
3611 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
3612 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
3613 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
3614 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3615 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
3616 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
3617 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
3620 o Major features (relay):
3621 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
3622 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
3623 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
3624 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
3625 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
3626 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
3627 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
3629 o Major features (portability):
3630 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
3631 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
3632 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
3633 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
3634 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3637 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
3638 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
3639 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
3640 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
3641 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
3642 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
3644 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
3645 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
3646 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
3647 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
3648 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
3649 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
3650 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
3651 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
3653 o Minor features (path selection):
3654 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
3655 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
3656 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
3657 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
3658 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
3659 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
3660 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
3661 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
3662 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
3663 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
3664 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
3665 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
3666 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
3667 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
3668 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
3669 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
3670 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
3671 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
3672 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
3674 o Minor features (log messages):
3675 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
3676 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
3677 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
3678 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
3681 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
3682 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
3683 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3684 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
3685 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
3686 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
3687 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
3688 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
3689 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
3690 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3691 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
3692 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3694 o Build improvements:
3695 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
3696 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
3697 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
3698 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
3699 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
3700 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
3701 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
3702 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
3703 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
3704 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
3705 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
3706 than to perform erroneously.
3709 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
3710 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
3711 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
3713 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
3714 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
3715 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
3718 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3719 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
3721 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
3722 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
3726 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
3727 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
3731 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
3732 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
3733 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
3737 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
3738 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
3739 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
3740 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
3743 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
3744 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
3745 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
3746 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
3747 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
3748 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
3749 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
3750 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
3751 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
3752 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
3753 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
3756 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
3757 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
3758 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
3759 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
3760 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
3761 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
3762 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
3763 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
3764 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
3765 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
3766 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
3768 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
3769 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
3770 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
3772 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
3773 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
3774 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
3776 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
3778 o Major features (better link encryption):
3779 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
3780 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
3781 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
3782 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
3783 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
3784 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
3787 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
3788 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
3789 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
3790 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
3791 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
3792 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
3793 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
3795 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
3796 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
3797 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
3798 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
3800 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
3803 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
3804 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
3805 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3808 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
3809 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
3810 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
3811 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
3812 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
3813 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
3814 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
3815 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3816 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3818 o Minor features (testing):
3819 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
3820 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
3821 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
3823 o Minor features (path bias detection):
3824 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
3825 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
3826 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
3827 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
3828 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
3829 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
3830 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
3831 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
3832 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
3833 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
3834 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
3835 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
3836 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
3837 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
3838 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
3839 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
3840 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
3841 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
3842 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
3843 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
3844 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
3845 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
3846 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
3847 detection capability loss.
3849 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3850 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
3851 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
3852 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
3853 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3854 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
3855 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
3856 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
3859 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3860 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
3861 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
3862 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
3863 and the different handshakes it supports.
3864 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
3865 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
3866 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
3867 any encoding is overkill.
3870 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
3871 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
3872 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
3873 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
3874 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
3875 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
3876 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
3877 and fixes a variety of other issues.
3879 o Major features (client resilience):
3880 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
3881 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
3882 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
3883 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
3884 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
3885 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
3886 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
3887 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
3888 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
3889 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
3890 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
3891 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
3892 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
3893 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
3894 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
3896 o Major features (IPv6):
3897 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
3898 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
3899 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
3900 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
3901 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
3902 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
3903 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
3904 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
3906 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
3907 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
3909 o Major features (geoip database):
3910 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
3911 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
3912 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
3913 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
3914 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
3915 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
3916 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
3917 Country database, as modified above.
3919 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
3920 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
3921 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
3922 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
3923 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
3924 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
3925 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
3926 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
3927 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
3928 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
3929 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
3930 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
3931 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
3932 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
3933 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
3934 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
3935 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
3938 o Major bugfixes (other):
3939 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
3940 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
3941 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
3942 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
3943 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
3944 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
3945 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
3946 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
3948 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
3949 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
3952 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
3953 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
3954 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
3955 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
3956 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
3957 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
3958 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
3959 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
3961 o Minor features (IPv6):
3962 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
3963 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
3964 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
3965 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
3966 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
3967 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
3968 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
3969 connect to the wrong addresses.
3970 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
3971 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
3972 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
3973 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
3977 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
3978 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
3979 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
3981 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
3982 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
3983 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
3985 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
3986 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
3987 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
3990 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
3991 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
3993 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3994 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
3995 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
3996 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
3997 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
4000 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
4001 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
4002 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
4003 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
4004 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
4005 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
4006 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
4007 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
4009 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
4010 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
4011 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
4012 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
4013 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
4014 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
4015 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
4016 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
4017 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
4018 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
4019 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
4022 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4023 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4024 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4025 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4026 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4027 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4028 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4029 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4030 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4031 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4034 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4035 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4039 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
4040 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
4041 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
4042 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
4045 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
4046 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
4048 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4049 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4050 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4051 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4052 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4053 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4054 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4055 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4056 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4057 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4060 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
4062 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
4063 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
4064 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
4065 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
4066 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
4069 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
4070 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
4071 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4072 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4073 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4075 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
4076 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4077 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
4078 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
4079 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
4080 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
4081 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
4083 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
4084 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4085 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
4086 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
4087 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
4088 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4089 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
4090 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4092 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4093 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
4094 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
4095 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
4096 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
4097 present the same extensions.)
4100 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
4101 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
4102 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
4103 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
4104 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
4106 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4107 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4108 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4109 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4111 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4112 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4113 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4114 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4116 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4117 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4118 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4119 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4120 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4121 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4122 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4123 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4124 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4126 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4127 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4128 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4129 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4130 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4133 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
4134 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
4135 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
4137 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4138 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
4140 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
4141 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
4145 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
4146 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
4147 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
4148 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
4151 o Major bugfixes (security):
4152 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4153 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4154 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4156 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4157 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4158 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4159 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4162 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4163 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4164 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4165 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4166 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4167 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4168 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4169 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4172 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4173 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4174 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4175 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4178 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
4179 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4180 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
4181 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
4182 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
4183 scheduling algorithms.
4185 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4186 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4187 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4189 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4190 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4191 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4192 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4193 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4194 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4195 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4196 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4197 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4198 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4199 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4201 o Internal abstraction features:
4202 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
4203 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
4204 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
4205 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
4206 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
4207 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
4208 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
4209 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
4210 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
4211 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
4212 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
4213 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
4214 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
4215 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
4216 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
4217 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
4218 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
4220 o Required libraries:
4221 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
4222 strongly recommended.
4225 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
4226 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
4227 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
4228 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
4229 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
4230 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
4231 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
4232 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
4233 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
4235 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4236 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
4237 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
4238 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4239 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4240 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4241 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4242 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4243 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4244 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4245 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4246 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4247 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4248 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4249 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4252 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
4253 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
4254 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
4255 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
4256 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
4257 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
4258 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
4259 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
4260 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
4261 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
4262 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
4263 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4264 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
4265 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
4266 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4267 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
4268 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
4269 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
4270 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
4272 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
4273 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
4274 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
4275 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
4276 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
4277 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
4278 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
4281 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
4282 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4283 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
4284 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
4286 o New directory authorities:
4287 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4288 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4290 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
4291 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4292 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4293 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4294 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4295 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4296 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4297 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4298 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4299 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4300 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4303 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4304 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4305 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4307 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4308 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4309 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4310 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4311 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4312 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4313 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4314 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4315 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4317 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4318 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
4319 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
4320 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4321 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4322 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4323 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4324 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4325 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4326 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
4327 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4328 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4329 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4330 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
4331 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4332 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4333 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4334 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4336 o Documentation fixes:
4337 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4340 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
4341 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4342 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
4343 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
4346 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4347 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4348 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4351 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4352 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4353 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4354 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
4355 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
4356 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
4357 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
4358 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4360 o Security features:
4361 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
4362 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
4363 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
4364 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
4365 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
4366 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
4367 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
4368 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
4369 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
4373 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
4374 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
4375 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
4378 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4379 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4380 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4381 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
4382 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4383 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
4384 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
4385 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
4386 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4387 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4388 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4389 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
4390 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
4391 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
4393 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
4394 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4395 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
4396 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
4397 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4399 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
4400 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
4401 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
4402 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4403 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
4404 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
4405 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4406 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
4407 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4408 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4409 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4410 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4411 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
4412 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4413 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
4414 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
4415 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4416 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
4417 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
4418 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
4420 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4421 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
4422 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
4423 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
4424 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
4425 testable, and a little less fragile too.
4426 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
4427 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4429 o Documentation fixes:
4430 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4431 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
4435 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
4436 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4440 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4441 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4442 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4445 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4446 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4450 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
4451 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
4455 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4456 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4457 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4458 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4459 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4460 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4461 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4465 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
4466 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
4467 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
4468 log messages less noisy.
4471 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
4472 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
4476 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
4477 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
4478 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
4479 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
4480 last time we raised it).
4483 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
4484 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
4486 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
4487 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
4488 part of ticket 6736.
4489 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
4490 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
4491 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
4495 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
4496 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
4497 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4498 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4499 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4501 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
4502 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4503 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
4504 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
4505 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4506 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
4507 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
4508 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4509 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
4510 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4511 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
4512 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4515 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
4516 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
4517 bunch of compatibility code.
4520 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
4521 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
4522 the ORPort and the DirPort.
4525 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
4526 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
4527 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
4528 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
4530 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
4531 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4532 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
4534 o Major features (bridges):
4535 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
4536 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
4537 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
4540 o Major features (IPv6):
4541 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
4542 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
4543 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
4544 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
4545 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
4546 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
4547 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
4548 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
4549 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
4551 o Major features (build):
4552 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
4553 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
4554 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
4555 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
4556 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
4557 fixes by Jim Meyering.
4558 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
4559 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
4560 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
4562 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
4563 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
4564 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
4565 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
4566 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
4567 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
4568 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
4569 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
4570 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
4571 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
4572 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
4574 o Minor features (streamlining);
4575 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
4576 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
4578 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
4579 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
4580 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
4581 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
4582 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
4583 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4585 o Minor features (controller):
4586 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
4588 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
4589 Implements ticket 4971.
4591 o Minor features (IPv6):
4592 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
4593 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
4594 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
4595 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
4596 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
4598 o Minor features (log messages):
4599 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
4600 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
4601 Resolves ticket 6758.
4602 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
4603 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
4604 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
4605 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4606 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
4607 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
4608 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
4610 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
4611 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
4612 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
4613 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4614 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
4617 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4618 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
4619 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
4620 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
4621 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
4623 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
4624 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
4625 Implements ticket 5529.
4626 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
4627 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
4628 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
4629 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
4630 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
4631 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
4632 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
4633 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
4634 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
4635 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
4638 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
4639 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
4640 from a source distribution.)
4643 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
4644 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4645 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
4646 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
4647 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
4648 and cleans up other smaller issues.
4650 o Major bugfixes (security):
4651 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
4652 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
4653 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
4654 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
4655 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
4656 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
4657 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
4658 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
4659 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
4660 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
4661 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
4662 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4663 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4664 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4665 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4666 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4670 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
4671 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
4672 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
4673 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4674 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
4675 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
4676 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
4677 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
4678 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
4679 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4682 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
4683 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
4684 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
4685 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
4686 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4687 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
4688 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
4689 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
4690 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
4691 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
4692 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
4694 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
4695 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
4696 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
4698 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
4699 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
4700 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
4701 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
4702 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4703 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
4704 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
4705 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
4706 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4707 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
4708 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4709 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
4710 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
4711 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
4714 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4715 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
4716 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
4717 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
4718 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4719 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
4720 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
4721 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
4722 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
4723 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
4724 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4725 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
4726 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
4727 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
4728 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4731 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
4732 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
4733 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
4734 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
4735 Resolves ticket 6732.
4738 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
4739 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
4740 attack that could in theory leak path information.
4743 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
4744 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
4745 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4746 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
4747 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
4748 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
4749 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
4750 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
4751 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
4752 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
4753 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
4754 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
4755 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
4756 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4759 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
4760 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4761 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
4762 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
4765 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
4766 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
4767 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4768 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
4769 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
4770 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4771 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
4772 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
4773 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
4774 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
4775 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
4776 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
4777 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
4778 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
4779 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
4780 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
4781 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4784 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
4785 a little more useful.
4786 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
4787 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4788 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
4789 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
4790 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
4791 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
4792 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
4795 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
4796 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4797 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
4798 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4799 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
4800 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
4804 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
4805 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
4806 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
4807 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
4808 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
4811 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
4812 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
4813 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
4816 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
4818 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
4820 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4821 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
4822 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
4823 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
4824 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
4827 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
4828 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4829 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
4830 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
4831 since the beginning of Tor.
4834 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
4835 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
4836 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
4837 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
4838 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
4839 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
4840 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
4841 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4842 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
4843 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4846 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
4847 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4850 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
4851 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4852 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4853 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4856 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
4857 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4858 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
4859 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
4860 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
4861 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4864 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
4865 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
4866 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
4867 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
4868 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
4869 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4870 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
4871 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
4872 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
4873 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
4874 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
4875 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
4876 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4877 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
4878 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
4879 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4880 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
4881 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4883 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4884 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
4885 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
4887 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
4888 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4889 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
4890 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
4892 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
4893 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4894 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
4895 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4896 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
4897 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
4898 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4899 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
4900 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4901 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
4902 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4903 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
4904 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
4905 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4906 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
4907 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
4910 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
4911 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
4912 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
4913 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
4914 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
4917 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
4918 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
4919 options. Closes bug 4748.
4922 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
4923 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
4924 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
4925 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
4926 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
4930 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
4931 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
4933 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
4934 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
4935 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
4936 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
4937 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
4938 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
4939 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
4940 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
4941 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
4944 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
4945 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
4946 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
4947 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
4948 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
4949 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
4950 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
4951 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
4954 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
4955 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
4956 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
4957 case for flushing marked connections.
4958 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
4959 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4960 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
4961 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
4962 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
4963 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
4964 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4965 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
4966 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4967 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
4968 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
4969 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
4970 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4971 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
4972 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
4973 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
4974 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4975 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
4976 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4977 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
4978 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
4979 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
4980 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4981 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
4982 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
4984 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
4985 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4986 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
4990 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
4991 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
4992 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
4993 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
4994 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
4995 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
4996 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
4997 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
4998 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
4999 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
5000 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
5001 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
5002 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
5003 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
5004 Addresses ticket 5458.
5005 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5007 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5008 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
5009 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
5012 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
5013 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5014 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5018 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5019 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5020 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5021 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5022 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5023 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5024 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5025 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5026 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5027 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5028 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5031 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5032 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5035 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5036 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5039 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
5040 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5041 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5042 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
5043 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5045 o Major bugfixes (general):
5046 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5047 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5048 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5049 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5050 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5051 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5052 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5053 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
5054 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
5056 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
5057 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
5058 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
5059 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
5062 o Major bugfixes (clients):
5063 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
5064 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
5065 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
5066 which introduced predicted ports.
5067 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5068 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5069 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5070 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5071 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
5072 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
5073 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
5074 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
5075 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
5076 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
5077 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5078 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
5079 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
5081 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
5082 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
5083 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
5084 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
5085 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
5086 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
5087 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
5088 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
5089 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
5090 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
5091 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
5095 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
5096 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
5097 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
5098 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
5099 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
5100 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
5101 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
5102 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
5103 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
5104 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
5105 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
5106 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
5107 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
5108 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
5110 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
5111 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
5112 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
5113 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
5114 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
5115 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
5116 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
5117 sure. Closes bug 5139.
5118 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
5119 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
5120 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
5121 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
5122 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5123 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5124 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5126 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
5127 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5128 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5129 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5130 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5131 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5132 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5133 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5134 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5135 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5136 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5137 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5138 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5139 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5140 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5141 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5142 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5143 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5144 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5145 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5147 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5148 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
5149 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
5150 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
5151 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
5152 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
5153 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
5154 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
5155 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
5156 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
5157 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
5158 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
5159 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
5161 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
5162 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5163 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
5164 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
5166 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
5167 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
5168 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5169 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
5170 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
5171 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5172 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5173 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5174 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
5175 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
5177 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
5178 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
5179 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5182 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
5183 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
5184 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
5185 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
5186 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
5187 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
5188 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
5189 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5190 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
5191 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
5192 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5193 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
5194 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
5195 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
5196 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5197 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
5198 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
5199 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
5200 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
5202 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
5203 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
5204 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5205 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
5206 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
5207 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
5209 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
5210 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
5211 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
5213 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
5214 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
5215 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5216 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5217 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
5218 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5220 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5221 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
5222 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
5224 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
5225 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
5226 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5227 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
5228 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
5229 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5230 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
5231 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
5232 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5233 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5234 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
5235 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
5236 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5237 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
5238 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
5239 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
5241 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
5242 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
5243 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5244 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
5245 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
5246 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5247 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
5248 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5249 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
5250 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5251 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
5252 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5253 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
5256 o Documentation fixes:
5257 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
5258 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
5259 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
5260 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
5261 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
5262 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
5265 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
5266 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
5270 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
5271 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
5272 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
5273 and fixes several crash bugs.
5275 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
5276 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
5277 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
5278 those packages and upgrade anyway.
5280 o Directory authority changes:
5281 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5282 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5286 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5287 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5288 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5289 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5290 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5291 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5292 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5293 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5294 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5295 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5296 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5297 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5298 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5299 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5300 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5301 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5302 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5303 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5304 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5305 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5306 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5307 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5308 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5309 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5310 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5311 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5312 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
5315 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5316 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5317 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5318 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5320 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5321 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5323 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5324 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5325 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5326 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5327 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5328 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5329 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5330 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5333 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5334 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5335 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5336 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5337 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5338 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5339 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5340 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5341 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5342 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5343 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5344 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5345 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5346 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5347 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5348 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5349 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5350 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5351 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5352 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5353 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5354 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5355 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5356 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5357 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5358 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5359 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5360 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5361 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5362 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5363 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5364 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5365 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5366 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5367 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5368 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5369 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5370 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5371 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5372 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5373 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
5374 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5375 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5376 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5377 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5378 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5380 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
5381 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5382 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5383 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5384 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5385 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5386 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5387 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5388 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5389 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5390 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5391 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5392 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5393 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5394 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5397 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5398 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5399 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5400 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5402 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5405 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5406 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5407 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5408 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5409 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5410 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5411 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5414 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
5415 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
5416 the development branch build on Windows again.
5418 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5419 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
5420 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
5421 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
5422 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
5423 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
5424 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
5425 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
5426 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5427 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
5428 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
5429 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
5430 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5431 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
5432 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
5434 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5435 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
5436 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
5437 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5438 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
5440 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
5441 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5442 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
5443 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
5444 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
5445 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5448 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
5449 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
5450 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
5451 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
5452 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
5453 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
5454 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
5455 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
5456 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
5459 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
5460 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
5461 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
5462 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
5466 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
5467 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
5468 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
5469 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
5471 o Directory authority changes:
5472 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5476 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5477 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5478 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5479 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5481 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
5482 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
5483 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
5484 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
5486 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
5487 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
5488 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5490 o Major features (performance):
5491 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
5492 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
5493 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
5494 much faster than other AES implementations.
5496 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
5497 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
5498 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
5499 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
5500 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
5501 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
5502 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5503 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5504 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5505 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5506 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5507 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
5508 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
5509 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5510 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5511 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
5512 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
5513 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5515 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
5516 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
5517 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
5518 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5519 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
5520 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5521 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
5522 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
5523 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
5525 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
5526 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
5527 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5528 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
5529 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
5530 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5533 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
5534 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
5535 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
5536 please let us know about it.
5537 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
5538 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
5539 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
5540 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
5541 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5542 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5543 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
5544 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
5546 o Default torrc changes:
5547 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
5548 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
5550 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
5551 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
5552 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
5556 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
5557 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
5558 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
5559 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
5562 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
5563 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
5564 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
5565 it would be a bad idea to start.
5568 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
5569 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
5570 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
5571 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5573 o Directory authority changes:
5574 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5577 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5578 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5579 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5580 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5581 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5582 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5583 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
5584 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5585 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5586 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5587 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5588 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5589 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5590 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5591 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5592 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5594 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
5595 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
5596 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
5597 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
5598 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
5599 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5600 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
5601 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
5602 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5603 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
5604 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
5605 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
5607 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
5608 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
5609 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5610 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
5611 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5613 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5614 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
5615 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
5616 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
5617 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
5618 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5619 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5620 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5621 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5622 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5623 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5624 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5625 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5626 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5627 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5628 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
5629 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
5630 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
5631 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
5632 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
5633 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
5634 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
5637 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5638 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
5639 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5640 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
5641 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
5642 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
5643 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
5644 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
5645 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5646 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
5647 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
5648 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
5649 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
5650 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
5651 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
5652 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
5653 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
5656 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
5657 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
5658 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5661 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
5662 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
5663 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
5664 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
5667 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5668 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5670 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
5671 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
5672 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
5673 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5674 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
5675 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
5676 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
5677 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5678 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
5679 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
5680 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
5681 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5684 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
5685 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
5686 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
5687 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
5688 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
5689 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
5690 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5693 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5694 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5695 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5696 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5697 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
5698 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
5699 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
5700 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
5701 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
5702 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
5704 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
5705 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
5706 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
5707 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
5708 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5709 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5710 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5711 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
5712 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
5715 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5716 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
5717 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
5721 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
5722 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
5723 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
5724 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
5725 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
5726 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
5729 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
5730 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
5731 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
5732 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
5733 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
5734 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
5735 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
5736 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
5738 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
5739 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
5740 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
5741 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
5742 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
5743 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
5744 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
5745 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
5747 o Major security workaround:
5748 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5749 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5750 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5751 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5752 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5753 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5754 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5755 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5756 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5757 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5758 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5761 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5762 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5763 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5764 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5765 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5766 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5767 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5768 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5769 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
5770 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
5771 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
5772 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
5773 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
5775 o Minor features (controller):
5776 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
5777 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
5778 file. Resolves bug 1101.
5779 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
5780 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
5781 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
5782 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
5783 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
5784 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
5786 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
5787 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
5788 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
5789 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
5790 part of ticket 3457.
5791 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
5792 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
5793 circuit-status' control-port command.
5795 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5796 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5797 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5798 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5799 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5801 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
5802 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
5803 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
5804 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
5805 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
5806 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
5807 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
5809 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5810 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5812 o Minor features (other):
5813 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
5814 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
5815 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
5816 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
5817 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
5818 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
5819 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
5820 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
5822 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
5823 them from the other auths.
5824 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
5825 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
5826 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
5827 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
5829 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5831 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5832 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
5833 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
5834 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
5835 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
5836 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
5837 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
5838 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
5839 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
5840 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
5841 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5842 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
5843 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
5844 be disabled using the new
5845 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
5846 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5847 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
5848 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
5849 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
5850 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
5851 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
5852 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
5853 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
5854 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
5855 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
5856 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
5858 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
5859 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
5860 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
5863 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5864 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5865 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
5867 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5868 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5869 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
5870 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
5871 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5872 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
5873 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5875 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
5876 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5877 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5878 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5879 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
5880 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
5881 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
5882 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
5884 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
5885 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
5886 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5887 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
5888 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
5889 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
5890 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
5891 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
5892 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
5895 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5896 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5897 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5898 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5899 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5900 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5901 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5902 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5903 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5904 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
5905 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
5906 accidentally been reverted.
5907 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
5908 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
5909 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
5910 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
5911 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
5912 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
5913 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5914 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
5915 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
5916 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5917 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
5918 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
5919 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
5920 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
5921 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5922 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
5923 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5924 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
5925 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5928 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5929 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5930 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5931 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5932 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5933 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5934 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5936 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5937 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
5938 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
5939 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
5940 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
5941 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
5942 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
5944 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
5945 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
5946 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
5947 invalid value, rather than just -1.
5948 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
5949 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
5950 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
5951 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
5952 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
5953 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
5954 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
5958 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
5959 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
5960 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
5962 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
5963 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
5964 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
5965 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
5966 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
5967 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
5968 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
5969 (which Tor does not do by default).
5971 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
5972 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
5973 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
5974 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
5975 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
5977 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
5981 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5982 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5983 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5984 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5987 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
5988 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
5989 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
5990 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
5991 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
5992 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
5993 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
5994 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
5995 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5996 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
5997 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6000 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6003 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
6004 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
6005 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6007 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6008 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6009 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6010 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6011 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6012 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6013 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6014 (which Tor does not do by default).
6016 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6017 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6018 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6019 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6020 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6022 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
6023 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
6024 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
6027 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
6028 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
6029 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
6030 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
6031 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
6033 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
6034 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
6037 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6038 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6039 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6040 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6041 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6042 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6043 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6044 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6046 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6047 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6048 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6049 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6050 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6051 close based on processing a cell on it.
6052 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6053 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6054 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6055 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6056 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6057 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6058 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6059 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
6060 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
6061 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
6062 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6063 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6064 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6065 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6066 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
6069 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6070 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6071 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6072 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6073 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6074 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6075 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6077 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6078 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6079 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6080 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6081 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6082 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6083 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6084 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6085 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6086 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6087 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6088 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6089 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6090 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6091 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
6092 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
6093 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
6094 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
6095 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6096 Reported by "troll_un".
6097 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6098 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6099 Reported by "troll_un".
6100 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6101 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6102 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6103 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6106 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6107 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6108 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6109 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6110 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6111 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6112 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6113 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6114 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6115 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6116 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6118 o Packaging changes:
6119 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6120 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6123 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
6124 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6125 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6126 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6127 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6129 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
6130 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
6132 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6133 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6134 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6135 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6136 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6137 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6138 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6139 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6140 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6143 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6146 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
6147 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
6148 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
6149 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
6150 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
6151 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
6152 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
6155 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
6156 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
6157 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
6158 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
6159 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
6160 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
6161 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
6162 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
6163 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
6164 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
6165 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
6166 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
6167 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
6168 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
6169 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
6170 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
6171 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
6172 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
6173 Resolves ticket 4526.
6174 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
6175 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
6176 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
6177 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
6178 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
6179 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
6180 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
6181 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
6182 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
6183 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
6184 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
6185 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
6186 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
6187 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
6188 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
6189 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
6192 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
6193 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
6194 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
6195 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
6196 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
6197 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
6198 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
6199 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
6200 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
6201 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6203 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
6204 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
6205 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
6206 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
6207 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
6208 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
6209 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
6210 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
6211 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
6213 o Minor features (new/different config options):
6214 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
6215 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
6216 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
6217 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
6218 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
6219 Implements issue 933.
6220 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
6221 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
6222 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
6223 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
6224 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
6225 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
6226 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
6227 appending to the list.
6228 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
6229 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
6230 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
6231 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
6233 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
6234 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
6235 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
6236 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
6237 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
6238 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
6239 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
6240 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
6243 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
6244 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
6245 Resolves ticket 2474.
6246 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
6247 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
6248 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
6249 Required by fix for bug 3460.
6250 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
6251 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
6252 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
6253 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
6254 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
6255 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
6256 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
6257 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
6258 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
6260 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6261 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6262 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6264 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
6266 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
6267 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
6269 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
6270 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
6271 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6272 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6273 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
6274 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
6275 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
6277 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
6278 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
6279 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6280 Reported by "troll_un".
6281 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6282 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6283 Reported by "troll_un".
6284 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6285 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6286 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
6287 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
6289 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
6290 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
6292 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
6293 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
6294 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
6295 with help from wanoskarnet.
6296 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
6297 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6300 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
6301 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
6302 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
6303 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6305 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
6306 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
6307 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
6308 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
6309 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
6310 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
6311 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
6312 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
6315 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
6316 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
6317 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
6318 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
6319 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
6320 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
6321 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
6322 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
6323 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
6326 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6327 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6328 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6329 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6331 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6332 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6333 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6334 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6335 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
6336 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
6337 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
6338 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
6339 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
6340 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
6341 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
6342 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
6343 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
6344 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
6345 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
6346 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
6347 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
6348 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
6349 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
6350 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6351 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6352 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6353 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6354 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
6357 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
6358 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
6359 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
6360 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
6361 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
6362 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6363 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
6364 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
6367 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6368 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6369 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6370 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6371 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6372 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6373 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6374 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6375 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6376 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
6377 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
6378 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
6379 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
6380 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
6381 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
6383 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
6384 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
6385 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6386 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6387 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6388 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6389 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6390 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6391 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
6392 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
6393 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
6394 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6395 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6396 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6397 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6398 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6399 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6401 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6402 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
6403 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
6404 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
6405 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6407 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
6408 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
6409 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
6411 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
6412 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
6413 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
6415 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
6416 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
6418 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
6419 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6422 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6423 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6424 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6425 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6426 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6427 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6428 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6429 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6430 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6431 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6432 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
6433 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
6434 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
6435 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
6437 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
6438 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
6439 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6441 o Packaging changes:
6442 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6443 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6445 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6446 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
6447 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
6448 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
6449 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
6450 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
6451 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
6452 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
6453 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
6456 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
6458 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
6459 ./src/test/bench binary.
6460 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
6461 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
6464 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
6465 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
6466 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
6470 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6471 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6472 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6473 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6474 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6475 close based on processing a cell on it.
6476 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
6477 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
6478 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6479 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
6480 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
6481 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
6482 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
6483 cells were introduced.
6486 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6487 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6490 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
6491 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
6492 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
6493 users. Everybody should upgrade.
6495 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
6496 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
6499 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
6500 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
6501 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
6502 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
6503 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
6504 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
6506 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6507 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6508 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6509 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6510 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6511 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6512 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6513 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6514 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6515 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6516 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6517 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6518 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6519 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6520 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6521 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6522 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6523 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6526 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6527 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
6528 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
6529 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
6530 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
6531 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
6532 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
6533 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
6534 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
6535 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
6536 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
6537 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
6538 Partly fixes bug 3825.
6539 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6540 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6541 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6542 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6543 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6544 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6545 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6547 o Major bugfixes (other):
6548 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6549 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6550 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6551 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6552 Found by "frosty_un".
6553 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
6554 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
6555 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
6556 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
6557 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
6558 immensely in tracking this bug down.
6559 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6560 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6563 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6564 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6565 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6566 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6567 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6568 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6569 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
6570 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
6571 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6572 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6573 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6574 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6575 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6576 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6577 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6578 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6579 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6580 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6581 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6582 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6583 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6585 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6586 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
6587 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
6588 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6589 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
6590 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
6591 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
6592 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
6593 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
6594 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
6595 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
6598 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
6599 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
6600 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
6601 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
6602 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6603 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6604 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6605 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6606 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
6607 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
6608 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
6609 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
6610 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
6611 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6613 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6614 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
6615 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
6616 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
6617 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
6618 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
6619 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
6620 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
6623 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
6624 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
6625 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
6627 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
6628 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
6629 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
6630 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
6631 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
6632 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
6633 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
6634 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
6635 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
6636 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
6637 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
6638 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
6639 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
6641 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
6642 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
6643 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
6644 currently connected to them.
6646 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
6647 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
6648 remain; see for example proposal 188.
6650 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6651 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6652 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6653 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6654 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6655 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6656 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6657 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6658 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6659 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6660 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6661 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6662 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6663 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6664 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6665 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6666 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6667 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6670 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
6671 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6672 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6673 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6674 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6675 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6676 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6677 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6678 when bridges were introduced.
6679 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6680 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6681 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6682 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6683 Found by "frosty_un".
6686 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6687 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6689 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6690 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6691 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6692 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6693 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6694 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6695 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6698 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6699 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6700 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6701 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6702 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6703 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6704 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6705 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6706 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6707 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6708 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6709 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6710 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6711 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6712 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6713 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6714 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6715 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6717 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
6718 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6719 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6720 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6721 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6722 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6723 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6724 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6725 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6726 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6727 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6728 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6731 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6732 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6733 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
6734 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6737 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
6738 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6739 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6740 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6741 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6743 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6744 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6745 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6746 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6747 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6748 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6749 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6750 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
6751 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
6752 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6754 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6755 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6756 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6757 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6758 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6759 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6760 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6761 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6762 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6763 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6764 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6765 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6766 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6767 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6768 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6769 Found by "frosty_un".
6770 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6771 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
6772 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
6773 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
6774 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
6775 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6776 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
6777 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
6778 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6779 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
6780 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
6781 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
6782 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6783 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
6784 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
6785 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
6786 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
6787 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
6788 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
6790 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6791 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
6792 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
6793 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
6794 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
6795 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
6796 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
6797 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
6799 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6800 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
6801 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6802 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6803 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
6804 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
6805 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
6806 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
6807 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
6808 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
6809 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
6810 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
6812 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6813 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6814 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
6815 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6816 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
6817 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6818 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6819 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6820 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6822 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6824 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
6825 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
6826 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
6827 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6828 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
6829 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
6830 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
6831 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6833 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
6834 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
6835 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
6836 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
6837 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
6839 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6840 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6841 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6842 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
6843 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6846 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
6847 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
6848 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
6849 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
6850 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
6853 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6854 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6855 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6856 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6857 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6858 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6859 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6860 when bridges were introduced.
6863 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
6864 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
6865 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6867 o Major features (networking):
6868 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
6869 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
6870 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
6871 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
6872 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
6876 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6877 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6878 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6880 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6881 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6882 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6883 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6884 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6886 o Minor features (diagnostics):
6887 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
6888 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
6891 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
6892 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
6893 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
6894 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
6895 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
6896 listed in the network consensus and republish.
6898 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6899 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6900 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6901 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6903 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
6904 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
6905 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
6906 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
6907 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
6908 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
6909 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
6910 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
6911 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
6912 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
6913 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6915 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6916 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6917 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6918 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6919 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6920 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6921 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6922 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
6923 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
6924 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6926 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6927 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
6928 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
6929 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
6930 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
6931 fixes part of bug 2442.
6932 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
6933 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
6934 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
6936 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
6937 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
6938 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
6939 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
6940 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6942 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6943 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
6944 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
6945 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
6946 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
6949 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
6950 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
6951 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
6955 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
6956 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
6957 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
6958 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
6959 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
6960 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
6961 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
6964 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
6965 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
6966 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
6967 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
6968 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
6969 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
6970 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
6973 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
6974 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
6975 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
6976 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
6977 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
6978 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6979 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
6980 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
6981 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6984 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
6985 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
6988 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
6989 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
6990 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
6991 reachable from Iran again.
6994 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6995 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6996 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6998 o Minor features (security):
6999 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
7000 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
7001 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
7002 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
7003 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
7004 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
7005 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
7006 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
7007 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
7008 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
7011 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7012 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7013 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
7014 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
7015 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
7016 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
7017 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7018 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7019 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7021 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
7022 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7023 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7024 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7025 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7027 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7028 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7029 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7030 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7031 fixes part of bug 2442.
7032 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7033 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7034 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7036 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7037 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7038 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7039 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7040 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7043 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7044 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7045 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7046 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7047 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7048 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7051 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
7052 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
7053 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
7054 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
7055 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
7056 bufferevent-based networking backend.
7058 o Major features (stream isolation):
7059 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
7060 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
7061 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
7062 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
7063 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
7064 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
7065 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
7066 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
7067 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
7068 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
7069 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
7070 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
7071 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
7072 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
7074 o Major features (other):
7075 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
7076 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
7077 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
7078 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
7079 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
7080 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
7081 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
7082 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
7083 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
7084 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
7085 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
7086 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
7087 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
7089 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7090 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
7092 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
7093 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
7094 Fixes part of bug 3752.
7095 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
7096 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
7097 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
7098 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
7099 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
7100 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
7101 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7102 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
7103 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
7104 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
7105 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7106 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
7107 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
7108 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
7109 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
7110 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
7111 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
7113 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7114 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7115 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7116 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7117 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7118 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7121 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
7122 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
7123 user. Implements ticket 1692.
7124 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
7125 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
7126 best copy data out of a buffer.
7127 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
7128 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
7129 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
7131 o Minor features (build compatibility):
7132 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
7133 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7134 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7136 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7137 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
7140 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
7141 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7142 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
7143 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
7144 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
7145 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7147 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
7148 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7149 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7150 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7151 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7153 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
7154 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
7155 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
7158 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7159 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7160 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7161 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7162 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7163 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7164 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7165 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7166 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7167 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7168 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7169 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7170 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7171 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7172 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7173 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7174 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7175 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7176 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7179 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7180 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
7181 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
7185 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
7186 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
7187 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
7188 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
7189 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
7190 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
7193 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
7194 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
7195 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
7196 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
7197 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
7198 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
7199 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
7200 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
7201 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
7202 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
7204 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
7205 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
7206 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
7207 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
7208 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
7209 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
7210 many many other features and bugfixes.
7213 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
7214 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
7215 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
7218 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7219 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7220 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7221 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7222 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7223 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7224 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7225 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7228 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7231 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7232 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7233 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7234 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7235 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7236 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7237 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7238 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7239 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7240 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7241 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7242 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7243 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7244 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7245 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7246 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7247 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7248 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7252 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
7253 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
7254 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
7255 up a variety of recently introduced features.
7258 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
7259 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
7260 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
7261 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
7262 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
7263 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
7264 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
7265 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
7266 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
7267 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
7268 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
7269 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
7270 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
7271 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
7272 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
7273 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
7275 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7276 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
7277 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
7278 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
7279 order. Fixes bug 2798.
7280 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
7281 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
7282 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
7283 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
7284 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
7285 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
7289 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
7290 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
7291 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
7292 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
7294 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
7295 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
7296 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
7297 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
7298 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
7299 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
7300 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
7301 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
7302 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
7303 Implements ticket 3264.
7304 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
7305 implements ticket 3439.
7307 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7308 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
7309 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
7310 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
7311 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
7312 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
7313 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
7314 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
7315 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
7316 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
7317 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
7318 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
7319 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
7320 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
7321 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
7322 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
7323 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
7324 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
7325 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
7326 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
7327 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
7328 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
7329 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
7330 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
7331 fails. Spotted by coverity.
7332 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
7333 present. Found by coverity.
7334 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
7335 a directory cache that provides them.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7338 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
7339 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
7340 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
7341 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
7342 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
7344 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
7345 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
7346 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
7347 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7348 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7349 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7350 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
7351 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
7353 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7354 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
7355 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
7356 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
7357 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
7358 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
7359 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
7361 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
7365 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
7366 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
7367 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
7370 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
7371 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
7372 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
7373 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
7376 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
7377 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
7378 discovered by katmagic.
7379 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7380 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7381 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7382 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7383 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7384 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7385 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7386 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7387 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
7388 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
7389 fixes part of bug 3465.
7390 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
7391 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
7395 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7398 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
7399 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
7400 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
7401 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
7402 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
7405 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
7406 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
7407 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
7408 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
7409 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
7412 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7413 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7414 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7415 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7416 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7417 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7420 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
7421 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
7422 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
7423 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7424 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
7425 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
7426 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
7427 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
7428 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
7429 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
7430 fixes part of bug 3407.
7431 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
7432 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
7433 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
7434 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
7435 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
7436 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
7437 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
7438 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
7439 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
7440 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
7442 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
7443 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
7444 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
7445 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
7448 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7450 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7451 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
7452 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
7454 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
7456 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
7459 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
7460 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
7461 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
7462 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
7463 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
7464 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
7468 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
7469 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
7470 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
7471 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7472 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
7473 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
7474 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
7476 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
7477 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
7478 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
7479 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
7480 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
7481 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
7482 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
7483 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
7484 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
7485 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
7486 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
7487 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
7488 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
7489 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
7490 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
7491 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
7492 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
7493 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
7494 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
7498 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
7499 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
7500 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
7501 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
7502 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
7503 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
7504 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
7505 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
7506 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
7510 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7511 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
7512 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
7514 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
7516 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
7517 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
7518 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
7519 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
7520 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7521 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
7522 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
7523 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
7524 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
7526 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
7527 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7528 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
7529 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
7530 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
7531 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
7533 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
7534 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
7536 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
7537 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
7538 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7541 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
7542 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
7543 Resolves ticket 3252.
7544 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
7545 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
7546 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
7547 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
7548 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
7549 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7552 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7553 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7556 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
7557 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
7558 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
7561 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
7562 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7563 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
7564 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
7565 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
7568 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
7569 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7570 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
7571 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
7572 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
7573 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
7574 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
7575 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
7576 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
7580 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
7581 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
7582 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
7583 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
7584 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
7586 o Security/privacy fixes:
7587 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
7588 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
7589 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
7590 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
7591 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
7592 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
7593 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
7594 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7595 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7596 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7597 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7598 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7599 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
7600 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
7601 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7604 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
7605 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
7606 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
7607 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
7608 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
7609 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
7610 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
7611 part of ticket 3076.
7612 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
7613 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
7614 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
7618 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
7619 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
7620 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
7621 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
7622 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
7623 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
7624 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
7625 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
7627 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
7628 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
7629 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
7630 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
7631 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
7632 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
7633 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
7634 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
7635 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
7636 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
7637 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
7638 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
7639 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7642 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
7643 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
7644 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
7645 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
7646 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
7647 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
7648 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
7650 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
7651 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
7652 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
7653 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
7654 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
7655 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
7656 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
7657 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
7658 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
7659 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
7660 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
7661 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
7662 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
7663 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
7664 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
7665 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
7667 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
7668 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
7670 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
7671 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
7673 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
7674 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
7676 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
7677 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
7678 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7680 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
7681 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
7682 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
7683 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
7684 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7685 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
7686 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
7687 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
7688 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
7689 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
7690 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
7692 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
7693 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
7694 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
7695 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
7696 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
7697 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7698 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
7699 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
7700 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
7701 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
7702 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7703 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
7704 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
7708 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
7709 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
7710 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
7714 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
7715 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
7716 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
7717 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
7718 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
7719 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
7721 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
7722 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
7723 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
7726 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
7727 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
7728 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
7729 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
7730 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
7731 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
7732 zero-copy transports where available.
7733 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
7734 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
7735 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
7736 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
7737 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
7738 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
7739 debug it as it breaks.
7740 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
7741 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
7742 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
7743 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
7744 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
7745 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
7746 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
7747 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
7748 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
7749 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
7750 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
7751 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
7752 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
7753 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
7754 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
7755 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
7756 PortForwarding option.
7757 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
7758 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
7759 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
7760 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
7761 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
7762 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
7763 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
7766 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
7767 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
7768 Implements enhancement 1668.
7769 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
7771 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
7772 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
7773 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
7774 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
7775 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
7776 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
7777 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
7779 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
7780 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
7781 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
7782 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
7783 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7784 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
7785 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
7787 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
7788 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
7789 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
7790 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
7791 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
7792 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
7793 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
7795 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
7796 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
7797 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
7798 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
7799 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7800 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
7801 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
7802 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
7803 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
7804 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
7805 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
7806 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7807 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
7808 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
7809 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
7812 o Minor features (controller):
7813 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
7814 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
7815 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
7816 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
7817 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
7818 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
7819 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
7822 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
7823 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
7824 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
7825 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
7826 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
7827 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
7828 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
7829 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
7831 o Minor packaging issues:
7832 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
7833 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
7835 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7836 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
7837 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
7838 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
7839 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
7840 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
7841 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
7842 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
7843 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
7844 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
7845 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
7846 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
7847 our library structure used to force them to link it.
7850 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
7851 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
7852 are no longer in use as servers.
7854 o Documentation fixes:
7855 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
7856 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
7857 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
7861 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
7862 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
7863 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
7864 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
7865 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
7866 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
7867 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
7868 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
7869 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
7870 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
7873 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
7874 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
7875 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
7876 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
7877 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
7878 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
7879 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
7880 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
7881 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
7882 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7883 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
7884 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
7885 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7886 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
7887 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
7888 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
7890 o Security and stability fixes:
7891 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
7892 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
7893 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
7894 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
7895 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
7896 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
7897 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
7898 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
7899 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
7900 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
7901 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
7902 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
7903 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7904 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
7905 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
7906 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7909 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
7910 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
7911 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
7912 contributions to the network.
7914 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
7915 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
7916 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
7917 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
7918 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
7919 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
7920 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
7921 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
7922 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
7923 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
7924 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
7925 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
7926 connections to directory servers.
7927 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
7928 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
7929 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
7930 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
7931 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
7932 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
7933 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
7934 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
7935 information, or fetch directory information.
7936 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
7937 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
7938 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
7939 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
7940 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
7941 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
7942 unless you really want your Tor to break.
7943 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
7944 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
7945 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
7946 - When StrictNodes is 1:
7947 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
7948 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
7949 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
7950 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
7951 reachability self-tests.
7952 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
7953 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
7954 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
7955 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
7956 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7957 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
7958 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
7960 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
7961 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7962 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
7963 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
7964 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
7965 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7966 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
7967 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
7968 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
7969 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
7970 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
7973 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
7974 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
7975 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
7976 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
7977 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
7978 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7979 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
7980 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
7981 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
7982 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
7983 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
7984 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7985 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
7986 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
7987 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7988 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
7989 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
7991 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
7992 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
7993 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
7994 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
7995 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7996 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
7997 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7998 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
7999 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8000 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
8001 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
8002 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
8003 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
8004 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
8005 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
8006 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8007 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
8008 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
8009 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
8010 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
8013 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
8014 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
8015 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
8016 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
8017 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
8018 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
8019 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
8020 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
8021 Required by fix for bug 3000.
8022 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
8023 by fix for bug 3000.
8024 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
8025 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
8027 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8028 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
8029 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
8030 send a body too). Since only server versions before
8031 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
8032 keep the workaround in place.
8033 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
8034 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
8035 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
8036 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
8037 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
8038 want to do it differently.
8039 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
8040 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
8041 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
8042 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
8043 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
8047 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
8048 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
8049 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
8050 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
8051 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
8054 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
8055 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
8056 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
8057 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
8058 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
8060 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
8061 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
8062 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
8063 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
8064 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
8065 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
8066 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
8067 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
8068 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
8069 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
8070 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
8071 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
8074 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
8075 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
8076 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
8077 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
8078 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
8079 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
8080 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
8082 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
8083 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
8084 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
8085 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
8086 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
8087 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
8088 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
8089 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
8090 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
8091 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
8092 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
8093 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
8094 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
8095 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
8096 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
8097 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
8098 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8099 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
8100 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
8101 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
8102 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
8103 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
8104 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8107 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
8109 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
8110 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
8111 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
8113 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
8114 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
8115 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
8116 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
8118 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
8119 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
8120 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
8121 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8124 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
8125 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
8127 o Documentation changes:
8128 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
8129 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
8131 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
8134 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
8135 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
8136 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
8137 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
8138 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
8139 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
8142 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8143 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8144 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8145 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8146 the rest of bug 1074.
8147 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
8148 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
8149 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8150 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
8151 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
8152 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
8153 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8154 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8155 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8156 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8157 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8158 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8159 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8160 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8163 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
8164 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
8165 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
8166 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
8167 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
8168 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
8169 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
8170 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
8171 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
8172 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
8173 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
8174 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
8175 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
8176 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
8178 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8179 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
8180 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
8181 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
8182 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8183 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
8185 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
8186 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
8187 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
8188 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
8189 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
8190 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
8191 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
8192 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
8193 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
8195 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
8196 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
8197 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
8198 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
8199 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
8200 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
8201 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
8202 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
8203 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
8204 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
8205 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
8206 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
8207 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
8208 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8209 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
8210 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
8212 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
8213 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
8214 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
8215 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
8216 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
8217 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
8219 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
8220 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
8221 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
8223 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8224 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
8225 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
8226 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
8227 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
8228 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
8229 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
8231 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
8232 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
8233 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
8234 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
8235 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
8239 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
8240 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
8241 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
8242 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
8243 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
8244 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
8245 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
8246 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
8247 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
8248 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
8249 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
8250 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
8252 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8254 o Minor features (log subsystem):
8255 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
8256 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
8257 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
8259 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
8260 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
8262 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
8263 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
8264 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
8267 o Packaging changes:
8268 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8269 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8270 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8273 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
8274 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
8275 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
8276 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8277 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8278 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
8281 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8282 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8283 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8284 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8285 the rest of bug 1074.
8286 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8287 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8289 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8290 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8291 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8292 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8293 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8294 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8295 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8298 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8300 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8303 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8304 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8305 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
8306 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8307 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8308 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8309 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8310 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8311 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8312 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8313 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8315 o Packaging changes:
8316 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8317 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8318 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8319 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
8320 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
8321 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
8324 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
8325 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
8326 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
8327 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8328 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8329 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
8332 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8333 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8335 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
8336 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
8337 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
8338 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
8341 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8343 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
8344 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
8345 Implements ticket 2432.
8348 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8349 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8350 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
8353 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
8354 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
8355 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
8356 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
8357 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
8358 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8360 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8361 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8362 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8363 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8365 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8366 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8367 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8368 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8369 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8370 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8371 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8372 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8374 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8375 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8376 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8377 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8378 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8379 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8380 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8381 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8382 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8383 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8384 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8385 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8386 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8387 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8391 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8392 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8393 bug reported by doorss.
8394 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8395 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8396 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8397 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8398 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8400 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8401 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8402 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8403 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
8404 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8406 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8407 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8408 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8410 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8411 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8412 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8413 Automake 1.7 or later.
8414 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8415 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8416 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8417 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8419 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8420 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
8421 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
8424 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8425 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
8426 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
8427 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
8429 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8430 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
8431 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
8432 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
8433 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
8434 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
8435 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
8436 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
8437 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
8439 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
8440 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
8441 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
8444 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8445 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
8446 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
8447 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
8448 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
8449 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
8450 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
8451 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
8452 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
8453 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
8454 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
8455 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
8456 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
8458 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8459 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
8463 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
8464 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
8465 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
8466 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
8467 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8469 o Major bugfixes (security):
8470 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8471 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8472 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8474 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8475 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8476 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8477 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8478 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8479 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8480 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8481 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8483 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8484 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8485 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8486 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8487 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8488 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8489 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8490 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8491 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8492 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8493 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8494 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8495 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8496 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8499 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8500 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8501 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8502 bug reported by doorss.
8503 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8504 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8505 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8506 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8507 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8509 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8510 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8511 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8512 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
8513 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8514 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8515 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8516 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8517 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8520 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8521 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8524 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8525 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8526 Automake 1.7 or later.
8529 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
8530 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8531 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
8532 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
8533 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
8536 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8537 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8538 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8539 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8540 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
8541 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
8542 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
8543 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
8544 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
8545 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
8546 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
8548 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
8549 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
8550 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
8551 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
8553 o Directory authority changes:
8554 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8557 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
8558 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
8559 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
8560 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
8561 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
8562 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8563 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
8564 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
8565 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
8568 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8569 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
8570 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
8571 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
8572 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
8573 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
8574 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
8575 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
8576 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
8577 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
8581 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
8582 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8583 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
8584 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
8588 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8589 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8590 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8591 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8593 o Directory authority changes:
8594 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8597 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8600 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
8601 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8602 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
8603 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
8604 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
8607 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8608 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8609 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8610 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8611 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8612 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8613 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8614 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8615 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8616 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8617 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8618 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8619 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8620 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8621 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8622 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8623 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8624 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8625 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8626 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8627 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8628 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8629 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8632 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
8633 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
8634 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
8635 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
8637 o New directory authorities:
8638 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
8642 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
8643 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
8644 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
8646 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8647 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8648 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8649 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8650 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8651 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8653 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8654 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8655 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8658 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
8659 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
8660 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
8661 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
8662 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
8663 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
8664 Patch from mingw-san.
8667 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
8668 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
8669 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
8670 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
8671 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
8672 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
8675 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
8676 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8677 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
8680 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8681 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8682 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8683 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8684 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8687 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
8688 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
8689 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
8690 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
8691 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
8692 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
8693 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
8694 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
8695 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
8698 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
8699 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
8700 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
8701 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
8702 to a stable release.
8705 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8706 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8707 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8708 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8709 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8710 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8711 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8712 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8713 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8714 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8715 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8716 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8717 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8718 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
8719 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
8720 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
8721 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
8722 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
8723 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
8724 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
8725 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
8726 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
8727 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
8728 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
8729 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8730 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
8731 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
8732 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
8733 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
8734 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
8735 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
8738 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8739 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
8740 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
8741 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
8742 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
8743 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
8744 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8745 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8746 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8747 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8748 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8749 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8750 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8751 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8752 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
8753 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
8754 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
8756 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8757 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8758 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
8759 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
8760 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
8762 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
8763 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
8764 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
8765 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
8768 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
8769 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
8770 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
8771 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
8772 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
8773 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
8774 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
8775 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8777 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8778 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
8779 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
8780 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
8781 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
8782 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
8783 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
8784 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
8785 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
8786 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
8787 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
8788 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
8789 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
8790 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
8791 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
8794 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
8795 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
8796 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
8797 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
8798 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
8799 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
8800 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
8801 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
8802 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
8805 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
8806 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
8807 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
8808 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
8809 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
8811 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
8812 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
8813 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
8814 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
8815 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
8816 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
8817 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8818 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
8819 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
8820 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8821 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8822 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8823 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8824 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8826 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8827 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
8829 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
8830 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
8831 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
8832 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
8833 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
8834 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
8835 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
8836 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
8837 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
8838 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
8839 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
8840 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
8841 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
8842 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
8843 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
8844 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
8845 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
8846 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8848 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
8849 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
8850 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
8851 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
8852 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
8853 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
8854 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
8855 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
8856 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
8857 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
8858 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
8859 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
8860 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
8862 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
8863 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
8864 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
8865 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8868 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
8869 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
8870 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
8871 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
8872 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
8873 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
8874 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
8875 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
8876 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
8877 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
8878 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
8879 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
8880 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
8881 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
8882 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
8883 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
8884 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
8885 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
8886 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8890 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
8891 based on the time during which we were active and not in
8892 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
8893 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
8894 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
8895 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
8896 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8898 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8899 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
8900 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
8901 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
8902 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
8903 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
8904 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
8905 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
8906 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
8907 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8910 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
8911 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
8912 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
8913 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
8915 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
8916 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
8917 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
8918 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
8919 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
8920 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
8921 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
8922 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
8923 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
8924 the longest-lived bug prize.
8925 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
8926 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
8927 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
8928 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
8929 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
8930 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
8932 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
8933 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
8934 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
8935 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
8936 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
8937 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
8941 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8942 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
8943 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
8944 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
8945 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
8946 got suppressed since the last warning.
8947 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
8948 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
8949 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
8950 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
8951 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
8952 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
8953 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
8954 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
8955 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
8956 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
8957 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
8958 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
8959 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
8960 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
8961 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
8962 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
8963 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
8964 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
8965 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
8967 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8968 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8969 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8971 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8972 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
8973 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
8974 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
8975 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
8976 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
8977 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
8978 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
8979 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
8980 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
8981 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
8982 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8983 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8984 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8985 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8987 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
8988 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
8989 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
8990 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
8991 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
8992 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8993 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
8995 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
8996 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
8997 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
8998 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
8999 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
9002 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9003 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
9004 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
9005 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
9006 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
9007 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
9008 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
9009 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
9010 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
9011 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
9012 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
9013 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
9014 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
9015 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
9016 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
9017 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
9018 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
9019 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
9022 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
9025 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
9026 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
9027 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
9028 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
9029 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
9033 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
9034 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
9035 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
9036 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
9037 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
9038 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
9039 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
9040 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
9041 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
9042 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
9043 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
9044 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
9045 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
9046 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
9047 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
9048 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
9049 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
9052 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
9053 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
9054 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
9055 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
9056 they first get the Guard flag.
9057 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
9061 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9062 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
9063 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
9064 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
9065 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
9066 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
9067 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
9068 Patch from mingw-san.
9069 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
9070 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
9072 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
9073 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
9074 Implements enhancement 1790.
9076 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9077 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
9078 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
9079 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
9080 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
9081 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
9082 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
9083 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
9084 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
9085 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
9086 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
9087 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
9088 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
9089 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
9090 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
9091 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
9092 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
9093 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
9094 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
9095 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
9097 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
9098 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
9099 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
9100 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
9101 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
9102 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
9103 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
9104 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
9105 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
9106 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
9107 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
9108 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
9109 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
9111 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
9112 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
9113 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
9114 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
9115 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
9116 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9118 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9119 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
9120 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
9121 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
9122 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
9123 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
9124 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
9125 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9126 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
9127 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
9128 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
9129 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
9131 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
9132 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
9133 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
9134 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
9135 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
9136 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
9137 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
9139 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
9141 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
9142 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9143 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
9144 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
9145 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
9146 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
9148 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9149 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
9150 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
9151 structures and defines in or.h for now.
9152 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
9153 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
9154 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
9155 statistics code to be more easily tested.
9156 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
9157 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
9158 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
9161 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
9162 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
9163 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
9164 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
9165 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
9166 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
9170 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
9171 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
9172 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
9173 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
9174 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
9175 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
9176 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
9177 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
9178 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
9179 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
9180 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
9181 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
9182 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
9184 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
9185 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
9186 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
9187 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
9188 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
9189 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
9190 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
9191 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
9192 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
9193 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
9194 can be controlled by the consensus.
9197 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
9198 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
9199 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
9200 more accurate data for many African countries.
9201 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
9202 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
9203 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9204 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
9205 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
9206 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
9207 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
9208 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
9209 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
9210 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9211 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
9212 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
9214 o New directory authorities:
9215 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
9219 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
9220 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
9221 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
9222 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
9223 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
9224 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
9225 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
9226 what should go in a patch.
9227 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
9228 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
9229 over our stored history.
9230 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
9231 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
9232 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
9233 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
9234 file. Fixes bug 1296.
9235 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
9236 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
9237 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
9241 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
9243 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
9244 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
9245 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
9246 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
9247 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
9248 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
9249 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
9250 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
9251 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
9252 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
9253 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
9254 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9255 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
9256 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
9257 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
9258 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
9259 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
9260 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
9261 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
9262 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
9263 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
9264 two-hop circuits are actually created.
9265 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
9266 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9267 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
9268 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9271 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
9272 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9273 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9274 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9275 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9277 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
9278 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9281 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9282 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9283 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9284 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9285 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9286 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9287 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9288 their directory fetches over TLS).
9289 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9290 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9291 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9292 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9293 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9294 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9295 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9296 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9299 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9300 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9304 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9305 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9306 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9307 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9308 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9309 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9310 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9313 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
9314 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9315 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9316 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9317 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9320 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9321 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9322 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9323 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9324 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9325 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9326 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9327 their directory fetches over TLS).
9330 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9331 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9333 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
9334 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
9335 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
9336 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
9337 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
9338 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
9339 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
9340 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
9341 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
9342 hour of their uptime.
9345 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
9346 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
9347 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
9351 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
9352 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
9353 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
9354 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
9355 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
9356 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
9358 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
9359 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
9360 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
9362 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
9363 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
9367 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
9368 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
9369 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
9373 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
9374 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
9375 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9378 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9379 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9380 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9381 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9382 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
9383 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
9384 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
9385 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
9386 about the option without breaking older ones.
9387 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9388 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9389 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9390 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9393 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
9394 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
9395 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
9396 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
9398 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
9399 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
9400 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
9403 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
9404 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
9406 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
9407 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
9408 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
9409 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
9410 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
9411 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
9412 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9413 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
9414 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
9415 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
9416 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
9419 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9420 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9421 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9422 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9423 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9424 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9425 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9428 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
9429 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
9430 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
9431 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
9432 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
9433 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
9436 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9437 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9438 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9439 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
9441 o Major features (performance):
9442 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
9443 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
9444 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
9445 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
9446 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
9447 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
9448 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
9450 o Minor features (performance):
9451 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
9452 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
9453 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
9454 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
9455 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
9459 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
9460 speeds up the build considerably.
9462 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9463 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
9464 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9465 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
9466 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9467 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
9468 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
9469 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9471 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
9472 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9473 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9475 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9476 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9477 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9478 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9480 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9481 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
9482 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
9483 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
9484 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
9485 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
9488 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
9489 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
9490 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
9492 o Directory authority changes:
9493 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9494 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9495 service directory authority) from the list.
9498 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9499 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9500 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9501 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9502 libraries in a security patch.
9503 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9504 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9505 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9506 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9508 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
9509 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
9510 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
9511 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
9512 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9513 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9514 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9517 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
9518 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
9519 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
9520 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
9521 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
9522 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
9523 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
9524 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
9525 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
9526 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
9527 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
9528 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
9529 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
9531 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
9532 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
9533 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
9534 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
9535 control-spec.txt said they were.
9536 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9537 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9538 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
9539 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
9540 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9543 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
9544 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
9546 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
9547 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
9548 iPhone SDK versions.
9549 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
9550 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
9551 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
9552 projects directory in svn.
9553 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
9554 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
9555 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
9559 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
9560 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
9561 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
9563 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
9564 to the circuit build timeout.
9565 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
9566 arguments we do not recognize.
9567 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
9568 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
9569 open() without checking it.
9572 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
9573 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
9574 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
9575 several minor potential security bugs.
9578 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9579 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9580 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9581 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
9582 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9583 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9584 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9587 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9588 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9590 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9591 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9592 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9593 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9597 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
9598 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
9602 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
9603 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
9604 customized patches to run/build.
9607 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
9608 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
9609 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
9612 o Major bugfixes (performance):
9613 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9614 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9615 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9616 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9617 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9618 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9619 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
9622 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9623 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9624 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9625 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9626 libraries in a security patch.
9627 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9628 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9629 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9630 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9633 o Directory authority changes:
9634 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9635 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9636 service directory authority) from the list.
9639 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9640 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9643 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
9644 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
9645 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
9646 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
9647 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
9650 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
9651 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
9652 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
9656 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
9657 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
9658 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
9659 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
9660 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9663 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
9664 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
9665 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
9669 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
9670 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
9671 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
9672 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
9673 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
9675 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
9676 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
9678 o Directory authority changes:
9679 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
9682 o Major features (performance):
9683 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9684 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9685 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9686 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9687 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9688 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9689 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
9690 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
9691 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
9692 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
9693 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
9694 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
9695 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
9697 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
9698 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
9699 but never per-conn write limits.
9700 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
9701 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
9702 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
9703 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
9705 o Major features (relay selection options):
9706 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
9707 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
9708 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
9709 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
9710 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
9711 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
9712 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
9714 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
9715 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
9717 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
9718 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
9719 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
9720 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
9721 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
9722 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
9723 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
9724 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
9725 the network changes.
9728 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
9729 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
9730 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9733 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
9734 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
9735 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
9736 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
9737 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
9738 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
9739 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
9740 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
9741 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
9742 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
9743 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
9744 generated while acting as a relay.
9745 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
9746 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
9747 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
9748 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
9749 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
9750 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
9752 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
9753 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
9754 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9755 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
9756 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
9757 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
9760 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9761 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
9762 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
9764 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
9765 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
9766 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
9768 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
9769 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
9771 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
9772 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
9773 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
9775 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
9776 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
9779 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9780 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
9781 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
9782 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
9783 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
9784 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
9785 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
9786 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
9787 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
9789 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
9793 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
9794 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
9795 hidden service usage.
9798 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
9799 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
9800 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
9801 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
9802 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
9804 o Directory authority changes:
9805 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
9809 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
9810 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
9811 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9814 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
9815 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
9816 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
9817 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
9818 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
9821 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
9822 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
9823 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
9824 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
9825 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
9826 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
9827 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
9830 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
9831 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
9832 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9833 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
9834 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
9835 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
9837 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
9838 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
9841 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
9842 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
9843 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
9844 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
9845 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
9846 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
9849 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
9850 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
9851 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
9853 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
9854 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
9855 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
9856 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
9857 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
9858 download consensus + microdescriptors".
9859 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
9860 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
9861 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
9862 hash algorithm in the future.
9863 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
9864 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
9865 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
9866 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
9867 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
9868 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
9869 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
9870 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
9871 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
9874 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
9875 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
9876 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
9877 won't work unless we say we are.
9880 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
9881 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
9882 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
9883 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
9884 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
9885 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
9886 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
9887 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
9888 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9889 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
9890 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
9891 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
9892 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
9893 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
9894 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
9895 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
9896 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
9897 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
9898 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
9899 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
9900 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
9901 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
9904 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
9905 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
9906 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
9907 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9909 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
9910 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
9912 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
9913 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
9914 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
9915 in the Vidalia Settings window.
9918 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
9919 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
9920 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
9921 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
9922 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
9924 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
9925 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
9927 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
9928 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
9929 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
9932 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
9933 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
9934 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
9936 o New directory authorities:
9937 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
9939 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
9942 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
9943 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
9945 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
9946 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
9947 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9948 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
9949 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
9950 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
9951 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9952 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9953 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
9954 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
9955 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
9956 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
9957 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
9958 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
9959 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
9960 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
9961 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
9963 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
9964 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
9965 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
9967 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
9968 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
9972 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
9973 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
9974 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
9975 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
9976 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
9979 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
9980 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9983 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9985 o Directory authorities:
9986 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
9990 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
9991 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
9992 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
9993 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
9994 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
9997 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
9998 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
9999 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
10000 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
10002 o New directory authorities:
10003 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10006 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
10007 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
10008 SSL handshake issues.
10009 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
10010 during the TLS handshake.
10011 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
10012 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
10013 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
10014 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
10015 none of which are very big.
10018 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
10020 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
10021 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10022 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
10023 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
10024 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10025 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
10026 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
10027 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10030 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10031 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
10032 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
10033 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
10034 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
10037 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
10038 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10041 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
10042 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
10045 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
10046 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
10047 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10050 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
10051 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
10052 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
10053 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
10054 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
10055 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
10058 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
10059 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
10060 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
10061 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
10062 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
10063 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
10064 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
10065 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
10066 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
10067 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
10068 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
10069 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
10070 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
10071 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
10072 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
10073 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10074 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10075 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10078 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10079 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10083 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10084 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10085 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10086 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
10087 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
10088 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
10089 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10090 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10091 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10092 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10093 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10094 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10095 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10096 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10097 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10098 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10099 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10100 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10101 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10102 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10103 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10105 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10106 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10107 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
10108 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10109 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10110 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10112 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
10113 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
10114 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
10117 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10118 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10119 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10120 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10121 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10122 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
10125 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
10126 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
10127 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
10128 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
10129 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
10132 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
10133 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
10134 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
10137 o New directory authorities:
10138 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10142 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
10143 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
10144 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
10145 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
10146 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
10149 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
10150 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
10151 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
10152 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
10153 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10156 o New options for gathering stats safely:
10157 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
10158 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
10159 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
10160 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
10161 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
10162 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
10163 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
10164 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10165 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
10167 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
10168 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
10169 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10170 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
10172 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
10173 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
10174 their extra-info documents.
10177 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
10178 source files Tor was built with.
10179 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
10180 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
10181 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
10182 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
10183 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
10184 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
10186 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
10187 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
10188 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
10189 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
10190 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
10192 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
10193 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
10196 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
10197 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
10198 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
10199 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
10200 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10202 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
10203 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
10205 o Deprecated and removed features:
10206 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
10207 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
10208 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
10209 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
10210 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
10211 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
10212 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
10213 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
10215 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
10216 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
10217 via application-level web tricks.
10219 o Packaging changes:
10220 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
10221 installer bundles. See
10222 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
10223 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
10224 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
10225 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
10226 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
10227 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
10228 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10229 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
10230 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10231 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
10232 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
10233 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
10236 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
10237 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
10238 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
10241 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
10242 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
10243 part of patch provided by "optimist".
10246 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
10247 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
10248 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
10249 and confuse fewer users.
10252 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
10253 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
10254 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
10255 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
10256 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
10257 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
10258 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
10261 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
10262 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
10263 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
10264 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
10265 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
10266 other features and bug fixes.
10269 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
10272 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
10273 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
10274 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
10275 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
10276 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
10279 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
10280 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
10281 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
10282 failure message (oops).
10285 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
10286 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
10287 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
10288 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
10292 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
10293 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
10294 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
10295 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
10296 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
10297 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
10298 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10299 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
10300 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
10301 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
10302 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
10303 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
10304 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
10305 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
10306 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10309 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
10310 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10311 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
10312 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
10313 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
10314 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
10315 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
10316 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
10317 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
10318 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
10319 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
10320 Workaround for bug 1024.
10321 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
10325 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
10326 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
10327 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
10330 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
10332 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10333 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10334 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10335 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10336 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10339 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10340 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10341 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10342 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10343 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10344 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10345 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10346 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10347 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10348 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10351 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10352 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10353 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
10354 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10355 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10356 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10357 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10358 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10361 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
10362 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
10363 a bunch of minor bugs.
10366 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10367 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10368 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10370 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
10371 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
10372 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
10373 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
10375 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
10379 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10380 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
10381 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
10383 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10384 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
10386 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
10387 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
10389 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
10390 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
10391 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
10392 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10393 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10394 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10395 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10396 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10398 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10399 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
10400 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
10402 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
10403 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
10404 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
10405 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
10406 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
10410 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
10411 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10412 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
10413 of more minor bugs.
10415 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10416 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10417 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10418 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10420 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10421 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
10422 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
10423 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10424 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
10425 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
10426 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
10427 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
10428 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
10429 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
10430 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
10431 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10432 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
10433 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
10434 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
10435 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
10436 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
10438 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
10439 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
10440 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
10441 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10443 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10444 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
10445 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10448 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
10449 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10450 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
10451 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
10452 addresses to fall out of the directory.
10455 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
10456 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
10457 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
10458 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
10460 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
10461 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10462 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10463 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10464 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10465 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10466 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10467 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10468 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
10469 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
10470 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
10471 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
10472 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
10473 patch by Sebastian.
10474 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10475 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10478 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
10479 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
10480 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
10481 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
10482 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
10483 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
10485 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
10486 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
10487 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
10488 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
10489 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
10491 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10494 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
10495 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
10497 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
10498 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
10499 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10500 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10501 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10502 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10504 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
10505 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10506 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
10507 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
10508 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
10509 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10510 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
10511 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
10512 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
10513 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
10514 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
10515 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
10519 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
10520 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
10521 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
10524 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
10525 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
10526 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10528 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
10529 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
10530 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
10531 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
10532 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
10533 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
10534 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
10535 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
10536 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
10537 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
10538 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
10539 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10540 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
10541 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
10542 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10543 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
10544 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
10545 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
10546 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
10547 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
10548 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
10549 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
10550 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
10551 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
10552 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
10553 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
10555 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
10556 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
10557 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
10558 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
10559 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
10560 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
10561 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
10562 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
10563 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
10564 of 0. Suggested by lark.
10566 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10567 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
10568 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
10569 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
10570 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10573 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
10575 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
10576 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
10577 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
10578 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
10581 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
10582 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
10583 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
10584 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10585 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
10587 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
10588 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
10589 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
10590 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
10593 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10594 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10595 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10596 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10597 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10598 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
10599 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10600 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10603 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
10604 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10605 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10606 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10609 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
10610 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
10611 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
10612 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10613 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
10614 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
10617 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10618 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10619 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10620 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10621 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10622 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10625 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
10626 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
10627 reported by Matt Edman.
10628 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
10630 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
10631 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
10632 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
10633 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
10635 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
10636 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10637 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
10638 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10639 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10640 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10641 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
10642 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
10643 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
10644 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
10645 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
10646 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
10647 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
10648 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10649 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
10650 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10651 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
10652 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
10653 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10656 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
10657 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10658 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
10659 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
10662 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
10663 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
10664 the letter of C99's alias rules.
10667 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
10668 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
10669 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
10670 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
10672 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
10673 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
10674 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
10677 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
10678 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
10681 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
10682 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
10683 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
10684 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
10685 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
10686 reported by "wood".
10687 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
10688 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
10689 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
10690 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
10691 identify a connection.
10692 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
10693 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
10694 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
10695 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
10696 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
10697 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
10698 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10699 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
10700 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
10701 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
10703 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
10704 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
10705 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
10706 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
10707 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
10708 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
10709 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
10712 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
10713 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
10715 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
10716 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
10717 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
10718 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
10719 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
10720 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
10721 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10722 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
10724 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
10725 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
10726 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
10727 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
10728 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
10729 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
10730 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
10731 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
10732 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
10733 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
10734 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
10735 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
10736 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
10737 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
10738 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10739 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
10740 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
10741 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10742 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
10743 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
10744 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
10745 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
10746 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
10747 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
10748 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
10749 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
10750 840. Patch from rovv.
10751 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
10752 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
10753 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
10755 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
10756 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
10757 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
10758 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
10759 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
10760 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
10761 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10763 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10764 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
10765 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
10768 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
10769 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
10771 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
10772 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
10773 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
10774 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
10775 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
10776 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
10777 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
10778 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
10779 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
10781 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
10783 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
10784 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
10788 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
10789 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
10790 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
10791 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
10792 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
10793 have had some time to upgrade.)
10796 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
10797 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
10800 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
10801 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
10802 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
10803 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
10804 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
10807 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
10808 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
10810 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
10811 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10812 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
10813 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
10814 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
10815 entirely. Patch from coderman.
10818 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
10819 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10820 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
10821 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
10822 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
10823 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10824 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
10828 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
10829 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
10830 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
10831 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
10832 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
10833 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
10834 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
10837 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
10838 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
10839 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
10840 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
10841 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
10843 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
10844 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
10845 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
10846 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
10847 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
10848 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
10849 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10850 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
10851 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
10852 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
10856 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
10857 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
10858 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
10860 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
10861 without support for deprecated functions.
10862 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
10864 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10865 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
10866 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
10867 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
10868 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10869 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10870 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10871 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
10872 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
10873 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
10874 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
10875 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
10876 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
10877 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
10878 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
10879 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
10880 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
10881 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
10882 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
10883 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
10884 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10885 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
10886 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
10888 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10889 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
10890 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
10891 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
10892 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
10893 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
10895 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
10896 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
10897 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
10898 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
10899 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
10901 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
10902 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
10903 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
10905 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
10906 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
10909 o Deprecated and removed features:
10910 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
10911 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
10912 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
10915 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10916 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
10917 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
10918 with log.h on Android.
10919 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
10920 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
10923 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
10924 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
10926 o New directory authorities:
10927 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
10931 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
10932 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
10933 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
10934 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
10935 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
10936 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10939 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
10940 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
10941 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
10942 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
10943 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
10944 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
10945 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
10946 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
10947 reported by "wood".
10948 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
10949 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
10950 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
10951 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
10954 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
10955 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
10957 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
10958 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
10959 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
10960 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
10961 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
10962 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
10963 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
10964 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
10965 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
10966 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
10967 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
10968 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
10969 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
10970 Implements proposal 148.
10971 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
10972 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
10973 system to do it for us.
10974 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
10975 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
10976 this fix will be slightly helpful.
10977 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
10978 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
10979 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
10980 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
10981 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
10982 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
10983 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
10984 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
10985 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
10988 o Minor features (controller):
10989 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
10990 been fetched and validated.
10991 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
10992 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
10993 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
10994 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
10995 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
10996 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
10999 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
11000 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11001 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
11002 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
11003 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
11005 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
11006 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
11007 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11008 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
11009 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
11010 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11011 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
11012 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
11013 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
11015 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11016 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
11017 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
11018 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
11019 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
11020 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
11021 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
11022 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
11024 o Deprecated and removed features:
11025 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
11027 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
11028 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11029 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
11031 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11032 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
11033 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
11035 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
11036 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
11037 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
11038 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
11039 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
11040 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
11043 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
11044 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
11045 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
11046 fixes a variety of other issues.
11049 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
11050 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
11051 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
11052 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
11055 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
11056 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
11057 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
11058 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11061 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11062 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11063 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
11067 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
11069 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
11070 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
11071 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11072 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
11073 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
11074 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
11075 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11077 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
11078 rest, and don't automatically fail.
11079 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
11080 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11081 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
11082 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
11084 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
11085 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
11086 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
11087 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
11088 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
11089 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
11090 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
11091 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
11092 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
11093 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
11095 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
11099 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
11100 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
11101 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
11103 o Minor features (controller):
11104 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
11108 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
11109 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11110 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11111 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11112 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11113 variety of other issues.
11116 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11117 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11118 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11119 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11120 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11121 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11122 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
11123 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11124 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11125 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11126 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11127 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11130 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11131 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11133 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11134 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11135 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11136 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11137 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11138 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11139 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11140 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11141 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11142 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
11143 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
11144 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
11145 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
11146 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
11147 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11151 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
11152 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11153 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11154 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11155 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11156 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11157 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11158 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11159 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11160 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11161 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11162 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11163 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11164 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11165 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
11166 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11167 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11168 list. It has been gone for many months.
11169 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11170 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
11171 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11174 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11175 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
11176 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
11179 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
11180 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11181 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11182 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11183 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
11184 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11185 variety of other issues.
11188 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11189 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11190 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11191 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11192 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11193 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11194 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11195 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11196 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11197 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11198 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11199 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
11200 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
11201 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
11204 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
11205 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
11206 Suggested by Lucky Green.
11207 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
11208 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
11209 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
11210 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
11211 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
11212 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
11214 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
11215 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
11217 o Hidden service performance improvements:
11218 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
11219 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
11220 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
11221 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
11222 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
11223 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
11224 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
11225 faster after restart.
11228 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
11229 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
11230 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
11231 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
11232 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
11233 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
11234 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
11235 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
11236 840. Patch from rovv.
11237 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
11238 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
11239 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
11240 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
11241 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
11242 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
11243 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
11244 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
11245 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
11247 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
11248 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
11249 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
11250 have already been marked for close.
11251 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
11252 introduction points.
11253 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
11254 memory performance during directory parsing.
11255 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
11256 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
11257 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
11258 because of a pending download.
11261 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
11262 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
11263 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
11264 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11267 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
11268 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
11269 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
11270 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
11271 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
11272 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
11273 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
11274 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
11275 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
11276 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
11277 lookups more reliable.
11278 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
11279 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
11280 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
11281 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
11282 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
11283 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
11284 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11287 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
11288 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
11289 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11290 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11291 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11292 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
11293 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
11294 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
11295 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
11296 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
11297 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11299 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11300 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11301 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11302 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11303 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11304 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11305 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
11306 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
11307 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11310 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
11311 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
11312 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
11313 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
11314 locked down these days.
11315 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
11316 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
11317 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
11318 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
11319 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
11321 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
11322 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
11323 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
11324 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
11325 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
11326 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
11327 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
11328 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
11329 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
11330 people find host:port too confusing.
11331 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
11332 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11333 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
11336 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11338 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
11339 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
11340 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11341 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11342 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
11344 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
11345 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
11346 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11347 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11348 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11349 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11350 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11351 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11352 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11353 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11354 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
11355 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
11357 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11358 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11359 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11360 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
11361 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11362 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
11363 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11364 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
11365 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
11367 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
11368 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
11369 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
11370 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
11371 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
11372 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11373 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
11374 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
11375 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
11376 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
11377 bug 820, reported by seeess.
11378 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11379 list. It has been gone for many months.
11381 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11382 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
11383 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
11384 actual mistakes we're making here.
11385 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
11386 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
11387 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
11388 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
11391 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
11392 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
11393 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
11394 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11397 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11398 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11399 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11400 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11401 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11402 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11404 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11405 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11406 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11407 pointed out by rovv.
11410 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11411 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11412 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11413 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11414 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
11415 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
11416 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11417 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11418 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11419 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11420 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11421 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
11422 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
11423 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11424 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11425 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11426 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11427 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11428 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
11429 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
11430 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11433 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
11434 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
11435 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
11436 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
11437 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
11438 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
11439 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11442 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
11444 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
11445 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
11446 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
11447 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
11448 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
11449 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
11450 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
11452 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
11453 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
11454 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
11455 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
11456 known descriptor before building circuits.
11458 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
11459 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
11460 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
11461 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
11462 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
11463 identify a connection.
11464 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11465 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11466 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11468 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11469 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11470 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11471 pointed out by rovv.
11474 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11475 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11476 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11477 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
11478 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
11479 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11480 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11481 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11482 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
11483 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
11484 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
11485 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11486 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11487 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11488 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11491 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
11492 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
11493 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
11494 answer sections match.
11495 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
11496 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
11499 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
11500 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11503 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
11504 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
11505 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
11507 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
11508 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
11509 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11512 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
11513 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
11514 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
11515 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
11518 o Removed features:
11519 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
11520 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
11523 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
11524 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
11525 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
11526 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
11527 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
11528 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
11530 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
11531 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
11532 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
11535 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
11536 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
11537 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
11538 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
11539 be sent using an "early" cell.
11542 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11543 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11544 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11545 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11546 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11547 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11548 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11551 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
11552 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
11553 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
11554 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
11555 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
11556 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
11557 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
11558 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
11559 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
11560 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
11561 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
11562 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
11563 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
11564 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
11565 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
11566 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
11569 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
11570 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
11571 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
11572 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11573 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11574 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11575 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
11576 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
11577 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
11579 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
11580 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
11581 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
11582 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
11583 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
11586 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11587 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
11588 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
11589 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11591 o Removed features:
11592 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
11593 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
11597 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
11599 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11600 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11601 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11604 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
11605 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
11606 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11609 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
11610 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
11611 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11612 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11613 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11614 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
11615 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
11616 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
11617 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11618 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11619 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
11620 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
11621 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
11622 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11623 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
11624 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
11625 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
11626 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
11627 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
11628 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
11629 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
11630 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
11631 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
11634 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
11635 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
11637 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
11638 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
11639 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
11640 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
11641 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
11642 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
11643 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
11645 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
11646 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
11647 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
11648 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
11649 found by Geoff Goodell.
11652 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
11653 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
11654 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
11655 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
11656 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
11657 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
11660 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
11661 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
11662 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
11665 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
11666 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
11667 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11668 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11669 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11670 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
11671 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
11672 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
11673 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11674 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
11675 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
11676 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
11677 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
11678 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
11681 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
11682 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
11683 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
11685 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
11686 fingerprints with or without space.
11687 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
11688 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
11689 partway through and wants to catch up.
11690 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
11691 state to start out in.
11694 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
11695 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
11696 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11697 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
11698 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
11701 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
11702 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
11703 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
11704 some of the connection attempts fail.
11705 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
11706 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
11707 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
11708 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
11709 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
11710 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
11712 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
11713 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
11714 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
11717 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
11718 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
11719 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
11720 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
11721 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
11722 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
11723 and adds a variety of smaller features.
11726 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
11727 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
11728 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
11729 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
11731 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
11732 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
11733 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
11734 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
11736 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
11737 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
11738 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
11739 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
11740 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
11741 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
11742 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
11745 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
11746 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
11747 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
11748 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
11749 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
11751 o Memory fixes and improvements:
11752 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
11753 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
11754 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
11755 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
11756 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
11757 on a typical directory cache.
11758 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
11759 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
11760 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
11761 and may reduce fragmentation.
11762 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
11763 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
11764 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
11766 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
11767 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
11768 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
11770 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
11771 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
11775 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
11776 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
11777 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
11778 done that for a long time.
11779 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
11780 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
11781 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
11782 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
11785 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
11786 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
11787 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
11788 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
11789 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
11790 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
11792 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
11793 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
11794 output to messages of warning and error severity.
11795 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
11796 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
11797 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
11798 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
11799 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
11800 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
11801 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
11802 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
11803 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
11804 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
11805 directory requests we should expect to see.
11806 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
11808 - Lots of new unit tests.
11809 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
11810 two parallel lists in lockstep.
11813 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
11814 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
11815 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11818 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
11819 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
11820 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
11821 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
11822 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
11823 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
11824 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
11827 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
11828 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
11829 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
11833 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
11834 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
11835 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
11838 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
11839 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
11840 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
11842 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
11843 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
11845 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
11846 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
11847 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
11848 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
11849 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11850 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
11851 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
11853 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
11854 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
11855 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
11856 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
11857 - Fix compile on Windows.
11860 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
11861 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
11862 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
11863 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
11864 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
11865 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
11866 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
11869 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
11870 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
11873 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
11874 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
11875 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
11876 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
11878 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
11879 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
11880 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
11883 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
11884 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
11885 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
11886 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
11890 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
11891 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
11892 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
11893 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
11895 o Major security fixes:
11896 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
11897 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
11898 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
11899 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
11900 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
11903 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
11904 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11907 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
11908 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
11911 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
11912 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
11915 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
11916 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
11917 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
11920 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
11921 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11924 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
11925 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
11926 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
11927 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
11928 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
11930 o New directory authorities:
11931 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
11932 it has been down for months.
11933 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
11937 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
11938 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
11940 o Minor features (security):
11941 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
11942 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
11943 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
11946 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
11947 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
11948 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
11949 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
11950 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
11951 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
11952 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
11953 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
11954 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
11957 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
11958 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11959 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
11960 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11961 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
11962 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11963 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
11964 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
11966 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11967 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
11968 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
11969 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
11970 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
11971 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
11972 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
11973 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
11974 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
11975 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
11976 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11977 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
11978 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
11979 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
11980 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
11981 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
11982 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
11983 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
11984 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
11987 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
11988 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11989 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
11990 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
11993 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
11994 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
11995 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
11996 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
11999 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
12000 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12001 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
12002 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
12003 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
12006 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
12007 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
12008 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
12009 certain censored countries by default again.
12012 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
12013 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12014 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
12015 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
12016 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12017 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
12018 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
12019 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
12021 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12022 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
12023 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
12024 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
12025 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
12026 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
12027 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
12028 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
12029 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
12030 a directory. Fix from lodger.
12032 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12033 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
12034 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
12035 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
12036 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
12037 RelayBandwidth* values.
12038 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
12039 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
12040 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
12041 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
12042 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
12043 get_interface_address6().
12044 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
12045 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
12046 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
12048 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
12049 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
12050 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
12051 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12052 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
12053 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
12054 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12055 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
12056 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
12057 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12060 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
12061 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
12062 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
12065 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
12066 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12067 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
12068 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
12069 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
12072 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
12073 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
12074 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
12075 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
12076 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
12077 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
12078 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
12079 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
12080 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
12083 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
12084 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
12085 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
12086 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12089 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
12090 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12091 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
12092 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
12093 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
12094 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
12095 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
12098 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
12099 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
12100 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
12101 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
12102 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
12103 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
12104 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
12106 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
12107 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
12108 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
12109 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
12110 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
12113 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
12114 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
12115 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12116 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
12117 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
12118 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
12119 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12120 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
12121 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
12122 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
12123 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
12124 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
12125 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
12126 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
12127 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
12128 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12129 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
12130 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12131 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12132 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
12133 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
12134 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
12135 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
12136 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
12137 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
12138 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
12140 o Minor features (performance):
12141 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
12143 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
12144 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
12145 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
12146 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
12147 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
12148 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
12149 non-system include paths.
12150 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
12151 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
12154 o Minor features (other):
12155 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
12157 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
12158 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
12159 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
12162 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
12163 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
12164 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
12165 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
12167 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
12168 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
12169 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
12170 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
12171 Should fix bug 537.
12172 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
12173 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
12174 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12175 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
12176 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12178 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12179 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
12180 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
12181 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
12182 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
12183 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
12184 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
12185 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
12186 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
12187 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
12188 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
12189 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
12190 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
12191 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
12192 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
12193 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12194 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
12195 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
12196 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
12197 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
12198 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
12199 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
12200 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
12201 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
12202 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
12205 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12206 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
12207 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
12211 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
12212 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
12213 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
12214 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
12215 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
12218 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
12219 Tor's x509 certificates.
12222 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
12223 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
12224 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12225 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
12226 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
12227 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12229 o Minor features (security):
12230 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
12231 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
12233 o Minor features (directory authority):
12234 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
12235 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
12236 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
12237 bandwidthburst values.
12239 o Minor features (controller):
12240 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
12241 processes from running us out of memory.
12243 o Minor features (misc):
12244 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
12245 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
12246 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
12247 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
12249 o Deprecated features (controller):
12250 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
12251 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
12252 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
12255 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
12256 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
12258 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
12259 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
12260 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12261 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
12262 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
12263 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12264 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
12265 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
12267 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
12268 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12269 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
12270 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12271 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
12272 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
12273 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
12274 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
12276 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
12277 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
12278 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
12279 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
12280 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12281 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
12282 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12283 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
12284 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12285 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
12286 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
12287 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12289 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12290 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
12292 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
12293 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
12294 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
12295 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
12296 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
12297 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
12300 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
12301 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
12302 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
12303 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
12304 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
12306 o New directory authorities:
12307 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
12311 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
12312 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
12313 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
12314 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
12315 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
12316 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
12317 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
12318 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
12322 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
12323 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
12324 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
12325 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
12326 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
12327 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
12328 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
12329 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
12330 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
12331 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
12334 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
12335 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
12336 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
12337 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
12341 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
12342 the request isn't encrypted.
12343 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
12344 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
12345 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
12346 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
12347 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
12350 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
12351 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
12354 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
12357 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
12358 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
12359 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
12361 o New directory authorities:
12362 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
12365 o Major performance improvements:
12366 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
12367 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
12368 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
12369 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
12370 memory fragmentation.
12373 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
12374 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
12375 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
12376 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12377 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
12378 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
12379 bodies when they receive them.
12380 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
12381 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
12382 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
12384 o Minor performance improvements:
12385 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
12386 of them were actually distinct.
12387 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
12388 interested in a given message.
12391 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
12392 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
12393 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
12394 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
12395 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
12396 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
12397 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
12398 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
12399 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
12400 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
12401 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
12403 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
12404 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
12405 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
12406 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
12407 this country" and "1 person from this country".
12408 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12409 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
12410 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12411 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
12412 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
12414 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12415 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12416 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
12418 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
12419 but client versions are not.
12420 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12421 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12423 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
12424 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
12425 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12426 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
12427 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
12429 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
12430 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
12431 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
12434 o Minor features (controller):
12435 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
12436 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
12437 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
12438 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
12440 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12441 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
12442 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
12443 running a test network on a single host.
12444 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
12445 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
12447 o Minor features (bridges):
12448 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
12449 unencrypted connections.
12451 o Minor features (other):
12452 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
12453 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
12454 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
12455 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
12458 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
12459 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
12460 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
12461 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12464 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12465 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12466 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12467 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12468 on network address.
12471 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12472 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
12473 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12474 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
12475 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12476 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
12477 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12478 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12479 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
12480 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
12481 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
12482 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
12485 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12486 rebuild our server descriptor.
12487 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12488 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
12489 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
12490 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12491 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12492 nonstandard integer types.
12493 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12494 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
12495 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
12496 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
12497 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
12499 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12500 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
12501 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
12502 when they receive them.
12503 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
12504 This includes some 64-bit systems.
12505 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
12506 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
12507 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
12508 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
12509 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12510 router_get_by_hexdigest().
12511 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12512 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12516 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
12517 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
12518 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12521 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
12522 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
12523 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
12524 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
12525 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
12526 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
12527 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
12528 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12531 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
12532 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
12533 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
12534 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
12536 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
12537 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
12540 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
12541 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
12544 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
12546 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
12547 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
12549 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
12550 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
12551 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
12552 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12553 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
12554 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
12555 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
12556 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12557 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
12558 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
12562 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
12563 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
12564 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
12567 - Make the unit tests build again.
12568 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
12569 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
12570 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
12571 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
12572 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
12573 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12574 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
12575 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
12576 the next one as a duplicate.
12579 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
12580 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
12581 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
12582 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
12585 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
12586 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
12587 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
12590 o New directory authorities:
12591 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
12595 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
12596 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
12597 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
12598 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
12599 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
12600 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12601 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
12603 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
12604 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
12606 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12607 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12608 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
12609 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
12610 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
12611 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
12613 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
12614 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
12615 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12616 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
12617 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
12618 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12621 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
12622 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
12623 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
12624 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
12625 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
12626 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
12627 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
12628 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
12629 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
12630 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
12631 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
12632 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
12633 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
12634 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
12635 where Tor is blocked.
12636 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
12637 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
12638 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
12639 to a file periodically.
12640 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
12641 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
12642 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
12646 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
12647 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
12648 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
12649 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
12650 in the relevant networkstatus document.
12651 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
12652 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
12653 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12654 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
12655 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
12656 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
12657 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
12658 by Karsten Loesing.
12659 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
12660 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
12661 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
12662 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
12663 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
12664 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12665 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
12666 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
12667 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
12668 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12669 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
12670 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
12671 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
12672 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12673 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12674 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
12675 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
12676 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12677 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12678 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12679 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12680 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
12681 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12682 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
12683 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
12684 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12685 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
12686 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12689 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
12690 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
12691 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
12692 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
12693 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
12694 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
12695 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
12696 even if your DirPort isn't on.
12697 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
12698 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
12699 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
12701 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
12702 multiple controller passwords.
12703 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
12704 router based on the router's purpose.
12705 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
12706 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
12707 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
12708 the approved-routers file.
12711 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
12712 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
12713 well as a few minor bugs.
12716 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
12717 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
12718 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
12720 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12721 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12722 rebuild our server descriptor.
12724 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12725 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
12726 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
12727 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
12728 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
12729 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
12730 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
12731 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
12732 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
12733 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
12735 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
12736 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
12737 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
12738 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
12739 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
12740 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
12741 then be flexible about families.
12744 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
12745 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
12746 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
12750 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
12751 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
12752 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
12753 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
12754 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
12757 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12758 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12759 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12760 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12761 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12764 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12765 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
12767 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
12768 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
12769 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
12770 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
12771 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
12772 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
12773 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12775 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
12776 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
12777 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
12778 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
12781 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
12782 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
12785 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
12786 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
12787 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12790 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
12791 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
12792 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
12793 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
12794 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
12795 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
12796 addresses many more minor issues.
12798 o New directory authorities:
12799 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
12802 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
12803 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
12804 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
12805 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
12807 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
12808 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
12809 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
12810 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
12811 and are reaching it.
12812 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
12813 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
12814 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
12815 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
12816 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
12817 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
12820 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
12821 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
12823 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
12824 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
12825 no longer work for clients.
12826 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12827 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
12829 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
12830 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
12831 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
12832 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
12833 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
12834 enough directory information to build a circuit.
12835 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
12836 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
12837 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
12838 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
12839 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
12840 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
12842 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
12843 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
12844 requests for all of them.
12845 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
12847 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
12848 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
12849 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
12851 o New requirements:
12852 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
12853 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
12857 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
12858 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
12859 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
12860 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
12861 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
12862 networkstatuses that we already have.
12863 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
12864 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
12865 we start knowing some directory caches.
12866 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
12867 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
12868 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
12869 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
12870 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
12871 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
12872 Good in combination with --hash-password.
12873 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
12874 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
12876 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
12877 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
12878 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
12880 o Minor features (bridges):
12881 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
12882 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
12883 back to trying the bridge directly.
12884 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
12885 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
12887 o Minor features (controller):
12888 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
12889 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
12890 report the value as a "minimum skew."
12893 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
12894 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
12898 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
12899 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
12900 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
12901 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
12902 reported by tup and ioerror.
12903 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
12904 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
12906 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12907 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
12909 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
12910 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
12911 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
12913 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
12914 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12915 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
12916 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12917 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
12918 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12919 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
12921 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
12922 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
12923 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12925 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
12926 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
12927 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
12928 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
12929 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
12932 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
12933 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
12934 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
12935 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
12936 lists for a few hours each day.
12938 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12939 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
12940 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
12941 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
12942 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
12943 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12944 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
12945 rend_process_relay_cell().
12947 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12948 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
12949 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
12950 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
12951 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
12952 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
12953 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
12954 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
12956 o Major bugfixes (other):
12957 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
12958 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
12959 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
12960 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
12961 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
12962 circuit cannibalization).
12963 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
12964 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
12965 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
12966 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
12967 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
12968 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
12971 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
12972 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
12974 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
12975 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
12976 absent. Resolves bug 467.
12977 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
12978 a way to trigger this remotely.)
12979 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
12980 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
12981 were reporting the dir port.)
12982 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
12983 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
12984 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
12985 the future. Fixes bug 434.
12986 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
12988 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
12989 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
12990 the onion key from getting rotated.
12991 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
12992 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
12993 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
12994 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
12995 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
12996 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
12997 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
12998 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12999 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
13002 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
13003 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
13004 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
13005 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
13006 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
13007 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
13009 o Major features (directory system):
13010 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
13011 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
13012 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
13013 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
13014 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
13015 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
13016 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
13017 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
13018 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
13019 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
13020 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
13021 Partially implements proposal 122.
13022 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
13023 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
13026 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
13027 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
13028 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
13029 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
13031 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13032 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13033 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13034 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13035 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13036 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13037 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
13038 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
13039 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13041 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
13042 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
13044 - Allow certificates to include an address.
13045 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
13046 and download operations.
13047 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
13048 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
13049 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
13050 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
13051 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
13052 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
13054 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
13055 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
13058 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
13059 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
13060 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
13061 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
13063 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
13064 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
13065 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
13067 o Minor features (performance):
13068 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
13069 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
13070 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
13071 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
13072 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
13073 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
13074 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
13077 o Minor features (compilation):
13078 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
13079 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
13081 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13082 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
13083 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
13084 stick around indefinitely.
13085 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
13087 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
13088 v3 directory authority.
13089 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
13090 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
13092 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
13093 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
13094 "moria on moria:9031."
13095 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
13096 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
13097 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
13098 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
13099 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
13100 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
13101 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
13102 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
13104 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13105 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
13106 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
13107 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
13108 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
13109 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
13110 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
13111 downloads than for other types.
13113 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
13114 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
13116 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
13117 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
13118 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13120 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13121 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13122 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13123 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
13124 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
13125 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
13126 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
13127 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
13129 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13130 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
13131 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
13132 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
13133 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13134 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
13135 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
13136 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13137 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
13138 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
13139 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
13141 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
13142 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
13145 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13146 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
13147 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
13148 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
13149 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
13150 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
13151 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
13152 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
13153 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
13154 so that they all take the same named flags.
13157 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
13158 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
13159 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
13162 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
13163 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
13164 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
13165 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
13166 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
13167 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
13169 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
13170 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
13171 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
13172 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
13173 annotations along with descriptors.
13174 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
13175 source, and its purpose.
13176 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
13178 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
13179 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
13180 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
13181 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
13184 o Major features (directory authorities):
13185 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
13187 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
13188 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
13189 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
13190 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
13191 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
13192 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
13194 o Major features (v3 directory system):
13195 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
13196 and download the descriptors listed in them.
13197 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
13198 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
13199 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
13201 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13202 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13203 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13204 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
13207 o Major bugfixes (performance):
13208 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
13209 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
13210 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
13211 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
13213 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
13214 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
13215 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
13216 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
13217 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
13218 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13220 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
13221 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
13223 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
13224 certificate is requested.
13225 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
13226 certificate requests.
13228 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
13229 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
13230 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
13231 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
13234 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13235 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13236 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13237 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13239 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
13240 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
13242 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
13243 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
13244 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13245 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
13246 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
13247 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
13248 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
13249 downloads more sensible.
13250 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
13251 another when serving certificates.
13253 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13254 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
13255 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
13256 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
13258 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
13259 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13260 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
13262 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13263 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13265 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13266 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13267 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13268 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
13269 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13271 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
13272 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
13273 WARN-severity events.
13274 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13275 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
13276 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13278 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
13279 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
13280 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
13282 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13283 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13284 circuit cannibalization).
13286 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13287 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
13288 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
13289 new module, networkstatus.c.
13290 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
13291 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
13292 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
13293 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
13294 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
13295 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
13296 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
13297 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
13298 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
13300 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
13302 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
13303 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13306 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
13307 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
13308 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
13309 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
13311 o New directory authorities:
13312 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
13313 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
13315 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13316 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13317 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13319 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
13320 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
13321 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
13322 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
13323 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13324 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
13325 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
13326 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
13327 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
13328 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
13329 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13331 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13332 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13333 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13334 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13335 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13336 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13337 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
13338 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
13339 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
13341 o Minor features (security):
13342 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
13343 address maps to an internal address space.
13344 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
13345 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
13347 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13348 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
13349 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
13350 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
13351 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
13353 o Minor features (speed):
13354 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
13355 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
13356 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
13357 on big-endian hosts.)
13359 o Minor features (controller):
13360 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
13361 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
13362 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
13363 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
13366 o Removed features:
13367 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
13368 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
13369 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
13370 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
13371 implementation of proposal 104.
13372 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
13373 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
13374 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
13375 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
13376 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
13377 patch from Karsten Loesing.
13378 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
13379 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
13382 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13383 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
13384 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13385 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
13386 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13387 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
13388 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13389 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13390 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
13391 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13392 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
13393 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
13394 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
13395 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13396 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
13397 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
13398 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
13399 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13400 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
13401 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
13403 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13404 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
13405 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
13407 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
13408 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
13409 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
13410 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
13413 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
13414 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
13415 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
13416 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13417 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
13420 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
13421 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
13424 o Major bugfixes (security):
13425 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
13426 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
13427 become more of a headache than it's worth.
13429 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13430 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13431 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13433 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13434 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13435 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13436 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13437 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13438 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13440 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13441 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13442 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13443 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13444 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
13446 o Minor features (controller):
13447 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13448 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13449 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13450 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13452 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13453 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
13454 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
13455 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13456 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
13457 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
13458 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
13459 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13461 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13462 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13463 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13464 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
13465 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13466 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13467 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13468 if we ran off the end of the list.
13469 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13470 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13471 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13472 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13473 every time we change any piece of our config.
13474 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13475 encourage people using them to stop.
13476 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
13478 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13479 servers to choose a circuit.
13480 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13481 unparseable piece of it.
13484 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
13485 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
13486 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
13487 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13490 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
13491 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
13492 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
13493 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
13494 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
13496 o New directory authorities:
13497 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
13500 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
13501 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
13502 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
13503 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
13505 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13506 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13507 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13509 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13510 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13511 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13512 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13513 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13514 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13516 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
13517 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
13518 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13521 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
13522 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
13523 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
13524 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
13528 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
13529 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
13530 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
13531 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
13533 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
13534 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
13536 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
13537 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
13538 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
13539 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
13540 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
13541 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13542 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13543 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13544 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13545 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
13548 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
13549 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
13550 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
13551 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
13552 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
13553 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
13555 o Removed features:
13556 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
13557 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
13558 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
13559 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
13562 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
13563 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
13564 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
13565 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
13566 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
13569 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13570 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13571 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13572 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13573 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
13574 reported by lodger.
13576 o Minor features (directory servers):
13577 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
13578 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
13580 o Minor features (directory voting):
13581 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
13584 o Minor features (security):
13585 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
13586 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13587 encourage people using them to stop.
13589 o Minor features (controller):
13590 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13591 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13592 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13593 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13594 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
13595 cookie authentication file, and config option
13596 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
13598 o Minor features (unit testing):
13599 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
13600 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
13601 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
13602 logging for the unit tests.
13604 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13605 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13606 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13607 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13608 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13609 every time we change any piece of our config.
13610 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13611 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13612 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13614 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13615 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13616 the onion key from getting rotated.
13617 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
13618 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
13619 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
13622 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13623 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
13624 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
13626 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
13627 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
13628 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
13629 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
13632 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
13633 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
13634 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
13635 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
13636 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
13637 TorK, etc. Or worse.
13639 o Major security fixes:
13640 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
13641 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
13644 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
13645 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
13646 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
13647 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
13649 o Major security fixes:
13650 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
13651 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
13653 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
13654 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
13657 o Minor features (performance):
13658 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
13659 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
13660 performance-intensive.
13661 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13662 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
13663 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
13664 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
13665 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13666 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
13670 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
13671 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
13672 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
13673 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
13677 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
13678 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
13679 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
13680 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
13681 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
13683 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
13684 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
13685 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
13686 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
13688 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
13689 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
13690 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
13691 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
13692 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
13694 o Major features (experimental):
13695 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
13696 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
13697 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
13698 handling before it's ready for use.
13701 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
13702 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
13703 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
13704 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13705 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
13706 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
13708 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
13709 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
13710 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
13711 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
13712 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
13714 o Major bugfixes (directory):
13715 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
13716 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13718 o Minor features (controller):
13719 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
13720 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13721 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
13722 from Robert Hogan.)
13723 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
13724 from Robert Hogan.)
13725 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
13726 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
13728 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
13729 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
13730 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
13731 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
13732 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13733 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
13734 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
13737 o Minor features (misc):
13738 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
13740 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
13741 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
13742 the authority identity key.
13743 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
13745 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
13746 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
13747 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
13750 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
13751 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13752 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13753 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
13754 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13755 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13756 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13757 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13759 o Performance improvements:
13760 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
13762 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
13763 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
13766 o Deprecated and removed features:
13767 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
13768 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
13769 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
13770 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
13772 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13773 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
13774 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
13775 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
13776 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
13777 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
13778 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
13779 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
13780 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
13783 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
13784 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
13785 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
13786 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
13787 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
13789 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
13790 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
13793 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13794 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
13795 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
13796 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
13797 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
13798 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
13799 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
13800 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
13801 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
13804 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
13805 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
13806 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
13807 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
13809 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
13810 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
13812 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13813 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
13814 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
13815 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
13816 routerlist while inserting a new router.
13817 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
13818 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
13820 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
13821 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
13822 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
13824 o Major bugfixes (security):
13825 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
13827 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
13828 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
13829 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
13830 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
13831 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
13832 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
13833 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
13834 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
13835 guard list unless we need to.
13837 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
13838 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
13839 don't get overused as guards.
13841 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13842 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
13843 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
13844 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
13845 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
13847 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13848 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
13849 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
13852 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13853 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
13854 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
13855 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
13856 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
13857 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
13858 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
13859 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
13862 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
13863 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
13864 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
13865 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
13867 o Minor features (directory):
13868 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
13869 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
13870 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
13871 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
13873 o Minor build issues:
13874 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
13875 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
13876 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
13877 in the tarball, not as "x".
13880 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
13881 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
13882 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
13883 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
13884 forward on a lot of fronts.
13886 o Major features, server usability:
13887 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
13888 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
13889 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
13890 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
13892 o Major features, client usability:
13893 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
13894 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
13895 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
13896 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
13897 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
13898 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
13899 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
13900 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
13902 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
13903 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
13904 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
13905 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
13906 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
13907 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
13909 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
13910 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
13911 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
13913 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
13914 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
13915 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
13916 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
13917 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
13919 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
13920 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
13921 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
13922 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
13924 o Major features, other:
13925 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
13926 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
13927 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
13928 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
13929 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
13932 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
13933 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
13934 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
13937 o Minor fixes (resource management):
13938 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
13939 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
13940 our allocated connection limit.
13941 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
13942 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
13943 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
13944 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
13945 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
13947 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
13948 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
13949 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
13951 o Minor features (build):
13952 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
13953 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
13954 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
13955 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
13957 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
13958 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
13959 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
13960 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
13961 Use this version consistently in log messages.
13963 o Minor features (logging):
13964 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
13965 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
13966 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
13967 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
13968 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
13971 o Minor features (directory system):
13972 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
13973 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
13974 not to serve V2 directory information.
13975 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
13976 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
13977 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
13979 o Minor features (controller):
13980 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
13981 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
13983 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
13984 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
13985 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
13986 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
13987 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
13988 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
13990 o Minor features (hidden services):
13991 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
13992 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
13993 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
13994 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
13996 o Minor features (other):
13998 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
13999 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
14000 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
14001 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
14002 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
14003 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
14004 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
14005 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
14006 longer a completely silly thing to do.
14007 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
14008 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
14009 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
14010 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
14012 o Removed features:
14013 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
14014 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
14015 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
14016 back an error and close the connection.
14017 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
14018 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
14021 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14022 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
14023 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
14024 makes the log messages nicer.
14025 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
14026 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14027 partial results on small file reads.
14029 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14030 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
14031 more often than they are allowed to appear.
14032 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
14033 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
14035 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14036 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
14037 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
14038 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
14040 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14041 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
14042 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
14043 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
14044 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
14045 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
14046 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
14047 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
14048 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
14049 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
14050 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
14052 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
14053 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
14054 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
14056 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14057 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
14058 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
14059 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
14061 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14062 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
14063 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
14065 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
14066 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
14069 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14070 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
14071 implicit in other procedure arguments.
14072 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
14073 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
14074 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
14075 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
14076 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
14077 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
14078 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
14079 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
14080 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
14083 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
14084 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
14085 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
14086 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
14088 o Directory authority changes:
14089 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
14090 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
14091 or use hidden services.
14093 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14094 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
14095 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
14096 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
14097 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
14098 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
14099 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
14100 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
14101 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
14104 o Major bugfixes (security):
14105 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
14106 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
14107 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
14109 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
14110 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
14111 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
14112 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
14113 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
14114 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
14115 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
14116 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
14117 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
14118 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
14121 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
14122 purpose=controller.
14123 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
14124 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
14126 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
14127 having a hard time downloading.
14128 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14129 partial results on small file reads.
14130 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
14131 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
14132 the gaps in the store get very large.
14135 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
14136 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
14138 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
14139 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
14142 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
14143 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
14144 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
14145 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
14146 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
14147 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
14149 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
14150 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
14151 free speech on the Internet.
14154 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
14155 get one we don't recognize.
14156 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14157 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
14160 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
14162 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
14163 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
14164 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
14165 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
14168 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
14169 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
14172 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
14173 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
14174 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
14175 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
14176 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
14177 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
14178 ask for GUARDS too.
14181 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
14182 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14183 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
14184 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
14185 on Win98 and friends again.
14187 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14188 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
14189 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
14192 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
14193 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14194 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
14195 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
14196 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
14197 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
14198 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
14199 and maybe also bug 397.)
14201 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14202 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
14203 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
14205 o Minor bugfixes (server):
14206 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
14209 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14210 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
14211 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
14212 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
14213 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
14215 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14216 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
14217 load on authorities.
14219 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14220 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
14221 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
14222 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
14224 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
14226 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
14227 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
14228 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
14229 the last of bug 326.)
14230 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
14231 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
14235 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
14236 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14237 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
14238 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
14239 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
14240 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
14241 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
14243 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
14244 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
14246 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14247 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
14248 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
14250 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
14251 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
14252 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
14254 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14255 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
14256 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
14257 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
14259 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
14260 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
14262 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
14263 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
14264 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
14267 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14268 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
14269 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
14270 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
14271 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
14272 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
14273 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
14274 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
14275 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
14276 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
14277 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
14278 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
14279 other than file-not-found.
14280 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
14281 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
14282 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
14283 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
14284 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
14285 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
14286 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
14287 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
14288 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
14289 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
14290 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
14291 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
14292 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
14293 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
14294 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
14296 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
14298 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
14299 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
14301 o Minor features (controller):
14302 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
14303 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
14304 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
14306 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
14307 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14308 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
14309 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
14310 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
14311 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
14312 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
14313 connected or resolved cell.
14315 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14316 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
14317 some profiles, but not others.)
14318 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
14319 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
14320 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
14323 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
14325 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
14326 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
14327 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
14328 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
14329 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
14330 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
14331 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
14332 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
14333 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
14334 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
14335 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
14336 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
14337 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
14338 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
14339 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
14341 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
14344 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
14345 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
14346 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
14347 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
14348 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
14349 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
14350 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
14352 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
14353 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
14354 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
14355 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
14356 buckets go absurdly negative.
14357 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
14358 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
14361 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
14362 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
14363 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
14364 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
14365 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
14366 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
14367 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
14368 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
14371 o Major bugfixes (other):
14372 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
14373 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
14374 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
14375 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
14377 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
14379 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
14380 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
14382 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
14383 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
14384 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
14385 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
14386 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
14387 to wait for 0.2.0.)
14389 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
14390 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
14391 possible memory-stomping bugs.
14392 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
14393 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
14395 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
14396 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
14397 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
14398 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
14399 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
14400 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
14402 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14403 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
14404 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
14405 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
14407 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
14408 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
14409 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
14410 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
14411 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
14412 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
14413 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
14414 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
14415 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
14416 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
14417 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
14418 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
14419 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
14421 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
14422 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
14423 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
14424 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
14425 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
14426 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
14427 to the resulting address.
14430 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
14431 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
14432 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
14433 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
14436 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
14437 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
14439 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
14440 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
14441 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
14442 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
14443 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
14444 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
14445 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
14446 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
14447 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
14448 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
14449 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
14450 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
14451 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
14452 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
14453 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
14454 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
14455 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
14458 o Minor features (controller):
14459 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
14460 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
14461 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
14462 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
14463 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
14464 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
14465 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
14469 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
14471 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
14472 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
14473 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
14474 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
14475 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
14476 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
14479 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
14480 weren't planning to resolve.
14481 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
14482 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
14483 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
14484 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
14485 the controller from learning about current events.
14487 o Minor features (more controller status events):
14488 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
14489 learn when our address changes.
14490 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
14491 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
14492 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
14493 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
14495 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
14496 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
14497 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
14498 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
14499 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
14500 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
14501 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
14502 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
14503 are accepted by a directory.
14504 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
14505 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
14506 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
14507 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
14508 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
14510 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
14511 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
14512 about changes to DNS server status.
14514 o Minor features (directory):
14515 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
14516 too much load to the exit nodes.
14519 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
14521 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
14522 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
14523 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
14524 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
14525 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
14527 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
14528 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
14529 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
14531 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
14532 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
14533 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
14534 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
14535 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
14536 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
14537 config options if you like.
14539 o Minor features (config and docs):
14540 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
14541 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
14542 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
14543 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
14544 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
14546 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
14547 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
14548 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
14549 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
14550 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
14552 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
14553 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
14554 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
14555 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
14556 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
14557 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
14558 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
14559 documentation: "make check-docs".
14560 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
14561 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
14563 o Minor features (DNS):
14564 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
14565 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
14566 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
14567 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
14568 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
14569 our tests for DNS hijacking.
14571 o Minor features (directory):
14572 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
14573 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
14574 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
14575 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
14576 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
14577 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
14578 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
14579 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
14580 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
14581 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
14582 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
14583 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
14584 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
14585 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
14586 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
14587 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
14588 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
14589 for the thing we're trying to download.
14590 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
14591 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
14592 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
14594 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
14595 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
14596 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
14599 o Minor features (controller):
14600 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
14601 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
14603 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
14604 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
14605 entry guard status as it changes.
14607 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
14608 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
14609 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
14610 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
14611 to set log options.
14612 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
14613 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
14614 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
14615 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
14618 o Major bugfixes (security):
14619 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14620 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
14621 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
14622 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
14624 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
14625 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
14626 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
14627 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
14628 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
14630 o Major bugfixes (other):
14631 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
14632 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
14633 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
14634 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
14636 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
14637 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
14638 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
14639 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
14640 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
14641 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
14645 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
14646 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
14647 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
14648 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
14649 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
14651 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
14652 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
14654 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
14655 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
14656 family lists conveniently.
14657 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
14658 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
14659 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
14661 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
14662 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
14664 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
14665 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
14666 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
14667 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
14668 if their identity keys are as expected.
14669 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
14670 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
14671 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
14673 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14674 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
14675 reported by Mike Perry.
14676 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
14677 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
14678 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
14679 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
14682 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
14683 o Security bugfixes:
14684 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14685 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
14686 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
14687 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
14691 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
14692 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
14693 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
14696 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
14698 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
14699 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
14700 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
14703 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
14704 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
14705 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
14706 watching for STREAM events.
14707 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
14708 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
14709 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
14710 operations, for profiling.
14713 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
14714 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
14715 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
14716 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
14717 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
14718 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
14720 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
14724 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
14725 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
14726 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
14727 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
14728 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
14730 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
14731 correctly in the Windows installer.
14732 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
14733 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
14734 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
14735 MIPSpro C compiler.
14736 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
14737 when we're running as a client.
14740 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
14742 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
14743 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
14744 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
14745 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
14746 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
14747 its circuits on demand.
14748 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
14749 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
14750 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
14751 connections more stable on average.
14752 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
14753 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
14754 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
14756 o Security bugfixes:
14757 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
14758 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
14761 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
14763 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
14764 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
14765 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
14766 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
14767 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
14768 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
14769 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
14770 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
14773 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
14775 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
14776 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
14777 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
14778 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
14779 routers for even longer.
14780 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
14781 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
14782 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
14783 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
14784 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
14785 caching HTTP proxies.
14786 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
14789 o Minor features, controller:
14790 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
14791 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
14792 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
14793 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
14795 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
14796 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
14797 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
14798 working much like those for circuit events.
14799 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
14800 about the current status of a router.
14801 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
14802 a router's status has changed.
14803 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
14804 can tell which events and features are supported.
14805 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
14806 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
14808 o Security bugfixes:
14809 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
14810 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
14813 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
14814 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
14815 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
14816 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
14817 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
14818 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
14819 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
14820 long nicknames where appropriate.
14821 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
14822 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
14823 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
14824 chews through many circuits before giving up.
14825 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
14826 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
14827 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
14828 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
14829 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
14830 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
14832 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
14833 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
14834 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
14836 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
14837 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
14838 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
14839 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
14840 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
14841 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
14842 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
14843 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
14844 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
14845 (reported by fookoowa).
14846 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
14847 and reported by some Centos users.
14848 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
14849 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
14850 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
14851 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
14852 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
14853 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
14854 before we check for libevent.
14857 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
14859 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
14860 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
14861 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
14862 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
14863 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
14864 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
14865 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
14866 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
14867 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
14868 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
14869 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
14870 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
14871 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
14872 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
14873 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
14874 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
14875 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
14876 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
14877 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
14878 lets you turn it off.
14879 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
14880 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
14881 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
14882 us into the directory more quickly.
14884 o New/improved config options:
14885 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
14886 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
14887 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
14888 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
14889 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
14890 all the machines on the same subnet.
14891 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
14892 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
14893 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
14894 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
14895 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
14896 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
14897 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
14898 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
14899 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
14900 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
14902 o Minor features, controller:
14903 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
14904 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
14905 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
14906 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
14907 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
14908 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
14909 for more information.
14910 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
14911 best guess to the user.
14912 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
14913 descriptor has changed.
14914 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
14916 o Minor features, other:
14917 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
14918 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
14919 useful to the network.
14920 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
14921 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
14922 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
14923 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
14924 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
14925 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
14926 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
14927 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
14928 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
14929 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
14930 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
14931 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
14932 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
14933 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
14934 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
14936 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
14937 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
14938 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
14939 could return an unnamed server instead.
14940 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
14941 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
14942 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
14943 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
14944 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
14945 a more attractive target for compromise.)
14946 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
14947 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
14948 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
14950 o Major bugfixes, other:
14951 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
14952 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
14953 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
14954 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
14955 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
14956 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
14957 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
14958 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
14959 its circuits on demand.
14960 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
14961 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
14962 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
14963 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
14965 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
14966 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
14967 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
14968 we don't recognize.
14969 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
14971 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
14972 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
14973 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
14974 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
14975 "extendcircuit" request.
14976 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
14977 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
14978 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
14980 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
14981 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
14982 instead of "X resolved to X".
14983 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
14984 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
14985 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
14986 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
14987 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
14988 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
14989 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
14990 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
14991 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
14993 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
14994 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
14995 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
14996 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
14997 result more than once.
14998 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
14999 non-versioning dirservers.
15000 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
15001 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
15003 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
15004 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
15005 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
15006 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
15007 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
15008 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
15009 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
15010 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
15011 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
15013 o Packaging, features:
15014 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
15015 now universal binaries.
15016 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
15017 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
15018 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
15020 o Packaging, bugfixes:
15021 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
15022 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
15023 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
15024 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
15026 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
15027 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
15028 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
15031 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
15032 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
15033 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
15037 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
15039 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15040 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15041 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
15042 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
15043 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
15044 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
15045 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
15046 it can't resolve its hostname.
15049 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15050 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
15051 "extendcircuit" request.
15052 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15053 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15054 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15055 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15057 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
15058 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
15059 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
15061 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
15062 methods: these are known to be buggy.
15063 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15064 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15065 we don't recognize.
15068 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
15070 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
15071 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
15072 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
15073 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
15074 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
15075 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
15076 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
15077 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
15078 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
15079 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
15080 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
15081 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
15082 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
15083 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
15084 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
15085 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
15086 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
15087 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
15088 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
15089 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
15090 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
15091 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
15092 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
15093 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
15096 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
15097 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
15098 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
15099 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
15100 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
15101 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
15102 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
15103 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
15104 recommendation system saner.)
15105 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
15107 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
15108 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
15109 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
15110 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
15111 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
15112 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
15113 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
15114 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
15115 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
15116 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
15117 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
15118 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
15119 your ORPort is set.
15120 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
15121 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
15122 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
15123 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
15124 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
15125 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
15126 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
15127 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
15128 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
15129 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
15130 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
15131 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
15133 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
15134 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
15135 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
15136 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
15137 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
15138 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
15141 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
15142 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
15143 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
15144 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
15145 our DirPort now, etc.
15146 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15147 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
15148 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
15149 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
15150 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
15151 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15152 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15154 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
15155 whether the config options are bad or good.
15156 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
15157 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
15158 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
15159 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
15160 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
15161 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
15162 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
15163 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
15166 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
15167 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
15168 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
15169 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
15170 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
15171 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
15172 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
15173 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
15174 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
15175 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
15176 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
15177 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
15178 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
15179 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
15180 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
15181 of it), is not therefore "up".
15182 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
15183 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
15184 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
15185 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
15186 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
15187 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
15190 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
15192 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
15193 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
15194 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
15195 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
15196 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
15197 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
15198 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
15199 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
15200 test reachability, so you won't publish.
15203 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
15204 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
15205 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
15206 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
15207 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
15209 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
15210 own server descriptor yet.
15213 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
15215 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
15216 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
15217 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
15218 make sure to test via one of these.
15219 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
15220 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
15221 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
15222 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
15223 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
15225 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
15226 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
15227 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
15230 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
15231 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
15232 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
15233 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
15234 directory authority.
15235 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
15236 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
15237 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
15238 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
15241 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
15242 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
15243 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
15245 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
15246 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
15247 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
15248 current guards when picking a new guard.
15249 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
15250 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
15251 when we had more than one pending.
15252 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
15253 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
15254 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
15255 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
15256 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
15257 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
15258 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
15259 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
15260 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
15261 debug the reachability problems better.
15263 o Log / documentation fixes:
15264 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
15265 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
15266 about protocol violations by others.
15267 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
15268 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
15269 about what happened to our old torrc.
15272 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
15274 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
15276 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
15277 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
15278 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
15279 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
15282 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
15284 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
15285 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
15286 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
15287 old ORPort and receive connections.
15288 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
15290 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
15291 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
15292 and network-statuses.
15293 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
15294 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
15295 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
15296 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
15298 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
15301 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
15302 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
15303 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
15306 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
15308 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
15309 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
15310 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
15311 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
15312 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
15315 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
15316 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
15318 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
15319 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
15320 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
15321 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
15322 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
15323 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
15324 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
15325 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
15326 rather than not sending anything back at all.
15327 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
15328 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
15329 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
15330 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
15331 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
15332 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
15333 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
15334 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
15335 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
15336 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
15337 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
15338 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
15339 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
15340 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
15341 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
15342 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
15343 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
15344 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
15345 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
15346 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
15347 default ulimit -n is 1024.
15350 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
15351 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
15352 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
15353 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
15356 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
15358 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
15359 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
15360 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
15361 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
15362 entry guards running these flawed versions.
15363 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
15364 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
15365 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
15366 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
15367 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
15370 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
15371 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
15373 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
15374 and it is confusing some users.
15375 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
15376 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
15377 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
15378 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
15379 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
15382 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
15384 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
15385 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
15386 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
15387 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
15388 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
15389 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
15390 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
15391 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
15392 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
15393 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
15394 dirport is set for now.
15396 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
15397 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
15398 unattached before we fail it?
15399 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
15400 at least this many seconds ago.
15401 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
15402 at least this many seconds ago.
15405 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
15406 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
15407 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
15408 or resolve-wait stream.
15409 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
15410 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
15411 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
15412 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
15413 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
15414 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
15415 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
15416 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
15418 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
15419 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
15420 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
15421 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
15422 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
15423 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
15424 given as hex digests.
15425 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
15426 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
15427 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
15428 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
15429 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
15430 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
15431 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
15432 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
15435 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15436 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
15437 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
15438 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
15439 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
15440 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
15441 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
15442 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
15443 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
15444 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
15445 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
15448 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
15449 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
15450 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
15451 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
15452 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
15453 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
15454 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
15457 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
15458 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
15459 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
15460 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
15461 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
15462 misreading their logs.
15463 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
15464 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
15465 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
15466 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
15467 valid router descriptors.
15468 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
15469 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
15470 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
15471 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
15472 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
15473 silently resetting it to its default.
15474 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
15476 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
15479 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
15480 use clean circuits.
15481 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
15482 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
15483 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
15484 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
15485 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
15487 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
15488 because older Tors do not understand it.
15489 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
15493 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
15494 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15495 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
15496 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
15497 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
15498 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
15499 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
15500 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
15501 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
15502 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
15503 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
15505 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
15506 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
15507 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
15508 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
15510 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
15511 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
15514 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
15515 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
15516 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15517 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15518 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15519 without getting overloaded.
15520 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
15522 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
15523 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
15524 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
15525 be forward-compatible.
15526 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
15527 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
15528 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
15529 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
15531 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
15532 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
15533 and OR conns to port 443.
15534 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
15535 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
15537 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
15538 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
15539 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
15540 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
15541 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
15542 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
15543 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
15546 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
15547 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15548 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
15549 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
15551 o Other important bugfixes:
15552 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15553 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15554 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15555 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15557 o Backported features:
15558 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15559 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15560 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15561 without getting overloaded.
15562 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
15563 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
15564 503's whenever they feel busy.
15565 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
15566 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
15567 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
15568 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
15569 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
15572 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
15573 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15574 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
15575 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
15576 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
15577 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
15578 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
15579 know if the crashes continue.
15580 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
15581 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
15582 seg faults in at least some cases.)
15583 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
15584 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
15585 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
15588 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
15589 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
15590 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
15591 try to be a bit more fair.
15592 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
15593 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
15594 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
15595 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
15596 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
15597 bug that let it go negative.
15598 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
15599 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
15600 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
15601 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
15602 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15603 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15604 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15605 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15606 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
15607 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
15608 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
15611 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
15613 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
15614 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
15615 service descriptors.
15618 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
15619 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
15620 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
15621 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
15623 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
15624 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
15625 versions *are* still recommended.
15626 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
15627 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
15628 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
15629 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
15630 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
15631 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
15632 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
15633 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
15635 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
15636 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
15637 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
15638 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
15639 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
15640 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
15641 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
15642 on it. Not used by clients yet.
15643 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
15644 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
15645 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
15646 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
15647 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
15648 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
15649 established a circuit.
15650 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
15651 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
15652 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
15653 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
15656 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
15657 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15658 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
15659 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
15660 quickly enough. Oops.
15661 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
15663 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15664 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
15667 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
15668 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15669 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
15670 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
15671 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
15672 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
15673 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
15674 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
15675 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
15676 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
15677 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
15678 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
15679 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
15680 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
15681 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
15682 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
15683 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
15686 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
15687 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
15688 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
15689 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
15690 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
15691 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
15692 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
15693 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
15694 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
15695 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
15696 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
15697 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
15698 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
15699 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
15700 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
15701 connections more reliable.
15704 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
15705 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
15706 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
15707 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
15708 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
15709 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
15710 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
15711 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
15712 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
15713 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
15714 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
15715 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
15716 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
15717 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
15721 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
15722 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
15723 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
15724 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
15725 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
15726 need to be uint64_t's.
15727 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
15728 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
15729 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
15731 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
15733 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
15734 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
15735 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
15736 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
15737 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
15738 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
15739 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
15741 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
15742 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
15743 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
15744 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
15745 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
15746 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
15747 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
15748 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
15749 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
15750 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
15751 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
15752 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
15753 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
15756 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
15757 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
15758 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
15759 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
15760 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
15761 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
15762 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
15764 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
15765 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
15766 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
15767 can answer v2 directory requests too.
15768 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
15769 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
15770 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
15771 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
15773 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
15774 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
15775 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
15776 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
15777 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
15778 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
15779 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
15780 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
15781 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
15782 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
15783 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
15784 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
15785 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
15786 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
15787 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
15789 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
15790 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
15793 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
15794 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15795 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
15796 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
15797 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
15798 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
15799 too -- so detect and avoid this.
15800 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
15802 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
15803 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
15804 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
15805 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
15806 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
15807 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
15808 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
15809 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
15810 rendezvous circuits.
15811 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
15813 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15814 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
15815 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
15816 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
15817 advertising it because of hibernation.
15818 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
15819 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
15820 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
15821 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
15822 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
15823 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
15824 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
15825 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
15826 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
15827 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
15828 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
15829 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
15830 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
15831 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
15834 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
15835 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15836 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
15837 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
15838 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
15839 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
15840 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
15841 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
15842 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
15843 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
15844 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
15845 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
15846 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
15847 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
15848 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
15849 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
15850 connections once a week.
15851 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
15852 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
15853 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
15854 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
15855 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
15856 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
15858 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
15859 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
15860 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
15862 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15863 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
15864 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
15865 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
15866 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
15867 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
15868 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
15869 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
15870 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
15871 firewall options forbid.
15872 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
15873 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
15874 can only proxy to certain destinations.
15875 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
15876 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
15877 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
15878 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
15879 aids some statistical attacks.
15880 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
15881 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
15882 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
15883 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
15885 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15886 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
15887 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
15888 server descriptor sometimes.
15889 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
15890 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
15891 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
15892 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
15893 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
15894 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
15895 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
15896 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
15898 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
15899 case the controller wants to change that too.
15900 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
15901 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
15902 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
15903 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
15905 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
15906 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
15907 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
15909 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
15910 descriptors that they know they will reject.
15912 o Features and updates:
15913 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
15914 significantly faster.
15915 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
15916 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
15917 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
15918 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
15919 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
15920 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
15921 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
15922 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
15923 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
15924 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
15925 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
15926 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
15927 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
15928 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
15929 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
15930 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
15931 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
15932 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
15933 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
15934 as authoritative dirserver.
15935 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
15936 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
15937 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
15940 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
15941 o Usability improvements:
15942 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
15943 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
15945 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
15946 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
15947 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
15949 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
15950 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
15951 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
15952 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
15953 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
15954 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
15955 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
15956 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
15957 memory leaks better.
15958 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
15959 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
15960 their operators to pay close attention.
15961 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
15962 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
15964 o Performance improvements:
15965 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
15966 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
15967 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
15968 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
15969 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
15970 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
15971 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
15972 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
15973 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
15974 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
15975 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
15976 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
15977 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
15978 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
15979 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
15980 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
15981 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
15983 o Security improvements:
15984 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
15985 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
15986 fingerprint of server.
15987 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
15988 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
15989 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
15991 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15992 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
15993 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
15994 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
15995 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
15996 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
15997 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
15998 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
15999 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
16000 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
16001 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
16002 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
16003 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
16004 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
16005 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
16006 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
16007 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
16008 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
16009 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
16010 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
16011 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
16013 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
16014 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
16015 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
16017 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
16018 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
16020 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
16021 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
16022 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
16023 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
16024 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
16025 of the controller protocol.
16026 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
16027 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
16028 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
16031 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
16032 o New features (major):
16033 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
16034 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
16035 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
16036 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
16037 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
16038 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
16039 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
16040 we're using a default DirPort.
16041 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
16043 o New features (minor):
16044 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
16045 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
16046 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
16047 mirrors still cache and serve it).
16048 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
16049 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
16050 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
16051 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
16052 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
16053 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
16054 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
16055 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
16056 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
16057 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
16058 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
16059 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
16060 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
16061 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
16062 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
16064 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
16065 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
16066 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
16067 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
16068 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
16069 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
16070 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
16071 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
16073 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
16074 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
16075 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
16076 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
16077 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
16078 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
16079 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
16080 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
16081 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
16082 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
16084 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
16085 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16086 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16087 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16088 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16090 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16091 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
16092 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
16094 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
16095 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
16097 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
16098 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
16099 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
16100 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
16101 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
16102 don't warn twice about the same name.
16103 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
16104 if we've not heard of the server.
16105 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
16106 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
16109 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
16110 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16111 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
16112 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16113 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16114 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16115 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16116 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
16117 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
16118 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16119 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16120 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
16121 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
16122 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
16123 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
16126 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
16127 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
16128 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
16129 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
16130 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
16132 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
16133 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
16134 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
16135 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
16136 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
16137 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
16141 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
16142 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
16143 nickname) is reachable by you.
16144 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
16147 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16148 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
16149 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
16150 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
16151 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
16152 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
16153 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
16154 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
16155 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
16156 we fail to connect).
16157 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
16158 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
16159 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
16160 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
16162 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
16163 it was self-testing that told us so.
16166 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
16167 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
16168 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16169 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16170 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
16171 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
16172 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
16173 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
16174 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
16175 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
16176 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
16177 exit policy using him for any exits.
16178 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
16181 o New controller features/fixes:
16182 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
16183 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
16184 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
16185 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
16186 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
16187 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
16188 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
16189 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
16190 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
16192 o Start on the new directory design:
16193 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
16194 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
16196 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
16197 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
16198 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
16199 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
16201 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
16202 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
16203 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
16204 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
16205 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
16206 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
16207 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
16208 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
16211 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
16212 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
16213 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
16214 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
16215 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
16216 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
16217 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
16218 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
16219 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
16220 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
16222 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
16223 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
16224 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
16225 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
16226 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
16227 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
16228 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
16229 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
16230 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
16232 o Config option changes:
16233 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
16234 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
16235 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
16236 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16237 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16238 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
16240 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16241 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
16242 people have started using them for spam too.
16243 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
16244 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
16245 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
16246 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
16247 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
16248 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
16249 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
16250 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
16251 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
16252 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
16253 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
16254 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
16255 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
16256 services faster on the service end.
16257 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
16258 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
16259 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
16260 it a fair shake next time we try.
16261 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
16262 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
16263 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
16264 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
16265 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
16266 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
16267 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
16268 able to discover them.
16269 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
16270 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
16271 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
16272 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
16273 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
16274 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
16275 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
16276 testing for reachability.
16277 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
16278 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
16280 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
16282 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
16283 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
16286 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
16287 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
16289 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16290 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
16291 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
16292 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
16295 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
16296 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16297 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
16299 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
16300 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
16303 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
16304 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
16307 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
16308 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
16309 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
16310 options, getinfo keys.
16313 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
16314 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16315 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
16316 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16317 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16318 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
16319 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
16321 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
16322 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
16326 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
16327 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16328 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
16330 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
16332 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
16333 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
16334 circuit events and we go offline.
16335 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
16336 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
16337 you don't have enough intro points already.
16339 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16340 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
16341 many bytes we've used in this time period.
16342 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
16343 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
16344 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
16345 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
16346 enabled by default yet.
16348 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
16349 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
16350 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
16351 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16352 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16355 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
16356 o New directory servers:
16357 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16359 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16360 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16361 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16362 pthreads libraries.
16363 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
16364 claims its dirport is 0.
16365 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
16366 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
16370 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
16371 o New directory servers:
16372 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16374 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
16375 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
16377 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
16378 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
16379 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
16380 ports that have changed.
16381 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16383 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
16384 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
16385 Windows-style errno back.
16386 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
16388 want to make it an NT service.
16389 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
16390 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
16391 name, give the full name in our response.
16392 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
16393 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
16394 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
16395 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16396 pthreads libraries.
16398 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16399 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
16403 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
16404 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
16405 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
16406 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
16407 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
16410 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
16411 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16412 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
16413 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
16414 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16415 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16416 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16417 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
16420 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
16422 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16423 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16424 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16425 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
16426 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
16427 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
16429 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
16430 temporarily unreachable.
16431 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
16435 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
16436 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
16437 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
16438 our protocol works.
16439 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
16443 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
16444 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
16445 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
16446 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
16447 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
16451 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
16452 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
16453 libevent before 1.1a.
16456 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
16458 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
16459 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
16460 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
16461 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
16462 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
16464 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
16465 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
16466 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
16467 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
16468 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
16469 of CPU time plus memory.
16470 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
16471 normal web requests.
16472 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
16473 tor_lookup_hostname().
16474 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
16475 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
16476 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
16477 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
16478 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
16479 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
16481 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
16482 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
16483 HttpProxyAuthenticator
16484 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
16485 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
16486 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
16488 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
16489 the user asks you to.
16490 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
16491 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
16492 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
16493 their descriptors are being rejected.
16494 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
16498 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
16500 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
16501 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
16502 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
16504 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
16506 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
16508 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
16509 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
16510 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
16511 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
16512 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
16513 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
16514 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
16515 keys) from the exit server's process.
16516 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
16517 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
16518 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
16519 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
16520 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
16521 point at your Tor server.
16522 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
16523 you're not sending a socks reply back.
16526 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
16527 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
16528 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
16529 to make it easier to write controllers.
16532 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
16534 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
16535 installing on Tiger.
16536 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
16537 complain during installation.
16538 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
16539 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
16540 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
16541 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
16542 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
16543 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
16545 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
16546 something more reasonable when first installing.
16547 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
16550 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
16552 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
16553 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
16555 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
16556 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
16557 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
16558 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
16559 when using the default exit policy.
16560 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
16561 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
16562 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
16563 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
16564 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
16565 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
16566 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
16567 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
16568 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
16569 we fetched a new directory.
16570 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
16571 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
16574 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
16575 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
16576 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
16577 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
16578 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
16579 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
16580 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
16581 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
16583 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
16584 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
16585 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
16586 save memory on systems that need to fork.
16587 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
16588 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
16589 is valid without actually launching Tor.
16590 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
16591 rather than just rejecting it.
16594 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
16596 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
16597 we didn't like its cert.
16599 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
16600 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
16601 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
16602 on patch from Adam Langley.
16603 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
16604 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
16605 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
16606 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
16608 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
16609 directory every time you regenerate it.
16610 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
16611 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
16614 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
16615 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16616 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16617 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
16618 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
16621 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
16623 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16624 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
16625 TLS errors better in other situations too.
16626 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
16627 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
16628 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
16629 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
16630 and don't log when you are.
16631 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
16632 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
16634 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
16635 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
16636 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
16637 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
16638 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
16641 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
16642 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
16643 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
16644 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
16645 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
16646 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
16647 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
16648 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
16649 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
16650 nickname+key are allowed.
16651 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
16652 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
16653 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
16654 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
16655 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
16656 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
16657 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
16658 have quite wrong clocks).
16659 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
16660 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
16661 - Efficiency improvements:
16662 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
16663 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
16664 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
16665 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
16666 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
16667 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
16668 lowercase and be done with it.
16669 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
16670 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
16671 to abandon partially built circuits.
16672 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
16673 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
16675 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
16677 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
16678 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
16679 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
16680 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
16682 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
16683 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
16685 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
16686 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
16687 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
16688 obeying the exit policy internally.
16689 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
16690 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
16692 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
16693 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
16694 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
16695 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
16697 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
16698 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
16699 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
16700 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
16701 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
16703 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
16704 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
16705 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
16706 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
16707 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
16708 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
16709 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
16710 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
16711 descriptors we just dropped.
16712 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
16713 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
16714 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
16715 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
16716 artificially capped at 500kB.
16719 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
16720 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16721 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
16722 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
16723 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
16724 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
16725 busy for more than 100 seconds.
16728 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
16729 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
16730 - Fixes on reachability detection:
16731 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
16732 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
16733 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
16734 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
16735 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
16736 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
16737 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
16738 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
16739 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
16740 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
16741 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
16742 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
16743 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
16744 server not already connected to them.
16745 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
16746 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
16747 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
16749 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
16751 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
16752 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
16753 are in a different state than they actually are.
16754 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
16755 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
16756 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
16758 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
16759 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
16760 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
16762 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
16763 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
16764 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
16765 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
16766 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
16767 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
16768 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
16770 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
16771 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
16772 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
16773 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
16776 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
16777 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16778 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
16779 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
16780 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
16781 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
16782 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
16783 creating actual system users.
16784 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
16785 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
16789 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
16791 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
16792 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
16793 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
16794 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
16795 hidden services better.
16796 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
16798 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
16799 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
16800 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
16801 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
16802 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
16803 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
16804 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
16805 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
16806 patch by Matt Edman).
16807 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
16808 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
16809 required exit node for certain sites.
16810 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
16811 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
16812 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
16813 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
16814 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
16815 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
16816 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
16817 rather than just "success" or "failure".
16818 - A more sane version numbering system. See
16819 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
16820 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
16821 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
16823 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
16824 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
16825 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
16826 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
16827 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
16828 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
16829 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
16831 o Robustness/stability fixes:
16832 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
16833 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
16834 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
16836 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
16837 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
16838 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
16840 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
16841 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
16842 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
16844 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
16845 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
16846 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
16847 that will want high uptime circuits.
16848 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
16849 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
16850 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
16851 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
16852 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
16853 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
16854 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
16855 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
16856 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
16857 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
16858 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
16859 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
16860 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
16861 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
16862 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
16863 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
16864 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
16865 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
16866 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
16867 when we try to launch one.
16868 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
16869 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
16870 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
16871 "ShutdownWaitLength".
16872 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
16873 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
16874 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
16875 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
16876 and to take errno into account where possible.
16879 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
16880 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
16881 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
16882 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
16883 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
16884 file more reasonable.
16885 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
16886 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
16887 addresses -- it won't.
16888 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
16889 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
16890 for google.com" problem.
16891 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
16892 so it's not just "unknown platform".
16893 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
16894 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
16895 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
16896 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
16898 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
16899 they could use instead.
16900 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
16901 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
16902 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
16903 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
16904 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
16905 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
16906 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
16907 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
16908 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
16910 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
16914 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
16915 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
16917 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
16918 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
16919 private-IP addresses.
16920 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
16921 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
16923 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
16924 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
16925 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
16926 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
16927 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
16928 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
16929 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
16931 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
16932 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
16933 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
16934 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
16935 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
16936 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
16937 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
16938 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
16940 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
16942 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
16943 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
16944 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
16945 whether the server is hibernating.
16948 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
16949 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
16950 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
16951 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
16952 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
16953 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
16954 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
16955 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
16956 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
16957 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
16958 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
16959 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
16960 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
16961 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
16962 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
16964 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
16965 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
16966 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
16967 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
16968 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
16969 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
16970 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
16971 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
16972 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
16973 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
16974 existing torrc files.
16975 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
16978 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
16979 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16980 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
16981 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
16982 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
16983 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
16984 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
16985 the win32 SYSTEM account.
16986 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
16987 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
16988 file descriptors available.
16989 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
16990 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
16991 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
16994 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
16995 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16996 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
16997 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
16999 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
17000 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
17001 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
17002 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
17003 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
17005 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
17006 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
17007 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
17008 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
17009 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
17010 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
17011 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
17012 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
17013 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
17014 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
17015 800kB/s of capacity.
17016 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
17019 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
17020 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17021 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
17022 need as much processor time.
17023 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
17024 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
17025 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
17026 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
17027 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
17028 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
17029 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
17030 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
17031 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
17032 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
17033 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
17034 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
17036 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
17037 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
17038 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
17039 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
17040 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
17041 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
17042 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
17045 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
17046 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
17047 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
17049 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
17050 style address, then we'd crash.
17051 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
17052 a dirserver is broken.
17053 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
17055 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
17056 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
17057 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
17059 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
17060 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
17061 name out of the warning/assert messages.
17062 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
17063 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
17064 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
17066 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
17067 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
17068 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
17070 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
17072 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
17073 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
17074 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
17075 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
17076 values at once couldn't work.
17077 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
17078 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
17079 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
17080 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
17081 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
17082 they can handle any number of routers.
17083 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
17084 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
17085 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
17086 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
17087 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
17088 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
17089 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
17090 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
17091 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
17094 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
17095 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17096 - Make hibernation actually work.
17097 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
17098 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
17099 don't use the stream status code.
17102 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
17104 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
17105 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
17107 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
17110 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
17111 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
17112 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
17113 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
17114 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
17115 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
17116 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
17117 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
17118 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
17119 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
17121 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17122 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
17123 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
17124 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
17125 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
17126 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
17127 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
17128 - Make unit tests work on win32.
17131 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
17132 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17133 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
17135 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
17136 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
17137 than just chopping them off.
17138 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
17140 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17141 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
17142 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
17143 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
17144 right after sending the begin cell.
17145 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
17146 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
17147 exit nodes too. Oops.
17150 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
17151 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
17152 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
17153 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
17154 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
17155 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
17156 the user knows which one it's talking about.
17157 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
17158 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
17159 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
17162 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
17163 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17164 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
17165 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
17167 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
17169 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17170 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
17171 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
17173 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
17174 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
17175 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
17176 Clip rather than rejecting.
17177 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
17178 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
17181 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
17182 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
17183 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
17184 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
17186 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
17189 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
17190 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17191 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
17192 win32 socket errors better.
17194 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17195 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
17198 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
17199 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17200 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
17201 so we don't see those messages days later.
17203 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17204 - Make tor-resolve work again.
17205 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
17206 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
17209 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
17210 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17211 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
17212 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
17214 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
17215 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
17216 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
17219 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
17220 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17221 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
17222 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
17223 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
17224 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
17225 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
17226 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
17227 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
17229 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
17230 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
17231 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
17232 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
17234 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
17235 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
17238 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
17239 hibernation properties by
17240 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
17241 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
17242 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
17243 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
17244 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
17245 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
17246 get back to normal.)
17247 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
17249 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
17250 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
17251 to fill the last cell completely.
17252 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
17255 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
17256 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17257 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
17258 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
17259 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
17260 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
17261 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
17262 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
17263 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
17264 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
17265 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
17267 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
17268 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
17269 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
17270 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
17271 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
17272 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
17273 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
17274 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
17276 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
17277 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
17278 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
17279 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
17280 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
17281 have it on start-up.
17284 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
17285 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
17286 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
17287 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
17288 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
17289 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
17290 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
17291 configuration to torrc.
17292 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
17293 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
17294 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
17295 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
17296 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
17298 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
17299 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
17300 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
17301 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
17302 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
17303 log more informatively.
17304 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
17305 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
17306 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
17307 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
17308 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
17309 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
17310 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
17311 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
17312 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
17313 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
17314 from each other, to hinder linkability.
17317 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
17318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
17319 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
17320 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
17321 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
17322 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
17323 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
17325 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
17326 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
17327 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
17328 they ran out of file descriptors.
17329 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
17330 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
17331 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
17332 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
17333 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
17334 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
17335 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
17337 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
17340 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
17341 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
17342 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
17343 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
17344 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
17345 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
17346 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
17347 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
17348 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
17349 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
17350 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
17351 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
17352 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
17353 with the control port.
17354 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
17355 use in authenticating to the control interface.
17356 - New log format in config:
17357 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
17358 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
17361 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
17362 from their dirserver.
17363 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
17365 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
17366 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
17367 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
17368 them act more like real nodes.
17369 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
17370 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
17372 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
17373 nickname to its identity key.
17374 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
17375 not on the command line.
17376 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
17377 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
17378 1024) file descriptors.
17380 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
17381 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
17383 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
17384 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
17385 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
17388 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
17389 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
17390 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
17391 exit policy, not reject *:*.
17392 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
17393 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
17394 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
17395 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
17396 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
17397 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
17398 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
17401 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
17402 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
17403 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
17404 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
17405 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
17406 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
17407 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
17410 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
17411 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17412 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
17413 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
17414 the ones we find in directories.)
17415 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
17417 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
17418 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
17420 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
17421 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
17422 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
17424 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
17425 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
17426 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
17427 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
17429 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
17430 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
17431 any more exit policy lines.
17434 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
17435 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
17436 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
17437 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
17438 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
17439 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
17440 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
17441 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
17442 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
17443 will be able to get a directory.
17444 - Http proxy support
17445 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
17446 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
17447 be routed through this host.
17448 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
17449 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
17450 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
17451 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
17454 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
17456 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
17457 clients/servers with an open dirport.
17458 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17459 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17460 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17461 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17462 intermittent connections.
17463 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
17464 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
17466 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
17467 in reporting stats locally.
17468 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
17469 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
17470 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
17473 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
17475 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
17476 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
17479 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
17481 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
17482 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
17483 if you don't want it open.
17484 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17485 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
17486 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17487 intermittent connections.
17488 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
17490 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
17491 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
17492 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
17493 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
17494 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
17495 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
17496 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
17497 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
17498 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
17499 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
17500 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
17501 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
17502 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
17503 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
17504 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17505 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17508 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
17509 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
17510 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
17511 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
17512 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
17514 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
17516 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
17517 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
17518 specified in HTTP 1.0.
17519 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
17520 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
17521 than once per minute.
17522 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
17523 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
17526 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
17527 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
17530 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
17531 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
17532 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
17533 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
17536 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
17537 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
17539 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
17540 don't put it into the client dns cache.
17541 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
17542 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
17543 until we get our next directory.
17545 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
17546 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
17547 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
17548 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
17549 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
17550 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
17551 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
17552 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
17553 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
17554 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
17555 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
17557 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
17559 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
17560 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
17562 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
17563 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
17564 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
17566 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
17568 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
17569 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
17570 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
17571 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
17572 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
17573 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
17574 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
17575 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
17578 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
17579 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
17580 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
17581 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
17584 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
17585 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
17586 ask them to resolve the host "".
17589 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
17590 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17591 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
17592 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
17593 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
17594 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
17595 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
17596 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
17597 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
17598 clients don't use this yet.)
17599 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
17600 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
17601 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
17602 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
17603 for pointing out this bug.)
17604 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
17605 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
17606 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
17607 kazaa, gnutella ports.
17608 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
17610 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
17611 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
17612 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
17613 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
17614 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
17615 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
17616 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
17617 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
17618 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
17619 wolf unpredictably.
17620 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
17621 that's still handshaking.
17622 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
17623 you'll choose it for your path.
17624 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
17625 end relay cell, etc.
17626 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
17627 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
17628 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
17631 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
17632 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17634 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
17635 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
17636 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
17637 list to decide who's running or verified.
17638 - Bugfixes and features:
17639 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
17640 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
17641 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
17642 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
17643 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
17644 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
17646 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
17647 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
17648 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
17649 know you might want to get it verified.
17650 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
17653 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
17655 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
17656 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
17657 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
17658 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
17660 o Protocol changes:
17661 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
17662 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
17663 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
17664 hadn't heard of before.
17667 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
17668 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
17669 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
17670 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
17671 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
17672 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
17673 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
17674 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
17675 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
17676 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
17677 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
17678 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
17679 - Directory caching.
17680 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
17681 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
17682 directory they've pulled down.
17683 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
17684 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
17685 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
17686 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
17687 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
17688 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
17689 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
17691 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
17692 This isn't used yet.
17693 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
17694 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
17695 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
17696 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
17697 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
17698 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
17699 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
17700 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
17701 - File and name management:
17702 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
17703 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
17705 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
17706 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
17707 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
17708 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
17709 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
17710 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
17711 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
17713 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
17714 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
17715 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
17716 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
17717 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
17719 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
17720 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
17721 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
17722 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
17723 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
17724 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
17725 - New docs in the tarball:
17727 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
17730 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
17731 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
17732 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
17735 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
17736 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
17737 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
17740 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
17741 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
17744 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
17745 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
17746 - Make it build on Win32 again.
17747 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
17748 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
17752 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
17754 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
17755 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
17756 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
17757 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
17758 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
17759 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
17760 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
17761 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
17762 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
17763 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
17766 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
17769 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
17770 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
17771 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
17772 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
17774 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
17775 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
17776 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
17778 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
17779 hidden service per 15-minute period.
17780 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
17781 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
17782 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
17783 o Fixes for security bugs:
17784 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
17785 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
17786 a trusted dirserver.
17788 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
17789 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
17790 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
17791 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
17792 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
17793 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
17794 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
17795 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
17796 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
17797 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
17799 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
17800 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
17801 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
17802 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
17804 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
17805 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
17806 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
17807 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
17808 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
17809 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
17810 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
17811 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
17812 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
17813 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
17814 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
17815 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
17816 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
17819 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
17820 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
17821 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
17822 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
17825 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
17826 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
17827 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
17828 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
17829 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
17830 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
17831 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
17835 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
17836 [version bump only]
17839 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
17840 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
17841 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
17842 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
17843 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
17845 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
17848 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
17849 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
17850 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
17851 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
17852 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
17853 o Better debugging for tls errors
17854 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
17855 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
17856 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
17857 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
17858 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
17859 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
17860 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
17861 o win32's close can't close a socket.
17864 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
17865 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
17866 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
17867 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
17868 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
17869 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
17870 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
17871 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
17872 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
17873 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
17874 just close the circ.
17875 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
17876 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
17877 (this was quite rare).
17880 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
17881 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
17882 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
17883 if you decrypted them correctly.
17884 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
17885 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
17886 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
17889 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
17890 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
17891 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
17892 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
17893 a second one and it works.
17894 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
17895 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
17896 alice would just have to wait to time out.
17897 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
17898 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
17899 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
17900 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
17901 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
17902 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
17903 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
17904 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
17905 i'd still like to find the bug though.
17906 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
17908 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
17912 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
17913 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
17914 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
17915 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
17916 he retries a couple of times
17917 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
17918 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
17919 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
17920 too long (they were sticking around forever).
17921 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
17925 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
17926 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
17927 - make hup work again
17928 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
17929 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
17930 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
17931 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
17932 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
17933 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
17935 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
17936 o changes from 0.0.5:
17937 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
17938 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
17939 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
17940 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
17941 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
17943 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
17944 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
17945 in-memory directories too
17948 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
17949 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
17952 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
17954 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
17955 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
17956 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
17957 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
17960 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
17961 [version bump only]
17964 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
17965 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
17967 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
17968 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
17969 but that aren't warnings
17972 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
17973 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
17974 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
17975 the dns farm to do it.
17976 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
17977 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
17979 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
17980 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
17981 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
17984 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
17985 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
17986 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
17987 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
17988 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
17989 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
17990 expect it to have a nickname.
17991 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
17992 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
17995 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
17996 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
18000 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
18001 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
18002 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
18003 - include missing header fcntl.h
18004 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
18005 - deal with hardware word alignment
18006 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
18007 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
18008 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
18009 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
18010 by kill -USR1 currently.
18011 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
18012 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
18013 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
18016 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
18017 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
18018 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
18021 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
18023 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
18024 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
18025 - And fix a few endian issues.
18028 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
18030 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
18031 try that circuit again: try a new one.
18032 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
18033 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
18034 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
18035 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
18036 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
18037 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
18039 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
18040 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
18041 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
18043 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
18045 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
18046 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
18047 side isn't reading right then.
18048 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
18049 RecommendedVersions
18050 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
18051 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
18052 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
18055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
18057 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
18058 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
18061 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
18065 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
18067 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
18068 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
18069 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
18070 connection is finished.
18071 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
18072 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
18073 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
18074 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
18075 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
18076 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
18077 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
18078 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
18079 rather than warn and continue.
18080 - Make --version work
18081 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
18084 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
18086 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
18087 knows it's working.
18088 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
18089 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
18091 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
18092 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
18093 so you can collect coredumps there.
18095 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
18096 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
18097 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
18098 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
18099 dns cache actually gets populated.
18100 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
18101 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
18102 end cell down it first.
18103 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
18104 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
18107 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
18109 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
18110 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
18112 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
18113 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
18114 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
18115 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
18116 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
18117 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
18119 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
18121 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
18122 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
18123 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
18124 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
18125 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
18126 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
18128 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
18129 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
18132 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
18134 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
18135 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
18136 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
18137 tor. It even has a man page.
18138 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
18139 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
18140 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
18141 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
18143 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
18145 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
18148 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
18150 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
18151 it, apt-getters. :)
18152 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
18153 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
18154 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
18155 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
18156 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
18157 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
18158 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
18159 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
18160 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
18161 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
18162 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
18164 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
18165 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
18168 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
18170 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
18171 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
18174 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
18176 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
18177 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
18178 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
18179 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
18180 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
18181 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
18182 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
18183 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
18184 logfile so you know it's working.
18185 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
18186 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
18189 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
18191 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
18192 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
18193 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
18196 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
18198 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
18199 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
18200 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
18203 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
18204 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
18205 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
18207 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
18208 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
18210 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
18211 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
18212 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
18214 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
18215 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
18219 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
18221 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
18222 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
18223 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
18226 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
18227 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
18228 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
18229 - Add port ranges to exit policies
18230 - Add a conservative default exit policy
18231 - Warn if you're running tor as root
18232 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
18233 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
18234 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
18235 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
18237 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
18240 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
18241 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18242 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
18243 really screw things up.
18244 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
18246 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
18247 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
18249 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
18250 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
18251 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
18252 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
18253 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
18254 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
18257 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
18260 - Change default loglevel to warn.
18261 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
18262 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
18264 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
18267 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
18268 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18269 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
18270 - to get ownership/permissions right
18271 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
18272 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
18273 pull down a directory again
18274 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
18275 causing server crashes
18276 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
18277 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
18278 - exit if bind() fails
18279 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
18280 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
18281 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
18282 - fix minor bias in PRNG
18283 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
18286 - Wrote the design document (woo)
18288 o Circuit building and exit policies:
18289 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
18291 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
18292 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
18293 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
18294 exists, rather than failing
18295 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
18296 which AP connections are standing by
18297 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
18298 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
18299 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
18301 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
18302 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
18305 - APPort is now called SocksPort
18306 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
18308 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
18309 hardcoded (for dirservers)
18310 - Reloads config on HUP
18311 - Usage info on -h or --help
18312 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
18315 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
18316 o General stability:
18317 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
18318 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
18319 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
18320 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
18321 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
18322 to take down the network when I approve a new router
18323 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
18326 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
18327 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
18329 o Autoconf improvements:
18330 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
18331 - Make install now works
18332 - create var/lib/tor on make install
18333 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
18334 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
18336 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
18337 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
18338 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
18339 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup