1 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
3 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
5 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
6 complain during installation.
7 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
8 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
9 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
10 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
11 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
12 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
14 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
15 something more reasonable when first installing.
16 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
19 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
21 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
22 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
24 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
25 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
26 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
27 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
28 when using the default exit policy.
29 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
30 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
31 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
32 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
33 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
34 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
35 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
36 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
37 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38 we fetched a new directory.
39 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
40 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
43 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
44 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
45 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
46 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
47 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
48 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
49 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
50 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
52 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
53 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
54 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
55 save memory on systems that need to fork.
56 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
57 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
58 is valid without actually launching Tor.
59 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
60 rather than just rejecting it.
63 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
65 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
66 we didn't like its cert.
68 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
69 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
70 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
71 on patch from Adam Langley.
72 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
73 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
74 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
75 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
77 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
78 directory every time you regenerate it.
79 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns netbsd
80 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
83 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
85 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
86 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
87 TLS errors better in other situations too.
88 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
89 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
90 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
91 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
92 and don't log when you are.
93 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
94 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
96 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
97 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
98 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
99 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
100 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
103 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
104 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
105 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
106 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
107 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
108 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
109 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
110 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
111 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
112 nickname+key are allowed.
113 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
114 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
115 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
116 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
117 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
118 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
119 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
120 have quite wrong clocks).
121 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
122 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
123 - Efficiency improvements:
124 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
125 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
126 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
127 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
128 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
129 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
130 lowercase and be done with it.
131 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
132 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
133 to abandon partially built circuits.
134 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
135 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
137 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
139 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
140 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
141 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
142 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
144 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
145 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
147 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
148 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
149 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
150 obeying the exit policy internally.
151 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
152 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
154 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
155 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
156 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
157 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
159 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
160 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
161 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
162 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
163 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
165 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
166 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
167 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
168 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
169 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
170 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
171 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
172 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
173 descriptors we just dropped.
174 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
175 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
176 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
177 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
178 artificially capped at 500kB.
181 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
182 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
183 - Fixes on reachability detection:
184 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
185 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
186 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
187 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
188 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
189 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
190 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
191 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
192 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
193 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
194 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
195 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
196 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
197 server not already connected to them.
198 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
199 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
200 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
202 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
204 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
205 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
206 are in a different state than they actually are.
207 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
208 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
209 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
211 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
212 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
213 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
215 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
216 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
217 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
218 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
219 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
220 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
221 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
223 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
224 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
225 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
226 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
229 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
231 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
232 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
233 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
234 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
235 hidden services better.
236 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
238 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
239 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
240 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
241 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
242 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
243 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
244 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
245 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
246 patch by Matt Edman).
247 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
248 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
249 required exit node for certain sites.
250 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
251 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
252 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
253 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
254 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
255 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
256 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
257 rather than just "success" or "failure".
258 - A more sane version numbering system. See
259 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
260 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
261 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
263 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
264 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
265 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
266 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
267 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
268 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
269 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
271 o Robustness/stability fixes:
272 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
273 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
274 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
276 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
277 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
278 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
280 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
281 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
282 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
284 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
285 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
286 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
287 that will want high uptime circuits.
288 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
289 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
290 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
291 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
292 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
293 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
294 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
295 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
296 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
297 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
298 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
299 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
300 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
301 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
302 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
303 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
304 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
305 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
306 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
307 when we try to launch one.
308 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
309 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
310 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
311 "ShutdownWaitLength".
312 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
313 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
314 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
315 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
316 and to take errno into account where possible.
319 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
320 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
321 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
322 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
323 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
324 file more reasonable.
325 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
326 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
327 addresses -- it won't.
328 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
329 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
330 for google.com" problem.
331 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
332 so it's not just "unknown platform".
333 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
334 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
335 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
336 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
338 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
339 they could use instead.
340 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
341 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
342 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
343 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
344 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
345 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
346 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
347 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
348 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
350 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
354 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
355 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
357 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
358 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
359 private-IP addresses.
360 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
361 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
363 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
364 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
365 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
366 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
367 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
368 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
369 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
371 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
372 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
373 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
374 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
375 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
376 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
377 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
378 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
380 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
382 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
383 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
384 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
385 whether the server is hibernating.
388 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
389 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
390 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
391 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
392 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
395 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
396 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
397 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
398 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
399 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
400 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
401 busy for more than 100 seconds.
404 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
405 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
406 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
407 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
408 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
409 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
410 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
411 creating actual system users.
412 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
413 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
417 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
418 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
419 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
420 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
421 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
422 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
423 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
424 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
425 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
426 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
427 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
428 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
429 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
430 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
431 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
433 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
434 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
435 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
436 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
437 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
438 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
439 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
440 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
441 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
442 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
443 existing torrc files.
444 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
447 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
448 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
449 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
450 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
451 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
452 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
453 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
454 the win32 SYSTEM account.
455 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
456 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
457 file descriptors available.
458 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
459 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
460 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
463 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
465 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
466 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
468 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
469 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
470 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
471 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
472 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
474 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
475 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
476 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
477 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
478 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
479 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
480 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
481 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
482 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
483 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
485 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
488 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
490 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
491 need as much processor time.
492 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
493 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
494 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
495 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
496 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
497 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
498 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
499 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
500 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
501 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
502 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
503 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
505 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
506 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
507 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
508 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
509 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
510 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
511 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
514 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
515 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
516 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
518 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
519 style address, then we'd crash.
520 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
521 a dirserver is broken.
522 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
524 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
525 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
526 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
528 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
529 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
530 name out of the warning/assert messages.
531 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
532 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
533 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
535 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
536 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
537 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
539 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
541 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
542 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
543 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
544 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
545 values at once couldn't work.
546 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
547 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
548 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
549 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
550 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
551 they can handle any number of routers.
552 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
553 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
554 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
555 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
556 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
557 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
558 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
559 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
560 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
563 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
565 - Make hibernation actually work.
566 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
567 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
568 don't use the stream status code.
571 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
572 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
573 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
574 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
575 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
576 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
577 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
578 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
579 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
580 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
581 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
582 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
585 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
586 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
587 win32 socket errors better.
588 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
589 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
590 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
591 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
593 - Make unit tests work on win32.
595 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
596 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
597 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
598 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
599 right after sending the begin cell.
600 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
601 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
602 exit nodes too. Oops.
603 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
604 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
605 the user would get no response.
606 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
607 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
608 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
610 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
611 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
612 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
613 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
614 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
616 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
617 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
618 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
619 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
620 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
621 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
622 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
623 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
624 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
625 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
626 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
628 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
629 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
630 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
631 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
632 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
633 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
634 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
635 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
636 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
637 so we don't see those messages days later.
638 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
639 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
641 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
642 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
643 they ran out of file descriptors.
644 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
645 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
646 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
647 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
649 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
650 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
651 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
652 the ones we find in directories.)
653 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
654 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
655 if you don't want it open.
656 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
657 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
658 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
659 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
660 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
661 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
663 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
664 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
666 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
668 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
669 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
671 o Features (circuits and streams):
672 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
673 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
674 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
675 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
676 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
677 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
678 the user knows which one it's talking about.
679 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
680 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
681 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
682 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
683 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
685 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
687 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
688 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
689 to fill the last cell completely.
690 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
691 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
693 o Features (bandwidth):
694 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
695 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
696 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
697 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
698 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
699 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
700 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
701 your billing cycle starts on.
702 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
703 hibernation properties by
704 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
705 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
706 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
707 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
708 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
710 o Features (directories):
711 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
712 nickname to its identity key.
713 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
714 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
715 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
716 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
717 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
719 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
720 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
722 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
723 will be able to get a directory.
725 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
726 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
727 be routed through this host.
728 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
729 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
730 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
731 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
732 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
733 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
735 o Features (packages and install):
736 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
737 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
738 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
739 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
740 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
741 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
742 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
743 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
744 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
745 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
748 o Features (ui controller):
749 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
750 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
751 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
752 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
753 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
754 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
755 with the control port.
756 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
757 use in authenticating to the control interface.
758 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
759 configuration to torrc.
760 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
761 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
762 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
764 o Features (config and command-line):
765 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
766 not on the command line.
767 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
769 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
770 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
771 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
772 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
773 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
774 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
775 - New log format in config:
776 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
777 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
778 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
779 from their dirserver.
780 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
782 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
783 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
784 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
785 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
786 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
787 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
788 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
789 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
790 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
791 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
792 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
793 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
794 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
795 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
796 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
797 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
798 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
799 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
800 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
801 than once per minute.
804 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
806 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
807 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
808 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
809 log more informatively.
810 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
811 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
812 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
813 from each other, to hinder linkability.
814 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
815 them act more like real nodes.
816 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
817 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
818 1024) file descriptors.
819 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
822 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
824 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
825 clients/servers with an open dirport.
826 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
827 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
828 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
829 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
830 intermittent connections.
831 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
832 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
834 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
835 in reporting stats locally.
836 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
837 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
838 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
841 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
843 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
844 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
845 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
846 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
847 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
848 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
849 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
850 list to decide who's running.
851 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
852 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
853 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
854 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
855 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
856 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
857 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
858 for pointing out this bug.)
859 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
861 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
862 don't put it into the client dns cache.
863 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
864 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
865 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
868 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
869 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
870 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
871 hadn't heard of before.
874 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
875 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
876 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
877 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
878 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
879 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
880 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
881 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
882 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
883 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
884 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
885 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
886 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
887 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
889 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
890 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
891 directory they've pulled down.
892 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
893 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
894 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
895 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
896 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
897 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
898 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
900 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
902 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
903 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
904 clients don't use this yet.)
905 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
906 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
907 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
908 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
909 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
910 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
911 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
912 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
913 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
914 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
915 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
916 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
917 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
918 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
919 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
920 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
921 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
922 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
923 - File and name management:
924 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
925 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
927 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
928 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
929 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
930 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
931 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
932 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
933 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
935 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
936 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
937 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
939 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
940 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
941 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
942 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
943 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
944 - New docs in the tarball:
946 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
947 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
948 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
949 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
950 know you might want to get it verified.
951 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
952 kazaa, gnutella ports.
953 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
954 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
955 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
956 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
957 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
958 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
959 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
961 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
963 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
964 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
966 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
967 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
968 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
971 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
972 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
973 ask them to resolve the host "".
976 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
977 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
978 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
981 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
982 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
983 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
986 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
987 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
988 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
989 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
991 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
992 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
993 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
995 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
996 hidden service per 15-minute period.
997 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
998 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
999 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
1000 o Fixes for security bugs:
1001 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
1002 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
1003 a trusted dirserver.
1005 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
1006 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
1007 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
1008 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
1009 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
1010 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
1011 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
1012 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
1013 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
1014 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
1016 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
1017 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
1018 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
1019 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
1020 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
1021 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
1023 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
1026 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
1027 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
1028 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
1029 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
1030 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
1031 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
1032 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
1033 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
1034 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
1035 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
1036 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
1037 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
1038 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
1039 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
1042 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
1043 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
1044 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
1045 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1048 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
1049 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
1050 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
1051 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
1052 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
1053 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1054 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
1058 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
1060 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
1061 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
1062 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
1063 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
1064 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
1065 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
1066 if you decrypted them correctly.
1067 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
1068 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
1069 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
1070 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
1071 in-memory directories too.
1072 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
1073 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
1074 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
1075 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
1076 just close the circ.
1077 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
1078 - Better debugging for tls errors
1079 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
1080 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
1082 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
1083 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
1084 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
1085 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
1086 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
1087 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
1088 it tells you about the first error.
1089 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
1090 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
1091 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
1092 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
1093 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
1094 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
1095 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
1096 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
1097 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
1098 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
1100 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
1101 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
1104 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
1105 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
1107 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
1108 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
1109 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
1110 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
1111 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
1112 expect it to have a nickname.
1113 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
1114 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
1115 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
1116 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
1117 the dns farm to do it.
1118 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
1119 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
1121 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
1122 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
1123 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
1124 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
1125 but that aren't warnings
1128 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
1129 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
1133 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
1134 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
1135 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
1136 - include missing header fcntl.h
1137 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
1138 - deal with hardware word alignment
1139 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
1140 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
1141 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
1142 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
1143 by kill -USR1 currently.
1144 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
1145 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
1146 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
1149 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
1150 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
1151 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
1154 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
1156 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
1157 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
1158 - And fix a few endian issues.
1161 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
1163 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
1164 try that circuit again: try a new one.
1165 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
1166 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
1167 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
1168 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
1169 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
1170 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
1172 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
1173 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
1174 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
1176 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
1178 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
1179 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
1180 side isn't reading right then.
1181 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
1183 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
1184 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
1185 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
1188 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
1190 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
1191 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
1194 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
1198 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
1200 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
1201 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
1202 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
1203 connection is finished.
1204 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
1205 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
1206 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
1207 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
1208 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
1209 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
1210 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
1211 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
1212 rather than warn and continue.
1213 - Make --version work
1214 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
1217 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
1219 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
1221 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
1222 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
1224 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
1225 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
1226 so you can collect coredumps there.
1228 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
1229 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
1230 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
1231 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
1232 dns cache actually gets populated.
1233 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
1234 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
1235 end cell down it first.
1236 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
1237 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
1240 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
1242 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
1243 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
1245 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
1246 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
1247 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
1248 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
1249 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
1250 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
1252 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
1254 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
1255 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
1256 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
1257 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
1258 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
1259 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
1261 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
1262 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
1265 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
1267 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
1268 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
1269 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
1270 tor. It even has a man page.
1271 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
1272 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
1273 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
1274 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
1276 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
1278 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
1281 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
1283 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
1285 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
1286 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
1287 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
1288 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
1289 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
1290 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
1291 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
1292 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
1293 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
1294 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
1295 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
1297 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
1298 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
1301 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
1303 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
1304 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
1307 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
1309 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
1310 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
1311 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
1312 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
1313 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
1314 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
1315 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
1316 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
1317 logfile so you know it's working.
1318 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
1319 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
1322 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
1324 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
1325 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
1326 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
1329 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
1331 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
1332 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
1333 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
1336 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
1337 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
1338 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
1340 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
1341 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
1343 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
1344 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
1345 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
1347 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
1348 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
1352 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
1354 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
1355 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
1356 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
1359 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
1360 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
1361 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
1362 - Add port ranges to exit policies
1363 - Add a conservative default exit policy
1364 - Warn if you're running tor as root
1365 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
1366 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
1367 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
1368 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
1370 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
1373 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
1374 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1375 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
1376 really screw things up.
1377 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
1379 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
1380 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
1382 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
1383 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
1384 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
1385 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
1386 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
1387 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
1390 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
1393 - Change default loglevel to warn.
1394 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
1395 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
1397 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
1400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
1401 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1402 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
1403 - to get ownership/permissions right
1404 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
1405 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
1406 pull down a directory again
1407 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
1408 causing server crashes
1409 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
1410 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
1411 - exit if bind() fails
1412 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
1413 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
1414 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
1415 - fix minor bias in PRNG
1416 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
1419 - Wrote the design document (woo)
1421 o Circuit building and exit policies:
1422 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
1424 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
1425 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
1426 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
1427 exists, rather than failing
1428 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
1429 which AP connections are standing by
1430 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
1431 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
1432 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
1434 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
1435 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
1438 - APPort is now called SocksPort
1439 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
1441 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
1442 hardcoded (for dirservers)
1443 - Reloads config on HUP
1444 - Usage info on -h or --help
1445 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
1447 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
1448 o General stability:
1449 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
1450 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
1451 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
1452 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
1453 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
1454 to take down the network when I approve a new router
1455 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
1458 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
1459 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
1461 o Autoconf improvements:
1462 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
1463 - Make install now works
1464 - create var/lib/tor on make install
1465 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
1466 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
1468 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
1469 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
1470 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
1471 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup