1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
7 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
8 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
9 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
10 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
11 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
12 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
13 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
14 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
15 welcoming approach to growing our community.
17 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
18 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
19 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
20 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
21 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
22 smaller features and bugfixes.
24 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
25 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
27 o Major features (build):
28 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
29 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
30 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
31 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
32 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
34 o Major features (metrics):
35 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
36 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
37 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
38 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
39 information and security considerations.
41 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
42 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
43 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
45 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
46 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
47 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
48 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
49 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
50 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
51 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
52 use. Closes ticket 33220.
53 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
54 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
55 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
58 o Major features (tracing):
59 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
60 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
61 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
62 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
63 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
65 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
66 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
67 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
68 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
69 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
71 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
72 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
73 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
74 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
75 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
76 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
77 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
79 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
80 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
81 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
82 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
83 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
84 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
86 o Minor features (address discovery):
87 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
88 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
89 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
90 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
92 o Minor features (admin tools):
93 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
94 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
95 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
98 o Minor features (authority, logging):
99 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
100 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
103 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
104 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
105 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
106 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
107 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
108 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
110 o Minor features (build):
111 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
112 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
113 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
114 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
115 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
117 o Minor features (configuration):
118 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
119 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
120 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
121 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
122 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
123 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
125 o Minor features (control port):
126 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
127 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
128 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
129 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
131 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
132 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
133 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
136 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
137 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
138 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
139 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
140 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
141 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
142 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
144 o Minor features (directory authorities):
145 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
146 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
148 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
149 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
150 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
151 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
152 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
153 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
154 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
155 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
156 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
157 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
158 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
160 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
161 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
162 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
163 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
165 o Minor features (documentation):
166 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
167 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
168 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
170 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
171 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
172 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
173 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
175 o Minor features (heartbeat):
176 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
177 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
179 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
180 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
181 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
183 o Minor features (logging):
184 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
185 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
186 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
187 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
188 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
189 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
191 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
192 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
193 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
194 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
196 o Minor features (onion services):
197 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
198 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
199 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
201 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
202 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
203 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
204 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
205 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
206 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
208 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
209 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
210 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
211 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
212 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
214 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
215 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
216 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
217 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
218 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
219 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
220 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
222 o Minor features (relay):
223 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
224 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
225 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
226 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
227 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
230 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
231 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
232 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
235 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
236 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
237 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
238 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
239 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
240 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
241 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
242 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
243 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
245 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
246 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
248 o Minor features (safety):
249 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
250 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
253 o Minor features (specification update):
254 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
255 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
256 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
258 o Minor features (state management):
259 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
260 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
261 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
262 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
263 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
265 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
266 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
267 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
268 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
269 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
271 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
272 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
273 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
275 o Minor features (testing configuration):
276 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
277 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
278 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
279 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
281 o Minor features (testing):
282 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
283 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
285 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
286 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
287 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
288 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
290 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
291 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
292 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
293 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
294 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
295 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
296 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
297 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
298 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
300 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
301 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
302 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
303 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
304 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
305 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
308 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
309 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
310 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
311 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
312 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
315 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
316 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
317 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
318 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
319 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
320 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
323 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
324 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
325 when a stream is attached with the purpose
326 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
327 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
329 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
330 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
331 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
332 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
334 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
335 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
336 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
337 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
338 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
339 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
340 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
341 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
343 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
344 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
345 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
346 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
347 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
348 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
349 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
350 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
353 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
354 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
355 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
356 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
358 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
359 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
360 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
361 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
362 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
363 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
364 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
366 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
367 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
368 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
369 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
370 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
371 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
373 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
374 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
375 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
377 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
378 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
379 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
380 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
381 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
382 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
383 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
384 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
387 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
388 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
389 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
390 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
391 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
392 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
393 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
395 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
396 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
397 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
398 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
399 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
400 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
401 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
403 - Split implementation of several command line options from
404 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
405 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
406 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
407 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
408 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
411 o Deprecated features:
412 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
413 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
414 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
417 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
418 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
421 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
422 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
423 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
424 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
426 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
427 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
429 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
430 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
431 directory. Closes part of 40139.
432 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
433 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
437 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
438 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
440 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
441 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
442 31699; Patch by @bduszel
444 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
445 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
446 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
447 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
448 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
450 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
451 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
452 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
453 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
454 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
456 o Documentation (manual page):
457 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
458 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
459 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
460 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
462 o Documentation (tracing):
463 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
464 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
466 o Removed features (controller):
467 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
468 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
471 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
472 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
473 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
474 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
475 DoS attacks harder to perform.
477 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
478 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
479 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
480 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
481 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
484 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
485 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
486 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
487 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
490 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
491 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
492 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
493 this. Closes ticket 40227.
495 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
496 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
497 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
498 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
499 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
501 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
502 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
503 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
504 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
505 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
506 weasel for diagnosing this.
508 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
509 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
510 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
511 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
512 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
513 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
514 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
516 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
517 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
518 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
519 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
521 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
522 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
523 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
524 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
526 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
527 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
528 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
529 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
530 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
531 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
532 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
534 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
535 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
538 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
539 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
540 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
541 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
542 DoS attacks harder to perform.
544 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
545 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
547 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
548 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
549 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
550 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
551 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
554 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
555 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
556 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
557 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
558 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
560 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
561 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
562 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
563 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
566 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
567 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
568 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
569 this. Closes ticket 40227.
571 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
572 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
573 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
574 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
575 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
577 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
578 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
579 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
580 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
581 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
582 weasel for diagnosing this.
584 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
585 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
586 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
587 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
588 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
589 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
590 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
592 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
593 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
594 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
596 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
597 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
598 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
599 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
601 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
602 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
603 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
604 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
606 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
607 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
608 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
609 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
610 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
611 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
612 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
614 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
615 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
618 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
619 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
620 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
621 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
622 DoS attacks harder to perform.
624 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
625 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
626 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
627 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
628 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
631 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
632 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
633 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
634 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
635 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
637 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
638 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
639 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
640 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
643 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
644 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
645 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
646 this. Closes ticket 40227.
648 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
649 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
650 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
651 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
652 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
654 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
655 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
656 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
657 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
658 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
659 weasel for diagnosing this.
661 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
662 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
663 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
664 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
665 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
666 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
667 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
669 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
670 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
671 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
673 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
674 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
675 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
676 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
678 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
679 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
680 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
681 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
683 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
684 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
685 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
686 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
688 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
689 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
692 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
693 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
694 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
695 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
696 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
697 intended for a different relay.
699 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
700 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
701 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
702 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
703 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
704 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
705 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
707 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
708 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
709 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
710 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
711 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
712 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
713 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
714 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
715 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
716 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
717 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
719 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
720 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
721 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
722 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
725 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
726 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
727 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
729 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
730 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
731 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
733 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
734 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
735 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
736 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
737 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
738 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
740 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
741 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
742 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
744 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
745 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
746 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
749 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
750 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
751 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
752 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
755 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
756 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
757 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
758 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
759 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
761 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
762 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
763 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
766 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
767 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
768 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
769 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
771 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
772 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
773 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
774 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
775 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
776 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
777 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
779 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
780 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
781 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
782 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
783 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
786 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
787 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
788 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
789 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
790 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
791 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
793 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
794 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
795 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
796 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
799 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
800 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
801 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
802 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
804 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
805 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
806 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
808 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
809 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
810 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
812 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
813 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
814 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
815 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
816 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
818 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
819 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
820 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
822 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
823 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
824 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
825 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
826 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
827 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
828 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
830 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
831 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
832 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
835 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
836 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
837 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
838 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
839 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
840 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
843 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
844 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
845 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
846 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
848 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
849 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
850 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
851 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
853 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
854 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
855 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
857 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
858 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
861 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
862 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
863 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
864 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
865 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
866 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
867 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
870 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
871 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
872 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
873 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
874 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
876 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
877 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
878 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
879 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
881 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
882 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
883 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
884 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
885 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
886 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
887 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
889 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
890 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
891 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
892 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
893 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
896 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
897 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
898 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
899 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
900 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
901 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
903 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
904 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
905 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
906 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
908 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
909 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
910 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
911 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
914 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
915 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
916 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
917 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
919 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
920 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
921 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
923 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
924 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
925 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
927 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
928 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
929 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
930 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
931 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
933 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
934 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
935 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
937 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
938 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
939 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
940 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
941 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
942 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
943 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
945 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
946 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
947 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
950 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
951 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
952 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
953 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
954 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
955 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
958 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
959 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
960 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
961 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
963 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
964 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
965 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
966 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
968 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
969 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
970 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
972 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
973 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
976 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
977 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
978 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
979 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
980 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
981 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
982 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
984 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
985 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
986 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
987 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
988 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
990 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
991 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
992 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
994 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
995 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
997 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
998 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
999 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
1000 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
1001 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
1002 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
1003 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
1004 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
1005 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
1006 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
1008 o Major features (fallback directory list):
1009 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1010 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1011 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1013 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
1014 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
1015 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
1016 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
1017 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
1018 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
1019 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
1021 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
1023 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
1024 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
1025 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
1026 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
1028 o Major features (v3 onion services):
1029 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
1030 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
1031 Closes ticket 32709.
1033 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
1034 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1035 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1036 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1037 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1040 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
1041 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
1042 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
1043 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
1044 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
1045 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1047 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
1048 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1049 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1050 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1051 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1053 o Minor features (security):
1054 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1055 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1056 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1057 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1058 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1060 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1061 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
1062 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
1063 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
1064 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
1067 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
1068 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
1069 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
1070 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
1071 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
1072 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
1073 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
1075 o Minor features (code safety):
1076 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
1077 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
1078 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
1079 Resolves issue 33788.
1081 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1082 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
1083 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
1084 Resolves ticket 32143.
1086 o Minor features (control port):
1087 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
1088 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
1089 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1090 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
1091 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
1092 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
1093 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1095 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1096 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
1097 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
1099 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
1100 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
1101 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
1102 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
1103 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
1104 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
1106 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1107 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
1108 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
1109 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
1110 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
1111 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
1112 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
1113 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
1115 o Minor features (directory authority):
1116 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
1117 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
1118 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
1119 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
1120 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
1122 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
1123 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
1124 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
1125 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
1127 o Minor features (directory):
1128 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
1129 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
1130 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
1133 o Minor features (entry guards):
1134 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
1135 Closes ticket 40001.
1137 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
1138 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
1139 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
1141 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
1142 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
1143 Closes ticket 33901.
1145 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
1146 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
1147 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
1148 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
1149 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
1150 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
1151 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
1153 o Minor features (logging):
1154 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
1155 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
1157 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
1158 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
1159 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
1160 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
1163 o Minor features (onion service v3):
1164 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
1165 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1167 o Minor features (python scripts):
1168 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
1169 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
1170 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
1171 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
1173 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
1174 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
1175 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
1176 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
1177 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
1178 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
1179 up from ticket 33316.
1180 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1181 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1182 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1184 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
1185 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
1186 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
1187 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1189 o Minor features (windows):
1190 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
1191 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
1193 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
1194 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
1195 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
1196 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1198 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
1199 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1200 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1201 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1202 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1204 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1205 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
1206 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
1207 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
1208 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
1209 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1211 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1212 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
1213 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
1214 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1216 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
1217 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
1218 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
1219 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
1220 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1222 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
1223 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
1224 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1226 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1227 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
1228 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
1229 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
1230 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
1231 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1232 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
1233 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
1234 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
1235 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1237 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1238 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
1239 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
1240 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
1241 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
1243 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
1244 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
1245 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
1246 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
1249 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
1250 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
1251 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
1252 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
1253 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1254 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
1255 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1257 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
1258 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
1259 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1261 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
1262 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
1263 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1265 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
1266 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
1267 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1269 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1270 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
1271 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
1274 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
1275 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
1276 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
1279 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
1280 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1281 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1282 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1283 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1284 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1285 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1287 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
1288 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
1289 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
1290 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
1292 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
1293 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
1294 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
1295 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
1296 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
1299 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
1300 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1301 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1302 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1303 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1304 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1307 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
1308 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
1309 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
1312 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1313 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1314 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1315 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1317 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1318 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
1319 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1320 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
1321 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1324 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
1325 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1326 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1328 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1329 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
1330 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
1331 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
1332 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1333 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
1334 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
1335 isolated in subsystems of their own.
1336 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
1337 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
1338 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
1339 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
1341 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
1342 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1343 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
1344 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
1346 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
1347 code. Closes ticket 33014.
1348 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
1349 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
1352 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
1353 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
1354 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
1355 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
1356 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
1357 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1360 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1361 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1362 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1363 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1364 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1365 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
1366 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
1367 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
1368 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
1369 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
1370 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1371 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
1372 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
1375 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
1376 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
1377 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
1378 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
1379 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
1380 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1381 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
1382 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
1384 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
1385 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1387 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1388 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1389 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1390 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
1391 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
1392 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
1393 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
1394 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
1395 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
1396 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
1397 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1398 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1400 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
1401 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1404 o Documentation (manual page):
1405 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
1406 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1407 Google Season of Docs.
1408 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
1409 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
1410 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
1411 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1412 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
1413 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
1414 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
1415 Closes ticket 33778.
1418 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
1419 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
1420 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
1422 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1423 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1424 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1425 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1426 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1427 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1428 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1431 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1432 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1433 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1434 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1437 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1438 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1439 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1440 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1441 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1442 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1444 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1445 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1446 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1447 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1448 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1449 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1451 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1452 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1453 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1455 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1456 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1457 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1458 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1461 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1462 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1463 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1464 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1467 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1468 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1469 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1470 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1471 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1473 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1474 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1475 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1477 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1478 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1479 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1480 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1481 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1484 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1485 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1486 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1487 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1488 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1489 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1491 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1492 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1493 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1494 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1496 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1497 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1498 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1499 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1502 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1503 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1504 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1505 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1506 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1507 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1508 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1509 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1513 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1514 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1515 several that affect usability and portability.
1517 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1518 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1519 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1520 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1521 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1522 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1523 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1526 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1527 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1528 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1529 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1532 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1533 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1534 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1535 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1536 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1537 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1539 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1540 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1541 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1542 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1543 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1545 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1546 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1547 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1548 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1550 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1551 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1552 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1553 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1554 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1555 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1557 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1558 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1559 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1561 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1562 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1563 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1564 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1567 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1568 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1569 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1570 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1573 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1574 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1575 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1576 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1577 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1578 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1581 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1582 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1583 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1585 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1586 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1587 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1588 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1590 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1591 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1592 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1593 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1594 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1597 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1598 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1599 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1600 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1601 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1602 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1604 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1605 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1606 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1607 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1608 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1610 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1611 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1612 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1613 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1615 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1616 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1617 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1618 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1620 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1621 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1622 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1623 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1626 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1627 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1628 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1629 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1630 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1631 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1632 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1633 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1637 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1638 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1639 some affecting usability.
1641 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1642 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1643 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1644 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1645 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1646 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1647 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1650 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1651 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1652 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1653 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1656 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1657 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1658 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1660 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1661 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1662 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1663 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1666 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1667 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1668 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1670 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1671 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1672 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1673 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1675 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1676 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1677 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1678 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1680 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1681 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1682 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1684 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1685 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1686 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1687 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1688 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1690 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1691 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1692 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1694 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1695 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1696 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1697 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1699 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1700 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1704 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1705 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1706 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1707 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1708 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
1709 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
1712 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1713 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1714 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1715 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
1716 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
1718 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
1719 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
1720 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
1723 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
1724 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1726 o New system requirements:
1727 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
1728 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
1729 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
1731 o Major features (build system):
1732 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
1733 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
1734 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
1735 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
1736 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
1738 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
1739 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
1740 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
1741 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
1742 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1744 o Major features (onion services):
1745 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
1746 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
1747 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
1748 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
1749 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
1750 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
1751 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
1753 o Major features (proxy):
1754 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
1755 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
1756 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
1757 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
1758 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
1759 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1761 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
1762 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1763 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1764 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1765 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1766 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1767 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1768 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1769 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1771 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
1772 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1773 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1774 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1775 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1777 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1778 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1779 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1780 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1781 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1783 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
1784 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1785 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1786 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1787 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1788 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1790 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1791 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
1792 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
1793 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1795 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1796 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
1797 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
1798 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
1799 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
1800 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1802 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
1803 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
1804 message. Closes ticket 31371.
1806 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
1807 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1808 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1809 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1810 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1812 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
1813 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
1814 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
1815 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
1817 o Minor features (configuration validation):
1818 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
1819 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
1820 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
1821 Closes ticket 31241.
1823 o Minor features (configuration):
1824 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
1825 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
1827 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
1828 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
1829 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
1830 Implements ticket 32404.
1832 o Minor features (configure, build system):
1833 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
1834 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
1836 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1837 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
1838 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
1839 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1840 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1841 Closes ticket 33075.
1843 o Minor features (controller):
1844 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
1845 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
1846 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
1848 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1849 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1850 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1851 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1853 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1854 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
1855 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
1858 o Minor features (developer tools):
1859 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
1860 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
1861 Closes ticket 32772.
1862 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
1863 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
1864 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
1865 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
1866 target. Closes ticket 31919.
1867 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
1868 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
1869 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
1871 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
1872 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
1873 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
1874 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
1876 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1877 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1878 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1879 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1881 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1882 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1883 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
1884 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1886 o Minor features (Doxygen):
1887 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
1888 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
1889 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
1891 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
1892 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
1893 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
1894 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
1895 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
1896 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
1897 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
1898 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
1900 o Minor features (git scripts):
1901 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
1902 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
1903 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
1904 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
1905 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
1906 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
1907 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
1908 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
1909 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
1910 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
1911 Closes ticket 32216.
1912 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
1913 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
1914 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
1915 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
1917 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
1918 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
1919 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
1920 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
1921 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
1922 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
1924 o Minor features (portability, android):
1925 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
1926 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
1927 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1929 o Minor features (relay modularity):
1930 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
1931 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
1932 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1933 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1934 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
1935 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
1936 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1937 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
1938 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
1940 o Minor features (release tools):
1941 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
1942 Closes ticket 32704.
1944 o Minor features (testing):
1945 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1946 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1947 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1948 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1949 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1950 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
1951 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
1952 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
1953 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
1954 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
1955 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
1957 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
1958 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
1959 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1961 o Minor features (usability):
1962 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
1963 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
1964 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
1966 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
1967 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1968 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1969 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1972 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1973 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1974 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1976 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1977 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
1978 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1980 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
1981 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1982 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1983 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1984 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1985 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1988 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
1989 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
1990 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
1991 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1992 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
1993 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1994 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
1995 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
1996 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
1997 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
1998 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
1999 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
2000 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
2001 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2002 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
2003 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
2004 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
2005 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2007 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2008 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
2011 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2012 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2013 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2014 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2016 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2017 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
2018 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
2021 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
2022 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
2023 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2025 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
2026 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
2027 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
2028 Closes ticket 32213.
2029 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2030 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
2031 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2033 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2034 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2035 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2036 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2037 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2040 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2041 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
2043 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
2044 Closes ticket 32216.
2046 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
2047 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2048 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2049 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2050 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2051 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2054 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2055 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2056 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2057 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2058 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2059 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
2060 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
2062 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2063 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2064 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2065 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2067 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2068 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2069 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2070 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2072 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
2073 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
2074 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
2075 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2076 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
2077 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
2078 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
2079 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
2082 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2083 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2084 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2085 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2087 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
2088 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
2089 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
2090 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2091 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2092 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2093 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2095 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
2096 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
2097 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
2098 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
2099 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2101 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2102 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
2103 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
2104 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
2107 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
2108 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
2109 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
2110 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
2111 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2113 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2114 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
2115 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
2116 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2118 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
2119 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2120 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2121 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2123 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
2124 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
2125 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2127 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2128 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
2129 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
2130 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
2132 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
2133 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2134 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
2135 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
2136 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
2137 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
2138 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2140 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
2141 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
2142 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
2143 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
2144 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
2146 o Deprecated features:
2147 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
2148 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
2149 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
2153 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
2154 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
2155 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
2156 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
2157 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
2158 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
2159 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
2160 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
2162 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
2163 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
2166 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
2167 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
2168 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
2169 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
2170 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
2171 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
2173 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
2174 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
2175 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
2176 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
2177 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
2180 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
2181 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
2182 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
2183 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
2184 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
2186 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
2187 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
2189 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
2190 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
2191 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
2192 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
2193 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
2196 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
2197 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
2198 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
2200 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
2201 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
2202 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
2203 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
2204 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
2205 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
2206 Solves part of ticket 32339.
2207 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
2208 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
2209 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
2210 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
2211 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
2212 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
2213 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
2214 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
2215 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
2216 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
2218 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
2219 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
2221 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
2222 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
2223 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
2225 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2226 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
2227 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
2228 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
2229 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
2230 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
2232 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
2233 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
2234 Closes ticket 32163.
2235 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
2237 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
2239 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
2240 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
2241 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
2243 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2244 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
2245 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
2246 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
2247 Closes ticket 32304.
2248 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
2249 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
2250 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
2251 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
2252 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
2255 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
2256 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2258 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2261 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
2262 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
2263 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
2264 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2265 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
2266 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
2267 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
2268 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2270 o Documentation (manpage):
2271 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
2272 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
2273 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2274 Google Season of Docs.
2275 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
2276 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
2277 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
2278 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
2279 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2280 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2282 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2284 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
2285 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
2286 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
2288 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
2289 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
2290 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2292 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
2293 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2294 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2295 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2296 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2297 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2298 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2299 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2302 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
2303 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
2306 o Testing (Travis CI):
2307 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2308 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2309 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2311 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2312 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2313 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2314 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2315 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2318 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
2319 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2320 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2321 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
2322 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
2323 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
2324 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
2325 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
2326 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
2327 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
2328 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
2329 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2331 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2332 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2333 as soon as packages are available.
2335 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2336 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2337 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2338 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2339 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2340 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2341 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2342 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2343 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2345 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2346 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2347 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2348 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2349 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2351 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2352 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2353 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2354 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2355 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2357 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2358 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2359 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2360 Closes ticket 33075.
2362 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2363 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2364 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2366 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2367 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2368 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2369 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2370 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2373 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2374 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2375 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2376 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2379 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2380 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2381 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2382 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2384 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2385 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2386 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2387 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2389 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2390 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2391 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2392 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2393 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2396 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
2397 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
2398 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
2399 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
2400 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
2401 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
2402 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
2403 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
2404 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
2405 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
2406 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
2407 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2409 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2410 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2411 as soon as packages are available.
2413 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2414 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2415 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2416 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2417 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2418 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2419 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2420 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2421 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2423 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2424 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2425 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2426 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2427 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2429 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2430 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2431 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2433 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2434 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2435 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2436 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2437 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2440 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2441 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2442 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2443 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2446 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2447 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2448 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2449 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2451 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2452 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2453 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2454 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2456 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2457 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2458 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2459 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2460 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2463 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
2464 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
2465 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2466 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2467 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2468 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2469 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2470 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2471 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2472 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2473 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2476 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2477 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2478 as soon as packages are available.
2480 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2481 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2482 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2483 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2484 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2485 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2486 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2487 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2488 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2490 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2491 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2492 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2493 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2494 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2495 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2496 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2497 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2500 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2501 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2502 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2503 Closes ticket 33075.
2505 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2506 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2507 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2509 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2510 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2511 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2512 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2513 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2515 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2516 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2517 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2518 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2519 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2522 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2523 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2524 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2525 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2528 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2529 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2530 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2531 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2533 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2534 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2535 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2536 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2537 Closes ticket 32629.
2538 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2539 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2540 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2542 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2543 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2545 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2546 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2547 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2548 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2550 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2551 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2552 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2553 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2556 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2557 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2558 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2559 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2560 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2561 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2563 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2564 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2565 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2566 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2567 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2568 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2569 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2570 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2572 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2573 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2574 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2576 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2577 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2578 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2579 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2581 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2582 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2583 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2584 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2586 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2587 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2588 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2589 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2590 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2591 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2594 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2595 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2596 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2598 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2599 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2600 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2601 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2602 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2603 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2604 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2605 Closes ticket 32629.
2607 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2608 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2611 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2612 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2613 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2614 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2615 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2616 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2618 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2619 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2620 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2621 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2622 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2623 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2624 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2625 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2627 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2628 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2629 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2631 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2632 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2633 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2634 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2635 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2637 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2638 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2639 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2641 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2642 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2643 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2644 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2645 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2646 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2647 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2648 Closes ticket 32629.
2650 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2651 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2654 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
2655 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
2656 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
2657 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
2658 bugs present in previous series.
2660 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
2661 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
2662 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2663 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2665 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
2666 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2668 o Major features (directory authorities):
2669 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2670 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2671 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2673 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2674 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2675 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2676 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2677 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2678 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2681 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2682 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2683 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2684 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2685 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2686 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2689 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2690 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2691 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2692 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2693 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2694 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2695 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2696 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2697 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2699 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2700 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2701 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2702 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2704 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2705 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2706 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2707 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2708 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2709 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2710 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2711 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2713 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2714 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2715 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2716 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2717 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2719 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2720 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2721 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2722 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2723 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2726 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2727 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2728 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2729 Closes ticket 29669.
2731 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2732 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2733 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2734 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2735 Closes ticket 31779.
2737 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2738 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2739 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2740 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2741 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2742 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2743 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2744 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2745 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2746 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2747 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2748 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2749 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2750 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2751 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2753 o Minor features (build system):
2754 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
2755 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
2756 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2757 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2758 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2760 o Minor features (compilation):
2761 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2762 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2763 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2765 o Minor features (configuration):
2766 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2767 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2768 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2769 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2771 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2772 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2773 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2774 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2775 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2776 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2777 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2779 o Minor features (debugging):
2780 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2781 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2782 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2783 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2785 o Minor features (geoip):
2786 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2787 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2789 o Minor features (git hooks):
2790 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2791 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2792 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2793 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2794 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2796 o Minor features (git scripts):
2797 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2798 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2799 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2800 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2801 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2802 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2803 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2804 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2805 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2806 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2807 Closes ticket 31314.
2808 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2809 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2810 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2811 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2812 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2813 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2814 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2815 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2816 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2818 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2819 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
2820 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
2823 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
2824 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
2825 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
2827 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
2828 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
2829 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
2830 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
2831 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
2832 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
2833 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
2835 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2836 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
2837 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
2839 o Minor features (onion service):
2840 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
2841 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
2842 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
2843 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
2845 o Minor features (onion services v3):
2846 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
2847 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
2850 o Minor features (stem tests):
2851 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2852 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2855 o Minor features (testing):
2856 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
2857 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
2858 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
2859 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
2860 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
2861 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
2862 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
2863 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
2864 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
2865 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
2866 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
2867 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
2868 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
2869 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
2870 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
2872 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
2873 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2874 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2875 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2877 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2878 Closes ticket 31859.
2879 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2880 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2882 o Minor features (token bucket):
2883 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
2884 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
2886 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
2887 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
2888 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2890 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2891 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
2892 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
2893 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2894 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
2895 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
2896 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
2897 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
2900 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2901 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
2902 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2903 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
2905 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
2906 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2907 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
2908 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
2909 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2910 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2911 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2913 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
2914 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
2915 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
2916 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
2917 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
2918 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2920 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
2921 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2922 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2923 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2924 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2925 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2927 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2928 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
2929 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2931 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2932 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2933 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2934 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2935 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2937 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2938 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2939 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2941 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2942 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
2943 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
2944 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
2946 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
2947 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2948 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2949 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2951 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2952 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2953 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
2954 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2956 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
2957 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
2958 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
2959 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
2960 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
2961 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
2962 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
2963 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
2964 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
2965 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2967 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
2968 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2969 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2970 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2971 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2973 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2974 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2975 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2978 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2979 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2980 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2982 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2983 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2984 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2985 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2986 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2987 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2988 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2989 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2990 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2991 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2992 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2993 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2996 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2997 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2998 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2999 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3002 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
3003 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
3004 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
3005 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3007 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3008 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
3009 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
3010 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3011 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
3012 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3013 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
3014 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
3015 Closes ticket 31678.
3017 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3018 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3019 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3020 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3021 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3023 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
3024 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
3025 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
3026 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
3027 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3028 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
3029 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
3030 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
3031 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
3034 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3035 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3036 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3037 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3038 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3039 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3040 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3041 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3042 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3043 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
3044 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3045 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3046 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3048 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
3049 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
3050 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
3052 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
3053 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3054 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3055 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3057 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
3058 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3059 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3060 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3061 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3064 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3065 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
3066 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
3069 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
3070 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
3071 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
3074 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
3075 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3076 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3078 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
3079 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
3080 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
3081 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
3082 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
3083 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3085 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
3086 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
3087 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
3088 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3091 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3092 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
3093 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
3094 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
3095 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3098 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
3099 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
3100 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
3101 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
3102 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3104 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
3105 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
3106 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
3107 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3109 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
3110 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3111 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3113 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3114 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3115 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3117 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3118 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3119 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3120 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3122 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3123 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3124 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3125 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
3126 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3128 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
3129 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
3130 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
3131 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3133 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
3134 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
3135 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
3136 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
3137 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3139 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
3140 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
3141 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
3142 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
3143 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
3146 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3147 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3148 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
3150 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3151 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3152 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3153 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3154 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
3155 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
3158 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
3159 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3160 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3162 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
3163 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3164 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3167 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
3168 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3169 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3170 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3171 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3172 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3174 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3175 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
3176 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
3177 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
3178 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3180 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
3181 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3182 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3183 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3184 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3185 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3186 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3187 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3188 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3189 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3191 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3192 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
3193 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
3194 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
3195 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
3196 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
3197 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
3199 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
3203 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
3204 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3205 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
3206 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
3207 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
3208 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
3209 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
3210 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
3212 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3213 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3214 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
3215 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
3216 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
3217 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
3218 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
3219 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
3220 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
3221 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
3222 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3223 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3224 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3227 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
3228 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
3229 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
3230 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
3231 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
3232 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
3234 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
3238 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
3239 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
3240 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3241 Closes ticket 32500.
3242 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
3243 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
3244 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
3245 Closes ticket 30967.
3247 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
3248 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
3249 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
3250 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
3251 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
3252 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
3253 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
3254 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
3255 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
3256 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
3257 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
3258 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
3259 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
3260 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
3261 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
3262 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
3264 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3265 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
3266 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
3267 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
3268 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
3269 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
3270 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
3271 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
3272 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
3273 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
3275 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
3276 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
3277 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
3279 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
3280 Closes ticket 30806.
3281 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
3282 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
3285 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
3286 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
3287 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
3289 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
3290 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
3291 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3293 o Testing (continuous integration):
3294 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3295 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3296 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3297 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3298 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3299 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3300 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3301 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3302 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3305 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
3306 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3307 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
3308 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3310 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3311 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3312 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3313 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3315 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3316 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3317 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3318 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3320 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3321 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3322 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3323 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3324 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3325 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3326 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3327 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3329 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3330 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3331 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3332 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3333 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3335 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3336 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3337 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3338 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3339 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3342 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3343 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3344 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3345 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3347 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3349 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3351 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3352 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3353 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3355 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3356 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3357 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3358 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3359 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3360 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3362 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3363 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3364 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3365 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3367 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3368 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3369 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3370 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3371 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3372 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3373 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3374 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3375 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3376 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3379 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3380 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3381 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3382 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3383 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3384 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3385 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3386 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3387 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3390 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3391 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3392 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3394 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3395 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3396 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3397 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3398 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3401 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3402 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3403 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3405 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3406 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3407 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3409 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3410 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3411 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3413 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3414 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3415 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3416 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3418 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3419 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3420 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3421 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3422 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3424 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3425 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3426 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3428 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3429 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3430 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3433 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3434 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3435 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3437 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3438 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3439 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3440 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3442 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3443 Closes ticket 31859.
3444 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3445 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3447 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3448 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3449 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3450 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3451 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3452 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3453 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3454 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3455 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3456 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3458 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3459 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3460 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3461 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3462 Closes ticket 32500.
3465 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3466 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3467 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3468 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3469 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3471 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3472 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3473 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3474 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3476 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3477 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3480 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3481 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3482 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3483 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3484 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3485 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3486 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3487 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3488 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3489 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3490 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3492 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3493 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3494 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3495 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3496 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3497 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3499 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3500 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3501 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3502 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3503 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3506 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3507 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3508 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3509 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3510 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3512 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3513 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3514 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3515 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3518 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3519 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3520 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3521 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3522 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3523 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3524 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3525 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3527 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3528 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3529 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3530 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3531 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3533 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3534 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3535 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3536 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3537 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3540 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3541 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3542 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3544 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3545 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3546 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3549 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3550 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3551 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3553 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3554 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3555 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3556 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3558 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3559 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3560 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3561 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3562 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3564 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3566 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3568 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3569 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3570 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3573 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3574 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3575 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3577 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3578 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3579 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3581 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3582 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3583 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3586 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3587 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3590 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3591 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3592 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3593 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3594 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3595 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3597 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3598 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3599 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3600 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3601 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3604 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3605 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3608 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3609 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3610 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3612 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3613 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3614 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3615 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3617 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3618 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3619 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3620 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3622 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3623 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3624 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3625 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3627 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3628 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3629 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3630 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3632 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3633 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3634 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3635 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3636 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3637 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3638 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3640 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3641 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3642 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3643 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3645 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3646 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3647 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3648 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3650 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3651 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3652 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3655 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3656 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3657 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3658 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3659 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3660 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3661 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3664 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3665 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3666 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3669 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3670 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3671 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3672 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3673 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3676 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3677 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3678 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3679 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3681 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3682 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3683 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3686 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3687 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3688 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3689 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3690 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3692 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3693 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3694 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3695 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3697 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3698 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3699 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3700 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3701 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3704 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3705 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3706 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3709 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3710 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3711 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3712 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3714 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3715 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3716 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3717 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3719 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3720 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3721 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3722 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3724 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3725 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3726 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3727 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3730 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3731 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3732 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3733 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3734 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3735 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3738 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3739 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3740 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3742 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3743 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3744 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3746 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3747 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3748 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3749 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3751 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3752 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3753 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3755 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3756 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3757 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3758 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3759 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3761 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3762 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3763 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3766 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3767 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3768 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3769 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3770 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3771 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3772 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3773 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3774 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3775 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3777 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3778 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3779 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3780 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3782 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3783 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3784 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3785 Resolves issue 29702.
3787 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3788 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3790 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3791 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3792 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3793 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3796 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3797 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3798 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3799 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3801 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3802 Closes ticket 31859.
3803 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3804 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3806 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3807 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3808 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3809 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3810 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3811 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3812 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3813 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3814 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3815 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3817 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3818 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3819 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3820 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3821 Closes ticket 32500.
3824 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
3825 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
3826 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
3829 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3830 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3833 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3834 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3835 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3836 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3837 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3838 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3839 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3840 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3841 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3842 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3843 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3845 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3846 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3847 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3848 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3849 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3850 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3852 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3853 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3854 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3855 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3856 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3857 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3859 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3860 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3861 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3862 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3863 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3866 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3867 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3868 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3869 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3870 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3872 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3873 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3874 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3875 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3878 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3879 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3880 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3881 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3882 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3884 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3885 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3886 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3887 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3888 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3891 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3892 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3893 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3894 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3895 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3896 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3897 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3898 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3900 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3901 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3902 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3903 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3904 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3907 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3908 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3909 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3911 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3912 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3913 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3916 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3917 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3918 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3919 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3921 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3922 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3923 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3926 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3927 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3928 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3930 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3931 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3932 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3933 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3935 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3936 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3937 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3938 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3939 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3941 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3942 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3943 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3945 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3946 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3947 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3948 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3950 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3951 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3952 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3955 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3956 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3957 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3958 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3959 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3960 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3961 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3962 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3963 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3964 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3965 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3966 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3967 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3970 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3971 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3972 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3973 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3974 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3976 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3977 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3978 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3980 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3981 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3982 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3984 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3985 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3986 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3988 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3989 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3990 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3993 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3994 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3995 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3997 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3998 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3999 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4000 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4001 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4002 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4004 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4005 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4006 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4007 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4008 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4010 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4011 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4012 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4015 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4016 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4017 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4019 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4020 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4021 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4024 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4025 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4026 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4028 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4029 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4030 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4031 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4033 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4034 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4035 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4036 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4038 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4039 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4040 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4041 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4043 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4044 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4045 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4046 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4047 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4048 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4049 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4051 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4052 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4053 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4054 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4056 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4057 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4058 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4059 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4061 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4062 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4063 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4066 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4067 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4068 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4069 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4070 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4071 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4072 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4074 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4075 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4076 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4077 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4080 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4081 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4082 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4083 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4084 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4086 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4087 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4088 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4090 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4091 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4092 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4093 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4094 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4095 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4096 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4097 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4098 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4099 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4100 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4102 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4103 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4104 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4105 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4106 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4108 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4109 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4110 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4113 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4114 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4115 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4116 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4117 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4119 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4120 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4121 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4122 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4124 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4125 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4126 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4127 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4128 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4131 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4132 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4133 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4136 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4137 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4138 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4139 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4141 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4142 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4143 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4144 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4146 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4147 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4148 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4150 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4151 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4152 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4153 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4155 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4156 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4157 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4158 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4161 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4162 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4163 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4164 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4165 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4166 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4169 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4170 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4171 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4172 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4174 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4175 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4176 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4178 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4179 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4180 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4182 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4183 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4184 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4185 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4186 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4187 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4188 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4190 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4191 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4192 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4195 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4196 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4197 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4198 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4199 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4200 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4201 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4202 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4204 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4205 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4206 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4207 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4208 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4209 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4212 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4213 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4214 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4215 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4216 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4218 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4219 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4220 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4221 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4222 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4223 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4224 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4225 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4227 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4228 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4229 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4232 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4233 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4234 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4235 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4236 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4237 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4238 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4239 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4240 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4241 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4243 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4244 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4245 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4246 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4247 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4248 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4250 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4251 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4252 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4253 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4255 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4256 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4257 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4258 Resolves issue 29702.
4260 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4261 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4263 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4264 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4265 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4266 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4269 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4270 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4271 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4272 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4274 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4275 Closes ticket 31859.
4276 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4277 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4279 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4280 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4281 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4282 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4283 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4284 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4285 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4286 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4287 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4288 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4290 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4291 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4292 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4293 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4294 Closes ticket 32500.
4297 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
4298 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4299 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4300 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
4303 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4304 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4305 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4306 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4307 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4308 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4309 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4310 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4311 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4313 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4314 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4315 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4318 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4319 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4320 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4322 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4323 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4324 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4325 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4326 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4328 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4329 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4330 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4332 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4333 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4334 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4335 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4337 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4338 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4339 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4340 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4343 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4344 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4345 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4346 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4347 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4349 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4350 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4351 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4354 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4355 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4356 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4358 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4359 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4360 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4361 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4362 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4363 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4365 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4366 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4367 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4368 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4369 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4370 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4371 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4372 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4373 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4374 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4376 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4377 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4378 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4379 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4382 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
4383 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
4384 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
4385 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
4386 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
4387 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
4388 bugfixes on earlier versions.
4390 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
4391 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
4392 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4393 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4395 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
4396 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4398 o Directory authority changes:
4399 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4402 o Major features (circuit padding):
4403 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
4404 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
4405 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
4406 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
4407 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
4408 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
4409 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
4410 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
4411 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
4413 o Major features (code organization):
4414 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
4415 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
4416 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
4417 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
4420 o Major features (controller protocol):
4421 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
4422 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
4423 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
4424 Closes ticket 30091.
4426 o Major features (flow control):
4427 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
4428 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
4429 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
4430 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
4431 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
4432 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
4433 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
4435 o Major features (performance):
4436 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
4437 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
4438 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
4440 o Major features (performance, RNG):
4441 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
4442 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
4443 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
4444 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
4445 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
4446 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
4447 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
4448 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
4450 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
4451 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4452 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4453 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4454 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4455 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4456 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4457 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4458 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4459 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4460 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4462 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4463 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4464 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4466 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4467 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4468 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4469 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4470 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4472 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
4473 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4474 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4475 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4476 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4479 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
4480 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4481 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4482 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4483 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4485 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4486 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4487 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4488 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4491 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
4492 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
4493 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
4494 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
4495 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
4496 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
4499 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4500 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
4501 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
4502 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4504 o Minor features (circuit padding):
4505 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
4507 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
4508 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
4509 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
4510 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
4511 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4512 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
4513 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
4515 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
4516 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4517 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4519 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4520 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4521 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4522 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
4523 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
4525 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4526 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4528 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4530 o Minor features (controller):
4531 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
4532 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
4533 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4535 o Minor features (debugging):
4536 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
4537 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
4538 can use format strings to include information for trouble
4539 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
4541 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4542 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
4543 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
4544 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
4545 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
4546 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
4547 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
4548 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
4549 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
4550 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
4552 o Minor features (developer tools):
4553 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
4554 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
4555 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
4556 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
4557 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
4559 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
4560 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
4562 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
4563 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
4565 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4566 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4567 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4568 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4569 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4571 o Minor features (geoip):
4572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4573 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
4574 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4575 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
4577 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
4578 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
4579 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
4581 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
4582 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
4583 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
4584 addresses. Implements 26992.
4586 o Minor features (logging):
4587 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
4588 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
4589 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
4590 Closes ticket 30686.
4592 o Minor features (maintenance):
4593 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
4594 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
4595 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
4597 o Minor features (modularity):
4598 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
4599 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
4601 o Minor features (performance):
4602 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
4603 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
4604 Closes ticket 28837.
4606 o Minor features (testing):
4607 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
4608 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
4609 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
4610 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
4612 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
4613 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
4614 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
4615 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
4616 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
4617 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
4618 Implements ticket 29732.
4619 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
4620 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
4622 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
4623 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
4625 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
4626 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
4627 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
4628 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
4629 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4630 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4632 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
4633 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
4634 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
4635 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4637 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
4638 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4639 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4641 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4642 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
4643 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4644 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
4645 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
4646 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
4647 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4648 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
4649 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
4650 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4651 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
4652 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4653 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
4654 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
4655 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4656 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
4657 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
4658 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4660 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4661 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4662 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4663 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4664 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4666 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4667 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4668 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4669 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4670 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4671 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4673 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4674 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4675 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
4678 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4679 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4680 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4682 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
4683 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4684 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4685 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4687 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
4688 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4689 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4690 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4692 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4693 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4694 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4695 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4696 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4697 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4698 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4700 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4701 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
4702 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
4703 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
4704 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4706 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
4707 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4708 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4709 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4711 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4712 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
4713 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
4716 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4717 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4718 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4719 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4720 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4721 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4723 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
4724 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4725 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4727 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4728 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
4729 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4730 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
4731 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
4732 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
4734 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
4735 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4737 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4738 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4739 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4740 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4741 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4742 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
4743 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
4746 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4747 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4748 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4750 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
4751 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
4754 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
4755 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4756 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4757 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4759 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4760 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4761 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4762 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4763 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
4764 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
4765 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
4766 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
4768 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
4769 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
4770 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4771 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
4772 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
4773 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
4774 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4776 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
4777 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
4778 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
4779 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
4780 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
4781 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4783 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
4784 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4785 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4786 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4789 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4790 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
4791 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
4792 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
4793 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4795 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4796 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
4797 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4799 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4800 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4801 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4802 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4803 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4804 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4807 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
4808 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
4809 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
4812 o Minor bugfixes (python):
4813 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
4814 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
4815 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4818 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
4819 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
4820 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
4821 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4823 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
4824 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
4825 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
4826 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4829 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
4830 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
4831 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
4832 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4834 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4835 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
4836 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
4837 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4838 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
4839 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4840 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
4841 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4842 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
4843 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
4844 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
4845 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
4846 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4848 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
4849 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
4850 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
4851 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
4852 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4854 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4855 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
4856 port. Implements ticket 30007.
4857 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
4858 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
4859 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
4860 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
4861 string to directory connection with or without compression.
4862 Resolves issue 28816.
4863 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
4864 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
4865 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
4866 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
4867 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
4868 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
4869 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
4870 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
4871 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
4872 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
4873 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
4874 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
4875 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
4876 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
4877 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
4878 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
4879 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4880 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
4881 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4882 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
4883 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
4884 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
4885 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
4886 Closes ticket 29894.
4887 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
4888 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
4889 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
4890 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
4893 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
4894 Closes ticket 30630.
4895 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
4896 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
4900 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
4901 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
4902 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
4903 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
4907 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4908 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4909 Resolves issue 29702.
4911 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4912 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
4913 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
4914 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
4915 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
4916 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
4917 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
4918 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
4919 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
4920 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
4921 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
4924 o Testing (chutney):
4925 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
4926 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
4927 Closes ticket 27251.
4929 o Testing (continuous integration):
4930 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
4931 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4932 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
4933 Closes ticket 30694.
4936 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
4937 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
4938 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
4939 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
4940 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
4941 long-term maintainability.
4943 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
4944 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
4945 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4946 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4948 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
4949 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4951 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
4952 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
4953 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
4954 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
4955 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
4956 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
4958 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
4959 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
4961 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
4962 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
4965 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
4966 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
4967 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
4968 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
4969 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4970 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4971 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4972 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4973 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4976 o Major features (circuit padding):
4977 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4978 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4979 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4980 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4981 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4982 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4983 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4984 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4987 o Major features (refactoring):
4988 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4989 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4990 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4991 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4994 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4995 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4996 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4997 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4998 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4999 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5000 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5001 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5003 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5004 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5005 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5006 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5007 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5009 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
5010 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5011 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5012 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5013 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5014 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5016 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
5017 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
5018 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
5019 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
5020 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
5021 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
5022 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5024 o Minor features (address selection):
5025 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5026 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5027 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5028 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5029 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5030 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5031 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5033 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
5034 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5035 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5036 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5037 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5039 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
5040 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
5041 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
5044 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
5045 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
5046 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
5047 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
5048 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
5051 o Minor features (compilation):
5052 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5053 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5054 Patches from "Mangix".
5056 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5057 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5058 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5060 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
5062 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5063 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5064 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5066 o Minor features (controller):
5067 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
5068 Implements ticket 28843.
5070 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5071 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
5072 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
5073 release. Closes ticket 27761.
5074 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
5075 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
5076 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
5078 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
5079 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
5080 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
5082 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5083 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
5084 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
5087 o Minor features (directory authority):
5088 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
5089 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
5090 Closes ticket 26698.
5091 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
5092 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
5093 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
5094 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
5097 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
5098 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
5099 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
5100 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
5101 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
5102 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
5103 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
5105 o Minor features (dormant mode):
5106 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
5107 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
5108 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
5109 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
5110 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
5111 background. Closes ticket 29357.
5113 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5114 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
5115 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
5117 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
5118 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
5119 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
5120 Closes ticket 28518.
5122 o Minor features (geoip):
5123 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5124 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
5126 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
5127 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
5128 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
5129 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
5131 o Minor features (IPv6):
5132 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
5133 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
5134 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
5135 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
5136 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
5137 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5138 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
5139 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
5140 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
5141 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5143 o Minor features (log messages):
5144 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
5145 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
5148 o Minor features (memory usage):
5149 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
5150 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
5151 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
5152 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
5153 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
5155 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
5156 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5157 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5158 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5160 o Minor features (parsing):
5161 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
5162 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
5163 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
5165 o Minor features (performance):
5166 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
5167 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
5168 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
5169 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
5171 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
5172 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
5173 Closes ticket 28852.
5174 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
5175 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
5176 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
5177 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
5178 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
5179 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
5181 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
5182 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
5183 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
5184 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
5185 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
5187 o Minor features (process management):
5188 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
5189 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
5190 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
5191 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
5192 module. Closes ticket 28847.
5194 o Minor features (relay):
5195 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
5196 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
5197 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
5199 o Minor features (required protocols):
5200 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
5201 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
5202 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
5203 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
5204 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
5205 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
5206 297; closes ticket 27735.
5208 o Minor features (testing):
5209 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5211 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
5212 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
5213 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
5214 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
5217 o Minor bugfixes (security):
5218 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5219 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5220 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5221 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5222 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5223 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5224 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5225 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5227 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5228 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5229 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5230 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5232 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
5233 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5234 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5235 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5236 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5238 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5239 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5240 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5242 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
5243 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5244 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5245 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5247 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5248 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5249 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5252 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
5253 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
5254 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5255 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5256 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5259 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5260 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
5261 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5262 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5263 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5264 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5265 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5266 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5268 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
5269 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5270 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5272 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5273 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
5274 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
5275 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5277 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
5278 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
5279 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
5280 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
5281 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5283 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5284 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5285 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5286 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5288 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5289 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
5290 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
5291 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
5292 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
5293 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
5294 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5296 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
5297 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5298 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5299 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5302 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5303 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
5304 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5306 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5307 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5308 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5309 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5310 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5311 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5312 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5313 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5314 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5315 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5316 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5317 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5318 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5319 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5320 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5321 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5322 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5323 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5324 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5325 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5326 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5327 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5329 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5330 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5331 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5332 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5333 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5334 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5336 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5337 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5338 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5339 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5340 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5342 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5343 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
5344 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
5345 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5347 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
5348 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5349 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5350 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5351 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5352 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5354 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5355 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5356 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5358 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5359 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5360 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5362 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5363 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5364 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5365 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5367 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
5368 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
5369 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
5370 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5372 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5373 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
5374 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
5375 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
5376 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5378 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5379 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5380 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5382 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
5383 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
5384 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
5385 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
5386 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
5389 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5390 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
5391 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
5392 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5394 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
5395 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5396 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5397 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5398 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5399 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5400 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5402 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5403 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5404 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5407 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5408 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5409 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5410 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5411 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5412 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5414 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5415 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5416 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5417 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5418 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5419 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5420 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5421 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
5422 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5423 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
5424 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5425 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
5426 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
5427 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
5428 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5429 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5430 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5431 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5432 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5434 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
5435 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
5436 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
5437 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5438 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
5439 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
5441 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
5442 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5443 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5444 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5445 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5446 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5447 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5448 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5450 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
5451 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
5452 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5454 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
5455 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5456 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5457 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5458 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5460 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
5461 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5462 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5463 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5464 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5465 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5467 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5468 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5469 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5470 Resolves issue 28816.
5471 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5472 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5473 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
5474 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
5475 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
5477 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
5478 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
5479 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
5480 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
5481 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
5482 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
5483 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
5484 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
5488 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5489 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5490 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
5491 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
5492 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
5493 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
5494 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
5495 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
5496 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
5498 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
5501 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
5502 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
5503 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
5504 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
5505 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
5506 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
5507 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
5508 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
5511 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
5513 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
5514 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
5516 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
5517 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
5518 code from client and service into one function. Closes
5521 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5522 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
5524 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
5525 Resolves ticket 28006.
5526 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
5527 Resolves ticket 28012.
5528 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
5529 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
5530 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
5531 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
5535 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5536 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5537 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5540 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5541 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5542 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5544 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5545 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5546 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5547 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5548 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5549 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5550 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5551 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5553 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5554 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5555 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5556 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5557 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5559 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5560 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5561 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5562 Patches from "Mangix".
5564 o Minor features (geoip):
5565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5566 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5568 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5569 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5572 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5573 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5574 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5575 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5576 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5577 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5579 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5580 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5581 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5582 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5585 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5586 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5587 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5588 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5590 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5591 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5592 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5595 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5596 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5597 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5598 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5600 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5601 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5602 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5603 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5605 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5606 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5607 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5608 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5609 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5610 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5612 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5613 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5614 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5615 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5616 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5618 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5619 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5620 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5621 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5622 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5624 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5625 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5626 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5628 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5629 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5630 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5632 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5633 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5634 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5635 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5637 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5638 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5639 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5641 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5642 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5643 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5644 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5645 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5648 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5649 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5650 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5651 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5652 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5655 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5656 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5657 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5658 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
5659 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5661 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5662 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5663 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5664 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5665 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5666 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5667 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5668 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5670 o Minor features (geoip):
5671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5672 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5674 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5675 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5676 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5677 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5679 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5680 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5681 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5682 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5683 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5686 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
5687 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5688 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5689 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5691 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
5692 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
5693 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
5694 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5696 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5697 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5698 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5699 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5700 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5701 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5702 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5703 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5705 o Minor features (geoip):
5706 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5707 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5710 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5711 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5712 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5714 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5715 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5716 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5717 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5718 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5721 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
5722 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5723 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
5724 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
5725 to this version, or to a later series.
5727 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
5728 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
5729 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
5730 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
5731 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
5732 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5734 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5735 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5736 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5737 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5738 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5741 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5742 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5743 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5744 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5746 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5747 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5748 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5749 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5750 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5751 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5752 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5753 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5755 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5756 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5757 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5758 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5760 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5761 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5762 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5763 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5764 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5766 o Minor features (geoip):
5767 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5768 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5770 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5771 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5772 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5773 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5774 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5775 Closes ticket 28973.
5777 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5778 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5779 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5780 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5782 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5783 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5784 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5787 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5788 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5789 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5791 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5792 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5793 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5794 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5796 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5797 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5798 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5799 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5801 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5802 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5803 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5804 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5805 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5806 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5809 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5810 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5811 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5814 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5815 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5816 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5817 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5818 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5821 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5822 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5823 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5824 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5826 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5827 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5828 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5829 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5830 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5831 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5833 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5834 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
5835 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
5838 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5839 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5840 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5842 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5843 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5844 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5846 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5847 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5848 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5851 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5852 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5853 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5854 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5855 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5856 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5857 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5858 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5860 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5861 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5862 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5863 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5865 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5866 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5867 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5868 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5869 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5870 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5871 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5872 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5873 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5874 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5876 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5877 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5878 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5879 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5880 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5881 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5883 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5884 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5885 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5886 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5887 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5889 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5890 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5891 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5894 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
5895 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5896 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
5897 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
5900 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
5901 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
5902 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
5905 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5906 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5907 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5908 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5909 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5912 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5913 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5914 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5915 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5916 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5917 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5918 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5920 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5921 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5922 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5925 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5926 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5927 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5928 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5929 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5932 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5933 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5934 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5935 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5936 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5938 o Minor features (geoip):
5939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5940 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
5942 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5943 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5944 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5945 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5946 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5947 Closes ticket 28973.
5949 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5950 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5951 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5952 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5954 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5955 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5956 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5957 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5958 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5961 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5962 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5963 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5964 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5966 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5967 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5968 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5970 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5971 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5972 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5973 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5975 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5976 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5977 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5978 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5979 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5980 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5983 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5984 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5985 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5987 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5988 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5989 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5990 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5991 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5993 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5994 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5995 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5996 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5997 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5998 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6000 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6001 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6002 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6003 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6005 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6006 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6007 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6010 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
6011 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6012 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
6013 affecting directory caches.
6015 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
6016 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
6017 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
6018 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
6019 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
6020 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
6021 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
6022 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
6024 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
6025 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
6026 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
6027 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
6028 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
6029 so it will recognize them.
6031 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
6032 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
6033 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
6034 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
6035 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
6036 with the latest stable release.)
6038 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
6039 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6041 o Major features (bootstrap):
6042 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
6043 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
6044 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
6045 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
6047 o Major features (new code layout):
6048 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
6049 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
6050 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
6051 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
6052 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
6053 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
6054 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
6056 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
6057 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
6058 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
6060 o Major features (onion services v3):
6061 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
6062 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
6063 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
6064 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
6065 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
6066 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
6067 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
6068 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
6069 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
6070 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
6071 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
6072 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
6073 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
6074 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
6075 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
6076 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
6077 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
6078 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
6080 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
6081 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
6082 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
6083 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
6084 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
6085 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
6087 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
6088 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
6089 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
6090 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
6091 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
6092 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
6093 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
6095 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
6096 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
6097 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
6098 (if present), and restart Tor.
6100 o Major features (relay, UI change):
6101 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
6102 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
6103 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
6104 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
6105 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6106 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
6107 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
6109 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
6110 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6111 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6113 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
6114 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
6115 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
6116 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
6117 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
6118 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6120 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6121 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
6122 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
6123 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
6126 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
6127 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
6128 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
6129 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
6130 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6132 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
6133 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6134 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6135 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6136 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6138 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6139 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
6140 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
6141 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
6142 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
6143 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
6145 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
6146 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6147 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6148 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6149 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6152 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
6153 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
6154 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
6155 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
6156 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
6157 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6159 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6160 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6161 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6162 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6163 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6165 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6166 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6167 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6168 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6169 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6170 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6172 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
6173 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6174 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6175 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6177 o Minor features (admin tools):
6178 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
6179 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
6182 o Minor features (build):
6183 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
6184 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
6185 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
6186 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
6188 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
6189 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
6190 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
6191 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
6192 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
6194 o Minor features (code layout):
6195 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
6196 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
6197 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
6198 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
6201 o Minor features (compilation):
6202 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
6203 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
6204 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
6205 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
6206 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
6207 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
6210 o Minor features (config):
6211 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
6214 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6215 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
6217 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
6218 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
6219 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6220 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6221 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6222 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
6223 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
6225 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6226 Implements ticket 27252.
6227 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6228 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6229 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6230 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6231 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6232 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6233 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6234 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6235 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6237 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
6238 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6239 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6241 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
6242 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
6244 o Minor features (controller):
6245 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
6246 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
6247 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
6248 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
6249 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6250 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6251 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6252 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6254 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
6255 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
6256 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
6257 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
6259 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
6260 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
6261 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
6262 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6264 o Minor features (development):
6265 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
6266 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
6268 o Minor features (directory authority):
6269 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
6270 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
6271 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
6272 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
6274 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
6275 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
6278 o Minor features (embedding API):
6279 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
6280 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
6281 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
6282 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
6283 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
6284 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
6287 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6288 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6289 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6290 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6291 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6293 o Minor features (geoip):
6294 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6295 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6297 o Minor features (memory management):
6298 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
6299 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
6302 o Minor features (memory usage):
6303 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
6304 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
6305 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
6307 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
6308 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6309 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6310 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6311 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6312 Closes ticket 28973.
6314 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
6315 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
6316 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
6318 o Minor features (performance):
6319 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
6320 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
6321 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
6322 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
6323 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
6324 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
6325 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
6326 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
6327 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
6328 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
6330 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
6331 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
6332 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
6333 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
6335 o Minor features (testing):
6336 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
6337 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
6339 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
6340 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
6341 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
6343 o Minor features (UI):
6344 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
6345 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
6346 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
6347 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
6348 Closes ticket 26703.
6350 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
6351 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6352 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6353 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6354 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6356 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6357 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6358 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6359 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6360 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6363 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
6364 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
6365 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
6366 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6368 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6369 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
6370 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
6371 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6372 - Use time_t for all values in
6373 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
6374 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
6375 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6377 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
6378 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
6379 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
6380 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
6381 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
6384 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
6385 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
6386 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
6387 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
6388 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
6389 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6391 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6392 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
6393 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
6394 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6396 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
6397 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6398 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6402 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6403 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6404 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6406 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6407 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
6408 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
6411 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
6412 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
6413 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
6414 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
6415 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
6417 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
6418 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6419 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6420 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6421 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6424 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6425 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6426 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6427 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6428 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6429 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6430 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6431 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6432 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6433 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6434 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6435 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6436 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6438 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6439 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6440 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6442 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6443 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
6444 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
6445 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
6446 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
6449 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6450 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
6451 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
6452 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
6453 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6455 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
6456 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6457 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6459 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
6460 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6461 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6462 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6463 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6464 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6467 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6468 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6469 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6472 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6473 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
6474 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
6475 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
6476 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6478 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6479 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
6480 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
6483 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6484 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
6485 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
6487 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
6488 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
6489 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
6490 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6491 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
6492 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6494 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
6495 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
6496 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
6497 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
6498 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6500 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6501 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6502 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6503 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
6504 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6506 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
6507 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6508 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6510 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
6511 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
6512 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
6513 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
6516 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6517 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6518 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6519 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6520 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6521 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6522 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
6523 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
6524 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
6526 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
6527 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
6529 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6530 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6531 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6532 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6533 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6534 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6535 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6536 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6537 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6538 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6539 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6541 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
6542 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
6543 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
6544 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6546 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
6547 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
6548 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
6549 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
6550 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
6552 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
6553 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
6554 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
6555 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
6557 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
6558 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6559 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6562 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
6563 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
6565 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6566 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6567 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6568 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6569 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6570 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6571 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6572 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6573 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6574 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6576 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
6577 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
6578 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
6579 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
6580 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6582 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6583 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6584 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6585 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6587 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6588 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
6589 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
6590 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
6591 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
6592 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6593 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6594 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
6595 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
6596 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6598 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6599 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6600 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6601 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6602 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6603 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6604 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6605 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6606 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6608 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
6609 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
6610 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6611 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
6612 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6613 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6614 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6615 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6616 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6617 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6618 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
6619 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
6620 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6621 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
6622 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6624 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6625 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6626 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6627 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6628 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6629 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6630 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6631 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6633 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6634 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6635 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6636 reported by Keifer Bly.
6638 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6639 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6640 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6642 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
6643 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
6644 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
6645 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
6646 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
6647 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
6648 Closes ticket 27814.
6649 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
6650 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
6651 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
6652 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
6653 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
6654 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
6655 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
6656 Closes ticket 27799.
6657 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
6658 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
6659 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
6660 directory within the top-level src directory.
6661 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
6662 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
6663 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
6664 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
6665 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
6666 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
6667 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
6668 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
6669 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
6670 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
6671 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
6672 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
6673 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
6674 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
6675 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
6676 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
6677 Closes ticket 21349.
6678 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
6679 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
6680 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
6681 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
6682 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
6683 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
6684 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
6686 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
6687 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
6688 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
6691 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
6692 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
6693 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
6694 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
6695 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
6696 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
6697 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
6698 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
6699 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
6702 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
6703 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
6704 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
6705 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
6706 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
6707 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
6708 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
6709 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
6710 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
6711 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
6712 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
6713 Closes ticket 26367.
6716 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6717 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6719 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6720 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6721 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6722 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6723 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6724 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6725 Closes ticket 19566.
6727 o Documentation (onion services):
6728 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
6729 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
6730 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6731 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6732 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6733 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6734 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6735 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6738 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6739 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6740 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
6741 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
6742 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
6744 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6745 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6746 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6748 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6749 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6750 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6751 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6752 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6754 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6755 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6756 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6757 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6758 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6761 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6762 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6763 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6764 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6766 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6767 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6768 Implements ticket 27252.
6769 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6770 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6771 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6772 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6773 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6774 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6775 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6777 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6778 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6779 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6780 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6782 o Minor features (geoip):
6783 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6784 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
6786 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6787 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6788 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6789 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6790 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6792 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6793 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6794 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6795 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6796 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6799 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6800 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6801 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6804 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6805 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6806 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6807 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6808 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6810 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6811 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6812 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6814 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6815 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6816 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6818 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6819 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6820 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6821 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6823 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6824 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6825 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6827 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6828 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6829 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6832 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6833 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6834 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6836 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6837 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6838 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6841 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6842 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6843 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6844 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6845 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6847 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6848 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6849 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6850 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6851 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6852 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6854 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6855 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6856 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6859 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6860 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6861 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6862 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6863 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6864 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6865 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6866 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6868 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6869 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6870 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6871 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6873 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6874 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6875 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6876 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6877 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6879 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6880 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6881 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6882 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6883 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6884 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6886 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6887 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6888 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6889 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6890 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6891 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6893 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6894 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6895 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6896 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6899 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6900 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6901 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6902 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6903 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6906 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
6907 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
6909 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6910 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6911 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6912 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6914 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6915 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6917 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6918 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6919 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6920 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6922 o Minor features (geoip):
6923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6924 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6926 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6927 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6928 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6929 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6931 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6932 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6933 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6934 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6935 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6936 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6937 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6938 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6941 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6942 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6943 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6944 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6947 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6948 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6949 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6951 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6952 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6953 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6954 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6956 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6957 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6958 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6959 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6960 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6962 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6963 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6964 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6967 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6968 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6969 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6970 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6971 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6973 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6974 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6975 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6978 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6979 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6980 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6981 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6983 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6984 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6985 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6987 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6988 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6989 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6992 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6993 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6994 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6995 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6996 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6998 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6999 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7000 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7003 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
7004 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7006 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7007 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7008 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7009 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7011 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7012 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7014 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7015 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7016 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7017 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7019 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7020 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7023 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7024 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7025 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7026 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7028 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7029 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7030 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7031 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7033 o Minor features (geoip):
7034 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7035 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7037 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7038 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7039 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7040 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7041 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7042 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7043 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7045 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7046 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7047 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7048 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7049 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7050 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7051 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7052 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7055 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7056 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7057 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7058 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7060 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7061 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7062 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7063 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7065 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7066 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7067 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7068 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7069 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7071 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7072 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7073 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7074 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7075 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7077 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7078 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7079 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7082 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7083 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7084 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7085 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7086 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7088 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7089 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7090 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7093 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7094 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7095 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7098 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7099 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7100 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7103 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7104 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7106 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7107 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7108 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7109 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7111 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7112 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7113 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7114 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7116 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7117 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7118 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7120 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7121 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7122 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7123 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7124 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7125 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7126 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7129 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7130 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
7131 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
7132 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
7133 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7135 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7136 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7137 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7138 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7139 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7141 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7142 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7143 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7146 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
7147 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7149 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7150 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7151 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7152 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7154 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7155 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7156 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7157 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7159 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7160 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7161 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7163 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7164 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7165 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7166 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7168 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7169 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7172 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7173 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7174 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7175 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7177 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7178 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7179 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7180 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7182 o Minor features (geoip):
7183 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7184 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7186 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7187 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7188 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7189 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7190 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7191 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7192 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7194 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7195 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7196 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7197 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7198 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7199 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7200 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7201 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7204 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7205 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7206 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7207 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7209 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7210 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7211 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7212 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7214 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7215 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7216 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7217 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7218 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7220 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7221 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7222 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7223 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7224 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7227 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7228 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7231 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7232 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7233 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7234 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7236 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7237 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7238 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7239 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7240 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7242 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7243 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7244 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7247 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7248 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7249 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7252 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7253 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7254 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7257 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7258 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7259 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7260 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7262 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7263 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7264 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7267 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7268 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7270 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7271 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7272 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7273 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7274 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7275 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7276 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7278 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7279 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7280 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7281 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7282 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7284 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7285 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7286 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7287 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7289 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7290 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7291 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7293 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7294 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7295 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7296 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7297 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7298 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7299 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7302 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7303 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7304 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7305 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7306 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7308 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7309 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7310 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7311 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7312 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7314 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7315 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7316 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7319 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
7320 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7321 compilation and portability fixes.
7323 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
7324 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
7325 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
7326 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
7327 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
7328 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
7329 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
7330 our anti-denial-of-service code.
7332 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
7333 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7335 o New system requirements:
7336 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
7337 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
7338 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
7339 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
7341 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
7342 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
7343 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
7344 To disable the module, the configure option
7345 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
7346 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
7348 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
7349 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
7350 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
7351 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
7352 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
7353 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
7354 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
7355 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
7356 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
7357 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
7358 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
7360 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
7361 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
7362 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
7363 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
7364 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
7365 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
7366 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
7367 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
7368 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
7369 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
7370 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
7371 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
7372 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
7373 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
7374 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
7375 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
7376 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
7377 Tor's uptime (26009).
7379 o Minor features (accounting):
7380 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
7381 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
7382 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
7383 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
7385 o Minor features (bug workaround):
7386 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7387 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7388 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7390 o Minor features (code quality):
7391 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
7392 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
7393 Closes ticket 25024.
7395 o Minor features (compatibility):
7396 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7397 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7398 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7399 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
7400 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
7401 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
7403 o Minor features (compilation):
7404 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7405 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7406 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7407 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7408 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7409 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7410 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7411 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7414 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
7415 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
7416 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
7417 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
7418 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
7419 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
7421 o Minor features (configuration):
7422 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
7423 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
7424 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
7425 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
7426 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
7428 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7429 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
7430 Implements ticket 27449.
7431 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
7432 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
7434 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7435 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7437 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7438 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7439 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
7440 Implements ticket 27275.
7441 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7442 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7443 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
7444 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
7445 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
7447 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
7448 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7451 o Minor features (control port):
7452 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
7453 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
7454 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
7455 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7456 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
7457 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
7458 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
7459 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
7460 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
7461 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
7463 o Minor features (controller):
7464 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7465 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7466 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7468 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7469 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
7470 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
7471 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
7472 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7473 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7474 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7476 o Minor features (directory authority):
7477 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7478 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7479 Closes ticket 23909.
7481 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7482 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7483 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7484 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7486 o Minor features (entry guards):
7487 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7488 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7490 o Minor features (geoip):
7491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7492 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7494 o Minor features (performance):
7495 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7496 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7497 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7498 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7500 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7501 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7503 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
7504 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
7506 o Minor features (testing):
7507 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7508 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7510 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7511 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7512 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7513 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7514 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7515 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7517 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7518 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7519 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7520 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7521 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7523 o Minor features (unit tests):
7524 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
7525 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
7526 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
7529 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7530 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7531 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7532 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7533 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7534 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7536 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7537 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7538 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7539 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7541 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7542 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7543 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7544 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7545 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7547 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7548 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7549 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7550 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7551 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7552 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7553 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7554 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7556 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7557 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7558 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7559 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7560 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
7561 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
7562 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7563 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
7564 Closes ticket 26245.
7565 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
7566 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
7567 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
7570 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7571 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7572 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7574 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7575 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7576 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7577 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7578 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7580 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7581 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7582 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7583 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7584 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7585 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
7586 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
7587 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7588 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7589 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7590 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7591 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7593 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
7594 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
7595 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
7598 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7599 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7600 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7603 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7604 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7605 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7606 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7607 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7608 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7611 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7612 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7613 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7614 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7615 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7616 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7617 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7619 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
7620 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7621 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7622 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7624 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7625 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7626 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7627 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7628 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7630 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7631 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7632 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7635 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7636 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7637 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7639 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7640 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7642 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
7643 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
7644 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
7645 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
7646 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7648 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7649 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7650 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7652 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7653 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7654 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7655 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7656 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7659 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7660 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7661 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7662 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7664 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7665 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7666 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7667 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7668 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7669 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7670 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7672 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7673 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7675 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7676 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7677 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7678 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7679 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7681 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7682 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7683 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7684 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7685 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7687 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7688 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
7689 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
7690 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7692 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7693 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7694 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7695 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7698 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7699 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7700 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7701 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7702 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7703 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7704 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7705 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7706 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7707 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7709 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7710 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7711 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7712 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7713 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7714 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7715 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7717 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7718 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7719 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7720 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7721 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7723 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7724 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7725 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7728 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
7729 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
7730 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
7731 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
7732 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7734 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
7735 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7736 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7737 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7738 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7739 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7740 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7743 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7744 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7745 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7746 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7747 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7749 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7750 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7751 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7752 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7753 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7755 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7756 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7757 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7758 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7759 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7760 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7762 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
7763 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7764 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7766 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7767 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7768 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7769 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7770 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7771 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7772 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7773 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7775 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7776 confusing we renamed some functions and
7777 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7778 router_should_check_reachability() and
7779 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7780 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7781 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7782 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7783 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7785 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7786 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7788 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7789 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7790 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7791 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7792 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7793 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7794 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7795 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7796 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7797 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7798 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7799 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7800 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7801 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7802 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7803 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7804 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7805 Closes ticket 25766.
7806 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7807 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7808 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7809 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7810 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7811 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7812 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7813 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7814 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7815 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7816 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7817 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7818 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7819 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
7821 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
7822 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
7823 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
7824 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
7825 before. Closes ticket 26016.
7826 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
7827 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
7828 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
7829 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
7831 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
7832 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
7833 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
7834 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7836 o Deprecated features:
7837 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
7838 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
7839 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
7840 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
7841 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
7842 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
7845 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
7846 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
7847 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
7848 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
7849 24378 and proposal 290.
7850 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
7851 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
7852 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
7853 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
7854 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
7855 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
7856 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
7857 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
7858 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
7859 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
7860 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
7861 their local router. Closes 25409.
7862 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
7863 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
7864 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
7865 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
7866 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
7867 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
7868 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
7869 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
7870 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
7871 Closes ticket 25268.
7874 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
7875 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7876 bridge relays should upgrade.
7878 o Directory authority changes:
7879 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7880 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7881 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7884 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
7885 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7886 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7889 o Directory authority changes:
7890 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7891 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7892 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7894 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7895 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7896 Closes ticket 26343.
7898 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7899 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7900 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7901 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7902 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7904 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7905 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7906 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7908 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7909 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7910 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7911 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7913 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7914 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7915 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7917 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7918 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7919 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7920 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7921 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7922 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7924 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7925 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7926 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7927 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7929 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7930 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7931 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7934 o Minor features (geoip):
7935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7936 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7938 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7939 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7940 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7941 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7942 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7944 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7945 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7946 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7948 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7949 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7950 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7951 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7952 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7953 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7954 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7955 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7958 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7959 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7960 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7961 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7962 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7963 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7965 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7966 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7967 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7968 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7969 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7972 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7973 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7974 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7975 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7978 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7979 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7982 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7983 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7984 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7986 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7987 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7988 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7989 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7991 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7992 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7993 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7994 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7995 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7996 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7997 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7999 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8000 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8001 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8002 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8005 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8006 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8007 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8009 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8010 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8011 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8013 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8014 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8015 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8016 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8019 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8020 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8021 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8022 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8024 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8025 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8026 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8028 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8029 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8030 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8033 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
8034 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8035 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8038 o Directory authority changes:
8039 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8040 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8041 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8043 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8044 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8045 Closes ticket 26343.
8047 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8048 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8049 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8050 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8051 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8053 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8054 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8055 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8056 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8058 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8059 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8060 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8061 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8062 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8063 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8065 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8066 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8067 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8070 o Minor features (geoip):
8071 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8072 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8074 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8075 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8076 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8077 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8078 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8080 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8081 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8082 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8084 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8085 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8086 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8087 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8090 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8091 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8092 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8093 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8094 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8095 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8097 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8098 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8099 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8100 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8101 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8103 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8104 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8105 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8108 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8109 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8110 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8112 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8113 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8114 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8115 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8117 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8118 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8119 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8121 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8122 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8123 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8126 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
8127 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8128 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
8130 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8131 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8132 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8133 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8135 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8136 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8137 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8140 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8141 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8142 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8145 o Minor features (geoip):
8146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8147 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8149 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8150 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8151 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8152 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8155 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
8156 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
8157 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
8158 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
8161 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8162 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8163 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8164 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8165 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8167 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8168 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8169 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8170 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8172 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8173 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8174 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8176 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8177 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8178 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8179 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8182 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8183 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8184 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8185 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8187 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8188 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8189 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8190 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8191 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8192 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8193 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8194 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8198 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
8199 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8200 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
8202 o Directory authority changes:
8203 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8204 Closes ticket 26343.
8206 o Minor features (geoip):
8207 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8208 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
8210 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8211 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8212 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8213 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8214 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8215 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8217 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8218 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8219 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8221 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8222 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
8223 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
8224 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
8225 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8227 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8228 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8229 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8231 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8232 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
8233 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
8234 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
8235 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
8236 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8239 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
8240 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
8241 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8243 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
8244 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
8245 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
8246 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
8247 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
8248 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
8250 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
8251 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8253 o New system requirements:
8254 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
8255 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
8257 o Major features (embedding):
8258 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
8259 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
8260 Closes ticket 23684.
8261 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
8262 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
8263 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
8264 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
8265 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
8266 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
8268 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
8269 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
8270 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
8271 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
8273 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
8274 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
8275 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
8276 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
8277 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
8279 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
8280 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
8283 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
8284 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
8285 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
8286 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
8287 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
8288 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
8289 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
8291 o Major features (onion services):
8292 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
8293 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
8294 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
8295 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
8296 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
8298 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
8299 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
8300 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
8301 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
8302 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
8303 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8305 o Major features (relay):
8306 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
8307 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
8308 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
8309 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
8310 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8312 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
8313 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
8314 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
8315 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
8316 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
8317 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
8318 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
8319 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
8321 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8322 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8323 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8324 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8325 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8327 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
8328 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
8329 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
8330 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
8331 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
8333 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8334 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
8335 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
8336 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8338 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
8339 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
8340 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
8341 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
8342 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
8343 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
8344 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
8345 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8347 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8348 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
8349 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
8350 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
8352 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8353 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8354 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8356 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
8357 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
8358 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
8359 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
8360 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
8361 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
8362 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
8364 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8365 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
8366 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
8367 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
8368 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8370 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8371 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
8372 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
8375 o Minor features (cleanup):
8376 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
8377 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
8379 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8380 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
8381 Closes ticket 26006.
8383 o Minor features (config options):
8384 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
8385 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
8386 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
8389 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8390 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8391 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8393 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8394 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8395 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8396 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8397 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8398 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8400 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8401 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
8402 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
8403 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
8404 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
8405 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
8406 once. Part of ticket 24337.
8407 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
8408 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
8409 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
8411 o Minor features (directory authority):
8412 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
8413 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
8415 o Minor features (embedding):
8416 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
8417 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
8418 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
8419 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
8420 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
8421 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
8422 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
8423 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
8424 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
8425 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
8426 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
8427 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
8428 Closes ticket 23848.
8429 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
8430 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
8431 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
8433 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8434 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
8435 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
8436 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
8437 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
8438 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
8439 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
8440 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
8443 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
8444 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
8445 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
8446 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
8447 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
8448 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
8449 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
8451 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
8452 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
8453 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
8454 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
8455 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
8456 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
8457 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
8458 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
8459 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
8460 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
8461 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
8462 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
8464 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
8465 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8466 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8468 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8469 Implements ticket 24791.
8471 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8472 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8473 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8474 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8475 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8476 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8478 o Minor features (geoip):
8479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
8480 database. Closes ticket 26104.
8482 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8483 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8484 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8487 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8488 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8489 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8490 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8491 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8493 o Minor features (IPv6):
8494 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8495 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8496 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8497 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8498 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
8501 o Minor features (log messages):
8502 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
8503 information about memory usage from the different compression
8504 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
8505 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8506 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8507 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8508 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8510 o Minor features (logging):
8511 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8512 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8513 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8516 o Minor features (performance):
8517 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8518 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8519 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8520 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8522 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8523 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8524 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8525 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8526 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8527 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8528 Implements ticket 24374.
8530 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8531 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8532 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8533 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8534 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8536 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8537 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8538 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8539 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8542 o Minor features (sandbox):
8543 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8544 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8545 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8547 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8548 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8549 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8550 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8551 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8553 o Minor features (testing):
8554 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8557 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8558 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8559 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8560 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8561 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8562 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8563 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8564 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8565 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8567 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8568 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8569 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8570 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8571 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8572 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8573 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8574 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8575 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
8578 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8579 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8580 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8581 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8583 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
8584 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
8585 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8587 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8588 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8589 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8590 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8591 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8593 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8594 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8595 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8598 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8599 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8600 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8601 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8603 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8604 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
8605 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
8606 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8607 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
8608 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
8609 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8611 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8612 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8613 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8614 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8616 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8617 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8618 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8619 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8620 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8622 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
8623 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
8624 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
8625 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
8628 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8629 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8630 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8631 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8632 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8634 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8635 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
8636 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
8637 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
8638 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
8641 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
8642 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
8643 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
8644 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
8645 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
8647 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8648 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
8649 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
8652 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
8653 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
8654 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
8656 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
8657 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8658 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
8659 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
8660 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
8662 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
8663 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8664 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
8665 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8667 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
8668 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
8669 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8670 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
8671 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
8672 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8674 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8675 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
8676 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
8677 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8679 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8680 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8681 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8683 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8684 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8685 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8686 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8688 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8689 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8690 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
8691 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
8694 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8695 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8696 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8697 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8698 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8699 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8702 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
8703 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8704 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8705 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8707 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8708 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
8709 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
8711 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8712 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
8713 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
8714 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
8715 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
8716 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8718 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8719 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8720 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8721 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8722 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8723 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8724 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8726 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8727 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8728 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8729 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8731 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8732 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8733 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8734 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8735 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8737 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8738 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8739 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8740 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8741 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8742 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8744 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
8745 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
8746 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
8747 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
8748 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
8749 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8750 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
8751 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
8752 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
8753 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
8754 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
8755 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8758 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8759 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8761 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8762 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8763 would call the Rust implementation of
8764 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8765 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8766 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8767 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8768 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8770 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
8771 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8772 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8773 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8775 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8776 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8777 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8778 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8780 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
8781 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8783 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8784 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8785 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8786 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8787 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8788 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8790 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8791 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8792 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8793 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
8794 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
8796 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8798 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8799 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8800 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8802 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
8804 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
8805 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
8806 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
8807 "aruna1234" and teor.
8808 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
8809 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
8810 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
8811 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
8813 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
8814 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
8815 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
8816 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
8817 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
8818 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
8819 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
8820 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
8821 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
8822 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
8824 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
8825 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
8828 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
8830 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
8831 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
8832 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
8833 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
8835 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
8836 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
8837 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
8838 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
8840 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
8841 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
8842 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
8843 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
8844 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
8846 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
8847 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
8848 adding very little except for unit test.
8850 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
8851 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
8852 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
8853 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
8855 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
8856 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
8857 const. Implements ticket 24489.
8859 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8860 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
8861 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
8863 o Documentation (man page):
8864 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
8865 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
8868 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
8869 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
8870 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
8874 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
8875 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
8878 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8879 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8881 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8882 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8884 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8887 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8888 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
8889 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8891 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
8892 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
8893 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
8894 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
8897 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8898 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8899 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8900 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8903 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8904 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8905 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8906 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8907 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8908 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8909 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8910 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8911 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8912 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8913 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8914 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8915 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8917 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8918 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8919 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8921 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8922 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8923 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8924 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8925 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8926 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8927 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8929 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8930 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8931 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8933 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8934 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8935 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8936 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8937 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8938 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8939 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8941 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8942 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8943 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8944 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8946 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8947 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8948 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8949 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8951 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8952 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8953 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8954 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8955 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8956 Closes ticket 24978.
8958 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8959 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8960 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8961 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8962 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8963 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8964 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8965 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8966 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8968 o Minor features (geoip):
8969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8972 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8973 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8974 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8975 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8976 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8978 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8979 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8980 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8981 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8982 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8984 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8985 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8986 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8987 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8988 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8991 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8992 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8993 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8994 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8995 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8996 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8997 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8998 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8999 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9000 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9001 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9004 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
9005 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9006 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9008 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9009 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9010 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9013 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9014 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9015 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9016 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9017 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9018 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9019 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9021 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9022 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9023 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9024 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9025 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9026 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9027 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9028 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9029 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9032 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9033 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9034 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9035 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9036 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9037 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9039 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9040 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9041 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9042 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9044 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
9045 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9046 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9047 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9048 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9051 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9052 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9053 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9054 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9055 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9056 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9058 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9059 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9060 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9061 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9062 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9063 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9064 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9065 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9066 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9067 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9068 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9069 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9071 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9072 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9073 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9074 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9076 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9077 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9078 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9079 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9081 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9082 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9083 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9084 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9087 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
9088 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9089 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9090 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9091 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9093 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9094 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9096 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9097 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9099 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9100 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9101 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9104 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
9105 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9108 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9109 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9111 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9112 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9114 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9117 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9118 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
9119 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9121 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9122 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9123 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9124 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9127 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
9128 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9129 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9130 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9131 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9132 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9133 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9134 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9135 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9136 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9137 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9138 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9139 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9141 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9142 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9143 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9144 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9145 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9146 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9147 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9148 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9149 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9151 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
9152 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9153 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9154 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9155 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9156 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9157 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9159 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9160 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9161 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9162 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9164 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
9165 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9166 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9167 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9168 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9169 Closes ticket 24978.
9171 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9172 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9173 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9174 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9176 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9177 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9178 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9179 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9180 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9181 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9182 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9183 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9184 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9186 o Minor features (geoip):
9187 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9190 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9191 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9192 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9194 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
9195 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9196 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9197 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9198 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9200 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
9201 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9202 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9203 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9204 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9206 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9207 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9208 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9209 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9210 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9213 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9214 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9215 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9217 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9218 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9219 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9222 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9223 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9224 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9225 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9226 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9227 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9228 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9230 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9231 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9232 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9233 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9234 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9237 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9238 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9239 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9240 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9241 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9242 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9244 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
9245 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9246 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9247 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9249 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9250 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9251 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9252 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9253 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9254 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9255 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9256 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9257 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9258 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9259 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9260 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9262 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9263 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9264 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9265 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9268 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9269 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9270 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9271 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9272 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9274 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9275 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9277 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9278 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9281 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
9282 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
9283 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
9286 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9287 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9289 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
9290 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
9291 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
9292 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
9293 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
9294 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
9297 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9298 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9300 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9303 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
9304 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
9305 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
9306 the DoS mitigations.)
9308 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9309 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9310 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9311 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9314 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9315 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
9316 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
9317 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9319 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9320 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9321 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9322 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9323 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9324 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9325 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9326 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9327 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9328 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9329 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9330 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9331 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9333 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9334 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9335 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9336 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9337 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9338 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9339 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9340 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
9341 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
9342 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
9343 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9345 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9346 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9347 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9349 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9350 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9351 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9352 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9353 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9354 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9355 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9357 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9358 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
9359 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
9360 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9362 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9363 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9364 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9365 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9367 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9368 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9369 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9370 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9371 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9372 Closes ticket 24978.
9374 o Minor features (geoip):
9375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9378 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9379 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
9380 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
9383 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9384 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9385 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9386 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9387 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9389 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9390 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9391 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9392 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9393 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9394 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9395 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9397 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9398 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9399 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9400 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9401 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9403 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9404 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
9405 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
9406 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9408 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9409 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
9410 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
9411 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
9412 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9414 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9415 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9416 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9417 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9419 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9420 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9421 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9422 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9424 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9425 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9426 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9427 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9429 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9430 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9432 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9433 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9435 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9436 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
9437 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
9439 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9440 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
9441 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
9442 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
9443 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9445 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9446 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9447 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9449 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
9450 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
9451 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
9455 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
9456 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
9458 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
9459 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
9460 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
9461 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
9462 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
9463 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
9465 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9466 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9467 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9468 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9469 with the 0.2.9 series.
9471 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
9472 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9474 o Directory authority changes:
9475 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9476 Closes ticket 23910.
9477 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9478 Closes ticket 23592.
9479 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9480 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9481 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9482 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9483 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9486 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
9487 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
9488 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
9489 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
9490 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
9491 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
9494 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
9495 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
9497 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
9500 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
9503 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
9505 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
9507 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
9509 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
9510 they are 56 characters long, as in
9511 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
9513 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
9514 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
9515 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
9516 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
9517 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
9520 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
9521 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
9522 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
9523 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
9524 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
9525 options. For more information, see our blog post at
9526 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
9528 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
9529 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
9530 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
9531 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
9532 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
9533 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
9534 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
9535 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
9536 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
9537 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
9538 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
9539 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
9541 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
9542 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
9543 more information, see the design paper at
9544 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
9545 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
9546 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
9547 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
9549 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
9550 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9551 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9552 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9553 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9554 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9555 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9556 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9558 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
9559 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9560 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9561 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9564 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9565 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9566 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9567 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9568 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9569 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9570 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9571 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9572 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9573 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9574 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9575 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9578 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9579 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9580 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9581 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9582 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9583 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9584 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9585 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9586 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9588 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9589 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9590 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9591 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9592 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9593 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9594 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9595 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9596 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9597 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9598 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9601 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9602 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9603 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9604 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9605 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9606 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9607 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9609 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9610 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9611 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9612 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9613 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9614 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9617 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
9618 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9619 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9620 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9622 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
9623 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
9624 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
9625 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
9627 o Minor features (bridge):
9628 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9629 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9630 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9631 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9632 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9633 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9634 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9635 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
9636 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
9637 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
9638 related to ticket 23080.
9640 o Minor features (bug detection):
9641 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
9642 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
9643 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
9645 o Minor features (build, compilation):
9646 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
9647 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
9648 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
9649 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
9650 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
9651 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
9652 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
9653 Closes ticket 23643.
9655 o Minor features (client):
9656 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
9657 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
9658 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
9659 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
9660 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
9661 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
9662 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
9663 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
9664 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
9665 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
9666 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9667 Resolves ticket 23670.
9669 o Minor features (command line):
9670 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
9671 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
9672 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
9674 o Minor features (control port):
9675 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
9676 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
9677 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
9679 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
9680 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
9682 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
9683 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
9684 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
9685 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
9686 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
9687 Closes ticket 23237.
9688 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
9689 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9691 o Minor features (development support):
9692 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
9693 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
9694 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
9695 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
9696 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
9697 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
9699 o Minor features (directory authority):
9700 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9701 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9702 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9703 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9705 o Minor features (ed25519):
9706 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
9707 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
9708 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
9710 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
9711 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
9712 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
9714 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9715 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9716 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9717 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9718 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9719 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9720 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9721 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9722 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9724 o Minor features (geoip):
9725 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9728 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
9729 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
9730 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
9731 another program, regardless of the settings of
9732 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
9733 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
9734 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
9736 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9737 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9738 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9740 o Minor features (logging):
9741 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9743 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9744 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9746 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9747 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9748 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
9749 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
9750 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
9751 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
9752 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
9753 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
9754 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
9755 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
9757 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
9758 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
9760 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
9761 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
9762 the circuit identifier(s).
9763 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
9764 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
9766 o Minor features (portability):
9767 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9768 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9770 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
9771 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
9772 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
9773 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
9775 o Minor features (relay):
9776 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
9777 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
9778 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
9779 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
9780 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
9781 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
9782 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
9783 results. Closes ticket 22731.
9785 o Minor features (relay statistics):
9786 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9787 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9788 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9790 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
9791 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9792 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9793 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9794 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9796 o Minor features (robustness):
9797 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
9798 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
9800 o Minor features (startup, safety):
9801 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
9802 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
9805 o Minor features (static analysis):
9806 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
9807 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
9810 o Minor features (testing):
9811 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9812 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9813 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
9814 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
9816 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
9817 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
9818 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
9819 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
9820 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
9822 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9823 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9824 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9825 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9826 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9829 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9830 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
9831 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
9834 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
9835 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
9836 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
9837 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
9838 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9839 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
9840 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
9841 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
9842 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9843 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
9844 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
9845 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
9846 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9848 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
9849 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
9850 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
9851 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9853 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
9854 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9855 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9856 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9857 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
9858 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
9859 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
9860 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
9861 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9862 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9863 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9864 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
9865 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
9866 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9867 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
9868 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9869 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9871 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
9872 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
9873 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
9874 Coverity as CID 1415728.
9876 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9877 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
9878 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
9879 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9881 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
9882 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
9883 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
9884 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
9885 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
9886 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
9887 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
9888 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9890 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9891 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
9892 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
9893 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
9894 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9895 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
9896 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
9897 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
9898 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
9899 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
9900 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
9901 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
9902 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
9903 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
9906 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
9907 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9908 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9911 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
9912 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
9913 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
9914 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9916 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9917 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9918 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9921 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
9922 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
9923 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
9924 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9926 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
9927 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9928 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9929 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9930 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9931 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9932 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9933 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9934 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9937 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9938 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
9939 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
9940 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
9941 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9943 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
9944 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
9945 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
9946 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
9947 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
9948 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
9950 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
9951 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
9954 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9955 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
9956 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9957 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
9958 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
9959 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9961 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
9962 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
9963 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
9964 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9966 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
9967 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9968 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9969 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9970 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9971 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9973 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
9974 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
9975 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
9976 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
9977 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
9978 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
9979 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
9982 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
9983 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
9984 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
9985 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9987 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9988 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9989 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9990 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9991 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9992 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
9993 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
9994 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9995 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
9996 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
9998 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
9999 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
10000 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
10002 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
10003 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
10004 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
10006 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
10007 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10008 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
10009 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
10010 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
10011 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
10013 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
10014 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10015 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10016 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10017 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10018 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10020 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
10021 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
10022 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10024 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10025 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10026 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10027 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10028 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10031 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10032 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10033 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10034 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10035 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10036 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10038 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10039 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
10040 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
10041 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
10042 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10043 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10044 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10046 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
10047 only fetch the service descriptor once.
10048 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10049 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10050 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10051 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
10052 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
10053 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
10054 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10056 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10057 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10058 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10059 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10060 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10061 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10062 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10063 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10064 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10065 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10066 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10067 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10069 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10070 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
10071 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10072 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10073 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10074 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10077 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10078 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
10079 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
10080 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
10081 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10082 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10083 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10084 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10085 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10086 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10087 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10088 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10090 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10091 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
10092 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10093 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
10094 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
10095 Closes ticket 24109.
10096 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
10097 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10098 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
10099 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
10101 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10102 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10104 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
10105 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
10106 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
10107 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
10108 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
10109 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
10110 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
10111 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10112 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
10113 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
10114 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10116 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
10117 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
10118 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
10119 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10121 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10122 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
10123 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
10125 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
10126 function from the general code to handle channel state
10127 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
10128 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
10129 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
10130 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
10131 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
10132 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
10133 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
10134 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
10136 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
10137 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
10139 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
10140 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
10141 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
10142 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
10143 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10144 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
10145 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
10146 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
10147 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
10148 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
10149 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
10150 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
10152 o Deprecated features:
10153 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
10154 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10155 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10156 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
10157 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
10158 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
10162 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
10163 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
10164 section. Closes ticket 24254.
10165 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10166 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10167 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10168 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10169 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10170 Closes ticket 18736.
10171 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
10172 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
10173 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
10174 Closes ticket 15645.
10175 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
10176 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
10177 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
10178 file. Closes ticket 21148.
10180 o Removed features:
10181 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
10182 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
10183 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
10184 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10185 Closes ticket 21031.
10186 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
10187 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
10190 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
10191 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
10192 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
10193 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
10195 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10196 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10197 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10198 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10199 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10200 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10201 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10202 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10203 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10204 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10205 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10207 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10208 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10209 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10210 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10211 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10212 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10213 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10216 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10217 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10218 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10219 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10220 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10222 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10223 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10224 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10225 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10226 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10227 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10228 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10229 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10230 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10232 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10233 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10234 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10235 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10236 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10237 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10240 o Minor features (bridge):
10241 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10242 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10243 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10244 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10247 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10248 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10251 o Minor features (geoip):
10252 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10255 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10256 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10257 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10258 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10259 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10262 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10263 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10265 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10266 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10267 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10268 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10269 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10270 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10272 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10273 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10274 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10277 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10278 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10279 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10280 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10281 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10284 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
10285 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10286 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10287 to another of the releases coming out today.
10289 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10290 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10291 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10293 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10294 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10295 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10296 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10297 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10298 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10299 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10300 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10301 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10302 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10303 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10305 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10306 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10307 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10308 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10309 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10310 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10311 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10314 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10315 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10316 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10317 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10318 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10320 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10321 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10322 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10323 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10324 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10325 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10326 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10327 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10328 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10330 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10331 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10332 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10333 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10334 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10335 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10338 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10339 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10340 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10341 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10342 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10343 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10345 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10346 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10347 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10348 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10349 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10352 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10353 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10356 o Minor features (geoip):
10357 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10360 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10361 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10362 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10363 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10364 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10366 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10367 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10368 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10370 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10371 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10372 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10373 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10374 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10375 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10377 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10378 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10379 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10380 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10381 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10383 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10384 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10385 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10388 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
10389 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10390 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10391 to another of the releases coming out today.
10393 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10394 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10395 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10396 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10397 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10398 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10401 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10402 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10403 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10404 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10405 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10406 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10407 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10408 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10409 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10410 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10411 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10413 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10414 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10415 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10416 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10417 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10418 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10419 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10422 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10423 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10424 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10425 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10426 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10428 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10429 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10430 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10431 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10432 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10433 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10435 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10436 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10437 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10438 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10439 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10442 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10443 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10446 o Minor features (geoip):
10447 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10450 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10451 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10452 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10453 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10454 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10455 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10457 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10458 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10459 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10460 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10461 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10464 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10465 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10467 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10468 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10469 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10470 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10471 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10472 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10474 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10475 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10476 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10477 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10478 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10480 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10481 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10482 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10485 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
10486 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10487 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10488 to another of the releases coming out today.
10490 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10491 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
10492 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10494 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10495 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10496 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10497 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10498 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10499 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10500 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10501 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10502 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10503 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10504 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10505 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10506 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10507 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10508 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10511 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10512 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10513 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10514 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10515 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10517 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10518 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
10519 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
10520 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
10521 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
10524 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10525 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10526 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10527 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10528 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10531 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10532 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10535 o Minor features (geoip):
10536 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10539 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10540 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10541 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10544 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
10545 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10546 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10547 to another of the releases coming out today.
10549 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10550 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10551 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10553 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10554 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10555 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10556 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10557 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10558 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10559 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10560 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10561 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10562 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10563 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10564 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10565 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10566 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10567 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10570 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10571 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10572 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10573 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10574 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10575 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10577 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10578 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10579 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10580 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10581 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10584 o Minor features (geoip):
10585 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10589 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
10590 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10591 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10593 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10594 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10595 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10597 o Directory authority changes:
10598 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10599 Closes ticket 23910.
10600 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10601 Closes ticket 23592.
10603 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10604 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10605 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10606 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10607 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10609 o Minor features (geoip):
10610 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10613 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10614 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10615 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10616 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10617 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10618 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10619 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10620 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10621 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10623 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10624 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10625 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10626 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10627 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10628 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10629 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10630 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10631 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10634 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
10635 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10636 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10637 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10639 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10640 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10641 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10643 o Directory authority changes:
10644 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10645 Closes ticket 23910.
10646 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10647 Closes ticket 23592.
10649 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10650 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10651 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10652 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10654 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10655 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10656 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10657 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10658 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10660 o Minor features (geoip):
10661 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10665 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
10666 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10667 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10668 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10670 o Directory authority changes:
10671 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10672 Closes ticket 23910.
10673 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10674 Closes ticket 23592.
10676 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10677 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10678 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10679 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10681 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10682 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10683 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10684 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10685 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10687 o Minor features (geoip):
10688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10691 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10692 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10693 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10694 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10695 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10696 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10697 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10698 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10701 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10702 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10703 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10705 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10706 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10707 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10708 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10709 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10710 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10711 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10714 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10715 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10716 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10717 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10719 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10720 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10721 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10723 o Directory authority changes:
10724 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10725 Closes ticket 23910.
10726 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10727 Closes ticket 23592.
10729 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10730 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10731 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10732 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10734 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10735 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10736 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10737 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10738 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10740 o Minor features (geoip):
10741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10744 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10745 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10746 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10747 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10748 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10749 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10750 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10751 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10754 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10755 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10756 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10757 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10759 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10760 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10761 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10763 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10764 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10765 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10766 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10767 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10768 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10769 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10772 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10773 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10774 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10775 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10776 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10778 o Directory authority changes:
10779 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10780 Closes ticket 23910.
10781 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10782 Closes ticket 23592.
10784 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10785 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10786 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10787 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10789 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10790 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10791 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10792 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10793 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10795 o Minor features (geoip):
10796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10799 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10800 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10801 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10802 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10804 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10805 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10806 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10809 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10810 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10811 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10813 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10814 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10815 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10816 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10818 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10819 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10820 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10822 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10823 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10824 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10828 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
10829 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10832 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10833 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10834 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10835 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10837 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10838 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
10839 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
10840 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
10842 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10843 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10844 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10845 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10846 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10852 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10853 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10854 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10857 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10858 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10859 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10860 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10861 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10862 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10863 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10864 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10865 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10867 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10868 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10869 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10870 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10871 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10872 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10873 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10874 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10875 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10878 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
10879 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10882 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10883 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10884 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10885 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10887 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10888 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10889 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10890 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10891 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10892 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10893 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10895 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10896 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10897 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10898 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10900 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10901 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10902 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10904 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10905 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10906 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10907 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10909 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10910 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10911 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10912 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10913 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10915 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10916 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10917 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10918 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10920 o Minor features (geoip):
10921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10924 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10925 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10926 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10927 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10930 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10931 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10932 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
10933 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10934 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
10935 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
10936 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10938 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10939 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
10940 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10943 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10944 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10947 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10948 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10949 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10950 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
10951 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10953 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10954 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10955 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10956 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10957 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10958 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10960 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10961 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10962 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10963 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10964 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10965 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10966 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10967 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10968 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10970 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10971 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10972 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10973 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10975 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10976 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10977 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10979 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10980 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10981 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10982 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10983 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10986 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10987 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10990 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10991 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10992 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10993 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10994 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10996 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10997 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10998 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10999 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11000 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11001 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11002 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11003 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11004 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11007 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
11008 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
11011 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11012 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11013 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11014 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11016 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11017 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11018 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11019 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11022 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11025 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11026 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11027 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11029 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11030 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11031 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11032 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11033 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11035 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11036 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11037 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11038 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11040 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11041 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11042 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11044 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11045 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11046 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11047 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11050 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
11051 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11053 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
11054 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
11055 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
11056 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
11057 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
11058 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
11059 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
11061 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
11062 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
11063 disabled. For more information, see
11064 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11066 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11067 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11068 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11069 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11070 with the 0.2.9 series.
11072 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
11073 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11075 o New dependencies:
11076 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
11077 pkg-config tool at build time.
11079 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
11080 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
11081 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
11082 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11083 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
11085 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
11086 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11087 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11088 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11089 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11090 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11091 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11092 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11093 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11095 o Major features (directory protocol):
11096 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
11097 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
11098 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
11099 now request these documents when available. When both client and
11100 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
11101 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
11102 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
11103 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
11104 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
11105 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
11106 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
11107 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
11108 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
11109 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
11110 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
11111 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
11112 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
11114 o Major features (experimental):
11115 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
11116 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
11117 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
11118 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
11119 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
11120 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
11121 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
11123 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
11124 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
11125 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
11126 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
11127 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
11128 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
11131 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
11132 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
11133 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
11134 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
11135 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
11136 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
11137 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
11138 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
11139 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
11140 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
11141 multiples of 10000.
11143 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11144 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11145 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11146 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11147 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11148 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11149 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11152 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
11153 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11154 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11155 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11156 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11157 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11159 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
11160 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
11161 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
11162 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
11163 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
11164 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
11165 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
11166 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
11167 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11168 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
11169 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
11170 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
11171 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
11172 Otherwise it is at info.
11174 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11175 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11176 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11177 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11178 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11179 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11180 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11182 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
11183 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11184 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11185 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11187 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
11188 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11189 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11190 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11191 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11193 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
11194 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11195 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11196 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11197 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11198 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11199 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11202 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
11203 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11204 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11205 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11206 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11207 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11208 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11209 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11210 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11211 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11212 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11213 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11214 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11217 o Minor features (security, windows):
11218 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11219 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11220 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11221 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11222 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11224 o Minor features (bridge authority):
11225 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
11226 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
11228 o Minor features (code style):
11229 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11230 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11231 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11233 o Minor features (config options):
11234 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
11235 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
11236 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
11237 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
11238 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
11239 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
11240 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
11241 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
11243 o Minor features (controller):
11244 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
11245 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
11247 o Minor features (defaults):
11248 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
11249 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
11250 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
11251 can. Closes ticket 21407.
11252 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
11253 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
11254 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
11255 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
11256 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
11257 Closes ticket 21641.
11259 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11260 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
11261 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
11262 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
11265 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11266 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
11267 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
11268 attempt for bug 23105.
11269 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
11270 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
11271 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
11272 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
11273 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
11274 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
11275 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
11277 o Minor features (directory authority):
11278 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
11279 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
11280 Closes ticket 22348.
11282 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
11283 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
11284 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
11285 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
11286 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
11289 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11290 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
11291 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
11292 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11293 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11294 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11295 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11297 o Minor features (geoip):
11298 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11301 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
11302 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
11303 introduction points than specified in
11304 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
11305 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
11306 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
11307 21594; closes ticket 21622.
11308 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
11309 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
11310 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
11311 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
11313 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11314 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
11315 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
11316 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
11317 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
11318 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
11319 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
11320 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
11321 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
11322 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
11324 o Minor features (logging):
11325 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
11326 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
11327 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
11328 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
11331 o Minor features (performance):
11332 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
11333 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
11335 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
11336 speed some controller functions.
11338 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
11339 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
11340 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
11341 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
11343 o Minor features (relay, performance):
11344 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
11345 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
11346 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
11347 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
11348 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
11351 o Minor features (safety):
11352 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
11353 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
11354 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
11357 o Minor features (testing):
11358 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
11360 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
11361 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
11362 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
11363 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
11364 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
11365 on. Closes ticket 21439.
11366 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
11367 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
11368 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
11369 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
11370 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
11371 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
11372 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
11373 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
11374 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
11375 21507. Partially implements 21470.
11377 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
11378 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11379 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11380 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11382 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11383 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
11384 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
11385 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
11388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
11389 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
11390 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11391 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11392 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11393 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11394 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11395 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11398 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11399 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11400 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11402 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11403 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
11404 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
11405 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
11406 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
11407 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11409 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11410 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11411 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11413 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
11414 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
11415 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
11416 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
11417 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
11418 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
11419 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11420 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
11421 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
11422 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
11423 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
11424 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
11425 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
11426 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
11428 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11429 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11430 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11431 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11432 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11433 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
11434 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11435 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
11436 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
11437 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
11438 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
11439 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11441 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11442 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11443 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11445 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
11446 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11447 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11448 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11449 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11450 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11452 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11453 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11454 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11455 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11456 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11457 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11458 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11459 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11460 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11461 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11462 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11463 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11465 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11466 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11467 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11468 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11469 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11470 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11471 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11472 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11474 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11475 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11476 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11477 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
11478 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
11479 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
11481 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11482 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11483 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11486 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
11487 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
11488 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
11489 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
11490 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
11492 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11493 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
11494 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11495 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
11496 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
11497 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11498 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
11499 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11500 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
11501 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
11502 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11504 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11505 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11506 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11507 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11509 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11510 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
11511 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
11512 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
11513 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
11514 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
11515 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
11516 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
11517 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
11518 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
11519 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11520 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
11521 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
11522 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11524 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11525 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11526 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11527 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11528 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11529 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11530 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11532 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11533 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11534 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11535 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11536 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11537 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11538 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11541 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11542 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11543 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11544 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11545 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11546 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11547 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11548 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11549 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11550 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11551 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11552 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11554 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
11555 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
11556 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
11557 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11559 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11560 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11561 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11563 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11564 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11565 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11566 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11568 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11569 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
11570 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
11571 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11573 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11574 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
11575 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11576 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11577 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11578 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11579 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11580 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11581 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11583 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11584 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11585 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11586 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11587 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11588 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11589 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11592 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11593 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11594 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11595 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11596 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11597 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11599 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11600 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11601 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11602 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
11603 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
11604 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11605 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
11606 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11607 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
11608 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
11609 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
11610 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
11611 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11612 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11613 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11614 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11617 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
11618 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11619 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11620 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11621 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11623 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11624 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11625 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11626 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11627 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11628 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11629 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11631 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
11632 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
11633 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11635 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11636 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
11637 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
11638 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
11639 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
11640 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
11641 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
11642 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
11643 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
11644 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
11645 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
11646 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
11648 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
11649 Resolves ticket 22213.
11650 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
11651 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
11652 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
11653 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
11654 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
11655 types. Closes ticket 21651.
11656 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
11657 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
11660 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11662 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11663 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11665 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11666 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11667 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11669 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11671 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
11672 Closes ticket 21873.
11673 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
11674 Closes ticket 21151.
11675 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
11676 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
11678 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
11679 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11680 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
11681 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
11683 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
11684 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
11685 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11686 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
11687 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
11688 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
11689 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
11690 default behavior is now unavailable.
11691 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
11692 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
11693 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
11694 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
11695 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
11696 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
11697 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
11699 o Removed features (tools):
11700 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
11701 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
11702 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
11703 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
11704 required. Closes ticket 21842.
11707 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11708 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11709 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11710 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11712 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11713 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11714 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11715 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11716 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11717 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11718 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11719 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11720 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11722 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11723 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11724 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11725 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11727 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11728 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11729 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11730 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11731 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11733 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11734 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11737 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11738 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11739 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11740 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11742 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11743 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11744 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11745 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11746 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11747 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11748 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11749 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11752 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11753 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11754 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11757 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11758 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11759 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11760 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11761 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11762 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11764 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11765 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11766 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11767 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11769 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11770 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11771 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11773 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11774 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11775 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11778 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11779 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11780 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11781 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11782 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11785 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11788 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11789 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11790 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11791 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11792 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11793 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11795 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11796 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11797 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11798 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11800 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11801 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11802 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11803 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11805 o Minor features (geoip):
11806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11809 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11810 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11811 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11812 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11813 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11815 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11816 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11817 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11818 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11819 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11821 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11822 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11823 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11824 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11825 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11826 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11827 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11828 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11829 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11832 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
11833 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11834 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11835 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11836 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11838 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11839 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11840 bugfixes described below.
11842 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11843 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11844 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11845 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11846 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11847 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11848 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11849 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11852 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11853 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11854 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11855 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11856 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11857 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11858 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11861 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11862 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11863 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11864 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11865 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11866 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11867 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11868 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11869 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11870 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11871 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11872 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11873 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11876 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11877 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
11878 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
11881 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11882 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11883 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11884 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11885 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11887 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11888 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11889 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11891 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11892 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11893 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11895 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11896 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11897 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11898 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11899 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11900 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11901 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11903 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
11905 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11906 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11907 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11910 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
11911 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11912 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11913 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11914 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11915 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11917 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
11918 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11919 bugfixes described below.
11921 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11922 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11923 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11924 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11925 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11928 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11929 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11930 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11931 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11932 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11933 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11934 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11937 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11938 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11939 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11940 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11941 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11943 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11944 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
11945 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11946 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11947 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11948 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11949 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11951 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
11952 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
11953 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
11954 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
11955 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
11957 o Minor features (geoip):
11958 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11961 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
11962 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11963 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11964 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11966 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11967 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11968 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11970 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11971 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11972 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11973 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11974 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11977 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11978 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11979 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11980 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11981 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11983 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11984 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11985 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11986 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11987 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11988 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11990 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11991 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11992 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11993 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11996 o Minor features (geoip):
11997 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12000 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12001 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12002 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12003 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12004 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12006 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12007 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12008 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12010 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
12011 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12012 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12013 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12014 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12015 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12017 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12018 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12019 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12020 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12023 o Minor features (geoip):
12024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12027 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12028 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12029 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12032 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
12033 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12034 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12035 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12036 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12037 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12039 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12040 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12041 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12042 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12045 o Minor features (geoip):
12046 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12049 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12050 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12051 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12053 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
12054 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12055 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12056 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12057 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12058 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12060 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12061 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12062 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12063 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12066 o Minor features (geoip):
12067 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12070 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12071 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12072 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12074 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
12075 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12076 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12077 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12078 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12079 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12081 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12082 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12083 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12084 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12087 o Minor features (geoip):
12088 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12091 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12092 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12093 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12096 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
12097 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
12098 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
12099 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
12100 clients are not affected.
12102 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
12103 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
12104 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
12105 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
12106 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
12107 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12110 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12113 o Minor features (future-proofing):
12114 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
12115 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12116 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12117 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12118 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12119 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12121 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12122 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12123 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12124 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12125 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12129 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
12130 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
12132 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
12133 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
12134 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
12135 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
12136 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
12137 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
12140 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
12141 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
12143 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
12144 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
12145 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
12146 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
12147 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
12149 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
12150 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12152 o Major features (directory authority, security):
12153 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
12154 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
12155 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
12157 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
12158 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
12159 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
12160 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
12161 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
12164 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
12165 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
12166 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
12167 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
12168 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
12169 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
12170 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
12171 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
12174 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
12175 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
12176 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
12177 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
12178 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
12179 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
12180 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
12181 15056; part of proposal 220.
12182 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
12183 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
12184 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
12185 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
12186 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
12187 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
12188 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
12189 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
12190 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
12193 o Major features (security):
12194 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12195 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12196 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12197 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12198 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12199 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12201 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
12202 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12203 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12204 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12205 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12206 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12207 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12208 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12209 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12210 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12211 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12213 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
12214 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12215 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12216 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12218 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12219 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12220 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12221 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12224 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
12225 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12226 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12228 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
12229 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12230 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12231 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12232 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12233 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12234 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12236 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
12237 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12238 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12239 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12240 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12241 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12242 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12243 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
12244 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
12245 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
12246 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
12247 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
12248 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
12249 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
12250 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
12252 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
12253 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
12254 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
12255 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
12256 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12258 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
12259 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12260 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
12261 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
12262 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
12263 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
12264 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12266 o Minor feature (client):
12267 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
12268 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
12270 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
12271 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
12272 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
12273 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
12275 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
12276 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
12277 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
12279 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
12280 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
12281 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
12282 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
12283 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
12285 o Minor features (controller):
12286 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
12287 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
12288 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
12289 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
12292 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
12293 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
12294 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
12295 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
12296 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
12297 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
12298 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
12299 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
12300 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
12301 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
12303 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
12304 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
12305 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
12308 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12309 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12310 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12312 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12313 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12314 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12316 o Minor features (directory authority):
12317 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
12318 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
12319 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
12320 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
12321 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
12323 o Minor features (directory cache):
12324 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
12325 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
12328 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
12329 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
12330 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
12331 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
12333 o Minor features (entry guards):
12334 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
12335 break regression tests.
12336 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
12337 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
12339 o Minor features (fallback directories):
12340 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
12341 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
12342 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
12343 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
12344 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
12345 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
12346 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
12347 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
12348 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
12349 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
12350 Closes ticket 20539.
12351 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
12352 Closes ticket 20822.
12353 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
12355 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
12356 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
12357 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
12358 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
12359 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
12361 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
12362 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
12363 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
12364 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
12365 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
12368 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
12369 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
12370 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
12371 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
12373 o Minor features (geoip):
12374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12377 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
12378 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12381 o Minor features (infrastructure):
12382 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
12383 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
12385 o Minor features (linting):
12386 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
12387 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
12389 o Minor features (logging):
12390 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
12391 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
12393 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
12394 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12395 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12397 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12398 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12400 o Minor features (relay):
12401 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
12402 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
12403 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
12404 Written by Michael Sonntag.
12406 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
12407 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
12408 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
12411 o Minor features (testing):
12412 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
12413 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
12414 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
12416 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
12417 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
12418 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
12419 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
12420 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
12421 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
12422 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12423 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12424 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12426 o Minor bugfix (logging):
12427 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
12428 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
12429 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
12430 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
12433 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
12434 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
12435 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
12436 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
12438 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12439 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
12440 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
12443 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
12444 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
12445 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
12447 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12448 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
12449 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
12450 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12451 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
12452 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
12453 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
12455 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12456 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12457 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12459 o Minor bugfixes (config):
12460 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
12461 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
12462 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
12463 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12465 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12466 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
12467 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12468 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
12469 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
12470 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12472 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
12473 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
12474 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
12475 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
12476 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
12477 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
12478 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
12481 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
12482 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
12483 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
12484 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
12485 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12487 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12488 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12489 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12490 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12492 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
12493 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
12494 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
12495 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
12496 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12498 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
12499 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
12500 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
12501 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
12502 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12504 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12505 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12506 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12507 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12508 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12509 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12510 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
12513 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
12514 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
12515 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
12516 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
12517 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12518 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
12519 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
12520 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
12521 on all recent tor versions.
12523 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12524 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
12525 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
12527 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
12528 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
12529 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12531 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12532 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
12533 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
12534 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
12535 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12536 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
12537 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12538 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
12539 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12541 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12542 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
12543 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
12544 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
12545 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12546 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
12547 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
12548 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12549 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
12550 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
12551 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
12554 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12555 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12556 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12557 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12558 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12559 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12560 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12561 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12562 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
12563 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
12564 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
12567 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12568 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
12569 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12570 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
12571 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
12572 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
12573 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
12574 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
12576 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
12577 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
12578 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
12581 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12582 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
12583 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12585 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12586 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
12587 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
12588 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
12591 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
12592 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12593 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12594 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12596 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12597 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12599 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12600 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12601 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12603 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
12604 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
12605 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
12606 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
12608 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12609 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
12610 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
12611 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
12612 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12613 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
12614 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
12615 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12617 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
12618 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12619 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12620 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12621 Patch by "junglefowl".
12623 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12624 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
12625 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
12626 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
12627 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12629 o Minor bugfixes (util):
12630 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
12631 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
12632 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
12633 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
12635 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
12636 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
12637 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
12640 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
12641 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
12642 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
12643 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
12645 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12646 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
12647 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
12648 Closes ticket 19858.
12649 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
12650 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
12651 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
12652 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
12653 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
12654 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
12655 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
12656 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
12657 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
12658 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
12659 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12660 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
12661 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
12662 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
12663 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
12664 redundant with the similar structures used in the
12665 channel abstraction.
12666 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
12667 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
12668 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
12669 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12670 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
12671 replaced with code automatically generated by the
12674 o Documentation (formatting):
12675 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
12676 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
12678 o Documentation (man page):
12679 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
12680 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
12683 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
12684 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
12686 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
12687 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
12688 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
12690 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
12691 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
12692 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
12693 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12694 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12695 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
12696 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
12697 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12698 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12699 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12701 o Removed features:
12702 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
12703 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
12704 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
12706 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
12707 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
12708 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
12711 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
12712 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
12713 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
12715 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
12716 from "overcaffeinated".
12717 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
12718 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
12721 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12722 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12723 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12724 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12725 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12728 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12729 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12730 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12732 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12733 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12734 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12735 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12736 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12737 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12738 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12740 o Minor features (geoip):
12741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12745 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12746 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12747 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12748 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12751 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12752 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12753 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12755 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12756 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12758 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12759 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12760 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12762 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12763 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12764 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12767 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12768 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12769 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12770 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12771 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12772 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12773 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12774 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12775 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12777 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12778 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12779 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12780 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12781 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12782 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12783 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12784 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12785 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12786 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12787 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12788 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12789 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12791 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12792 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12793 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12794 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12795 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12797 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12798 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12799 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12801 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12802 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12803 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12804 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12805 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12806 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12807 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12810 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12811 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12812 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12813 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12814 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12815 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12816 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12818 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12819 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12820 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12821 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12824 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12825 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12826 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12827 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12829 o Minor features (geoip):
12830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12834 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
12835 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12836 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
12837 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12840 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12841 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12842 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12844 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12845 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12847 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12848 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12849 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12851 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12852 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12853 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12856 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12857 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12858 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12859 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12860 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12861 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12862 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12863 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12864 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12866 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12867 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12868 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12869 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12870 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12871 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12872 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12873 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12874 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12876 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12877 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12878 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12879 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12880 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12882 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12883 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12884 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12885 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12886 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12889 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12890 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12891 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12892 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12893 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12895 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12896 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12897 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12899 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12900 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12901 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12902 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12903 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12904 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12907 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12908 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12909 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12910 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12911 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12912 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12913 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12916 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12917 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12918 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12919 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12920 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12921 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12922 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12924 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12925 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12926 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12927 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12930 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12931 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12932 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12933 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12935 o Minor features (geoip):
12936 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12939 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12940 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12941 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12944 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
12945 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12946 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
12947 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12950 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12951 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
12952 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12954 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12955 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12957 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12958 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12959 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12961 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12962 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12963 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12966 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12967 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12968 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12969 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12970 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12971 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12972 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12973 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12974 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12976 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12977 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12978 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12979 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12980 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12981 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12982 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12983 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12984 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12986 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12987 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12988 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12989 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12990 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12992 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12993 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12994 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12995 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12996 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12999 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13000 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13001 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13002 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13003 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13005 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13006 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13007 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13009 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13010 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13011 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13012 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13013 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13014 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13017 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13018 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13019 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13020 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13021 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13022 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13023 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13026 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13027 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13028 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13029 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13030 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13031 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13032 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13034 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13035 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13036 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13037 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13040 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13041 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13042 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13043 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13045 o Minor features (geoip):
13046 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13049 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13050 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13051 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13053 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
13054 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13055 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13056 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13057 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13058 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13060 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13061 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13062 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13066 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
13067 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13068 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
13069 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13072 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
13073 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13074 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13076 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13077 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13079 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13080 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13081 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13083 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13084 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13085 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13088 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13089 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13090 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13091 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13092 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13093 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13094 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13095 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13096 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13098 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13099 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13100 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13101 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13102 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13103 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13104 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13105 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13106 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13108 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13109 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13110 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13111 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13112 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13115 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13116 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13117 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13118 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13119 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13121 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13122 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13123 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13125 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13126 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13127 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13128 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13129 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13130 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13133 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13134 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13135 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13136 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13137 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13138 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13139 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13142 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13143 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13144 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13145 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13146 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13147 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13148 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13150 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13151 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13152 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13153 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13156 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13157 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13158 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13159 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13161 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13162 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13163 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13164 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13166 o Minor features (geoip):
13167 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13170 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13171 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13172 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13174 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13175 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13176 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13180 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
13181 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
13182 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
13183 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
13185 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
13186 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
13187 least January of 2020.
13189 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13190 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13191 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13192 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13195 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13196 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13197 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13198 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13199 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13200 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13201 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13203 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13204 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13205 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13206 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13207 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13208 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13209 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13211 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13212 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13213 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13215 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13216 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13217 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13219 o Minor features (geoip):
13220 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13223 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13224 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13225 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13227 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13228 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13230 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13231 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13232 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13234 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13235 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13236 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13237 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13238 Patch by "junglefowl".
13241 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
13242 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13243 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13244 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13245 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13246 version should upgrade.
13248 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
13249 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
13251 o Major bugfixes (security):
13252 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13253 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13254 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13255 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13256 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13257 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13259 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13260 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13261 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13262 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13263 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13264 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13265 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13266 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13267 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13268 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13269 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13271 o Minor features (geoip):
13272 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13275 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13276 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13277 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13278 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13280 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13281 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13284 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
13285 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
13286 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13287 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13288 become available for their systems.
13290 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
13293 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
13294 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
13296 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13297 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13298 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13299 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13300 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13301 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13302 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13303 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13304 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13306 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13307 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13308 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13309 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13310 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13312 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
13313 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13317 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
13318 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
13320 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
13321 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
13322 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
13323 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
13324 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
13325 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
13326 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
13327 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
13329 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
13331 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
13332 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13333 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13334 become available for their systems.
13336 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
13337 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13339 o New system requirements:
13340 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
13341 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
13342 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
13343 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
13344 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
13345 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
13346 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
13347 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
13348 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
13349 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
13350 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
13352 o Deprecated features:
13353 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
13354 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
13355 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
13356 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
13357 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
13358 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
13359 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
13360 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
13361 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13362 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
13363 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
13364 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
13365 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
13366 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
13367 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
13368 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
13369 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
13370 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
13371 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
13372 and TransListenAddress.
13374 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13375 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13376 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13377 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13378 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13379 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13380 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13381 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13382 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13384 o Major features (build, hardening):
13385 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
13386 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
13387 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
13388 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
13389 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
13390 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
13391 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
13392 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
13393 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
13395 o Major features (circuit building, security):
13396 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
13397 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
13398 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
13400 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
13401 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
13403 o Major features (compilation):
13404 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
13405 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
13406 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
13407 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
13409 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
13410 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
13411 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
13413 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
13414 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
13415 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
13416 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
13417 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
13418 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
13419 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
13420 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
13422 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
13423 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
13424 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
13425 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
13426 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
13427 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
13428 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
13430 o Major features (resource management):
13431 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
13432 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
13433 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
13434 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
13435 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
13436 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
13438 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
13439 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
13440 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
13441 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
13442 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
13443 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
13444 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
13445 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
13446 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
13447 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
13448 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
13450 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
13451 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
13452 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
13453 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
13454 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
13455 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
13456 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
13457 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
13458 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
13459 part of proposal 264.
13461 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
13462 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
13463 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
13464 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
13466 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13467 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
13468 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
13469 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13470 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13471 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13472 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13473 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13474 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13476 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13477 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13478 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13480 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
13481 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
13482 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
13483 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
13484 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
13485 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
13486 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
13488 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13489 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
13490 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
13491 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
13492 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
13493 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
13494 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
13495 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
13496 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
13497 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13499 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13500 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13501 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13502 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13503 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13504 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13506 o Minor features (port flags):
13507 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
13508 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
13509 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
13510 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
13511 18693; patch by "teor".
13513 o Minor features (build, hardening):
13514 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
13515 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
13516 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
13517 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
13518 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
13519 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
13520 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
13521 Closes ticket 18895.
13523 o Minor features (client, directory):
13524 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
13525 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
13526 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
13529 o Minor features (code safety):
13530 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
13531 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
13532 patch from "U+039b".
13534 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
13535 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
13538 o Minor features (config):
13539 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
13540 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
13542 o Minor features (controller):
13543 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
13544 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
13545 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
13546 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
13547 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
13548 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
13549 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
13550 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
13552 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
13553 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
13554 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
13557 o Minor features (directory authority):
13558 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
13559 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
13560 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
13561 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
13562 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
13563 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
13564 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
13565 Implements ticket 18624.
13566 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
13567 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
13568 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
13571 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13572 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13573 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13574 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13575 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13577 o Minor features (hidden service):
13578 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
13579 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
13580 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
13583 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
13584 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
13585 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
13586 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
13587 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
13588 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
13589 Closes ticket 18365.
13590 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
13591 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
13592 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
13593 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
13595 o Minor features (logging):
13596 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
13597 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
13598 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
13599 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
13600 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13601 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
13602 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
13603 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
13604 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
13605 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
13607 o Minor features (performance):
13608 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
13609 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
13610 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
13611 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
13612 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
13613 Closes ticket 18815.
13615 o Minor features (relay, usability):
13616 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
13617 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
13618 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
13619 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
13622 o Minor features (security, TLS):
13623 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
13624 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
13625 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
13626 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
13628 o Minor features (testing):
13629 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
13630 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
13631 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
13632 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
13633 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
13634 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
13635 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
13636 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
13637 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
13638 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
13640 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
13641 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
13642 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
13643 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
13644 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
13645 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
13646 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
13648 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
13649 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
13650 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
13651 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
13652 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
13653 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
13654 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
13655 assertion as a test failure.
13656 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
13658 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
13659 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
13660 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
13661 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
13662 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
13663 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
13664 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
13665 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
13666 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
13668 o Minor features (Tor2web):
13669 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
13670 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
13671 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
13673 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13674 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
13675 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
13676 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
13677 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
13679 o Minor features (user interface):
13680 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
13681 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
13682 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
13683 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
13686 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13687 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13688 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13689 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13692 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
13693 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
13694 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
13695 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
13696 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
13697 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
13699 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13700 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13701 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13702 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13704 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
13705 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13706 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13707 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13708 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13710 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
13711 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
13712 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
13713 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
13714 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
13716 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13717 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
13718 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
13719 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
13720 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13722 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
13723 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
13724 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13726 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13727 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13728 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13730 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13731 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13732 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13735 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
13736 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
13737 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13739 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13740 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
13741 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
13743 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
13744 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
13745 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13746 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
13747 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
13748 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
13749 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13750 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13752 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13753 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
13754 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
13755 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
13757 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13758 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
13759 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
13760 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13761 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
13762 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
13763 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
13764 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13765 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
13766 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
13768 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
13769 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
13770 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
13771 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13773 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
13774 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
13775 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
13776 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
13779 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
13780 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
13781 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
13782 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
13784 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
13785 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
13788 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13789 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
13790 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
13791 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
13793 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
13794 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
13796 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
13797 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
13798 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13799 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
13800 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
13802 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
13803 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
13804 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13806 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
13807 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
13808 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
13810 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13811 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
13812 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
13813 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
13814 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
13815 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13817 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13818 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13819 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
13821 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
13822 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13823 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
13824 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
13825 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
13826 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
13827 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
13829 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13830 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
13831 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13832 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
13833 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13834 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
13835 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13836 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
13837 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
13838 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13839 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
13840 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
13841 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13842 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
13843 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
13846 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
13847 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
13848 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
13849 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
13850 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
13851 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13853 o Minor bugfixes (options):
13854 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
13855 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
13857 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
13858 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
13859 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13862 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13863 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
13864 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13865 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
13866 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
13867 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13869 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13870 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
13871 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
13872 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
13873 patch from "cypherpunks".
13874 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
13875 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
13876 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
13877 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13878 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
13879 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
13880 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
13881 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
13882 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13883 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
13884 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
13886 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
13887 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
13889 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
13890 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
13891 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13892 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
13893 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
13896 o Minor bugfixes (time):
13897 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
13898 bugfix on all released tor versions.
13899 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
13900 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
13901 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
13902 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13904 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
13905 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
13906 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
13907 19678. Patch by teor.
13909 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
13910 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
13911 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
13912 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
13913 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
13915 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
13916 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13918 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13919 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
13921 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
13922 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13923 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
13924 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
13927 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
13928 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
13929 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
13930 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
13931 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
13932 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
13933 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
13934 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
13935 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
13936 tickets 19287 and 19290.
13937 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
13938 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13939 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
13940 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
13941 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13942 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
13943 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
13944 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
13946 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
13947 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
13948 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
13949 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
13952 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
13953 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
13955 o Removed features:
13956 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
13957 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
13958 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
13959 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
13960 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
13961 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
13962 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
13965 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
13966 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
13967 command-line options to enable them.
13968 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
13969 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
13972 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13973 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13974 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13975 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13978 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13979 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13980 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13981 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13982 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13983 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13986 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13987 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13988 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13991 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13992 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13993 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13994 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13996 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13997 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13998 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13999 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14002 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14003 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
14004 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
14005 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14008 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
14009 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
14010 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
14013 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14014 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
14015 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14017 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14018 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
14019 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14021 o Minor features (geoip):
14022 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14026 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
14027 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
14028 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
14029 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
14030 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
14033 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14034 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14035 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14036 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14037 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14038 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14039 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14040 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14041 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14043 o Minor features (geoip):
14044 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14048 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
14049 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
14050 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
14051 who select public relays as their bridges.
14053 o Major bugfixes (crash):
14054 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14055 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14056 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14057 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14058 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14060 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
14061 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14062 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14063 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14064 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14067 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14068 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
14069 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14071 o Minor features (geoip):
14072 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14076 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
14077 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
14078 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
14079 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14080 encouraged to upgrade.
14082 o Directory authority changes:
14083 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14084 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14086 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
14087 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14088 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14089 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14090 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14091 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14093 o Minor features (geoip):
14094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14097 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14098 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14099 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14102 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14103 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14104 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14105 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14108 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
14110 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14112 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
14113 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
14114 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
14115 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
14116 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
14117 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14119 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
14121 o New system requirements:
14122 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
14123 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
14124 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
14126 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
14127 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
14128 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
14129 longer runs with, these versions.
14130 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
14131 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
14132 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
14133 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
14134 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
14136 o Directory authority changes:
14137 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14138 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14140 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14142 o Major features (directory system):
14143 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
14144 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
14145 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
14146 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
14147 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
14148 gsathya, and karsten.
14149 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
14150 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
14151 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
14152 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
14153 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
14155 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
14156 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
14157 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
14158 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
14159 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
14160 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
14161 mikeperry and teor.
14163 o Major features (security, Linux):
14164 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
14165 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
14166 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
14167 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
14168 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
14170 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
14171 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
14172 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
14173 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
14174 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
14175 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
14176 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
14178 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
14179 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
14182 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
14183 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14184 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14186 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
14187 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
14188 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
14189 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
14190 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
14192 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
14193 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
14194 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
14195 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14196 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
14197 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
14198 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
14199 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
14200 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
14201 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14203 o Major bugfixes (key management):
14204 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14205 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14206 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14207 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14208 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14209 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14212 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
14213 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14214 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14215 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14216 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14218 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
14219 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
14220 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
14221 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
14222 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
14223 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
14224 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
14225 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
14226 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14228 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
14229 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14230 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14231 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14232 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14234 o Major bugfixes (testing):
14235 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
14236 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14238 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
14239 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
14240 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
14241 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14243 o Minor features (accounting):
14244 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
14245 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
14246 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
14247 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
14249 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
14250 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14251 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14252 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14253 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
14254 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
14255 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
14258 o Minor features (build):
14259 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
14260 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
14261 Steven Chamberlain.
14262 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
14263 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
14264 patch from "cypherpunks".
14265 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14266 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
14267 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
14268 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
14269 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
14270 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
14271 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14272 Patch from intrigeri.
14274 o Minor features (clients):
14275 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
14276 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
14277 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
14279 o Minor features (controller):
14280 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
14281 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
14282 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
14284 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
14285 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
14286 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
14287 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
14288 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
14290 o Minor features (crypto):
14291 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
14292 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
14294 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
14295 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
14296 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14297 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
14298 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
14300 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
14301 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
14302 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
14303 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
14305 o Minor features (directory downloads):
14306 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
14307 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
14308 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
14309 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
14310 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
14311 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
14312 17864; patch by teor.
14314 o Minor features (geoip):
14315 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14318 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
14319 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
14320 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
14321 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
14322 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
14324 o Minor features (IPv6):
14325 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
14326 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
14327 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
14328 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
14329 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
14330 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
14331 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
14332 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
14333 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
14334 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
14335 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
14336 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
14338 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
14339 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
14340 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
14341 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
14342 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
14343 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
14344 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
14345 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
14346 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
14347 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14349 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14350 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
14351 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
14352 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
14353 while fixing 18548.
14355 o Minor features (logging):
14356 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
14357 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
14358 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
14359 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
14362 o Minor features (portability):
14363 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
14364 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
14366 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
14367 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
14368 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
14369 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
14370 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
14372 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
14373 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
14374 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
14375 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
14376 Resolves ticket 17951.
14378 o Minor features (replay cache):
14379 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
14380 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
14382 o Minor features (robustness):
14383 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
14384 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
14385 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
14387 o Minor features (security, clock):
14388 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
14389 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
14390 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
14391 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
14393 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
14394 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
14395 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
14396 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
14397 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
14398 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
14400 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
14401 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14402 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14403 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14405 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
14406 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
14407 Implements ticket 17026.
14408 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
14409 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
14410 Implements feature 17986.
14411 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
14412 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
14413 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
14415 o Minor features (security, RNG):
14416 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
14417 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
14418 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
14419 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
14420 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
14421 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
14422 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
14423 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
14424 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
14425 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
14428 o Minor features (security, win32):
14429 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
14430 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
14433 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14434 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
14435 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
14436 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
14437 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
14438 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
14439 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
14442 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
14443 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
14444 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
14445 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
14446 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14447 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
14448 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
14449 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
14450 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
14451 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
14452 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14453 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
14454 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
14455 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14457 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
14458 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
14459 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
14460 from "unixninja92".
14462 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
14463 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
14464 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
14467 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14468 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
14469 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14471 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14472 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
14473 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
14474 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14475 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
14476 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
14478 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
14479 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
14481 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
14482 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
14483 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14484 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
14485 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
14487 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
14488 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14489 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
14490 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
14491 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14492 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
14494 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
14495 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
14496 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
14497 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
14498 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14499 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
14500 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
14501 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14502 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
14503 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14504 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
14506 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
14507 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
14510 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
14511 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
14512 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
14513 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
14514 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14516 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14517 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
14518 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
14519 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
14520 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
14521 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14522 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
14523 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
14525 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
14527 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
14528 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
14529 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
14531 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
14532 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
14533 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14535 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14536 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
14537 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14539 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
14540 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
14541 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
14542 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14544 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
14545 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
14546 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
14547 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
14548 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14550 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
14551 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
14552 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
14554 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
14555 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
14556 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
14557 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
14558 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
14559 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14560 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
14561 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
14562 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
14564 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
14565 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
14566 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
14567 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
14570 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
14571 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
14572 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
14573 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
14574 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14576 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14577 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
14578 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
14579 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
14580 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
14581 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
14582 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
14583 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
14585 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
14586 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
14587 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
14588 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
14589 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
14590 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
14591 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
14592 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
14593 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
14596 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
14597 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
14598 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
14599 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14601 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
14602 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
14603 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
14605 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14606 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
14607 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14609 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14610 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14611 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14612 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14613 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14614 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14615 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14616 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14617 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
14618 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
14619 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14620 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
14621 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
14622 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14623 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
14624 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14625 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14626 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14627 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14629 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14630 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
14631 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
14632 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
14633 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
14635 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
14636 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14637 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
14638 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
14639 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
14640 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
14641 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14642 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
14643 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
14644 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14645 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
14646 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
14649 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
14650 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
14651 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
14652 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
14654 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
14655 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14656 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
14659 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14660 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
14661 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
14662 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14664 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
14665 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
14666 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
14667 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
14668 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
14669 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
14672 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
14673 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
14674 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
14675 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
14677 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14678 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
14679 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
14680 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
14681 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
14682 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
14683 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
14684 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
14685 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14687 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
14688 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
14689 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
14690 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
14691 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
14693 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
14694 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
14695 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
14696 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
14698 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14699 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
14700 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
14701 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14702 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
14703 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
14704 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
14705 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
14707 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
14708 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14710 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
14711 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
14712 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
14715 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14716 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
14717 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
14718 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
14720 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
14721 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
14722 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14723 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
14724 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
14725 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14726 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
14727 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
14728 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
14729 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
14730 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14731 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
14732 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
14733 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
14734 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
14735 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14737 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
14738 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
14739 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
14740 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14741 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
14742 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
14743 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
14745 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
14746 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
14747 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
14748 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
14750 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14751 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
14752 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
14754 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
14755 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
14756 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
14757 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
14759 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
14760 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
14761 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
14762 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
14763 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
14764 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
14765 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
14766 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
14767 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
14768 17744. Patch from zerosion.
14769 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
14770 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
14771 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
14772 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
14773 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
14774 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
14775 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
14776 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
14777 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
14778 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
14779 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
14780 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
14784 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
14785 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
14786 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
14787 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
14788 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
14789 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
14790 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
14791 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
14792 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
14793 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
14794 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
14795 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
14797 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
14798 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
14800 o Removed features:
14801 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
14802 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
14803 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
14804 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
14805 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
14806 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
14807 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
14808 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
14811 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
14812 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
14813 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
14814 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
14815 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
14816 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
14817 portion of ticket 16831.
14818 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
14820 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
14821 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
14822 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
14823 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
14824 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
14826 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
14827 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
14828 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
14829 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
14832 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
14833 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
14834 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
14836 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
14837 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14838 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14839 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14840 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14841 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14844 o Minor features (geoip):
14845 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14849 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
14850 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
14851 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
14852 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14853 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14855 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14856 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
14857 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
14858 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
14859 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
14860 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
14861 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
14862 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14863 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
14864 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14867 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
14868 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
14869 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
14870 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
14871 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
14872 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
14873 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
14874 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
14875 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
14876 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
14877 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
14878 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
14879 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
14880 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
14881 that would make him proud.
14883 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
14885 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
14886 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
14887 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
14888 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
14889 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
14890 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
14891 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
14893 o New system requirements:
14894 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
14895 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
14897 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
14898 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
14899 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
14900 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
14901 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
14902 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
14903 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
14904 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
14905 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
14906 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
14907 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
14908 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
14909 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
14911 o Major features (controller):
14912 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
14913 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
14915 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
14916 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
14917 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
14918 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
14919 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
14920 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
14921 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
14923 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
14924 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
14925 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
14926 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
14927 key). Closes ticket 13642.
14928 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
14929 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
14930 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
14931 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
14932 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
14933 Implements part of ticket 12498.
14934 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
14935 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
14936 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
14937 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
14938 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
14939 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
14940 part of ticket 12498.
14941 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
14942 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
14944 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
14945 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
14946 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
14947 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
14948 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
14949 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
14950 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
14951 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
14952 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
14955 o Major features (ECC performance):
14956 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
14957 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
14959 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
14960 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
14961 available. Implements ticket 16535.
14962 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
14963 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
14964 Implements ticket 16467.
14965 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
14966 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
14967 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
14968 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
14970 o Major features (Hidden services):
14971 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
14972 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
14973 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
14974 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
14975 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
14976 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
14977 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
14978 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
14979 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
14980 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
14981 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
14982 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
14984 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
14985 introduction points, which used to change the number of
14986 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
14987 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
14989 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
14990 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
14991 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
14992 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
14993 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
14994 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
14996 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
14997 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
14998 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
14999 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
15000 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
15001 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
15003 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15004 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15005 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15006 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15007 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15008 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15009 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15010 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15013 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15014 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15015 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15016 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15018 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
15019 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
15020 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
15021 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
15022 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
15023 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
15026 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
15027 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
15028 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15030 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
15031 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
15032 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
15033 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
15034 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
15035 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15037 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
15038 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15039 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15040 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15041 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15044 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15045 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15046 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15047 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15048 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15049 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15050 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15051 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15054 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
15055 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
15056 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
15057 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
15059 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
15060 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
15061 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
15062 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15063 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
15064 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
15065 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
15068 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
15069 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
15070 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
15071 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
15072 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
15073 own. Implements feature 15482.
15074 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
15075 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
15077 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
15078 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
15079 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
15080 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
15081 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
15083 o Minor features (command-line interface):
15084 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
15085 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15086 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
15087 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
15089 o Minor features (compilation):
15090 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
15091 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
15092 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
15093 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
15094 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
15096 o Minor features (control protocol):
15097 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
15098 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
15100 o Minor features (controller):
15101 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
15102 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
15103 present. Implements ticket 14840.
15104 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
15105 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
15106 Closes ticket 14845.
15107 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
15108 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
15109 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
15111 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15112 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
15113 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
15114 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
15115 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
15116 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
15118 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
15119 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15120 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15121 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15122 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
15123 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
15124 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15126 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
15127 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15128 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15129 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15131 o Minor features (geoip):
15132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15135 o Minor features (hidden services):
15136 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
15137 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
15138 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
15139 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
15141 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
15142 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
15143 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
15145 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
15146 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
15147 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
15148 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
15149 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
15150 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
15151 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
15152 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
15154 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
15155 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
15156 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
15157 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
15158 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
15159 Closes ticket 15745.
15161 o Minor features (logging):
15162 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
15163 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
15166 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
15167 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
15168 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
15169 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
15171 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
15172 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
15173 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
15174 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
15175 Resolves ticket 15435.
15177 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
15178 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
15179 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
15180 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15181 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
15182 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
15183 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
15184 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15185 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
15186 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
15187 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
15188 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
15189 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
15190 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
15191 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
15192 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
15193 Related to ticket 16069.
15195 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
15196 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
15197 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
15199 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
15200 stderr, not stdout.
15201 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
15202 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
15203 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
15206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15207 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15208 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15209 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
15210 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
15212 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
15213 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15214 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15215 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15217 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
15218 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
15219 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
15220 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
15221 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
15222 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
15223 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
15224 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15226 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15227 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
15228 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
15229 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15231 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15232 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
15233 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
15235 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
15236 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
15237 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
15239 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
15240 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
15241 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
15242 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15244 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
15245 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15246 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15247 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15248 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15249 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15251 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15252 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15253 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15255 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
15256 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15258 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15259 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
15260 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15261 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
15262 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15263 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
15264 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
15265 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
15267 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
15268 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15269 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15270 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15272 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
15273 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15274 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15276 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
15277 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
15278 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
15281 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15282 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
15283 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
15284 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
15285 recent enough Clang.
15287 o Minor bugfixes (network):
15288 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
15289 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
15290 unsuitable for public communications.
15292 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
15293 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
15294 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
15295 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
15297 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15298 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
15299 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15300 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
15301 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
15303 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
15304 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
15306 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15307 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
15308 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
15309 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
15310 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
15312 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
15313 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15314 from "cypherpunks".
15315 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
15316 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
15319 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
15320 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
15321 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
15322 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
15323 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
15325 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15326 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
15327 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
15328 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
15329 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
15330 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
15332 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
15333 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
15334 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
15335 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15337 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
15338 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
15339 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
15340 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
15341 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
15342 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
15343 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
15344 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
15346 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
15347 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15348 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15350 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15351 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
15352 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
15353 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
15354 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
15355 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
15356 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
15357 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
15358 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
15359 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
15360 function. Closes ticket 16763.
15361 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
15362 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
15364 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
15365 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
15366 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
15367 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
15368 haven't supported that in ages.
15369 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
15370 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
15371 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
15372 suite of other microdesc functions.
15373 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
15374 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
15375 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
15376 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
15377 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
15378 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
15379 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
15380 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
15381 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
15382 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
15383 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
15384 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
15385 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
15386 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
15387 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
15388 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
15390 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
15391 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
15395 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
15396 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
15397 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
15399 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
15400 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15401 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
15402 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
15403 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
15404 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
15405 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
15406 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
15407 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
15408 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
15410 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
15412 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
15413 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
15414 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
15415 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
15416 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
15417 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
15418 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
15419 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
15420 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
15421 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
15422 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
15423 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
15424 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
15426 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
15427 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15430 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
15431 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
15432 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
15433 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
15434 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
15435 Closes ticket 14922.
15436 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
15437 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
15438 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
15439 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
15440 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
15441 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
15442 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
15443 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
15444 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
15445 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
15446 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
15447 Closes ticket 13338.
15449 o Removed features:
15450 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
15451 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
15452 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
15453 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
15454 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
15455 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
15456 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
15457 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
15458 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
15459 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
15460 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
15461 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
15462 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
15463 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
15464 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
15467 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
15468 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
15469 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
15470 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
15471 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
15472 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
15473 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
15474 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
15475 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
15476 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
15477 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
15479 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
15480 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
15481 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
15482 Closes ticket 15817.
15483 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
15484 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
15485 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
15486 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
15487 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
15488 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
15489 network before we begin.
15490 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
15491 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
15492 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
15493 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
15494 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
15495 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
15497 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
15498 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
15500 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
15501 default as a part of "make check".
15502 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
15503 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
15504 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
15505 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
15506 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
15507 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
15508 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
15509 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
15510 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
15511 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
15512 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
15513 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
15514 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
15515 files. Closes ticket 15180.
15516 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
15517 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
15518 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
15519 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
15520 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
15521 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
15522 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
15523 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
15524 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
15525 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
15526 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
15527 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
15528 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
15529 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
15530 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
15531 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
15532 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
15534 - Set the severity correctly when testing
15535 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
15536 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
15537 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
15538 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
15540 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
15541 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
15542 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
15543 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
15544 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
15545 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
15547 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
15548 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15549 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15550 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15551 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15552 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15553 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15554 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15557 o Major bugfixes (stability):
15558 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15559 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15560 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15561 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15562 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15563 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15564 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15567 o Minor features (geoip):
15568 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15569 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15571 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
15572 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15573 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15574 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15575 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15576 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15578 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15579 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15580 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15581 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15584 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
15585 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
15586 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
15587 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
15588 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
15590 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
15591 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15592 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
15593 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
15594 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15597 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
15598 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15599 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15600 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15601 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
15602 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
15603 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15605 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15606 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15607 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15608 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15610 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15611 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
15612 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
15613 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
15614 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15615 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15618 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15619 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15620 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15623 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
15624 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
15625 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
15626 authorities should upgrade.
15628 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15629 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15630 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15631 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15634 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15635 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15636 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15639 o Minor features (geoip):
15640 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15641 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15645 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
15646 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
15647 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
15648 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
15649 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15651 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
15652 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15654 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15655 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15656 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15657 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15658 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15659 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15660 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15662 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15663 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15664 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15665 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15666 Resolves ticket 15515.
15667 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
15668 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
15669 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
15673 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
15674 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15675 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15676 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15677 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15679 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15680 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15682 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15683 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15684 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15685 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15686 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15687 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15688 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15690 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15691 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15692 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15693 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15694 Resolves ticket 15515.
15697 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
15698 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15699 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15700 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15701 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15703 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15704 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15706 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15707 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15708 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15709 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15710 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15711 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15712 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15714 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15715 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15716 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15717 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15718 Resolves ticket 15515.
15721 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
15722 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
15724 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
15725 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
15726 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
15727 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
15728 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
15729 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
15730 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
15731 bugs should be addressed.
15733 o New compiler and system requirements:
15734 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
15735 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
15736 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
15737 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
15739 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
15740 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
15741 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
15742 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
15743 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
15744 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
15745 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
15746 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
15747 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
15749 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
15750 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
15751 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
15752 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
15753 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
15754 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
15755 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
15757 o Directory authority changes:
15758 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15759 closes ticket 14487.
15760 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15761 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15762 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15764 o Major features (bridges):
15765 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
15766 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
15767 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
15770 o Major features (changed defaults):
15771 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
15772 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
15773 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
15774 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
15775 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
15776 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
15778 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
15779 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
15780 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
15781 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
15784 o Major features (directory system):
15785 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
15786 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
15787 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
15788 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
15789 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
15790 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
15791 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
15792 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
15793 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
15794 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
15795 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
15796 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
15797 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
15798 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
15799 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
15800 227. Closes ticket 10395.
15802 o Major features (guards):
15803 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
15804 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
15805 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
15806 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
15807 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
15809 o Major features (hidden services):
15810 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
15811 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
15812 Closes ticket 13667.
15813 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
15814 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
15815 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
15816 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
15817 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
15818 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
15819 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
15820 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
15821 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
15822 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
15823 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
15825 o Major features (performance):
15826 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
15827 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
15828 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
15829 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
15830 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
15831 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
15832 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
15833 Implements ticket 9682.
15835 o Major features (relay):
15836 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
15837 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
15838 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
15839 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
15840 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
15841 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
15842 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
15843 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
15845 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
15846 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
15847 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
15848 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
15849 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
15850 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
15851 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
15854 o Major features (sample torrc):
15855 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
15856 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
15857 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
15858 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
15859 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
15860 generally useful "sample torrc".
15862 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
15863 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
15864 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
15865 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
15866 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
15867 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
15869 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
15870 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
15871 Implements ticket 11485.
15873 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
15874 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
15875 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
15876 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
15877 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
15878 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
15881 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
15882 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
15883 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
15886 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15887 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
15888 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15890 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
15891 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
15892 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
15893 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
15894 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15896 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
15897 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15898 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15899 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15901 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
15902 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
15903 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
15906 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15907 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
15908 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
15909 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
15910 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
15911 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
15913 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15914 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
15915 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
15916 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
15918 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
15919 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
15920 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
15921 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
15922 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
15923 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
15924 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
15926 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15927 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
15928 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
15929 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
15930 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
15931 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15933 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
15934 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15935 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
15936 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15937 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15938 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15939 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15940 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15942 o Minor features (build):
15943 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
15944 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
15945 Resolves ticket 13037.
15947 o Minor features (client):
15948 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
15949 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
15950 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
15951 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
15953 o Minor features (client):
15954 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
15955 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
15956 Resolves ticket 13315.
15958 o Minor features (controller):
15959 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
15960 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
15962 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
15963 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
15965 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
15966 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
15967 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
15968 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
15969 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
15970 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
15971 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
15972 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
15973 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
15975 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
15976 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
15977 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
15978 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
15979 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
15980 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
15981 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
15982 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
15983 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
15984 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
15986 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15987 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
15988 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
15989 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
15990 argument more than once.
15991 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
15992 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
15993 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
15994 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
15995 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
15996 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
15998 o Minor features (geoip):
15999 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16000 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16003 o Minor features (guard nodes):
16004 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
16005 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
16006 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
16008 o Minor features (heartbeat):
16009 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
16010 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
16011 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
16012 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
16014 o Minor features (hidden service):
16015 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
16016 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
16017 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
16018 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
16019 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
16020 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
16021 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
16022 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
16023 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
16024 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
16025 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
16026 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
16027 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
16028 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
16030 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
16031 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
16032 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
16034 o Minor features (interface):
16035 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
16036 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
16037 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
16039 o Minor features (logging):
16040 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
16041 Resolves ticket 6852.
16042 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
16043 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
16044 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
16046 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
16047 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
16048 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
16049 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
16050 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
16051 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
16052 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
16053 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
16054 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
16055 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
16056 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
16057 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
16060 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
16061 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
16062 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
16063 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
16065 o Minor features (relay):
16066 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
16067 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
16068 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
16070 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
16071 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
16072 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
16073 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
16074 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
16075 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
16076 document. Implements feature 10427.
16078 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
16079 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
16080 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
16081 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
16083 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
16084 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
16085 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
16086 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
16087 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
16088 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
16090 o Minor features (stability):
16091 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
16092 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
16095 o Minor features (systemd):
16096 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
16097 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
16098 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
16099 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
16100 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
16101 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
16103 o Minor features (testing networks):
16104 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
16105 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
16106 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
16107 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
16108 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
16110 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
16111 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
16112 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
16113 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
16114 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
16115 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
16117 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
16118 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
16119 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
16120 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
16121 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
16123 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
16124 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
16125 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
16126 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
16127 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
16129 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
16130 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
16131 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
16132 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
16133 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
16136 o Minor features (validation):
16137 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
16138 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
16139 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
16140 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
16141 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
16142 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
16143 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
16144 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
16145 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
16146 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
16147 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
16150 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
16151 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
16152 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
16153 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16155 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16156 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
16157 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
16158 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16160 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
16161 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
16162 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
16164 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
16165 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
16166 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
16168 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
16169 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16170 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
16171 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
16172 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16173 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
16174 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16176 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
16177 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
16178 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
16179 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16180 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
16181 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
16182 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
16183 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
16184 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
16186 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16187 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
16188 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
16189 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
16190 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
16191 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16192 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
16193 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
16194 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
16196 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16197 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16198 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16199 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16200 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16201 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16202 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
16203 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
16205 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
16206 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
16207 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
16210 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
16211 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
16212 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
16213 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
16214 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16216 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
16217 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
16218 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
16219 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16220 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
16221 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
16222 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
16223 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16225 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
16226 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
16227 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
16228 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
16229 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16231 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
16232 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
16233 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
16234 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
16235 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
16237 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
16238 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
16239 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16241 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
16242 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
16243 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
16244 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
16245 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
16247 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
16248 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
16249 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
16251 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16252 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
16254 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
16255 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
16256 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
16257 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
16259 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
16260 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
16262 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
16263 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
16264 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
16265 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
16266 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
16267 Addresses ticket 14188.
16268 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16269 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16270 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16271 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
16272 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
16273 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
16274 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
16275 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16276 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
16277 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
16278 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
16281 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16282 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
16283 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
16284 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
16285 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
16286 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16288 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16289 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
16290 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
16291 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
16292 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
16294 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16295 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16296 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16297 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16298 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16299 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
16300 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
16301 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16302 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
16303 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16304 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16305 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16306 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16307 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
16308 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
16309 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16311 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
16312 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
16313 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
16314 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16315 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
16316 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
16317 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
16318 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
16321 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
16322 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
16323 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
16324 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
16325 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
16326 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
16327 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
16328 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
16329 state, and key files.
16330 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
16331 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
16334 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16335 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
16336 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
16337 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
16338 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16339 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
16340 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
16341 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16342 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
16343 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
16344 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
16345 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
16346 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16347 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
16348 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
16349 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
16350 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
16351 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
16354 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16355 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
16356 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
16357 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
16358 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
16359 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
16360 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
16361 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
16362 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
16363 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16365 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16366 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
16367 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16368 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
16369 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
16370 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
16372 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
16373 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16375 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
16376 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
16377 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
16378 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
16379 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16381 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
16382 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
16383 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
16384 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
16385 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
16386 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16388 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16389 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
16390 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
16392 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
16393 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
16394 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16396 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16397 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16398 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16399 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16400 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16402 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
16403 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
16404 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
16407 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16408 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
16409 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
16410 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
16411 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
16414 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
16415 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
16416 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
16417 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
16420 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
16421 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
16422 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
16425 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16426 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16427 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16429 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
16430 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
16431 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
16432 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
16433 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
16436 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
16437 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
16438 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16439 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
16440 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
16441 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
16443 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
16444 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
16445 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
16446 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
16447 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
16448 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
16450 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
16451 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
16452 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
16453 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
16454 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16455 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
16456 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
16457 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
16458 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
16459 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
16460 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
16461 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
16462 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
16463 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
16464 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
16465 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
16466 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
16467 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
16468 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
16469 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16470 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
16471 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
16472 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
16473 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
16474 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
16475 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
16476 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
16477 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16478 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
16479 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
16480 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
16481 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
16483 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
16484 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
16485 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
16486 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
16487 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16489 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16490 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
16491 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
16492 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
16493 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
16494 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16495 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
16496 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
16497 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16499 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
16500 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
16501 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
16503 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
16504 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
16505 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
16508 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
16509 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
16510 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
16511 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
16514 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
16515 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
16516 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16518 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16519 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
16520 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
16522 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
16523 Resolves ticket 12205.
16524 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
16525 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
16526 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
16527 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
16529 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
16530 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
16531 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
16533 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
16534 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
16536 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
16537 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
16538 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
16539 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
16540 or_options_t structure.
16541 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
16542 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
16543 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
16544 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
16545 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
16546 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
16547 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
16548 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
16550 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
16551 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
16553 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
16555 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
16556 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
16557 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
16558 with a function instead.
16559 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
16560 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
16561 Closes ticket 13172.
16562 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
16563 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
16564 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
16565 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
16566 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
16567 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
16568 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
16569 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
16570 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
16571 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
16572 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
16573 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
16577 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
16578 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
16579 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
16580 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
16582 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
16583 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
16584 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
16585 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16586 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
16587 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16588 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
16589 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
16590 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
16591 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
16592 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
16593 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
16594 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
16595 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
16596 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
16597 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
16598 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
16599 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
16601 o Distribution (systemd):
16602 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
16603 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
16604 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
16605 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
16606 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
16608 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
16609 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
16611 o Downgraded warnings:
16612 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
16613 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
16616 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
16617 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
16618 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
16621 o Removed features (directory authorities):
16622 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
16623 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
16624 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
16625 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
16626 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
16627 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
16628 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
16629 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
16630 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
16632 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
16633 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
16634 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
16635 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
16638 o Removed features:
16639 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
16640 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
16641 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
16642 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
16643 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
16645 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
16646 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
16647 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
16648 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
16649 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
16650 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
16651 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
16652 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
16653 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
16655 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
16656 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
16658 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
16659 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
16660 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
16661 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
16662 anymore, and ignore it.
16664 o Removed platform support:
16665 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
16666 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
16667 Closes ticket 11446.
16669 o Testing (test-network.sh):
16670 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
16671 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
16673 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
16675 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
16676 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
16677 Partially implements ticket 13161.
16680 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
16681 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
16682 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
16683 (existing behavior).
16684 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
16685 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
16686 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
16687 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
16688 Closes ticket 14107.
16689 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
16690 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16691 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
16692 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
16694 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
16695 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
16696 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
16697 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
16698 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
16699 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
16701 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
16703 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
16704 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
16705 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
16706 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16707 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
16708 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
16709 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
16710 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
16711 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
16712 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
16713 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
16714 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
16716 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
16717 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
16718 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
16720 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16721 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16723 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16724 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16725 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16727 o Directory authority changes:
16728 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16729 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16730 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16731 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16732 closes ticket 14487.
16734 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16735 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16736 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16739 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16740 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16741 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16742 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16743 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16744 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16745 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16746 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16748 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16749 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16750 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16751 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16753 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16754 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16755 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16756 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16758 o Minor features (controller):
16759 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16760 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16761 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16763 o Minor features (geoip):
16764 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16765 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16768 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16769 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16770 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16771 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16772 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16773 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16776 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16777 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16778 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16780 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16781 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16782 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16783 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16784 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16785 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16786 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16787 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16789 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16790 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16791 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16793 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16794 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16795 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16796 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16797 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16801 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
16802 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
16803 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
16806 o Directory authority changes:
16807 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16808 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16809 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16810 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16811 closes ticket 14487.
16813 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
16814 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16815 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16816 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16818 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
16819 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16820 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16821 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16822 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16823 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16824 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16825 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16827 o Minor features (geoip):
16828 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16829 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16832 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
16833 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16835 It adds several new security features, including improved
16836 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
16837 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
16838 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
16839 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
16840 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
16841 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
16842 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
16843 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
16844 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
16845 and features mentioned below.
16847 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
16848 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
16850 o Major features (security):
16851 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
16852 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
16853 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
16854 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
16855 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
16856 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
16857 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
16858 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
16859 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
16860 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
16862 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
16863 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
16864 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
16865 streams attached to each circuit.
16867 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
16868 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
16869 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
16870 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
16871 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
16872 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
16873 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
16874 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
16875 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
16876 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
16877 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
16878 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
16879 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
16881 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
16882 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
16883 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
16884 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
16886 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
16887 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
16888 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
16889 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
16890 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
16891 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
16893 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
16894 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
16895 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
16896 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
16897 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
16898 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
16899 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
16900 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
16903 o Major features (controller):
16904 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
16905 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
16906 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
16907 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
16908 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
16909 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
16911 o Major features (relay performance):
16912 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
16913 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
16914 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
16915 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
16916 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
16917 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
16918 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
16919 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
16920 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
16921 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
16923 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
16924 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
16925 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
16926 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
16927 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
16928 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
16929 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
16930 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
16931 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
16932 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
16934 o Major features (testing networks):
16935 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
16936 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
16937 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
16938 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
16939 Implements ticket 8530.
16941 o Major features (other):
16942 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
16943 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
16944 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
16945 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
16946 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
16947 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
16949 o Deprecated versions:
16950 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
16951 attention for some while.
16953 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
16954 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
16955 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
16957 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
16958 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
16959 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
16960 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
16961 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
16962 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
16963 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
16964 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
16965 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
16966 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
16967 router's identity is not forgeable.
16969 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
16970 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
16971 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
16972 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
16974 o Major bugfixes (client):
16975 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
16976 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
16977 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
16978 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
16979 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
16980 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
16981 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
16982 to build circuits".
16984 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
16985 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
16986 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
16987 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
16990 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
16991 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
16992 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
16993 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
16994 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
16995 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
16996 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16998 o Major bugfixes (relay):
16999 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
17000 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17001 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17002 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
17003 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
17004 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
17005 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17006 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
17007 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
17008 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
17009 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
17010 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
17011 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
17012 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
17013 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
17014 bugfix on every version of Tor.
17016 o Minor features (security):
17017 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
17018 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
17019 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
17020 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
17022 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
17023 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
17024 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
17025 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
17026 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
17027 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
17028 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
17030 o Minor features (security, memory management):
17031 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
17032 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
17033 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
17034 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
17035 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
17036 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
17038 o Minor features (bridge client):
17039 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
17040 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
17041 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
17043 o Minor features (bridge):
17044 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
17045 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
17047 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
17048 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
17049 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
17050 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
17051 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
17052 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
17053 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
17054 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
17055 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
17056 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
17057 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
17058 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
17059 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
17060 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
17061 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
17063 o Minor features (build):
17064 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
17065 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
17066 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
17067 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
17068 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
17069 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
17070 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
17071 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
17072 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
17073 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
17074 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
17075 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
17076 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
17077 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
17078 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
17081 o Minor features (client):
17082 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
17083 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
17084 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
17085 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
17087 o Minor features (config options and command line):
17088 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
17089 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
17090 Implements ticket 10060.
17091 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
17092 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
17093 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
17095 o Minor features (config options):
17096 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
17097 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
17098 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
17099 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
17100 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
17101 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
17102 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
17103 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
17104 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
17105 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
17106 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
17107 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
17108 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
17109 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
17110 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
17111 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
17112 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
17115 o Minor features (controller):
17116 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
17117 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
17119 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
17120 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
17121 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
17122 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
17123 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
17124 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
17125 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
17126 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
17128 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
17129 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
17130 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
17132 o Minor features (diagnostic):
17133 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
17134 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
17135 help diagnose bug 7164.
17136 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
17137 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
17138 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
17139 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
17140 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
17142 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
17143 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
17144 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
17145 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
17146 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
17147 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
17148 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
17149 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
17150 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
17151 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
17152 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
17153 still referenced by a live node_t object.
17154 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
17155 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
17156 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17158 o Minor features (geoip):
17159 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17162 o Minor features (interface):
17163 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
17164 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
17165 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
17166 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
17168 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
17169 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
17170 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
17172 o Minor features (log messages):
17173 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
17174 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
17175 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
17176 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
17177 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
17178 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
17179 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
17180 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
17182 o Minor features (log verbosity):
17183 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
17184 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
17185 Resolves ticket 5286.
17186 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
17187 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
17188 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
17189 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
17190 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
17191 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
17193 o Minor features (performance):
17194 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
17195 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
17196 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
17197 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
17198 Closes ticket 8109.
17200 o Minor features (relay):
17201 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
17202 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
17203 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
17205 o Minor features (testing):
17206 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
17207 the unit test scripts.
17208 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
17209 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
17210 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
17211 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
17213 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
17214 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
17215 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
17216 10267; patch from "yurivict".
17217 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
17218 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
17219 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
17220 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
17221 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
17222 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
17224 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
17225 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
17226 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
17227 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17229 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17230 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
17231 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
17232 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17233 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
17234 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
17235 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
17236 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
17237 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
17238 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
17240 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
17241 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
17242 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
17244 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
17245 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
17246 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
17247 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
17248 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17250 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17251 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
17252 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
17253 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
17254 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17255 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
17256 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
17257 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
17258 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17259 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
17260 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
17261 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
17263 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
17264 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
17265 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
17266 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
17267 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
17268 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17269 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
17270 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
17271 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17272 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
17273 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
17274 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17276 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
17277 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
17278 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
17279 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
17281 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
17282 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
17283 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
17284 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
17287 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
17288 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
17289 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
17290 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17291 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
17292 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
17295 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
17296 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
17297 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
17298 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
17299 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
17301 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
17302 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
17303 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
17306 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17307 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
17308 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
17309 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
17310 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
17311 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
17312 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
17313 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
17314 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
17315 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
17317 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
17318 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
17319 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
17320 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
17321 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
17323 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
17324 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17326 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17327 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
17328 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
17329 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
17330 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
17331 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
17332 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
17333 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
17334 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
17335 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17336 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
17337 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
17338 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
17340 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
17341 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
17342 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
17343 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
17344 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
17345 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
17346 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
17347 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
17348 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
17349 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
17350 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
17351 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
17352 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
17354 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
17355 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
17356 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
17358 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
17359 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
17360 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
17361 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
17362 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
17363 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
17365 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
17366 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
17367 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
17368 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17369 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
17370 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
17371 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
17372 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
17373 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
17374 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17376 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17377 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
17378 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17380 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
17381 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
17382 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
17383 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
17384 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17386 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17387 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
17388 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
17389 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17390 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
17391 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
17392 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
17393 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17394 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
17395 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
17396 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
17397 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
17398 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
17399 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
17401 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17402 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
17403 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
17404 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
17405 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17406 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
17407 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
17408 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
17409 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
17411 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
17412 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
17413 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17414 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
17415 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
17416 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
17417 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
17419 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
17420 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
17422 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
17423 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
17424 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
17425 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
17427 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
17428 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
17429 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
17430 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17431 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
17432 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
17433 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
17434 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
17435 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
17436 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
17437 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
17438 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
17439 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
17440 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
17441 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
17442 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
17443 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
17445 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
17446 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
17447 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
17448 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
17449 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
17450 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
17451 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
17452 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
17455 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
17456 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
17457 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
17458 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
17459 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
17460 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
17461 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17462 Reported by "mr-4".
17463 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
17464 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
17465 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
17466 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17468 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17469 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
17470 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
17471 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
17472 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
17473 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
17474 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
17475 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
17476 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17477 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
17478 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
17479 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
17481 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
17482 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
17483 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
17485 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
17486 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
17487 early. Fixes bug 10081.
17489 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17490 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
17491 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
17492 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
17495 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
17496 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
17497 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
17498 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
17501 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
17502 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
17503 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
17504 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
17506 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
17507 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
17508 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17510 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
17511 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
17512 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
17513 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
17514 versions. Found by "skruffy".
17515 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
17516 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
17517 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
17520 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
17521 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
17522 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17523 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
17524 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
17525 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
17526 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
17527 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
17528 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17529 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
17530 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
17532 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17533 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
17534 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
17535 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
17536 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
17538 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
17539 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
17540 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
17541 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
17544 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
17545 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
17546 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17547 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
17548 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
17549 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
17550 should never have affected anyone in practice.
17552 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17553 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
17554 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
17555 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
17556 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
17557 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
17558 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
17559 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
17560 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
17561 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17562 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
17563 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
17564 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
17565 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
17566 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
17567 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
17568 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17569 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
17570 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
17571 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
17572 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
17573 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
17574 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
17575 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
17577 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
17578 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
17579 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
17580 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
17581 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17582 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
17583 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
17584 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
17585 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
17587 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
17588 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
17591 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
17592 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
17594 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
17596 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
17597 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
17598 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
17599 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
17600 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
17601 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
17603 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
17604 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
17606 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
17607 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
17608 caches don't get confused.
17609 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
17610 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17611 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
17612 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
17613 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
17614 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
17615 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
17616 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
17617 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
17618 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
17619 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
17620 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
17621 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
17622 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
17623 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17624 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
17625 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
17626 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17629 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
17630 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
17631 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
17632 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
17633 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
17635 o Removed code and features:
17636 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
17637 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
17638 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
17639 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
17640 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
17641 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
17643 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
17644 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
17645 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
17646 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
17647 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
17648 part of a fix for bug 10841.
17649 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
17650 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
17651 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
17652 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
17653 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
17654 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
17656 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
17657 Resolves ticket 11070.
17658 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
17659 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
17660 the rest of bug 10841.
17661 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
17662 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
17663 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
17664 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
17666 o Test infrastructure:
17667 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
17668 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
17669 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
17670 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
17671 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
17672 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
17673 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
17674 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
17675 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
17676 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
17678 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
17679 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
17680 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
17681 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
17682 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
17683 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
17684 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
17685 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
17686 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
17687 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
17688 invoking the other functions it calls.
17691 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
17692 Patch from Dana Koch.
17693 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
17694 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
17695 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
17696 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
17698 o Distribution (systemd):
17699 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
17700 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
17701 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
17702 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
17703 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
17704 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
17705 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
17706 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
17707 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
17708 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
17709 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
17710 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
17711 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17715 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
17716 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17717 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17718 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17719 (which does affect Tor).
17721 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17722 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17723 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17724 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17726 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17727 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17728 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17729 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17732 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
17733 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17734 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17735 the directory authorities.
17738 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17739 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17740 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17741 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17742 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17743 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17744 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
17745 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
17746 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
17747 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
17748 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
17749 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17751 o Directory authority changes:
17752 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17754 o Minor features (geoip):
17755 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17759 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
17760 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
17761 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
17762 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
17765 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
17766 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
17767 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
17768 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
17769 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
17770 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
17771 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
17772 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
17773 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
17774 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
17777 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
17778 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
17779 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
17780 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
17781 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
17782 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
17783 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
17784 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
17788 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
17789 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
17790 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
17791 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
17792 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
17793 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
17794 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
17795 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
17796 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17797 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
17798 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
17799 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
17800 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
17803 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17807 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
17808 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
17809 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
17810 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
17811 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
17812 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
17813 of RAM, and several others.
17815 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17816 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
17817 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
17818 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
17819 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
17821 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
17822 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
17823 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
17824 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
17827 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17828 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
17829 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
17830 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
17831 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
17832 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
17833 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17834 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
17835 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
17836 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
17837 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
17838 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
17839 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
17840 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
17841 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
17842 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
17843 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
17844 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
17845 Resolves ticket 11438.
17847 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
17848 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
17849 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
17850 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
17851 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
17852 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17854 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17855 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
17856 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17858 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17859 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
17860 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17862 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17863 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
17864 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
17865 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17867 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17868 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
17869 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
17871 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17872 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
17873 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17876 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
17877 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
17878 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
17879 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
17882 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17883 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
17884 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
17885 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
17887 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17888 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
17889 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
17890 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
17892 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17893 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
17894 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
17898 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
17899 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
17900 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
17901 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
17903 o Major features (client security):
17904 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
17905 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
17906 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
17907 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
17908 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
17909 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
17912 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
17913 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
17914 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
17915 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17917 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17918 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
17919 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
17920 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
17921 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
17924 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
17925 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
17927 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
17928 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
17929 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
17930 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
17931 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
17932 GeoLite2 Country database.
17935 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
17936 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
17937 bugfix on every released Tor.
17938 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
17939 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
17940 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
17941 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17942 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
17943 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
17944 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
17945 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
17946 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
17947 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17948 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
17949 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
17950 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17951 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
17952 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17954 o Documentation fixes:
17955 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
17956 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17959 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
17960 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
17961 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
17962 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
17963 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
17964 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
17965 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
17967 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
17968 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
17971 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
17972 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
17973 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
17974 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
17975 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
17976 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
17977 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
17978 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
17980 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
17981 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17982 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
17983 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
17984 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
17985 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
17988 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
17989 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17990 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
17991 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
17992 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
17995 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
17996 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
17997 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
17998 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
17999 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
18000 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
18001 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
18002 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
18004 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
18005 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
18006 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
18007 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
18008 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
18009 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
18010 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
18011 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
18012 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
18013 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
18014 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
18015 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
18016 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
18017 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
18018 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
18019 security, and privacy fixes.
18021 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
18022 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
18023 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
18024 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
18025 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
18026 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
18027 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
18028 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
18029 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
18030 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
18031 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
18033 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
18034 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
18035 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
18037 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
18039 o Major features (better link encryption):
18040 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
18041 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
18042 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
18043 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
18044 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
18045 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
18048 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
18049 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
18050 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
18051 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
18053 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
18055 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
18056 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
18057 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
18058 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
18059 them to solve bug 6033.)
18061 o Major features (relay performance):
18062 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
18063 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
18064 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
18065 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
18066 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
18067 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
18068 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
18069 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
18070 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
18071 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
18072 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
18073 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
18074 Implements ticket 9574.
18076 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
18077 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
18078 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
18079 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
18080 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
18081 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
18082 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
18083 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
18084 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
18085 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
18086 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
18087 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
18088 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
18089 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
18090 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
18091 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
18093 o Major features (use of guards):
18094 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
18095 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
18096 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
18097 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
18098 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
18099 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
18100 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
18101 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
18102 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
18103 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
18104 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
18105 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
18106 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
18107 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18109 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
18110 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
18111 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
18112 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
18114 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
18115 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
18118 o Major features (geoip database):
18119 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
18120 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
18121 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
18122 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
18123 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
18124 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
18126 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
18128 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18130 o Major features (IPv6):
18131 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
18132 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
18133 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
18134 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
18135 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
18136 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
18137 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
18138 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
18139 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
18140 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
18141 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
18142 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
18143 revised in proposal 208.
18144 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
18145 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
18146 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
18148 o Major features (directory authorities):
18149 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
18150 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
18152 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
18153 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
18154 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
18155 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
18156 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
18157 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
18158 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
18159 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
18160 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
18161 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
18162 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
18164 o Major features (build and portability):
18165 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
18166 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
18167 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
18168 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
18169 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
18170 fixes by Jim Meyering.
18171 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
18172 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
18173 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
18174 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
18175 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
18176 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
18178 o Security features:
18179 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
18180 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
18181 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
18182 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
18183 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
18184 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
18185 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
18186 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
18187 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
18190 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18191 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
18192 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
18193 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
18194 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
18195 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
18196 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
18197 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
18198 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
18199 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
18200 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
18201 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
18202 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
18203 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
18204 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18205 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
18206 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
18207 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18209 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
18210 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
18211 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
18212 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
18214 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
18215 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
18216 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
18218 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
18219 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
18220 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18221 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
18222 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
18223 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18224 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
18225 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
18226 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
18228 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
18229 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18231 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
18232 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
18233 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
18234 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
18235 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
18236 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
18237 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
18238 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
18239 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
18240 last time we raised it).
18241 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
18242 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
18243 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
18245 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18246 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
18247 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
18248 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
18249 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
18250 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
18251 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
18252 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18253 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
18254 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
18255 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
18256 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
18257 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18259 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
18260 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
18261 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
18262 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
18263 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
18264 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
18265 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
18266 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
18267 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18268 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
18269 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
18270 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
18271 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
18273 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
18274 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
18275 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
18276 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
18277 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
18278 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
18279 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
18280 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
18281 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18283 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
18284 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
18285 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
18286 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
18287 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
18288 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
18289 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
18290 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
18291 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
18292 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
18293 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
18294 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
18295 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
18296 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
18297 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
18298 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
18299 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
18302 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
18303 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
18304 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
18305 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18307 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
18308 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
18309 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
18310 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
18312 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
18313 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
18314 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
18315 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
18316 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
18317 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
18320 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
18321 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
18322 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
18323 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
18324 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
18325 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
18326 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18328 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
18329 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
18330 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
18331 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18333 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18334 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
18335 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
18336 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
18337 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18338 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
18339 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
18340 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
18342 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
18343 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
18344 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
18346 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
18347 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
18348 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18350 o Internal abstraction features:
18351 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
18352 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
18353 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
18354 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
18355 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
18356 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
18357 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
18358 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
18359 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
18360 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
18361 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
18362 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
18363 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
18364 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
18365 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
18366 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
18367 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
18369 o New build requirements:
18370 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
18371 strongly recommended.
18372 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
18373 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
18374 from a source distribution.)
18376 o Minor features (protocol):
18377 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
18378 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
18380 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
18381 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
18382 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
18383 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
18384 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
18385 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
18386 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
18387 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
18388 closes ticket 7199.
18389 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
18390 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
18392 o Minor features (security):
18393 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
18394 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
18395 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
18396 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
18397 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
18398 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
18399 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
18400 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
18401 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
18403 o Minor features (control protocol):
18404 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
18406 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
18407 Implements ticket 4971.
18408 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
18409 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
18410 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
18411 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
18412 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
18414 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
18415 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
18417 o Minor features (path selection):
18418 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
18419 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
18420 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
18421 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
18422 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
18423 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
18424 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
18425 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
18426 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
18427 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
18428 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
18429 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
18430 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
18431 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
18433 o Minor features (hidden services):
18434 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
18435 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
18436 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
18437 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
18438 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
18439 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
18440 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
18441 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
18442 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
18443 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
18444 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
18445 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
18446 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
18448 o Minor features (clients):
18449 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
18450 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
18451 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
18452 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
18453 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
18454 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
18455 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
18456 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
18457 the ORPort and the DirPort.
18459 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
18460 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
18461 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
18462 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
18463 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
18464 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
18465 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
18466 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
18467 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
18468 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
18469 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
18470 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
18471 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
18472 Implements part of proposal 222.
18474 o Minor features (bridges):
18475 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
18476 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
18477 bugs 1913 and 1992.
18478 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
18479 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
18480 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
18481 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
18482 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
18483 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
18484 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
18485 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
18486 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
18487 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
18488 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
18490 o Minor features (relays):
18491 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
18492 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
18494 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
18495 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
18496 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
18497 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
18498 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
18499 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
18500 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
18501 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
18502 connect to the wrong addresses.
18503 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
18504 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
18505 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
18506 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
18509 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
18510 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
18511 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
18512 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
18513 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
18514 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
18516 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18517 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
18518 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
18519 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
18521 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
18522 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
18523 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
18524 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
18525 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
18526 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
18528 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
18529 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
18530 Implements ticket 8151.
18531 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
18532 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
18533 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
18534 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
18536 o Minor features (path bias detection):
18537 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
18538 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
18539 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
18540 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
18541 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
18542 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
18543 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
18544 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
18545 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
18546 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
18547 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
18548 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
18549 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
18550 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
18551 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
18552 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
18553 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
18554 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
18555 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
18556 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
18557 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
18558 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
18559 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
18560 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
18561 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
18562 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
18563 detection capability loss.
18565 o Minor features (build):
18566 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
18567 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
18568 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
18570 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
18571 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
18572 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18574 o Build improvements (autotools):
18575 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
18576 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
18577 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
18579 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
18580 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
18581 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
18582 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
18584 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
18585 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
18586 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
18587 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
18588 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
18589 than to perform erroneously.
18590 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
18592 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
18593 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
18594 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
18596 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
18597 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
18598 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
18599 hard-to-track-down errors.
18600 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
18601 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
18602 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
18603 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
18604 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
18605 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
18606 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
18607 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18608 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
18609 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
18610 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
18612 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
18613 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
18614 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
18615 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
18616 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
18617 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
18618 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
18619 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
18620 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
18621 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
18623 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
18624 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
18625 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
18626 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
18627 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
18628 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
18629 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
18630 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
18631 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
18632 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
18633 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
18634 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
18635 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
18637 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
18638 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
18639 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
18640 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
18641 or at least make it more diagnosable.
18642 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
18643 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
18644 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
18645 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
18647 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
18648 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
18649 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
18650 part of ticket 6736.
18651 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
18652 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
18653 Resolves ticket 6758.
18654 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
18655 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
18656 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
18657 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18658 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
18659 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
18660 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
18662 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
18663 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
18664 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
18665 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18667 o Minor features (testing):
18668 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
18669 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
18671 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
18672 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
18673 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
18676 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
18677 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
18679 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
18680 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
18681 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
18682 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
18683 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
18684 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
18685 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
18686 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18687 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18688 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
18689 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
18690 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
18691 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
18692 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
18693 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
18694 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
18695 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
18697 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
18698 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
18699 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
18700 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
18701 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
18702 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
18703 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
18704 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
18705 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
18706 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
18707 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
18708 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
18709 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
18710 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
18711 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
18712 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
18713 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
18714 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18715 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
18716 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
18719 o Minor fixes (config options):
18720 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
18721 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
18722 or we just won't work.)
18723 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
18724 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
18725 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18726 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18727 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18728 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18729 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18730 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18731 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
18732 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
18733 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
18734 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18735 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18736 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
18737 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
18738 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18739 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
18740 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
18741 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
18743 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
18744 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
18745 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
18747 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
18748 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
18749 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
18750 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
18752 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
18753 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
18754 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
18755 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
18756 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
18757 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18758 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
18759 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
18760 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
18761 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
18762 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18763 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
18764 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
18765 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
18766 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
18767 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
18770 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
18771 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
18772 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
18773 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
18774 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
18775 Should help resolve bug 8235.
18776 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
18777 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
18778 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
18779 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18780 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
18781 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
18782 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
18783 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
18784 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
18785 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
18786 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18788 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18789 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
18790 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
18791 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
18792 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
18793 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
18794 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
18795 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
18797 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18798 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
18799 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
18800 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
18802 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18803 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
18804 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
18805 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
18806 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
18808 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
18809 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
18810 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
18811 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18812 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
18813 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18815 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18816 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
18817 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
18818 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
18819 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
18820 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
18821 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
18822 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
18823 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
18825 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18826 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
18827 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
18828 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
18829 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18830 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
18831 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
18832 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
18833 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
18834 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
18835 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
18836 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
18838 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
18839 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
18840 this is CID 718634.
18841 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
18842 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
18843 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
18844 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
18846 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
18847 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
18849 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
18850 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
18851 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
18852 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
18853 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
18854 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
18855 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
18856 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18857 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
18858 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
18859 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
18860 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18861 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
18862 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
18863 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18864 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
18865 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
18866 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
18868 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
18869 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
18870 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
18871 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
18872 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18873 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
18874 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
18875 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
18876 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
18877 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18878 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
18879 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
18880 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
18883 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
18884 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
18885 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
18886 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
18887 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
18889 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
18890 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18891 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
18892 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
18893 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
18894 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18895 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
18896 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
18897 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
18900 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18901 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
18902 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18903 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18905 o Documentation fixes:
18906 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
18907 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
18908 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
18909 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
18910 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
18911 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
18912 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
18914 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
18915 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
18916 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
18917 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
18918 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
18919 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
18920 message is logged at notice, not at info.
18921 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
18922 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
18923 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
18924 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
18925 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
18926 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
18928 o Removed features:
18929 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
18930 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
18931 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
18933 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
18934 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
18935 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
18936 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
18937 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
18938 compatibility code.
18941 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
18942 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
18944 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
18945 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
18947 o Code simplification:
18948 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
18949 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
18950 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
18951 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
18953 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
18954 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
18956 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
18957 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
18958 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
18959 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
18960 present the same extensions.)
18961 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
18963 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
18964 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
18965 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
18966 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
18968 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
18969 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
18970 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
18971 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
18974 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
18976 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
18977 and the different handshakes it supports.
18978 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
18979 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
18980 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
18981 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
18983 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
18984 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
18985 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
18986 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
18987 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
18988 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
18989 testable, and a little less fragile too.
18990 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
18991 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
18992 Implements ticket 5529.
18993 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
18994 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
18995 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
18998 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
18999 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
19000 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
19001 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
19002 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
19003 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19004 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
19005 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
19006 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
19007 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
19008 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
19009 any encoding is overkill.
19010 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
19011 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19012 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
19013 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
19014 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
19015 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
19016 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
19017 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
19018 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
19021 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
19022 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
19023 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
19024 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
19025 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
19026 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
19027 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
19028 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
19030 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
19031 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
19032 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
19033 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
19034 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
19035 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
19036 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
19037 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
19038 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
19039 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
19040 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
19042 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
19043 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
19044 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
19045 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
19046 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
19047 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
19048 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
19049 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
19050 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
19051 describes microdescriptors.
19053 o Major features (build hardening):
19054 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
19056 o Major features (relay scaling):
19057 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
19058 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
19059 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
19060 much faster than other AES implementations.
19061 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
19062 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
19063 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
19064 Resolves ticket 4526.
19065 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
19066 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
19068 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
19069 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
19070 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
19071 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
19073 o Major features (blocking resistance):
19074 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
19076 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
19077 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
19078 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
19079 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
19080 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
19081 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
19082 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
19083 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
19084 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
19085 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
19086 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
19087 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
19088 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
19089 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
19090 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
19091 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
19092 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
19093 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
19094 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
19096 o Major features (pluggable transports):
19097 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19098 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
19099 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
19100 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
19102 o Major features (DoS resistance):
19103 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
19104 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
19105 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
19106 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
19107 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
19108 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
19109 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
19110 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
19111 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
19112 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
19113 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
19115 o Major features (hidden services):
19116 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
19117 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
19118 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
19120 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
19121 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
19122 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
19123 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
19124 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
19125 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
19127 o Major features (IPv6):
19128 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
19129 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
19130 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
19131 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
19132 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
19134 o Major features (directory authorities):
19135 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
19136 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
19137 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
19138 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
19139 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
19140 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
19141 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
19142 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
19143 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
19144 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
19146 o Major features (performance):
19147 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
19148 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
19149 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
19150 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
19151 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
19152 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
19153 side of Proposal 174.
19154 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
19155 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
19156 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
19157 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
19158 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
19159 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
19160 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
19161 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
19162 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
19163 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
19164 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
19165 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
19167 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
19168 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
19169 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
19170 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
19171 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
19174 o Major features (relays):
19175 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
19176 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
19177 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
19178 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
19179 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
19180 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
19181 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
19183 o Major features (stream isolation):
19184 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
19185 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
19186 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
19187 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
19188 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
19189 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
19190 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
19191 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
19192 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
19193 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
19194 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
19195 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
19196 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
19197 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
19199 o Major features (bufferevents):
19200 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
19201 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
19202 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
19203 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
19204 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
19205 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
19206 zero-copy transports where available.
19207 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
19208 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
19209 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
19210 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
19211 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
19212 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
19214 o Major features (path selection):
19215 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
19216 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
19217 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
19218 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
19221 o Major features (port forwarding):
19222 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
19223 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
19224 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
19225 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
19226 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
19227 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
19229 o Major features (logging):
19230 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
19231 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
19232 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
19233 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
19234 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
19235 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
19236 Implements enhancement 1668.
19238 o Major features (other):
19239 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
19240 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
19241 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
19242 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
19243 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
19244 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
19245 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
19246 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
19247 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
19248 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
19249 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
19250 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
19251 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
19252 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
19253 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
19254 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
19255 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
19256 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
19257 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
19258 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
19260 o New directory authorities:
19261 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
19262 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
19264 o Security/privacy fixes:
19265 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
19266 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
19267 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19268 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
19269 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
19270 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
19271 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19272 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
19273 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
19274 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
19275 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
19276 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
19277 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
19278 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
19279 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
19280 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
19281 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
19282 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
19283 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
19284 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
19285 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
19286 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
19287 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
19288 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
19289 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
19290 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
19291 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
19292 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
19293 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
19294 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
19295 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
19297 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
19298 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
19299 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
19300 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
19301 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
19302 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
19303 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
19304 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19305 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
19306 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
19307 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
19308 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
19309 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
19310 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
19313 o Major bugfixes (clients):
19314 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
19315 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
19316 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
19317 which introduced predicted ports.
19318 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
19319 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
19320 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
19321 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
19322 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
19323 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
19324 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19325 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
19326 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
19328 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
19329 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
19330 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
19331 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
19332 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
19333 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
19335 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
19336 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
19337 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
19338 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
19339 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19340 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
19341 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
19342 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
19343 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
19344 documents entirely.
19346 o Major bugfixes (relays):
19347 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
19348 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
19349 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
19350 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
19351 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
19352 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
19353 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
19354 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
19355 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
19356 immensely in tracking this bug down.
19357 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
19358 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
19359 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
19360 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
19361 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
19362 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
19363 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19365 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
19366 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
19367 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
19368 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
19369 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
19370 cells were introduced.
19371 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
19372 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
19373 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
19374 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
19376 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19377 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
19378 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
19379 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
19380 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
19381 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
19382 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
19383 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
19384 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
19385 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
19386 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
19387 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
19388 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
19389 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
19390 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
19391 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
19392 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
19393 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
19394 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
19395 Fixes part of bug 3825.
19397 o Changes to default torrc file:
19398 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
19399 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
19401 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
19402 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
19403 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
19405 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
19406 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
19407 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
19409 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19410 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
19411 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
19412 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
19413 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
19414 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
19415 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
19416 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
19417 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
19418 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
19419 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
19420 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
19421 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
19422 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
19423 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
19424 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
19427 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
19428 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
19429 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
19430 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
19431 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
19432 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
19433 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
19434 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
19435 sure. Closes bug 5139.
19436 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
19437 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
19438 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
19439 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
19440 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
19442 o Minor features (IPv6):
19443 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
19444 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
19445 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
19446 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
19447 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
19448 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
19450 o Minor features (hidden services):
19451 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
19452 Required by fix for bug 3460.
19453 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
19454 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
19455 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
19456 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
19457 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
19458 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
19459 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
19460 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
19461 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
19463 o Minor features (relays):
19464 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
19465 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
19466 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
19467 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19468 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19469 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
19470 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
19471 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
19472 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19473 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
19474 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
19477 o Minor features (new config options):
19478 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
19479 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
19480 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
19481 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
19482 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
19483 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
19484 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
19485 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
19486 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
19487 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
19488 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
19489 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
19491 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
19492 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
19493 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
19494 Implements issue 933.
19495 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
19496 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
19497 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
19498 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
19499 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
19500 implements ticket 3439.
19501 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
19502 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
19503 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
19504 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
19505 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
19506 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
19507 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
19508 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
19510 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
19511 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
19512 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
19513 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
19514 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
19515 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
19516 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
19517 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
19518 appending to the list.
19519 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
19520 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
19521 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
19522 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
19525 o Minor features (controller, new events):
19526 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
19527 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
19528 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
19529 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
19530 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
19531 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
19533 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
19534 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
19535 circuit-status' control-port command.
19536 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
19537 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
19538 user. Implements ticket 1692.
19539 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
19540 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
19541 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
19543 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
19544 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
19545 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
19546 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
19547 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
19548 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
19549 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
19550 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
19551 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
19553 o Minor features (controller, other):
19554 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
19555 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
19556 part of ticket 3457.
19557 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
19558 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
19559 file. Resolves bug 1101.
19560 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
19561 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
19563 o Minor features (log messages):
19564 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
19565 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
19566 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
19567 please let us know about it.
19568 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
19569 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
19570 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
19571 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
19572 Resolves ticket 2474.
19573 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
19574 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
19576 o Minor features (other):
19577 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
19578 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
19579 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
19580 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
19582 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
19583 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
19584 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
19585 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
19586 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
19587 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
19588 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
19590 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
19591 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
19592 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
19593 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
19594 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19596 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
19597 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
19598 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
19599 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
19600 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
19601 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
19602 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19603 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
19604 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19605 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
19606 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
19607 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
19608 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
19609 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
19610 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
19611 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
19614 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
19615 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
19616 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
19617 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
19618 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
19619 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
19620 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19621 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
19622 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
19624 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
19625 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
19626 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
19627 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
19628 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
19629 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
19630 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19631 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
19632 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
19633 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19635 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19636 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
19637 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19638 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
19639 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
19640 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
19641 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19642 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
19643 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
19645 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
19646 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
19647 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
19648 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
19649 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
19650 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
19651 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
19652 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
19653 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
19655 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19656 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
19657 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
19658 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
19659 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
19660 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
19661 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
19663 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
19664 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
19665 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
19666 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
19668 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19669 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
19670 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
19671 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19672 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
19673 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
19674 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
19675 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
19676 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
19677 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
19678 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
19679 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
19682 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
19683 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
19684 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19685 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
19686 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
19687 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
19689 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
19690 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
19691 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19692 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19693 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
19694 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19695 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19696 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19697 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19698 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19699 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19700 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
19701 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
19702 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
19703 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
19705 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
19706 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19707 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19708 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19709 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19710 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19712 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
19713 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
19714 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
19715 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
19716 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
19717 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19718 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19719 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19720 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19721 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19722 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19723 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19724 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19725 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19726 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19728 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
19729 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19730 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19731 be disabled using the new
19732 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19733 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19734 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19735 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19736 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19737 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19738 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19740 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
19741 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19742 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19743 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19744 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
19745 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
19746 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
19748 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
19749 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
19750 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
19751 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
19752 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19753 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
19754 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
19755 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
19757 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
19758 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
19759 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
19760 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19761 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
19762 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
19763 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19764 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19766 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19767 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
19768 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
19769 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
19770 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
19771 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
19772 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
19773 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
19775 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
19776 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
19777 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
19778 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
19780 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
19781 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
19782 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
19784 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
19785 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
19787 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
19788 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
19789 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
19790 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
19791 case for flushing marked connections.
19792 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
19793 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
19794 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
19795 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
19796 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
19797 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19798 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
19799 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
19800 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
19801 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19803 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19804 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
19805 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
19806 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
19807 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
19808 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
19809 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
19810 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
19811 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
19812 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
19813 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
19815 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
19816 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19817 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
19818 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
19819 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19821 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
19822 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
19823 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
19824 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
19825 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19826 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
19827 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
19828 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
19829 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
19830 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
19831 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
19832 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
19833 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
19834 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
19835 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
19836 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
19838 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
19839 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
19840 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
19841 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19842 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
19843 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
19844 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19845 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
19846 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19847 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
19848 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
19849 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
19850 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
19851 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
19852 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
19853 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
19854 Implements ticket 3264.
19855 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
19857 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
19858 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
19859 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
19860 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
19861 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
19862 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
19864 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
19865 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
19866 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19867 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
19868 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
19869 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19870 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
19871 them from the other auths.
19872 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
19873 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
19874 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
19875 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19876 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
19877 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
19878 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
19879 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
19883 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
19884 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
19885 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
19887 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
19888 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
19889 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
19890 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
19891 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
19892 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
19893 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
19894 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
19896 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
19897 ./src/test/bench binary.
19898 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
19899 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
19900 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
19901 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
19904 o Build improvements:
19905 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
19906 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
19907 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
19908 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
19909 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
19910 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
19911 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
19912 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19913 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
19914 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
19915 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
19916 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
19917 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
19918 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
19919 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
19920 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
19921 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
19922 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
19923 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
19924 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
19925 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
19927 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
19929 o Build requirements:
19930 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
19931 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
19932 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
19933 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
19934 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
19935 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
19936 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
19937 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
19938 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
19939 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
19940 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
19941 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
19942 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
19944 o Build fixes (compile/link):
19945 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
19946 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
19948 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
19949 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
19950 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
19951 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
19952 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
19953 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
19954 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19955 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
19956 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19958 o Build fixes (other):
19959 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
19960 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
19962 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
19963 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
19964 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
19965 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19966 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
19967 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
19968 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
19969 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
19971 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
19972 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
19975 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
19976 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
19977 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
19978 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
19979 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
19980 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
19981 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
19982 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19984 o Code refactoring (safety):
19985 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
19986 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
19987 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
19988 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
19989 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
19990 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
19991 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
19992 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
19993 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
19994 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
19995 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
19996 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
19998 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
19999 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
20000 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
20001 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
20002 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
20003 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
20004 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
20005 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
20006 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
20007 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
20008 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
20009 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
20010 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
20011 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
20012 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
20013 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
20014 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
20015 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
20017 o Code refactoring (separate):
20018 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
20019 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
20020 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
20022 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
20023 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
20026 o Code refactoring (name changes):
20027 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
20028 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
20029 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
20030 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
20031 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
20032 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
20033 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
20035 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
20036 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
20037 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
20038 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
20039 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
20040 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
20041 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
20042 invalid value, rather than just -1.
20043 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
20044 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
20045 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
20047 o Code refactoring (other):
20048 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
20049 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
20051 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
20052 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
20053 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
20054 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
20055 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
20056 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
20057 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
20058 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
20059 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
20060 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
20061 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
20062 our library structure used to force them to link it.
20064 o Removed features and files:
20065 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
20066 it would be a bad idea to start.
20067 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
20069 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
20070 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
20071 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
20072 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
20073 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
20074 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
20075 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
20076 are no longer in use as relays.
20077 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
20078 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
20079 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
20080 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
20081 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
20082 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
20086 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
20087 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
20088 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
20090 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
20091 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
20093 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
20094 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
20095 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
20097 o Documentation fixes:
20098 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
20099 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
20100 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
20101 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
20102 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
20103 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
20104 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
20105 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
20108 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
20109 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
20113 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
20114 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
20115 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20116 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
20117 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
20118 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
20119 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
20123 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
20124 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
20125 attack that could in theory leak path information.
20128 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
20129 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
20130 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20131 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
20132 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
20133 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
20134 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
20135 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
20136 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
20137 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
20138 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
20139 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
20140 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
20141 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
20144 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
20145 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
20146 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
20150 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
20151 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
20152 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
20153 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
20154 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
20155 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
20156 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20157 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
20158 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
20159 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
20160 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20163 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
20164 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
20167 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
20168 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
20171 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
20172 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
20173 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
20174 and fixes several crash bugs.
20176 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
20177 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
20178 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
20179 those packages and upgrade anyway.
20181 o Directory authority changes:
20182 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
20183 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
20187 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
20188 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
20189 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
20190 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
20191 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
20192 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
20193 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
20194 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
20195 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
20196 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
20197 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
20198 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
20199 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
20200 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
20201 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
20202 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
20203 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
20204 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
20205 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
20206 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
20207 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
20208 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
20209 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
20210 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
20211 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
20212 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
20213 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
20216 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
20217 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20218 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
20219 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
20221 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
20222 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
20224 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
20225 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
20226 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
20227 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
20228 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
20229 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
20230 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
20231 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
20234 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
20235 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
20236 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
20237 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
20238 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
20239 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
20240 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
20241 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
20242 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
20243 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
20244 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
20245 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
20246 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
20247 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
20248 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
20249 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
20250 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
20251 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
20252 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
20253 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
20254 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
20255 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
20256 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
20257 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
20258 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
20259 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
20260 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
20261 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
20262 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
20263 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
20264 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
20265 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
20266 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20267 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
20268 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20269 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
20270 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
20271 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
20272 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
20273 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20274 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
20275 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20276 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
20277 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
20278 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
20279 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20281 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20282 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
20283 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
20284 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
20285 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
20286 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
20287 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
20288 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
20289 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
20290 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
20291 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20292 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
20293 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20294 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
20295 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
20298 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
20299 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
20300 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
20301 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
20303 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20306 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
20307 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
20308 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
20309 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
20310 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
20311 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
20312 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
20315 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
20316 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
20317 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20319 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20320 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20321 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20322 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20323 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20324 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20325 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20326 (which Tor does not do by default).
20328 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20329 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20330 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20331 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20332 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20334 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
20335 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
20336 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
20339 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
20340 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
20341 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
20342 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
20343 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20345 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
20346 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
20349 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20350 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20351 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20352 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20353 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20354 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20355 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20356 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20358 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20359 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20360 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20361 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20362 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20363 close based on processing a cell on it.
20364 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20365 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20366 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20367 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20368 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20369 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20370 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20371 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
20372 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
20373 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
20374 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20375 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20376 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20377 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20378 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
20381 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20382 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20383 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20384 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20385 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20386 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20387 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20389 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20390 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20391 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20392 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20393 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20394 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20395 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20396 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20397 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20398 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20399 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20400 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20401 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20402 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20403 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
20404 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
20405 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
20406 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
20407 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20408 Reported by "troll_un".
20409 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20410 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20411 Reported by "troll_un".
20412 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20413 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20414 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20415 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20418 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20419 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20420 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20421 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20422 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20423 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20424 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20425 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20426 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20427 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20428 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20430 o Packaging changes:
20431 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20432 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20435 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
20436 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20437 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20438 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20439 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20441 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
20442 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
20444 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20445 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20446 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20447 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20448 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20449 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20450 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20451 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20452 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20455 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20458 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
20459 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
20460 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
20462 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
20463 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
20464 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
20465 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
20466 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
20467 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
20468 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
20469 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
20470 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
20471 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
20472 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
20473 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
20474 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
20476 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
20477 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
20478 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
20479 currently connected to them.
20481 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
20482 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
20483 remain; see for example proposal 188.
20485 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20486 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20487 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20488 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20489 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20490 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20491 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20492 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20493 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20494 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20495 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20496 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20497 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20498 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20499 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20500 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20501 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20502 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20505 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
20506 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20507 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20508 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20509 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20510 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20511 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20512 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20513 when bridges were introduced.
20514 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20515 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20516 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20517 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20518 Found by "frosty_un".
20521 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20522 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20524 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20525 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20526 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20527 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20528 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20529 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20530 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20533 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20534 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20535 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20536 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20537 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20538 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20539 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20540 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20541 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20542 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20543 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20544 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20545 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20546 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20547 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20548 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20549 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20550 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20552 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
20553 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20554 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20555 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20556 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20557 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20558 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20559 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20560 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20561 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20562 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20563 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20566 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20567 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20568 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
20569 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20572 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
20573 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20574 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20575 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20576 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20578 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20579 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20580 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20581 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20582 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20583 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20584 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20585 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20586 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20587 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20589 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20590 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20591 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20592 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20593 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20594 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20595 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20596 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20597 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20598 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20599 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20600 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20601 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20602 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20603 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20604 Found by "frosty_un".
20605 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20606 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20607 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20608 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20609 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20610 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20611 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20612 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20613 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20614 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20615 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20616 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20617 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20618 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20619 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20620 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20621 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20622 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20623 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20625 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20626 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20627 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20628 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20629 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20630 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20631 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20632 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20634 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20635 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
20636 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20637 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20638 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20639 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20640 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20641 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20642 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20643 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20644 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20645 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20647 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20648 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20649 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20650 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20651 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
20652 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20653 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20654 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20655 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20657 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20659 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20660 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20661 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20662 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20663 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20664 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20665 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20666 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20668 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
20669 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
20670 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
20671 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
20672 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20674 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20675 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20676 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20677 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20678 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20681 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
20682 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
20683 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
20684 reachable from Iran again.
20687 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20688 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20689 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20691 o Minor features (security):
20692 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20693 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20694 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20695 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20696 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20697 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20698 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20699 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20700 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20701 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20704 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20705 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20706 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20707 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20708 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20709 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20710 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20711 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20712 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20714 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20715 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20716 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20717 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20718 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20719 raised by bug 3898.
20720 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20721 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20722 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20723 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20724 fixes part of bug 2442.
20725 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20726 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20727 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20729 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20730 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20731 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20732 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20733 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20736 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20737 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20738 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20739 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20740 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20741 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20744 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
20745 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
20746 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
20747 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
20748 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
20749 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
20750 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
20751 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
20752 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
20753 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
20755 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
20756 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
20757 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
20758 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
20759 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
20760 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
20761 many many other features and bugfixes.
20763 o Major features (client performance):
20764 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
20765 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
20766 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
20767 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
20768 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
20769 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
20771 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
20772 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
20773 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
20774 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
20775 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
20776 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
20777 the first implementation of this feature.
20779 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
20780 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
20781 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
20782 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
20783 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
20784 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
20785 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
20786 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
20787 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
20788 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
20789 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
20790 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
20791 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
20792 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
20793 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
20794 file. Implements ticket 1296.
20796 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
20797 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
20798 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
20799 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
20800 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
20801 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
20802 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
20803 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
20804 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
20805 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
20806 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
20807 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
20808 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
20809 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
20810 they first get the Guard flag.
20811 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
20812 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
20813 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
20814 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
20815 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
20816 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
20817 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
20818 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
20820 o Major features (relays control their load better):
20821 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
20822 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
20823 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
20824 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
20825 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
20826 based on a variant of proposal 163.
20827 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
20828 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
20829 but never per-conn write limits.
20830 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
20831 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
20832 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
20833 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
20835 o Major features (controllers):
20836 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
20837 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
20838 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
20839 contributions to the network.
20840 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
20841 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
20842 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
20844 o Major features (directory authorities):
20845 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
20846 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
20847 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
20849 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
20850 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
20851 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
20852 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
20853 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
20854 download consensus + microdescriptors".
20855 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
20856 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
20857 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
20858 hash algorithm in the future.
20859 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
20860 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
20861 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
20863 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
20864 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
20865 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
20866 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
20867 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
20868 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
20869 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
20870 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
20871 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
20872 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
20873 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
20874 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
20875 connections to directory servers.
20876 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
20877 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
20878 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
20879 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
20880 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
20881 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
20882 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
20883 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
20884 information, or fetch directory information.
20885 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
20886 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
20887 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
20888 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
20889 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
20891 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
20892 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
20893 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
20894 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
20895 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
20896 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
20897 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
20898 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
20899 the network changes.
20900 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
20901 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
20903 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
20904 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
20905 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
20906 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
20907 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
20908 unless you really want your Tor to break.
20909 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
20910 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
20911 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
20912 - When StrictNodes is 1:
20913 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
20914 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
20915 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
20916 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
20917 reachability self-tests.
20918 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
20919 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
20920 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
20921 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
20922 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
20924 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
20925 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20926 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
20928 o Major features (misc):
20929 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
20930 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
20931 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
20932 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
20933 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
20934 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
20935 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
20936 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
20937 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
20938 part of ticket 3076.
20939 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
20940 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
20941 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
20943 o Code security improvements:
20944 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20945 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20946 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20947 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20948 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20949 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20950 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
20951 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
20952 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
20953 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20954 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
20955 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
20956 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
20957 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
20958 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
20959 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
20960 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20961 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
20962 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
20963 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
20964 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
20965 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
20966 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
20967 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
20968 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
20969 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
20970 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
20971 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
20973 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20974 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
20975 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
20976 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
20977 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
20978 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
20979 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
20980 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20981 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20982 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20983 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20984 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20985 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20987 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
20988 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
20989 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
20991 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
20992 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
20994 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20995 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20996 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20997 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20998 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20999 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21000 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
21001 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
21002 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
21003 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
21004 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
21005 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
21006 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
21007 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
21008 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
21009 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21010 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
21012 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
21013 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
21014 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
21016 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
21017 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
21018 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
21019 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
21020 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
21021 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
21022 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
21023 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
21024 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
21025 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
21026 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
21027 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
21028 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
21029 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
21030 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
21031 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21032 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
21033 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21034 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21036 o Privacy fixes (clients):
21037 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21038 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21039 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21040 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21041 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21042 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21043 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
21044 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
21045 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
21047 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
21048 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
21049 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
21050 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
21051 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
21052 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
21053 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
21054 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
21055 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
21056 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
21058 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
21059 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21060 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21061 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21062 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
21063 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
21064 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21065 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21066 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21067 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21068 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21069 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21070 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21072 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
21073 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
21074 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
21075 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
21076 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
21077 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
21078 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
21079 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
21080 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
21081 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21083 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
21084 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
21085 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
21086 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
21087 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
21088 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
21089 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
21091 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
21092 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
21093 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
21094 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
21095 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
21096 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
21097 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
21098 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
21099 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
21100 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
21101 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
21102 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
21103 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
21104 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
21105 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
21107 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21108 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
21109 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
21110 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
21111 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
21112 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
21113 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
21115 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
21116 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
21117 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
21118 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
21119 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
21120 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
21121 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
21122 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
21124 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
21125 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
21126 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
21127 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
21128 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
21129 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
21130 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
21131 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
21132 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
21133 the longest-lived bug prize.
21134 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
21135 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
21136 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
21137 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
21138 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
21139 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
21140 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
21141 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
21142 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
21143 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
21145 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
21146 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
21147 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
21148 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
21149 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
21150 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
21153 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21154 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
21155 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
21156 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
21157 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
21158 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
21159 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
21160 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
21161 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
21162 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
21163 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
21164 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21165 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
21166 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
21167 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
21168 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
21169 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
21170 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
21171 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
21172 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
21173 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
21174 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
21175 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
21176 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
21177 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
21178 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
21180 o Major bugfixes (misc):
21181 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
21182 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
21183 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21184 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
21185 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
21186 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21187 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21188 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21190 o Minor features (relays):
21191 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
21192 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
21193 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
21194 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
21195 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
21196 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
21197 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
21198 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
21200 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
21201 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
21202 Resolves ticket 3252.
21203 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
21204 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
21206 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
21207 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
21208 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
21209 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
21210 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
21212 o Minor features (network statistics):
21213 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
21214 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
21215 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
21216 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
21217 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
21218 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
21219 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
21220 measure download times.
21221 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21222 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
21224 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
21225 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
21226 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21227 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
21229 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
21230 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
21231 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
21233 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
21234 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
21235 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
21236 Implements ticket 2432.
21237 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
21238 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
21239 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
21240 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
21241 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
21242 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
21243 Implements enhancement 1790.
21244 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
21245 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
21247 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
21248 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
21249 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
21250 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
21251 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
21252 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
21253 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
21255 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21257 o Minor features (clients):
21258 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
21259 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
21260 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
21261 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
21263 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
21264 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
21265 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
21266 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
21267 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
21268 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
21269 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
21270 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
21272 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
21273 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
21274 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
21275 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
21276 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
21277 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
21278 SSL handshake issues.
21280 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21281 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
21282 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
21283 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
21284 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
21285 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
21286 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
21287 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
21288 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
21289 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
21290 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
21291 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
21292 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
21293 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
21294 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
21295 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
21296 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
21297 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
21298 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
21299 hour of their uptime.
21300 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
21301 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
21302 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
21303 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
21305 o Minor features (hidden services):
21306 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
21307 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
21308 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
21309 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
21310 Required by fix for bug 3000.
21311 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
21312 by fix for bug 3000.
21313 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
21314 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
21315 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
21316 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
21317 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21319 o Minor features (controller interface):
21320 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
21321 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
21322 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
21323 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
21324 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
21325 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
21326 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
21327 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
21328 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
21329 over our stored history.
21330 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
21331 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
21332 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
21334 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
21335 to the circuit build timeout.
21336 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
21337 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
21338 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
21340 o Minor features (controller protocol):
21341 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
21342 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
21343 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
21345 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
21346 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
21347 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
21348 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
21349 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
21350 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
21351 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
21352 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
21353 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
21354 arguments we do not recognize.
21356 o Minor features (more useful logging):
21357 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
21358 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
21359 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
21360 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
21361 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
21362 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
21363 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
21364 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
21365 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
21366 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
21367 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
21368 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
21369 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
21370 got suppressed since the last warning.
21371 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
21372 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
21373 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
21374 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
21375 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
21376 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
21377 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
21379 o Minor features (log domains):
21380 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
21381 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
21382 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
21384 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
21385 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
21387 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
21388 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
21389 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
21391 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
21392 during the TLS handshake.
21394 o Minor features (build process):
21395 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
21396 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
21397 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
21399 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
21400 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
21401 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
21403 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
21404 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
21405 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
21406 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
21407 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
21408 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
21410 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
21411 source files Tor was built with.
21412 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
21413 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
21414 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
21415 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
21416 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
21417 speeds up the build considerably.
21419 o Minor features (options / torrc):
21420 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
21421 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
21422 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
21423 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
21424 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
21425 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
21426 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
21427 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
21428 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
21429 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
21430 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
21431 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
21432 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
21433 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
21434 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
21435 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
21436 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
21437 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
21438 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
21439 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
21440 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
21441 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
21442 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
21443 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
21444 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
21445 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
21446 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
21448 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
21449 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
21450 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
21453 o Minor features (unit tests):
21454 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
21455 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
21456 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
21457 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
21458 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
21459 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
21461 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
21462 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
21465 o Minor features (misc):
21466 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
21467 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
21468 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
21469 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
21471 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
21472 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
21473 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
21474 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
21475 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
21477 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
21478 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
21479 open() without checking it.
21480 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
21481 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
21482 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
21483 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21485 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21486 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
21487 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
21488 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
21489 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
21490 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
21491 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
21492 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
21493 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
21494 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
21495 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
21496 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
21497 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
21498 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
21499 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
21500 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
21501 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
21502 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
21503 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
21504 based on the time during which we were active and not in
21505 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
21506 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
21507 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
21508 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
21509 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21510 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
21511 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
21512 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
21514 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
21515 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
21516 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
21517 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
21519 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21520 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
21521 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
21522 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
21523 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
21525 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
21526 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
21527 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21528 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
21529 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
21530 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
21531 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
21532 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
21533 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
21534 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
21535 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
21536 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
21537 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
21539 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21540 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
21541 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
21542 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
21543 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
21544 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
21545 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
21546 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
21547 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
21548 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
21549 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
21550 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21551 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
21552 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
21553 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
21554 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
21555 two-hop circuits are actually created.
21556 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
21557 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21558 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
21559 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
21561 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21562 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
21563 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
21564 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
21565 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
21566 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
21567 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
21568 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
21569 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
21571 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
21572 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
21573 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
21574 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
21575 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
21576 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
21577 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
21578 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
21579 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
21580 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
21581 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
21582 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
21583 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21586 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21587 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
21588 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
21589 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
21590 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21591 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
21592 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
21593 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
21594 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
21595 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
21596 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
21598 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21599 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21601 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
21602 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
21603 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
21604 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
21605 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21606 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
21607 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
21608 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
21610 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
21611 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21612 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21613 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21614 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
21615 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
21616 discovered by katmagic.
21617 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
21618 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
21620 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
21621 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21622 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21623 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21624 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21625 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21626 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21627 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21628 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21630 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
21631 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
21633 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
21634 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
21636 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
21637 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
21639 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
21640 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
21641 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
21642 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21643 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
21644 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
21645 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21646 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
21647 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
21648 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
21649 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
21650 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
21651 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
21652 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
21653 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
21655 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
21656 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
21657 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
21658 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
21659 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
21660 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
21661 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
21662 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
21663 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
21665 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
21666 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21667 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21669 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
21670 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
21671 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
21672 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
21674 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
21675 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21676 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21677 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21678 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21679 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
21680 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
21682 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21683 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
21684 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
21685 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21686 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21687 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21689 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21690 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21691 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21692 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
21693 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
21694 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
21695 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
21696 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21697 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
21699 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21700 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21701 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21702 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21703 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21704 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21705 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21706 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21707 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21708 control-spec.txt said they were.
21710 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21711 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21712 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21714 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21715 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21716 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
21717 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
21718 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
21720 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21721 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21723 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
21724 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
21725 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
21726 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
21727 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
21728 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
21729 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
21731 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
21732 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21733 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21734 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21735 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
21736 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
21737 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
21738 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
21741 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21742 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21743 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21744 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21745 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21746 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21747 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21748 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21749 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21750 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21751 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21752 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21753 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21754 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21755 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
21757 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
21758 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
21759 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
21760 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
21761 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
21762 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21763 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21765 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
21766 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
21769 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21770 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21771 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21772 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21773 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21774 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21775 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
21776 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
21777 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
21778 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
21779 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
21780 fixes part of bug 3407.
21781 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21782 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
21783 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
21784 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
21785 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
21786 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
21787 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
21788 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
21789 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
21790 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
21792 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
21793 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
21794 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21795 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
21796 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
21797 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
21798 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
21799 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21800 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
21801 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
21802 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
21803 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21804 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
21805 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
21806 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21807 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21808 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21810 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
21811 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
21812 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
21813 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
21814 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
21815 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
21816 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21817 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
21818 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
21819 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
21820 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
21821 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
21823 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
21824 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
21825 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
21826 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
21827 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
21829 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
21830 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
21831 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
21832 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
21834 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
21835 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
21836 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
21837 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
21838 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
21839 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
21840 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
21841 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
21842 structures and defines in or.h for now.
21843 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
21845 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
21846 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21847 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21848 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21849 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
21850 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
21851 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
21852 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
21854 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
21855 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
21856 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
21858 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21859 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
21860 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
21861 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
21862 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
21863 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
21864 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
21865 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
21866 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
21867 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
21869 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
21871 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
21872 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
21873 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
21874 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
21875 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
21876 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
21877 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
21878 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
21879 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
21880 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
21882 o Documentation changes:
21883 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
21884 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
21886 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
21887 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
21888 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
21889 what should go in a patch.
21890 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
21892 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
21893 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
21894 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
21895 projects directory in svn.
21897 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
21898 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
21899 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
21900 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
21901 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
21902 hidden service usage.
21903 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
21904 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
21905 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
21906 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
21907 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
21910 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
21911 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
21912 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
21913 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
21914 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
21917 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
21918 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
21919 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
21920 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
21921 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
21922 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21923 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21924 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
21925 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
21926 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
21927 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
21928 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
21929 via application-level web tricks.
21930 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
21931 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
21932 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
21933 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
21934 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
21935 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
21936 send a body too). Since only server versions before
21937 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
21938 keep the workaround in place.
21939 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
21940 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
21941 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
21942 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
21943 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
21944 want to do it differently.
21945 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
21946 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
21947 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
21950 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
21951 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
21952 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
21953 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21954 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21955 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
21958 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21959 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21960 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21961 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21962 the rest of bug 1074.
21963 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21964 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21965 Found by "piebeer".
21966 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21967 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21968 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21969 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21970 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21971 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21972 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21975 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21977 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21980 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21981 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21982 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
21983 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21984 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21985 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21986 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21987 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21988 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21989 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21990 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21992 o Packaging changes:
21993 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21994 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21995 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21996 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
21997 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
21998 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22001 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
22002 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
22003 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
22004 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
22005 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22007 o Major bugfixes (security):
22008 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22009 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22010 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22012 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22013 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22014 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22015 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22016 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22017 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22018 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22019 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22021 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22022 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22023 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22024 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22025 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22026 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22027 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22028 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22029 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22030 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22031 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22032 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22033 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22034 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22037 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22038 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22039 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22040 bug reported by doorss.
22041 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22042 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22043 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22044 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22045 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22047 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22048 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22049 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22050 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
22051 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22054 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22055 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22058 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22059 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22060 Automake 1.7 or later.
22061 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22062 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22063 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22064 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22067 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
22068 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22069 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
22070 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
22074 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22075 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22076 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22077 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22079 o Directory authority changes:
22080 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22083 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22086 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
22087 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22088 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
22089 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
22090 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
22093 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22094 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22095 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22096 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22097 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22098 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22099 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22100 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22101 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22102 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22103 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22104 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22105 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22106 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22107 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22108 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22109 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22110 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22111 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22112 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22113 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22114 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22115 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22118 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
22119 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
22120 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
22121 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
22123 o New directory authorities:
22124 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22128 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
22129 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
22130 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
22132 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22133 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22134 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22135 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22136 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22137 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22139 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
22140 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
22141 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22144 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22145 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22146 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22147 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22148 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22149 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22150 Patch from mingw-san.
22153 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22154 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22155 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22156 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
22157 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
22158 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
22161 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
22162 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22163 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22164 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22165 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22167 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
22168 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22171 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22172 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22173 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22174 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22175 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22176 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22177 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22178 their directory fetches over TLS).
22179 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22180 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22181 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22182 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22183 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22184 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22185 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22186 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22189 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22190 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22194 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22195 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22196 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22197 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22198 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22199 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22200 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22203 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
22204 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
22205 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
22206 several minor potential security bugs.
22209 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22210 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22211 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22212 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
22213 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22214 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22215 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22218 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22219 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22221 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22222 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22223 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22224 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22227 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
22228 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
22232 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
22233 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
22234 customized patches to run/build.
22237 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
22238 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
22239 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
22242 o Major bugfixes (performance):
22243 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
22244 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
22245 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
22246 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
22247 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
22248 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
22249 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
22252 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22253 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22254 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22255 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22256 libraries in a security patch.
22257 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22258 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22259 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22260 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22264 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22265 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22268 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
22269 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
22270 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
22271 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
22272 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
22275 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
22276 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
22277 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
22278 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
22279 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
22281 o Directory authority changes:
22282 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
22286 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
22287 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
22288 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22291 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
22292 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
22293 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
22294 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
22295 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
22298 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
22299 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
22300 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
22301 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
22302 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
22303 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
22304 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
22307 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22308 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22309 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22310 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22311 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
22312 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
22314 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
22315 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
22318 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
22319 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
22320 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
22321 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22323 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
22324 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
22326 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
22327 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
22328 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
22329 in the Vidalia Settings window.
22332 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
22333 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
22334 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
22335 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
22336 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
22338 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
22339 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
22341 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
22342 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
22343 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
22346 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
22347 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
22348 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
22350 o New directory authorities:
22351 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
22353 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
22356 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
22357 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
22359 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
22360 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
22361 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22362 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
22363 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
22364 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
22365 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22366 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22367 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
22368 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
22369 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
22370 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
22371 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
22372 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
22373 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
22374 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
22375 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
22377 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
22378 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
22379 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
22381 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
22382 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
22386 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
22387 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
22388 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
22389 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
22390 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
22393 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
22394 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
22398 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
22399 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
22400 part of patch provided by "optimist".
22403 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
22404 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
22405 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
22406 and confuse fewer users.
22409 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
22410 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
22411 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
22412 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
22413 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
22414 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
22415 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
22418 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
22419 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
22420 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
22421 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
22422 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
22423 other features and bug fixes.
22425 o Major features (clients):
22426 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
22427 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
22428 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
22429 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
22431 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
22432 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
22433 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
22434 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
22435 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
22436 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
22437 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
22438 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
22439 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
22440 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
22442 o Major features (relays):
22443 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
22444 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
22445 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
22446 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
22447 data. Found by Jacob.
22448 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
22449 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
22450 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
22451 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
22453 o Major features (hidden services):
22454 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
22455 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
22456 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
22457 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
22458 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
22459 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
22460 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
22461 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
22462 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
22463 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
22464 lookups more reliable.
22466 o Major features (path selection):
22467 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
22468 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
22469 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
22470 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
22471 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
22473 o Major features (misc):
22474 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
22475 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
22477 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
22478 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
22479 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
22480 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
22481 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
22482 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
22484 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
22485 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
22486 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
22487 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
22489 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
22492 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
22493 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
22494 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
22495 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
22496 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
22497 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
22498 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
22499 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
22500 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
22501 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
22502 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
22503 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
22504 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
22505 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
22506 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
22507 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
22508 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
22509 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
22510 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
22511 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
22512 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22513 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
22514 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
22515 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
22516 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
22517 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
22518 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
22519 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
22520 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
22521 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
22522 Implements proposal 148.
22524 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22525 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
22526 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
22527 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
22528 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
22529 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
22531 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
22532 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
22533 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
22534 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
22535 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
22536 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22537 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
22538 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22539 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
22541 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
22542 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
22543 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
22544 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
22546 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
22547 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
22548 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
22549 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
22550 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
22551 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
22552 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
22553 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
22554 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22556 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22557 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
22558 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
22559 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
22560 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
22561 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
22562 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
22563 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
22564 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
22565 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
22566 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
22567 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
22568 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
22569 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
22570 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
22571 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
22574 o Major bugfixes (relays):
22575 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
22576 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
22577 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
22578 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
22579 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22580 patch by Sebastian.
22581 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22582 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22583 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22584 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
22585 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
22586 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
22587 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
22588 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
22589 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
22590 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
22593 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22594 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
22595 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
22596 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
22597 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
22598 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
22600 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22601 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
22602 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
22603 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
22604 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
22605 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
22606 on a typical directory cache.
22607 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
22608 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
22609 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
22610 and may reduce fragmentation.
22612 o New/changed config options:
22613 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
22614 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
22615 Suggested by Lucky Green.
22616 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
22617 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
22618 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
22619 locked down these days.
22620 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
22621 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22622 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
22623 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
22624 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
22625 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
22626 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
22627 output to messages of warning and error severity.
22628 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
22629 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
22630 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
22631 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
22632 directory requests we should expect to see.
22633 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
22634 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22635 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
22636 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
22637 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
22638 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
22639 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22641 o Minor features (relays):
22642 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
22643 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
22644 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
22645 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
22646 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
22648 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
22649 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
22650 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
22651 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
22652 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
22653 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
22654 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
22655 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
22656 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
22657 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
22658 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
22659 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
22660 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
22662 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22663 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
22664 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
22665 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
22666 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
22667 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
22668 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
22669 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
22670 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
22671 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
22672 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
22674 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
22675 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
22676 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
22677 fingerprints with or without space.
22679 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
22680 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
22681 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
22682 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
22683 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
22684 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
22685 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
22686 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
22687 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
22689 o Minor features (bridges):
22690 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22691 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22693 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22694 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22697 o Minor features (hidden services):
22698 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22699 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22700 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22701 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22702 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22703 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22704 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22705 faster after restart.
22706 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
22707 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
22709 o Minor features (build and packaging):
22710 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
22712 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22713 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22715 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22716 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22717 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22718 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22719 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
22720 are built without support for deprecated functions.
22721 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22722 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22723 system to do it for us.
22724 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22725 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22726 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22727 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22728 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22729 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22730 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22731 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22732 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22733 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
22734 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
22735 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
22736 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
22737 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
22738 with log.h on Android.
22739 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
22740 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
22742 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
22743 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
22744 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
22745 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
22747 o Minor features (controllers):
22748 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
22749 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
22750 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
22751 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
22752 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
22753 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
22754 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
22755 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
22756 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
22757 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
22759 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
22760 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
22761 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
22762 been fetched and validated.
22763 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
22764 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
22766 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
22768 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
22769 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
22770 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
22771 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
22772 partway through and wants to catch up.
22773 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
22775 o Minor features (tools):
22776 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
22777 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
22778 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
22779 people find host:port too confusing.
22780 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
22781 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
22783 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22784 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
22785 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22786 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
22787 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
22788 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
22789 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
22790 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
22791 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
22793 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
22794 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
22795 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
22796 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
22797 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
22799 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
22800 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
22801 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
22803 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
22804 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22805 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
22806 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
22807 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
22808 have already been marked for close.
22809 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
22810 memory performance during directory parsing.
22812 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22813 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
22814 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
22815 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
22816 done that for a long time.
22817 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
22818 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
22819 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
22820 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
22821 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
22822 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
22823 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
22824 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
22825 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22826 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
22827 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
22828 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
22829 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
22830 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
22831 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
22832 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
22833 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
22834 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
22835 because of a pending download.
22836 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
22837 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
22838 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
22839 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
22840 bug 820, reported by seeess.
22842 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22843 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
22844 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
22845 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
22846 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
22847 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
22848 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
22849 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
22850 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
22852 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22853 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
22855 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
22856 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
22857 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22858 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
22859 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
22860 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
22861 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
22862 of 0. Suggested by lark.
22863 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
22864 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
22865 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22866 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
22867 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
22869 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
22870 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
22871 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
22873 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
22874 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
22876 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
22877 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
22878 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
22879 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
22880 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
22881 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
22882 rest, and don't automatically fail.
22883 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
22884 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
22885 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
22886 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
22887 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
22888 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22890 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22891 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
22892 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
22893 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
22894 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
22895 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
22896 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
22898 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
22899 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22901 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22902 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
22903 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
22904 Workaround for bug 1024.
22905 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
22906 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
22907 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
22908 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
22909 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
22910 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
22911 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
22912 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
22915 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
22916 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
22919 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
22920 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
22921 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
22922 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
22923 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
22924 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
22925 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
22927 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
22928 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
22929 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
22930 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
22931 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
22932 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
22933 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
22934 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
22937 o Deprecated and removed features:
22938 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
22939 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
22940 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
22942 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
22944 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
22945 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22946 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
22947 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
22948 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
22949 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
22950 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
22951 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
22952 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
22953 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
22954 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
22955 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
22956 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
22957 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
22960 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22961 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
22962 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
22963 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
22964 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
22966 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
22967 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
22968 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
22969 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
22970 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
22971 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
22972 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
22973 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
22974 actual mistakes we're making here.
22975 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
22976 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
22977 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
22978 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
22979 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
22980 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
22981 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
22982 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
22983 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
22984 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
22985 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
22986 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
22987 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
22988 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
22989 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
22992 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
22994 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22995 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22996 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22997 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22998 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23001 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23002 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23003 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23004 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23005 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23006 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23007 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23008 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23009 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23010 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23013 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23014 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23015 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
23016 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23017 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23018 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23019 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23020 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23023 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
23024 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
23025 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
23026 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23027 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
23029 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
23030 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
23031 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
23032 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23035 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23036 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23037 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23038 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23039 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23040 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
23041 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23042 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23045 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
23046 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
23047 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23048 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23051 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
23052 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
23053 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
23054 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
23056 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
23057 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
23058 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
23061 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
23062 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
23065 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
23066 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
23067 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
23068 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
23069 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
23070 reported by "wood".
23071 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
23072 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
23073 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
23074 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
23075 identify a connection.
23076 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
23077 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
23078 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
23079 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
23080 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
23081 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
23082 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23083 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
23084 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
23085 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
23087 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
23088 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
23089 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
23090 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
23091 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
23092 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
23093 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
23096 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
23097 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
23099 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
23100 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
23101 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
23102 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
23103 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
23104 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
23105 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23106 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
23108 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
23109 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
23110 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
23111 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
23112 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
23113 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
23114 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
23115 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
23116 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
23117 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
23118 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
23119 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
23120 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
23121 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
23122 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23123 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
23124 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
23125 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23126 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
23127 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
23128 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
23129 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
23130 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
23131 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
23132 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
23133 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
23134 840. Patch from rovv.
23135 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
23136 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
23137 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
23139 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
23140 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
23141 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
23142 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
23143 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
23144 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
23145 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
23147 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23148 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
23149 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
23152 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
23153 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
23155 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
23156 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
23157 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
23158 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
23159 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
23160 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
23161 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
23162 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
23163 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
23165 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
23167 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
23168 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
23172 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
23173 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
23174 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
23175 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
23176 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
23177 variety of other issues.
23180 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
23181 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
23182 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
23183 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
23184 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
23185 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
23186 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
23187 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
23188 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
23189 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
23190 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
23191 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
23194 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
23195 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23197 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23198 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
23199 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
23200 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
23201 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
23202 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
23203 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23204 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
23205 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
23206 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
23207 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
23208 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
23209 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
23210 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
23211 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
23215 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
23216 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
23217 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
23218 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
23219 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
23220 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
23221 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
23222 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
23223 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
23224 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
23225 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
23226 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
23227 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
23228 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
23229 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
23230 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
23231 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
23232 list. It has been gone for many months.
23233 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
23234 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
23235 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
23238 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23239 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
23240 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
23243 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
23244 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
23245 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
23246 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23249 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23250 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23251 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23252 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23253 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23254 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23256 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23257 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23258 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23259 pointed out by rovv.
23262 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23263 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23264 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23265 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23266 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
23267 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
23268 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23269 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23270 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23271 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23272 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23273 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
23274 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
23275 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23276 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23277 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23278 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23279 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23280 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
23281 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
23282 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23285 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
23286 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
23287 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
23288 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
23289 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
23290 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
23291 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
23293 o New v3 directory design:
23294 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
23295 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
23296 network status document rather than each publishing their own
23297 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
23298 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
23299 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
23300 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
23302 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
23303 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
23304 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
23305 dannenberg (run by CCC).
23306 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
23307 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
23308 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
23309 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
23310 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
23311 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
23312 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
23313 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
23314 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
23315 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
23317 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
23318 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
23319 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
23320 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
23321 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
23322 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
23323 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
23324 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
23325 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
23326 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
23327 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
23328 certain censored countries by default again.
23329 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
23330 Tor's x509 certificates.
23332 o Implement bridge relays:
23333 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
23334 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
23335 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
23336 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
23337 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
23338 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
23339 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
23340 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
23341 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
23342 rather than "v2,v3".
23343 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
23344 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
23345 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
23346 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
23347 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
23348 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
23349 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
23350 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
23351 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
23352 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
23353 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
23355 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
23356 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
23357 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
23358 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
23359 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
23360 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
23361 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
23362 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
23363 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
23364 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
23365 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
23366 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
23367 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
23368 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
23369 bridges are functioning.
23370 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
23371 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
23372 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
23373 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
23374 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
23375 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
23376 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
23377 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
23378 knows that password. Unset by default.
23379 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
23380 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
23381 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
23382 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
23383 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
23384 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
23385 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
23386 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
23387 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
23388 and bridges@torproject.org.
23390 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
23391 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
23392 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
23393 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
23394 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
23395 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
23396 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
23397 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
23398 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
23399 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
23400 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
23401 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
23402 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
23403 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
23404 longer a completely silly thing to do.
23406 o Major features (relay usability):
23407 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
23408 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
23409 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
23410 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
23411 proposal 111 for details.
23412 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
23413 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
23414 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
23415 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
23417 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
23418 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
23419 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
23421 o Major features (directory authorities):
23422 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
23423 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
23424 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
23425 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
23426 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
23427 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
23428 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
23429 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
23430 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
23431 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
23432 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
23433 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
23434 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
23436 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
23437 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
23438 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
23439 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
23440 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
23441 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
23442 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
23443 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
23444 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
23445 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
23446 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
23447 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
23448 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
23449 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
23450 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
23451 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
23452 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
23453 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
23454 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
23455 general, controller, or bridge.
23457 o Major features (other):
23458 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
23459 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
23460 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
23461 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
23462 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23463 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
23464 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
23465 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
23466 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
23467 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
23468 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
23469 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
23470 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
23471 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
23474 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
23475 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
23476 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
23478 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
23479 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
23480 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
23481 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
23482 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
23483 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
23484 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
23485 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
23486 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
23487 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
23488 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
23490 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
23491 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
23493 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
23494 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
23495 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
23496 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
23498 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
23499 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
23500 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
23501 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
23502 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
23504 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
23505 address maps to an internal address space.
23506 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
23507 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
23508 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
23509 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
23510 complements proposal 107.
23511 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
23512 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
23513 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23514 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
23515 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
23516 reported by taranis and lodger.
23517 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
23518 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
23519 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
23520 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
23521 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
23522 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
23523 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
23524 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
23525 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
23526 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
23527 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
23528 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
23529 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
23531 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
23532 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
23534 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
23535 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
23536 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
23537 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
23538 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
23539 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
23540 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
23542 o Major bugfixes (other):
23543 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
23544 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
23545 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
23547 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
23548 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
23549 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
23550 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
23551 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
23552 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
23553 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
23554 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
23555 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
23556 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
23557 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
23558 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
23559 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
23560 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23561 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
23562 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
23563 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
23564 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
23565 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
23567 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
23568 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
23569 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
23570 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
23571 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
23572 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
23573 eat all of our bandwidth.
23574 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
23575 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
23576 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
23577 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
23578 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
23579 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
23580 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
23581 bug 688, reported by mfr.
23582 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
23583 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
23584 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
23585 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
23587 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
23588 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
23589 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
23590 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
23591 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
23592 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
23593 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
23594 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
23595 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
23596 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
23597 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
23598 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
23600 o Performance improvements (memory):
23601 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
23602 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
23603 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
23604 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
23605 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
23606 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
23607 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
23608 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
23609 memory fragmentation.
23610 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
23611 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
23612 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
23613 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
23614 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
23616 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
23617 of them were actually distinct.
23618 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
23620 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
23621 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
23622 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
23623 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
23624 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
23625 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
23626 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
23627 performance-intensive.
23628 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
23629 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
23630 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
23631 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
23632 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
23635 o Performance improvements (socket management):
23636 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
23637 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
23638 our allocated connection limit.
23639 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
23640 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
23641 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
23642 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
23643 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
23645 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
23646 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
23648 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
23649 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
23650 is interested in a given message.
23651 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
23652 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
23653 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
23654 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
23655 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
23657 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
23658 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
23659 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
23661 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
23662 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
23663 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
23664 they are the same).
23665 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
23666 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
23667 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
23668 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
23671 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
23672 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
23673 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
23674 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
23675 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
23676 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
23677 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
23679 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
23680 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
23681 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
23682 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
23683 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
23684 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
23685 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
23686 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
23687 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
23688 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
23689 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
23690 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
23691 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
23694 o Changed config option behavior (features):
23695 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
23696 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
23697 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
23698 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
23699 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
23700 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
23701 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
23702 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
23703 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
23704 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
23705 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
23706 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
23707 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
23708 and are reaching it.
23709 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
23710 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
23711 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23712 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
23714 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
23715 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23716 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23717 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23718 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23719 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23720 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
23721 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23722 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
23724 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
23725 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
23726 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
23727 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
23728 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
23729 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23730 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
23731 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
23733 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
23734 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
23736 o New config options:
23737 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
23738 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
23739 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
23740 running a test network on a single host.
23741 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
23742 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
23743 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
23744 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
23745 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
23746 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
23747 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
23748 the approved-routers file.
23749 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
23750 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
23751 v2 directory information.
23753 o Minor features (other):
23754 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
23755 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
23756 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
23757 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
23758 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
23759 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
23761 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
23762 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
23763 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
23764 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
23765 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
23766 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
23767 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
23769 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
23770 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
23771 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
23773 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
23774 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
23775 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
23776 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
23777 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
23779 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
23780 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
23781 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
23782 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
23783 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
23784 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
23785 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
23787 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
23788 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
23789 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
23790 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
23791 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
23792 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
23793 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
23794 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
23795 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
23798 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23799 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
23800 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
23802 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
23803 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
23804 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
23805 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
23806 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
23807 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
23809 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
23810 bandwidthburst values.
23811 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
23812 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
23813 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
23814 to mark all our entry points down.
23815 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
23816 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
23817 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
23818 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
23819 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
23821 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
23822 more often than they are allowed to appear.
23823 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
23824 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23825 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
23826 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
23827 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
23828 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
23829 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
23831 o Controller features:
23832 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
23833 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
23834 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
23835 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
23836 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
23837 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
23839 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
23840 multiple controller passwords.
23841 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
23842 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
23843 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
23844 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
23846 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
23847 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
23848 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
23849 cookie authentication file, and config option
23850 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
23851 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
23852 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23853 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
23855 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
23856 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
23857 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
23858 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
23859 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
23860 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
23861 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
23863 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
23864 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
23866 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
23867 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
23868 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
23869 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
23870 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
23871 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
23872 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
23873 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
23874 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
23875 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
23876 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
23877 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
23878 report the value as a "minimum skew."
23880 o Controller bugfixes:
23881 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
23882 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
23883 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
23884 processes can't run us out of memory.
23885 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
23886 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
23887 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
23889 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
23890 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
23891 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
23892 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
23893 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
23894 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
23895 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
23896 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
23897 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
23898 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
23899 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
23900 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
23901 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
23902 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
23903 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
23905 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
23906 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
23908 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
23909 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
23910 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
23911 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
23912 WARN-severity events.
23914 o Portability / building / compiling:
23915 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
23916 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
23917 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
23918 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
23919 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
23920 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
23921 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
23922 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
23923 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
23924 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
23925 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
23926 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
23927 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
23929 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
23930 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
23931 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
23932 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
23933 Use this version consistently in log messages.
23934 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
23935 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
23936 partial results on small file reads.
23937 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
23938 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
23939 a directory. Fix from lodger.
23940 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
23941 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
23942 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
23944 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
23945 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
23946 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
23947 logging for the unit tests.
23948 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
23949 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
23951 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
23952 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
23954 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
23955 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
23956 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
23957 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
23960 o Logging improvements:
23961 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
23962 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
23963 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
23964 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
23965 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
23966 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
23967 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
23969 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
23970 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
23971 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
23972 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
23973 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
23974 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
23975 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
23976 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
23977 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
23978 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
23979 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
23980 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
23981 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23982 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
23983 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
23984 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
23985 Good in combination with --hash-password.
23986 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
23987 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
23989 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
23990 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
23991 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
23992 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
23994 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
23995 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
23996 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
23997 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
23998 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
24000 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
24001 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
24002 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
24003 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
24004 makes the log messages nicer.
24005 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
24006 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
24008 o Contributed scripts and tools:
24009 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
24010 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
24012 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
24013 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
24014 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
24015 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
24016 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
24017 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
24018 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
24019 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
24020 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
24021 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
24023 o Newly deprecated features:
24024 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
24025 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
24026 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
24027 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
24029 o Removed features:
24030 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
24031 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
24032 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
24033 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
24034 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
24036 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
24037 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
24038 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
24039 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
24040 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
24041 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
24042 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
24043 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
24045 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
24046 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
24047 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
24048 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
24049 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
24050 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
24052 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
24053 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
24054 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
24055 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
24056 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
24057 patch from Karsten Loesing.
24058 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
24059 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
24060 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
24061 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
24062 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
24063 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
24064 code), this assumption no longer holds.
24065 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
24069 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
24070 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
24071 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
24072 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24075 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24076 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24077 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24078 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24079 on network address.
24082 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
24083 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
24084 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24085 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
24086 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24087 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
24088 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24089 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24090 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
24091 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
24092 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
24093 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
24096 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24097 rebuild our server descriptor.
24098 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24099 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
24100 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
24101 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24102 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24103 nonstandard integer types.
24104 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24105 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24106 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
24107 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
24108 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
24110 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24111 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
24112 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
24113 when they receive them.
24114 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
24115 This includes some 64-bit systems.
24116 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
24117 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
24118 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
24119 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
24120 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24121 router_get_by_hexdigest().
24122 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24123 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24127 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
24128 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
24129 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
24130 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
24131 lists for a few hours each day.
24133 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24134 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
24135 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
24136 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
24137 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
24138 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24139 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
24140 rend_process_relay_cell().
24142 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24143 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
24144 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
24145 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
24146 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
24147 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
24148 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
24149 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
24151 o Major bugfixes (other):
24152 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
24153 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
24154 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
24155 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
24156 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
24157 circuit cannibalization).
24158 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
24159 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
24160 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24161 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24162 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24163 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
24166 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
24167 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
24169 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
24170 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
24171 absent. Resolves bug 467.
24172 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
24173 a way to trigger this remotely.)
24174 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24175 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24176 were reporting the dir port.)
24177 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
24178 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
24179 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
24180 the future. Fixes bug 434.
24181 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
24183 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
24184 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
24185 the onion key from getting rotated.
24186 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
24187 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
24188 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
24189 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
24190 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
24191 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24192 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24195 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
24196 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
24197 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
24198 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
24199 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
24202 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
24203 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
24206 o Major bugfixes (security):
24207 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
24208 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
24209 become more of a headache than it's worth.
24211 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
24212 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
24213 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
24215 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
24216 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
24217 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
24218 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
24219 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
24220 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
24222 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
24223 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
24224 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
24225 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
24226 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
24228 o Minor features (controller):
24229 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
24230 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
24231 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
24232 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
24234 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24235 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
24236 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
24237 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
24238 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
24239 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
24240 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
24241 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
24243 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24244 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
24245 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
24246 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
24247 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
24248 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
24249 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
24250 if we ran off the end of the list.
24251 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
24252 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
24253 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
24254 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
24255 every time we change any piece of our config.
24256 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
24257 encourage people using them to stop.
24258 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
24260 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
24261 servers to choose a circuit.
24262 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
24263 unparseable piece of it.
24266 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
24267 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
24268 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
24269 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
24270 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
24271 TorK, etc. Or worse.
24273 o Major security fixes:
24274 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
24275 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
24278 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
24279 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
24280 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
24281 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
24283 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
24284 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
24286 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24287 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
24288 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
24289 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
24290 routerlist while inserting a new router.
24291 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
24292 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
24294 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
24295 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
24296 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
24298 o Major bugfixes (security):
24299 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
24301 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
24302 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
24303 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
24304 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
24305 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
24306 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
24307 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
24308 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
24309 guard list unless we need to.
24311 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
24312 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
24313 don't get overused as guards.
24315 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
24316 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
24317 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
24318 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
24319 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
24321 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24322 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
24323 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
24326 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24327 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24328 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
24329 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
24330 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
24331 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
24332 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
24333 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
24336 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
24337 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
24338 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
24339 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
24341 o Directory authority changes:
24342 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
24343 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
24344 or use hidden services.
24346 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24347 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
24348 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
24349 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
24350 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
24351 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
24352 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
24353 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
24354 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
24357 o Major bugfixes (security):
24358 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
24359 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
24360 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
24362 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
24363 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
24364 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
24365 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
24366 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
24367 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
24368 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
24369 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
24370 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
24371 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
24374 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
24375 purpose=controller.
24376 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
24377 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
24379 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
24380 having a hard time downloading.
24381 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24382 partial results on small file reads.
24383 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
24384 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
24385 the gaps in the store get very large.
24388 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
24389 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
24391 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
24392 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
24395 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
24396 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
24397 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
24398 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
24399 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
24400 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
24402 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
24403 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
24404 free speech on the Internet.
24406 o Major features, client performance:
24407 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
24408 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
24409 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
24410 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
24411 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
24412 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
24413 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
24414 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
24415 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
24416 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
24417 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
24418 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
24419 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
24420 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
24421 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
24423 o Major features, client functionality:
24424 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
24425 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
24426 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
24427 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
24428 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
24429 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
24430 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
24431 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
24432 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
24433 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
24434 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
24435 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
24436 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
24438 o Major features, servers:
24439 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
24440 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
24441 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
24442 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
24443 authenticated, so use with care.
24444 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
24445 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
24446 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
24448 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
24449 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
24450 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
24451 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
24452 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
24453 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
24455 o Improvements on DNS support:
24456 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
24457 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
24458 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
24459 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
24460 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
24461 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
24462 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
24463 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
24464 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
24465 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
24466 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
24467 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
24468 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
24469 lets you turn it off.
24470 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
24471 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
24472 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
24473 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
24474 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
24475 useful to the network.
24476 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
24477 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
24478 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
24479 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
24480 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
24481 our tests for DNS hijacking.
24483 o Improvements on reachability testing:
24484 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
24485 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
24486 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
24487 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
24488 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
24489 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
24490 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
24491 if their identity keys are as expected.
24492 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
24493 chews through many circuits before giving up.
24494 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
24495 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
24496 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
24497 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
24498 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
24499 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
24500 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
24501 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
24502 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
24503 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
24504 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
24505 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
24507 o Improvements on rate limiting:
24508 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
24509 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
24510 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
24511 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
24512 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
24514 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
24515 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
24516 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
24517 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
24518 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
24519 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
24520 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
24521 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
24523 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
24524 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
24526 o Major features, NT services:
24527 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
24528 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
24529 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
24530 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
24531 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
24532 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
24533 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
24535 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
24536 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
24537 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
24539 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
24540 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
24541 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
24543 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
24544 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
24546 o Directory authority improvements:
24547 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
24549 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
24550 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
24551 too much load to the exit nodes.
24552 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
24553 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
24554 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
24555 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
24556 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
24557 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
24558 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
24559 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
24560 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
24561 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
24562 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
24563 broken. Not used yet.
24564 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
24565 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
24566 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
24567 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
24568 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
24569 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
24570 non-versioning dirservers.
24571 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
24572 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
24573 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
24575 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
24576 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
24577 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
24578 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
24580 o Directory mirrors and clients:
24581 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
24582 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
24583 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
24584 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
24585 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
24586 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
24587 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
24588 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
24589 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
24590 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
24591 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
24592 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
24593 routers for even longer.
24594 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
24595 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
24596 caching HTTP proxies.
24597 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
24598 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
24599 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
24600 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
24602 o Major fixes, crashes:
24603 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
24604 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
24605 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
24606 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
24608 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
24609 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
24610 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
24611 stream is detached.
24612 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
24613 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
24614 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
24615 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
24616 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
24617 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
24618 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
24619 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
24620 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
24621 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
24623 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
24624 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
24625 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
24626 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
24627 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
24628 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
24629 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
24630 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
24631 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
24632 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
24633 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
24634 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
24635 could return an unnamed server instead.
24636 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
24637 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
24638 a more attractive target for compromise.)
24639 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
24640 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
24641 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
24642 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
24644 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
24645 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
24647 o Major fixes, other:
24648 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
24649 uptime in the descriptor.
24650 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
24651 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
24652 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
24653 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
24654 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
24655 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
24656 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
24657 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
24658 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
24659 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
24660 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
24661 our DirPort now, etc.
24662 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
24663 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
24664 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
24666 o New config options or behaviors:
24667 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
24668 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
24669 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
24670 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
24671 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
24672 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
24673 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
24674 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
24675 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
24676 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24677 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
24678 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
24680 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
24681 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
24682 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
24683 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
24684 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
24686 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
24687 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
24688 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
24689 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
24690 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
24691 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
24692 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
24693 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
24694 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
24695 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
24696 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
24697 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
24698 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
24699 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
24700 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
24701 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
24702 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
24703 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
24704 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
24705 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
24706 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
24707 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
24708 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
24709 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
24710 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
24711 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
24712 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
24713 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
24714 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
24715 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
24717 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
24718 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
24719 your ORPort is set.
24722 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
24723 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
24725 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
24726 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
24727 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
24728 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
24730 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
24731 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
24732 whether the config options are bad or good.
24733 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
24734 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
24735 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
24736 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
24737 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
24738 result more than once.
24739 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
24740 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
24741 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
24742 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
24743 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
24744 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
24745 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
24746 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
24747 before we check for libevent.
24748 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
24749 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
24750 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
24751 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
24752 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
24753 recommendation system saner.)
24754 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
24755 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
24756 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
24757 now universal binaries.
24758 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
24759 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
24761 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
24763 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
24764 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
24765 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
24766 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
24767 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
24768 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
24770 o Minor features, controller:
24771 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
24772 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
24773 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
24775 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
24776 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24777 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
24778 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
24779 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
24780 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
24781 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
24783 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
24784 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
24785 connected or resolved cell.
24786 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
24787 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
24788 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
24789 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
24790 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
24791 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
24792 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
24794 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
24795 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
24796 entry guard status as it changes.
24797 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
24798 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
24799 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
24800 watching for STREAM events.
24801 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
24802 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
24803 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
24804 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
24806 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
24807 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
24808 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
24809 working much like those for circuit events.
24810 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
24811 about the current status of a router.
24812 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
24813 a router's status has changed.
24814 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
24815 can tell which events and features are supported.
24816 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
24817 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
24818 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
24819 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
24820 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
24821 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
24822 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
24823 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
24824 for more information.
24825 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
24826 best guess to the user.
24827 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
24828 descriptor has changed.
24829 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
24830 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
24831 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
24833 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
24834 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
24835 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
24836 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
24837 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
24838 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
24839 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
24840 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
24841 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
24842 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
24843 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
24845 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
24846 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
24848 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
24849 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
24850 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
24852 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
24853 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
24854 the controller from learning about current events.
24855 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
24856 reported by Mike Perry.
24857 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
24858 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
24859 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
24860 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
24861 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
24862 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
24863 long nicknames where appropriate.
24864 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
24865 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
24867 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
24868 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
24869 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
24870 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
24871 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
24873 o Minor features, code performance:
24874 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
24875 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
24876 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
24878 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
24879 some profiles, but not others.)
24880 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
24881 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
24882 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
24883 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
24884 operations, for profiling.
24885 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
24886 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
24887 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
24888 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
24889 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
24890 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
24891 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
24892 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
24894 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
24895 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
24896 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
24897 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
24898 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
24899 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
24900 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
24901 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
24902 family lists conveniently.
24904 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
24905 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
24906 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
24907 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
24908 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
24909 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
24910 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
24911 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
24912 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
24913 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
24914 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
24915 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
24916 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
24917 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
24918 of it), is not therefore "up".
24920 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
24921 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
24922 what version a router is running.
24923 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
24924 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
24925 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
24926 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
24928 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
24929 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
24930 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
24931 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
24932 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
24935 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
24936 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
24937 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
24939 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
24940 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
24942 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
24943 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
24944 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
24945 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
24946 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
24947 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
24948 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
24949 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
24950 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
24951 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
24953 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
24954 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
24955 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
24956 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
24957 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
24958 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
24959 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
24960 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
24961 get one we don't recognize.
24964 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
24965 o Security bugfixes:
24966 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
24967 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
24968 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
24969 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
24973 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
24974 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
24975 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
24978 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
24980 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
24981 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
24982 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24983 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
24984 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
24985 its circuits on demand.
24986 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
24987 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
24988 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
24989 connections more stable on average.
24990 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
24991 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
24992 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
24994 o Security bugfixes:
24995 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
24996 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
24999 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
25001 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
25002 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
25003 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
25004 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
25005 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
25006 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
25007 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
25008 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
25011 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
25013 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
25014 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
25015 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
25016 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
25017 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
25018 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
25019 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
25020 it can't resolve its hostname.
25021 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
25022 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
25023 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25026 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
25027 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
25028 "extendcircuit" request.
25029 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
25030 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
25031 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
25032 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
25034 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
25035 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
25036 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
25038 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
25039 methods: these are known to be buggy.
25040 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
25041 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
25042 we don't recognize.
25045 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
25047 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
25048 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
25049 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
25050 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
25051 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
25052 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
25053 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
25054 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
25055 test reachability, so you won't publish.
25058 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
25059 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
25060 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
25061 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
25062 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
25064 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
25065 own server descriptor yet.
25068 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
25070 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
25071 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
25072 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
25073 make sure to test via one of these.
25074 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
25075 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
25076 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
25077 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
25078 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
25080 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
25081 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
25082 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
25085 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
25086 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
25087 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
25088 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
25089 directory authority.
25090 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
25091 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
25092 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
25093 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
25096 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
25097 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
25098 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
25100 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
25101 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
25102 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
25103 current guards when picking a new guard.
25104 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
25105 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
25106 when we had more than one pending.
25107 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
25108 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
25109 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
25110 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
25111 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
25112 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
25113 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
25114 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
25115 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
25116 debug the reachability problems better.
25118 o Log / documentation fixes:
25119 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
25120 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
25121 about protocol violations by others.
25122 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
25123 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
25124 about what happened to our old torrc.
25127 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
25128 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
25129 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
25130 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
25131 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
25132 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
25134 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
25135 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
25136 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
25137 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
25138 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
25139 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
25140 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
25141 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
25142 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
25143 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
25144 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
25145 on malicious huge inputs.
25147 o Security fixes, major:
25148 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
25149 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
25150 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
25151 misreading their logs.
25152 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
25153 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
25154 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
25155 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
25156 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
25157 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
25158 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
25159 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
25160 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
25161 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
25162 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
25163 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
25164 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
25165 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
25167 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
25168 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
25169 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
25170 firewall options forbid.
25171 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
25172 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
25173 can only proxy to certain destinations.
25174 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
25175 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
25176 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
25178 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
25179 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
25180 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
25181 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
25182 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
25183 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
25184 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
25185 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
25186 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
25187 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
25188 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
25189 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
25190 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
25192 o Security fixes, minor:
25193 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
25194 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
25196 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
25197 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
25198 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
25199 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
25200 if we've not heard of a server.
25201 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
25202 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
25203 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
25204 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
25205 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
25206 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
25207 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
25208 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
25209 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
25210 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
25211 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
25212 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
25213 aids some statistical attacks.
25214 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
25215 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
25216 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
25217 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
25218 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
25219 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
25220 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
25221 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
25224 o Packaging improvements:
25225 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
25226 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
25227 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
25228 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
25229 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
25230 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
25232 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
25233 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
25234 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
25235 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
25236 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
25237 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
25239 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
25240 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
25241 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
25243 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
25244 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
25245 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
25246 They are useless now.
25247 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
25248 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
25249 is reachable by you.
25250 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
25253 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
25254 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
25255 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
25256 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
25257 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
25258 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
25259 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
25260 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
25261 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
25262 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
25263 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
25264 and isolating attacks better.
25265 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
25266 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
25267 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
25268 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
25269 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
25270 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
25271 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
25272 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
25273 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
25274 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
25275 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
25277 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
25278 can answer v2 directory requests too.
25279 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
25280 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
25281 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
25282 mirrors still cache and serve it).
25283 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
25284 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
25285 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
25286 for clients and for servers.
25287 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
25288 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
25289 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
25290 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
25291 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
25292 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
25293 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
25294 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
25295 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
25296 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
25297 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
25299 o Other directory improvements:
25300 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
25301 fifth authoritative directory servers.
25302 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
25303 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
25304 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
25305 to hang up on them.
25306 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
25307 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
25308 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
25309 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
25310 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
25311 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
25313 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
25314 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
25315 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
25316 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
25317 connections more reliable.
25318 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
25319 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
25320 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
25321 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
25322 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
25323 we fail to connect).
25324 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
25326 o Controller protocol improvements:
25327 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
25328 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
25329 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
25330 applications without caring how our protocol works.
25331 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
25332 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
25333 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
25334 many bytes we've used in this time period.
25335 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
25336 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
25337 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
25338 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
25339 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
25340 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
25341 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
25342 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
25343 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
25344 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
25345 or "signal reload".
25346 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
25347 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
25348 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
25349 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
25350 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
25351 a router in its role as directory authority.
25352 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
25353 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
25354 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
25355 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
25356 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
25357 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
25358 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
25359 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
25360 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
25361 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
25362 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
25363 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
25364 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
25365 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
25366 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
25367 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
25368 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
25369 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
25371 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
25372 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
25373 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
25374 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
25375 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
25376 just tell them to go read their logs.
25378 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
25379 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
25380 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
25381 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
25382 try to be a bit more fair.
25383 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
25384 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
25385 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
25386 and we're using a default DirPort.
25387 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
25388 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
25389 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
25390 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
25391 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
25392 services faster on the service end.
25393 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
25395 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
25396 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
25397 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
25398 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
25399 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
25400 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
25401 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
25402 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
25403 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
25404 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
25405 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
25406 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
25407 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
25408 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
25409 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
25410 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
25411 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
25412 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
25413 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
25414 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
25415 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
25416 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
25417 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
25418 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
25419 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
25421 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
25422 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
25423 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
25424 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
25425 so we can be backward-compatible.
25426 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
25427 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
25428 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
25429 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
25430 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
25431 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
25432 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
25433 initial descriptor forever.
25434 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
25435 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
25436 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
25437 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
25438 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
25439 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
25440 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
25441 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
25442 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
25443 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
25444 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
25445 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
25446 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
25447 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
25448 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
25449 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
25450 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
25451 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
25452 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
25453 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
25454 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
25455 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
25456 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
25457 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
25458 ports that have changed.
25459 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
25460 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
25461 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
25462 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
25463 connections once a week.
25464 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
25465 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
25466 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
25467 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
25468 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
25469 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
25470 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
25471 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
25472 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
25473 able to discover them.
25474 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
25475 want to make it an NT service.
25476 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
25477 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
25478 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
25479 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
25480 memory leaks better.
25481 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
25482 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
25483 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
25484 statistics are now uint64_t's.
25485 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
25486 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
25487 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
25488 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
25489 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
25490 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
25491 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
25492 default ulimit -n is 1024.
25493 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
25494 and its existence is confusing some users.
25496 o Config option fixes:
25497 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
25498 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
25499 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
25500 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
25501 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
25502 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
25503 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
25504 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
25505 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
25507 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
25508 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
25509 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
25510 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
25511 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
25512 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
25513 it would silently ignore the 6668.
25514 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
25515 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
25516 silently resetting it to its default.
25517 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
25518 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
25519 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
25520 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
25521 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
25522 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
25523 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
25524 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25525 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25526 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
25527 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
25528 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
25529 Address config option.
25530 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
25531 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
25533 o Config option features:
25534 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
25535 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
25536 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
25537 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
25538 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
25540 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
25541 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
25542 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
25543 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
25544 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
25545 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
25546 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
25547 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
25548 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
25549 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
25550 in at least some cases.)
25551 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
25552 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
25553 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
25554 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
25555 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
25556 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
25557 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
25558 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
25559 even if we know they're jerks.
25560 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
25561 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
25562 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
25563 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
25564 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
25565 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
25566 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
25567 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
25568 because older Tors do not understand it.
25569 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
25570 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
25571 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
25572 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
25573 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
25574 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
25575 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
25576 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
25577 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
25578 unattached before we fail it?
25579 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
25580 at least this many seconds ago.
25581 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
25582 at least this many seconds ago.
25583 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
25584 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
25586 o Improved and clearer log messages:
25587 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
25588 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
25589 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
25591 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
25592 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
25593 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
25594 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
25595 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
25596 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
25597 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
25598 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
25599 temporarily unreachable.
25600 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
25601 Windows-style errno back.
25602 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
25603 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
25605 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
25606 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
25607 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
25608 exactly for this case.
25609 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
25610 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
25611 don't warn twice about the same name.
25612 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
25614 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
25615 it was self-testing that told us so.
25616 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
25617 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
25618 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
25619 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
25620 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
25621 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
25622 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
25623 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
25624 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
25625 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
25626 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
25627 established a circuit.
25628 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
25629 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
25630 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
25631 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
25632 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
25633 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
25634 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
25635 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
25636 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
25637 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
25638 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
25639 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
25640 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
25641 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
25642 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
25643 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
25644 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
25645 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
25646 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
25647 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
25648 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
25649 testing for reachability.
25650 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
25651 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
25653 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
25656 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
25657 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25658 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
25659 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
25661 o Other important bugfixes:
25662 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
25663 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
25664 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
25665 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
25667 o Backported features:
25668 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
25669 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
25670 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
25671 without getting overloaded.
25672 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
25673 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
25674 503's whenever they feel busy.
25675 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
25676 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
25677 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
25678 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
25679 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
25682 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
25683 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25684 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
25685 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
25686 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25687 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
25688 too -- so detect and avoid this.
25689 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
25691 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
25692 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25693 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25694 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
25695 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
25696 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25697 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25698 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
25699 rendezvous circuits.
25700 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
25702 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25703 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
25704 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
25705 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
25706 advertising it because of hibernation.
25707 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
25708 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
25709 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25710 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25711 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25712 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25713 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25714 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
25715 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
25716 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
25717 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
25718 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
25719 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
25720 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
25721 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
25724 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
25725 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25726 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
25727 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
25728 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
25729 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25730 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25731 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
25732 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
25733 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
25734 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
25735 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
25736 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
25737 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
25738 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
25741 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
25742 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25743 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
25745 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
25746 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
25749 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
25750 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25751 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
25752 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
25753 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
25754 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
25755 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
25757 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
25758 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
25762 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
25763 o New directory servers:
25764 - tor26 has changed IP address.
25766 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25767 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
25768 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
25769 pthreads libraries.
25770 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
25771 claims its dirport is 0.
25772 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
25773 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
25777 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
25778 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25779 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
25780 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
25781 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
25782 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
25783 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
25784 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
25787 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
25789 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
25790 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
25791 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
25792 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
25793 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
25794 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
25795 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
25796 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
25797 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
25799 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
25800 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
25802 o Assert / crash bugs:
25803 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25804 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25805 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25807 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25808 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
25809 TLS errors better in other situations too.
25810 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
25811 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
25814 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
25815 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
25816 duplicate ram over time.
25817 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
25818 reentry and threadsafeness.
25819 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
25820 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
25821 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
25823 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
25824 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
25825 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
25826 point at your Tor server.
25827 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
25829 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
25830 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
25833 o Protocol correctness:
25834 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
25835 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
25836 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
25837 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
25838 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
25839 to abandon partially built circuits.
25840 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
25841 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
25842 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
25843 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
25844 descriptors we just dropped.
25845 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
25846 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
25847 and to take errno into account where possible.
25848 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
25849 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
25850 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
25851 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
25853 o Robustness improvements:
25854 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
25855 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
25856 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
25858 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
25859 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
25860 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
25861 that will want high uptime circuits.
25862 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
25863 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
25864 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
25865 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
25866 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
25867 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
25868 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
25869 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
25870 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
25871 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
25872 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
25873 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
25874 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
25875 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
25876 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
25877 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
25878 for google.com" problem.
25879 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
25880 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
25881 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
25882 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
25883 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
25886 o Reachability testing.
25887 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
25888 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
25889 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
25890 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
25891 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
25892 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
25893 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
25894 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
25895 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
25896 already connected to them.
25897 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
25901 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
25902 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
25903 nickname+key are allowed.
25904 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
25905 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
25906 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
25907 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
25908 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
25909 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
25910 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
25911 have quite wrong clocks).
25912 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
25913 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
25914 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
25915 their descriptors are being rejected.
25917 o Efficiency improvements:
25918 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
25919 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
25920 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
25921 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
25922 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
25923 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
25924 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
25925 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
25926 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
25927 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
25929 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
25930 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
25931 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
25932 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
25933 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
25934 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
25935 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
25936 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
25937 of CPU time plus memory.
25938 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
25939 directory every time you regenerate it.
25940 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
25941 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
25942 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
25943 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
25944 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
25945 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
25946 lowercase when you first see them.
25949 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
25950 hidden services better.
25951 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
25952 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
25953 when we try to launch one.
25954 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
25955 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
25956 attempts to build a circuit.
25957 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
25958 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
25959 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
25960 normal web requests.
25963 - More Tor controller support. See
25964 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
25965 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
25966 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
25967 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
25968 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
25969 to make it easier to write controllers.
25970 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
25971 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
25972 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
25973 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
25974 new log event types.
25976 o New config options/defaults:
25977 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
25978 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
25979 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
25980 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
25981 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
25983 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
25985 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
25986 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
25987 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
25988 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
25989 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
25991 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
25992 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
25993 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
25994 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
25995 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
25996 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
25997 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
25998 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
25999 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
26000 required exit node for certain sites.
26001 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
26002 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
26003 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
26004 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
26005 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
26006 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
26007 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
26008 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
26009 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
26011 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
26012 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
26013 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
26014 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
26015 private-IP addresses.
26016 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
26017 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
26018 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
26019 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
26020 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
26021 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
26022 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
26023 is valid without actually launching Tor.
26025 o Logging improvements:
26026 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
26027 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
26028 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
26029 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
26031 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
26032 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
26033 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
26034 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
26035 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
26036 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
26037 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
26038 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
26039 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
26041 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
26043 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
26044 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
26045 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
26046 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
26047 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
26048 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
26050 o New contrib scripts:
26051 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
26052 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
26054 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
26055 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
26056 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
26057 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
26058 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
26059 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
26061 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
26062 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
26063 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
26064 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
26068 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
26069 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
26070 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
26071 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
26072 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
26073 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
26074 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
26076 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
26077 something more reasonable when first installing.
26078 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
26079 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
26080 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
26081 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
26083 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
26084 artificially capped at 500kB.
26085 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
26087 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
26088 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
26089 they could use instead.
26090 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
26091 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
26092 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
26093 the user asks you to.
26096 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
26097 rather than just rejecting it.
26098 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
26099 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
26100 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
26101 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
26102 rather than just "success" or "failure".
26103 - A more sane version numbering system. See
26104 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
26105 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
26106 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
26107 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
26108 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
26109 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
26111 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
26112 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
26113 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
26114 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
26116 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
26117 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
26119 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
26120 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
26121 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
26122 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
26124 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
26125 whether the server is hibernating.
26128 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
26129 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
26130 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26131 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26132 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26136 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
26137 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26138 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26139 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
26140 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
26143 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
26144 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26145 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
26146 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
26147 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
26148 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
26149 busy for more than 100 seconds.
26152 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
26153 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26154 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
26155 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
26156 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
26157 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
26158 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
26159 creating actual system users.
26160 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
26161 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
26165 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
26166 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
26167 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
26168 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
26169 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
26170 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
26171 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
26172 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
26173 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
26174 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
26175 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
26176 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
26177 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
26178 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
26179 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
26181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
26182 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
26183 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
26184 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
26185 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
26186 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
26187 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
26188 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
26189 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
26190 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
26191 existing torrc files.
26192 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
26195 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
26196 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26197 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
26198 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
26199 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
26200 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
26201 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
26202 the win32 SYSTEM account.
26203 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
26204 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
26205 file descriptors available.
26206 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
26207 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
26208 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
26211 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
26212 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26213 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
26214 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
26216 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
26217 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
26218 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
26219 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
26220 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
26222 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
26223 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
26224 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
26225 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
26226 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
26227 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
26228 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
26229 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
26230 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
26231 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
26232 800kB/s of capacity.
26233 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
26236 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
26237 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26238 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
26239 need as much processor time.
26240 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
26241 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
26242 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
26243 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
26244 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
26245 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
26246 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
26247 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
26248 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
26249 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
26250 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
26251 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
26253 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
26254 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
26255 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
26256 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
26257 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
26258 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
26259 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
26262 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
26263 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
26264 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
26266 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
26267 style address, then we'd crash.
26268 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
26269 a dirserver is broken.
26270 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
26272 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
26273 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
26274 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
26276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
26277 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
26278 name out of the warning/assert messages.
26279 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
26280 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
26281 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
26283 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
26284 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
26285 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
26287 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
26289 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
26290 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
26291 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
26292 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
26293 values at once couldn't work.
26294 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
26295 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
26296 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
26297 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
26298 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
26299 they can handle any number of routers.
26300 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
26301 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
26302 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
26303 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
26304 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
26305 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
26306 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
26307 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
26308 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
26311 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
26312 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26313 - Make hibernation actually work.
26314 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
26315 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
26316 don't use the stream status code.
26319 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
26320 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
26321 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
26322 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
26323 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
26324 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
26325 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
26326 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
26327 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
26328 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
26329 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
26330 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
26333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
26334 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
26335 win32 socket errors better.
26336 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
26337 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
26338 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
26339 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
26341 - Make unit tests work on win32.
26343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
26344 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
26345 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
26346 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
26347 right after sending the begin cell.
26348 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
26349 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
26350 exit nodes too. Oops.
26351 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
26352 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
26353 the user would get no response.
26354 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
26355 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
26356 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
26358 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
26359 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
26360 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
26361 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
26362 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
26364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
26365 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
26366 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
26367 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
26368 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
26369 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
26370 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
26371 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
26372 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
26373 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
26374 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
26376 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
26377 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
26378 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
26379 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
26380 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
26381 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
26382 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
26383 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
26384 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
26385 so we don't see those messages days later.
26386 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
26387 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
26389 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
26390 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
26391 they ran out of file descriptors.
26392 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
26393 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
26394 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
26395 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
26397 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
26398 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
26399 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
26400 the ones we find in directories.)
26401 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
26402 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
26403 if you don't want it open.
26404 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
26405 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
26406 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
26407 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
26408 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
26409 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
26411 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
26412 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
26414 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
26416 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
26417 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
26419 o Features (circuits and streams):
26420 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
26421 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
26422 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
26423 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
26424 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
26425 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
26426 the user knows which one it's talking about.
26427 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
26428 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
26429 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
26430 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
26431 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
26432 from Geoff Goodell.
26433 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
26435 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
26436 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
26437 to fill the last cell completely.
26438 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
26439 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
26441 o Features (bandwidth):
26442 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
26443 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
26444 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
26445 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
26446 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
26447 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
26448 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
26449 your billing cycle starts on.
26450 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
26451 hibernation properties by
26452 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
26453 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
26454 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
26455 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
26456 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
26458 o Features (directories):
26459 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
26460 nickname to its identity key.
26461 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
26462 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
26463 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
26464 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
26465 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
26467 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
26468 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
26470 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
26471 will be able to get a directory.
26472 - Http proxy support
26473 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
26474 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
26475 be routed through this host.
26476 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
26477 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
26478 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
26479 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
26480 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
26481 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
26483 o Features (packages and install):
26484 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
26485 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
26486 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
26487 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
26488 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
26489 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
26490 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
26491 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
26492 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
26493 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
26496 o Features (ui controller):
26497 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
26498 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
26499 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
26500 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
26501 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
26502 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
26503 with the control port.
26504 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
26505 use in authenticating to the control interface.
26506 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
26507 configuration to torrc.
26508 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
26509 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
26510 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
26512 o Features (config and command-line):
26513 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
26514 not on the command line.
26515 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
26517 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
26518 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
26519 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
26520 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
26521 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
26522 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
26523 - New log format in config:
26524 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
26525 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
26526 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
26527 from their dirserver.
26528 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
26530 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
26531 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
26532 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
26533 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
26534 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
26535 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
26536 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
26537 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
26538 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
26539 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
26540 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
26541 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
26542 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
26543 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
26544 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
26545 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
26546 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
26547 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
26548 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
26549 than once per minute.
26551 o Features (other):
26552 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
26553 get back to normal.)
26554 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
26555 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
26556 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
26557 log more informatively.
26558 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
26559 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
26560 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
26561 from each other, to hinder linkability.
26562 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
26563 them act more like real nodes.
26564 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
26565 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
26566 1024) file descriptors.
26567 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
26570 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
26572 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
26573 clients/servers with an open dirport.
26574 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
26575 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
26576 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
26577 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
26578 intermittent connections.
26579 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
26580 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
26582 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
26583 in reporting stats locally.
26584 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
26585 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
26586 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
26589 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
26591 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
26592 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
26593 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
26594 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
26595 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
26596 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
26597 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
26598 list to decide who's running.
26599 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
26600 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
26601 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
26602 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
26603 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
26604 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
26605 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
26606 for pointing out this bug.)
26607 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
26609 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
26610 don't put it into the client dns cache.
26611 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
26612 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
26613 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
26615 o Protocol changes:
26616 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
26617 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
26618 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
26619 hadn't heard of before.
26622 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
26623 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
26624 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
26625 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
26626 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
26627 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
26628 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
26629 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
26630 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
26631 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
26632 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
26633 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
26634 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
26635 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
26636 - Directory caching.
26637 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
26638 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
26639 directory they've pulled down.
26640 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
26641 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
26642 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
26643 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
26644 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
26645 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
26646 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
26648 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
26649 This isn't used yet.
26650 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
26651 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
26652 clients don't use this yet.)
26653 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
26654 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
26655 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
26656 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
26657 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
26658 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
26659 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
26660 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
26661 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
26662 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
26663 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
26664 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
26665 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
26666 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
26667 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
26668 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
26669 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
26670 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
26671 - File and name management:
26672 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
26673 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
26675 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
26676 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
26677 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
26678 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
26679 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
26680 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
26681 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
26683 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
26684 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
26685 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
26687 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
26688 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
26689 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
26690 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
26691 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
26692 - New docs in the tarball:
26694 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
26695 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
26696 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
26697 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
26698 know you might want to get it verified.
26699 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
26700 kazaa, gnutella ports.
26701 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
26702 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
26703 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
26704 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
26705 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
26706 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
26707 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
26709 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
26711 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
26712 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
26714 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
26715 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
26716 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
26719 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
26720 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
26721 ask them to resolve the host "".
26724 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
26725 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
26726 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
26729 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
26730 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
26731 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
26734 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
26735 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
26736 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
26737 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
26739 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
26740 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
26741 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
26743 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
26744 hidden service per 15-minute period.
26745 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
26746 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
26747 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
26748 o Fixes for security bugs:
26749 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
26750 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
26751 a trusted dirserver.
26753 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
26754 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
26755 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
26756 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
26757 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
26758 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
26759 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
26760 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
26761 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
26762 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
26764 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
26765 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
26766 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
26767 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
26768 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
26769 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
26771 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
26774 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
26775 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
26776 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
26777 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
26778 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
26779 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
26780 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
26781 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
26782 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
26783 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
26784 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
26785 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
26786 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
26787 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
26790 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
26791 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
26792 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
26793 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26796 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
26797 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
26798 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
26799 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
26800 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
26801 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26802 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
26806 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
26808 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
26809 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
26810 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
26811 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
26812 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
26813 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
26814 if you decrypted them correctly.
26815 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
26816 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
26817 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
26818 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
26819 in-memory directories too.
26820 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
26821 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
26822 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
26823 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
26824 just close the circ.
26825 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
26826 - Better debugging for tls errors
26827 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
26828 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
26830 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
26831 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
26832 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
26833 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
26834 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
26835 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
26836 it tells you about the first error.
26837 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
26838 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
26839 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
26840 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
26841 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
26842 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
26843 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
26844 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
26845 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
26846 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
26848 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
26849 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
26852 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
26853 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
26855 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
26856 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
26857 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
26858 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
26859 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
26860 expect it to have a nickname.
26861 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
26862 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
26863 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
26864 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
26865 the dns farm to do it.
26866 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
26867 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
26869 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
26870 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
26871 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
26872 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
26873 but that aren't warnings
26876 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
26877 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
26881 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
26882 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
26883 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
26884 - include missing header fcntl.h
26885 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
26886 - deal with hardware word alignment
26887 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
26888 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
26889 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
26890 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
26891 by kill -USR1 currently.
26892 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
26893 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
26894 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
26897 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
26898 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
26899 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
26902 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
26904 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
26905 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
26906 - And fix a few endian issues.
26909 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
26911 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
26912 try that circuit again: try a new one.
26913 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
26914 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
26915 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
26916 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
26917 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
26918 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
26920 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
26921 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
26922 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
26924 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
26926 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
26927 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
26928 side isn't reading right then.
26929 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
26930 RecommendedVersions
26931 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
26932 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
26933 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
26936 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
26938 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
26939 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
26942 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
26946 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
26948 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
26949 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
26950 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
26951 connection is finished.
26952 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
26953 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
26954 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
26955 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
26956 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
26957 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
26958 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
26959 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
26960 rather than warn and continue.
26961 - Make --version work
26962 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
26965 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
26967 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
26968 knows it's working.
26969 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
26970 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
26972 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
26973 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
26974 so you can collect coredumps there.
26976 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
26977 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
26978 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
26979 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
26980 dns cache actually gets populated.
26981 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
26982 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
26983 end cell down it first.
26984 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
26985 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
26988 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
26990 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
26991 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
26993 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
26994 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
26995 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
26996 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
26997 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
26998 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
27000 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
27002 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
27003 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
27004 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
27005 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
27006 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
27007 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
27009 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
27010 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
27013 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
27015 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
27016 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
27017 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
27018 tor. It even has a man page.
27019 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
27020 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
27021 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
27022 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
27024 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
27026 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
27029 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
27031 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
27032 it, apt-getters. :)
27033 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
27034 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
27035 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
27036 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
27037 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
27038 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
27039 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
27040 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
27041 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
27042 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
27043 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
27045 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
27046 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
27049 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
27051 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
27052 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
27055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
27057 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
27058 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
27059 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
27060 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
27061 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
27062 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
27063 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
27064 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
27065 logfile so you know it's working.
27066 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
27067 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
27070 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
27072 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
27073 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
27074 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
27077 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
27079 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
27080 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
27081 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
27084 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
27085 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
27086 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
27088 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
27089 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
27091 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
27092 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
27093 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
27095 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
27096 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
27100 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
27102 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
27103 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
27104 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
27107 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
27108 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
27109 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
27110 - Add port ranges to exit policies
27111 - Add a conservative default exit policy
27112 - Warn if you're running tor as root
27113 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
27114 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
27115 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
27116 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
27118 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
27121 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
27122 o Robustness and bugfixes:
27123 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
27124 really screw things up.
27125 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
27127 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
27128 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
27130 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
27131 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
27132 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
27133 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
27134 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
27135 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
27138 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
27141 - Change default loglevel to warn.
27142 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
27143 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
27145 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
27148 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
27149 o Robustness and bugfixes:
27150 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
27151 - to get ownership/permissions right
27152 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
27153 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
27154 pull down a directory again
27155 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
27156 causing server crashes
27157 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
27158 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
27159 - exit if bind() fails
27160 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
27161 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
27162 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
27163 - fix minor bias in PRNG
27164 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
27167 - Wrote the design document (woo)
27169 o Circuit building and exit policies:
27170 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
27172 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
27173 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
27174 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
27175 exists, rather than failing
27176 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
27177 which AP connections are standing by
27178 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
27179 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
27180 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
27182 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
27183 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
27186 - APPort is now called SocksPort
27187 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
27189 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
27190 hardcoded (for dirservers)
27191 - Reloads config on HUP
27192 - Usage info on -h or --help
27193 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
27195 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
27196 o General stability:
27197 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
27198 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
27199 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
27200 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
27201 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
27202 to take down the network when I approve a new router
27203 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
27206 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
27207 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
27209 o Autoconf improvements:
27210 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
27211 - Make install now works
27212 - create var/lib/tor on make install
27213 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
27214 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
27216 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
27217 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
27218 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
27219 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup